It all worked for Felix Hernandez Wednesday. It all worked for the Mariners. It rarely happens that way in Seattle. Do not lose sight of the majesty of the moment.
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.
Any chance that the Seattle City Council will vote on Chris Hansen’s arena proposal before a summer recess has passed. Negotiations are continuing and any vote will happen after the Labor Day holiday, according to a post on the blog of Tim Burgess, the council’s finance committee chair overseeing the project.
Shortly after July 23 trade of Ichiro to the New York Yankees, Michiko Yamauchi, wife of Mariners’ majority owner Hiroshi Yamauchi, died in Kyoto, Sportspress Northwest learned from Japanese news sources. No cause of the July 29 death was reported. The Mariners had no comment. Since 1992, Yamauchi, 84, has owned 55 percent of the
NBC is always picked on for shortfalls in Olympics coverage. But when the net sticks a landing, as it did with the documentary on WW II London Saturday, award the medal.
Two football favorite sons return, both better for having moved on, except for maybe Saturday when they get to experience the wrong side of the NFL’s best home-field advantage.
The Huskies and their coach, Steve Sarkisian, were blown away by a third injury to RB Deontae Cooper, which might explain the intolerance for a dumb move by a teammate.
Seattle has had its share of sports knuckleheads, from Vince Coleman to Jerramy Stevens. Now comes T.O., who claims to be humbled. He also said it’s about action, not words.
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said that Owens, 38, “was hungry and humble” in a workout Monday, and also knows if he screws up, he’s gone.
Huskies footballers begin fall drills heavy with questions on defense and light of heart about the presence of brilliant quarterback Keith Price.
The stars whined about the the officating, but the Galaxy had much bigger problems with the Sounders.