4. Visit every MLB stadium. The Orioles are bad. The Mariners are bad. We saw two former first rounders pitch for two last place teams. Safeco Field is gorgeous. Seattle hot dogs are weird. Kyle Seager is still and always and belovedly a dope, and he hit a home run. We now own a Lou…
Tag: seattle mariners
baseball: mariners @ orioles
If you watch a lot of college baseball, eventually players you love will make it to the major leagues. This is a familiar view, of Kyle Seager’s bubble butt and lazy slow approach to third base, a view that makes my heart ache a little, a view that still makes me want to yell GODDAMNIT,…
the man for whom the idiot man-children playing third base tag was coined
brb, going to baltimore to see a man about a third baseman. a different third baseman. well, also the same third baseman as before, it’s true, but also another one.
once more into the breach
Another MLB debut by an ex-Tar Heel this week. Kyle Seager, booter of ground balls, grower of tomatoes, hitter of doubles because do you guys know how much farther you have to run if you hit a home run? Your new Mariners third baseman, ladies and gentlemen. I’m more proud that I have any right…
it’s a nickname waiting to happen
Double dipping with two from the archives, since today guys-I’ve-seen-play-before-they-were-famous seems to be a theme: Alex White (#6) and Dustin Ackley (#13), top, both of whom made their MLB debuts this year, during their last ACC home series at Carolina; and bottom, freshly promoted Indians 3B Lonnie Chisenhall, when he was with the Kinston Indians — who are,…
brand new kind of photography 