Popular Post Dottleshead ★ Posted October 1, 2022 Popular Post Share #1 Posted October 1, 2022 i watched the Seattle Mariners a lot back before the Ken Griffey era and then of course when they got to be good. During their Airplane (movie) joke years when they couldn't pop a balloon, my father, mother and I used to watch the games. Basically we were closet Mariner fans. I watched a lot of hometown baseball in the late 80s thru the early 2000s. But I lost interest and haven't been following them at all for like 15 years. Until two nights ago. OMGerd did I pick a good time to get on the bandwagon! They punched their way into the post season some 20 years later tonight with a dramatic 9th inning, two out, full count pinch hit homerun. So far from what I can tell -- and I'm usually a pretty good reader of these things -- is the Mariners have an outstanding pitching staff and that alone gives them a chance in the post season. Like a real good chance. I just want to confess I'm a bandwagon fan this year but I feel like that decade when I watched them and they were the laughing stock of the league gives me some free bandwagon tokens to use. On a side note, the same OLD announcers who where there 20 years ago are still on. It was like a flashback. Bunch of pudgy old men and women now I barely recognized. I was glad to see them on the telly rather than seeing my graying phat arse in the mirror. A side note II: I miss watching the games with my mom. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted October 1, 2022 Author Share #2 Posted October 1, 2022 I love this. It's hard not to get behind these guys. If this was the Yankees -- well ok maybe not the Yankees -- I'd be rooting for them. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted October 1, 2022 Author Share #3 Posted October 1, 2022 I'm not surprised nobody gives a damn about the Mariners. I'm not so sure I do. But it was fun watching them the last two nights. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted October 1, 2022 Share #4 Posted October 1, 2022 My friend's wife is a BIG Mariners fan. Panic almost set in yesterday when their tv crapped out, but a telephone conversation with a tech saved the day. I know she will be happy today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted October 1, 2022 Share #5 Posted October 1, 2022 45 minutes ago, Dottles said: I'm not surprised nobody gives a damn about the Mariners. I'm not so sure I do. But it was fun watching them the last two nights. I am still a Mariners fan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlecan ★ Posted October 1, 2022 Share #6 Posted October 1, 2022 The Mariners and Blue Jays joined the league the same year. I was a fervent Jays fan back in the day and their back to back World Series wins in 92 and 93 were the topper. Then we had 94, the year with no baseball season, and when it came back, they totally crapped the bed with inter league play. That pretty much did it for me. My only interest in inter league play is the all star game and the World Series. I have been pretty detached from it since. But now the Jays have clinched a wild card spot so I have a spark of interest. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted October 1, 2022 Share #7 Posted October 1, 2022 I do not dig baseballing. Glad you do. Mariners and Rangers had a few good games I think. I really do not know. I am pretty sure the Rangers suck. I really do not know. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead ★ Posted October 1, 2022 Share #8 Posted October 1, 2022 2 hours ago, Dottles said: I'm not surprised nobody gives a damn about the Mariners. I'm not so sure I do. But it was fun watching them the last two nights. I like their uniforms. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted October 1, 2022 Share #9 Posted October 1, 2022 On travel for work one year, either 90’s or the aughts, we saw the Mariners play somebody in the old King dome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted October 1, 2022 Share #10 Posted October 1, 2022 Happy for you Dottie! It’s been a long time for your Mariners. Being an Angels fan I do keep track of divisional rivals too and yeah they do have an underrated but solid pitching staff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted October 1, 2022 Share #11 Posted October 1, 2022 I hope the Orioles - only 5 1/2 games behind the Mariners in the playoff race - get in next year. They're 81-76 this year and no longer the Train Wreck of Major League Baseball. The Orioles were one of the best-run teams in the 60's, 70's, and early 80's, and then a series of incredibly bad owners ruined them. The big problem is that MLB doesn't have a salary cap like the NFL does. Consequently, the huge-metro Yankees and Red Sox have 3x that payroll of the Orioles and when an excellent player that the Orioles drafted and brought through the minor leagues becomes a star, in a short time he ends up on the Yankees, etc. that can pay more money. So Anthony Santander, who has hit hit home runs batting left and right in the same game 4x this year, a MLB record since 1996, and who is two away from Jen Singleton's 1975 team record for home runs by a switch hitter, will become a free agent in 2025. So count on him being an Oriole for two more years only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted October 1, 2022 Share #12 Posted October 1, 2022 37 minutes ago, MickinMD said: I hope the Orioles - only 5 1/2 games behind the Mariners in the playoff race - get in next year. They're 81-76 this year and no longer the Train Wreck of Major League Baseball. The Orioles were one of the best-run teams in the 60's, 70's, and early 80's, and then a series of incredibly bad owners ruined them. The big problem is that MLB doesn't have a salary cap like the NFL does. Consequently, the huge-metro Yankees and Red Sox have 3x that payroll of the Orioles and when an excellent player that the Orioles drafted and brought through the minor leagues becomes a star, in a short time he ends up on the Yankees, etc. that can pay more money. So Anthony Santander, who has hit hit home runs batting left and right in the same game 4x this year, a MLB record since 1996, and who is two away from Jen Singleton's 1975 team record for home runs by a switch hitter, will become a free agent in 2025. So count on him being an Oriole for two more years only. All of those high draft picks from being AL East bottom dwellers are starting to pan out though so the O’s do have some good young players. I think small budget teams like the A’s and O’s can compete if they have a great scouting & development program. The A’s model of developing young talent, then trading them before free agency for unproven young prospects has worked well for them. The A’s unloaded a bunch of players last year for a whole new group of prospects but I’d venture to guess they will compete again in 2 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted October 2, 2022 Share #13 Posted October 2, 2022 So, if the Mariners have a bad season, does that mean they become the Seattle SubMariners? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted October 2, 2022 Share #14 Posted October 2, 2022 Maybe the Mariners will play the Cardinals in the World Series! I'd like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted October 2, 2022 Author Share #15 Posted October 2, 2022 4 hours ago, JerrySTL said: Maybe the Mariners will play the Cardinals in the World Series! I'd like that. Yeah, I don't know about that. It's just fun to go to the dance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted October 16, 2022 Share #16 Posted October 16, 2022 WOW, that was a long game. My friend's wife is very unhappy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted October 16, 2022 Share #17 Posted October 16, 2022 Looks like Phillies, Padres, Astros, and the winner of Yankees/Cleveland series. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted October 16, 2022 Share #18 Posted October 16, 2022 Living in Dodger town I got a kick out of the confidence displayed by the Dodger fanboy sports hosts on tv & radio. There was absolutely no way no how the 111 win Dodgers who hadn’t lost a series to the Padres were going to lose. 😂 Whoops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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