Marz @ MindSay

Here's a pic that my family took while we were playing in tampa.  It was always strange to see myself up on those jumbotrons, it's very humbling.

As I noted in my last post, I had the great pleasure of doing color commentary for 3 Seattle Mariners games this week.   I got to work with play by play man (and a friend of mine for 10 years) Rick Rizz.   What a great guy.   The Mariners are struggling, they mirror the Phillies in a lot of ways.   Their offense struggles at times, but their pitchers are doing really well this year.   They lack a real ace too, again like the Phils.

Ichiro was fun to watch.  He has so many pre game and in game rituals, it's amazing.   He's such a great hitter and player, that his teammates and everyone else for that matter should follow his stretching and excercise regiment.   The clubhouse was great.

Here's a great article in the Seattle Times, it was fun to do:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/mariners/2002287782_marinotes25.html

More on my game calling experiences later!

One of the great parts of my career in major league baseball was meeting all kinds of interesting and sometimes famous people.   While playing in Seattle I was lucky enough to meet the entire cast of the show Frasier!!!!

Here's me and Matty Yallof doing some last minute homework before Phillies Post Game Live (I'm on the right).