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. We love the Southwest. Maybe it’s because we grew up around water, mountains, and evergreens that we find something really remarkable about mesas, expansive sunny skies, and don’t even get us started on cactus. We love those green and prickly bastards. Now the Southwest is about......

Come with us back to our teenage years, will you? Then, the only visiting teams that drew any supporters to M's games were the Yankees and the Blue Jays. Damn it was annoying, to have Mariner fans outnumbered--and we mean this literally--outnumbered--at home games. The Jays no longer draw well, now that, in the A.L. East, they are basically impotent onlookers as the powerful teams battle for supremacy. (Call them the Canada of baseball). Now......

When you don't have to worry about Willie Bloomquist getting a hit with your job on the line, well, life becomes a little easier. For the third straight day the Mariners double header has been canceled, and this has apparently made the team's coaching staff a little giddy. From the Times' Mariners blog: "Hargrove drew the biggest laughs today when he tackled pitching coach Rafael Chaves in the snow and made sure to rub his......

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: Seattle's bats came alive yesterday to produce 16 hits with nearly everyone getting into the act, and they also found some grit by staging a comeback attempt in the eighth. Although......

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: My wife is not talking to me because instead of driving I was pounding the wheel screaming to get “Gas Can” Mateo out and Putz in…shut it......

The Mariners mood swing of a season continues tonight in Toronto. The blue and teal are three games under .500 and three games back of the first place A's and Rangers. After their last two efforts, being three games out at the All-Star break is wonderful. Mariners fans have serious cause to believe that this team can be in the the race until the final days of Seafair. Following a June where they made the......

Seattlest joined a subdued crowd of about 80 at Greenlake's Kiwi and Kangaroo for this morning's US-Ghana game. Though we arrived in a red, white, and blue "Git 'er Done" hat and waving a small, plastic U.S. flag, our fellow fans displayed little national pride. A U.S. jersey there, a red and blue shirt here. Pretty pathetic. Ok, the last six years haven't been our best, but come on--first colony to break away from the......

--This “special to the Seattle Times” is a Japanese-speaker interviewing Ichiro. On his off-season meeting with Mike Hargrove: “Some of the things I had to say were quite harsh.” --Shock among the local media as, upon arriving at Mariners camp, Carl Everett did not stab a bullpen catcher, set his dog on Mike Hargrove, and loudly proclaim that the Earth was created in 48 days by Peabo Bryson. Instead, according to the Seattle Times, Everett......

Federal judge Richard Posner defends President Bush's extra-legal (meaning, surprisingly, not legal at all) spying program thusly: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act makes it difficult to conduct surveillance of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents unless they are suspected of being involved in terrorist or other hostile activities. That is too restrictive. Innocent people, such as unwitting neighbors of terrorists, may, without knowing it, have valuable counterterrorist information. So, since anyone in the country may......

A bases-clearing 8th inning double by Willie Bloomquist and six strong innings from Gil Meche led the M's past San Diego in their final spring game in Arizona.......