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Your game recaps are consistently great reads. No matter how trivial the game, I find myself always wanting to read your take on what went down. If it was a game I watched, you always dig for interesting nuggets and usually teach me something new, or find something that I find genuinely interesting. Moreover, your .gifs and hypothetical conversations bring me to tears sometimes, and I have a very picky sense of humor. If I missed the game, your story-telling/summary helps translate the “pulse” of what it would’ve felt like to watch portions of the game.

I’ve browsed other SB Nation Baseball sites to get a sample of their recaps and in my opinion yours are the best of the bunch. Thank you for all of the work you put in, it shines in these game recaps.

I can’t believe you guys made it through this whole season still writing content.

but I love reading the articles on this site every day. Thank you to the LL staff :)

I’ve consistently followed this blog for close to five years now. I don’t often post but I feel like I don’t have to most of the time because you guys always seem to sum up what’s on the readers mind most of the time.
I can’t thank-you enough for what you do everyday for your readers and that you continue to be a pillar of optimism in a otherwise bleak but hopeful landscape that is the Mariners. I know it’s your job, but your all very good anyways.

saying how much I appreciate Lookout Landing. Being an M’s fan lately has been a lot like being an Astros fan or a Royals fan. You might get some fun out of it if you love baseball, but you’d constantly wish you followed another team. But with LL I honestly don’t feel unlucky to be an M’s fan. Sure, it’d be great to root for a playoff team. But if I can’t have that, I’ll take Jeff, Matthew, and this awesome community any day.

And with the young players and solid front office we’ve had lately, maybe we’ll have both a good team and a great online community soon. That’d be something.

Having been deployed and shuttled around the country for the past few years I don’t watch many games. This season was the first I watched more than a handful. With your insightful write-ups, links, and game summarys I am still plugged into the Mariners pulse.
Thank you from Kodiak

But this may be the best one I’ve gotten the chance to read.

Thank you to Jeff, Matthew, and everyone who wrote informative/entertaining pieces to keep me going through the season.

I am in the military and stationed in Germany and this is the first time in my life that i couldn’t flip on the TV every night and watch the M’s. They have sportscenter here, but i don’t have to tell you that aside from LA, the west coast gets no love from anyone in the sports world. Thank you for keeping me up to date with everything Mariners, and thank you for making me laugh at the same time. Keep up the great work.

Jeff, Matthew, thanks for your good work this season. If not for this site and USSMariner, I’d probably have given up following the M’s long ago. If only the team was as good as its bloggers.

I started in the middle of spring training and barely missed a post. I have been a Mariner’s fan for as long as I can remember, but never knew the team as much as I did this year. This season was my birth into sabermetrics and I’m looking forward to many more years of in depth Mariners coverage.

I’m not sure what I will do at work now, I suppose I could work, but I would much rather read about the Mariners. As it is my first season as an LL reader, I’m not sure if there will be content in the off season, but I damn sure hope so.

Thanks LL, for making an otherwise disappointing Mariner’s season enjoyable.

Without that, I wouldn’t have kept up with baseball in general, which means I would have missed out on last night’s wild card craziness. It’s corny, but I knew at the time last night that history was being made, and millions of other people were watching it at the same time. We don’t usually get to have shared experiences on that scale anymore unless it’s a tragedy. So again, thanks. Can’t wait to read you guys’ perspective this winter on one of the more important offseasons the M’s will have had in a long time…

I’ve only been to a handful of games this year (including the wonderful series at Nats Park!) and probably haven’t watched more than 4-5 full games being on the East Coast. The past eight years just weighed down on me to the point where the idea of sitting down for a full 2.5-3 hours to watch the team is very infrequently attractive. But more than that, I feel like I don’t need to actually watch a game to know what happened, what was most important, what was most trivial, and why I should actually feel a slight twinge of hope now and again. (Ackley!) And there is no better way to follow the Mariners than through your recaps, podcasts, observations, GIFs, and imagined conversations.

I occasionally share the podcasts and bits from your posts with my girlfriend, and she’s come to the conclusion that all Mariners fans actually hate the Mariners and hate baseball. I think I’ve finally convinced her that you and Matthew describe the experience of being a Mariners fan best: We like the Mariners, we really like the Mariners, but we’re pretty sure they don’t like us back very much.

Thanks for another great season; if not on the field, then on LL.

This was the first season in a couple years that I haven’t felt jaded enough from an abrubt end to my baseball days to follow the M’s for an entire season and a large part of that is due to your writing. You managed to make a 17 game losing streak a blast to follow. So yeah, thanks guys. You’ve helped respark my love for the game.

In addition to being fully engaged in the rollercoaster ride that was the ‘95 Mariners, I also happened to be in Atlanta when the Braves made the playoffs after being crappy for a long time (I guess it was the late 80s). Deion was shuttling between football & baseball in a helicopter and the vibe in that town was (to quote Buster Bluth) Off The Hook!
So my only consolation after another crappy season is that when the Mariners finally rise again, it’ll be that same goofy fun again. I think you have to be bad to really experience that high, and we are succeeding with the first part.

Keep chasing the volcanoes – they are fun to catch.

I’m going to miss the humor that i so regularly enjoyed during the sucktastic 2nd half of the season. Looking forward to next season already!

Slogging through three losing seasons in the past five since I found LL has been so, so much more fun and interesting with you guys around. Thank you!!

I’m a big Seattle Mariners fan that lives in.. Anaheim. yup. That Anaheim of Los Angeles of California of the United States. Not sure how that happened. Needless to say I get ripped pretty constantly down here. But I sincerely think you are one hell of a writer Jeff. And believe it or not, that makes my life easier. For every horrible game that I strained my eyes watching on MLB.tv on my iPhone, your recaps and general posts kept reminding me that there are others that endure my pain, and can laugh about it. Hope you have a great offseason doing whatever bloggers do in the offseason, because we’ve got our work cut out for us in 2012 buddy. Go Ms.