Mariners Baseball
by Jeff Sullivan on Jan 30, 2012 10:15 AM PST
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By the way
Brendan Ryan is still peeved he wasn’t in a commercial last year.
He thinks maybe he should write his own this year.
Mariners Baseball
Emulating General Sherman since 2009.
So are we going to burn Atlanta to the ground?
by Ballard Erik on Jan 30, 2012 11:01 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
We still be 2500 rings short of General Sherman
by sofa_king on Jan 30, 2012 12:53 PM PST via mobile up reply actions 17 recs
I wonder if he's a fan of the Lord of the Rings?
"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good and let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence." ~ Dinobot
by beastwarking on Jan 30, 2012 10:52 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
The General Sherman is really fucking cool.
Walking up to it and trying to comprehend that something alive so is large and so old (please no Griffey jokes).
by Eyebrows on Jan 30, 2012 10:54 AM PST via mobile reply actions
Today I learned about the Methuselah tree!
by Jeff Sullivan on Jan 30, 2012 10:56 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Oh wow. It looks like something out of fantasy.
by Cascadian Man on Jan 30, 2012 11:16 AM PST up reply actions
Looks bizarrely menacing.
Aaron Curry is the first Seahawk since Walter Jones to have a legitimate shot at Hall of Fame induction - John Morgan
by Fearless Frog on Jan 30, 2012 7:37 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
I heard about it from Planet Earth
Damn that bitch is old
I just learned how dendrochronologists measure age in living trees.
Also, I learned that dendrochronologists exist.
I was talking to a 97 year-old person today and even that is mindblowing.
His mom died really young… in the 1918 influenza epidemic. What!
by abender20 on Jan 30, 2012 1:29 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
John Tyler has living grandchildren. John Tyler was born in 1790.
by Bearskin Rugburn on Jan 30, 2012 2:15 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Good grief
Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928.
His father, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, was born in 1853.
His father, John Tyler, was born in 1790.
So John Tyler fathered a child at 63, and his son fathered a child at 75 (!).
by Matt Erickson on Jan 30, 2012 6:25 PM PST up reply actions
What is the conversion rate of tree growth to prospect development?
I’m as patient as the next guy, but a few thousand years seems a tad on the high side.
by C Dubya on Jan 30, 2012 11:42 AM PST reply actions 2 recs
This Let's not kid ourselves things is catching on
I got a kick out of it so I made it my screen name.
by Let'sNotKidOurselves on Jan 30, 2012 11:50 AM PST reply actions
I'm such a screw up
I try to make a joke about LoL using O/U wrong and instead end up soliciting the line
by seattlebruin on Jan 30, 2012 2:53 PM PST up reply actions 4 recs
So if the Mariners don't make the World Series until say 2037........
Should we still give Jack Z the credit for planting the early seeds and laying down the good soil? I think that is Mr. Sullivan’s point here.
by Let'sNotKidOurselves on Jan 30, 2012 11:53 AM PST reply actions
Because we didn't burn the tree when we had the chance.
by JY on Jan 30, 2012 5:07 PM PST up reply actions
Healthy trees need fire
to burn away the life-sucking underbrush….
Law of Logical Argument
Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.
by blacknoiseNW on Jan 30, 2012 11:49 PM PST up reply actions
Good God 2037...
I hope I’m not one of those damn Red Sox or Cubs old farts and have to wait that long for a championship. I’ll be 66 then.
We should run a poll…Will we make the World Series first or will the Pirates have a winning season?
BAH!!! HUMBUG!!!
by seanchristopher on Jan 30, 2012 12:17 PM PST reply actions
You are just a pup
I’ll be either drawing social security or dead. Just one championship before I die, please God.
by Let'sNotKidOurselves on Jan 30, 2012 12:22 PM PST up reply actions
I still have ticket stubs from an M's game I went to in 1977
And I long ago reconciled myself to the idea that the expansion teams in Las Vegas and Monterrey Mexico will have world series rings before the M’s ever even play in one.
by J0SER on Jan 30, 2012 12:49 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Remember the Back to the Future where.....
they advertised a World Series between the Cubs and a Florida team. Hah, fastforward twenty years and the Florida team has two championsips.
by Let'sNotKidOurselves on Jan 30, 2012 1:06 PM PST up reply actions
And the other Florida team has played in one
Neither one of them has more than a few dozen fans.
Meanwhile, the Cubs…. ha ha. Well, actually they have ‘07-’08 (1907-08) and played in the WS as recently as ‘45. I have no idea what they’re always bitching about. ‘45 may be a long time ago for some people, but it’s infinitely more recent than “never.”
True, True, True
Pretty soon they will be making big deals of the living grandchildren of people who were at the 1908 WS.
by Let'sNotKidOurselves on Jan 30, 2012 5:12 PM PST up reply actions
As long as the M's don't become one of those Redwood bitches you can drive your car through
Those trees sold out.
by Zamfir on Jan 30, 2012 12:23 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
You could make a big bat out of that lumber.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
I already am that old
I’ve been waiting for a World Series appearance since the Pilots arrived
by New England Fan on Jan 30, 2012 1:05 PM PST reply actions
There used to be big-ass trees around here, too
Not as big around, so smaller in total mass, but almost twice as tall as the General here.
We have picture in my house of a tree my Dad and Grandpa fell in 1987 that is nearly that big.
My older brother is 2 and sitting on top of it, my Dad is standing next to the base with his hand above his head against the base and it doesn’t reach the top.
That was a fascinating read.
Aaron Curry is the first Seahawk since Walter Jones to have a legitimate shot at Hall of Fame induction - John Morgan
by Fearless Frog on Jan 30, 2012 7:54 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Ravenna Park used to have some big trees. One of them was actually called Big Tree
The Robert E. Lee was reported at 400 feet tall in 1900’ too bad they didn’t leave them. Link
Trees
Never make promises to their fan base that they can’t keep.
That city looks smoggy,
because it didn’t root for the trees in the first place.
What's amazing about LookoutLanding
The Pineda/Montero trade got me excited for some baseball by reminding me that the Mariners exist, but there are still weeks until spring training.
Somehow this site manages to be both interesting and entertaining during the long drought between off season signings and actual baseball.
Oh Lordy, this is awesome.
I especially love that it came straight from the horses mouth.
by nathaniel dawson on Jan 30, 2012 5:31 PM PST reply actions
Step 1: Caterpillar.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!…Err, I mean moth!
by Aussie Mariner on Jan 31, 2012 12:05 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I'm kind of hoping for a butterfly rather than a moth
On the other hand, Japanese ownership…. Mothra!
Awesome!
Aw man my picture went away
It was a gypsy moth. Gypsy moths kill deciduous trees.
Aw shit but General Sherman is a conifer. Shit. So much for that plan.
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