Heartwarming / The History of the Seattle Mariners

• Ken Griffey Jr.'s big beef with the Yankees all stem from his family being disrepected.
• The season that Ken Griffey and his dad got to play together. For a kid who was so far from home and struggling with budding stardom, it was a sweet year for his dad to be there and support him.
• Their coverage of The Double is incredibly sweet. The music, the summary, the reverent tone. That this is a moment "which doesn't belong in our world." One so "incredibly fake" about a scrappy team beating the juggernaut, playing for their existence and winning.
• The mariners star journeys is heartwarming as Ichiro Suzuki was a big Ken Griffey Jr. fan growing up, and got to play for his first team.
  • And then extra heartwarming, there was 1 year where he and Jr. actually got to play together. A dream come true for Ichiro.
• The last game of 2008. Where even though the M's didn't make the playoffs, they ended the season by carrying Ichiro and Jr. out on their shoulders.
• Felix Hernandez's last inning pitched. Even as they couldn't send him to the playoffs in his last chance, as the king's court cheered him out of the ballpark with him in tears, as Jon so succinctly put it, "Who the hell cares?"
• The concluding thought about what The Mariners are right from their naming. Their mysterious person who named them said they were about "journeying people who influenced and were influenced by the sea, and this association with Seattle." A fine point about how Seattle has such a weird but lovable team culture that even when they're sailing in circles, they manage to make the journey worthwhile.
• After the M's made the playoffs again in 2022, there's plenty of congratulations now posted in the comments of the videos, now begging Jon and crew to make a part 7 as the M's return to contention again.