Writing the good read
Like my father before me, I am a fan of the game, the game being baseball (much to the dog’s chagrin; she has a very different understanding of the game, as I explained yesterday). Unfortunately, my team of choice is the mostly hapless Seattle Mariners. They started the season with two wins and then lost…
Jamie Moyer, the 47-year old starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, has long been a favorite player of mine. He’s a gentleman, a philanthropist, and an active parent in the lives of his seven children. In his many years with the Seattle Mariners, I never saw him lose his cool. He was respected by umpires,…
I know there are moms who’d rather die than spend Mother’s Day at a ball park, but I’ve been a baseball girl since — well probably before I was born. I wrote a little about it once for Seattle Metropolitan magazine, although that piece is more about my dad’s love of the game than mine….
I hope the rumors are true and that you are, indeed, coming back to Seattle to play for the Mariners. We need the boost. But more than that, I think you’ll like it here better. Sure, Atlanta is an hour’s flight from your home in Florida, but there isn’t another place in the country where…