Seth Kolloen | Sportspress Northwest

If you drove down Corliss Avenue North in mid-80s Seattle, you probably saw Seth.

He was the kid sorting Alvin Davis cards on his porch, mimicking Paul Skansi in street football games, or arguing the merits of Alton Lister with his friends. Seth has grown up just enough that his interests now include politics, the arts and the value of his Roth IRA; yet he also has season tickets to the Mariners, Sounders and Huskies, and frequently attends high school basketball games for fun. That is to say, he loves sports and still can’t stop talking about them.

Shortlisted for a “Genius Award” by The Stranger for his sportswriting, Seth was a frequent guest columnist for the Seattle P-I — “the best young sportswriter you never heard of” — and has also written for Seattle Metropolitan and Deadspin. Seth’s sports posts have been cited by The Washington Post, USA Today, and ESPN.

He served as executive editor of Sports Northwest magazine from 2008-2009. He was also sports editor for Seattlest.com and The SunBreak, and founded a Seattle sports blog, Enjoy the Enjoyment. Join Seth in suffering the daily slings and arrows of Seattle sports fortune in his column, Exit 164.

Kolloen: Peguero helps win a World Series ... in 2013

BY Seth Kolloen 11:15AM 07/08/2011

If the Seattle Mariners are ever going to win a World Championship, they’ll do it with players like Carlos Peguero. Not the Peguero you see on the field now--the guess-hitting, defensive liability--but the Peguero of seasons future.

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Kolloen: Zduriencik, don't go all Bavasi on us

BY Seth Kolloen 07:00AM 06/24/2011

Jack Zduriencik and I are in the same boat. I'm trying to figure out whether to go to Hawaii in October, and he's trying to figure out whether to trade a prospect for a left fielder. Both decisions hinge on how we assess this question: Do the Mariners really have a shot at October's playoffs?

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Kolloen: Riot after a loss? Fans confuse, impress

BY Seth Kolloen 12:08PM 06/17/2011

I am a first-generation American. My parents speak perfect English, they understand the rules of baseball, they do not force me to enact odd folk rituals, but one of them was not born here. My mother is Canadian.

(My grandparents emigrated here when she was two; partially on the basis of a less-than-honest residency application, I've since learned, making us illegal immigrants. Sorry for taking your job.)

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Kolloen: Ichiro haters pointing the wrong direction

BY Seth Kolloen 10:13AM 06/10/2011

Politicians sometimes pick up the worst behavior of athletes: Like when a U.S. Congressman imitates Brett Favre's seduction strategy. And sports fans sometimes latch onto the worst aspects of politics nuts: Like finding a single scapegoat. Gas prices are too high? It's Bush's fault! No, it's Obama's fault! When, of course, it's manifestly all of our faults for buying ginormous vehicles that go through tanks of gas like Michael Pineda's opponents go through bats.

Which brings us to Ichiro.

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Kolloen: Pete Carroll, be my boss

BY Seth Kolloen 10:52AM 06/03/2011

Did you hear this? Inside the Seahawks draft war room, Pete Carroll muted the TVs and played reggae music instead. Pete Carroll is the anti-Lumbergh: He’s the greatest boss in the world.

If Pete Carroll was your boss, every day would be casual Friday, with Pete leading the way in his polos and khakis. If Pete Carroll was your boss, you could chat music with him, everything from oldies to reggae to new bands. Recently Carroll declared “Mumford & Sons” week. (As folk rock goes, I prefer Avett Brothers, but I'm sure we could have a rational discussion about it).

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Kolloen: Sigi Schmid, what game are you watching?

BY Seth Kolloen 07:05AM 05/27/2011

Who’s the best passer on the Sounders? Sigi Schmid.

When will the Sounders' head coach take some responsibility for the team's mediocrity, instead of sloughing blame onto his players?

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Kolloen: Ready for the Thunder in the Finals?

BY Seth Kolloen 09:00AM 05/13/2011

I see a bad moon risin'. It looks likely that the Oklahoma City Thunder, just three years after breaking both our hearts and a franchise record for losses, will reach the NBA Finals. And you thought Fred Brown selling his 1979 championship ring was depressing.

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Kolloen: Free Figgins Now

BY Seth Kolloen 01:00PM 05/06/2011

As a Seattle Mariners season ticket holder, I feel a little guilty. For one year and one month now, I've been privy to the singular baseball experience that is Chone Figgins.

Whenever I see the 5-foot-8 Figgins take a huge swing at a high fastball and drive it nearly 120 feet, I think: "Shouldn't we be sharing this with the world?"

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Exit 164: A boring pick, but boring can be good

BY Seth Kolloen 07:41AM 04/29/2011

First off, let me say what a pleasure it's been to write this column for the past few months. Thanks to everyone for reading. This will be the last Exit 164, but I'll be writing a column for SportsPress Northwest once a week, and you can also read my writing at an awesome local news/commentary web site called The SunBreak. Okay, on to this morning's news.

Tough to get excited about an offensive lineman who was graded as a second-round prospect. But we all know that you build a football team from the inside out, and if the Hawks did get what they think they did -- a book-end for Russell Okung, who'll protect our quarterback (whoever he is) for a decade, then kudos, kudos, kudos.

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Exit 164: Day of mock draft jamboree

BY Seth Kolloen 07:37AM 04/28/2011

No one can agree on where Jack Locker will go

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