Another year another Mariner’s FanFest for my family. We converged onto Seattle Friday night for the Mariners last caravan event. Once again it was held at Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood. This year Charlie Furbush and new M’s closer Steve Cishek attended the event. I love FanFest and plan attending every year regardless of the lineup…
NEWS Josh Willingham has announced his retirement from the MLB. He played 11 seasons for 5 teams; Marlins, Nationals, A’s, Twins and Royals. He ended his career with 195 HR’s and 632 RBI’s and won a Silver Slugger in 2012 with the Twins. The Reds have hired Kevin Towers as their new Special Assistant of…
My wife and I started going to Mariner’s Fan Fest in 2004 before we even had any kids. Now we have 3 daughters Gracie (has been to 8 fan fests), Malia (has been to 5), and Avery (has been to 2). It’s one of our favorite weekends of the year. The reason we started going…
By Josh: I’m a baseball junkie. I know it, my wife knows it, my daughter will learn it soon enough and I’m pretty sure those of you that read this blog have figured it out as well. I love going to games, collecting baseball cards, getting autographs and even just sitting down to talk baseball. …
As a diehard baseball fan the history of the game is extremely important. Baseball is called “America’s Pastime” because it has been there through the wars, the great depression, through civil rights battles and the constant changes in our nation. For a baseball fan getting the opportunity to experience baseball history live is something that…
The casual fan doesn’t realize this but the Mariners farm system has been one of the weakest farm systems in baseball over the past 5 and even 10 years. Yes there have been some good players to come through the system such as Felix Hernandez, Adam Jones (with the Orioles), Shin-Soo Choo (with the Indians),…
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