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. Let’s put it this way: if the 2008 Mariners team photo involves a pyramid and prominently featured genitalia, then we’re calling for a Congressional investigation. In all seriousness, the Mariners are playing sloppy,......

After their one-game sweep of Texas earlier this week, the M's brought out the brooms again with a two-game sweep of Oakland. This weekend, they'll try for a traditional three-game sweep against the very three-game-sweepable Kansas City Royals. Here's the weekend schedule: Fri: Jorge De La Rosa (2-1, 3.04) vs. Ho-Ram (1-1, 6.30) at 7:05. Tickets. Sat: Gil Meche (1-1, 2.55) vs. Jeff Weaver (0-3, 13.91) at 6:05. Tickets. Sun: Brian Bannister (0-0, 6.23) vs.......

Sixteen years ago today Randy Johnson threw the first no-hitter in Mariners history. The 6'10'' lefthander scattered 6 walks in the 2-0 victory over Detroit. 20,014 lucky fans (we still have our ticket stub somewhere) packed the Kingdome on that probably rainy Saturday night. Across the region tens of people were glued to the radio as Dave Niehaus called the action. The final pitch, which actually bounced off of the roof before landing in the......

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......

Here's some copy that Mariners marketing department might consider removing from the website: ...watch Ichiro Suzuki, Richie Sexson, Adrian Beltre and the rest of the high-flying Mariners all summer long... This year's Mariners are as high-flying as the Spruce Goose. That said, they are not as bad as the Kansas City Royals, who, in submitting to a 11-5 thrashing from our Mariners this afternoon, lost their 18th game in a row. The American League record,......

We finally saw Mariners phenom Felix Hernandez pitch last night, against the Royals, and all we can say is oh my gosh. Imagine that you are a Kansas City Royal (put down the knife--this is only for a second). You just got swept in a doubleheader, each game by one run, giving you your 14th and 15th losses in a row. Your manager left the team to attend the funeral of his nephew, killed by......

The key play in Sunday’s loss to the Angels typified how bland and passionless the 2005 Mariners are. In the eighth inning, Richie Sexson stood on third base as the tying run. The batter, Yuniesky Betancourt, lined a one-hopper to the left of Angels third baseman Chone Figgins. Figgins dove, speared the ball, rose quickly to his feet and fired a throw home. Catcher Bengie Molina reached for Figgins’ slightly high throw just as Sexson......

Nate McMillan-- our favorite Sonic of all time-- is now the coach of the Portland Trailblazers, a thought that is harder to swallow than Paul Bunyan's left boot. And this on the same night that the Mariners leave Kansas City losing two out of three to the punchless Royals. We once again question why we are sports fans. It's almost like we told ourselves, "Hey, we need one more thing in our life that we......