In the teams’ first meeting, Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch removed DT Darnell Dockett’s hat in an unseemly way. Payback Sunday should be fun to watch.
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.
When Robinson Cano said coming to the Mariners was because it was “like family,” my ooga horn went off. This is not not family. This is business. Try being honest with customers.
Carroll could barely contain his exuberance about the Seahawks defense as it leaped to the top of the NFL stats with the soul-crushing of the Giants.
Eli Manning and the Giants weren’t ready for the Seahawks defense, which didn’t notice it was missing three starters. And Wilson continues to rescue doomed plays.
The Mariners actually did it — something Howard Lincoln, baseball experts and many Mariners fans say they shouldn’t. But really, what do they have to lose?
The Giants area great example of the rise and fall of NFL teams. Over the past seven years, they have won the Super Bowl twice and missed the playoffs four times.
Dream job? For too many years after Don James, the Huskies’ football job often was close to a nightmare. Now, 21 years later, the gulf has been bridged.
The late gash by 49ers Frank Gore was an example of small things in a close game that become difference-makers. Seahawks should have stopped it, Carroll said.
Disclosures of Mariners’ management dysfunctions are the newest, not the first. Baseball knows; Wedge probably felt emboldened to be honest.
Penalties and a rare blocked punt were enough to sink the Seahawks in a game the 49ers had to have. But Seattle still in charge of its fate.