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Baseball's Back Friday

After the frustrating first few days of the season, which always include that off-day right after Opening Day, the Yankees are in Detroit and the Mets are home against Miami for a full slate of games this weekend.

The weather looks like it may start to feel a little more like spring.

For some reason, my mood's been improving.

Enjoy and

Rock on.

Ben Gibbard's Ichiro Tribute

Ichiro Is a Yankee

There was a titanic shift in the world of baseball yesterday when the Seattle Mariners traded Ichiro Suzuki to the New York Yankees before their meeting last night in Seattle.

Ichiro, a 38-year-old veteran on what I think is the youngest team in baseball, apparently asked Seattle management for a trade a few weeks ago.  He immediately went from last to first, and you could see the bounce in his step.

For Mariner fans, though, this has to be a tough one even with Ichiro's fall-off in production this year.  Ichiro is the all-time Mariner leader in hits with more than any player in baseball since he came to the States, won the Rookie of the Year and the AL MVP in his first season, and has ten consecutive gold gloves and two batting titles.  He could be, after Ken Griffey, Jr., the second greatest player the Mariners have ever had, and he was the face of the franchise.

Northwest native Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie released a tribute song to Ichiro, and it is just as cheesy and sentimental as you'd expect for a baseball-related pop song.

Welcome to New York, Ichiro.  Enjoy the puns!