Pravda proclaims 16k tickets sold yesterday
DMZ · February 19, 2009 at 9:16 pm · Filed Under Mariners
16,000 tickets! Why, that’s very nearly 200 extra fans a game!
Really, though, the M’s probably just got a 10% return on Griffey’s likely 2009 salary in a day.
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To show you just how ridiculous this whole thing is. Someone at my company which has nothing to to with baseball or sports(a small financial services company in bellevue), even blogged about it.
It is written in gest, but still.
Noticed this in all our our favorite sporting news source, ESPN this afternoon on a peice about Mike Sweeney being the odd-man out with the signing of Junior…
The Mariners have already decided Griffey will be in left field when his legs feel fine. When baseball’s active leader with 611 home runs says he needs a break, he’ll be the DH
… god help us this is not the case.
jvalentine: Thanks for the bad news.
Griffey in LF = below replacement player. Sigh. Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll wear out his arm throwing all those balls he didn’t get to back in. Maybe Wakamatsu will turn out to have balls, and DH him. GRIFFEY MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO FIELD.
I don’t think Junior will be put in the field, but if he is I bet we see some highlight reel catches.
quoted by Jim Street:
“It’s too early to talk about lineups, or how much playing time he’ll get until we get a chance to talk with each other about how his body feels,” manager Don Wakamatsu said on Thursday. “When he gets to camp, and we’ve had a chance to talk to him about how he feels, we’ll have a better idea.
“We’re going to let this play out. He’s going to let us know, and we’ll let him know, when we get down the road. He knows his body.”
I don’t think Junior will be put in the field, but if he is I bet we see some highlight reel catches.
Why? Because that’s the only way he can get to the ball?
You may get exactly one. Thereafter, you’ll be seeing highlight reels of his surgeons giving press conferences.
The guy is pushing 40 and he’s injury and accident prone. (What kind of professional athlete gets hurt playing with his kids?) It’s in everybody’s best interest to keep him out of the field. Well, except for those surgeons and the rehab specialists, perhaps.
You didn’t study Orwell’s 1984 at some point in your education?
Speaking of which, I wonder if Swedish is gonna try to recruit Junior as their official “celebrity endorser” for this season? 😮
Suzuki has convinced Jr. to never bounce off of anything ever again and to only show us the fans that sweet swing and smile.
It remains to be seen what Jr. will convince Suzuki of.
There are a lot of people out there including myself that will be going to see Griffey regardless of how well he performs. Nobody is expecting him to be the savior of the Mariners, well I’m sure there’s a few, but you see where I’m going. There’s a lot more to the game than the stats, say what you will.
You forgot the part about “sitting in our parents’ basements.” Man, even the trolls are getting lazy. No wonder the economy is in such trouble.
“You didn’t study Orwell’s 1984 at some point in your education?”
Actually, I did. I was being facetious (and I can see you through your computer).
Then you know I’m sitting in my parents’ basement, my glasses fixed with tape, hurriedly photoshoping and revising web pages and stats to reflect the truth “We’ve always had Griffey”