British Guys Watch The History Of The Seattle Mariners! (The Age Of Ichiro)
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2024
- After being inundated with hundreds of requests, we’ve done it! This is the 5th episode in a 6 episode series from The Secret Base channel. The History of the Seattle Mariners. We’ll put out an episode of this every Wednesday. The previous Jon Bois videos we’ve seen on this channel were sensational, and this series promises to deliver the same. Called by many as the greatest baseball video on RUclips, this has been a pleasure.
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Seattle, "The Emerald City," has weather that us locals love (cool fresh breeze, misty air, a calming gray sky...) but many never adapt to it and Seattle is the most "isolated" major city in the U.S - the closest city of its size/metro population within the U.S is 800 miles away (San Francisco) which the Giants/Athletics are the closest MLB team. From the weather, isolation and people just needing to 'go home'...we are used to this with our local teams.
Bret Boone is from a true Baseball family. He played for the Mariners and 5 other teams. His brother Aaron Boone played for 6 teams also and is currently the manager for the Yankees. Their dad is Bobby Boone who was a catcher for three teams and manager for 2. His dad was Ray Boone who played 2nd base and shortstop between 1948 and 1960. All four were all stars. There is a 4th generation Boone, Bret's son, Jake, who is an infielder in the Washington Nationals' minor league system. They're direct decents of Daniel Boone, American frontiersman, Revolutionary War Officer, Politician, and early American folk hero.
Bob was one of the best defensive catchers, ever.
@@darrinlindsey I'll have to look for highlights. Catchers make for great managers.
I was born in Seattle shortly after Ichiro came to the Mariners, and I didn’t watch too much baseball as a kid, but he WAS the Mariners. Everyone knew who he was and even for a kid like me not into baseball, going to mariners games was a joy because you knew Ichiro would be there. I hadn’t experienced a Mariner playoff appearance my entire life until 2 years ago now, and yet it’s hard to hate a team who had a guy like Ichiro on it. It’s a special experience, being a Mariners fan, despite how little success comes with it.
I was there in 95 and saw Edgar's double. I was there at the last game at the Kingdome. I was there at the season opener of 01 and saw Ichiro's first two major league hits and the first of 116 wins.
Rooting for the Mariners is like backing the wrong horse in a race. But it doesn't matter your horse hasn't won, because it's actually a unicorn. And while others watched the winners, you were getting to watch something magical.
It is completely possible I will pass away before having ever seen the Mariners win it all. A fate suffered by countless fans of countless teams of countless sports.
But even if I do, I will do so still having seen some of the greatest baseball and baseball players ever seen in the sport.
If you are interested, their series on "The story of Dave Stieb" is pretty good.
YES
I second this
Arguably their best work
I third this
What's your definition of pretty good? That series is GREAT
@@Nerd_of_Anarchy Pretty Good is pretty good
A great quote by Ichiro was when he was being interviewed by Bob Costas and he was asked what his favourite American saying was and Ichiro answered “it’s hotter than two rats fucking in a wool sock”
You forgot "August in Kansas City" 😂
Bret Boone is the "bad teammate" who taught him the quote. He gets in wrong in the interview too, but it's still works amazingly. "August, in Kansas City, it's, it's hotter than two rats in a fucking wool sock."
at 16:14 they've flipped the graphs for lefty hitters. "same field" and "opposite field" are basically the equivalent of "on side" and "off side" in cricket
Many people have confirmed, Aaron Boone, manager of the Yankee, is former Mariner 2b Brett Boone's younger brother, but here's a little additional fun fact: Alex Cora, manager of their rival is former Mariner 2b Joey Cora's younger brother.
Seattle is "The Emerald City." New York is "The Big Apple." Chicago is "The Windy City."
I made a point to go to Griffey's first game back when he returned to Seattle. Hearing his name announced before he came up to bat brought tears to my eyes and I know I'm not the only one.
As a Mariners fan during those years it was death, taxes and Ichiro... the three things in life that were certain.
