Is this real life?

[Michael K.]

Don't know if I'm now the elder statesman on the forum at 80 and a stroke survivor but I've got to be close. I can testify for going to several M's games their first season while working on my Masters at the U.

I was a kid when I went to my first game. You got to go on the field and get a picture with a Mariner. I was all stoked, thinking it was going to be someone I knew. It was Rick Honeycutt. I believe he was a middle reliever. I was so young I didn't even know what those guys did! I remember telling my dad I was gonna get my picture with Julio Cruz, or Tom Paciorek or Bruce Bochte or Rupert Jones. Yeah, not so much! LOL

I just looked at the 1979 roster, as I feel that was around when we went. I have no idea who ANY of those Pitchers are. Glenn Abbott and Floy Bannister are it. I've heard of Mike Parrott, but the roster I pulled up had 17 names on it. I vaguely know just those three. Times have changed. There was no internet of course back then. You bought a program at the game so you knew who they were!

[Captain 97]

Don't know if I'm now the elder statesman on the forum at 80 and a stroke survivor but I've got to be close. I can testify for going to several M's games their first season while working on my Masters at the U.

I was a kid when I went to my first game. You got to go on the field and get a picture with a Mariner. I was all stoked, thinking it was going to be someone I knew. It was Rick Honeycutt. I believe he was a middle reliever. I was so young I didn't even know what those guys did! I remember telling my dad I was gonna get my picture with Julio Cruz, or Tom Paciorek or Bruce Bochte or Rupert Jones. Yeah, not so much! LOL

I just looked at the 1979 roster, as I feel that was around when we went. I have no idea who ANY of those Pitchers are. Glenn Abbott and Floy Bannister are it. I've heard of Mike Parrott, but the roster I pulled up had 17 names on it. I vaguely know just those three. Times have changed. There was no internet of course back then. You bought a program at the game so you knew who they were!

Honeycutt was a starter for the M's from 78-80. He actually had a pretty decent career pitched 21 years in the majors. For the M's in 79 and 80 he put up a combined 5.3 WAR with a sub 4 ERA in 58 Starts. He was an All-Star in 1980.

[Sibelius Hindemith]

The amazing thing is that he accomplished all that after serving as a surgeon in a M*A*S*H unit in S. Korea.

[Donn Beach]

Honeycutt getting caught with a thumbtack in his glove in 1980, remember he was really struggling. Really don't hear about that sort of stuff anymore

[XpertDBA]

I remember where I was on April 6, 1977 for the first Mariners game ever.

I was listening to the game on my Dad's stereo system at his apartment (he owned a 6-plex on 71st and Linden Ave) on Greenlake.

I was 13 years old.

Diego Segui vs. Frank Tanana (great pitcher) who pitched a complete game shutout.

That was a very long time ago.

LET'S GO MARINERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[D-train]

Don't know if I'm now the elder statesman on the forum at 80 and a stroke survivor but I've got to be close. I can testify for going to several M's games their first season while working on my Masters at the U.

I went to the 4th game ever at age 9 and we won. I had dreams of the World series after that. If I only knew I would have to wait at least 48.5 years.

[D-train]

Don't know if I'm now the elder statesman on the forum at 80 and a stroke survivor but I've got to be close. I can testify for going to several M's games their first season while working on my Masters at the U.

I was a kid when I went to my first game. You got to go on the field and get a picture with a Mariner. I was all stoked, thinking it was going to be someone I knew. It was Rick Honeycutt. I believe he was a middle reliever. I was so young I didn't even know what those guys did! I remember telling my dad I was gonna get my picture with Julio Cruz, or Tom Paciorek or Bruce Bochte or Rupert Jones. Yeah, not so much! LOL

I just looked at the 1979 roster, as I feel that was around when we went. I have no idea who ANY of those Pitchers are. Glenn Abbott and Floy Bannister are it. I've heard of Mike Parrott, but the roster I pulled up had 17 names on it. I vaguely know just those three. Times have changed. There was no internet of course back then. You bought a program at the game so you knew who they were!

Honeycutt started 85 games for the M's and put up 21.6 bWAR in his 21 year career from 1977-1997.

[D-train]

The amazing thing is that he accomplished all that after serving as a surgeon in a M*A*S*H unit in S. Korea.

That was just a TV show filmed in Malibu, CA dummy.

[DavidGee24]

My first game was in June of 1977, right-field bleachers which cost what, $ 1.50? Dennis Eckersley and Jim Kern combined to one-hit us and Eck had thrown a no-hitter in his previous start. Ruppert Jones homered for our only hit. Never would have thought that it would take 49 years for this day to now likely happen.

[Michael K.]

Honeycutt was a starter for the M's from 78-80. He actually had a pretty decent career pitched 21 years in the majors. For the M's in 79 and 80 he put up a combined 5.3 WAR with a sub 4 ERA in 58 Starts. He was an All-Star in 1980.

Now that you say that, I remember when he was an All Star. I think he might have been the only Mariner All Star that year. I watched the game with my picture, acting as if I knew it all along!