The storybook ending was a half-step behind. Perhaps it was greedy to ask for more when we’d already been given so much. A rookie MVP, something out of Star Wars, breaking unbreakable records, August in Kansas City, besting Mo, every All-Star Game speech, and a moment that could’ve easily been the fairy tale finale two years ago, but that was not his way. Instead, over the past two nights we received a gift arguably just as fitting for a 28-year professional career that now counted 14 years in a Mariners uniform. Ichiro gave us something to look forward to, and the chance to see something we’d never seen before.
Ichiro, and the promise of what could be