I lived near Seattle for a long time, with family in different parts of the country. I can confirm that it feels really far away from everywhere else. The famous tower in Seattle is the Space Needle. Also, regarding alligators, duct tape would definitely keep their mouths shut. You’re right that they have a tremendous amount of bite force, but the muscles that open their jaws are very weak. A human could hold an alligator’s mouth shut barehanded without much effort
Without digging to know for sure, I don't believe the 2001 Mariners lost a series all season until the playoff series against the Yankees. They were rolling over everyone all season until 9-11. Basebell took a week off following that unforgivable event, and the Mariners seemed to have lost all momentum after. They had a very emotional moment on the field when baseball resumed, but the events seemed to really affect the team, and they just weren't the same after. At least, that is the impression I had at the and still hold to this day.
it was either "never lost a series" or "never lost 3 games in a row". something like that
The 2001 Mariners were a ruthless and merciless team all season long up until the playoff series with NYY.
'The History of the Seattle Mariners' Chapter 5 left out one important piece of context: The 9/11 terrorist attacks had happened roughly one month prior to the ALCS. There was a smoldering ruin across town while the series was being played. The ruthless M’s of 2001 who had had a Word Series as their goal all season long suddenly became overly sensitive and could not even visualize knocking the mourning team/city out of the playoffs.
The Arizona Diamondbacks, with their ace pitcher Randy Johnson, having no such empathy went on to defeat the Yankees in the 2001 World Series four games to three.
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Yeah Bret Boone and now Yankee manager Aaron Boone are siblings. Their dad and granfather were also in the league.
The next one is my favorite episode, King Felix is one of my favorite pitchers of all time. One of the best pitchers to ever come out of south america and even though we're not from the same country I feel represented by him.
When you ask me what's the first M's story I tell, I'd go with Dave Valle days... When well drinks in Pioneer Square were the prince of the catchers' batting average. Either that or about players taking a pay cut to keep Jay Buhner.
I was at the first game that A-Rod came back to Seattle playing for Texas. When he came to bat, the boos were deafening. Every at bat was the same. A thunder of sustained boos. He did horribly and that erupted with cheering. When Griffey came back for his first game, playing for Cincinnati, he walked to the plate with deafening cheers that lasted, I think, about 7 or 8 minutes. He was shocked over it. One of the reasons he left Seattle was because he felt like he was beginning to take a backseat to A-Rod and that we didn't appreciate him as much anymore. Seattle let them both know what we really felt. A-Rod got booed mercilessly most of the rest of his career for being a sellout and a phony. Griffey is family, just like Edgar.
Don't forget how the fans threw fake cash that showered down from the stands during A-Rod's at-bat.
@@tigersmurf Oh yeah! I forgot about that.
A-Rod won a WS with the Yankees. The Mariners are the ONLY franchise in Major League Baseball that's never even been to a WS. 😂😂😂
@@NatTurnerswitBurnerz That's true.
@@NatTurnerswitBurnerz I'm pretty sure everyone knows that already.
Thanks for watching this series and for learning about the lore of our ballclub.
Jon Bois never misses. I’ve never thought about the Mariners for more than maybe a few minutes in my life but here we are, hours of phenomenal storytelling
Just a quick note regarding Jamie Moyer: in no universe did Moyer touch 85 mph with his fastball in 2001. Jamie Moyer was dealing with a devastating changeup and a fastball that topped out at 83 mph. He sat in the 81-83 range with his "fastball" and bamboozled hitters with his 75-ish mph change. The man pitched in the MLB until he was 49 years old with a low 80's fastball.
Per Fangraphs, he hit 86.1mph in 2008. His average velocity was around where you indicated, but he did actually did touch 85.
Seattle is a beautiful city. It's called the Emerald City and Washington State is known as "The Evergreen State" for pretty much the same reasons. Lots of green trees and gorgeous surrounding nature. Seattle is nestled between the Cascade mountain range and Puget Sound, with big lakes and forested areas all around it. However, as the video mentioned, it's very isolated from the metro areas of the rest of the country. (There's Vancouver, British Columbia to the north, but that's across the border).
Seattle is one of the largest ports in the western U.S. (and the nearest port-of-entry in the lower 48 for industries in Alaska, Japan, China, etc). Hence a lot of the team names being directly associated with its maritime history - Mariners, Seahawks, Kraken, Sounders - (The Supersonics were the NBA team, but that name comes from the Boeing Supersonic jet prototype from the 60s). Boeing's original headquarters was in Seattle and they maintain operations here.
Anyways, there's a lot of gray and drizzly days compared to much of the US, as well as a culture of stand-offishness, where people tend to keep to themselves and ignore strangers dubbed "the Seattle Freeze." I think people who are more used to sunny beaches, southern hospitality, and/or having a lot of other metro areas nearby can feel homesick in Seattle moreso than with other places.
