Safeco Insurance and the Mariners could not agree on a naming rights extension deal, so the ballpark will have a new sponsor/name after 2018. A few suggestions here.
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.
A former Mariner, J.A. Happ, did what former Mariners do, and spoiled a potential pivot point as the Mariners had the low numbers on the scoreboard and in the stands.
After 40 years as Seattle’s sports-party central, F.X. McRory’s is closing Sunday. Owner Mick McHugh will re-open elsewhere in Pioneer Square, grin and Neiman painting intact.
City officials and staffers seemed too chummy with winning KeyArena bidders Oak View Group. City council needs an independent agency to deal with the bodacious Tim Leiweke.
After Mayor Ed Murray did the expected and anointed Oak View Group as the fixer of KeyArena, Sodo arena developer Chris Hansen said his project’s death is greatly exaggerated.
Not only did George Fant beat colossal odds to become a starting left tackle in his rookie season, he might actually be a good left tackle in his second season with the Seahawks.
The backstory of Seahawks RB Thomas Rawls inspired an Alaska commercial fisherman from Bellingham to go to Flint, Mich., to give a young man a chance to pay for college a hard way.
A surprising decision by Seattle Partners, led by Anschutz Entertainment, to pull out its bid to remodel KeyArena was preceded by a letter from a community group skeptical of both bids.
In his first public interview since an ESPN story described fractures among the Seahawks, coach Pete Carroll said it was an old story and was proud of where his players are emotionally.
The Mariners’ four-game winning streak went down Thursday, as did DH Nelson Cruz and SS Jean Segura, in a 6-3 loss to Colorado. Seattle thought it stopped raining, but no.