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Let’s say that you that you excelled at your job to the point where people mentioned you as one of the tops in your field. Also, let’s say that your co-workers kept messing up repeatedly to where it was costing you clients. Well then, you might sit like this after Doug from accounting screwed up your masterful PowerPoint presentation:

Tonight, Randy Johnson will make his final pitching appearance at Safeco Field. Considering that without Randy Safeco Field may never have been built, it’s probably also Nick Licata's last chance to enact his revenge.

Tonight while Rush Limbaugh is busy writing cancer jokes, Northwest sports fans will be sitting in front of a television watching two of the regions most exciting players.

Erik Bedard and Adrian Beltre will probably be traded by July 31. Hopefully, Jarrod Washburn will go as well. They don’t even have to trade him; they can just leave him behind the counter at a Panda Express, or pretend to throw a tennis ball and drive off when he tries to find it.

A generation ago, Seattle's most famous person was a fictional clown who lived in the city dump.

[UPDATE: We have never been this excited to be so wrong. Griffey is coming to Seattle, and we have a smile from ear to ear!]

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.

If we could stretch out baseball season just more day, congratulations to World Series Champion Jamie Moyer.

When we first heard the news that Jack Zduriencik, was selected as the new Mariner General Manager, our first feeling was sadness and frustration. We know nothing about Zduriencik, he could be a genius and lead the M's back to the playoffs. Our reaction was simply to his profile: old white guy.

The P-I and the Times are reporting, via the AP, that the Mariners have selected Brewers executive Jack Zduriencik as the club's new GM. We can only hope that his first move will be to replace Rick Rizzs with Brew Crew broadcaster Bob Uecker.

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent.

It could be worse. Somehow. We guess SoDo could have been swallowed up in a giant sinkhole. Or the Mariners could keep playing for another three months. Thankfully, their season ended Sunday, bumbling to a 61-101 record, and our long civic nightmare appears to be over, or at least delayed for a few months.

1986 is probably the most overlooked Mariner season of all time. They were able to turn the league's worst record into number one pick Ken Griffey Jr. Their bottom of the barrel effort in 1992 led to Alex Rodriguez.

We knew that the Boys of SoDo had lost their mojo this summer. But we didn't realize how bad things really were at Safeco, especially concerning everyone's favorite nihonjin.

Your Seattle Mariners lost their 100th game last night. Details. Remember the days when all we needed was a decent left-fielder?

We were thrilled to see Mad Men get some hardware at the Emmys last night, since it is a fave at the Seattlest crib. In one of the more stunning scenes this season, Don Draper has a confrontation with his blackmailing adultress, where, with a smile, he seductively slides his hand up her dress, then grabs her by her girly-bits (yeah, those girly-bits), and curtly tells her to cut the shit, all the while flashing that dreamboat smile. Powerful, very un-PC, and certainly unexpected.

Since our teams remain winless this season, Seattlest has decided to do the only logical thing to get us out of this funk...Eat! During Sunday home games, over 67,000 people flood into Qwest Field, and many of those fans stop for lunch along the way. Seattlest gets tired of bar food and $8 stadium dogs, so we asked the guys at MSG150, the International District lunch blog, to help us out with some new suggestions. We sat down with MSG150 last week while they reviewed a new restaurant in the ID.

...but another member of Pearl Jam has written a little ditty to show their support--not for a politician, but for a long-suffering sports team. But don't hold your breath, Mariners fans, though we too are long-suffering: Eddie Vedder, an Illinois native, has penned a song about the Chicago Cubs. While we haven't had a championship in 31 years, the Cubs haven't had one for nearly a century. Give us a few more losing decades and Vedder can write one for the Ms.

Erik Bedard, the best 70-pitch starter in the big leagues, has decided to have shoulder surgery, officially ending his season. Bedard had struggled with shoulder problems all season and last pitched on July 4. He was the Mariners' biggest off-season signing last year, acquired in a trade with the Orioles for 5 players. The team expected the lefty to be the ace of the starting rotation this year. Instead, Bedard started only 15 games this season, and finished with a 6-4 record.

Go ahead and scold us for loving the Yankees. This Seattlest's first baseball game ever was at Yankee stadium, and we just can't separate from the love. Yet, our new hometown team, the fightin' Mariners, actually kind of smacked the Yanks down. Nothing terrifically exciting happened—no super-dramatic plays, no bases-loaded homers, or anything. But, the Mariners managed to keep the Yanks down til the 8th inning, when they scored their one and only base run off of a single. Lame. Boring. However, the Mariners did break a few bats with their forceful hits, so...okay, fine—go Mariners!

The Seahawks dispatched with the Oakland Raiders 23-16 in the final preseason game. In recent years, preseason games have become little more than an exercise in injury avoidance, and the Hawks emerged relatively unscathed, although the receiving corps has taken a hit with losses of Engram and Obomanu for extended periods. The Hawks were 3-1 in preseason action andwill begin regular season play on Sunday as they visit the Buffalo Bills.

Many have sought to find the reason for the demise of our beloved boys of SoDo. Was it the demolition of the Kingdome? Letting A-Rod, The Unit, or Junior leave for peanuts? Well, one intrepid writer pins the Mariners fall on the "Rally Fries." Actually, we think it was letting Carlos Guillen go, after he literally gave a lung to this team. But, it could be the fried potato sticks.

We present this classic Seinfeld clip:

With the Mariners taking the rest of the summer off, Seattlest (along with some other local rag) is adopting the Chicago White Sox as our fake team for the rest of the season.

As the MLB trade deadline passed this afternoon, Seattlest was warmed by the cozy, reassuring feeling we get this time of year when the Mariners steadfastly refuse to buckle under pressure (logic?) and break up our boys of summer via trade. Doing nothing trade-wise has become a summertime tradition here dating back to the "Stand Pat" era of Pat Gillick right on through to today. (Sorry, Arthur Rhodes for a case of Vanilla Ice CDs doesn't count.) It's as 'Seattle' as SeaFair and Ivar's. But we predicted all of this weeks ago. PS: Apparently Junior never loved us after all, opting to be traded to the playoff contending WhiteSox rather than returning 'home'.

Dave Niehaus will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on Sunday morning, and if you haven't started driving yet, well, we don't think you'll be able to make it to Cooperstown by then.

Two of these Jim Riggleman quotes are real, and one was made up by the Onion. Can you tell which is which?

Red Sox Nation has left Seattle, taking with it their brand new hats and cheers of "Manny, I fawkin' love you, now hit a homah' you fawkin' queeah [Throws up on self. Passes out.]." And that was Doris Kearns Goodwin.