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Hit Strip Club, Win Lap Dance

Ben Cohen — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:30:00 EDT

It's a good thing the Seattle Post-Intelligencer didn't completely shutter its operations when it stopped the presses, or else there would be only one story about the construction of a strip club by Safeco Field. And who said newspapers weren't egalitarian?

On Friday, a judge approved the opening of a strip club "within a home run's distance" of Seattle's baseball stadium, an asset that might have kept Alex Rodriguez from bolting to Texas all those years ago. The plan is to construct — no, not erect, a word that is shockingly absent from both stories— a 5,000 square-foot facility, complete with a juice bar to compensate for the lack of alcohol or food. There will be a "main floor and two mezzanine levels" with "women dancing nude on stages, as well as lap dances in which nudity is not allowed."

So that's sort of fun — but not as enjoyable as the ledes of the two news stories. The Seattle Times' opening was a demure play on words: "'Ripping the cover off' might apply to something other than a baseball in the area of Safeco Field." Not bad.

But the Seattle P-I, now an online-only establishment, went where its print counterpart would not.

Ah, baseball.

America's pastime. Cracker Jack. Cold beer. Hot dogs.

And body glitter?

That's the upshot of a decision issued Friday by a King County Superior Court judge, who cleared the way for a proposed Déjà Vu strip club — adult cabaret in the court's parlance — near Safeco Field.

Stripper's pole meets foul pole.

Long live freedom of the press.

Judge OKs plan to open up strip club near Safeco Field [Seattle Times]
Take me out to the strip club? Judge says play ball [Seattle P-I]

Seahawks Fan Just Can't Catch A Break

Rick Chandler — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:30:52 EST

Seriously, what else could go wrong for this guy in the blue Seahawks hat? Seattle sports squads are terrible at every level, and now ... this. He's just having a bad day. Gotta hand it to the two gents on the left who know just how to rub it in with this protester. All were part of the big Prop. 8 march in Seattle on Saturday, with more than 6,000 people demonstrating and anti-demonstrating for/against the California proposition banning gay marriage. Ha. I love this photo.

Thanks to Sports Northwest for the tip, and to The Stranger for the photo. And to Seattle for taking California's thorniest election issue so close to its bosom.

Undeterred, the Seahawks fan marched on in his never-ending battle against gayness. Where does one find yellow work gloves, by the way?

And Then There Were These People ... [The Stranger]
Just A Bad Weekend All Around For This Guy [Sports Northwest]

Seattle Is Hooked On Phonics

Leitch — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:00:16 EDT

Forgive us, considering this post is pretty tenuously related to sports, but ... we were in Seattle last week for sports, so maybe that counts. Maybe.

Anyway, Seattle has a new trolley (or streetcar, or whatever), and it has a rather unfortunate acronym.

Officially it's the South Lake Union Streetcar, but people in the Cascade neighborhood who are fed up with construction noise and detours have come up with a name that's a little more provocative.
Instead of a streetcar, they're using the word trolley, and also the acronym "SLUT."

Again, no sports angle, but ... well, you could also take the SLUT to the Seahawks game. We love it when Mariner Moose rides the SLUT.

Seattle Trolley Line Has Acronym SLUT [KTVB]