Call it pride, mojo, chi, swagger, attitude or ego but whatever word you use the Seattle Mariners are trying to find theirs. The pitching staff seems to have it and the players when they in the field. Maybe it gets left in the gloves on in the grass. You just look at this 2011 team and when they get to the plate you can just tell that it is gone.
Tonight they had most of the 2001 team there for the 10th anniversary. Those guys had it all the time out in the field and when they came up to bat. You could just see it that look when Ichiro would square up his bat like an artist getting ready to paint a masterpiece, the look that Brett Boone would have just daring a pitcher to try and throw one past him, the gleam in Edgar's eyes telling a pitcher he knew what was coming and the grin of Mark Maclemore as if he knew something the pitcher didn't. Where is that for these players.
Ichiro is still there squaring up at the plate but he seems to lose tract of the canvas. The new kids look intimidated and just want to swing and get back to the dugout. Some of the other veteran players, when they do play, look as though they forgot what that bat is for when they stand at the plate.
Don't get me wrong I love the Mariners and think we have some great players both young and old. I just think that they need to find where they left that mojo, attitude, pride.
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