Ichi-roast

This baseball offseason, rumors have abounded that the Mariners' best player, Ichiro, is unhappy about the teams' losing ways (who isn't?) The New York Post even reported that he may want to be traded.

In an interview with a Japanese newspaper last week, partially translated in today's Seattle P-I, Ichiro for the first time named specific reasons for his discontent:

--He was upset to see his teammates playing cards so frequently, and was dismayed that no coach or veteran scolded them for doing so.

--Midway through the season, he felt as though his teammates had given up on the rest of the year.

The comments are flying fast and furious over at U.S.S. Mariner.