Not In My House!

Wednesday afternoon when Felix Hernandez left the mound at the end of the seventh inning with the Mariners leading 1-0 over the Toronto Blue Jays that the Mariners finally won in twelve innings 2-1 he pointed to the fans of the Jays saying “Not in my house”.

Although the Mariners have six of the remaining ten games in the season are on the road I hope the rest of the Mariner players take it to heart that another team or fans can’t beat them.

In Wednesday game in the extra innings the Blue Jays had a chance to win the game when Mike Freeman had entered into the game as a substitute at shortstop may have made the most important defensive play of the season flying through the air catching the ball. Another important time was when Nick Vincent came in the game replacing Tom Wilhelmsen with runners on first and second allowing no one to score. Vincent was on the radio broadcast post-game show and you could feel how pumped up.

Friday night the Mariners start the final road trip with three games in Minnesota and then onto Houston. We hope that the players will take what Felix said and be pumped up for these last ten games. The Twins earlier in the season swept the Mariners in Seattle so now in crunch time do the same thing to them. It will not be an easy task because the Twins are out of the race so they have nothing to lose for so I am sure they would love to be spoilers. Going to Houston will not be an easy thing as well since the Astros have owned them during the season and are in the race for the wild card as well. The season will end with the Mariners playing the A’s who they have owned but again they have nothing to lose either. So everyone from Felix and down including the fans ourselves even on the road say “Not in my house”. Let the Jay fans see the three games that were in Seattle though the Mariners lost two out of the three games became the battle cry. Let’s go M’s.

In other local sport news the University of Washington go to Arizona for the first game of the Pac-12 season. This will be the first true test for the number 9^th ranked Huskies. It is important that they win this game because the Huskies take on another high ranked team next Friday in the Stanford Cardinal. The Washington State Cougars have this week off and the Seattle Seahawks take on the San Francisco 49ers. Go teams!!