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New leadership, new hopes. And how about some smart decisions on some key issues?
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Seattle's boys of bummer
Posted Thu, Sep 11, 2 p.m.
The Mariners are now one of the worst teams in the major leagues. Here's what it will take to turn around the franchise, in terms of management and roster.
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A bipartisan mayor who's fond of prayer
Posted Thu, Aug 28, 3 a.m.
Dave Edler of Yakima is an unusual politician in a bastion of conservatism.
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Our balls on ice
Posted Wed, Jul 30, 5 p.m.
Has the last Seattleite with local pride turned out the lights? A recent trip to Safeco Field makes me wonder.
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The Mariners curse
Posted Mon, Jun 23, 8 p.m.
Felix Hernandez is injured in a grand-slam game, the first salami by an American League pitcher since 1971. Can this season get any worse? Yes.
READ MORE COMMENT NOWThe Mariners are in the hunt for an all-league 81-81 season
Posted Sun, May 18, 7 p.m.
So pervades mediocrity in the American League that the M's could be contenders. They head east now to face underachievers Detroit and New York.
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The M's need a smarter management team
Posted Thu, May 15, noon
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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Perhaps Oklahoma City would also be interested in a baseball team
Posted Sun, May 11, 10 p.m.
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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Maybe they just need some home cookin'
Posted Sun, May 4, 5 p.m.
Maybe it's a lot worse than that. The Mariners finish a dismal 1-5 road trip.
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Conspicuous Seattle
Posted Wed, Apr 2, 5 a.m.
A town of modest pleasures has become a city of cringe-inducing excess, even in the little things like coffee, booze, and movie tickets.
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The Mariners in the playoffs this year: a big if
Posted Sun, Mar 30, 5 a.m.
A promising roster means the playoffs are within the realm of possibility, unless individually, the players don't play — or aren't positioned to play — to their strengths.
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Report from spring training: The grass is very, very green
Posted Fri, Feb 29, midnight
The Mariners are 0-0 in the Cactus League, where hard-core fans await today's opening game of the short but sweet spring season.
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2007 in review: 10 to remember from the wide world of sports
Posted Wed, Dec 26, 1 a.m.
It was come and go time for sports stars, coaches and of course, a whole team.
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Posted Wed, Sep 19, 9 p.m.
With an 81st victory but a playoff berth not likely, it's time to settle into the stress-free Seattle routine of appreciating individual achievement during the last days of baseball season.
READ MORE COMMENT NOWThe Seahawks win their season opener in pre-season fashion
Posted Sun, Sep 9, 6 p.m.
The players, the coach, the fans, the scribes – everyone at Qwest Field seemed a little out of sorts.
READ MORE COMMENT NOWYankee Stadium, home of the umpires
Posted Wed, Sep 5, 8 p.m.
A couple of bad calls preceded the unraveling of the Mariners in New York, where they lost a series 2-1. Heading to Detroit, they trail the Yankees in the wild-card race for the playoffs by three games.
READ MORE 2 COMMENTSPlayoff-like atmosphere, maybe, but not playoff-like play
Posted Mon, Aug 27, 9 a.m.
The Seattle Mariners enter a crucial three-game series against the Los Angeles Angels after a mediocre road trip and signs that it's all Ichiro.
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All things are still possible at Seattle sports venues
Posted Mon, Aug 20, 10 a.m.
The Mariners haven't been eliminated, the Storm and Sounders are headed for the playoffs, football season hasn't begun. Time to put your money down.
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M's, their fans, and the media are bullish on their postseason prospects, but it may just be bull
Posted Mon, Aug 13, 5 a.m.
It's a growth industry in Seattle: Everyone's watching the Mariners count their way down to what they hope will be their first postseason appearance in six years. But the bears are lurking.
READ MORE 5 COMMENTSManager John McLaren hones his ballclub for a run at October
Posted Thu, Aug 2, 5 p.m.
Seattle Mariners general manager Bill Bavasi didn't do anything at the trade deadline, and that's a good thing. Meanwhile, the lineup is fine-tuned.
