I still have ticket stubs from an M's game I went to in 1977
And I long ago reconciled myself to the idea that the expansion teams in Las Vegas and Monterrey Mexico will have world series rings before the M’s ever even play in one.
Neither one of them has more than a few dozen fans.
Meanwhile, the Cubs…. ha ha. Well, actually they have ‘07-’08 (1907-08) and played in the WS as recently as ‘45. I have no idea what they’re always bitching about. ‘45 may be a long time ago for some people, but it’s infinitely more recent than “never.”
We have picture in my house of a tree my Dad and Grandpa fell in 1987 that is nearly that big.
My older brother is 2 and sitting on top of it, my Dad is standing next to the base with his hand above his head against the base and it doesn’t reach the top.
Perfect
ScottBrowne - January 30, 2012
General Sherman's biomass really took off once it got that new TV deal
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Bearskin Rugburn - January 30, 2012
By the way
Brendan Ryan is still peeved he wasn’t in a commercial last year.
He thinks maybe he should write his own this year.
msb - January 30, 2012
I would be willing to kick in to fund it.
Aussie Mariner - January 31, 2012
Mariners Baseball
Emulating General Sherman since 2009.
Kyleo84 - January 30, 2012
So are we going to burn Atlanta to the ground?
Ballard Erik - January 30, 2012
In the World Series
seattlebruin - January 30, 2012
I've imagined us beating the Nationals in the World Series for a while now.
Just seems right.
Cascadian Man - January 30, 2012
We still be 2500 rings short of General Sherman
sofa_king - January 30, 2012 via mobile
I wonder if he's a fan of the Lord of the Rings?
beastwarking - January 30, 2012
The General Sherman is really fucking cool.
Walking up to it and trying to comprehend that something alive so is large and so old (please no Griffey jokes).
Eyebrows - January 30, 2012 via mobile
Today I learned about the Methuselah tree!
Jeff Sullivan - January 30, 2012
Oh wow. It looks like something out of fantasy.
Cascadian Man - January 30, 2012
Looks bizarrely menacing.
Fearless Frog - January 30, 2012 via mobile
I heard about it from Planet Earth
Damn that bitch is old
OlSalty - January 30, 2012
And Wells Valley, California?
Mariner John - January 30, 2012
I just learned how dendrochronologists measure age in living trees.
Also, I learned that dendrochronologists exist.
MT Olson - January 30, 2012
There was a tree that was older that a grad student cut down by accident!
Robert - January 30, 2012
Fucking grad students ruin everything.
JY - January 30, 2012
I was talking to a 97 year-old person today and even that is mindblowing.
His mom died really young… in the 1918 influenza epidemic. What!
abender20 - January 30, 2012
John Tyler has living grandchildren. John Tyler was born in 1790.
Bearskin Rugburn - January 30, 2012
Good grief
Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928.
His father, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, was born in 1853.
His father, John Tyler, was born in 1790.
So John Tyler fathered a child at 63, and his son fathered a child at 75 (!).
Matt Erickson - January 30, 2012
Well this just got awkward real fast.
EequalsMc2 - January 30, 2012
Pando!
PANDO!
JY - January 30, 2012
Genius
“Let’s not kid ourselves”.. Priceless!
116 - January 30, 2012
Direct quote from Zduriencik at the media breakfast that Jeff was invited to.
harkening - January 30, 2012
What is the conversion rate of tree growth to prospect development?
I’m as patient as the next guy, but a few thousand years seems a tad on the high side.
C Dubya - January 30, 2012
This Let's not kid ourselves things is catching on
I got a kick out of it so I made it my screen name.
Let'sNotKidOurselves - January 30, 2012
And here...we...go!
sanford_and_son - January 30, 2012
That always turns out well!
the other side - January 30, 2012
Over/under this meme being dead
seattlebruin - January 30, 2012
Beginning of ST.
the other side - January 30, 2012
Jan 30, 2012 11:50 PM PST
abender20 - January 30, 2012
I'm such a screw up
I try to make a joke about LoL using O/U wrong and instead end up soliciting the line
seattlebruin - January 30, 2012
Was fun while it lasted
OlSalty - January 30, 2012
This somehow had a shorter shelf life than Larry Bernandez.
Impressive feat.
Benne - January 30, 2012
So if the Mariners don't make the World Series until say 2037........
Should we still give Jack Z the credit for planting the early seeds and laying down the good soil? I think that is Mr. Sullivan’s point here.
Let'sNotKidOurselves - January 30, 2012
Don't forget his hard work in making sure the soil is fertile.
Nadingo - January 30, 2012
Then why is the team giving away compost?
Jed MC - January 30, 2012
Because we didn't burn the tree when we had the chance.
