Maybe this year?

[susandennis]

From now until the end of October, it will be baseball for me. 

I've followed the Mariners since I moved here in 1992.  I've watched all the games except in the early days when their TV contract sucked and only about half of the games were on TV.  I listened to the others on the radio.  I've been there when they sucked.  In the early 90's the joke was that if you left a pair of Mariners tickets on your dashboard when you came back you'd find your car broken into and the dashboard would now have four Mariners tickets.  Then we got a great manager - Lou Pinella. 

The Lou years rocked.  Everyone was a Mariners fan.  And they didn't suck. 

Then they started sucking again.  The last couple of years have been pitiful.  Our current manager - Mike Hargrove - has all the charisma and personality of a large slug.  The team owners really don't seem to give a shit.  We had a really nice guy for a manager after Lou but they fired him when he didn't produce.  Hargrove has done squat but apparently their firing button is broken, more's the pity.  We're a week away from the season opener and it isn't even sold out.  Pitiful. 

We do have Ichiro at least for now and we had a new broadcaster on the broadcast team who, so far seems interesting and not annoying.  I'm a little bit hopeful that this season won't be horrible.

Today's Spring Training game has been a good one and right now - in the 7th the Mariners are beating Oakland.  But, more importantly, many of the key players are taking the day off and the ones that are left are doing a very nice job. 

I'll watch every game regardless, but it is way more fun when they don't suck.

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[zeppo-marx.livejournal.com]

B-b-b-b-b-but hockey playoffs start in just a couple of short weeks!!!

Baseball?

It starts the day after Lord Stanley finds a new home. ;)


(Well, what do you expect from a Canadian.....)

[susandennis]

heheheh ice hockey. Growing up in the south, I had a gym teacher to used to make us play field hockey. I was shocked, shocked, I tell you, when, in college, I found out that grown men put on ice skates and played field hockey until they no longer had teeth. It still kind of amazes me. But, there's a lot of Canada that is confusing :)