Dorktown - The history of the Seattle Mariners

Just the trailer, but this is gonna be good. Dorktown is part of SB Nation, including legend Jon Bois, where they use stats to help tell stories in sports in very entertaining fashion. The Seattle Mariners are the best worst baseball team of all time, and this trailer indicates that they're the most interesting team ever as well. Should be grand when it launches.

It's already getting REAL good

The Toilet Years

Doesn't that cover all of the Mariner's history? 🤔🤔🤔

That's the beauty of them... it doesn't. Soon you will learn, my friend.

I'm about halfway through EP 1 and I'm already amazed. I could really care less about sports but these to have a way of weaving stories, related-and-fascinating sports trivia, and some sweet graphics together in a way I haven't seen before for sports videos. Also LOL good lord @MisterPookie these are the toilet years, love too see the first decade of the team perform exactly as I'd expect. Very interested to get to the part where things change though, as I'm sure the reasons behind it will be unexpected.

THE JELLO TOILETS!!!!

I've never been so excited to watch something about baseball (or baseball itself). Ep 2 when

Cross yer fingies that it's today! I'm rewatching ep 1 just in case

What's fascinating is I know absolutely nothing about this man and didn't recognize him from the end of the last video. Excited to learn!

I was curious if you knew Jr- he was probably the first athlete I ever knew and recognized as a kid. Hell, he made it into most versions of Backyard Baseball, so u kno he was the real deal. (Side note, there have been some fun modern day posts about these games and trying to map their statistics to real life, but I would love to give it a shot myself, I've just had trouble finding working versions of a few of them.)

Anyway, absolutely loved this episode. An impressive feat in both story telling and data mining (if you could call it that- it’s just real neat that MLB has stats going back to the 1800s). The way they tie important events together in a narratively interesting way, even when they’re non-sequential, is great. The part about Dave Niehaus made me a little teary eyed tbh, something about someone living their passion by helping others feel that love and excitement too is a soothing balm in a time of increased toxic gatekeeping for leisure activities. I think that's worth something.

"A moment like this has no business in our world."
Wow, I really had no idea the drama unfolding in my first year of life. Three of the pillars of my early childhood memories, orchestrating such an amazing moment. So happy to see it all put into perspective like this, and shows why they needed this to be a long running series to give it the punch it deserves.

My god, this episode had me in tears. An unbelievable story to be told, and how well these two tell it. I was on the edge of my seat the entire video (because I really didn't know the outcome!). That was some amazing ball.

where r u epsiode 4... i need u

I need to know what the mariners DO with all this MOMENTUM

Oh man... this one was, of course, also excellent and the ending gave me SUCH chills.

I am getting the most outrageous urge to play Backyard Baseball 200X again from this, it was like the keystone of the time and place I was watching and playing baseball as a youth. It's a bit bizarre that for maybe 3 years, this was my sport... and then I just absolutely lost all connection to it. So this series is bringing me back to that place a bit, and it's wild.

"Mom, Dad, why is Mariners legend Ken Griffey Jr on the Cincinnati Reds?"
"Well son... we're getting a divorce."

I might be mixing up some memories, now that I think about it.

Oh god the next one is 47 minutes good lord.

I also don't recognize the name Ichiro Suzuki, excited to learn.

He is a mythical figure, and an idol of many a baseball youths (me).

Damn, it's over. What a journey. What a team.

A Thursday has passed but there is no more mariner's history to consume. Damn.
Despite seemingly hating it, Jon Bois has more stories to tell about baseball if you will listen.