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All Hail Dave Niehaus, the Mariners' Lone Hall of Famer
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Here's the real question for the Mariners' season: How is it that a young and well-compensated Major League Baseball player like Richie Sexson can fold under pressure when THE MAN UPSTAIRS keeps on batting 1.000?Hell, yeah, Dave Niehaus is god! A baseball god, that is. In the pantheon of baseball immortals, that's what Dave Neihaus is about to become this Sunday when he's inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as this year's Frick Award winner.
Niehaus was there to broadcast the M's first game in 1977. And you can still hear the melodious strains of the man's voice emanating from the Mariners broadcast booth. In fact, Niehaus is not even expected to rest on his Hall of Fame laurels and retire. Word today is that with the Mariners' return to KIRO for the 2009 season, Neihaus will be heading back to the booth again.
All of us in Seattle have our favorite Dave Niehaus memory. He called some historic games in 1995 when the M's Refused to Lose and made it to the post-season for the first time in franchise history. My favorite Dave Niehaus memory is from the day an earthquake rocked the good ol' Kingdome. The temblor was on May 4, 1996. While many of Seattle's hearty fans stood calm and cool in the face of the seismic shifting, Dave Niehaus and I were among the first wimps to race all the way down the stairs of the Kingdome to get from the press box to the great outdoors.
Unless Ken Griffey comes back to Seattle and unless Alex Rodriguez has (another) change of heart about his baseball identity and unless Randy Johnson eschews the D-backs, Niehaus will be the Mariners' sole rep. in the hallowed Hall for years to come. We say this is fitting and fantastic. Here's to you, Dave. There are no earthquakes fault lines in upstate New York to worry about.
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