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The 100-loss Mariners can thank their pitchers
Posted Thu, Sep 25, 10:12 a.m. 2008
In the aftermath of their 100th loss Wednesday night, Sept. 24, many of the Seattle Mariners players were about as talkative as the Republican (or "GOP," as we seem to prefer here in Washington) veep nominee, Vanna White.
MOREThe Seahawks ruin a perfect record
Posted Mon, Sep 22, 6:43 a.m. 2008
Look at it this way: If Seattle had lost its National Football League game to St. Louis Sunday, Sept. 21, it would have meant that the combined late-summer losing streak of the Seahawks, the Mariners, and the University of Washington football team would have reached 17: 0-11 for the M's, 0-3 for the Huskies, and 0-3 for the Hawks.
So it's something of a civic triumph that the Seahawks didn't fail local fans, flattening the Rams 37-13, bumping the recent male-sport loss-win number to 1-16. Throw in a Seattle Storm Sunday-night 64-50 playoff win against the Los Angeles Sparks and the town is on something of a sports roll.
MOREIchiro: As fast as Wikipedia
Posted Thu, Sep 18, 8:19 a.m. 2008
It's unclear whether it's more impressive that William Henry "Wee Willie" Keeler's century-long record was matched, as it was by Ichiro Suzuki Wednesday, Sept. 17, or the fact that Wikipedia noted the feat even before the 5-2 Seattle Mariners road loss to the Kansas City Royals was final.
MOREThe best — and only — good thing about the M's
Posted Fri, Aug 22, 1 p.m. 2008
By Friday morning (August 22), most of the big questions had been answered. Barack Obama had picked, but not yet announced, his running mate, and John McCain had gone home (it was anyone's guess as to which home) to contemplate his.
MOREThe parade of foolishness
Posted Sat, Aug 2, 6:38 a.m. 2008
We're into August, which can be a dazzling month in the Northwest, with many things to enjoy and be thankful for: brilliant sunsets, fresh air, sparkling forests and water, music and arts festivals in places large and small, and, not least, an economy that is comparatively stronger than the rest of the country's. But concerns and irritations conspire to break the spell.
MOREKeith Olbermann they're not
Posted Wed, Jul 30, 8:24 a.m. 2008
The tradition among game announcers for the Seattle Mariners and other teams is that the voices from the booth will flack any sponsor products or services called for by the script. Game-callers are particularly loyal, of course, to team-supporting sponsors. Evidently, this message loyalty now extends to political pitches.
MOREThe good, the bad, and the vexing
Posted Mon, Jul 28, 3:14 p.m. 2008
Here are start-of-week cheers and Bronx cheers. First, the good stuff: Dave Niehaus in the Baseball Hall of Fame and justice at Fort Lawton.
MOREThe trade-bait show
Posted Sun, Jul 27, 6:02 p.m. 2008
The perverse (some would say "reverse") logic among non-pennant-contenders, as the Seattle Mariners have been since about early April, may have never been better demonstrated than on Sunday, July 27. Three of the M's oft-mentioned trade-bait guys had stellar games. Those who are unfamiliar with the work of Lewis Carroll would then probably say: "Great! Let's keep 'em!" Instead, as I write this the day of the game, they're as good as gone, probably to New York.
MORERoot, root, root for the away teams
Posted Sun, Jul 20, 7:44 p.m. 2008
One of the remaining attractions as the Seattle Mariners run the season into the ground is the chance to see genuine Northwest heroes perform well. Unfortunately, they play for other teams.
MOREThe Mariners cut a $15.5 million man
Posted Thu, Jul 10, 5:24 p.m. 2008
Richie Sexson during recent months had seemed about as welcome at Safeco Field as Pat O'Day at a frat kegger. The next time (if there is one) he shows up at the Safe, it will be in a different uniform, if not street clothes. The Seattle Mariners finally gave up on the one-time slugger Thursday, July 10, before a series finale at Oakland. The incredible shrinking Big Richie had spent much of the past two seasons hitting in the low-.200 range, kicking up Elliott Bay waves with his persistent whiffing at the plate. M's personnel acknowledged after the deed was done that it had been just a matter of time before team officials felt comfortable eating the remainder of the $15.5 million the southern Washington resident was owed this season.
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