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This week's mid-week Mariners series against Chicago has some appeal: The White Sox are just beneath the M's in the wild card standings, and the teams' respective aces, Felix Hernandez and Mark Buerhle (who retired an MLB-record 45 hitters in a row three weeks ago) face off on Wednesday night.
But the ChiSox are just an appetizer for Safeco's meaty special of the week: The New York Yankees' first 2009 Seattle appearance, in a four-game series beginning Thursday.
The Yankees, Red Sox and Blue Jays are the three teams who get the most fan support when they visit Safeco. Yankee rooters are the most fun, because they are the most insane.
Think about it: Blue Jays fans are Canadian, and Red Sox fans mostly started supporting the team within the last five years; neither fan base possesses the fervency of your average New York rooter.
When we were a young pup, and the M's were a young franchise, turnout for Yankee games at the Kingdome was majority New Yorkers--much as Tampa Bay Rays games versus the Yankees sometimes are now.
Now that the Mariners are more mature, Yankee fans are in the minority. Yet they still sometimes manage to work up a few "Let's Go Yank-ee" chants. And you may see more of them in town this year, since it's actually cheaper for them to fly to Seattle and see a game than it is to buy the best seats at the New Yankee Stadium.
The rivalry is more mature now, too--with three playoff series between the teams in the past two decades, and the villainous ex-Mariner Alex Rodriguez (a.k.a. "A-Rod," "Pay-Rod," "A-Fraud," "A-Roid") starring for New York.
Last year's Yankees/M's series was the best-attended of the year at Safeco, and already your options are limited if you want tickets for this weekend. Centerfield bleacher seats are sold out for all four games; the leftfield bleachers are your cheapest ticket option at this point, though even those will set you back $20. These four games against New York are among ten designated as "premium games" by the Mariners--all seats cost $5 more.
We'd wager that by game time, all the left field seats will be gone, so buy 'em now unless you want to be stuck paying $27 each for day-of-game view reserved seats. You can also try StubHub, where tickets for the series range from $12 to $999.
Coming up this week in advance of the series: A guide to Yankee villains (mostly A-Rod), and our ranking of the best M's/Yankees games that have been played in Seattle.
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