Oct 29 2008
Moyer Wins A Ring
It’s funny… I started watching the World Series hoping the Rays would win it all and complete the ultimate underdog story. They didn’t do that, but yet maybe the biggest underdog story was still completed. 45 year old Jamie Moyer won a World Series ring. I don’t care how long Moyer pitches, or who he ends his career with, he is a Seattle Mariner. Not only is he a Mariner, he is the ultimate underdog. He’s not big, he’s really old, and he doesn’t throw hard. I’ve said this before and I’ll die believing it, if Jamie Moyer were coming out of high school or college today, he would never get drafted. He’s too small, and can’t throw it 90mph, there’s no scout alive that would try to sign him. Yet here he is, the all-time wins leader in Mariners history, and a world champion. After watching him pitch in game three, I couldn’t help but change my mind and pull for the Phillies to win it and give “us” a ring. I’ve seen other former M’s win a title, but never did I feel like that was “our” guy. Jamie Moyer is “our” guy, he’s an underdog, and he is standing on top of the world.
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It’s great that he won a title. He and Edgar Martinez were “our guys”. I never want to see Griffey win a title as he left town under a cloud he himself created.
They wrote an article here in D.C. when Tampa Bay made the World Series saying the three teams that have yet to make the World series had the Senators jinx. The Nationals (Expos), Rangers, and Seattle Mariners are the 3 teams that are jinxed. Texas is jinxed as they are the old Senators, Washington is jinxed as they are the “new” Senators, and the Mariners (Pilots) are jinxed as the Pilots were moved to Milwaukee after the deal to relocate the Senators there fell thru.
I’m not sure about a jinx but considering that Seattle and Washington were the worst teams in baseball and neither club has much of a farm system, I think we’ll see the rangers there first.