More than 40,000 flocked to Safeco Saturday to salute an emotional Lou Piniella, the manager who helped save baseball in Seattle and became a civic hero.
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 threat of lightning interrupted the game almost as much as the penalties (25 accepted) as the Seahawks’ nine-game win streak in preseason ended in Denver.
The Seahawks have won their last three meetings with Denver by a combined 113-28. Sure, two of the games didn’t count, but tell that to the Broncos.
A 7-3 win Wednesday over the Braves flashed some of the possibilities that the post-trade-deadline lineup has in coming up with an extra run or so a game.
Two key figures in Seahawks plans, LT Russell Okung and SS Kam Chancellor, are on schedule to recover from off-season surgeries.
The losses of Breno Giacomini and Michael Bowie leave a big hole at right tackle, where a rookie, Justin Britt, and three veteran newcomers will try to hang in against the Broncos.
A soft non-conference schedule may be the saving grace for coach Chris Petersen as he starts his first fall camp at Washington clueless about a starting QB.
After a mock-game scrimmage dominated by the defense, holding the offense to three field goals and no touchdowns, the Seahawks Saturday cut second-year RT Michael Bowie, a seventh-round draft choice last year who started eight games and was seen as versatile element in the offensive line depth.
Marshawn made a quiet entrance and exit at the Seahawks practice Friday, his first since settling his eight-day holdout with a big of a win-win outcome.
A’s acquisition of Jon Lester Thursday forced Tigers to match by acquiring David Price, leavingthe Mariners a quality CF in Austin Jackson. A trade that might work.