Comments on: Awesome bordering on creepy

By: samregens

samregens — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:05:59 +0000

I found a better translation of Ichiro’s comments here: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/091007&sportCat=mlb

(On Ken Griffey Jr.) “He’s always been a hero of mine,” Ichiro said through his interpreter. “To get to play with that hero of mine in the same uniform and in the city of Seattle, that time I got to spend together even now seems like a dream. I believe that the time I got to spend with him is going to continue. And he’s a person that even if you want to forget him, you can’t forget him. I imagine that this offseason, even when I sleep, he will pop up in my dreams.”

By: hark

hark — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:14:18 +0000

Who is arguing itâ€™s not tacky? And when Boeing et al were buying up tickets to trigger lease clauses to keep the team in town, was that tacky?

Those were the days! Man, when Boeing rec bought up M’s tickets, my dad was working for them and we got half season plans every year through 1996, and 20-game plans through 1998 (before Safeco and its prices…love the ballpark, but damn), on the cheap. It was a great deal. We still paid for tickets, subsidized by Boeing, and got lots of Mariner baseball…

By: dmojr

dmojr — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:23:27 +0000

I would have gone if Jr was buying!

By: BLYKMYK44

BLYKMYK44 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:42:38 +0000

How do we know he didn’t buy tickets…and just missed the mark by 5k??

By: msb

msb — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:17:02 +0000

You think heâ€™d have to put it on Amex? Iâ€™d bet his finances are a little better-managed than that.

I just assumed Melissa took care of his allowance…

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:52:53 +0000

I disagree with the PR stuff from this. Were it to be discovered that he somehow just barely made that attendance bonus, immediately after such a ‘generous’ offering to local kids, the tacky discussion would be all over the media. That PR would have soured in a hurry. We all know he’s smarter than that.

By: Osfan

Osfan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:59:26 +0000

I don’t know if it would have pissed off the Mariner’s brass too much. They put the attendence bonus in Griff’s contract for a reason – they thought that he would put more butts in the seats. The fact that he was able to easily buy the neccessary tickets means that this plan was largely successful. Further, if he would have given them away publically, it would have been incredibly good PR. PR you can’t normally buy.

By: egreenlaw9

egreenlaw9 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:51:02 +0000

I didn’t expect people to actually be giving reasons since it seems so obvious (to me at least)…

Wouldn’t that kind of piss of the M’s brass? If he really wants to come back that wouldn’t be a step in the right direction.

BUT, it’s still awesome that you thought of the possibility.

I’d definitely buy you a beer if you came into my bar saying something like that.

By: mark s

mark s — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:19:32 +0000

I would have loved to have seen the headline:
Griffey and Sweeney give 20,000 tickets to final weekend of baseball to Seattle children.

It would have been awesome PR for the Mariners.

By: littlesongs

littlesongs — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:28:10 +0000

â€œYou canâ€™t forget about him,â€ Suzuki said through an interpreter. â€œI believe that even in this winter, in my sleep, he will appear in my dreams. â€œTo play together with that hero of mine, in the same uniform â€” and on top of that, in Seattle â€” that time we got, even now, seems like a dream. I believe that time with him will continue.â€

This seems like an appropriate moment for a flashback to 1995.