Besides his extensive experience in the game, new Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto has dealt with oddball owners and stubborn managers. Talk about a fit for Seattle . . .
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.
Pete Carroll saw Central Michigan’s Thomas Rawls on video before the draft, and was all excited. Imagine his feelings after Rawls started Sunday and gained 104 yards subbing for the Beast.
Slowed by sluggish offense, the Seahawks leaned on defense and special teams against the disheveled Bears, who have a shot to be the NFL’s worst team.
Down 27-7, the Huskies had some comeback in them, but five turnovers and a passel of missed tackles were way too much to give 4-0 Cal and their star QB, Jared Goff.
To the surprise of almost no one, Seahawks SS Kam Chancellor looks ready to play in Sunday’s home opener against Chicago (0-2) . “He’s looked like he’s just in rare form,” Carroll told KIRO 97.3 FM Friday. “He’s been working out really hard. He’s really lean and ready to go. He was anticipating coming back,
With the angst over Kam Chancellor relieved, hand-wringers turn to the purported neglect of Jimmy Graham to explain the two-time defending NFCX champs’ 0-2 start.
Chancellor’s return was welcomed by many. But he can’t talk his way around having made his job and the job of the team much harder.
After a bad start, naturally, coach Pete Carroll sees no reason to panic: “Sometimes it has to get way hard before it gets really good.”
Apparently there is no minimum age requirement to play in the Huskies’ offensive line, even if the big-man portion of the schedule featuring all Pac-12 teams starts Saturday against Cal.
The Seahawks secondary is a mess — thanks, Kam Chancellor — and until they learn to trust one another, mistakes are going to keep them playing from behind.