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by the end of last year and during spring training I couldn't stand to even watch a Figgins at bat on gameday, let alone on TV. Literally I would close my gameday browser when he was up figuring i would want to waste the 2 minutes watching the pitch results come in.
But 2 vintage annoying (to the opponent), bunting, waterbug, line driving hitting games from Chone later and a lot of the built up vitriol toward him is already starting to ebb. I figured that there was nothing Chone could do to assuage my dislike of him, but here I am already kind of secretly rooting for him :) And ::gasp:: the top of the order for the mariners is ::fainting away:: EXCITING! Woot! For the first time in a long time I actually watched a Figgins at bat and was rewarded for the spending of my time! I could get used to that!
It is pretty amazing what the mind and psyche can do to a person. It occurs to me that in the entirety of Figgins Seattle experience we have not had a two game run like this from him... period. At least not to my memory. In fact I can not even recall one single game where he looked as good as he did the last two nights. And not just with the bat, but smiling, high fiving his team mates, bouncing around on the base paths like he did in his Angel days. Even the way he tried to block the short stops view of a ground ball when he was on second the other day was vintage Chone shenanigans which had been missing during his entire Seattle tenure. If THAT Chone is back... hmmmm then I am really going to have to re think how badly i want him off this team :) Next year included!
Also the overflow is starting to get crazy. Seager is starting to write his name in stone. Figgins looks like he wants to stick around. Carp and Guti are ready to come off the DL soon. Big Piggy is hitting 500 ft bombs. Saunders is going no where... Seriously where are these guys going to play??? The last real blac hole in the lineup is Olivo. Wedge need to just put Montero behind the plate and lets get a real batter to DH for us! :)