I write here a lot about competitiveness. So much so, apparently, that I wrote two posts entitled “Winning and Losing” on this blog, both mostly about RUDU, both in 2010, two posts separated by That Summer. You can read them,…
Category: Let’s Go M’s
The Kid in the Hall
Any Mariners fan knows that 1995 was the most magical year of baseball in our history. The Mariners overcame a 13.5-game deficit (11.5 games on August 24th, with just over a month to go in the season) to catch the…
Getting Closer Every Day
Ten days ago, I wrote this post about how close most games have been for the Seattle Mariners during the 2015 season. I focused on closeness through the traditional metrics for such games – extra inning games, one-run games, walk-offs.…
The Closeness of Baseball and the 2015 Seattle Mariners
The Mariners did something this afternoon they haven’t been doing much lately. They won a game. Even more surprisingly, they won the game by more than a single run. The final score was 4-1 in their favor. Less surprisingly, it…
The Promise of Spring
(or: Today, It’s Next Year)
It’s fitting that baseball begins in spring. I’m not much of a spring person myself, having a penchant for difficult times in April and May. I was always with TS Eliot on the whole April question and I probably offer…
In the Ballpark
New Orleans has brought me my first-ever NFL game and second- and third-ever NBA games in quick succession (and I have a feeling that, at those ticket prices, we’re going to become Pelicans semi-regulars). But it sadly lacks an MLB…
Baseball Roundup
For some reason, baseball is most of what I can think of to post about these days. I posted a lot about baseball down the stretch as the Mariners fell one game short of the playoffs, made doubly more frustrating…
KC
The Kansas City Royals are going to the World Series. The last time the Kansas City Royals were in the World Series (or, mind you, the playoffs) was in 1985. They won, beating the St. Louis Cardinals, who are now…
Game 162
Eight days ago, my girlfriend and I traveled to Houston, Texas to watch two baseball games between the Seattle Mariners and the Houston Astros. You can scroll down and read the last two posts on this blog for some context…
The Trouble with Memory
Yesterday, I told a story here about the 2001 ALCS and the shadow it’s cast over the next 13 years of my Mariner fandom. There’s just one problem with the story. It wasn’t entirely true. It was true as I…