Seattle loved Alex Rodriguez until a $250 million contract from Texas turned it into beef 

The 116th win in 2001 was secured by striking out... Alex Rodriguez

This is fascinating. You guys should think about making a longer, multipart series about the Mariners.

T-mobile sponsoring the mariners beef is kinda heat

I remember being in the left field bleachers at that first game when A-Rod returned to Seattle. I caught the Monopoly money flying in the air. It wasn’t just any old fake money-someone had edited A-Rod’s face onto it. I was very confused by the whole thing, being 7 years old at the time. At least we had other things to celebrate that season.

Did anyone else get an ad for the Secret Base Patreon

Congrats on the baby Clara!!

Congrats on the baby Clara! Hope you and the baby are healthy and happy.

For those that don’t know, the Mariners play at T-mobile Park

"presented by t mobile!" no add read, no sponsor read.. just like on a tv show.. i'm proud on you guys at secret base! (tbh, the quality of your content is better then anything on tv!!)

Did anyone else get an ad for the Secret Base Patreon?

The Seattle series you guys did is still one of my favorite doc series I’ve seen great job guys 🔥🔥🔥🔥

And now in 2024 the Dodgers are signing Shohei Ohtani to a near billion dollar contract without batting an eyelid 😂

Coming Soon - Beef History: Newborn Baby vs. Sleep

Not sure if Mariners fans would get over this even if A-Rod did bring the Sonics back.

I LOVE the baseball beefs. They're slow-cooked; lots of meat & potatoes

Beef History ideas: Jerry Glanville vs Sam Wyche Deion Sanders vs Andre Rison John Elway vs Dan Reeves

It always seems to come back to the Mariners, doesn't it?

Growing up during those years in Seattle was absolutely wild. I remember going to games in 99 and 00 and cheering my brains out for him and even as a little kid, I understood that him taking the bag despite what he'd been openly promising us as "wanting to play for a winning team" was like a slap to the face. Surprisingly in that era, my favorite players went Edgar, A-Rod, then Griffey. Losing A-Rod the way we did hurt, especially because we'd just lost Griffey. But with Griffey he literally just said "I wanna be closer to family" and I don't think a single person in Seattle ever held that against him. The late 90s and early 00s were a fun but weird time for Mariners fans. Before the dark times.

Rewinder: 2006 Orange Bowl 3OTs Beef History: Lindros vs Flyers Organization Overlap: Greatest College Football Coach (Saban) and the Greatest NFL Coach (Belichick) coaching in the same division Beef History: Michael Jordan and Isiah Thomas Beef History: Phil Jackson and Pat Riley Untitled: Reggie Miller Untitled: Tracy McGrady Untitled: Ken Griffey Junior Untitled: Carl Yastrzemski Untitled: Ted Williams Untitled: Jim Kelly Collapse: Early 90s Bills Prism: Steph Curry and all those mid major players Rewinder: The Catch By Willie Rewinder: Wide Right I, Wide Right II Rewinder: Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds breaking the respective HR record(s) Untitled: Don Nelson

Was A-Rod an a-hole? Yeah, absolutely. But hey, if someone is offering me $252M, why turn it down? lol I don't fault him for taking the money.

Congrats Clara!

Congrats on the baby Clara! good luck and have so much fun! Thanks for always making these sports videos!

Congratulations Clara!!!

As a Sox fan I hate AROD and everything but $95 million wasn't a comparable offer and wasn't worth considering. The hometown discount is a couple million at best, not $157,000,000.

Congrats Clara! And great job as always. Good night and good game.

congrats on the baby Clara! I hope your delivery goes smoothly, and thanks for the vid

I was at Safeco for the return of Alex in 2001. The amount of hate and virtriol was palpable. People hung out after the game to sling back beers and call him every name in the book even though he had long since left the field. It was great.

If someone is willing to pay you $250M then by all means, TAKE THE MONEY! Listen, Seattle is a beautiful city, love it there I vacation there, but unless one of the coffee girls gives me 6 kids and moves to Snoqualmie, take the money bro.

