Hi! This is Iggy Beartran. You may know me as the younger sister of
Joey Beartran, who recently wrote a recap of our tours of Safeco Field
and CenturyLink Field in Seattle. (If you didn’t read it yet, shame on
you! You’re either way behind in your Studious Metsimus reading or
you’re a relative of the Safeco Field tour guide that Joey trashed
because of her inability to share accurate Seattle Mariner facts.) In
today’s edition of Gettin’ Iggy With It, I’d like to share
my thoughts on the Seattle trip. In particular, I’d like to discuss
why I couldn’t help but think of the Mets and a certain other “fishy”
division rival while I was touring the stadiums and the city in which
they were located.
As far as the tours went, I actually didn’t have a problem with the
Safeco Field tour. I’m not into the history of the Seattle Mariners so I
didn’t mind the mistakes made by our tour guide. The Safeco Field tour
reminded me of the Mets tour at Citi Field, where I spent an hour
visiting things I didn’t care about (suites I can’t afford to sit in,
the press box I’ll never write stories from because bloggers such as
myself don’t get the love we deserve, etc.) and a minute or two on the
field. As with the tour at Citi Field, I was told that security
wouldn’t be very pleased with me if I touched the grass because
apparently, billionaire owners can’t spend a few bucks on replacing a
blade of grass that might have been damaged by my eight-ounce furry
body. Then again, what would you expect from the Mariners and the
Mets? They need to spend their money on better things, like Oliver
Perez.
The CenturyLink Field tour guide actually allowed us to stand on the
turf, albeit just one corner of it, but at least she had a good reason
not to let us frolic on the field. The Washington Huskies were going to
play a game on that same field just four hours after we placed our paws
on it, so they couldn’t let us claim it for ourselves. No worries. We
found other places to frolic!
The city itself was lots of fun! We went to many places in Seattle,
such as the Public Market (where guys throw expensive fish around like
the Marlins toss around their high-priced players – I mean, Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle and Josh Johnson to Toronto? Great googly moogly!) and
the iconic Space Needle, which looks quite a bit like the big syringe
Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria must be using on himself before making these
head-scratching trades.
The food in Seattle was even better than the food at Citi Field. I
never got to try the Ichi-roll (apparently, the Mariners don’t open
their food courts during the off-season – bad business move in my
opinion), but in downtown Seattle, I had the tastiest New England Clam
Chowder ever made!! Unfortunately, I ate it so fast that I don’t have
photographic proof of this tasty meal so all I can give you is this
photo from my breakfast trip to Denny’s.
So to recap this … uh … recap, I had great food in places other than
Denny’s, the Marlins are selling off their players faster than you can
say “the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire”, CenturyLink Field is
pretty cool and bear-friendly, and Safeco Field wasn’t as bad as my
brother described it, even if the team that plays there gladly employs
Oliver Perez. At least they’re not proud of the fact that they once had
Rip Van Winkle himself on the team. Oh wait, never mind.
That’s all for now, Mets fans. I hope you enjoyed this edition of Gettin’ Iggy With It.
Till next time, keep your feet on the bases and keep an eye out for
flying fish. After all, you don’t want to get hit by a former Miami
Marlin.
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