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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: 32,783 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: 6,766
    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: 271
    Gary Payton
    der golve
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,844 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: 26,150 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: 69,855 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: 69,855 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: 56,855
    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: 56,855
    Ken Griffey, Jr.
    One of only six pitchers ever to win Cy Youngs in both leagues
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    Ken Griffey, Jr.
    Didn't realize it, he has the second most Cy Youngs all tim.
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