Seattle Mariners - The Early Days

[sprdvx]

Oh, the days when there was a valid excuse not to win, unlike today.

[hoghash78]

Oh...Ken Phelps? Seen him live. Toronto vs. Oakland... Holman was 1 out from a perfect game. Ken Phelps came in to pinch hit. First pitch....Home run. Brian Holman didn´t even get a shutout....I believe Ricky Henderson came next and struck out.

What a day, almost seen a perfect game. Now to think of it did Phelps come to Oakland later?

[hoghash78]

I thought Presly had a real chance....I collected all his rookie cards. Well, I´ll still never forget him.

[fbravis]

what? nettles played short? i thought he was with the indians twins yankees and padres?

[SaintWicked721]

my uncle graduated high school with Rick Honeycutt

[BLP1261]

R.I.P. Dave Niehaus.

[DucLeJaques]

Bob Kearney is my father! This is so Awesome! I didn't know something like this was out there! It's awesome to know that people still respect him and appreciate what he's done. People still send him baseball cards for him to sign :) He is happy to sign them and read your letters! Theres been many amazing ones.

[17kearney17]

Bob Kearney is my uncle!

[artwleb]

30 years? What about the Seattle Pilots? Joe Sparma.....

[bradfridell]

That absolute best thing I've ever seen. Love how you cut it off with Valle. I grew up with these guys and they provided some of my best memories. I'd love to go drinking with this guy. WELL DONE!

[Maxwell1901]

Mario Mendoza once hit .245!

[heavymetalsoldier]

I like the old Mariners. They may not have been the most talented bunch, but they sure did play thier hearts out

[agroisabela]

I remember Ivan Calderon for his powerful arm. He was killed in his hometown in Puerto Rico and recently his son named as his father were also shot to dead.

[94cadillacfleetwood]

Great tune...captures the essence of the early days of the M's!

I remember when I met Tom Paciorek at an Indians game back in '82 while he was with the White Sox...I had my Indians hat on and he told me that that was an ugly hat and i needed a real one-he autographed his and gave it to me!! I still have it at my parents' house somewhere.

[ectigers83]

I remember the team well. I use to listen to Yankee Mariner games on NY's 1010 Wins AM radio. If anybody goes back with the NY Yankees, you know what I'm talking about. The Yankees are now on WABC-77 radio AM. The Yankee games were exclusively on WPIX channel 11. They rarely, if ever, showed the Westcoast late games. A bit of basedball nostalgia.

[193Bailey]

I went to high school with Bob Stinson(Miami Senior High) he was known as TINY Stinson. He actually was a good friend of mine - dated my friend Gloria Johnson.I lost track of him as I moved - glad to hear he made out so well.

[FullOfEpisodes]

Tom Paciorek is my great uncle, no kidding! COOL!

[bfbjr]

I miss the trident, the Kingdome, and John Moses.

[buckynance]

This video and song are AWESOME!!!

As a Rangers Fan, I have tried to get them to put something like this together.

[houstonsooner11]

if yall want to know something funny about one of these guys... Craig Reynolds is an associate pastor at my church. (Second Baptist Houston) In every sermon he tells a baseball story from when he was a Mariner or most recently an Astro.

[scorpiodude65]

God, I remember being 10 years old and going to the "Kingdome" the day after I got all 4 of my wisdom teeth pulled to watch my beloved Mariners!! Those were the days of "Bruce Bochte", "Gaylord "Spitball" Perry", "Julio Cruz", "Bill "Cuffs" Caudill", "Willie Horton", "Harold Reynolds", and all the rest of the best bunch of guys who played ball in Seattle. From a fan since I was a boy....and still am at heart......Thanks to whomever posted this tribute to "my guys", and for the years of M's Ball

[AwesomoComics]

once, me and my family had a suite at comerica park, and , you wouldn't believe it, but Willie Horton was in the suite next to me, and sitting outsdie watching the game. True Story.

[luisam911]

Salary Cap on baseball is needed

[coolalvin2]

new York fans can suck a cock.. Remember 95?

[Fergit3]

Sorry about the 61-101 record. Hey, maybe next year you guys can pull up a good enough season for the Yankees to beat you in the ALCS again. It did take 116 wins for you guys to get that far last time though. Oh well, good luck.

[the12thfactor]

yeah, seriously dude, your stupid. 1995 buddy. even the amazing yanks couldn't beat us. die hard yankee fans are fucking retarted!

[Fergit3]

1995?! Woopdi-fucking-doo. You got one year. Where was your fucking championship in '95? You wanna talk history?! How about 26 championships?!. How about 39 pennants?! Don't even start to talk about history.

[the12thfactor]

yankees have 26 world championships because they are an over paid, and overrated francise. and it's funny, whenever the yankees aren't champions of something every year, the fans go ballistic. Take last year. Tampa and Boston went to the playoffs, and new york bitched like little girls. Some of the die hards almost seemed offended tampa beat them! Yankee nation isn't as big and bad as everyone thinks.

And jeter and Gay rod can suck a giant cock.

[Fergit3]

The Yankees don't have 26 championships because they are overpaid. They have only won 3 of 26 championships as the highest paid team in the MLB.

I do not understand you're logic in that the Yankees won 26 championships because they are overrated.

I'm going to disregard the rest of what you said because it's biased, bigoted, and you come off as desperate.

[the12thfactor]

haha! my last part is true! you can't think of a good enough comeback!

yankees bitched so bad! hella funny!

