Posted Thu, Jan 19, 4:50 p.m.

Hmmmmm... I don't get the ineffective suggestion that "hate" has anything to do with a fairly playful recollection of some memorable times from M's seasons past. Mike Henderson

Posted Sun, Oct 9, 7:39 a.m.

Great comments. The (sad) fact of the matter: Beltre's offensive nums dropped when he got to Seattle and went back up when he left. As for defense: Granted, 14 errors aren't appreciably more than 10 in a numerical sense. It does, however, constitute a 40 percent increase. If any of ...

Posted Thu, Jul 28, 7:01 p.m.

For what it's worth, MSNBC's Ed Schultz during his (normally-about-progressive-politics) syndicated radio program today (Friday, July 28), spoke at some length about being a Minnesota Vikings fan the past few years while having as frequent starting quarterback Tarvaris Jackson. The latter, acquired this week by the Seahawks, is, according to ...

Posted Mon, Jul 18, 5:01 p.m.

The M's certainly have the pitching to win 1-zip but probably not the hitting. Mike Henderson

Posted Mon, Jun 13, 2:13 p.m.

Thanks. Yeah, in fact Robertson ("Always be a good sport; be a good sport all ways.") spoke at the June 12 event, mentioning that he owes basically his entire adult life to Clay. mh

Posted Sun, May 29, 5:52 p.m.

Tim Eyman has asked me to note that the above piece is indeed satirical; so noted. One would've hoped that certain exaggerations might have sufficed. Evidently, though, my satire was not drawn broadly enough for some readers. It gets back to what the playwright George S. Kaufman said regarding the ...

Posted Sun, May 29, 12:35 p.m.

Thanks, John, but I only drink beer on the golf course and haven't accepted gratuities since I was a film-junket slut at the P-I during the '70s. Maybe all your worries could be addressed if, instead of your ineffectual "news council," all grievances pertaining to the press could simply (and ...

Posted Sat, May 28, 5:52 p.m.

Perhaps it's worth noting: The founders when contemplating the First Amendment were eminently aware that we all (with the possible exception of self-imagined news-council representatives) are eminently fallible as we toil in an imperfect world. The founders seem to have appreciated the notion that, were journalists to have to prove ...

Posted Tue, May 10, 2:56 p.m.

When I contemplate some of what, say, Mike Huckabee says he believes about, say, when the world began and realize that he leads in some polls for the Republican nomination for prez, far be it from me to criticize, say, Michael Young or John F. Kennedy for saying they believe ...

Posted Thu, May 5, 5:53 p.m.

It isn't a question of taking me seriously. I'm merely an observer. It's a question of management keeping, at all costs, outfielders Bradley, Saunders and Langerhans who, respectively (albeit, not respectably), hit through May 4 .213, .195 and .182, to say nothing ("nothing" is the key word) of harboring a ...

Posted Fri, Apr 15, 5:06 p.m.

Great posts, thanks. Perhaps M's brass will see some of your stuff and take it to heart (after our four years online M's execs have granted Crosscut access to the press box and for that we thank them). I still don't see any articulation of a compelling downside to trading ...

Posted Wed, Feb 23, 8:50 a.m.

A case could be made for William Henry Harrison, who apparently did nothing bad during the eternity of his month in office. As to the present survey, at least there didn't seem to be many votes for Presidents Franklin or Hamilton. --Mike Henderson

Posted Wed, Jan 19, 4:58 p.m.

Good stuff, Pete. Picked up the book on my e-reader last night and, were it not for curfew concerns, might've finished it in one session. Ron Reagan is a brilliant, funny guy capable of well-articulated righteous indignation. He had a piece in Salon a few months into the Iraq invasion ...

Posted Mon, Sep 13, 2:14 p.m.

We posted my Sept. 12 piece a few hours before the Rainiers got started. I noted Tacoma's finest in a post earlier last week. Thanks for reading. Mike Henderson

Posted Sun, Aug 15, 4:04 p.m.

Right on all counts, Jared and Rasc. Nice catches. The Hawks could use both of you at wide-out. Thanks. Mike Henderson

Posted Mon, Jun 8, 7:28 p.m.

The founders didn't indicate that media had to be something other than intransigent and irresponsible. The free-press guarantee exists so that no higher arbiter than journalists themselves can decide what gets published and circulated. Self-appointed arbiters such as your organization aren't described in the First Amendment. The amendment means we ...

Posted Mon, Jun 8, 5:40 p.m.

Loneliness would seem to be the natural social predicament of a "journalist" who launched an organization (largely and mercifully ignored for a decade now) intended to be insinuated between the lines of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. You lament the lack of press coverage of the event you ...

Posted Tue, Sep 30, 8:46 a.m.

Neu: Actually, it looks more like a weasel, possibly a Neu-Weasel. mh

Posted Wed, Jul 30, 1:57 p.m.

Sims quote: The seventh-inning Rossi commercial wasn't shown Wednesday (July 30) during the afternoon rebroadcast of the Tuesday Mariners game. A casino commercial aired instead. Seconds later the rebroadcast of the Rangers' half of the seventh started with a Rossi campaign poster on the screen and Sims, without qualifying the ...

Posted Wed, Jul 30, 9:21 a.m.

sorry.: Wasn't taping the TV broadcast. It rebroadcasts today (Wednesday, July 30) at noon, with the Sims seventh-inning remark probably airing at about 2 p.m. Mike Henderson

Posted Mon, Nov 26, 2:44 p.m.

RE: Yeah, saw it: I did see Steve Kelley's observation about Hasselbeck. It immediately reminded me of a long-time N.F.L. quarterback of my acquaintance. One time after he retired I asked him (naively, I freely admit) if he'd suffered much injury during his career. What seemed like about a half ...

Posted Mon, Oct 29, 9:46 a.m.

Elysian football fields (and basketball courts): The reference was to the nearly ceaseless discussion the past three-plus decades about the apparently endless need for new or renovated sports facilities: Kingdome is built; Sonics leave Seattle Center to play at the Kingdome; Sonics return; Jeff Smulyan threatens to move M's; Bubba ...

Posted Tue, Sep 25, 5:15 p.m.

Seneca?: Maybe more to the point: Why can't the guy who may be their most elusive runner play? Seneca Wallace, anybody?

Posted Mon, Sep 24, 6:17 p.m.

RE: Breaks: Yeah, it was a completion, but adjudicating it via replay would've meant the refs all would have missed their flights.