HeyJaredBetween Innings: Stories from Life & the Ballpark
Stories about baseball, life, and the moments between innings. Reflections from a lifetime of watching the game and the lessons it keeps offering.
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The Postseason Starts Now (opens the original)
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This past Sunday, my Mariners’ season came to an end. In all honesty, it had felt finished well before they were mathematically eliminated last Thursday. A lackluster year full of injuries, poor managerial decisions, and outright bad baseball has sent them home to spend October watching from the couch with the rest of us, wondering what might have been and what nearly every preseason prognosticator thought was possible with this team. After such high expectations and coming so incredibly close t
Base Hit, Left Field! (opens the original)
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Eighth row of the lower bowl of the upper deck. A perfect Saturday night, the kind of late-season baseball game you love because it’s already dark by the third inning, which somehow adds to the dramatic flair of the moment. More than 44,000 people at T-Mobile Park, the second straight sellout, something unheard of during the last few years of miserable Mariners baseball.Bases loaded, two outs. Full count to Mitch Haniger, wrapping up a stellar season and solidifying himself as a longtime Mariner
I’ve Been Here Before (opens the original)
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At this point, I have written about it ad nauseam. The 2026 Seattle Mariners season has been one of the most miserable I’ve ever endured as a fan of any team. My son and I have watched game after game, both of us exchanging frustrated text messages with fellow Mariners devotees suffering through the same season.There were such high expectations going into this year after coming so close last season, still the only franchise that has never made the World Series. We all thought this was truly the
The Game We Got (opens the original)
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I always buy my tickets way ahead of time. Several years ago, when I first got a Mariners Flex Pass, a season ticket deal that essentially amounts to a line of credit with the team for the year, I started going through the schedule before the season and buying tickets to 20 to 25 games. Some of them on my own, many of them with my boy, some with my boy and my stepson, and a few with the whole family.In the hopes of a late-season playoff run, I always buy a slew of tickets for September, hoping t
Player Agent (opens the original)
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For the last several years, once the calendar turns to June, the scene for me has been exactly the same. Six or seven envelopes, each labeled with the appropriate team, lie across the little gray desk at the front of our Little League clubhouse. 10U, 11U, 12U, and so on. My laptop is open to the Google spreadsheet I’ve used to track each team’s paperwork, making sure every family submits each document required for their daughter or son to play softball or baseball All-Stars that summer.Sometimes
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