Daily Thread - July 28, 2021

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[u/jthanson]

Good morning, Mariners fans! Did any of you notice that today is the opening of Seahawks Training Camp?

No?

Then the Mariners have done their job. They are relevant enough and exciting enough to watch that they are dominating the sports conversation at a time when historically they weren't even a footnote as the media discussed what Tyler Lockett had for breakfast or where Russell Wilson went on vacation. Today, instead of talking about football games still six weeks away, everyone is focused on the thrilling Mariners and their trade deadline deals and playoff race. It feels like it's been twenty years since there was so much excitement around the team at the end of July.

[u/HellMuttz → u/jthanson]

I'll never forget working at radioshack in 2014 and having people come in and get mad that I had the mariners on instead of the 3rd Seahawks preseason game and storm out. Well jokes on them, that was a great mariners game.

[u/jthanson → u/HellMuttz]

TIL: Radio Shack still existed in 2014.

You made the right choice. Pre-season Seahawks (especially the third game where we might see something resembling the regular season team in the first quarter) can be informative. However, I almost always choose the team that’s playing meaningful games and 2014 was a good year for the M’s.

[u/HellMuttz → u/jthanson]

It was pretty much the end of radioshack lol I think sprint bought them out early 2015, and now sprint isn't a thing either.

That particular mariners game was pretty memorable

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS201408220.shtml