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by Christopher J. Jarmick
Briefly in mid 1990s
I re-caught baseball fever
And thought Ken Griffey Junior,
Could be someone's Mickey Mantle,
the flawed hero, I once admired.
New to Seattle, time to root for hometown team
Like I was once again 7
and especially 8, going to all those games
with Pop-Pop at the 'House that Ruth Built.'
as in Yankees, New York Yankees.. . . getoverit.
So it's root root root for the home team --Seattle
back when the Mariners seemed to be magic
A-Rod, Buhner, Edgar, Big Unit and Junior.
The Kingdome was a funky, funky place,
full of loud loud crowd cheers, the wave and...
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