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

--David Postman of the Seattle Times saw Sicko over the weekend and talked with Michael Moore about it. more ›

--Someone wrote a 1700-word complaint letter to Starbucks because their partner couldn't get his Raspberry Soy Mocha. The world has officially jumped the shark. more ›

Notes from a day when even Iranians are probably paying more attention to Blake Lewis than to Dick Cheney. more ›

--It may be just a Wednesday night for you, but Japan's already buzzing with anticipation about Dice-K vs. Ichiro. Via Deadspin more ›

PREQUEL TO MCARTNEY'S WINGS: Richie Unterberger, the author of several books on the history of rock, shows some film footage and plays some music recordings of unreleased Beatles material. He´s promoting his latest book, The Unreleased Beatles -- Music and Film. We had no idea they were in jail! (Ha! Because of the "unreleased" -- see how...oh...sure, we can move on.) more ›

USS Mariner is now in (we think) their fifth season of covering the local nine, and the boys continue to bring the goods. Today's 2007 preview is terrific, and we encourage you to read it in full. But at least read this, a declaration that the team's so mediocre, it's hard to know what they're going to do:

This team is, essentially, baseball’s version of the rusty trunk thats been stored in your grandparents home for 80 years. There’s a real chance that you could find several gold bars, one of the first photographs in american history, and the original copy of the declaration of independence. Or you might find a pair of false teeth, a hoard of rats, and a shirt containing remnants of the bubonic plague. more ›

USS Mariner called Mike Hargrove "delusional" today for his advocacy of going north with 22-year-old pitcher Brandon Morrow on the basis of eight innings of spring training relief work. more ›

Float On. Great song. Really like it. And now American Idol, in collusion with Ford and, presumably, Modest Mouse, has ruined it.
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USS Mariner writer and friend of Seattlest Jason Michael Barker is smack in the middle of upstate New York's massive snow dump. Yesterday his school, the Culinary Institute of America, had its first snow day since 1996. more ›

Yesterday, the Mariners signed closer J.J. Putz to a three-year contract with a team option for the fourth year. The contract's worth $13.1 million, and includes a $1.5 million signing bonus. We've got a feeling J.J. will just be randomly checking his balance at pretty much every ATM in the city the next couple of days. more ›

Via Slog, via USS Mariner, comes a report that Ichiro said in an interview he's going to leave Seattle after this season because the Mariners suck. At Seattlest, we are not only optimistic about all things Mariner, we are pessimistic about all things translated. These two traits combine nicely here, as we're reminded of something Jorge Luis Borges wrote (which, of course, we read in translation, but let's skip that detail because the passage makes... more ›

--The city of Seattle's only skatepark at Seattle Center is scheduled for destruction and will close to the public after today. more ›

Three years ago, we all hoped for aging middle infielder Omar Vizquel to fail a physical so the M's wouldn't complete an agreed-upon deal for him. And our pleas were heard. more ›

If you want to read the many reasons why the Rafael Soriano for Horacio Ramirez deal sucks, USS Mariner (humorlessly) and Lookout Landing (hilariously--check the poll) can satisfy you. more ›

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

-Lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy, pride...blogging? more ›

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. more ›

The Mariners announced in a letter to fans yesterday that Mike Hargrove will be back as manager. The man has now led his charges to six consecutive losing seasons--two here, four in Baltimore. Over at USS Mariner, the masses are in revolt--if "revolt" can be defined as "leaving angry comments on a blog." more ›

As this third straight dreadful Mariners' season drags to a close, we were struck by something on USS Mariner. Their feeling is that Carlos Garcia has been doing a very good job as the team's third base coach. more ›

The last time Jamie Moyer was involved in a trade, it was almost a gift to the M's. They got their all-time winningest pitcher in franchise history (145), the Red Sox got 2 1/2 years of the execrable Darren Bragg. more ›

Here are links to the blogs Seattlest Seth mentioned on tonight's "The Works" with John Moe: more ›

The Mariners completed a three-game getting swept yesterday, losing 7-6 to the A's. But the team's marketing department, desperate to unload tickets for a mid-week series vs. the Devil Rays, found a silver lining, as evidenced by this "Mariners Mail" we received this morning: more ›

USS Mariner updated their "M's Future Forty" list today. It's their exhaustive summary of anyone who could potentially be anyone for the Mariners. And, though the farm system's thinning out as players reach the majors (Adam Jones) or get traded for useful parts (Shin-Soo Choo), the news is good: more ›

Forget gay marriage. The greatest threat to that holiest of institutions is Mariner manager Mike Hargrove. His idiotic bullpen management this weekend, summed up in this post at USS Mariner, caused at least one marital breach we know of. There must be others. Says a USS Mariner commenter: more ›

USS Mariner reports that the M's are going to call up stud CF prospect Adam Jones. "It will probably be announced tomorrow," says Admiral Dave. more ›

The Seattle Mariners have finally abandoned all hope and traded pitcher Eddie Guardardo- he of that unique and well-honed ability to deliver the timely game-winning home run to the opposing team- to the Cincinnati Reds in return for a whole lot of nothing: a minor league pitcher named Travis Chick (4-5, 4.61 ERA for AA Chattanooga) and a quiet, hushed "thanks" from Mariner fans everywhere. more ›

Chim Chim Cheree! The Mariners finished a three-game sweep of the hapless Diamondbacks last night, scoring two runs off Arizona closer Jorge Julio in the 9th for a 3-2 win. more ›

There's controversy rumbling in the underbelly of Mariner fandom, about whether the team passed over a pitcher named Andrew Miller in last week's draft because they felt he'd want more money than is allowed under "slotting," a Bud Selig brainchild meant to reduce signing bonuses. more ›

1) Why did Brandon Morrow, the M's first pick (#5 overall) in yesterday's draft, mysteriously gain five MPH on his fastball last summer, just before the season when he could be drafted? more ›