I am a Seattle Mariners fan, I do not like very many Mariners players. Felix Hernandez and Ichiro are my only constants. I have been following since 1995 when the Angels had the most epic collapse of all time, if it werent for that I am certain that I would be still mourning the Sonics leaving town and camping out in front of the Key Arena to this day.
These last few years have been rough for me, I watched my idol in Ken Griffey Jr. go from kinda jolly dude with a big butt that "brought a veteran presence to the club" (which is kinda horse shit in my opinion) to a man that looked like I could out run on any given day.
My last feelings on Baseball (for now) will be about Dave Niehaus. I am originally from the greatish state of Washington and in the spring of 2009 I decided to move to San Antonio, leaving family and friends behind to start a new life in Texas. I have very few things to remind me of home other than the weekly calls to my parents and the random Nirvana fanboy shitting themselves, at first I could only ever see my team when the damned Rangers played on the FSN affiliate but I finally was able to save up enough money to start getting MlB.tv. I was finally able to catch the games from the comfort of my own living room.
fast forward to 2010:
Rob Johnson
Ian Snell
Ryan Rowland-Smith
Brandon League
Chone Figgins.
one last thing I will share with you is the greatest call that Dave Niehaus ever made
real talk on J.J. Putz
-madcripple or wheelz or Nick, whatever you want to call me.
Tragically I am at work and my headphones are not so the J. J. Putz thing will have to wait HOWEVER it must be said that I welcome any and all baseball feelings on the subject of the Blue Jays 1977 expansion bros the Seattle Mariners (weirdly, the two teams celebrated their 25th anniversary seasons in different years). Ichiro is the best guy. I know I know I know that in terms of overall value you can find dozens of players that have better total production but go relatively unheralded yeah yeah yeah the point is Ichiro owns. Speedy slap hitters are the best and Ichiro is the best speedy slap hitter EVER so who cares if, like, Bobby Abreu is a better total package. Don't care. At all.
ReplyDeleteAlso, re: MLBTV feelings: MLBTV seems like seriously the best thing ever until you realize that all of your home team games are blacked out, so unless you are in your exact situation (living outside your beloved/loathed team's area), that's a pretty serious blow against it. Then you miss the Saturday Fox games (no huge loss, because all they ever show is the fucking Mets anyway, no diss) and Sunday night ESPN game (actually a huge loss, because Jon Miller was excellent and Joe Morgan was insane and now it's Dan Shulman who is my favourite). I mean, it all totally makes sense because it's meant as a supplement to the baseball coverage you already have without cutting into existing tv deals and everything, I get that, but the first thought I had when I heard about MLB TV on the PS3 was FUCK IT NO MORE CABLE JUST BASEBALL YEAAAAAHHH. But it doesn't exactly work like that. Plus if you are in Canada you lose not just the Blue Jays games but whatever American team you might want to watch. Fuck.
anyway WELCOME NICK AKA MADCRIPPLE AKA WHEELZ
aaaaahahahahaha I forgot about that Niehaus thing that is the best
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