We are the Champions!!!!

[susandennis]

The hapless Mariners won their second game in Tokyo. These two games count!! But there will be no other games played in Major League Baseball until the real season starts next Thursday.

So... for 7 days the Mariners are the very best baseball team in all of the MLB. We have 2 wins more than everyone else! The Oakland A's (oh how it sucks to be them for a week) have 2 losses and everyone else is 0-0. It's glorious.

Today's game went into extra innings and my taping ended before the game did so I had to finish via words and highlights. To us Mariner fans, the news was the win, but to the rest of the world, the news was that Ichiro retired from baseball after the game. He made a couple of decent defensive plays and did nothing at the plate. It was time. And they really did it up right. The 45,000 spectators, teams and press gave him a true hero's goodbye. It was classy and really nice. Sometimes baseball does stuff exactly right.

Back here in the town of the winningiest team in baseball, we're now doing laundry. This morning I changed the bed linens and retired the winter comforter to it's space in the closet. See you next Fall! I love sleeping under that thing but, the fall/spring quilt and the summer quilt look so much nicer, tidier on the bed. So I'm ok with the change.



Next up is sewing. I want to finish the top I started yesterday and maybe start another new one. While I was swimming this morning, I remembered some really cool fabric I got just as winter started. It is black on cream until the sun hits it and then it gets colors! I saved it since the sun was going into hibernation. But now is the perfect time for it.

Also maybe a walk around the block. Ok, no. Definitely a walk around the block. It's at least a little cooler today.

Comments

[meowmensteen]

I know I've said it before, but I love your knack for color. That quilt is so fun to look at.

[susandennis]

Thanks. It is a favorite that I got on sale somewhere years ago. It's also very soft.

[hopefulspirit.livejournal.com]

Nice job Mariners! I had no idea they play games in Tokyo that count. That's neat.

Your quilt is gorgeous. I'm ready for lighter bedding but it's been around 30-ish at night so it'll be a bit yet.

[howeird]

Yay Mariners! Great to see Ichiro get the homeboy hero's ovation.

Thanks for reminding me. Time to put away the winter comforter and put my sister's beautiful quilt back on. Spook will be confused.

[siobhan63.livejournal.com]

"But there will be no other games played in Major League Baseball until the real season starts next Thursday."

That's not correct. There are spring training games being played every day up to and including Tuesday, with Wednesday the only day off before the regular season officially starts next Thursday. The Jays play their last two spring training games in Montreal on Monday and Tuesday before their home opener on Thursday. Today (Friday), the Jays are playing the Orioles and your Mariners are playing the Angels.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I think it's pretty clear that Susan meant "Major League games that count".

Some of us (ahem) are hoping to end the Mariners' winning streak at 2. (Sorry/not sorry)

[susandennis]

Yeah but surely, hopefully, maybe, by some stroke of luck, we'll win at least one of those first 4 games. Please?

[susandennis]

Sorry but wrong. The two games played in Tokyo were regulation Major League games that count. The only two regulation season games to be played until next Thursday.

There are lots of Spring Training and exhibition games between now and then by all the teams - including the Mariners. BUT NO other season regulation games.

If you check the 2019 MLB standings you will see the numbers Mariners have 2 wins, A's have 2 losses and no other team has either.