And yes, A-Rod went to the Rangers because they offered him the most money. The M's had offered him a contract that would have made him the richest athlete in pro sports at the time, but the Rangers were able to offer even more. Hence, the "Pay-Rod" moniker.
Ichiro did in fact lead off, and generally speaking you should lead off the player that gets on base the most.
Seattle sports teams face FAR more travel than any other team in their respective leagues. It's a much bigger deal over a long 162 game season.
01' Yankees were also playing for a lot more than just baseball that year. I despise the Yankees but that team was the best thing New York had going for it during the aftermath of 9/11.
A-Rod was represented by Scott Boras, who is regarded as the most powerful sports agent in the world. Boras was always going to broker a deal with the highest bidder, that's always been his thing. His clients have constantly broken records when it comes to free agency signings, and it's paid him out handsomely as a result.
That said, A-Rod had (and still has) a gigantic ego that needed to be fed, and he felt irrelevant on the M's. It's what ultimately got him sent to the Yankees. So, paired with the sporting equivalent of Mr. Moneybags, it was no doubt that they were going to go bag-chasing in the 2000/01 offseason.
2 years ago they finally ended the drought, I’d love to see you guys react to Cal Raleigh’s at bat to walk it off and send them to the playoffs. Specifically if you listen to the hometown radio and tv calls (Rick Rizzs and Dave Simms)
Griffey played several seasons with the Reds, not the Cardinals. Cardinal is also a shade of red though so I understand the confusion
Mike Blowers didn't actually get the second deck prediction wrong because that's the one part of his statement he left open. He said "MAYBE the second deck", so he left it open for it to miss the second deck.
2001: vs. N.Y. Yankees.
Sept. 11th, 2001.
Most people were pulling for the Yankees after the WTC Towers collapsed.
“They ‘just can’t win’” (hyperbole)🤷🏻♂️
Even though the Phillies haven’t reached the championship, they are incredible in playoff games the last two years. And the energy there is unmatched
We call him Pay-Rod for a reason!
about Ichiro batting left handed :
supposedly, he did it so he started each at-bat 2 steps closer to 1st base.
this was mentioned in a documentary years ago and it could be just a myth, but if true, that's big brain thinking, years ahead haha
Another thing about hitting equally to both l/f fields, that makes it harder on defense. That's why it's valuable compared to some players suseptible to the shift etc.
ARod also allegedly had a painting of himself as a centaur over his bed.
Ichiro was a leadoff hitter for most of his career, yes. By the early 2010s, though, the Mariners' batting lineup was so abysmal that they moved Ichiro to the third spot in the lineup because they didn't trust anyone else to hit the ball hard enough to score runs.
You’ve got got got to watch Secret Base: The story of Dave Stieb
Arguably their best work.
By far in my opinion
Most people struggle living in Seattle because it rains ALOT there. Honestly a couple of Brits would probably feel right at home there.
New York gets more rain. What we get is a lot of damp cloudy days. The Sun disappears for months behind grey skies.
@@swirvinbirds1971 I guess I should have said it's overcast alot in Seattle. Us New Englanders tend to think of rainy and overcast as the same thing
My friends from Ireland feel very at home here. As a native Minnesotan, the weather is perfect here! No mosquitoes and rarely snow, and when there is snow, you get to just sit home and enjoy it, NOT drive in it, if you're smart! The rain is a drizzle here compare to the Midwest... though I really miss BIG Thunderstorms!
The second MLB game I ever attended was the game Ichiro broke the single season record. A friend and I took an hour-and-a-half bus ride to Seattle, bought two bleacher tickets from a scalper outside of the stadium, and I witnessed the greatest baseball memory I’d ever have in person. And that was it: I became a Mariners fan for life. I’ve been paying for it ever since 😂 By the way, we’re coming up on the 20 years anniversary of that game in just a couple weeks.
Bret Boone is the brother to current Yankees manager, Aaron. Their dad, Bob, played 18 seasons with the Phillies, Angels, and Royals. Bob won the World Series with the Phillies in 1980.
Bob's dad, Ray, played 12 seasons. Ray Boone played for the Indians, Tigers, White Sox, Kansas City Athletics (currently in Oakland, will be in Sacramento next year), Milwaukee Braves (now in Atlanta), & Red Sox. He won the World Series in his rookie season with the Indians.
Also, in your own times, check out some geography facts about the US to understand just how big the US, and Canada is.
