The M's need a smarter management team

As the team continues to occupy the bottom of the standings, it's time to look at who's at the top — of the decision-making tree, that is.

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Memo to the owners of the Mariners

In calling attention to some scathing advice for the team's ownership, penned by USS Mariner blogger and local author Derek Milhous Zumsteg, I'm giving short shrift to a very thoughtful, statistics-rich analysis of the poorly performing Seattle Mariners. But DMZ says what mainstream writers dare not, or at least in a way they would not, and it's worth highlighting the last three paragraphs of his assessment:

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The worst team in baseball might ask Ken Griffey Jr., 38, to do the impossible again: save the franchise

• Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Larry Stone on bringing back Junior: Nice idea, but potentially a letdown

• Seattle Times

Comcast's high-definition baseball asterisk

Those Comcast high-def customers who flipped to Mojo (Channel 664) Monday night, May 12, after Kenji Johjima smacked a game-tying, three-run homer in the 12th instead saw George C. Scott starring in The Exorcist III.

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The Mariners are scouting Ken Griffey Jr.

• Mariners Weblog (Seattle P-I)

Perhaps Oklahoma City would also be interested in a baseball team

OK, probably not — they already have a pretty good triple-A minor league team. So what the heck is going wrong at Safeco Field?

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Dave Boling on 30,000 empty seats: Sure, bring Junior back — as well as Edgar and Jay

• News Tribune (Tacoma)

Dave Cameron: The Mariners have five games to salvage an entire season

• USS Mariner

Maybe they just need some home cookin'

Maybe it's a lot worse than that. The Mariners finish a dismal 1-5 road trip.

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It doesn't look like WaMu Field is terribly likely, so ...

Some great alternative names for Safeco Field are turning up in the comments on Mike Henderson's recent blog post about the implications of the Seattle-based insurance company being swallowed by Liberty Mutual. Among the suggestions: Costco Park, Taxpayer Park, Starbucks Grounds, and a no-brainer: Boeing Field.

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The rationale for drinking before a Mariners game

• USS Mariner

The Mariners in the playoffs? What you might miss while obsessing over the Sonics

Intergalactic visitors, depending on their reference point, might view our old globe upside down. Upon closer inspection maybe they would see that the most viable country just now is in what we dismissively call the Southern Hemisphere. Brazil has no debt, plenty of oil, sustainable growth and — most promising of all — no New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox, much less the Los Angeles Angels and Seattle Mariners.

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According to Forbes, the Mariners are worth $466 million

• Forbes

The Mariners put ace Erik Bedard on the 15-day disabled list

• Seattle Times

Reveling in ex-M's failings

Baseball schadenfreude, the best thing since Monday-morning quarterbacking, is sort of an anti-national pastime. It means perusing the box scores and reveling in the otherwise lamentable performances of former members of the Seattle Mariners organization.

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M's win three-game series but lose it on injuries

The Seattle Mariners had a base to give during the third inning Sunday (April 13), what with Los Angeles Angels runners on second and third and two out. The not-so-angelic batter? It just had to be Bad Vlad Guerrero, aka, Nightmare on Brougham Street (looking even more horror-movie worthy this year with hair that would scare Javier Bardem).

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Sunday, ugly Sunday: Three of the five best Mariners are injured

• USS Mariner

Mariners update: six games, many questions

With six games elapsed, your 2-4 Seattle Mariners may have left you with more questions than answers, though, perhaps mercifully, they aren’t necessarily the questions and answers anybody expected.

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Ichiro enters a season that could span centuries

• New York Times