Well, that hire certainly didn't go well.

Dr. Lorena Martin, seen a year ago as a cutting-edge figure, the Mariners' first director of high performance, was fired Oct. 10 and unleashed Monday a social media tirade against general manager Jerry Dipoto, blaming him for a culture that produced derogatory racial remarks she alleges were made by club officials about Latino players, and also firing Latino trainers at their Dominican Republic facility.

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One way to look at the events of Sunday afternoon in the Coliseum is that among the beleaguered people of Southern California who were able to seek a three-hour respite from despair, the Seahawks and Rams provided distraction with some splendid entertainment. The Rams won. Good for all concerned.

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After 120 minutes of intense physicality Thursday, after consecutive games this week, after 43 years of rivalry, the best game ever between the Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers came down to damnable penalty kicks.

The Timbers were better. The Sounders were aghast. The sellout crowd of nearly 40,000 was stunned.

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A good defensive catcher is a little like a good middle linebacker in football. Fortunately for the Seahawks' Bobby Wagner, they don't ask him to play running back, even even if he volunteers.

But as with all MLB teams, the Mariners wanted points out of catcher Mike Zunino too. So much so that they shipped him to Tampa Bay Thursday, despite it being one day after he received national recognition as MLB's best defensive catcher.

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When the Los Angeles Rams last were seen locally Oct. 7, Seahawks LB K.J. Wright watched from the Clink sidelines, recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery. He remembered that things were bad that afternoon, but as often is the case with things like car accidents, the brain, out of self-preservation, obscures many details.

Such as 30 first downs and 468 yards of total offense.

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The Seahawks have lost games by three, seven, two and eight points, the latter two to likely playoff teams in the 6-2 Chargers and 8-1 Rams.

The outcomes have the Seahawks 4-4 at the regular season's mid-point, suggesting a team not far from consideration as playoff-worthy. But as with a PGA tournament field, there are many premier golfers who have missed the cut for want of a longer putt or shorter iron shot.

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The best sports teams are able to do over and over that which they do best. Which explains how the Seahawks are 4-4 at the seasonal midpoint. A week after they were running with BMW smoothness for a win at Detroit, they came home Sunday for the first time in a month and blew gaskets, threw rods, overheated and under-performed.

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Washington's 27-23 survival win over Stanford Saturday night at Husky Stadium vaulted the Huskies (7-3, 5-2) back into the latest Associated Press college football poll Sunday at 20th, a week after a 12-10 loss at Cal dropped them from the top 25. Washington State (8-1, 5-1), following a 19-13 win over Cal at Pullman, stayed put at No. 10. The Cougars were eighth in the first College Football Playoffs rankings released last week.

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The cold wind off Lake Washington Saturday night was no match for the heat coming from Jake Browning.

For a while, anyway.

Furious over a benching for two series in an upset loss at Cal a week earlier, Browning turned his anger into two of the best drives of Washington's season. But after the adrenaline that powered a 21-0 halftime lead dwindled, the Huskies found themselves hanging on for dear life against relentless Stanford that, for want of an extra point, probably would have prevailed.

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Complimenting QB Philip Rivers on his football intelligence, LB Bobby Wagner recalled from the preseason game between the Chargers and Seahawks when Rivers called a timeout at the line of scrimmage, knowing his play call would be doomed against Seattle's defensive set. More impressively, Rivers even knew the name of the Seahawks' play.

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Jack Patera was a man of minimal words, backed by a maximum glare that could melt steel. After they lost to the Giants 32-0 in the Kingdome in 1981 to fall to 1-6, Seahawks players were prepared to be, well, vaporized in the locker room by their intimidating coach.

"Congratulations, gentlemen," he said. "You're now the worst team in the NFL. I'll see you tomorrow. Full gear."

That was it. That was enough.

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Edgar Martinez wants a better life. The Mariners want a better offense. So the hitting coach and the club Tuesday seemed to have reached a mutually convenient solution: Martinez will leave his current job to become next year the organization's overall hitting advisor.

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Seemed like a worthy try in training camp, giving 34-year-old Brandon Marshall, once one of the NFL's premier receivers, a free-agent shot at being the big red-zone target the Seahawks lost when TE Jimmy Graham wasn't re-signed. But Tuesday the Seahawks released him, according to ESPN.com, a victim of too many drops and the rise of WR David Moore.

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The NFL suspension of LB Mychal Kendricks will end in time for him to rejoin the Seahawks for the Dec. 10 Monday night game against Minnesota, Pro Football Talk reported Tuesday. After he met Monday with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, the indefinite suspension Kendricks drew Oct. 2 was changed to eight games, with credit for time served.

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On the Monday after Jake-gate, Chris Petersen went through a predictable effort of defending his decision to switch quarterbacks mid-game Saturday in a contest Washington led.

The Huskies coach said bailing on Jake Browning for two series against Cal wasn't about him as much as the bad offense as a whole. He said backup Jake Haener, a redshirt freshman, has done well in practice. He said he's changed players at all positions over the course of the season.

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It was Throwback Sunday for the Seahawks in Detroit.

176 yards rushing. Perfect quarterback rating. No turnovers, and three by the opponents, who had less than 15 points and fewer than 50 yards rushing.

The Glory Days, Part Deux.

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Chris Petersen said he wanted to "shake things up," he said, by benching in the third quarter his four-year starting quarterback, Jake Browning. The Huskies coach succeeded. Whether Washington (6-3, 4-2) will stop shaking is the test for the rest of a season that turned abruptly to disappointment Saturday night in Berkeley.

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Just ahead of the NFL trade deadline Tuesday, the Seahawks added a veteran blocking tight end for the cost of no players or draft picks, not long after rookie flash Will Dissly from the University of Washington went down with a season-ending knee injury.

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Of all the players who have moved on from the Seahawks championship team to other NFL outposts, WR Golden Tate was the most costly departure. Combining Tate with Doug Baldwin from 2014 to 2018 would have been a tandem to put wrinkles in the brows of defensive coordinators and a smile on the face of QB Russell Wilson.

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Beyond the 27-13 win over Colorado, news kept getting better for Washington football over the weekend. Later on Saturday, Washington State throttled Oregon 34-20 in Pullman, prompting a drain on statewide liquor sales that likely kept many UW players and most of Western Washington sober Saturday night.

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