[Josh W]

There's a few. All have Mariner's history in them.

1.) Griffey going yard in his first home at bat, his rookie season. As a lifelong (5ish years at that point) Mariner's fan, I knew what fake hope was like, and saw it nearly every spring. But this Griffey kid....he was gonna be the real deal. The hype in april of '89 was a little more intense, a little more exaggerated, and a little more real.

2.) 1998...I was in college in LA. A few of us (including, I think, 2+2er Sooga) decided we'd go catch an angels game in anaheim. The halos were bad that year, so we didn't bother getting tickets in advance. I was giddy, because the Mariners were in town, and Arod needed one more HR to reach the 40-40 club. Well, the 4 or 5 of us drive out to Anaheim, and to our chagrin, the game is sold out. I think it was fan appreciation day or something, as there was no earthly reason why the halos shoulda been sold out. We were too poor to be able to buy scalped tickets, so we went home, disappointed. Arod went 40-40 that day, and i've hated Sooga ever since.

3.) Griffey, Sr. and Griffey, Jr. going yard, back to back. Just awesome.

But, if I could pick only one....I went to a handful of M's games in August/September of 1995. One game, we got dang near the last seats available, and were sitting in the right field bleachers in the kingdome. The M's were down (vs. the A's, I think)....down like 6-3 or so. Bases were loaded and Vince Coleman came up. He played a handful of games for the M's, as he was their big free-agent-deadline acquisition (actually a post July 31st acquisition, if I remember correctly). Anyways, he hit a grandslam. IIRC, it was his only grand salame in his career. The ball landed right in front of us, and the kingdome exploded. It was a dumpy place to watch a game, but man did it get loud.

Josh W