Home run production freakish for a 41-year-old has Raul Ibanez chasing the legendary Ted Williams. In the absence of contention, it’s what the Mariners have this summer.
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 going 0 for 2 in pursuit of sports teams for this winter, the Seattle imagination wanders to how it came to be, and how it might continue to be.
Minnesota rep calls out Goodell and Snyder on Redskins’ nickname: “Would they greet a group of tribal leaders by saying, ‘Hey, what’s up, redskins?'”
Notes from the disabled list: What a supposedly waterproof sportswriter thinks when he breaks his first bone, and the plant to break new ground.
The most prized free agent last winter, Josh Hamilton, is having an epic fail with the Angels. Imagine if he were part of Mariners futility, as the bosses wanted, for $100 million-plus.
A federal-court hearing Thursday in Oakland begins a long-awaited public challenge of the NCAA’s defense of amateurism in college sports. Much is at stake.
Mayor met two weeks ago with a potential buyer of NHL-owned Phoenix Coyotes, who may available for relocation. But KeyArena has 11,000 seats for hockey.
In the welter of injuries, misjudgments and disappointments that have followed the Mariners in 2013, making Dustin Ackley an outfielder is finally something that makes sense.
The Seahawks’ precocious QB and his coach are certain there will be no falloff in productivity when Wilson faces the formidable task of topping himself.
Jim Harbaugh can’t wait for the season. The 49ers coach said if the Seahawks “are cheating to win, then they’ve already lost.” He says his team wants to “be above reproach.”