Is this real life?

[D-train]

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!

Do you still have it? You should post it if so! lol

[Donn Beach]

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.

I went to opening day with my parents. They were both fans, we would make it to opening day each season until they gave into age. They would go to spring training. It's what my mother talked about in hospice with cancer. She wasn't concerned about a WS particularly but she miss baseball

[mostonmike]

As all of us who have lost our dads over the years can testify, this is a lovely moment.

Youtube Link - Dave Niehaus's daughter watches Game 5 win at Dad's statue

[rockycola]

As all of us who have lost our dads over the years can testify, this is a lovely moment.

Youtube Link - Dave Niehaus's daughter watches Game 5 win at Dad's statue

Very touching.

[rockycola]

My wife and I lived in a condo in Issaquah in 1985 on E Lake Sammamish Drive. We were on the ground floor. On the 2nd floor, right above us, lived Lee Pelekoudas, the Mariner's traveling secretary, and his wife & 2 boys.
Lee's father had been a Major League Umpire, years before.
Lee would leave us tickets to games at the Kingdome frequently. Good seats near 1st or 3rd base. Some times we'd sit with his wife abk kids in the section for the wives of M's players.
A couple of times, Lee's wife, Terry, would leave one of their sons with us and leave early to take their other boy home.
My job was to take him down to the locker room after the game and deliver him to Lee. The security guards all knew Chris, so I could get down in the bowels of the Kingdome a little further than most fans.
They wouldn't let me into the locker room, but whenever my mission was accomplished, I'd hang out there for a few minutes listening to players yell their "Yo's and Hey, Chris" to him.
Then my fun began. Being younger, thinner and a bit more buff back then, a few other dads with their sons would hang out, hoping to get autographs. A few assumed I was an accommodating Mariner ballplayer, willing to sign a ball or program.
I shamelessly did . They'd ask who I was and I said I was the new outfielder, Rocky Colavito! Yes, there are a few fake Rocky autographs floating around someplace...and probably a few very pissed off dads out there, still wanting to punch my lights out.

[mostonmike]

Hey Phil, great story.

Always love hearing these snippets of Mariners lives when you all kindly share them. The memories of sport are not always the games. Its the people you share the great moments of those games with.