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babymets · 6 months

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i think it's high time i started posting my favorite clips from history of the seattle mariners

#i show this clip to everyone i know. the dramatized rendering of the hotel room KILLS me every time.#history of the seattle mariners #jon bois #seattle mariners #baseball #dorktown #video

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linguist-breakaribecca · 6 months

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I suppose I shouldn’t be that surprised that tumblr has a whole Jon Bois fandom, including anthropomorphic satellite fanart. The man is a master of graphs, shitposting, and obscure facts, which is roughly 85% of this site’s fuel.

#not linguistics #though 17776 had some exciting moments in semantics #jon bois #secret base #dorktown #sports #graphs #jazz #17776 #history of the seattle mariners #history of the minnesota vikings #follow him on bluesky if you can

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zoeology31 · 3 months

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People really should watch sports. Or at least engage with some type of competitive real-time skill-based community: esports, chess, speedrunning, etc. Each community has a rich intersection of history, culture, technical knowledge, and broader societal impact (not all of it good and/or accessible, but there's always a way), and experiencing that can really teach you a lot about humanity and the world we live in.

This post brought to you by everyone who compares Blaseball with 17776/20020 sounding like the "getting a lot of boss baby vibes from this" meme. That's sports fandom culture. What you've identified is sports fandom culture.

Blaseball and 17776 aren't offering an alternative to sports, they're a commentary and a celebration, in the most morally neutral sense of that word. They're both an exaggeration of the most ridiculous or unfair elements and an idealization of what sports could be. Sports are powerful, sports are human. That's the point.

#my stuff #like yeah they have a lot in common beyond that but #'enjoying rule-bending events' and 'focusing on broader player/community narratives' are not exclusive to these works #I'm begging y'all watch some of jon bois's other stuff it will contextualize a lot #17776 #blaseball #bob emergency and history of the seattle mariners are probably the best places to start

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try-set-me-on-fire · 9 months

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How many times do you think Buck has watched the history of the seattle mariners

#watching the new secret base about the Vikings i just think buck would love jon bois videos #love to learn facts but LOVE to be told a story #ahem. watch the history of the seattle mariners. yes its three hours its worth it

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alienchamp · 8 months

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Oh hey getting on my jon bois soap box again to say if you liked 17776 & 20020 you should go watch some of his pretty good series on his yt or any of the history of [sports team] (co-created with Alex Reubenstein) on secret base. Yes even if you don't like sports. Trust me.

#partial to history of the seattle mariners the lonnie smith pretty good & the dave steib series #oh and the poker pretty good but i thiiink that one got taken down by yt and reuploaded by someone else

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baseballfaxmachine · 4 days

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writers probably when the ending of their long ass video essay connects back to something from the beginning

#“I selected Mariners because of the natural association between sea and Seattle and her people who have been challenged and rewarded by it”#jon bois ate when he ended the mariners doc with that one #and bobbybroccoli with “it's ancient history”#dorktown #jon bois #bobbybroccoli

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valpwca · 1 year

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truly tho if you enjoyed 17776/20020 & you want more of the like. the beautiful silliness & skill & ingenuity of humans, through the lens of a constrained & stereotyped form, & the examination of just weird moments in american pop culture post-ww2, & the ability to imbue graphs with narrative tension ("You have me rooting for lines to run into each other") -

anyway if those things got to you & you'd like more, or if you just appreciate the craft of storytelling, jon bois' History of the Seattle Mariners is extremely good

(it's also slightly less than 4 h, split into chapters. it changed my life)

#17776 #20020 #jon bois

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pokemonwearingsportsmerch · 7 months

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Context:

This one was made along very similar lines to the cascoon / silcoon post. On October 15 2022 the Seattle Mariners and Houston Astros played a postseason game that went 18 innings and lasted a total of 6 hours and 22 minutes. In the end, Jeremy Peña managed a home run against Penn Murfee which the Mariners were unable to answer. It is one of the longest playoff games in MLB history. I actually watched this entire game from start to finish! As soon as it was done I ran over to my computer and whipped this up and posted it to Twitter. So that is the context for this image.

