Kyle Seager has been a staple for the Seattle Mariners for the last 10 years straight, and it has been quite the ride. Although, if you know me, whether you are my friend, or know me on Twitter, I have been a hater. Sometimes rightfully so, sometimes not. But I will keep this simple. I […] More
In a field that is currently driven by advanced analytics, there seems to be a void in how we analyze the effectiveness of relief pitchers. Quite often we use starting pitcher stats such as ERA and WHIP to judge a pitcher that is put to use for a fraction of the innings. This leaves the […] More
Seattle has had a ton of legends throughout it’s sports history. But not every player in Seattle sports history as turned out to be a home run. We’ve had some signings, draft picks and trades that were downright disasters in our three major sports franchises in our history. From the Seattle Sonics, Seattle Mariners, and […] More
Today in sports history November 21st, 1969, Ken Griffey Jr was born. Ken Griffey Jr we all know was a star with the Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds, and had a very brief stint with the Chicago White Sox. So first and foremost Happy Birthday to Ken Griffey Jr. Today in sports history November 21st, […] More
Today, Rawlings recognized that level of play by awarding Gold Gloves to both 1B Evan White and SS J.P. Crawford. It’s the first Gold Glove for either player. After a slow and quick year not resulting in many wins for the Seattle Mariners, we got to see good defensive play for the first time in a while. For […] More
On September 23rd, 2017 the Seattle Mariners broke the all-time Home Run record by a single team at the time with 258 home runs.The Mariners had Ken Griffey Junior with 56 home runs, Buhner with 40 home runs, Paul Sorrento with 31 home runs. Edgar Martinez had 28! And a young Alex Rodriguez had 23! […] More
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
