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T-Mobile Park, Seattle (A Half-Century Relationship Through the Lens of Baseball)

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  When I realized that tonight’s game was not only our 49 th wedding anniversary, but also a game in the 49 th of the 60 stadiums we hope to get to in this five-year quest, I couldn’t resist paying to put a message on the message board. It probably didn’t make sense to anyone except us, but these trips have become a central theme of our early retirement years. Incidentally, Kerry posted a Facebook message about spending our anniversary at a ballpark a few minutes earlier, but when I posted the picture above, high school classmate Tim Smith commented, “Annniversary message on the Jumbotron for the win!” We often get asked whether it was one of us that started out as a baseball fan, and the other comes along for the ride, or whether we were both fans from the start. The couple we went to the Tacoma game with Thursday night, Bill and Connie Robey, concluded that they bonded over the fact that they were both baseball fans. In our case, Kerry always answers that question by saying...
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T-Mobile Park, Seattle (MLB #25 - Great Park, Great Fans, Now They Just Need a World Series)

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     The Seattle Mariners have a great park, an enthusiastic fan base, and a history of some great players. Yet they are the only team in the majors that has never played in the World Series. How is that possible? T-Mobile and the fans We've been to T-Mobile Park before (with our friends Bill and Connie Robey about a decade ago), and this game confirmed our first impressions. Some things about T-Mobile: We’ve taken light rail when we've gone, and in fact, many, many people get to Mariners’ games that way. We’ve got a son who is an airline pilot who had a long overnight in Seattle a couple of weeks ago, and he and some of his crew went to a Mariners’ game, via light rail. I like public transit system that works, particularly in a metropolis where driving doesn’t work. In Seattle, they even have cheerful people to tell the harried crowd where they need to be. The stadium has a retractable roof, but even when the roof is closed, the sides of the stadium are open. Tha...
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