Congrats Clara! never would have suspected a thing

Oh my God congrats!! And no, I couldn't hear it at all. You absolutely killed it as always.

Great work, Clara. You're sarcasm could be its own video. And congrats on the wonderful edition.

Nice surprise at the end! Congrats Clara! 👏🏽👏🏽❤️

CONGRATS, CLARA! Love the reveal.

Congratulations Clara Love the details and Stories Always

Thanks for the quality. Secret Base is always good.

Given what's in the stinger, let me just say congrats on the baby Clara 🎉. My guess is that you're due for a well deserved maternity leave from secret base for a good while after this video. May your birth be smooth and your child healthy.😊

I love how billionaire owners manipulate people too thinking that players not taking a paying cut is selfish

i like this channel...but when i fall asleep youtube thinks i LOVE this channel. i wake up and secret base is on almost every morning lmao

Yay!!!!! Thank you for the video!!

I just got a Jon Bois ad. That’s phenomenal.

252 million vs 95……get real Seattle. As if y’all would not leave a job for more money.

CONGRATS CLARA!! And happy mother's Day!

I'm already sick of T-Mobile because it's literally the only commercial I'm getting.

Crazy how his request was viewed as crazy but now look at contracts

Always sad to see a Cup Run end, but that was amazing!

Was just binging some Beefs, so happy there’s more to be had.

I'm as big a M's fan as anyone -- I remember going to the game in 2001 when A-Rod returned (I was 7 or 8 at the time, and the sky was full of monopoly money. It was awesome). But I always thought it was ridiculous for fans to hate A-Rod for the crime of... leaving to get paid the salary he deserves? If anything, fans should have tossed blame at Mariners ownership, they had allowed multiple superstars (Griffey, Randy Johnson) to leave the team in the late 90s and early 2000s. It's crazy how Mariners ownership was somehow able to walk away from this being the 'good guys', when they've been probably the team's biggest impediment to actually winning anything.

cant wait to see the beef history between milwaukee and bendict counsellout in the future

I’ve always wondered about the hypothetical of Randy, Junior, Edgar, A-Rod, and Ichiro all on the same team at the same time, if Ichiro had gotten to come a few years earlier it could’ve been real. I wish I could’ve seen something like that

Great job on this documentary, Clara and crew. So well done. And yeah, us Ms fans were probably unfairly mean to A-rod, but damn he sure was/is easy to hate. And we were there in King's Court, the 2012 night A-Rod broke his hand, and it was from an Felix Rodriguez pitch. That section was known for being especially loud, and gosh did we come unglued with unabashed giddy joy when he went down in pain, writhing and squirming. It was the day after Ichiro was traded unexpectedly to the Yankees, so our fan base was even more raw 🍖

"Perhaps I'm victim blaming..." Yes.

A-Rod won the beef. He has a ring, Mariners don't.

CONGRATULATIONS CLARA!!!

I’ve seen him play as a Ranger at Safeco, and saw him hit his 500th home run at the original Yankee Stadium against the Royals.

The parallels between A-Rod and how Russ Wilson left town are uncanny

Congratulations Clara!

Felix also plunked Jeter and Ichiro in the same game he broke A-Rod’s hand. It got a little rowdy in King’s Kourt that night.

Did i jus watch a secret base ad, while watching a secret base VIDEO🤯🤯🤯

Imagine if A-Rod and Griffey Jr stayed and played with Ichiro.

Congratulations Clara!!!!!!!

Congrats to Clara! I was wondering what she was so busy she couldnt finish the outro. Now I know

I was at the first game he came back to Seattle. Wild atmosphere.

I didn’t think I could like Arod less but him writing that letter to Boeing is insane

I have an A-Rod signed card from 2003 with a piece of jersey in it as well. It depicts him obviously in a Rangers uniform, but the jersey piece itself is from the Mariners.

Congrats to Clara! Hope everything is good with you :)

I'm still waiting on the sweet sweet beef of Chuck Lidell and Tito Ortiz

Nice work! How about Sol Campbell vs Tottenham for a future video?

