The Seahawks QB told HBO’s Bryant Gumbel he’s serious about playng major league baseball, saying Rangers GM Jon Daniels encouraged the idea. Gotta find leverage somewhere.
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.
Pats get their champions’ visit to White House Thursday. When last seen, however, owner Robert Kraft was helping convict one of his highest-paid players on a murder charge. Awkward . . .
Seahawks GM John Schneider admiires Russell Wilson’s ambitions, but doesn’t quite see yet how Wilson could make pro baseball work while being an NFL QB.
Russell Wilson threw out a another tease, this one on HBO — he really wants to find a way to play baseball AND football. How about if he reduced his pay for permission to play?
Departures of an assistant coach and three players have pushed the Washington program into a crisis. The solution may not fit with coach Lorenzo Romar’s standards.
In Seattle Wednesday, new MLB commissioner Rob Manfred talked of his good fortune in arriving at a time of no major threats. But drawing youth to the game remains a long-term problem.
Against the Los Angeles Angels in the season opener at Safeco Field, the Mariners were mid-season clinical — dominant pitching, timely offense, flawless defense.
Upon his hire, McClendon the Prophet foretold a golden era of Mariners success. He was tracking right last season. Looks like he’s going to go Nostradamus on the 2015 season.
13 years into the playoff drought, Mariners bosses finally deliver on what was needed: Buying the players the franchise was unable to grow.
If Zags had won, they had a shot to join Seahawks and Oregon Ducks in a rare NW realm — finishing 2nd nationally. No trophy, but the vision of empire is fairly shared.