#24 is back!

For all the naysayers that were saying 2009 was Junior's last year......really? Did you really think so? I called it! I knew Seattle wasn't stupid enough to call that his swan song! Granted, he's not the Junior we had in the '90s. Anyone who thought we got 'that' Griffey back is weetaated. His bat speed is slower (though he still has the sweetest swing in the MLB). He's bigger, and not necessarily in a good way. But yes, he is still George Kenneth Griffey, Junior, and he's still Seattle's golden boy. There was no fucking way, after the positive effect he had on the team's stats, the team's morale, and Seattle's love for baseball, that the Mariners were not going to sign him for one more season. He's got it in him. Granted, it's the same contract we gave him last year ($2m + incentives) and we're telling him that if we get young talent that surpasses his skill set, he has to bench. He's cool with that, cause he's Junior, and he knows that not only is he going to retire/go into the HOF as a Mariner, but that he will show these little upstarts what the sport really means to Seattle. And he'll give noogies to Ichiro. That right there shows his value :). I personally love the fact that he came back, IDGAF what the naysayers have to say. I got some key seats about 20 rows above home dugout at a game during the '09 season, and got some good shots of him leaning over the dugout fence chatting with the n00bs. I wanted to go down there simply to be a fanboy and thank him for his contribution to the team, but got skittish and decided to just let him enjoy the game without any distractions from the peanut gallery. The guy deserves to keep his head in the game!

Well, stress at work is getting marginally better. Our refrigeration system has slowly been getting replaced, and last night the beer aisle got refitted, which is a huge (and difficult) section of the store. Thank God that's out of the way, now I think all they have to do is one more thing and we won't have to be pulling stuff off shelves and all that nonsense every day. However, my freezer still looks like hot garbage because I keep having to put off working it, so that's not helping things. Grr.

I told you it wasn't all that interesting :).

K bye.