After a harrowing 6-5 home win over Oakland Monday broke a four-game losing streak, the Mariners (18-21) couldn’t wait long for more dramatic news: Edwin Diaz has temporarily lost the closer’s job to a bullpen committee, and 2B Robinson Cano went on the disabled list to rest a nagging quadriceps injury.
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.
DE Michael Bennett sees QB Colin Kaepernick’s social activism as an asset in Seahawks locker room; meanwhile, in New York, trainer says his five-day-a-week regimen has Kap up to 230 pounds.
Should the Seahawks sign free agent QB Colin Kaepernick to back up Russell Wilson? That can be answered in three sentences: Oh. Hell. Yes. As if the Seahawks don’t have room for another outspoken guy.
The stadium shall stay CenturyLink until 2033, after an extension on the naming rights deal;was announced Monday for the home of the Seahawks and Sounders.
None of the 67 players the Seahawks listed for the three-day rookie camp this weekend believes they won’t be among the 20 or so to move on to the next round of roster building. That’s the mantra of sports optimism: The slightest doubt leaves you out.
Chris Hansen Thursday offered a detailed comparison between his project and two bidders competing to remake KeyArena. Primary point: Team owners may not like someone else owning and operating the arena.
Pitchers are dropping like confetti, but the Mariners have scored 53 runs in the past seven games (six wins) to reach .500 for the first time this season. All they need to do is keep averaging seven runs a game.
Mayor Ed Murray’s decision to not seek re-election ripples through Seattle sports. He seeks to to serve out his term, but a decision on the KeyArena proposals is due by the end of June. Does a lame duck make the call?
Root Sports Northwest, the regional sports network that delivers Mariners game telecasts around a five-state region, and is also owned principally by the MLB club, announced Monday that games will be digitally streamed at no extra charge to authenticated consumers whose carriers have agreed to participate.
Despite a bulging disabled list and a roster full of of kids and strangers, the Mariners finished off a 4-2 homestand with players few had heard of. They just know enough to get to Seattle from Tacoma.