Diamond Club?
Dave · August 5, 2009 at 8:28 am · Filed Under Mariners
Due to one of our awesome readers, I’m now the proud owner of two diamond club seats to Monday night’s game against the White Sox, which is remarkably generous of said reader. However, the main reason for the trip to Seattle (besides the whole USSM Goes To Safeco thing on Saturday) is for Amy and I to get to spend time with my parents, who we haven’t seen since the wedding last year. So, if possible, we’d love to take them along as well.
So, I’m just throwing this out there – if anyone else has a pair of Diamond Club seats that you’re not planning on using Monday night, drop us a line.
Oh, and just to make this somewhat Mariner related and so it doesn’t seem quite as shameful, Ichiro is something else, eh?
Word has it that at the team meeting, Griff was telling Ichiro he needed to add a little power to his game, so he did. Thats’ pretty amazing
That would have been a play to talk about if Ichiro had dropped it, scooped it up and gotten the call.
That spot is one of the rare places that the TV camera got a clean shot but the ump was totally blocked. I could see that being discussed as another scenario for instant replay
Yep…I don’t get why it can’t be used for tough catch/no catch calls? Just this week in a game against the Giants the left fielder deflected a ball that bounced off his foot and into the CF’s glove for a catch…but the umps ruled no catch saying the ball hit the ground, not the foot.
Couldn’t review it under current rules and it was a clear one on the TV replay.
Amazing how you can buy diamond club tickets for $190 each on stubhub. All my coworkers that are Yankee and Red Sox fans have to pay thousands for similar seats.
That’s what they get for being Yankees/Red Sox fans…
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Doing it once, the game after Junior said it, is amusing.
Suddenly reeling off a string of several games over the next week with doubles / home runs, simply because Junior suggested it – that would be amazing.
There exists a tax for the obnoxious.
For which we are grateful, because that tax is why Washburn is not now a Yankee and Felix is not now a Red Sock.
One of the nicer experiences of my life was when a generous friend comped me and my dad to Diamond Club seats to a Mariners game a couple of years ago — dad’s last trip to Seattle before he died and we had a great time. Hope you can get your entire family outfitted with tickets and have as much fun as we did.
Yeah, the Diamond Club is pretty cool. My wife and I were sitting there when Rickey Henderson scored on Carlos Guillen’s illegal squeeze bunt to win Game 3 of the 2000 ALDS.
But then somebody decided the Internet wasn’t such a good idea after all, and we haven’t been able to afford DC tickets since. Also we would need three tickets nowadays, not just two. 🙂
Actually, Washburn being a Yank would probably be rather amusing during his home starts. Just imagine the look on his face as 40% of those fly balls leave the park.
Dave’s come up with a great scheme here. Set up a website, post daily for a decade on it, attract thousands of users, and get free diamond club tickets. :>)
Donate early, donate often.
It’s like guessing that one day your kid might want to be president so faking his birth certificate.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Congratulations!! however belated.
… and yay Ichiro! nice bookends to that game.
Don’t look now, but Ichiro is now on pace for 97 runs scored after three last night. He may keep the 100-run streak alive after all.
He’s seven now, but thanks!
And was very proud earlier this season when he stayed for a whole game at Safeco, and the Mariners won! Because of course they did it just for him.
Sadly, the next game we took him to was the first game of the Cleveland series.
That’s when you teach him to enjoy the smaller things. Like ballpark sounds, Rick the peanut guy, keeping score, and tripping the Moose when he runs by.
Ah, baseball brings joys in so many more ways than seeing a win.
Presumably he at least got his Gutierrez bobblehead.
Yep, we made sure to get there in plenty of time. The folks we were meeting missed out, but they’re Cleveland fans so I didn’t feel too sorry for them.
I wonder how many comments about my kid it will take to get Dave to close the thread? 🙂
Dave felt guilty about the thread being off-topic to begin with. you’ll get more leeway here than in a normal thread I’d guess.
I had a similar time taking my “non-baseball fan” relative (wife’s cousin) to the Randy Johnson game at safeco earlier this year (felix bobblehead). His first pro baseball game. Obviously I wanted him to enjoy it.
The good: we won the game
The less good: it took 12 innings, and he was past ready to go.
If only Griffey’s pinch-hit in the bottom of the 9th would have gone just a bit further! Oh, well. We won, and I love free baseball.
yay Ichiro! nice bookends to that game
Can’t help but think of that sportswriter who couldn’t wait to see JODY GERUT play right field.
(And ICHIRO was out there the other half of the time.)
HOLY COW !
Dave felt guilty about the thread being off-topic to begin with. you’ll get more leeway here than in a normal thread I’d guess.
If it’s derived from attending a game with your family, pretty much anything’s okay. The thread wouldn’t be open for random trade speculation, though.
A family that rosterbates together….