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Don't Look Now, But Here Come The Mariners
Notes from a day in baseball ......
Ichiro Does Not Think Cleveland Rocks
If it's Monday, it must be time for Ichiro Suzuki Quote Theater. This week's entry concerns the Mariners' makeup game in Cleveland, and Ichiro's clear desire not to be there....
Creeping Fascism Update: Terror At The Ballpark
Be warned, rowdy baseball fans: If you act up at Seattle's Safeco Field, you're just liable to get a red card. Yep. Seattle Weekly is all over the story of the latest trend among Major League Baseball teams; cracking down on rude, loutish behavior in the stands (nothing yet on stifling Gary Sheffiel...
Ichiro Can Move Fly Balls With His Mind
We can never quite tell if Ichiro Suzuki has an imaginative translator, or if he's even battier than we thought he was. Either way, it's entertaining. This, from after he missed a fly ball the other day:...
Mariners Are Making Their Move; Moose Out Front Should've Told Ya
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Mariners 3, Yankees 2: Major League Baseball Regrets The Error
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Somedays, Being A Sports Fan Is No Fun At All
We find that the best way to truly appreciate how much fun and liberating being a sports fan can be is to remember the truly awful days, the days where everything goes wrong and falls apart, the times when you wonder why, exactly, you put yourself through all this. We used to call this "Days When Ja...
Mnookin: Another Crazed Night At Fenway
Last night, Fenway Park came alive once again, in that weird, psychotic way that only Fenway Park can come alive. Even though it turned out to be the King Felix show, it still had the feel of a historic night ... well, for April, anyway....
Ichiro Vs. Dice-K, Round One
Because we grew up in the middle of a cornfield surrounded by nothing but grain silos and chubby cows, the whole Boston Red Sox/New York Yankees madness sometimes escapes us. But even we can't ignore the inherent excitement of a Dice-K vs. Ichiro matchup tonight at Fenway Park....
Mike Hargrove Makes The Weather Work For The Mariners
Nothing officially happened in Cleveland yesterday. If you check the MLB record books, you'll see that Paul Byrd did not have a no hitter going through nearly five innings, he was not one pitch away from completing the abbreviated game, and Mariners manager Mike Hargrove did not manipulate the umpir...
Jay Buhner, Happy To Be Back Among The Boys
From With Leather yesterday: For the Seattle Mariners' home opener, they brought out some great names for Mariners lore. Making an appearance: Jay Buhner, who has been out of the game for a while and is perhaps confused how the whole "ass pat" thing works....
Your AL West "Preview"
All right, last one of the day until tomorrow ... we think this is actually the easiest division to pick, which is why, obviously, we're going to have it entirely wrong....
Ichiro's Super Happy Memory Challenge!
Via Seattlest and The Fanhouse, here's a video of some sort of "mind challenge" game show featuring the Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki. He seems to rather serious about the game, and, frankly, we're kind of intimidated, even though, obviously, we have no idea what he's saying....
Baseball Season Preview: Seattle Mariners
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
Ichiro's Rooting for the Bears Today
Seattle's just not good enough for him anymore. Ichiro had this to say recently to Sankei Sports, and it seems to indicate that he's none-too-thrilled with the way things are going in Seattle. Here, see for yourself:...
Ichiro Continues To Lose It A Bit
Ichiro Suzuki has been acting more erratically the last few years, we've noticed, coinciding almost directly with the Mariners' struggles the last few years. But in an interview Monday, Ichiro might have lost it a little while discussing the team's difficulties....
Not To Say He's Fragile Or Anything ...
Baseball Prospectus famously likes to proclaim that There Is No Such Thing As A Pitching Prospect; anything can happen to a young pitcher, from overuse to freak injury to lack of confidence to simple poor scouting. But it's one thing to not know if something bad is going to happen to a young pithc...
The Portrait Of Jamie Moyer
We're hardly big boosters of team public relations people in general, but we will say that we have enjoyed the promotional spots produced by the Seattle Mariners to re-energize fans on the flagging team. Highlights include various people doing Ichiro's bat-point thing out in their every day life, pl...
Your AL West "Preview"
You know, you wouldn't think it would be that hard to predict the winner of the AL West. Jeez, there are only four teams, after all. Yet we always get this division wrong: We always predict the A's at the wrong time. Which is probably not much solace to A's fans right now....