Seattle Sports Stuck In Inescapable Time Loop

This weekend, the Sounders lost at home again, and so did the Mariners. The UW softball team continued to be awesome. This trio of plotlines has repeated itself enough that it’s starting to feel like that movie Groundhog Day. As we see it, the only way out of this endless cycle is for Bill Murray to sleep with Andie MacDowell, at which time it will become February 3, 1993, and we will be forced to relive puberty.

In search of a better way forward, let’s look at what’s ahead for each of our teams, and hope that in some strange alternate flash-sideways universe, we’re not all dead already.

The one thing we can’t complain about is the Huskies, fresh off this weekend’s dramatic walk-off win in the NCAA regionals. Now they host the Oklahoma Sooners Thursday in a best-of-three Super regional series. It’s basically the Sweet Sixteen of softball, but “Super regional” has a nice ring to it.

Win there, and it’s on to the weekend’s Women’s College World Series in, incidentally, Oklahoma City. Should Danielle Lawrie & Co. beat the Sooners, they'll just have to avoid catching the same flight out to OKC for the next round. That would be awkwarrrd.

As for the Sounders, they welcome Boca Juniors in a non-MLS friendly Wednesday. According to SoundersFC.com, Boca are “Argentina's most popular club, as well as the most successful on the international front, with three world club championships and six Copa Libertadores (South America titles).” Well, shit, that should help our 266-minute home scoreless streak a ton.

Lastly, the Mariners regroup today and start a quick two-game set against Detroit tomorrow at Safeco Field. But on a serious note, the big news today is Milton Bradley, who after walking out in the middle of a game a few weeks ago has returned to the team, and opened up about his personal problems in what was the top story on ESPN.com for much of the day.

It’s an insightful article that reveals the depths of his struggles (including thoughts about suicide), and the lengths to which teammates and the organization have supported him. In a season during which so much has gone wrong for this team, pulling Bradley back from the brink could be one huge accomplishment unmeasured by stats or scoreboards.