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Which Seattle Star's departure hurt you the most?

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  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,237 Founders Club
    Janet Reno
    DerekJohnson said:

    CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

    I not much of a baseball fan and I was deployed in Bosnia when Junior left so I was kinda focused on other things like buying pirated CDs from Bosnians.

    The only other one that comes close to hurting me was Payton but after the players strike in the mid-90s, I really didn’t give a fuck about the NBA.

    So... Psalm Wooching?

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  • TheHB
    TheHB Member Posts: 6,457
    edited March 2022
    Russell Wilson
    NEsnake12 said:

    It never hurts as much when you think that the players best years are behind them. It takes some hindsight, but on this list only Randy Johnson really had any seasons better than his ones in Seattle after he left.

    The one that hurts the most in hindsight is losing Durant/Westbrook when the Sonics left. Those Thunder teams from the early 2010's would've been electric to watch in Seattle

    DJ had some pretty amazing years as a Celtic.
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  • KimsCopperPenny
    KimsCopperPenny Member Posts: 261
    Gary Payton
    der golve
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,782 Swaye's Wigwam
    edited March 2022
    Janet Reno
    not phased by any of it - just a bunch of guys soaking everyone for the big bucks.

    more power to them but me no care

    Edit: I wish all the pro teams and some of the non pro ones would all just go to Oregon and play
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  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 25,584 Standard Supporter
    Randy Johnson
    I was genuinely mad at management went Johnson and Kempt left. They totally botched those.

    Griffey didn't want to be Mariner. It was obvious.

    I had an eight game pack for the 2002-2003 Sonics. They sucked. Trading Payton wasn't the worst move ever.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,264 Founders Club
    Ken Griffey, Jr.
    theknowledge said:

    RJ was a punch in the gut. The worst organization in baseball was told by their own doctors that his back was going to end his career. Second opinions? Nope. They wouldn’t extend him after that so he had a .500 half season of work to convince the team that he was damaged. After the trade to Houston he becomes the most dominant pitcher in baseball again. Goes 10-1 down the stretch. Leads them to the playoffs. Ten years of great pitching from him after that trade. He was a better player for longer than Griffey after they both left. We lost one of the three or four greatest center fielders and maybe the greatest left handed pitcher in major league history one after another. It was just so Seattle.

    Four Cy Youngs in a row, I believe it was
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,264 Founders Club
    Ken Griffey, Jr.
    RaceBannon said:

    Some asshole in a big truck was tailgating me hard by the kingdome

    It was Johnson so I didn't fight him


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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Ken Griffey, Jr.
    DerekJohnson said:

    theknowledge said:

    RJ was a punch in the gut. The worst organization in baseball was told by their own doctors that his back was going to end his career. Second opinions? Nope. They wouldn’t extend him after that so he had a .500 half season of work to convince the team that he was damaged. After the trade to Houston he becomes the most dominant pitcher in baseball again. Goes 10-1 down the stretch. Leads them to the playoffs. Ten years of great pitching from him after that trade. He was a better player for longer than Griffey after they both left. We lost one of the three or four greatest center fielders and maybe the greatest left handed pitcher in major league history one after another. It was just so Seattle.

    Four Cy Youngs in a row, I believe it was
    1999-2002
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Ken Griffey, Jr.
    One of only six pitchers ever to win Cy Youngs in both leagues
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Ken Griffey, Jr.
    Didn't realize it, he has the second most Cy Youngs all tim.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    edited March 2022
    Ken Griffey, Jr.
    FRANNY ME WHILE I WOOF!!
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,264 Founders Club
    Ken Griffey, Jr.
    JoeEDangerously said:

    Once Payton left I gave up on the Sonics



    Obligatory

    I don't even remember that episode at all
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  • YouKnowIt
    YouKnowIt Member Posts: 545
    Ken Griffey, Jr.
    I was pissed that AROD left to chase the money within the same division....Probably the first player I wished pain upon
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,264 Founders Club
    Ken Griffey, Jr.
    dnc said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    JoeEDangerously said:

    Once Payton left I gave up on the Sonics



    Obligatory

    I don't even remember that episode at all
    It's the telethon episode where George is supposed to get Danny Tartabull (and maybe somebody else from the Yankees?) to appear for Jerry's girlfriend but they never show up. IIRC George is bringing the players to the telethon but somebody cuts him off or flips him off on the road and George gets road rage and chases them for miles and they miss the telethon.