#metapod #kakuna #seattle mariners #houston astros #mlb postseason

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idontshitpostbuttheolympicpark · 1 month

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Who's your baseball team? :)

so I'm still caught between the mariners, blue jays and white sox (even though the poll I put out decisively suggested people think I should support the mariners)

mariners for the vibes, and I wouldn't be a baseball fan of my brother hadn't suggested the history seattle mariners documentary

blue jays kinda also for the vibes, and I like they're not usamerican. like the fact that people seem to just kinda forget about them also their response to thinking they were about to sign ohtani and then realising they hadn't got my heart strings

then I don't even remember how the white sox got my attention. but now I'm attached. they're so bad. they have no virtue. they have no saving graces. they literally don't have pitchers. they lost the (apparently) one thing they still had going for them when the tigers poached their broadcaster. I love them. I am transfixed, how can I abandon them now?? obviously i want to suffer

#anyway convoluted way of saying im not sure yet #baseball

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frasermints · 4 months

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i grew up watching so many failures occur in safeco field. i listened as they'd report dwindling ticket sales on the radio. events that weren't baseball never sold well, and it didn't really matter what they were. any time i went to a mariners game there was plenty of room to move, tons of empty seats. i remember when they initially retired the sunkings and when the supersonics were relocated to oklahoma. seattle/washington sports suck.

watching an event completely sell out, almost immediately - having someone else's name other than ichiro suzuki's chanted loud enough to be heard - watching a seattle team not only win but have the first winter classic shutout in nhl history

i'm proud to support a seattle team. i was always proud to call the mariners mine. but it's exciting to see a seattle team do well. it's exciting to see seattle love one, too.

#kraken lb #seattle kraken #my post #nhl

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himbeaux-on-ice · 1 year

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"If you're only interested in winning and losing, this is the end of the story. 43 seasons, the vast majority of them losing seasons. 3,219 wins, 3,622 losses. 0 championships, zero World Series appearances.

At least some of you will stop watching, and at this point, we don't mind. It's really okay. But, as far as Alex and I are concerned, it's only now that we've gotten to the entire point of all this.

The Seattle Mariners challenge us like no other team. By this I don't mean that they test our patience, although that's certainly true. By this, I mean that they offer us an opportunity to appreciate sports as something more than endless conquest. They've never won a World Series, but ask yourself honestly, does this look incomplete to you? Far be it for me to tell any lifelong Mariners fan how to feel about any of this, but, for the rest of us, what is it truly missing?

Is it this?? Is this what you want, is it really, alright take it all in! There's Randy Johnson, shutout against the Marlins in game 1 of the World Series. There's Edgar, whose 11th inning single drove in the winning run of Game 4, and A-Rod, who dove around the tag to take a 3-1 series lead. There's Buhner, who came off the bench in Game 5 to crush a pivotal pinch-hit double. And there's Junior, who stepped into the box in the bottom of the ninth to deliver a three-run championship-clinching walk-off home run. The Kingdome went crazy.

If that's what you wanted, you got what you wanted.

Now. Of all these stories, what's your favourite? What's the one you're telling first? If that's the one... you aren't ready for this team yet.

The Mariners aren't special on account of their lack of success, it's just that- success is entirely irrelevant. We've entered a new realm here, one that's far larger and doesn't operate on the dead currency of winning and losing. Unless you let those limits go, you're an astronaut who brought your wallet.

The Seattle Mariners are not competitors — they're protagonists."

—Jon Bois, The History of the Seattle Mariners (2020)

#this is a post about the toronto maple leafs #a team run by executives who keep trying to make competitors out of protagonists #seattle mariners #oli's personal baseball season is upon us methinks #you should as always watch this 3+ hour film about graphs and baseball that will make you cry #ONE of these teams broke their curse and didnt immediately make it feel meaningless thats all i'm sayin

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qualitystart · 9 months

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so you have any crash course information on them so I'm not totally lost please? if not it's ok!

okay so. the starting point, if you have the time, is the utterly phenomenal Dorktown History of the Seattle Mariners. that'll take you through 2020. the extremely excellent mariners blog Lookout Landing also has some great history posts.

but you don't just want history, I assume - you want to know about the Mariners now. I'll try to cover as many of them as I can below the cut.

there's Julio, who took the world by storm as a rookie last year. here's a great piece on him from last fall - spoiler alert, they did end the drought. he also vlogs!