JY - January 30, 2012
Healthy trees need fire
to burn away the life-sucking underbrush….
blacknoiseNW - January 30, 2012
Good God 2037...
I hope I’m not one of those damn Red Sox or Cubs old farts and have to wait that long for a championship. I’ll be 66 then.
We should run a poll…Will we make the World Series first or will the Pirates have a winning season?
seanchristopher - January 30, 2012
You are just a pup
I’ll be either drawing social security or dead. Just one championship before I die, please God.
Let'sNotKidOurselves - January 30, 2012
I still have ticket stubs from an M's game I went to in 1977
And I long ago reconciled myself to the idea that the expansion teams in Las Vegas and Monterrey Mexico will have world series rings before the M’s ever even play in one.
J0SER - January 30, 2012
Remember the Back to the Future where.....
they advertised a World Series between the Cubs and a Florida team. Hah, fastforward twenty years and the Florida team has two championsips.
Let'sNotKidOurselves - January 30, 2012
And the other Florida team has played in one
Neither one of them has more than a few dozen fans.
Meanwhile, the Cubs…. ha ha. Well, actually they have ‘07-’08 (1907-08) and played in the WS as recently as ‘45. I have no idea what they’re always bitching about. ‘45 may be a long time ago for some people, but it’s infinitely more recent than “never.”
J0SER - January 30, 2012
True, True, True
Pretty soon they will be making big deals of the living grandchildren of people who were at the 1908 WS.
Let'sNotKidOurselves - January 30, 2012
As long as the M's don't become one of those Redwood bitches you can drive your car through
Those trees sold out.
Zamfir - January 30, 2012
You could make a big bat out of that lumber.
JAH - January 30, 2012
That's an Edgar sized bat.
Whoopetydoo - January 30, 2012
Edgar used a light bat
Eyebrows - January 30, 2012 via mobile
Behind every good man there is another man waiting to sell him stuff
lemonverbena - January 30, 2012
Even nature has fallen victim to the "we need a big bat" meme.
ThomasG - January 30, 2012
I already am that old
I’ve been waiting for a World Series appearance since the Pilots arrived
New England Fan - January 30, 2012
There's got to be some big ass trees in the amazon
SmoakyCokey - January 30, 2012
haha, not anymore
SmoakyCokey - January 30, 2012
not that deforestation is funny :(
SmoakyCokey - January 30, 2012
Well it's kind of funny in an ironic way when you consider what most of the land is used for
OlSalty - January 30, 2012
Questionable at best
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=big+ass+trees&x=0&y=0
seattlebruin - January 30, 2012
There used to be big-ass trees around here, too
Not as big around, so smaller in total mass, but almost twice as tall as the General here.
J0SER - January 30, 2012
We have picture in my house of a tree my Dad and Grandpa fell in 1987 that is nearly that big.
My older brother is 2 and sitting on top of it, my Dad is standing next to the base with his hand above his head against the base and it doesn’t reach the top.
cdalto - January 30, 2012
That was a fascinating read.
Fearless Frog - January 30, 2012 via mobile
Ravenna Park used to have some big trees. One of them was actually called Big Tree
The Robert E. Lee was reported at 400 feet tall in 1900’ too bad they didn’t leave them. Link
Kermit. - January 30, 2012
Trees
Never make promises to their fan base that they can’t keep.
brodiewr - January 30, 2012
Oh?
Aaron Campeau - January 30, 2012
That city looks smoggy,
because it didn’t root for the trees in the first place.
brodiewr - January 30, 2012
What's amazing about LookoutLanding
The Pineda/Montero trade got me excited for some baseball by reminding me that the Mariners exist, but there are still weeks until spring training.
Somehow this site manages to be both interesting and entertaining during the long drought between off season signings and actual baseball.
Snuffleupagus - January 30, 2012
Here you get the forest AND the trees
lemonverbena - January 30, 2012
Which is nice if you stay away from all the places the tourists like to go
Kermit. - January 30, 2012
Munenori Kawasaki!
Corco - January 30, 2012
Oh Lordy, this is awesome.
I especially love that it came straight from the horses mouth.
nathaniel dawson - January 30, 2012
The strategy for 2013
OlSalty - January 30, 2012
Step 1: Caterpillar.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!…Err, I mean moth!
Aussie Mariner - January 31, 2012
I'm kind of hoping for a butterfly rather than a moth
On the other hand, Japanese ownership…. Mothra!
Awesome!
J0SER - January 31, 2012
Aw man my picture went away
It was a gypsy moth. Gypsy moths kill deciduous trees.
Aw shit but General Sherman is a conifer. Shit. So much for that plan.
OlSalty - January 31, 2012
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