'Centaur legs' is positively golden. I freaking love you humans.

3:58 Even in the 2000s, a Scott Boras disasterclass? How am I not shocked. Congrats on the baby, Clara!

Congrats on the baby Clara🎉

That said, A-Rod walked so Bryce Harper could run.

I got to go to his first game back in Seattle. Was a fun day.

Growing up in the northwest, I’ve noticed it seems like Seattle baseball fans like him but mariners fans hate him if that makes sense

T-Mobile sponsoring a Mariners themed beef history is deeply ironic because they have the naming rights to the Mariners’ park

T-Mobile sponsoring this video is fitting. I'm so glad it wasn't Starbucks!!

10:29 idk why but of all the beef related puns, pronouncing the plural as “beaves” like leaves made me chuckle

Wow you guys truly are big time with the T Mobile sponsor that's awesome. Get the bag

congrats clara !!

Great video. Bring back our Sonics!!!

I’m a Mariners fan, I’ve never known anybody to hate ARod.

Somewhat similar to how aldridge left portland, saying he wanted to be the greatest blazer ever, then signing with the spurs instead. Except he never won a ring, and he had a chance with that team in Portland.

My favorite moments of Arod are three. When I was very little, my brother and I used to play 2 person lawn baseball. My brother was always the Red Sox since we live in Maine. I was always Seattle, since Griffey played for the Mariners. I was like 8, and I thought Arod was Arod's first name, so I used to call him Arod Rodriguez, and when I was pretending to be him at bat, I hit lots of lawn baseball homeruns, so he temporarily became my 2nd favorite Seattle Mariner purely due to getting good luck when I pretended to be him during lawn baseball. My other 2 favorite Arod moments are the time he freaked out and tried to slap the ball out of a Boston pitcher's glove to avoid getting tagged out. Someone I know photoshopped a purse onto his arm and put in a speach bubble saying, "Don't touch my purse!" Then there's the photo of Varitek and Arod fighting and Varitek just has both hands on his face. Screw you Arod.

Gave this a like for the announcement at the end. Congratulations in advance/arrears (depending on if/when you see this)

Fun fact: in 2001 when the Mariners won game number 116 to tie the all-time record, the game ended with an Alex Rodriguez strikeout. I was there, I saw it with my own eyes. I don't truly hate A-Rod anymore. I sports-hate him. There's a difference. But 17-year old me in 2001? I hated him.

The lockout was not a “greed fest” any more than any other labor dispute.

congrats clara!

This is the A-Rod in Seattle. I was a Mets fan and he was my favorite player. Too bad he couldn't keep being this guy for the rest of his career. He had the ability to be the best position player of all-time.

It's pro sports it ain't no such thing as loyalty between teams & players. I felt A-rod did the right thing. How could you turn down that kind of money

"Perhaps I'm victim blaming" Yeah, you are. Not sure why.

Alright you got me I’ll rewatch the Dorktown

Sports are one of the only professions where people become anti-worker and pro-owner smh

Who is that guy embracing the player at the 10:05 mark? He looks like an elderly Egyptian.

Don't forget when Mariners designed Safeco field, they somehow decided to make it the most pitching friendly park in MLB. They finally moved the fence in 2013 and kinda admitted their "mistake". I remembered clearly ARod said in 2000: if you move the fence in, I might stay, but to no avail, of course. Oh, he also said, if Mariners win the World Series, I might stay.

It's not needlessly gendered. Seattle is female.

as a lifelong mariners fan, I was a tiny child when arod was here. I remember plenty of the names we loved, even ones I don't hear anymore, but arod even playing for us at all has been obliterated from my memory. all I can remember is that he is despised. like a torn up wedding photo lmao

Good to see Russell Wilson learned to not ask for absurd perks like an office for marketing team in order to not engender ill will with a new team.

Within 8 minutes of this video I've had 4 ad breaks,the same 2 ads. Jesus.

Congratulations on the baby Clara!

This is completely random but I just started listening to the mean book club podcast and realized that THAT Clara is the same as THIS Clara!

I love beef history