Shed Long, whose first homer of the season was a walk-off grand slam Sunday to beat Tampa, is one of several young players making themselves assets with unexpected playing time. / Alan Chitlik, Sportspress Northwest As a member of the original 1977 expansion team, catcher Bob (Scrap Iron) Stinson didn’t contribute a lot to Seattle Mariners lore besides a cool nickname. He did say something memorable, to the point of unintended prophecy. During the first spring training in Tempe, AZ., he was asked by Seattle Times baseball writer Hy Zimmerman when he thought the Mariners would be eliminated from the…
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.
Fortunately, some things don’t change . . . much. / Victor Grigas, ShareAlike 3.0 After prevailing through a pandemic, many things look a little different — jobs, relationships, politics, food, the sweaty person in the airplane seat next to you. Then there’s the little stuff — like the future and the past.At first, we’re startled, often unpleasantly. As with starting a ghost runner at second base in the 10th inning of a deadlocked baseball game. Obviously, a crime against the spirit of Abner Doubleday. Then we try it out. I don’t know about you, but I have discovered, suddenly and…
Without having called a game in the NFL, new Seahawks offensive coordinator Shane Waldron has evolved into a mythical being of great wisdom and cunning. Yes, it’s June, but . . .
Players are barely halfway to complete vaccination, so the NFL and the union created new protocols for 2021 that put on the pressure. Seahawks have a ways to go.
Jamal Adams isn’t here, won’t be fined. After three surgeries and dealing with a family matter, the Seahawks safety isn’t a holdout. But there’s still time for the tradition.
Telling U.S. senators reform is “long, long overdue,” Mark Few wants the feds to create rules for paying players for use of their images. We’re about to find out soon about how.
In his first presser since The Disturbance, Russell Wilson claims all is well between him and the Seahawks. But he seems to recall things a little differently than most of us.
DK Metcalf, a just-turned 23, aspires to be “one of the greatest humans to walk the planet.” But first, the Seahawks prefer he would master the new Rams-style offense.
A split of four with the Angels leaves the raggedy-ass Mariners at 30-31, and that’s with prodigy Jarred Kelenic hitting .096. At least that one is solved — he’s Tacoma-bound.
The Tennessee Titans out-did the Seahawks for the services of WR Julio Jones, trading a 2022 second-rounder and a 2023 fourth-rounder for Atlanta’s star receiver.