Somehow, the Mariners at the moment are a wild-card team. But if won’t last if they burn out the bullpen with five-inning starters. So, John Stanton, go get Justin Verlander.
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.
Rookie DE Malik McDowell has “serious” injuries from his accident that will keep him out “quite a while,” Pete Carroll said. Meanwhile, Ifedi and Clark are nearing returns to practice.
News was better for the Seahawks Friday. WR Tyler Lockett was cleared to return to practice eight months after gruesome broken leg appeared to threaten his career.
Bad day in Renton: RT Germain Ifedi leaves field bleeding after punch from DE Frank Clark merits ejection. Meanwhile, Pete Carroll says injuries to rookie Malik McDowell are long-term.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver last week opened the door a bit on expansion. It is in the city’s best interest to give the Sodo project a fresh look, free of old assumptions.
Remember Kam Chancellor’s inexplicable holdout in 2015? It appears the Seahawks didn’t, giving him a top-tier contract extension. The Legion of Boom is healthy and engaged for 2017.
Kam Chancellor and Kenny Easley are from the same area and share the same ferocious football soul. Chancellor seeks a few more years, then may join Easley in the Hall of Fame.
Injuries kept Russell Wilson from running during practice last season. As a result he was overweight. With the help of two full-time assistants, Wilson is ready to show off a skinny repeal.
Injuries from an ATV accident, including a concussion and facial damage, are keeping top draft pick Malik McDowell out of camp, although he tweeted that he will return soon.
Reliance on rookie starter Andrew Moore has produced 14 runs given up in his last 15.2 innings, including all runs in Boston’s win Wednesday. Time for newcomer Marco Gonzales.