-- Check out Lawrance Brown from Lost In The Pond, especially his size videos.
That's just me being ignorant towards your knowledge of how big the US, though. Nor am I trying to insult either one of you. Rather, I want you both to have a better understanding of how big North America is.
Another great reaction, as always. You missed part of the discussion about how far away Seattle is from much of the U.S. The narrator mentioned that Florida is closer to Brazil than Seattle.
I would also suggest the Rain City Redemption series on RUclips. It’s a very well produced history of the Seattle Seahawks during the Pete Carroll era
The Boone who coaches the Yankees is the brother of the Boone on the Mariners.
Lets gooo 🎉🎉 been waiting for this one. As much as JR was Mariners baseball so was the Legend of ICHIRO! 🎉🎉
On the alligator thing, crocodilians have some of the strongest bites in the animal kingdom (with American Alligators coming in around 2,100 psi). However, this is only when they are actually biting down on something or holding something in their jaws. As their jaw muscles evolved to develop this incredible bite force, they sacrificed strength going the other way (i.e. opening their mouths). So yes, you can hold an alligator's, or even a Nile Crocodile's (bite of around 5,000 psi), mouth shut with duct tape, or electrical tape, or even just one hand and there isn't much of anything they can do about it.
He becomes eligible for the hall of fame in January, and may become only the second to be unanimously elected. Also what’s funny is that the other team that 116 wins, the 1906 Chicago Cubs, lost the World Series.
Seattle is the "Emerald City" because everything is green; lots of nature.
Luis Arraez is definitely the closest thing to Ichiro in today’s MLB, so you have that nailed.
Also, Bret Boone is Aaron Boone’s brother!
He can't play the field worth crap though... but still sorry to see him leave my Twins. He actually had his break-out series in Seattle when he got called up. Bought his first suit at Nordstroms on the road trip!
Part of what happened to the M's postseason was 9/11. About to clinch with almost three weeks left, MLB postponed the season and the mood for the eventual clinch was somber rather than celebratory. As a fan at the time, I can attest that 9/11 was the ultimate mood-killer (as it probably should have been). The one positive for 2001 was that Randy Johnson won his World Series AND beat the Yankees...although in Arizona instead of Seattle.
Griffey and Ichiro, the greatest Mariners ever.
To the question of why people don’t want to stay in Seattle. Like the video mentions, it is SO far from the other teams making the travel brutal. Winters here are also really tough. Dark and gloomy for about eight months straight which can really hinder people’s mental health and also makes playing baseball more challenging. Add those things together and it’s an incredibly challenging place to be a baseball player
Players have the money to winter in other places. Hitters do not like Safeco Field/T-Mobile. They need to move the fences in... also, Management needs to focus on WINNING, rather than profits, at least until they WIN something. I remember back in the 90s when Nintendo bought the Mariners, fans were saying that the Mariners were going to be a DYNASTY, with Nintendo money and players wanting to move to Seattle... instead of the Midwest where "there was nothing to do"... Winning cures all.
Yes Aaron and Brett Boone are brothers. Their father Bob Boone won a Championship with the Phillies in 1980. Also I’m right hand dominate but when I played American football as a kicker I noticed I’m left foot dominate.
I don't know if this is possible to convey, but Ichiro was so good in real life, they couldn't recreate him accurately in video games. Even though his video game stats would have 100 Contact skill and 100 speed, his stats were always wayyyyy better in real life.
He's going into the Hall of Fame next year. Good chance he ends up back in MLB The Show after a few years without. Be interesting to see how they implement him.
You have to watch "The Battered Bastards of Baseball" for a wild time when Portland Oregon had a pro baseball team.
You guys NEED to watch the Rain City Redemption remastered series now that you've done this!
As far as the hit distribution chart, handedness is agnostic. This is accounted for by not listing L/R field, but pull or opposite.
I would definitely recommend doing this with the NFL secret base videos, like the lions and falcons series, those are some of my favorite pieces of content I've ever watched as an NFL fan
Alex Rodriguez was courted by the Mets, who were coming off a World Series appearance in 2000.. but he demanded way too much.. besides the money (a little less than Texas gave him I believe.. I remember something like $195-200 million) he wanted a private jet during the season so he didn't have to travel with the team, private luxury box for his guests, a tent outside of Shea Stadium to sell his merchandise... And he supposedly grew up as a Mets fan and wanted to play in Queens.. Mets walked away calling him a "24 and 1" player.. Rosters were 25 players at the time.
