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First, hitting coach Jeff Pentland was fired, then General Manager Bill Bavasi was shown the door, and yesterday it was John McLaren's turn to up the state's unemployment rate.

The Seattle Times is reporting that Mariner Manager John McLaren has been fired and replaced with bench coach Jim Riggleman.

• Gothamist was shocked when someone scaled the 52-story New York Times building's exterior on Thursday. And then Gothamist was shocked again when a second person scaled the building six hours later.

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"We're playing our (BODY PART) off every day and got nothing to show for it. I'm tired of (VERB ENDING IN -ING) losing, I'm tired of getting my (NOUN) beat, and so have those guys. We gotta change this (NOUN) around and get after it. And only we can do it. The fans are (ADJECTIVE) off, and I'm (ADJECTIVE) off and the players are (ADJECTIVE FOR USELESS) off. And that's the way it is...I'm tired of (NAME OF PERSON IN ROOM) losing this...every night we bust our (SLANG TERM FOR HAQ JUROR). It's gotta be a total team (VERB ENDING IN -ING) effort to turn this thing around, and that's it."

The Mariners announced yesterday that Manager John McLaren and General Manager Bill Bavasi will both be back next year.

Well, that was spectacular. From the heady days of August 25th, when the M's were three up in the wild card and only one back in the division, had won two straight in Texas, when we were all excited about Blue-za-palooza or whatever the fuck it was...to now, after 11 losses in 12 games, when we're all pretty much in wait 'till next year mode.

Your Seattle Mariners played their biggest series in four seasons this week. With a chance to overtake the first place Angels if they could win three games, the Mariners won zero games.

Both the Mariners and the Sounders are in second place in their respective divisions, and both played the teams ahead of them last night.

KOMO-1000 is reporting that today's game will be Mike Hargrove's last as Mariner manager. John McLaren will take over on a permanent basis.