    Pretty sure it's the same one where Kramer gets Jerry to cash his accumulated birthday checks from his grandmother and makes his grandmother bounce the old checks in the process.
    LOL... that's right. I haven't seen that episode in probably 15+ years.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Ken Griffey, Jr.
    DerekJohnson said:

    dnc said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    JoeEDangerously said:

    Once Payton left I gave up on the Sonics



    Obligatory

    I don't even remember that episode at all
    It's the telethon episode where George is supposed to get Danny Tartabull (and maybe somebody else from the Yankees?) to appear for Jerry's girlfriend but they never show up. IIRC George is bringing the players to the telethon but somebody cuts him off or flips him off on the road and George gets road rage and chases them for miles and they miss the telethon.

    Pretty sure it's the same one where Kramer gets Jerry to cash his accumulated birthday checks from his grandmother and makes his grandmother bounce the old checks in the process.
    LOL... that's right. I haven't seen that episode in probably 15+ years.
    I've watched them all on Hulu a couple years ago and most of them on Netflix recently.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,721 Founders Club
    Did anyone mention that Johnson got that ring in 2001 beating my Yankees as the 116 game winners watched?

    Randy and Junior were Yankee killers which was unique in Seattle
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,264 Founders Club
    Ken Griffey, Jr.
    RaceBannon said:

    Did anyone mention that Johnson got that ring in 2001 beating my Yankees as the 116 game winners watched?

    Randy and Junior were Yankee killers which was unique in Seattle

    Don't forget Tom Paciorek. He beat the Yankees on back-to-back nights with walk off Home Runs


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  • dOgmaster
    dOgmaster Member Posts: 589
    Ichiro
    Sad that so many voted for Griffey. I moved to Seattle after he had left for Cincinnati, so I see it through different lenses. I have nothing good to say about him. He decided to leave at the prime of his career, and when he came back was nothing but a cancer for the team, helping getting Wakamatsu fired, then bailed on the team (and city) again. To me its clear he doesn’t give a shit for Seattle or the fans. Just a rich turd!
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  • ReignMan
    ReignMan Member Posts: 217
    Janet Reno
    Obviously its Kemp but what about Spencer Haywood? Crushing trade for the young ReignMan in 1975.
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  • El_K
    El_K Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,486 Swaye's Wigwam
    Dennis Johnson
    Dennis Johnson. We got 36 games of Paul Fucking Wetsphal . Fuck Paul Westphal

    Another trade that got me torqued as a kid was Gus Williams for Tim McCormick + Ricky Sobers

    Tartabull trade was when we realized the M's were the minor league team for the rest of the league.

    Most of those guys on that list wanted out. I think Payton was cool with staying and that trade worked out well.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,264 Founders Club
    Ken Griffey, Jr.
    Griffey with 48% of the vote
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Take it to the other sports board. At least include Don James for fuck sakes.
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Imagine being “devastated” when a pro athlete gets traded.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,264 Founders Club
    Ken Griffey, Jr.
    MikeDamone said:

    Imagine being “devastated” when a pro athlete gets traded.

    I was 14 years old
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  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,937
    sonics with kd
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  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,167 Standard Supporter
    Janet Reno
    backthepack said:

    sonics with kd

    Ehh. Easy to say now. We had him for one year as a 19 year old rookie. I think everyone knew he'd be good, but not sure people were projecting him as a top-10 all time as you probably can do now.
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  • SweatpantsGeneral
    SweatpantsGeneral Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,152 Founders Club
    Randy Johnson
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

    I not much of a baseball fan and I was deployed in Bosnia when Junior left so I was kinda focused on other things like buying pirated CDs from Bosnians.

    The only other one that comes close to hurting me was Payton but after the players strike in the mid-90s, I really didn’t give a fuck about the NBA.

    I Was Deployed to Bosnia Superiority Guy.

    TYFYS
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  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,922 Swaye's Wigwam
    Janet Reno
    Kemp.
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