Stark fact of trade-deadline day: The Mariners have little in the way of prospects or veterans to interest other teams. GM Jerry Dipoto stayed put, and Mariners responded with a traditional one-run loss.
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.
Michael Bennett didn’t have his contract in mind when he showed up for work. He was wondering when his NFL brethren were going to be more concerned with social issues rather than endorsements.
The orderly extensions given coach Pete Carroll and GM John Schneider are the latest examples of a franchise that runs so smoothly you can almost hear it hum.
A 6-12-2 start doomed Sigi Schmid, a Hall of Fame coach who was fired Tuesday by the Sounders, who are used to perennial playoff contention but are ninth in the 10-team Western Conference.
A belated Father’s Day erupted Sunday n Cooperstown, NY., as Hall of Famers Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza lost their respective cools when it came time to salute their fathers.
For us Puget Sound-area lifers, it’s sometimes surprising to hear that newer arrivals wonder about the reverence in which Ken Griffey Jr. is held around here. His baseball feats speak well for themselves, but when adults begin to mist up 30 seconds into their storytellings, it may provoke newbie listeners to take a half-step back. You hadda be here.
Roster moves, a trade, a big minor-league injury and, oh, by the way, Felix Hernandez returned. But the biggest news was another win with a walk-off homer by the highly entertaining Mariners.
Ten years ago, Howard Schultz sold the Sonics to Clay Bennett of Oklahoma City. An NBA return seems no closer. Chris Hansen’s only play may to help build a bridge to get to the NHL.
Michael Porter Jr., godson of Lorenzo Romar and son of Romar’s new assistant, Michael Porter Sr., said he is committing to the University of Washington. He’s ranked No. 4 in ESPN’s top 100 for 2017.
Clippers owner and onetime partner of Chris Hansen, Steve Ballmer told a sports-tech conference that Seattle’s only hope for an NBA return was to go poaching for an NBA team with a short lease.