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Thursday, September 1, 2005

Mysterious Mariners Sighting

Posted by on September 1 at 9:43 AM

This morning, Last Days received this mysterious report from Hot Tipper Avery:

Last night, a man charged into left field from out of the stands during the Mariners/Yankee game. He held a sign with someone’s picture on it in one hand and appeared to be sprinkling someone’s cremated remains on the the field with the other. Once the dust settled, the man laid down on the field to wait to be escorted out of the stadium by security and police.

I searched stories on last night’s game at the various local news outlets, but learned nothing of the man, his ashes, or his mysterious sign. (I even checked the Seattle P-I’s Mariners Blog, easiest the spookiest six minutes I’ve ever spent in cyberspace, but still, nothing.) Readers who have any knowledge of, or even entertaining guesses about, the identity of the man, the nature of his protest, or the person pictured on the sign, please let me know in the Slog forum.

In other news, reading so many sports reports one after the other was fascinating. Most sources framed the game as a battle between the Mariners’ 19-year-old Felix Hernandez and the Yankees’ 41-year-old Randy Johnson, hence this remarkably catty P-I headline.

Still, I guess that’s better than the one used by the Seattle Times.