I was PISSED at the time that we didn't get him.. but turned out in the long run it was the right move. The Rangers were a last place team with A-Rod and he wouldn't have helped the Mets much either.
That great 2001 season was ended by the Yankees; ironically, the Yankees lost the World Series to the AZ Diamondbacks in a 7-game thriller of a series; the co-MVP for the Diamondbacks was ........ Randy Johnson!
A-Rod is popular now but most baseball fans HATED him during his career. Lot's of different reasons that are worth finding another video to go into but it wasn't until after his career that he relaxed, opened up, and became a little more normal and approachable.
And yeah, he went to the highest bidder. The Rangers had a couple of recent playoff appearances in the 3 divisions per league era but none before that and I don't even think they had made the LCS yet so they had to blow everyone else out of the water in order to get him and they did. That was the richest contract in both annual and total value to that point and it wasn't even close.
Yes, Ichiro was typically a leadoff hitter.
Yes, Brett Boone is Aaron Boone's brother. Their dad, Bob Boone, was a Major League player and then manager in his own right. His dad, Pat Boone, also played in the bigs.
44:09 - Space Needle and Emerald City
The Mariners’ current longtime broadcaster, Dave Sims, is in the talks to become the Yankees new TV voice. Because you guessed it, he wants to go home
49:05 this is why I was upset they traded Geno Suarez away before this year. I wanted him to be a Mariner for life no matter how he hit.
I believe I speak for most baseball fans when I say "f*** the Yankees."
Ichiro might be like me (and you Daymo?), instead of right handed, left handed, or even ambidextrous, we're what's called cross-dominant. It basically means you do a given activity with whichever handedness seems natural.
Other Home Run calls: Tater, Dinger, Bomb
Seattle is known to be a depressing city with grey skies, a lot of rain and cold weather. The sun doesn't show for many months. No wonder the grunge movement was born there. If you grew up in a sunny place with warm temperatures it's very hard to adapt, and most of these people who felt the urge to go back home where from states like Florida, which as the video points it out, it's geographically closer to Brazil than it is to Seattle lol
Yeah, right... Summers with no rain, no mosquitoes, low humidity and winters where we rarely get snow or freezing temps. Another Fox News watcher, ehy?
You guys are legends, moar on my M's!
I saw 2001. Last year I bought tickets.
Since this video came out, the Mariners did get to the playoffs in 2022, but got swept 3-0.
As for the Marlins, their entire franchise history is they have super cheap owners, and as soon as they have players who have a good season, they immediately trade those players before they leave their rookie contracts and the Marlins then have to pay them significant money.
The 2022 Mariners swept Toronto first in a best-of-three series before being swept by Houston 3-0. The final game of that series with Houston went 18 innings and ended with a final score of 1-0.
They barely went into what that 116 Win season was like. I really thought they'd have given it more attention and detail. "Refuse to Lose" and all that. Kind of a shame. It was an electric ride and living in the area at that time was unreal. even people that didn't care about baseball were getting on board the hype train.
Surprised you didn't outright remember Randy Johnson and the Diamondbacks upset the Yankees in the 2001 World Series
Sorry for the second comment, but it has to be said: Howard Lincoln was the worst owner in MLB during the time that he was there. Under his watch, not only were awful team decisions made, but he also presided over attempting to sell individual standing room spots and makeshift bleachers in a previously designated standing area, while staff attempted to ban "Yankees Suck" t-shirts, formed human chains at game's end to force fans out the nearest exits, and tossed a lesbian couple for...being lesbians. A former counsel for Nintendo who was quickly promoted to chairman and then to CEO of the M's, Lincoln was a prime example of "failing upward," once described by Lou Piniella as someone who "doesn't know how to win."
The Billy you were thinking of was Billy Martin, not Boone, or Beane. Billy Martin was the Yankees manager that gave Griffey grief when Griffey was a kid.
Damo initially referenced Billy Beane from Moneyball but said the wrong name
They told you the record! Just adds wins and losses. 2 seconds of work
Yes!!!
The plight of the rich, the Red Sox have won total of 4 World Series since 2000, but right now we're in a "dry spell." No title and basically not being competitive in 5 years. The same ownership group that owns Liverpool FC, the Red Sox, the Pittsburgh Penguins, and a racing team, has too many interests. They only care about being good enough.
