As our friend pointed out, between the weather, the Mariners, and The Love Guru, 2008 could go down as the worst summer in history. The Seattle Times took a big poop-poop all over everyone's lives by reporting that the cooler than normal temperatures could be with us through July. We understand that not all of you prefer blue skies and warm temperature, so enjoy this, it's your time. As for the rest of us,......

When Semisonic's Feeling Strangely Fine came out in 1998, Seattlest was 18 years old and leaving the crushing open spaces of Wyoming for good. We liked the album then, but it wasn't until a year later -- this time leaving Phoenix, Arizona for good -- that we really fell in love with it. We were by ourselves, pulling a U-Haul trailer behind our '76 El Camino, and we were on our way to Washington state......

In this week's Stranger, Franklin grad Brendan Kiley remembers getting hit on by Allen Ginsberg at a 1994 reading. Here's a fact that not many people could tell you--Dan Wilson's first career home run came on the same night. Seattlest was out in Pioneer Square that night, too. Of course, if you know anything about Seattlest, you know we were at the Mariners game. But we did make it back to the reading in time......

As the Mariners continue to stagger through the second week of the season our optimism following the 3-1 start has dropped a bit, okay a huge bit. We may need to take a break tonight since we have spent the last few games with our head in our hands. Tomorrow night Felix pitches, which is always fun to watch, and Friday night there is an interesting pitching match up (at least until the game begins)......

We don't know what the most scarring experience of your early 20s was-- a disastrous relationship, a lengthy illness, a deep body massage from these guys--but ours was suffering through the late innings of each and every 1997 Seattle Mariners game, as the washouts and has-beens the team collected for its bullpen found new and inventive methods of losing games. So, thank you, today's Seattle Times, for dredging up those memories and tempting us to......

All-time catchingest Mariners catcher Dan Wilson announced yesterday that he will retire--but not before he attempts to don the tools of ignorance one final time. It's more reminiscent of the Japanese retirement ceremony than anything we typically see in American baseball, but Wilson, who has missed most of this year with a knee injury, will try to play at least one last inning in the Mariners' final series of the year. In 12 seasons as......

When an athlete promotes a charitiable cause, clichè-happy commentators will often aver that the player is an "All-Star on and off the field." On the field, Mariner backup catcher Dan Wilson is not an All-Star. When he is on the field, which these days is rare, he's usually flying out to rightfield or grounding into a double play. This is why, for most of his career, Seattlest has referred to him as Dan "Rally-Killer"......