Bibliographic record
Abstract
Fan Response to Seattle Mariners' 1995 Baseball Season It more than sixty years ago that Mickey Cochrane first called baseball the fan's game. Yet for all of talk of importance of fans, there are very few examples of listening to their voices as they try to articulate what game means to them. Really, a fan's history of baseball in which dominant voice in narrative is voice of those who follow game on a daily basis, is not easily found. What would like to do in this paper is to provide an opportunity to hear voices of baseball fans who followed Seattle Mariners through most exciting period in history of franchise: 1995 My sources come almost exclusively from faxed messages sent to Mariners after their final game of 1995, a Game Six loss to Cleveland in American League Championship Series. What comes through in these faxes is raw sentiment of people whose lives were touched in special ways by Mariners. Written in unguarded moments when relative anonymity of sitting at a computer and composing a fax permits us to speak sincerely without worrying about sounding corny, these letters are heartfelt. Many of faxes remind us of sheer joy that baseball can offer to its fans. As one of faxed messages put it, a world screaming about Bosnian atrocities, scores of people screaming about O.J.'s trial, mothers and fathers screaming about loss of a child by guns, man it great to be screaming about Mariners. Thanks guys. Other faxes go further. In an era in which cynicism and calculated coolness are too often norm, these faxes serve to remind us that adults have their moments of pride, hope, and inspiration, and that baseball can serve as a conduit for these emotions through an intense identification with game and individual players. Perhaps most important, these letters help remind us that baseball has power to bring people together in community. For Seattle Mariners baseball fans, 1995 is simply known as the magical season. As one fan put it as team headed into climactic final week of regular season, There is a magic in air as one Mariner follows another getting hotter than burning phosphorus that falls from Kingdome sky rockets signifying home run after home run and dramatic win after dramatic win. Responses to magic showed up in some unlikely places. I deliver medication to nursing homes and lock-down mental facilities, a fan wrote to Seattle Mariners. I can't thank you enough for joy you guys gave to those people. had never seen them so excited about something before -- They had 'refuse to lose' on their wheel chairs and doors. THE MAGICAL SEASON The season nearly magical enough to stare down death itself. Take, for example, case of ninety-year-old Janet Adams Duke. Her last words to her surgeon, as she left her hospital room on morning of October 7, 1995, before game four of Divisional Series against New York Yankees, were Just get me back here in time for that game. Unfortunately, her family later reported, surgeon was unable to comply, but 'Take Me Out to The Ball game' played at close of her funeral service on October 12. Ms. Duke would have approved of that day for her funeral. It a travel date during League Championship Series. Neither Ms. Duke, undoubtedly cheering from above, nor her family and friends would have to miss a pitch. To understand powerful hold that 1995 had on Ms. Duke and so many other South Puget Sound residents, some background information about awful suffering endured by Mariners fans would be useful. For first seventeen years of team's existence Seattle Mariners were synonymous with mediocrity. The team won nothing; most especially it never came close to winning hearts of its potential fan base in western Washington. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.633 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".