Blogs Apr 7, 2010 at 8:44 pm

40 and 20 Years Ago Today

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Ouch. Thinking about the Pilots is like having a scab ripped off. One season of pro ball and then our hearts were broken! 40 years later, I can't stand the thought of setting foot in Milwaukee. Even though I have a cousin there.
kk in seattle on April 7, 2010 at 9:08 PM Report this
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Mariners are in the lead now, btw.

Randy Johnson later became a seagull exterminator.
leek on April 7, 2010 at 9:11 PM Report this
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PS: Today in Baseball History's use of commas is not to be trusted.
leek on April 7, 2010 at 9:12 PM Report this
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@ 3 I, agree.
Chicago Fan on April 7, 2010 at 9:20 PM Report this
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I saw a Pilots game, against soon-to-be champions Brooks and Frank Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles. Got a pennant, too, which was one of my prize possessions from my childhood until some motherfucker stole it from my cubicle at work a couple of years ago. Don Mincher! Ray Oyler! Tommy Harper! Gene Brabender! Diego Segui (who was later a Mariner too).
Fnarf on April 7, 2010 at 9:31 PM Report this
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Milton Bradley two-run homer!!!

(and fuck Bud Selig)
DOUG. on April 7, 2010 at 9:40 PM Report this
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Randy is throwing out the first pitch on Monday!
on April 7, 2010 at 9:48 PM Report this
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Diego's son David was also a Mariner....and a steroid user. But hey, who isn't? I bet even little Joey Cora was a juicer.
dpb on April 7, 2010 at 10:13 PM Report this
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There still is no better baseball book than Ball Four.
smade on April 7, 2010 at 10:36 PM Report this
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Why is CF the only one writing here about Seattle non-Sounder sports? From Chicago?! Next you'll be taunting us about the Thunder. Enjoy Silva.
on April 7, 2010 at 10:52 PM Report this
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My dad took me to a Pilots game. Still think I have the pennant somewhere. Don't remember all that much about it. I was 8. Isn't the stadium site a Lowes now?
the heathen on April 8, 2010 at 6:21 AM Report this
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As soon as I read CF's "anyone care about the Pilots" comment, I knew Fnarf would pipe up. That sucks that someone swiped your pennant.
Matt from Denver on April 8, 2010 at 6:28 AM Report this
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Ah yes, David Segui. I wonder how he and Randy Johnson are getting along these days.
Matt from Denver on April 8, 2010 at 6:30 AM Report this
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Jesus Fnarf, how old are you?
Rotten666 on April 8, 2010 at 7:29 AM Report this
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Every time I see pictures of Randy Johnson these days, I too wonder what the hell happened to him. He looks like the picture of some mulleted Dorian Gray.
Greg on April 8, 2010 at 7:37 AM Report this
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Randy Johnson is in town signing autographs at local sports card shops etc.
Original-er Andy on April 8, 2010 at 8:08 AM Report this
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Baseball became irrelevant when the rich schmucks who own the teams became successful in shaking down their cities for hundreds of millions of dollars for unnecessary stadiums. While schools, libraries, et al. are shut down. Thanks for nothing, assholes.
Karlheinz Arschbomber on April 8, 2010 at 9:15 AM Report this
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@11, yes, it's a Lowe's, the one on Rainier. They have a plate outside the entrance that's supposedly where home plate was, though I'm pretty sure it's in the wrong spot and facing the wrong direction.

@14, I'm just three months younger than God. You do the math, I don't want to think about it: 10 in 1969.
Fnarf on April 8, 2010 at 10:27 AM Report this
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What @11 and Fnarf said, except I was 5. The pennant is still on the wall of my folk's garage.
pox on April 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM Report this
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folks'. Damn.
pox on April 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM Report this
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@17 NERD!
McGee on April 8, 2010 at 12:00 PM Report this
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@18 - we must have been born near the same time. I was 10 in 1969 - well, I was 9 during that summer, when the Pilots played - but I turned 10 that year.
Geni on April 8, 2010 at 12:15 PM Report this
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Fnarf turned 11 that year... which I know only because party crasher was at his 50th about 1 /2 years ago.
Matt from Denver on April 8, 2010 at 12:50 PM Report this
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Lou Piniella was briefly a Pilot. Nothing else to add, I just always thought that was interesting.
Dougsf on April 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM Report this

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