![]() ![]() So too have they seen to sponsoring the boats in the hydro race and associating Terence Mann’s speech with a Chrysler. ![]() The capitalistic constraints (which are themselves a baseball tradition) have seen to that. We can’t keep a stadium, much less a stadium’s name. It breaks my heart to think that if I have a child, I couldn’t recreate that with them. But the one memory I have of baseball with my mom will always, always be dancing to “Louie Louie” at the Kingdome. This type of consensus is a rarity in these times.- Joe Veyera April 16, 2022įor myself (Zach), most of my baseball memories from childhood have my dad as a central figure. You could win seemingly any city-wide campaign you want to on the promise that "Louie Louie" continues to play after the seventh-inning stretch at T-Mobile Park. Finding the hidden ball, the hydro races, Rick giving us our “happy totals.” But if asked to name a Mariners tradition, the average fan (after a sarcastic “losing”) would almost certainly point to “Louie Louie.” It’s iconic. We speak, of course, of the replacement of “Louie Louie” during the seventh-inning stretch with Macklemore’s “Can’t Hold Us.” The Mariners have some other traditions too, sure. So it’s devastating to discover that one of the only uniquely Mariners traditions has been broken. It reminds us of all that once was good and could be again. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. There’s a reason that the platonic ideal of (if far from the best of) baseball movies stages its crescendo on this speech: ![]() It’s been passed down from parents to children for generations. You knew this post would start like this, but that’s because it’s true. Traditions are important, especially in baseball. ![]()
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