" a bleak period" for the Yankees? In the 19 completed seasons since 2004 -- and I'm including the 60-game 2020 season -- they have 19 winning seasons (and have clinched for 2024 as well), 7x first place in division, 14x playoff appearances, 12x in ALDS, 6x in ALCS, and one World Series win. Still no last place finish in their division since the 1960s before the leagues got divisions!
In comparison, over the same span of 2005-2023, the Cubs have 8 losing seasons to 11 winning seasons, including a 61-101 season in 2012, 3 last-place finishes (and would have two more if the Astros had moved to the AL before 2011 instead of 2013, as the Cubs finished ahead of only them twice), 5 division titles, 7 playoff appearances, 5 NLDS appearances, 3 LCS appearances, and that magical 2016 World Series victory.
So if the Yankees last 20 years is a bleak period I'd like the Cubs to have such a bleak period too!
The final line is the most important in that cubs comparison. Why are you so pressed about the opinion of a couple of Brits who have only been following baseball for about 2 seasons now? You realize the only Yankees they have seen with their eyes was last year? We all know the Yankees have a rich history, but the truth still stands, when you talk about the Yankees and success you, me, and every other baseball fan knows it begins and ends with the world series. And they haven't achieved that in a very long time.
“How does that happen?” Baseball is a cruel, heartless sport.
It'll break your heart more times than any woman ever will.
Luckily my Diamondbacks avenged the Mariners in that 2001 World Series by beating the Yankees in 7 games 🐍 To date our only World Series championship
The Marlins have actually done this two other times, in their short history. They won The Series in 1997 and gutted the team in the off season, to win 50some games the next season. Then they won The Series again in 2003, and became mediocre, at best, for the next several years.
yeah, Dorktown's omission of the impact that 9/11 had on the country as baseball fans is the doc's most glaring sin. Other folks on here talk about the M's becoming timid, not taking into account how that event galvanized the Yankees, how that event turned the M's from underdogs to interlopers in the eyes of the media, the fans and, at the risk of being accused of being that fan, even the officiating. Homerism aside, this omission would be unforgivable, but in all fairness, I can't see how you quantify a national open wound in a series dedicated to stats and figures.
A Rod came to the rangers and balled out but the terrible owner gave him all the money just to sell tickets so we never had anything left to put talent around him....
Then he was selfishly tipping pitches to the opposition, particularly in blowouts, to get favorable pitches in return to pad his own stats so he could look good by himself.
The rangers were notoriously as bad as the mariners at this point in history.... probably worse considering we had just one playoff win in the history...not one series win but one single win untill the back to back pennants in 2010 (the year the giants broke their drought) & 11 (the year we blew a 2 run lead with one strike to go on two different occasions in game 6 against the cards & lost in 7)
First one 🥇
I believe Lou Pinella was bad, in a mental way, the last few years that he managed. He couldn't get out of his own way. He also lost all ability to manage people. He couldn't manage himself.
first 😎
It's not complicated. Hargrove and Pineilla wanted to go home; back to where they grew up.
Yes, the video told us that 😊
That Big Tower In Seattle is the Space Needle. It plays a prominent role in the 2001 movie Men in Black, but to say more would be spoilers
The Rangers were terrible. A-Rod won an MVP there, with an incredible season, and the Rangers sucked and nobody cared.
Also, consider $250 contract…24 years ago. What’s that worth now days!?!
why would you make then do this bro 🥲
44:15 seattle is not the reason to visit washington, pick any lake, any trail in the cascades or in the olympic mountains, take a whale watching tour in the puget sound, its the nature that is the real winner here. Seattle is gross, and the only reason i go there is for work or to watch the Mariners.
Never been here but watches Fox News... got it.
@@EShelby2127 i always appreciate constructive criticism, thank you for your valuable contribution.
Seattle is just a horribly miserable city to live in, by the way. Very often cold and rainy, the nearest other major urban area is Portland a whole state away, huge problems with crime and homelessness, colossal cost of living. It's just a really sad place to be. My uncle and his whole family just bailed after living there for almost 15 years, and wanted to leave much sooner but couldn't.
Fox News hound rears it's ugly head. If in fact you have an uncle who lived in or close to Seattle, and owned a home, they likely tripled their money after 15 years. I've lived her 30+ years and intend to stay after I retire this year. So yeah, "horribly miserable cities" MUST cost more to live in... LOL
Yes, the Bret Boone on the 2001 Mariners is now managing the Yankees.
Aaron Boone is the Yankees Manager, not Brett.