He's not the cultural Molotov cocktail his VP opponent is, but he's probably talked to Barack Obama, like, dozens of times, so, OMG a guy who knows Obama was in Tacoma this weekend! This photo is courtesy of grundlepuck, and he's got a few more of the Joe Biden/Cheney Stadium event worth checking out in the Seattlest Flickr Pool. more ›

On Saturday the Mariners blew a ninth inning lead to lose to the Atlanta Braves in Atlanta. The loss was disappointing to many, but shocking to few; the team with the worst record in baseball often finds ways to lose games in the ninth. On Saturday Seattlest drove south (not 35 hours south) to watch a baseball game and the team we watched also lost, 4-2. more ›

The Mariners roster is almost set. Jose Lopez won the second base job, as expected. Longshot bench aspirant Roberto Petagine made the team with a hot spring. more ›

The Tacoma Rainiers' season is in full swing. Currently they sport a moderately respectable record of 17-20 and are in third place, five games out of first, out of their division’s five teams. Salt Lake leads the pack with a 21-14 record. As Seattlest reported on April 13th, the Rainiers’ hometown arena, Cheney Stadium, still has the feeling of authentic, pre-steroid baseball. However, Seattlest just learned that one of its classic features is, as we write, being replaced and upgraded. All the wooden stadium seats, which not only have been in the stadium since it was built, but date back to their first game in the San Francisco Seals stadium back in 1931, are being given the old heave ho. During their prosperous lifetime, the seats have supported the sweaty bottoms of fans of the Seals, the San Francisco Missions, and for two years their only major league team, the San Francisco Giants. Upon the completion of Candlestick Park and the Giants’ move there in 1960, Tacoma snapped up the seats and installed them in the newly built Cheney Stadium. 35 years later, plastics, as presciently predicted by Mr. McGuire to the young Ben Braddock, have taken over, as this is the year that the wooden seats of old are being replaced with their plastic counterparts. After 74 consecutive seasons of baseball, you may be wonering where their next destination might be? Well, my friend, the answer is the homes of dedicated Rainers’ fans the world over, and that may well include you. They’re going for $75 a pop with quantity discounts. more ›

Seattlest loves the Mariners. And Seattlest loves Safeco Field. That being said, there’s nothing like the smaller game of minor league baseball. Fortunately, our neighbors to the south in Tacoma boast the Rainiers, the only team to continuously play in the Pacific Coast League since 1960 (plus a brief stay in the league back in 1904-1905). Over their 45 years the Tacoma Rainiers have shared affiliations with seven major league teams including their current partnership with our beloved Mariners. The Rainiers field is in the barebones and classically unpretentious Cheney Stadium, erected back in 1957 in a mere 14 days. There is no instant replay or computerized hydroplane race, the wooden seats are all original, you’re guaranteed to be close enough to risk a foul ball clocking you in the nose, and the outfield lights remind you of the old days. more ›