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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 still-young Seahawks defense qualifies as experienced now, meaning they know assignments and offenses so well they can go full-throttle without fear.
An open letter to the coach of the San Francisco 49ers. He can’t leave. He just can’t. Please. By all that is righteous and good in football in America, he cannot abandon us.
A burst of quality throws amid good pass protection Sunday gave Seahawks coach Pete Carroll a glimpse of what the offense could be like down the stretch.
The only people not stunned by the smothering of the Philadelphia Eagles offense were the Seahawks defenders, who saw it coming — as they did in February.
Ex-Seahawks FB Michael Robinson’s interview with Marshawn Lynch didn’t amount to much more than a conversation between friends.
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is all about fraternity and brotherhood among his current and former players and coaches. But he’s more about competing. Beware, Mark Sanchez. “I think the world of him and I’m really excited for his opportunities,” Carroll said Friday of the Eagles’ starting quarterback and his former QB at USC, who is waiting in Philadelphia for Sunday’s game. “We like to bang around a little bit if we get a chance. There’s nothing I like more than playing against people that I really care for. “I look forward to this.”
Nelson Cruz is thinks DH is “boring,” but that will be his main job as the Mariners assemble an offense that pitchers won’t be ashamed to take out in public.
Seahawks; Carroll and Eagles QB Mark Sanchez once had a public disagreement while both were at USC. Seahawks defense hopes to have a disagreement with Sanchez.
After being outwitted by Oakland and KC, the Mariners hope Cruz fixes the long problem at DH (how was that possible?) and their longer problem of missing the playoffs.