[de132]

@Fergit3

The Yanks were a down and dirty team originally, worked hard for wins players and championships, but towards the end of the 80's they really changed in to a monopolizing team,

So therefore there recent championship is a farce, like the Pittsburgh Steelers

[Fergit3]

I understand what you are saying, but I think you are simplifying the situation. First of all there is NOTHING in any rule book preventing a team from spending ANY amount of money on ANY player. We spend the money we earn. Second, the "buy a championship" philosophy doesn't exist. We tried all decade to buy a championship (a-rod, sheffield, brown, pavano, wright, johnson,) and it didn't work. It takes chemistry and unity more than anything else as evidenced by other recent championships.

[whitefoot123]

REFUSE TO LOSE....... "The double" sorry your great yankees couldnt beat us then and hell you couldnt beat the rays either go figure

[squatch4ever]

I like Seattle, but hope a better next season :P

[newyorkbaseballgiant]

seattle sucks

[the12thfactor]

dont fucking watch the video then dumbass. fuck new york

[de132]

NYY and NYM swallow so hard.

Citi Field and Yankee Stadium smells like a horses ass.

[redrox221]

i live in seatel we had arod david ortez big uinit

[bigpopparamma]

Continue: they're one of wealthiest franchises, not like their previous shoestring owners, still cannot make it to the World Series?

[bigpopparamma]

I've been an M's fan since their inception. Win or lose, I still support my M's. I wonder what it is that

[redrox221]

i live in seatel i think i am going to cry i am 9 and it is sad for me

[buddhak0n]

In Other words... They SUCKED.

Kind of like they do now . Not much has changed.

Way to get ripped off by ownership Seattle lol

[skc444]

i am a mariners fan but they suck this year

[1pickles5]

Go M's

[jhunter1163]

The first major league game I ever saw live was the one in April 1985 when Phil Bradley hit the grand slam in the bottom of the ninth with the M's down three runs. What an incredible moment. 30,000 people screaming their heads off. I was the loudest.

[flatsignedbooks]

just looked in mirror, I have grey in my hair! so long ago! Thanks for posting!

[soldierwithu]

well done sir, well done

[vancouner]

The Mariners are wearing throw back jersys so they can remember how great of a team they are.

[FischerFan]

Those 1979 baseball cards bring back memories. Actually, I'm a little surprised there was no mention of Mariners' rep Bruce Bochte hitting a single during the All-star game at the Kingdome that year.

My Blue Jays finished 50 games out of first that year. There was the ugly 'Disco Demolition Night'; and the tragic loss of Thurman Munson. But baseball was still a game in those days. I didn't know I had it so good.

Baseball, what on earth happened to you?

[Jeff98177]

I still have the souvenir batting helmet I got at a game in 1977 (with a Seafirst Bank logo on the back) and the ultimate Mariners collectors item... a Dave Valle HR ball I caught at a game in 1988.

[Holste42]

Good song, brutually funny. I'm not a huge Mariner fan but I remember some of the names from the past. When you could follow players careers.

I do believe the guitar riff is from Girlfriend in a coma.

[renandstim]

The M's have lost 18 of 22 games in May and now have three games vs. the Red Sox staring them in the face. Looking for a positive? At 7-20, the M's don't have the fewest road wins in the majors. The Braves hold that distinction at 6-16.

[BlackJays]

Ah yes, the expansion cousins. Y'all need to put an end to the World Series drought.

[usednapkin23]

Go M's!!!!!! and Seahawks!!!!

[markofly76]

I went to M's games as a kid at the dome, and you can sit anywhere even if you buy G.A. I remember these players, and then, a guy named Griffey came along!!!!!!

[faridrushdi]

I lived in Seattle '79-'82, and life was certainly hard for Mariners' fans. The M's had the top draft choice one year and could have taken Kirk Gibson, but they wouldn't because of the bonus they would have had to pay. Instead they chose Al Chambers.

Enough said on that one.

[menezesdan]

Im a mariners fan but i have to say that the team is a fuckin joke. Watching them is so frustrating. There is absolutely no commitment to winning. The team is 31 years old and has never gotten past game 6 of an AL championship. The Blue Jays started the same year as the M's and they have 2 World Series and a large number of famous players to talk about. Yall can give me thumbs down if ya want but you know its true.

[lecagot2]

Does Baseballbard stand for Baseball Ballard??

[XDUKAHX]

hell yeaH!

i live in seattle and i lovev the mariners, there is to many Yankee's fans in seattle!

[SenhordoBonfim]

that was great! thanks!

[aginghipster]

Phillies color commentator and former reliever Larry Anderson also started with the Mariners.

[joeb1963]

I remember all of those mariner years thanks!

[stlouie24]

Old ones were better.

[eauhomme]

Excellent! I still remember those days well--Danny Tartabull as a power hitting shortstop (who, like Michael Jackson, wore a glove on one hand for no apparent reason), Ivan Calderon, Karl Best, Billy Swift, whatever latest rookie sensation was supposed to make us contenders and instead made us 4th.

[lordjj44]

mariners got carlos silva....ok pitcher....mariners fans have heart!!!! GO MARINERS!!

[rtgrtg]

hahahah, Len Randle was blew the ball FOULLLLLLLL i laughed at that. Bill Caudill was crazy haha yeah he was, The Inspector! such great characters have been around mariners/baseball

[tajniak13]

Nice video!

Name of song?

[baseballbard]

"Early Days" sung by local boy and big-time M's fan Jimm McIver.