The Seattle Mariners will be playing in a hometown stadium with a new name this season, and so will the team’s Class A affiliate up north. Funko, the Everett, Wash.-based makers of pop culture products, announced that Funko Field will be the newly named home for the Everett Aquasox minor league baseball team. Funko bought the naming rights for the next six years, and will add signage around the stadium and branding on ballpark staff uniforms. The Everett Herald newspaper reported that the deal will cost the company up to $1.1 million and required approval of the Everett School Board.… Read More
The Seattle Mariners have a bunch of new faces on the field, a new name on the stadium and an increasingly new way to get tickets to a game as the Major League Baseball franchise is following others in the move to mobile ticket technology. The Mariners announced a mobile-only ticket promotion on Friday called Ballpark Pass. The offering was tested in a limited run last season and this year will allow fans to get standing-room access to all home games at T-Mobile Park for $99 a month. The team is following other Seattle franchises, including the Seahawks and Sounders… Read More
When your team has the longest post-season drought in all of American professional sports, there is little news — short of getting into the playoffs — that will sound like good news. Such was the case for grumbling Seattle Mariners fans on Wednesday as a new name was announced for the ballpark where the team plays its home games. With splashy, magenta-infused artist renderings of the stadium once called Safeco Field, Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier T-Mobile confirmed that it would be taking over the naming rights for the next 25 years down at the intersections of First Avenue South, South… Read More
Mariners fans, meet magenta. Seattle’s pro baseball stadium will be named T-Mobile Park for the next 25 years after a new deal between the Mariners and the Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier announced Wednesday. For those asking, the T-Mobile magenta coloring will be visible only at night on lighting on front rotunda entrance and roof trusts. Inside of park will remain the same other than some small signage. pic.twitter.com/QHz8iiPYac — Greg Johns (@GregJohnsMLB) December 19, 2018 Earlier reports indicated that T-Mobile would take the naming rights from Safeco Insurance, which announced last year that its 20-year agreement would come to an… Read More
The Safeco Field signage came down from Seattle’s baseball stadium a week ago, and according to a new report, the T-Mobile name will be up in time for the 2019 season. Forbes reported Thursday that the Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier is the new naming rights partner with the Seattle Mariners. The report is based on anonymous sources who spoke on background. A Mariners spokesperson told GeekWire that there is no agreement yet. Safeco Insurance and the Mariners announced in June 2017 that their 20-year naming rights agreement would come to an end after the 2018 season. Forbes reported on a… Read More
