Sunday’s loss was the 45th for Felix Hernandez in which he gave up one run or less. No pitcher in baseball history has had a more futile career so young. But he’s turned 30. Do the Mariners hear his clock?
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.
The Mariners had a throwback weekend against the Oakland A’s — to the offense in 2015. A 2-1 defeat Sunday to another obscure starter left a clubhouse full of shrugs.
Dae-Ho Lee’s mammoth home run was the lone baseball firework on Opening Night for the Mariners, who fell 3-2 to a ninth-inning rocket launched by the Oakland A’s.
Scott Servais is a baseball lifer, a big-league catcher for 11 seasons, then a coach and personnel guy before taking his first managerial job at any level with the Mariners in October. But just because a fella has been on lots of flights doesn’t mean he knows how to fly the plane.
The shame of MLB’s longest absence from the playoffs is upon the Mariners. But new GM Jerry Dipoto’s work at the top and bottom of the organization suggests serious change is afoot.
Evidence was provided to a city council committee that vacating Occidental would not have big impact. The Port of Seattle would be better served by carrying its fight to another street.
The intensity of Kelsey Plum, the guts of Katie Collier, the versatility of Chantel Osahor are part of the remarkable story of the Washington women’s hoops team that is in the Final Four.
March Madness pools are innocent fun to most, but the nation’s biggest annual gambling orgy can cause lots of awkwardness and trouble in the workplace. Right, Rick Neuheisel?
The Mariners are still dreaming of a remodeled KeyArena, but a letter from their law firm suggests a willingness to accept a Sodo arena, provided a list of conditions are met.
Once they flashed a few games of promise, Marquese Chriss and Dejounte Murray were so done with college basketball. If they make it to a second contract, the cash in the NBA will be astounding.