Felix

Aug. 15th, 2012 05:18 pm
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(He has his kids' names tattooed on his wrists. That's why he kisses them. I love that.)

"Sure, it was unfair to just expect a guy to eventually throw a perfect game or a no-hitter. Perfect games and no-hitters are hard! Felix had made several bids before, but he'd never gotten this far, he'd never gotten to the end, and in an odd and unjust way, we were disappointed. Felix, too. On the one hand, we were all being greedy and presumptuous; on the other hand, it was a testament to Felix's skill. "That guy, right there? He's going to throw a perfect game. You watch. He's overdue." Felix has been the kind of pitcher where you see a game like this coming. The game came."
--Jeff Sullivan

You know, it's a funny thing I've noticed. He's King Felix to baseball, but he's usually just Felix to us Mariner fans. And we love him. We need him. And he loves us back.

Baseball!

Jan. 17th, 2012 05:10 pm
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So, one of the things in Mariners fandom is that the front office is so good at keeping secrets that you generally don't hear about trades until they happen AND, if you hear about something, there's a good chance it's really going to happen. The Pineda/Montero trade is an awesome example of it as very little time passed from the first hint until all the details were known. (As [livejournal.com profile] beth_shulman pointed out, it's REALLY amazing that word didn't leak on the New York side.)

The Pineda/Montero timeline. )

Of course, an alternative interpretation is this trade is taking a really long time, as it still isn't official!
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WOW! Mark Buehrle just threw a perfect game for the White Sox. And THANK YOU for technology because I watched the last inning on MLB.com and it was INCREDIBLE. I stood up in my apartment to cheer him on!

And that includes an AMAZING catch! I mean, it would've been pretty great even if the perfect game hadn't been the line, but as is, WOW! I'm so glad I got to see it!

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