Vigilante Sports

On Mother’s Day, the pink bats and wristbands were in full effect. The Mariners squeaked out a win Sunday to take the weekend series with the Yankees. Horacio Ramirez led the charge with 6 1/3 strong innings of work. For the Yankees, veteran Andy Pettitte only gave up 2 runs over 7 1/3 innings.
The Yankees [...]

We hadn’t even gotten into the stadium, and Felix was already on his way out. He tweaked his elbow and removed himself from the game. I never wanted to say this, but is “King” Felix, the next Mark Prior? I sure hope not, but it  kind of feels the same.

I was at the Mariners game tuesday night against the Twins and a few things stuck out to me.
While jeff weaver pitched pretty well through 4 innings, Mike Hargrove was too slow with the hook. With the bases loaded he let Weaver pitch to Torii Hunter. Just so we’re clear, there wasn’t anyone even up [...]

As my wife and I had a sushi date here in Seattle, the Battle of Japan was going on at Fenway Park in Boston. Ichiro and Dice-K meeting up for the first time in the majors. There was a lot of hype going into this game. The whole Ichiro-Dice-K angle, Felix Hernandez vs. Dice-K angle, [...]

Yesterday I mentioned that my wife and I were heading to Safeco Field for our first Mariners game. We made it, and it was really fun. The baseball wasn’t the most brilliant (more on that later), but overall it was a great experience.
I work about 3 blocks away from Safeco, so my wife (Mollie) picked [...]

Tonight, my wife and I will be heading to our first Mariners game at Safeco field. We now live about a 15 minute bus ride away from the ballpark so we have tickets for 5 games this summer, and hopefully will be able to make it to even more games than that. I’ll post pictures [...]