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A crowd of 51,903, the biggest of the year and fourth-largest in team history, filled the Kingdome one night after Tom Paciorek had hit a walk-off homer. And Paciorek did it again! In the ninth inning, he blasted a two-out, three-run blast over the leftfield fall to win the game for the M's. The Yankees, stunned by the sudden reversal, went on to lose the World Series. box]

Ken Griffey, Jr.,'s 400th homer as a Mariner gave the M's the lead, and Ichiro's grand salami broke it open. (Welcome back, Ich!) The homer was Ichiro's 3,085th hit between the Japanese and U.S. leagues, tying him for the most by a Japanese player. Jarrod Washburn gets the win, the 100th of his career--all these milestones!--with a six-inning, two-run performance. The only bad news: Kenji Johjima left the game with hamstring tightness in the fourth. Next game: Tomorrow vs. Angels at 7:10 p.m., Chris Jakubauskas (replacing the injured Ryan Rowland-Smith) vs. Joe Saunders.

In the history of Seattle odysseys, this one ranks right up there with Citizen Dick's tour of Belgium: Your Seattle Mariners played their first seven games on the road, and come back to our chilly environs in first place with five wins, as many as any team in major league baseball. This all without Ichiro, the team's best player, who missed week one recovering from a bleeding ulcer.

Ken Griffey, Jr.'s fifth-inning homer yesterday was his eighth on opening day, tying him with Frank Robinson for the most opening day four-baggers in history. Here's how it happened:

With the Seattle Mariners playing the first of 162 games today, season predictions are the order of the day. We've heard Seattlest David's take, now let's take a hop around the interwebs and see what people are saying:
• "This is a mediocre team, but a mediocre team in a mediocre division is a mediocre team with a prayer. If you're going to dream, dream big, motherf***ers."--Jeff Sullivan, Lookout Landing
• "The Mariners under Wakamatsu are trying to transition into a different team. All spring, they’ve run with abandon, hit-and-run, squeezed, bunted and manufactured runs with a little-ball attack at the front and back of their batting order. Wakamatsu is quite willing to let his boppers bop, but he wants everyone to do the simple things Seattle teams haven’t done well in years."--Larry LaRue, Tacoma News-Tribune
• "They have obvious limitations in the present, but they have grand dreams for the future. They're kind of stuck in time right now. Yesterday was awful. Tomorrow looks promising. Today is some strange hybrid of both. It's a good season to sit back and let the moment carry you wherever it wishes."--Jerry Brewer, Seattle Times

Seth Kolloen just reminded us that Ken Griffey Jr. reappears in a Mariners game for the first time tonight when the M's play an exhibition against the Australian National Team. The game begins at 6:05 p.m., and you can watch it live on FSN.

First, check your smoke detector. The Bellevue woman who died in last night's fire had her smoke detector battery in backwards. Next, check with your supervisor: Boeing workers get their pink slips today. That's another 1,100 people who won't be working or shopping much, exacerbating Washington State's projected $8 billion budget shortfall. Check your credit limit, too. Do you really think it' a good idea to be buy all that new Ken Griffey merch?

As of just a few minutes ago, KIRO TV is reporting that Ken Griffey, Jr., has decided on Seattle. We're a little gunshy until we hear it from Junior's mouth, but Atlanta station WSB has "said two of its sources confirmed that Griffey will come back to the Mariners, where he spent the first 11 years of his major league career."

We don't know yet if Griffey will come back to Seattle, and Army officials are still figuring out why the 16-year-old civilian girl found dead at Ft. Lewis was there at 3 a.m. Sunday. But this much we know is true: Bachelor Jason jilted Jillian because he wants a lover, not a best friend.

