Former Husky and Renton Liberty hurler Tim Lincecum was named the National League's Cy Young award winner today. In 2008, Lincecum was 18-5 with the San Francisco Giants. In the 2006 draft, the Mariners passed on Lincecum, opting to select Brandon Morrow instead. more ›

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.

The Tacoma Rainiers' season is in full swing. Currently they sport a moderately respectable record of 17-20 and are in third place, five games out of first, out of their division’s five teams. Salt Lake leads the pack with a 21-14 record. As Seattlest reported on April 13th, the Rainiers’ hometown arena, Cheney Stadium, still has the feeling of authentic, pre-steroid baseball. However, Seattlest just learned that one of its classic features is, as we write, being replaced and upgraded. All the wooden stadium seats, which not only have been in the stadium since it was built, but date back to their first game in the San Francisco Seals stadium back in 1931, are being given the old heave ho. During their prosperous lifetime, the seats have supported the sweaty bottoms of fans of the Seals, the San Francisco Missions, and for two years their only major league team, the San Francisco Giants. Upon the completion of Candlestick Park and the Giants’ move there in 1960, Tacoma snapped up the seats and installed them in the newly built Cheney Stadium. 35 years later, plastics, as presciently predicted by Mr. McGuire to the young Ben Braddock, have taken over, as this is the year that the wooden seats of old are being replaced with their plastic counterparts. After 74 consecutive seasons of baseball, you may be wonering where their next destination might be? Well, my friend, the answer is the homes of dedicated Rainers’ fans the world over, and that may well include you. They’re going for $75 a pop with quantity discounts. more ›