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the dark side of the locker room
Being a sports reporter is, at times, an absolutely horrible job. Sure you get to watch games, travel and interact with athletes, but there is a horrendous downside. (Which is pretty much everything else.) And this is never more disturbingly clear than when a reporter has their first (or 50th) awful experience with a half-naked, exhausted athlete. Sometimes they'll be openly dismissive, sometimes they'll yell, and sometimes, well, they'll fart in your face. Most of these stories never end up in the newspaper the next day. So now, Deadspin proudly presents "The Dark Side of the Locker Room" where current and former sports writers can share some of their most distressing interactions. If you've got your own story to share, please send it along to ajd@deadspin.com.
Today, Luke Burbank, the host of "Too Beautiful To Live" on 710 KIRO in Seattle, tells the tale of his career-changing run-in with Lou Piniella and the 1996 Seattle Mariners.
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baseball season preview
For the third consecutive season, we are proud to introduce the Deadspin Baseball Season Previews. Yes, baseball is awfully close now; it's spring training, after all.
Every weekday until the start of the season, a different writer will preview his/her team. We asked a gaggle of writers, from the Web, from print, from books, to tell us, in as many or as little words as they need, Where Their Team Stands. This is not meant to be factual, or dispassionate, or even logical: We just asked them to riff on why they love their team so much, or what their team means to them, or whatever.
Today: The Seattle Mariners. Your author is Seth Kolloen.
Seth Kolloen is Executive Editor of Sports Northwest Magazine and blogs at EnjoyTheEnjoyment.com. As a boy he slept with a poster of Jim Presley above his bed, which may explain his eventual inability to hit curveballs.
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When you're a veteran pitcher, and you're still mistaken for David Wells, then buddy, it's high time you go on a diet. But shaving the Jamie Hyneman goatee might not hurt either. [MLB.com]
huge bobbleheads
Ever wanted a six-foot doll of Raul Ibanez? Well, boy howdy, this could be your lucky day. As long as you have four figures to spend.
The Mariners are auctioning off life-sized — bigger than life-sized, actually — bobblehead dolls of Ibanez, Kenji Johjima, Felix Hernandez and Ichiro Suzuki. Bidding begins at $2,500 on the Mariners' home page.
Just for the sake of discussion — and to help you with your decision whether or not to buy — if you were to purchase a Real Doll, it could cost you $6,500. So this thing could pay for itself!
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(By the way ... commence "they need a Rick Ankiel lifesize bobblehead for Leitch ... NOW.)
In case you were still full of bloodlust for Mariner Moose, who famously took out Coco Crisp with a four-wheeler over the weekend, perhaps this video will be a balm for your murderous rage. The Moose didn't just come out of nowhere. Can forgiveness be found for one clumsy Moose? We hope so.
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