This afternoon, the Seattle Times reported on a Center for Disease Control study which found that, in Washington State, more than 6 percent of elementary schoolers have not been vaccinated, due to parental exemption. According to the Times, this is the highest rate in the country. However, the Times glossed over kind of a lot. Which vaccinations were most often ducked? How many kids in each state were surveyed? What were the reasons for exempting? We were curious, but the Times didn't link to the study. So we had to go find it ourselves. more ›

What kind of bullshit is this? Maxim magazine ranks the worst managers in baseball and orders Dusty Baker the worst, Ron Gardenhire the second worst and our own Mike Hargrove the third worst. C'mon, Gardenhire is a way better manager than Hargrove. Mike should be at least second and we could even forgive the voting panel for favoring him with a few first place votes over Baker. With a lineup featuring the decaying corpse of Sexson, the crusty shell of Beltre, Ichiro and...uh... With a lineup featuring Sexson, Beltre and Ichiro Hargrove has backhoed the Mariners into a grudge match for last place with the Angels and a 15-21 record. If things continue on this way, and there hasn't been a lot to indicate that they won't, .500 is going to start waving hankies and calling out "bon voyage" at the Mariners because this could be the closest they'll get for awhile. Like sometime in 2007 a while. They're seriously one more injury to a key mediocre player who's been playing beneath himself away from dipping down into Kansas City Royals territory in the ESPN Power Rankings. more ›