I am not usually one to take a rip at a city, even when that city is a city one of my teams is getting ready to play. Last year, when Joakim Noah of the Bulls denigrated Cleveland's amenities, we had some good-natured fun with him and everyone moved on, but it did give Cavs' fans some added...incentive, shall we say...to root Cleveland into the second round of the NBA playoffs.
↵Even so, I don't care to down an entire city or region. We are born where we are born, and we do the best we can do to get by.
↵So this morning I was looking at the recap of last night's Mariners' game on "Lookout Landing", Seattle's baseball site, and this is the gem I found in the body of the text:
↵↵↵There's never a good time to blow a save and lose a game, but there are bad times and worse times, and the Mariners really didn't need this. Not tonight. Not when they were losers of four in a row, trying to avoid a sweep. Had League nailed it down, the M's could've at least closed on a high note and tried to put the skid behind them. Instead, now they all get to take a miserable flight to Cleveland, which was already going to be miserable enough since it's a flight to Cleveland.
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Need some incentive, Indians, to snap out of your funk? Use the last sentence of that quote. And no, it did not come from a Mariners' player. But that doesn't mean you can't...oh, I don't know...maybe sweep Seattle and make the author of the column even unhappier?