As the MLB trade deadline passed this afternoon, Seattlest was warmed by the cozy, reassuring feeling we get this time of year when the Mariners steadfastly refuse to buckle under pressure (logic?) and break up our boys of summer via trade. Doing nothing trade-wise has become a summertime tradition here dating back to the "Stand Pat" era of Pat Gillick right on through to today. (Sorry, Arthur Rhodes for a case of Vanilla Ice CDs doesn't count.) It's as 'Seattle' as SeaFair and Ivar's. But we predicted all of this weeks ago. PS: Apparently Junior never loved us after all, opting to be traded to the playoff contending WhiteSox rather than returning 'home'.

Mariner fans spent last night drinking champagne, and toasting Dave Niehaus’ selection to the Hall of Fame.

Position 3 is the most anticipated city council race. It's an open seat, and that seems to be the only way to get new blood on the council.

In an interview that will air tonight after the M's game, Ken Griffey, Jr. tells FSN that he wants to retire as a Mariner:

Would I [come back]? Yeah. For the simple reason that this is the place where I grew up. And I think I owe it to the people of Seattle and to myself to retire as a Mariner.

All will be right with the world on Friday night when Ken Griffey Jr. steps into a Seattle batter's box. Mariners fans with any amount of brain will be on their feet pounding their hands together a-smiling like the Joker, except us. We will be missing the moment that we’ve been waiting for since 2000 because of our friend’s wedding--we are doing a great deal of breathing into a paper bag this week.

News from a day where we spent hours looking for a two-cent stamp.

Ken Griffey Jr.'s 596th career home run yesterday tied him with Rafael Palmiero for 9th on the official career home run list.

The two winningest Mariner pitchers ever, Jamie Moyer and Randy Johnson, start against each other today. Moyer had 145 wins as a Mariner, Johnson had 130. Combined, the two pitched 3932 innings as Mariners.

Yesterday Ken Griffey Jr hit his 564th career home run, passing Reggie Jackson to take sole possession of tenth place on the all time home run list. This makes Seattlest very happy.

--Local author John Moe discovers that lying to your child=entertaining blog post.

It was the spring of 1989, and Ken Griffey Jr., a 19-year-old with 61 at bats above A-ball, embarrassed Cactus League pitchers and made the Mariners.

Last year Eddie Guardado had a terrible April and lost the M's closer job to J.J. Putz. He thought Mike Hargrove would give him a chance to win his job back, but, in his mind, he didn't get that chance. And he's not happy.

From ESPN.com:

Ken Griffey Jr. broke his left hand in an accident at home, the latest in a series of injuries that have derailed the career of the All-Star outfielder.

Continue reading "June Comes Early: Griffey Hurts Himself. (But He Won't Say How)"

A Dallas police report indicates that Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens tried to kill himself last night.

With his fifth-inning home run today, former Mariner Ken Griffey, Jr. left a couple of Yankee greats in his rear-view mirror.

After M's centerfielder Jeremy Reed hurt his hand running into a wall last week, trainers x-rayed him and found a wrist fracture. He was to miss 6-8 weeks. Turns out that fracture is at least four years old, isn't serious, and all Reed really has is a sore hand. He should be ready for Opening Day.

Rainier Beach, Seattlest's favorite high school hoops team, got upset in the state quarterfinals last night, by Lynden High. But, really, what chance did they stand against a team that has players with names like Dirk Dallas and Brady Bomber. Dallas had 19 points, Bomber had 15. Is this a high school basketball team or a 30's detective novel?

Every year, major league baseball teams invite about 20 players to Spring Training who have little to no chance of making the team. They are called non-roster invitees.

When you hear the name "Dave Edler," you, like us, automatically think, "Oh, of course, the right-handed-hitting third baseman who spent parts of four seasons (1980-83) with the Mariners."

The Seahawks finally made the cover of Sports Illustrated. Shaun Alexander, on the verge of breaking the all-time rushing touchdown record, is deemed worthy of the honor. The Dec. 19th edition's cover also has a small pic of Gonzaga star and Spokane native Adam Morrison. Northwest, represent!

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.