Ben Gilbert: preference

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…Oh wow, I didn’t realize that. Man, yeah. I remember that strike so vividly. I remember, you know, and obviously being a Seattle podcast, so it’s a huge – even I didn’t live in Seattle at the time, huge Ken Griffey Jr. fan. And, I think I remember he was on pace to shatter the homerun record that year and then it was so much shortened by the strike. I’m pretty sure you’re right because I remember the Indians were really good too and we were on the Word Series the next year, and sort of growing up I always thought, well, it’s weird that the Indians have this new ballpark in ’94, and I think we actually played in ’95 in the ALCS, so the division series was when we played the Mariners and Griffey was obviously instrumental in that. But I remember thinking, like, how did we have a new ballpark in ’94, getting to the World Series in ’95, and it didn’t really occur to me until later in the ‘90s, like, “Oh, duh, there was no playoffs in ’94.” Can you imagine if that happened with the NFL now, like, oh yeah, there’s no-- No Superbowl? Yeah, totally. It was terrible and I was such a huge baseball fan growing up, and it was really a black mark on the sport. So, Marvel’s not doing so good. People are speculating, the company is in trouble, maybe they’ll end up filing for bankruptcy.…

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