As a lifelong Mariner fan I worship at the alter of Junior. I was pretty shocked when I turned on the game yesterday and heard he had announced his retirement a few hours earlier. I assumed this would be his last year, his skills are not what they once were, but I figured he would stick the rest of this season out and do kind of a goodbye tour. Maybe it is for the best that he did it this way.
He is the reason there is baseball in Seattle.
For my money, he had the sweetest swing in the game and I fell lucky to have gotten to see him play.
