In an interview that will air tonight at 10pm, Ken Griffey, Jr. tells FSN that he wants to retire as a Mariner:
Would I [come back]? Yeah. For the simple reason that this is the place where I grew up. And I think I owe it to the people of Seattle and to myself to retire as a Mariner.They showed this excerpt just before the bottom of the fourth. Says Dave Sims: "You'll hear a lot of people getting short of breath hearing that one." Count me as among those. Honestly, I can't think of a single thing non-personal thing that would make me happier than Ken Griffey Jr. coming back to Seattle. I'd be smiling for days.
As I type this, Griffey just hit his 584th career home run, and second of the day, off the facing of the upper deck in rightfield, passing Mark McGwire on the all time list. And got a standing ovation.
You have to think that the overwhelmingly positive reception M's fans gave him Friday night had more than a little to do with it. Yay us!
It will be interesting to see how Cincinnati fans react to this...my guess is not well.
UPDATE: They showed long excerpts after the game. Griffey first responds to the question "would you retire here" by saying that it's not up to him (the Mariners might not want him, he says) , but later adds that he'd like to do it. The full interview airs tonight at 10pm.
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I was at the game yesterday and to be honest, Griffey coming home would be like Jenny in Forrest Gump coming back to show Gump his son and marry him. She left Forrest and did her own thing for a while, can never take it back but let's be honest, she belongs with Forrest Gump.
He belongs in Seattle? whaaa??? for those interested in the response from Cincy fans here goes: Are you f$#%&ing kidding me. He grew up in the Big Red Machine clubhouse. He went to Moeller High like Barry Larkin. I can't deny he had his better(and younger) years in Seattle, but c'mon. You guys basically scared him out of town for some reason and now that he's healthy again you want him back. Go get your own hometown stars. Don't kids in Seattle play H.S. baseball? I will say this though- if Jr. does retire and go to the HOF as a Mariner then he will have lost my respect and all those teary feelings from when he decided to come back HOME will be gone, completely wasted and forgotten for me. But that's ok we still have Pete and I'll take that over... um... Tino or er Randy or A.Rod wait is there a talented player you can't run out of town?
Hey Jason, read the quote from Griffey himself....HE says he grew up in Seattle. He did more as a Mariner than a Red, plain and simple.
WHOA... Reds-fan is HEATED! Junior might've grown up in Cincinatti, but he became a MAN in Seattle. He stepped out from his father's shadow and blazed his own path which unfortunately led him back to Cinci's DL derailing a career which was headed for the G.O.A.T. discussion. Junior will be wearing a Mariners cap on his Cooperstown plaque, there's no if's and's or but's about it. He played his best years in Seattle, put up ungodly numbers in Seattle, and single-handedly made the Mariners a viable franchise.
Its not so much HEATED as annoyed. Cincy is a small market team like anyone else struggling to compete with teams that have a lot more money on the field than we do(btw Jr. took less money to play at home). And I had all those warm fuzzies when Jr. came home. So why you want to ruin that? But if you do wanna steal him back then have the common decency to get a really wicked pitcher and piss him off enough to include him in the trade. And you can have Donkey too, if you like.
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