The Mariners announced yesterday that Manager John McLaren and General Manager Bill Bavasi will both be back next year. McLaren took over in mid-season, the team was 40-41 under his guidance. 2008 will be Bavasi's fourth year as Mariners GM. Out in blogland, they've been calling for McLaren's head since the M's went on a 15 of 17 losing jag, one of the biggest collapses by a contending team in baseball history. The main complaint:......

Things were going so well for Northwest native Harold Reynolds: he played twelve strong seasons at second base for the hometown nine, leading the league in stolen bases, triples, and at-bats in various years. In fact, he's the only guy to lead the league in steals in the 1980s other than Rickey Henderson. He was a two-time All-Star, and a Roberto Clemente award winner in 1991. After leaving the game in 1994, he signed up......

The Mariners released Carl Everett today, to overwhelming joy of the M's blogosphere. Better yet, they brought up Chris Snelling, the Job of the Mariners minor league system, whose string of awful injury luck began in this game. Carl, the well-known dinosaur denier, gave us some good times--he won two games with walk-off home runs, for one thing. He also served as the launching pad for a little tiff between us at Seattlest and the......