Mariners finally started their season today
They lost 5-4 to the Cleveland Guardians, but maybe we’ll win tomorrow.
It was fun to see a lot of folks that we usually see at the ballpark. Our seatmates, workers, vendors, and even the players. Plus we had a group of 44 sitting a few rows behind us, plus a few of my ex-coworkers stopped by before the game got started.
They had the Mwango Sisters, a trio of local teens, sing the anthem. (They sang several times last year at the end of the season, sort of a good luck charm.) They did a great job and got all the lyrics right, unlike a singer I saw for a different game on TV. And there was a flyover of one of the heavy transport aircraft. It did a low turn right over the stadium. I thought it was rather spectacular.
The game started late, so I’ll leave with this group picture.
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