I want to see how many of these 30 some thousand people I can affect. The implications of this rather esoteric statement led me to believe Ron wasn't just referring to the ramifications of his vocal interpretation. He was talking about the Force. It's about coming together. Or perhaps, at this late stage, the Mariners' faithful had had a cosmic noseful of all the megalithic Star Wars hype.
People are strange.
It had been a long day, and I'd almost forgotten there was a baseball game going on. With the generous permission of a Kingdome PR staffer, I was allowed to follow the three Yoda impersonators down to the Mariners' dugout, where they would be asked to croak Jedi wisdom into the microphone in rapid succession before 35,625 people. As a group, we made our way down toward the field, past season ticket holders, under the harsh lights of the Dome. One Kingdome staffer was hauling a life-sized Yoda statue in his arms. Heads turned, and a couple unruly fans threw coins at us.