The Mariners announced that they're calling the M's Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday series with the first-place Angels "Lolla-Blue-za."
They're encouraging fans to wear blue on game day, and they'll have marketing folks wandering downtown, rewarding fans in blue. One lucky blue-wearer will get to throw out the first pitch!
(For those of you who weren't high schoolers in the early 90s, "Lolla-Blue-Za" is a play on "Lollapalooza," a touring music festival that was a huge deal in 1991 and 1992 and thereafter sucked.)
Mayor Nickels is getting into the act, declaring the 27th to be "Mariner Monday."
I'll be wearing blue on Monday for sure--both to support the team and because it brings out my eyes.
It would be pretty cool to fill Safeco with blue--check out what Nebraska's Memorial Stadium looks like on game day.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
The Mariners Want You to Wear Blue on Monday
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I'll be decked out in blue. Anything that might get the typical M’s fan out of their garlic fry induced coma and make them even a little excited about these vitally important games is alright with me. If Mariners fans weren’t so uniformly lame, this would be happening at every game from here on out without needing to have the mayor declare a “Mariner Day”. Busch Stadium is a sea of red whether or not the Cardinals are in a playoff race. Husky stadium has been filled with purple despite the team’s recent ineptitude. (At what point does “recent” become “perpetual” anyway? 3 years? 5? 10? Having “perennial loser” associated with Husky football would be a tough pill for me to swallow.)
Since Mariner blue is not exactly a color commonly found in the average Pat’s wardrobe, we're likely to see shades of blues ranging from aqua to navy to orange-blueberry in the stands. I'm not sure it will create the pronounced effect the M’s marketing team is hoping for. It would've been cooler if they had done a “white out” like the Winnipeg Jets used to do back in the day or the Miami Heat recently. Nevertheless, I’m still stoked for these games. This and the New York series in early September have the potential to make or break the team’s playoff chances. It’s simply gigantically huge, can’t miss baseball from a team that hasn’t delivered many games of that sort to their fans in a few years now. So, yeah, “Lolla-Blue-Za” may just be a corny marketing ploy, but I’ll most certainly be there wearing blue, and if you’re a true Mariners fan, you should be too.
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