Maybe this year?
Mar. 25th, 2007 03:20 pmFrom 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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Date: 2007-03-26 12:04 pm (UTC)Baseball?
It starts the day after Lord Stanley finds a new home. ;)
(Well, what do you expect from a Canadian.....)
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Date: 2007-03-26 06:36 pm (UTC)