Modern life can be pretty amazing. After PTI put up a photo with Felix Hernandez celebrating his perfect game, Felixing became a thing. A thing that was so cool the George & Dragon pub suggested that all Sounders goals scored should be celebrating by Felxing. Fredy Montero then retweeted that idea. He then did it.
Side-by-side comparison of the King and Fredy Montero
— Gregg Greene (@RealGregg) August 19, 2012#Felixing twitter.com/RealGregg/stat…
But the story gets even more circular. As now it turns out that the Seattle Mariners are having Fredy Montero throw out the first pitch on one of their biggest promotions of the year - expanding the King's Court to 32,000 people.
Now that’s perfect. After
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) August 19, 2012#Felixing in yesterday’s@soundersfc win, Fredy Montero@goleador17 will throw out the 1st pitch Tuesday.
That's modern life people. A really special moment in sports becomes something more, just because of the way communities can interact. On Tuesday two Kings of Cascadia will be at SafeCo Field and that's pretty cool.