Excited about new acquisitions 1B Ryon Healy and CF Dee Gordon, Mariners manager Scott Servais was less so in discussing the pitching rotation behind Paxton and Hernandez.
Author: Art Thiel
Art Thiel
Never having met a metaphor he could not twist beyond recognition, Art has been illuminating, agitating, amusing and annoying Puget Sound sports readers for a long time. Along with Steve Rudman, he co-founded Sports Press Northwest because it didnt seem right that the Google monster should aggregate daily journalism into oblivion without at least a flesh wound from somebody. Thiel and Rudman labored under the Seattle Post-Intelligencer globe until the print edition died an undeserved death in March, 2009. Art continued on at its online successor seattlepi.com while working on SPNWs creation. His radio commentaries can be heard Friday and Saturday mornings and Friday afternoon on KPLU-FM 88.9. In 2003 he wrote the definitive book about the Seattle Mariners, Out of Left Field, which became a regional bestseller. In 2009, along with Rudman and KJR 950 afternoon host Mike Gastineau, Thiel authored The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists, a cross between historylink.org and Mad Magazine that has become mandatory reading for any sports fan who has an indoor bathroom. A graduate of Pacific Lutheran University as well as two dead papers and a live one, the News Tribune of Tacoma, he has become a fan of entrepreneurial online journalism because it allows him to continue a lifelong passion to take the English language to places it rarely visits willingly, and does not involve the cleaning of kennels or stables.
Monday brought a little better news for the Seahawks than Sunday: No NFL suspensions for players involved in mayhem. That doesn’t change the fact that it was embarrassing.
The NFL will review the mayhem at the end of the Seahawks-Jaguars game. Meanwhile, coach Pete Carroll partially defended DE Michael Bennett’s play that was called dirty.
A game-ending melee likely will result in suspensions for a couple of Seahawks, who almost made it back from a 27-10 hole. Can’t live off a Wilson-led miracle every Sunday.
The Seahawks hoped that RB Chris Carson might return in late December, but he turned an ankle this week in practice and set back his timetable.
Despite the best efforts by GM Jerry Dipoto, who is now out four good minor league prospects, Japanese two-way star Shohei Ohtani chose the Angels over the Mariners.
The day after the arena MOU was done, NHL promptly gives permission for Seattle to begin an expansion application. Fee: $650 million. Including arena cost, $1.3 billion. Wow.
In a remarkable week of sports news, the big story was the deal to re-do KeyArena on a grand scale — and discovery that new mayor Jenny Durkan goes back with the Sonics.
Inspired by Seahawk Thomas Rawls, a young African-American man from Flint took a job fishing in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, and it paid for his first year in college.
City Council votes 7-1 in favor of Oak View Group’s $660 million plan to trick out KeyArena for concerts and the NHL. NBA? Maybe 2025. Maybe not.