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I am very worried that next year's club will lose some focus without certain key personalities on board.  I really hope they find a way to keep Junior a Mariner even if he's a roving instructor who sits in the dugout with them every day.
I was moved to tears watching Griffey and Ichiro carried off the field together...first of all, not even the hard-fighitng 2007 Mariners would have carried off Ichiro.  That was  agutsy team full of gamers that left it all on the field (so much so that they ran out of gas and died in early September).  The photo-journal moment seeingt Griffey and Ichiro shaking hands, held high above their teammates, tears in Griffey's eyes and the fans refusing to leave until the players had all gone from the field...that symbolizes everything that was good about this club.  Ichiro played harder than he has since 2001 - because he was FINALLY happy to be here!  And that is entirely on Griffey and Wak laying down the law and getting the rest of the team to appreciate him.
Today's win might as well have been the 7th game of the ALCS...the crowd was really into it, especially at the end...and the players...I don't believe I've seen such emotion since the Mariners clinched the AL West shortly after 9/11 and Cameron toured Safeco waving the American flag.  Can you really ask for too much more in a finale?