J.P. - heart and soul, o captain my captain. here's a great LL piece on him.

and his parter in crime, Ty, golden retriever in human form. you gotta see their dynamic in action: In-N-Out Burger trip, Starbucks adventure

Geno (of Casey's url fame) - "good vibes only," making Gold Glove plays every day, and an important leader

Jarred - in the words of @eugeniosuarez, "gifted child syndrome and a mood disorder but he loves his friends." currently on the IL because he kicked a water cooler after a frustrating strikeout. (he was gutted, and crying in his media availability. he cares about this team so fucking much.) his face when he's happy lights up the world.

Cal (a.k.a Big Dumper) - our incredible, talented, big-assed young catcher who rakes and works SO hard every day

Logan - very good pitcher, shaped like an inflatable tube man, undrafted out of high school and made himself a first-rounder anyway

Logan and Cal came up together and are rich with narratives, which I have detailed here.

Cabby - will annoy the SHIT out of the other team. uses the pitch clock to his advantage like no one else. in the words of the poet:

our other catcher is Murph - got a bit of the crazy eyes, we love him, he even can cartwheel!

the bullpen! here's a great LL piece - Gott has since been traded to the Mets, but he lives on in our hearts and Sauce pours one out for him before every game

and our de facto closers:

Matt Brash, who's got some nasty stuff, and Andrés Muñoz, who is very baby and throws gas

(previously we had Paul Sewald, who was traded at the deadline - good baseball move, but tough to see him go)

I am gettin sleepy and I haven't even covered most of the rotation - 2023 All Stars George Kirby and Luis Castillo, rookies Bryce Miller and Bryan Woo, plus we've got Robbie Ray and Marco on the IL (both out for the year) - so I may come back to edit this later, I'll rb it if I do.

feel free to hit me up with more questions any time, and I'm sure @eugeniosuarez and @jockcoded would be happy to answer some too - we all love telling people about the Mariners

#asks #Anonymous #mariners #*baseball

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nemospecific · 7 days

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Hearing the take that the kraken need to be a winning team in order to have any relevance in the Seattle area is baffling to me.

The mariners? The Seahawks? The sonics?

Who is looking at Seattle's sports history and sweating that if the kraken don't win all the time they won't fit in?

#seattle kraken #seattle mariners #seattle seahawks #seattle supersonics #i guess the sounders are good?#and the storm #aaaaand... the seawolves?#so soccer women's basketball and rugby

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try-set-me-on-fire · 4 months

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texas rangers baseball!! GREAT choice. corey seager 4eva baby, let's gooooooo

I truly apologize for being, vaguely, due to proximity, a dodgers guy myself. I’m sure Eddie agrees with you!

#also shoutout to the Seattle mariners #shoutout to the secret base Seattle mariners history #please go watch that 4 hour youtube video I swear to you its worth it #i feel like buck would watch it and become a mariners fan despite never having really watched baseball before #and Eddie keeps trying to charm him over to the rangers but Buck just can’t help but love a team of perpetual losers #asked and answered

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brucebocchi · 5 months

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I had an extremely vivid dream last night that the Mariners traded Julio and Cal Raleigh for Bruce Bochy last night. it was the first manager trade in the history of baseball. then when Bruce got to Seattle for his first press conference, his name was spelled bocchi on the name tag on the desk in front of him. No one acknowledged it. Then a small asian child came up to him and told him that the mariners had killed her family by trading Julio, but she may be able to forgive Bruce if they won the pennant. It was the most vivid dream I’ve had in years.

seattle is like the last city where he could get away with that spelling change

also the rangers with julio is an instant dynasty, i genuinely think seattle would burn down if that ever happened

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krakenshipwreck · 1 year

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light day at work so i went lunch drinking and now i'm emo about this video. i think i've effused about this before but the kraken have done SUCH a great job of, like, respecting seattle? i remember so many moments in this video and what amazing energy there was throughout the entire city when the seahawks or the storm (or even the mariners, w/e) went on their epic playoff runs and it's just so great that the kraken get to do that now! not that they're going to have an epic playoff run this year, because they are absolutely not, but it's really cool to see them framing this moment not as a hockey-specific achievement but as their own little contribution to our quirky little upper lefthand corner sports history.

#i like when the kraken present their peers as the seahawks and the storm and the sounders #rather than other nhl teams #yes they are hockey and all the complicated cultural stuff that entails but primarily they are SEATTLE

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