They are excited and delighted to be part of the Mariners and their involvement is just the start for us.

As the season has progressed we have seen crowd attendances increase dramatically to where we are averaging almost 9000 people per game and the fact that we finished third at the end of the home-and-away season provided great exposure and excitement for the fans for the final series.

We can't rest easy yet. Win or lose (today), we'll be back to work on Monday morning.

When the season launched we didn't have a naming rights sponsor. I suppose we didn't have a brand either, but as the season progressed the corporate sponsorship has been taken up.

The Internet is bringing a whole new kind of customer to bear. It would seem to us that many of those customers don't differentiate between daytime and nighttime.

When you start off like that, it's usually bad news for us.