Mariners 3, Yankees 6

Earlier last week, Tim Hsiung had asked Karen and I to attend a Mariners game today.  It wasn’t until later that I realized the real reason Tim wanted to go: Yankee’s Starting Pitcher Chien-Ming Wang.

After every inning that Wang pitched, we witnessed flashes of blue and red, the Taiwanese flag.

I suppose that being Taiwanese, I should show some national pride as well.  Time to brush the dust off the Shaq-sized Taiwan flag from my attic…

On a side note, when you’re super thirsty and the enticing cold lemonade makes its way down the steps as it preys on the feeble minded, resist the urge.  We gave in to our cravings and paid the $3.75 Safeco tax.  Instead of lemonade, we received Iced Water (1% lemon juice).

Stay away from it.  You’ve been warned.

So the game progressed along with Mariners Pitcher Sele pitching better than expected.  Unfortunately he wouldn’t go far enough as Hasegawa and Sherill took over in relief. Finally when they called the clown…

JJ Klutz… Oops, I mean JJ Putz. I turned and told Tim “And this is where Yankees hit a Grand Salami”.
Tim: “Bernie doesn’t have that power any more”.
Me: “Yeah, but he’s up against Putz”.

That’s when Bernie proceeded to put the ball over the fence.  If I can only be so accurate about other things.

So Chien-Ming Wang gets a W for the win, and the Taiwanese Nationals were ecstatic.  It seemed bizarre, however, that someone would bring a poster of Wang’s wedding photo. By the way, doesn’t Wang look a little like Hideki Matsui?

After the ball game, Karen had cravings for popcorn chicken, so we headed back to Oasis.  Even though I already blogged about the deceptive drinks at Oasis, I just had to take a picture of the incriminating poster…

I refused to purchase their drinks, but the popcorn chicken was good.  Wish I had something to drink while downing the salty chicken though.  😕