As we were ducking out of yet another Garfield blowout loss to Franklin, we joked to our friends, "What if the Huskies and Seahawks lose too! That would sure suck." But the Huskies were only three point underdogs, and the Seahawks favored to beat lowly Arizona, so we laughed the laugh of a man who's about to go late to a dinner party. We were still laughing at halftime of the Husky game, having moseyed......

M's lefty reliever George Sherrill got shredded by Cubs hitters today in a brief relief appearance. Not only did he give up three runs, including a broken bat homer by Aramis Ramirez, even his outs were line drives. Sherrill's spring ERA is 13.00, opponents are hitting .452 against him. We've only seen him pitch this once, but this isn't a case of bad luck--he's legitimately tossing batting practice out there. The M's may have another......

The Mariners' player payroll will top $100 million in 2007. $111 million, to be more precise, an $18 million increase over last year. That's a lotta hot dogs. And, based on what this job applicant went through yesterday at Mariners HQ, the M's have instituted some severe cost-cutting measures. We pick up his story, reported on the Blue Moon's blog, after the receptionist handed him a job application."Can I borrow a pen?" I ask. "No,"......

When Dennis Green's Cardinals beat San Francisco on Sunday it gave the Seahawks the NFC West title, and with it a back door entrance into the playoffs. We would just like to take a moment to thank the Cardinals’ players and coaches for giving all Seahawk fans an early Christmas present. The title means that the blue and neon green will host either the Cowboys or the Eagles on the 6th or 7th. The Hawks......

Since day one we've said that being a Seattle sports fan is like sneaking up behind Kicky the Paranoid Mule. The past week has reminded us of this all too well. Let's look at the past seven days shall we? Saturday: The Huskies get their nuts smashed in by Gonzaga. Sunday: With a chance to be crowned division champions, the Seahawks lose to the last place Cardinals. Monday: The Mariners sign 36 year old Miguel......

The Mariners experienced baseball's happiest moment last night, a game winning walk-off home run. Carl Everett provided the heroics, crushing a ball off the facade of the leftfield upper deck (and almost into that KOMO glove thing) to give the Mariners a 9-6 win. Everett, a man who speaks with the brevity of a Hemingway aficionado, relived his homerun from the pitcher's perspective, "He tried to throw a slider in. It didn't get in."......

The game isn't good enough anymore. It's not good enough that on Sunday, in Maryland, 90 of the best athletes on the planet, guys who were the best player in the history of their high school, guys who if you tried to tackle them would run through you like you were a notion, guys who can run faster and jump higher and lift more than anyone you've ever known, will recklessly bash into each other......

The cardinals in Rome have let the white smoke fly and announced the new head of the Catholic Church today. The flock didn't have long to wait to find out whether the new pope would come in the form of a healer or a hard-ass, and the word is that he's a hard-ass dressed up as a healer. You don't even have to read the entire first sentence of the AP's report to feel......

Sounding more like a person leaving an unsatifying relationship than a football player joining a new team, former Seahawks DE Chike Okeafor specified why he chose to sign with the Arizona Cardinals in a press conference quoted in Thursday's P-I. "Over there (in Seattle) on a day-to-day basis I felt alone, not surrounded by enough people that thought like me, felt like me, played like me on a day-to-day basis and love the game......