The best happy-hour Seahawks talk is on tap Sept.10 at the World Trade Center Seattle. Join Art Thiel for a casual but wildly informative/provocative/amusing take on the 2015 season.
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 Seahawks opened the exhibition season with 22-20 loss to the Denver Broncos, and they also lost three players to injury. But Tyler Lockett . . . oh my. Even Carroll momentarily went nuts.
With 6-7 Jimmy Graham in with fellow TE Luke Willson at 6-5, the Seahawks can potentially deploy them with 6-5 WR Chris Matthews and take every rebound north of the Portland Trail Blazers.
McClendon, smiling, said he would have “been gone with” Iwakuma had his No. 2 starter been traded. Somehow, the Mariners did right by doing nothing, and prospered on one glorious day.
The play destined never to be forgotten by any creature who bore witness — dogs and cats are people too, you know — gets an amusing makeover with Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch as the star in the premier episode of The League on FX this season.
Irked with Seahawks’ decision not to pick up his option year, LB Bruce Irvin added 18 pounds of muscle and “learned to be a pass rusher.” He might play himself into a superstar.
The winningest pitcher in Mariners history, Jamie Moyer won over many more people with a poignant salute to those who helped him; but his old team imploded with an eight-run 11th inning.
Questions about Huskies are many. But they are certain to open in Idaho in three weeks as 10-point underdogs to Boise State. The only part Petersen likes about it is that he’s an underdog.
From Buffalo, Percy Harvin says Seahawks WRs were big meanies to him, even though he punched out Doug Baldwin, who said he thought things were settled with Harvin. Riiiight.
As Chancellor dithers in a nearly hopeless holdout, obscure backup DeShawn Shead, an undrafted free agent out of Portland State, gets his temporary moment in the sun.