Stuck with under-productive, expensive veterans, unproven youngsters and Ichiro’s unnatural fit at No. 3, Wedge is telling truth to power — always a dangerous thing with Mariners’ bosses.
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.
Even in soccer, where goals and are distributed with frequency nearly equal to Willy Wonka’s Golden Tickets, four consecutive shutouts in a row is a highly respectable stretch of defense. But that can’t be said definitively, because a season-high gathering of 39,312 at the Clink Saturday night did not get to witness four. Zeroes stopped
Searching for meaning on the first the first day of rookies’ padless football practice against air is barely more productive than looking for life on the moon from one’s porch. But one thing was plain Friday at Seahawks headquarters, even without a telescope — the scouts weren’t lying: Bruce Irvin is meteor-fast.
NBA commissioner predicts every team can be break-even in 3 years, which means that an investment is more reasonable, but also encourages teams to stay put.
Even if it was the Twins, the Mariners took two of three and showed that Kyle Seager is ready to make the Chone Figgins demotion only a financial pratfall, not a baseball flop.
Matt Flynn and Tarvaris Jackson are locked into a joust for Seahawks’ No. 1 QB. So far, everyone is terribly polite about the whole thing. Perhaps they will take a cue from politicians.
While David Beckham and Robbie Keane lounged in LA, Sounders strikers Eddie Johnson and Fredy Montero partied on the heads of the remaining Galaxy, which was more like a solar system.
Shocked, then dismayed, by the Seahawks’ pick of Bruce Irvin, the media punditry is waiting for the Seahawks to fail. Skepticism always greets disruption.
Proposed arena builder Chris Hansen wants to be majority owner of an NBA (not NHL) team because he thinks he can make “a big impact.” That won’t include showing off on the sidelines.
The controversial pick of Irvin adds more pressure to a life full of ordeals, self-inflicted and otherwise, of Bruce Irvin. It’s going to be one the great sagas in Seahawks history.