Every Two Minutes.

by Jeff Sullivan on Sep 13, 2008 1:08 AM PDT in Miscellaneous

The scoreboard tells the fans to make noise every two minutes.

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How often does it tell them to drink?

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Sep 13, 2008 1:19 AM PDT reply actions

There's a reason we get out cheered by visiting Red Sox and Yankees fans.

And Blue Jay’s fans. Often times at a game it seems like you’re there, trying to root and people wish you’d shut up. Or maybe 25,000 people just happened to walk in to hang out and a baseball game happened.

We need to clone Red about 50,000 times.

by Smegmalicious on Sep 13, 2008 2:29 AM PDT reply actions

Every two minutes, I thank God that I'm not in Anaheim.

by Teej on Sep 13, 2008 3:09 AM PDT reply actions

If you don't distract them every two minutes they might notice the rats chewing through their achilles tendon's

by OlSalty on Sep 13, 2008 3:12 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs

I think youre misplacing your apostrophe's.

David Ortiz > God

by Brian Sullivan on Sep 13, 2008 6:20 AM PDT up reply actions

Don't think so....

Achilles tendon’s is possessive in this case so it gets an apostrophe, unless I’m a complete failure at English which is possible.

by OlSalty on Sep 13, 2008 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions

The tendon isn't the thing doing the possessing.

No apostrophe.

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Sep 13, 2008 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions

Well, fuck me then.

by OlSalty on Sep 13, 2008 11:28 PM PDT up reply actions

We can't say much.

I have only been to Seattle for six games, and admittedly I have been to around 200 Premier league football matches where the hatred flows freely so I may have bigger expectations … but Seattle fans suck. I’d rather have rats biting my ankles if it meant that I could be passionate about the team I support along with like-minded people. When I was at Safeco I felt like a jerk just for standing up and clapping when Felix had two strikes.

Maybe Safeco’s atmosphere sucking is why we all enjoy this place so much?

I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.

by EnglishMariner on Sep 13, 2008 3:30 AM PDT reply actions

It's part of it for me

I have a hard time having fun at Safeco unless I’m with a large group of friends, because the rest of the crowd is really a buzzkill.

by OlSalty on Sep 13, 2008 3:44 AM PDT up reply actions

From living in So. Cal..

And having been to probably ~40 Mariner’s/Angel’s games in my life, I can tell you Angel’s fans are only passionate about their team if they are doing well. Going to games even back IN 2002, there would be more (at least noisy) Mariner’s fans than Angel’s fans there. It wasn’t until 2003 after the World Series that they actually started to draw more fans (and of course when they signed Vlad/Guillen/Colon/Escobar before 2004 their popularity around here skyrocketed). I’ve never been to Safeco (Until the 22nd of Sep that is!) so I can’t really comment on Mariner’s fans in general, but I doubt Safeco is as bad as Angel Stadium used to be. Not to mention how un-witty their fans are, the worst I ever get from Angel’s fans in some dumb comment about how much it rains in Seattle, how we must love Starbucks (even though its on every other street corner in LA/OC, and how it must be a long drive to Seattle.

Man, Im really hoping Safeco isn’t all quiet and boring. I don’t expect Fenway or anything but I was actually looking forward to cheering for Seattle along with everyone else since that never happens here, but shoot, everyone makes it sound like how Angel Stadium used to be like.

by seamariners85 on Sep 13, 2008 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, in April 2002 I went to an M's-Angels game at Edison/Angels Stadium

Sat in the RF bleachers, which were half full. The Mariners fans outnumbered the Angels fans, I kid you not.

by Nick S on Sep 13, 2008 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions

At least we still are coming to the games...sucking or not

I too came from So. CA and then Northern CA and we don’t have the most enthusiastic fans here in Seattle (and it’s really annoying when Red Sox or Yankees games roll into town and Seattle-ites are rooting for the other team) but at least there ARE fans…
But we are commonly said we are the “nicest” fans…unlike the Red Sox fans etc which probably makes us seem even more nonchalant.

I prefer my SAFECO experiences over anything I got at the Angels or Athletics games. Probably now it would be better. I went to the new Giants stadium and that was nice.

by Smith18 on Sep 13, 2008 7:26 PM PDT up reply actions

by vj on Sep 13, 2008 1:07 PM PDT reply actions

"i got 5ive on it"

by Funke5ive on Sep 13, 2008 3:42 PM PDT reply actions

Wildly incorrect.

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Sep 13, 2008 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions

This is the reason I hate it when we play the Angels.

by Graham MacAree on Sep 13, 2008 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions

This is the reason I love it when we play the Mariners.

"i got 5ive on it"

by Funke5ive on Sep 13, 2008 6:34 PM PDT up reply actions

Per Larry Stone.

by ThundaPC on Sep 13, 2008 4:16 PM PDT reply actions

That cannot possibly be right.

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Sep 13, 2008 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions

Oh for fucks sake.

…it also provides a chance to evaluate the notion of Lopez as a first-base option down the road — like maybe next year. Lopez will probably play first base frequently the rest of the way.

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Sep 13, 2008 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions