Carl Everett Now Available For Paleontological Research

The Mariners released Carl Everett today, to overwhelming joy of the M's blogosphere. Better yet, they brought up Chris Snelling, the Job of the Mariners minor league system, whose string of awful injury luck began in this game.

Carl, the well-known dinosaur denier, gave us some good times--he won two games with walk-off home runs, for one thing.

He also served as the launching pad for a little tiff between us at Seattlest and the lovely folks at Slog, wherein we called them snobs and they called us racist.

Good memories. But Everett was hitting only .227--pretty much swinging for the fences with every cut, which resulted in 11 home runs, third on the team. Expect some kvetching from "old school" baseball types like Joe Morgan about this move. "The guy's third on the team in homers!" Nonsense.

Snelling will presumably DH against righties, with Eduardo Perez getting the call against lefties. Look for spot starts (and fast-beating M's fan hearts) from the oft-injured Snelling in leftfield, a role that Hargrove put Everett in last week, which was either a cry for a help or yet more proof of the man's incipient madness.

M's face Toronto tonight at 7:05.