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Like Shaun Alexander, Richie Sexson, and Barack Obama before him, Montero is learning how quickly Seattle cheers can turn to boos, invective, and angry, semi-anonymous blog comments.

Sometimes a Bee Jay every day gets you wanting more.

The Seattle Mariners have released well-paid but weak-hitting first baseman Richie Sexson. This season, Sexson hit only .218 and had 11 homers. With a 2008 salary of $15.5 million, that's a cool $1.4 million per dinger. Sexson's roster spot has been filled by Tacoma infielder (and new Seattlest favorite) Tug Hulett.

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

With news that long time Seattle Art Museum director Mimi Gates is retiring next year, we are hoping that the Mariners will fire current General Manager Bill Bavasi and hire Gates as his replacement.

Seattlest is no proponent or fan of violence, but we have always enjoyed a good baseball brawl. And the Seattle Mariners, failing at all other parts of what we find enjoyable about the game, decided to throw us a bone--giving us the first bench-clearer of the season.

Should we be worried the Mariners are baseball’s equivalent of the Bush Administration? Fiscally undisciplined with negligible positive returns? Check. Marketed as veteran leadership despite any veterans with leadership experience? Check. Sloppy management reinforced with sloppy execution on the ground? Check.

Seth Kolloen starting covering sports for Seattlest in January 2005. Late last year he took over as editor, before leaving us to become the editor of the brand new Sports Northwest Magazine. We caught up with Seth poolside at the W Hotel to discuss the move to press row, his sports blog, and why he won’t be calling Maggie Gyllenhaal any time soon.

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

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

Got an email from a friend the other day: "My boss says he's officially back on the Mariners bandwagon."

Vitals: 26 yo RHP. Born in New Castle, PA. 6-0, 170. This will be his first major league game. (3-0, 1.05 at AAA in 2007)

Vitals: 36 years old, born in Louisville, signed as a free agent by the Indians in '05. 82-73 career record. $7 million salary.

One commenter greeted our proposition that the Mariners could make the postseason next year so derisively, we were forced to do some extra research just to make sure we weren't going nuts.

According to the P-I, the Mariners aren't kidding about going after Barry Zito.

The Mariners aren't backing off their interest in Oakland left-handed starter Barry Zito, the pitcher expected to come out of the winter (if not the winter meetings themselves) with the most lucrative contract awarded a pitcher.

--USS Mariner convinces us that Richie Sexson must go.

The thirtieth edition of our local professional baseball club ended their campaign yesterday afternoon with a 3-2 win over Texas. They finished in last place (a-GAIN!) and with a 78-84 record.

The Mariners fired bench coach Ron Hassey yesterday. This puts the team in quite a quandary, according to a P-I story.

Something happened yesterday that hasn't since April 16th. No, not Dino Rossi waking up before noon, but the Mariners getting to .500. After an 11-7 victory over Arizona in their 78th game, the M's are once again treading water at 39-39.

Mike Hargrove cost the Mariners a win on Friday night, but you wouldn't know it from reading the local papers.

Governor Gregoire, apparently unaware that her job could be taken from her in two and a half years, is leaving it up the state's National Guardsmen whether they want to patrol the US-Mexico border. President Bush is sending 6,000 National Guard members to the Southern border to end the problem of people entering the country illegally.

Mariner Manager Mike Hargrove deviated from his heretofore stone-set lineup yesterday, moving Adrian Beltre into the #2 spot and sliding Jose Lopez to #3. Richie Sexson sat in favor of Roberto Petagine.

We've been looking for a quote from a famous literary figure to sum up the Mariners' season.

Interleauge play begins again this weekend. In baseball stadiums all over the West geographical rivals will stare each other down: Oakland vs. San Francisco, Houston vs. Texas, Los Angeles of Los Angeles vs. Los Angeles of Anaheim, and Seattle vs. San Diego.

Got an email from the Mariners today. Seems Richie Sexson bobble-head night is Friday.

The Mariners continued their season-long 26th anniversary tribute to former shortstop Mario Mendoza last night, managing nine mostly groundball singles in a 2-0 loss to Cleveland.

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.

Here's some copy that Mariners marketing department might consider removing from the website:

The key play in Sunday’s loss to the Angels typified how bland and passionless the 2005 Mariners are.

Yesterday's Mariner win was the most satisfying game the team has played in months. Why? A six-run seventh inning.