Day Before the Day Before

TWELVES:  Our morning started early. We were out of the house slightly after 7 a.m., in search of some Blue Friday fun. 

Why the early rise?

As I explained to the kids at one point today, you just never know when your team is going to be in the Big Dance, and when they are, you have to soak up every second.

Obviously with any sport, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. If you win more than you lose,* sometimes you get to play more. But, unfortunately, the 2011 Seattle Mariners are a 
good' example of just how fleeting even a 'best' team can be. 

The 2011 Mariners were the Best Baseball Team Ever based on their win/loss record. Naturally, that success led them to post season play. There, they were trounced in the first round. In a way, it rendered their 'best ever' record meaningless. 

Lesson learned: Drink up the victories when you can. Being "#1" is fleeting, at best.

And so, back to us in the freezing fog outside CenturyLink just after 7 this morning.  It was fun seeing all the other "Twelves" milling around the stadium, spirits high.

We went to the King 5 booth, where we donated cans of food, met the King 5 mascot ... 

and scored some cool "Twelfie" sunglasses!

We also stopped by the nearby booth of the local Fox affiliate. There, they were collecting signatures on '12' flags which will be inside the stadium in Arizona on Sunday.

Our timing was such that a live remote was filmed while we were there.

 Media blitz!

The kids were both featured prominently on the live remote. #GoHawks. 

*One famous exception of the win-more-than-lose qualifier to make the post-season is the 2011 Seahawks team. With a 7-win, 9-losses record, they managed to be the top team in their division, but the lowest seed in the playoffs. Their first game was up against the previous year's Super Bowl champs, the New Orleans Saints. And lo and behold, they beat the Saints (in a game in which the term 'Beast Quake' was introduced to the lexicon). They lost their next playoff game, but they did silence those whining about them being in the playoffs to begin with.

IN OTHER NEWS: SMAPS is still upright on the launch pad, scrubbed again. They're gonna try to go on Saturday morning early, stay tuned. 

We finished up our week's worth of classical music lectures and tests. The harpsichord figured largely in what we listened to today. Music to our ears!