Today in sports history September 14th, 1990 Ken Griffey Sr and Ken Griffey Jr hit back to back homeruns to become the 1st father and son duo to hit homeruns in the same game. 30 years ago today. Ken Griffey Sr & Jr hit back to back home runs ?? becoming the first father & […] More
Today in sports history September 9th 2010 Ichiro Suzuki of my Seattle Mariners becomes the 1st player in MLB history to record 200 hits in 10 straight seasons. Ichiro finished with 3,089 hits in MLB and 1,278 in Japan Ichiro’s career total hit total in his career was 4,367 hits. Pete Rose had 4,256 hits […] More
Josh Gordon is on the Seahawks again, and we are stacked at the WR position. With that said, George & Sami of That Being Said Pod are back for Episode 34 of the Seattle SuperPod, the Seattle version of That Being Said Podcast… It’s time to let Russ cook, we also need to sign Clowney. Plus, we shortly discussed […] More
On September 1st, 1990 Ken Griffey Jr & Sr became the 1st ever father and son combo to play together. As a Seattle Mariners fan this is one of those random factoids and stats you hold on to when you have never won a World Series. Regardless, this is so damn cool. We have never […] More
On August 15th, 2012 Seattle Mariners legend Felix Hernandez threw the first perfect game in Seattle Mariners history. Not only was this the 1st perfect game in Seattle Mariners history but the last perfect game since. I still remember the day exactly. At the time I lived in Miami and of course had the MLB […] More
On this day in sports history August 13th, 1995 Ichiro met Michael Jordan for the 1st time. And man this is one of my favorite videos on the internet. Look how excited Ichiro looks and how Michael Jordan has no idea who Ichiro is. It goes to show how how insanely famous Michael Jordan was […] More
On this day in sports history August 12th 1994, the MLB went on strike. My Seattle Mariners were only 49-63 but that put them at 2 games back of 1st in the AL West. Griffey had 40 home runs and led the AL and was making a run at 62. Now would this have happened? […] More
Today in sports history August 9th, 1998 Ken Griffey Jr made one of the best catches of his career. At the Old Tiger stadium Griffey timed a fly ball from Luis Gonzalez perfectly and robbed a home run. The sheer athleticism by Junior was incredible and it was one of many incredible home runs robs […] More
Here we go again, folks. After a 1-4 start, I was ready to watch the Mariners without stress. I never give up on the Seattle Mariners, I am True To The Blue, but I will understand when I should just watch and enjoy the process. Well, maybe the process is working now?! A 3-game winning […] More
One thing that has not been discussed quite enough with the upcoming baseball season is what are the announcers going to fill their free time with. Usually you watch a game and they pan to the stands and the announcers talk about the baby and the mom and dad for three minutes then tie it […] More
On this day in sports history July 19th, 1994. The Kingdome tiles collapsed forcing a postponement of the game. Today in sports history July 19th, 1994 the Kingdome tiles collapsed and it caused the game to be postponed. Who else went to the Kingdome for their first ever Mariners game? ??? @sontseattle pic.twitter.com/hrNuPOZrYx — George […] More
On this day in sports history July 15th, 1999 the Seattle Mariners had their inaugural game at Safeco Field. The Mariners lost 3-2 to the San Diego Padres. I wasn’t lucky enough to go to the first ever game at Safeco Field but as a huge Seattle Mariner fan and being 11 years old at […] More