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.

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.

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

Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience.

One of these days I would give Pratt and Whitney back this engine and they could send it round airports as an advertisement, wearing a little brass plate reading This engine actually worked in this condition thus enabling Bill Cary to work in his condition. If you, too, are an idiot, P & W engines may save you from yourself.