Dominic Leone, just called up from Tacoma, was last man left in Mariners bullpen. He gave a bases-loaded walk in the 12th that cost the game, but the offense let the misdeed happen.
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.
After Russell Wilson’s agent said the Seahawks QB is “absolutely fine” with playing out his contract, and since Seahawks’ payroll flexibility would improve . . . why not?
Chambers Bay near Tacoma will host the most significant sports event in Northwest history. Bring your golf questions to World Trade Center Seattle June 10 for a splendid happy hour.
No laments detectable. The Seahawks in their first practice Since XLIX were amped. But Wilson was a no-show to attend the funeral of someone close to new TE Jimmy Graham.
In an interview with KJR, developer Chris Hansen spoke confidently about the Sodo project’s chances, admitted no deal was in hand for an NHL team and dismissed a rival in Tukwila.
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After all the fury and bluster by Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots claimed to be serving the greater NFL good Tueaday when said he would not appeal penalties.
For all the bellyaching about other hitters in the lineup, it is the falloff with Robinson Cano that is biggest problem with the Mariners offense.
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