Results tagged “mets”

Four years ago, Kyle Kendrick was helping Mt. Vernon High advance in the Northwest 4A district playoffs.

Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist's faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt, who has completely covered her house in mosaic tiles.

SHERMAN FREAKING ALEXIE: The best-selling author returns with his first novel in ten years. Flight tells the story of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a violent search for his true identity. Real Change-published poets (that would actually include Alexie, too) read as part of the program.

Payroll: $106,096,833

Last night the Mariners announced they'd signed nine guys to minor league contracts, including Cuban defector and flashy shortstop Rey Ordonez.

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for?

In yesterday's NL Division Series game vs. the Mets, the Dodgers' Jeff Kent and J.D. Drew got tagged out at home on the same play (video available here).

With the playoffs underway we thought it would be fun to look at all of the former Mariners you may come accross

1) Why did Brandon Morrow, the M's first pick (#5 overall) in yesterday's draft, mysteriously gain five MPH on his fastball last summer, just before the season when he could be drafted?

Londonist prepares a Happy Birthday bath for Buddah this week and then things get all cliched. A madman goes on a rampage while axe-wiedling and London's mayor warns an American diplomat to avoid the kitchen if the heat bothers him so much.

LAist tracks an award-winning TV writer who worked on Good Times to a homeless shelter and sees a Little Old Lady get a jaywalking ticket because she can't get across fast enough (in the same post!). Poets invade Metro and an LAist contributor's new book asks WWJB.

Guy's name is Barry, camel's name not recorded. Location is across from San Juan Vineyards. One theory of how camel got there explained by Culinary Fool in a blog entry over the summer.

Three 2005 Mariners--tossed overboard like so much extra ballast--will dock elsewhere in 2006 after floating flotsam and jetsam-like in the waters of free agency. Three ex-M's found new ports in the past couple of days.

-More ex-Mariners in the news, but this guy's still playing ball. Sort of. The Mets signed Brett Boone to a minor league contract today which could net him up to $1.5 million for next season. Oh, how the O-ver-Ra-ted have fallen. Boone earned almost $10 million while getting cut from the Mariners and Twins last year and batting .221. Seattlest earned -$300 to get cut from our summer softball league last year with the same average but with an apparently more imperfect ass.

Former Mariner and fan favorite Mike Cameron, now the rightfielder for the New York Mets, collided violently with Mets centerfielder Carlos Beltran today.

The Mariners' weekend series against the Mets has all the makings of an excellent Western. To wit:

Seattlest once had a choice between Saturday and Sunday Mets games, and we chose Saturday because the schedule read "Free Mets Jersey Day." We thought to ourselves, "Score!" It will likely surprise no reader that the "jersey" in question was a thin t-shirt with jersey styling (v-neck, buttons down the front) printed on it. We laughed and laughed. And we still wear the shirt.