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Mets vs. Mariners and stuff
Today, it was nice out, so I walked around Greenlake. I think I'm still hitting my goal of 10 miles for the week. I only hope I can keep it up once I start working.
I battled the traffic and went down to the airport hotels, and picked up my brother Danny and a friend of his from work Aaron. They were in Yakima for the week doing some stuff for work, and were flying back out of Seattle tomorrow morning. Coincidentally, tonight was a season ticket night for me at the M's, so Danny and I had made plans to hang out and go to the game. Aaron didn't want to get stuck down by the airport, so he came into Seattle with us. He wanted to go to Uwajimaya, so we did that first for a bit, and then went down to Safeco. Oddly, despite that usually my section at Safeco is full of empty seats in front of me, there weren't any unsold seats for tonight's game. So he got a third seat a few rows above us. Now, the two seats to the right of my seats are taken by these two guys who are also season ticket holders and also had the same seats last year, but I don't know the people on the left. When they hadn't shown up by the end of the first inning, we told Aaron to move down and sit with us, and he did. Then the people on the left showed up at the start of the 4th inning. How lame!
I actually spent most of the game talking to the guys who sit in the seats to my right. It occurs to me that even though I've been sitting next to them for a season and a half, I still don't even know what their names are. But at least we can boooo-urn Boone together, much to the horror of the little kids in the section who think Bret Boone is god.
Oh, and the Mariners won, 5-0. Jamie Moyer stayed in for most of the game, but he was taken out in the 8th with two down, after he walked the bases loaded. Amazingly, Jeff Nelson came in and struck out Marlon Anderson to end the inning, and he ended up getting a save after also taking down the 9th inning scorelessly.
Dobbs was optioned to Tacoma and Jose Lopez was called up. Lopez played 3B tonight, but it's possible he may threaten Boone into not sucking at 2B, if we're lucky. The Pat Borders Fan Club reports that Borders was 2-for-3 with two doubles -- the second double would have been a triple for anyone under the age of 40, even. He scored two runs. Ichiro hit a three-run homer, two, which was pretty sweet.
As far as the Mets go -- Ishii did a pretty poor pitching job. And sadly Mike Cameron wasn't playing! They did have him come out at the beginning of the game and bring the lineup card to the plate, and he got a huge ovation from the Seattle crowds. I was also sad that Kazuo Matsui wasn't playing, because I wanted to see him, but they put him in as a defensive replacement at 2B for the 8th inning, at least. He looks so weird since he cut his hair.
Oh yeah. And let me tell you that no words have sounded more odd than "Centerfielder Willie Bloomquist", but it turned out it didn't matter -- of the pop outs to the outfield, only one went to center; eight went to left field, and two went to right field. I guess it's because so many people were hitting righty against Jamie Moyer, maybe.
(I am really looking forward to seeing a Mets-Phillies game in New York, though. And I'm pretty sure the Mets will win tomorrow. Pedro Martinez has never lost a game in Safeco Field, or against the Mariners EVER for that matter, and Ryan Franklin is pitching for the Mariners. So the only question of course is whether Pedro will get a no-hitter or not.)
My brother wants me to come visit and see a Nationals game with him. I'm thinking Labor Day weekend actually looks perfect -- they're playing the Phillies, and the Mariners aren't in town here.
I battled the traffic and went down to the airport hotels, and picked up my brother Danny and a friend of his from work Aaron. They were in Yakima for the week doing some stuff for work, and were flying back out of Seattle tomorrow morning. Coincidentally, tonight was a season ticket night for me at the M's, so Danny and I had made plans to hang out and go to the game. Aaron didn't want to get stuck down by the airport, so he came into Seattle with us. He wanted to go to Uwajimaya, so we did that first for a bit, and then went down to Safeco. Oddly, despite that usually my section at Safeco is full of empty seats in front of me, there weren't any unsold seats for tonight's game. So he got a third seat a few rows above us. Now, the two seats to the right of my seats are taken by these two guys who are also season ticket holders and also had the same seats last year, but I don't know the people on the left. When they hadn't shown up by the end of the first inning, we told Aaron to move down and sit with us, and he did. Then the people on the left showed up at the start of the 4th inning. How lame!
I actually spent most of the game talking to the guys who sit in the seats to my right. It occurs to me that even though I've been sitting next to them for a season and a half, I still don't even know what their names are. But at least we can boooo-urn Boone together, much to the horror of the little kids in the section who think Bret Boone is god.
Oh, and the Mariners won, 5-0. Jamie Moyer stayed in for most of the game, but he was taken out in the 8th with two down, after he walked the bases loaded. Amazingly, Jeff Nelson came in and struck out Marlon Anderson to end the inning, and he ended up getting a save after also taking down the 9th inning scorelessly.
Dobbs was optioned to Tacoma and Jose Lopez was called up. Lopez played 3B tonight, but it's possible he may threaten Boone into not sucking at 2B, if we're lucky. The Pat Borders Fan Club reports that Borders was 2-for-3 with two doubles -- the second double would have been a triple for anyone under the age of 40, even. He scored two runs. Ichiro hit a three-run homer, two, which was pretty sweet.
As far as the Mets go -- Ishii did a pretty poor pitching job. And sadly Mike Cameron wasn't playing! They did have him come out at the beginning of the game and bring the lineup card to the plate, and he got a huge ovation from the Seattle crowds. I was also sad that Kazuo Matsui wasn't playing, because I wanted to see him, but they put him in as a defensive replacement at 2B for the 8th inning, at least. He looks so weird since he cut his hair.
Oh yeah. And let me tell you that no words have sounded more odd than "Centerfielder Willie Bloomquist", but it turned out it didn't matter -- of the pop outs to the outfield, only one went to center; eight went to left field, and two went to right field. I guess it's because so many people were hitting righty against Jamie Moyer, maybe.
(I am really looking forward to seeing a Mets-Phillies game in New York, though. And I'm pretty sure the Mets will win tomorrow. Pedro Martinez has never lost a game in Safeco Field, or against the Mariners EVER for that matter, and Ryan Franklin is pitching for the Mariners. So the only question of course is whether Pedro will get a no-hitter or not.)
My brother wants me to come visit and see a Nationals game with him. I'm thinking Labor Day weekend actually looks perfect -- they're playing the Phillies, and the Mariners aren't in town here.