We catch some flack around the Seattlest newsroom for being too snarky sometimes and felt like we should trumpet some of the pride we honestly do feel about our city. It's hard not to love this place what with our staggeringly cool views, great live music scene and vociferous yet generally congenial civic debate. Now we can add generous service for the public good to that list. more ›

Which is it, newsmedia types? Safe or not safe? Earlier this week there were 18 billion articles on the freshly-released City Crime Rankings report that listed Seattle as the 262nd safest city in America. 262nd? That's not safe at all! Used to be a time when Seattle was safer than Portland, at least. No longer true, according to this report. Portland is the 249th safest city in the Union. Our region's safest city is Bellevue at 56. 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 ›