The Seattle Parks and Recreation Department is considering a ban of beach fires at Alki and Golden Gardens parks — not this year, as first announced, but next year — stating that beach fires contribute to global warming.
If the parks staff is really concerned about global warming, perhaps they will also recommend no fires in the barbecue pits at Woodland, Lincoln, Carkeek, and other parks throughout our city. Or perhaps they will cease using the large leaf-blowers at Golden Gardens, which blows sand off the sidewalk and parking lot, or stop driving around Discovery Park in large trucks. In fact, there are dozens of things the parks staff themselves can do to reduce the carbon footprint.
In observing Richie Sexson's new foot-in-the-bucket batting stance during the Seattle Mariners' 2-1 loss to the Red Sox in Boston Sunday, June 8, certain local scribes might've harked back to February 2006. 'Twas then, during the team's annual media-indoctrination morning that precedes spring training, when a featured questionee was new batting coach Jeff Pentland. The droll Arizonan was on stage with manager Mike Hargrove and, among others, Jeremy Reed, who at the time was the emerging star center-fielder of the organization.
Since that day, Reed has spent much of his career either injured or in Tacoma, possibly a redundancy. Pentland has piddled around with the batting (Dave Niehaus calls it "hitting," but there's a significant difference) approaches of a number of the M's. Through it all, for the series finale against the defending world champs, the M's sent out a lineup featuring the following: Adrian Beltre, hitting .234 to start the day, Reed (.243), Sexson (.209), Jamie Burke (.211), and Willie Bloomquist (.158). For the loss the day before, they'd used Jose Vidro (.220), Miguel Cairo (.218), Kenji Johjima (.218), and Vladimir Balentien (.194). That's nine of the team's 13 position players.
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