Over lunch, the would-be pro hoops savior says he won’t be on the hook for road upgrades, why the building seats only 18,000 and what he’s looking for in ownership partners.
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.
Proposed arena developer Chris Hansen says adding a big road-improvement bill to his tab would make the project in SoDo “not viable.”
DE Bruce Irvin was on the first-round radar of few around the NFL draft. But after hearing him talk, everyone is going to know him very well very soon.
The Seahawks pulled off a stunner Thursday, taking Bruce Irvin, a 6-3, 248-pound defensive end from West Virginia who dazzled scouts with a 4.5-second time in the 40 yard dash, then disappointed many when he was arrested for breaking a sign at a sandwich shop. Most scouting services projected Irvin as second-rounder. He did himself
Seattle filmmakers’ hit documentary on the sordid Sonics saga goes from YouTube to cable TV this weekend on CNBC.
Coach Pete Carroll likes Texas A&M quarterback Ryan Tannehill. Which is fine, as long as he doesn’t use the Seahawks’ No. 1 draft pick on him. Send him chocolates or something.
A 3-6 homestand, including little bounceback after the perfect game Saturday, has left the Mariners floundering as they go on the road against tough opponents.
Mariners helpless against White Sox’s 29-year-old nearly forgotten man; Philip Humber was the next to last player on an Opening Day roster to get into a game.
The spectacular collapse of Sacramento’s arena deal likely means Kings will move after 2012-13 season. Vancouver makes sense — perhaps as a temp home prior to a move to Seattle.
A 5-3 win over the ubiquitous A’s gives the Mariners a 6-5 start and a moment to reflect that Jesus Montero might become what Jack Zduriencik dared to dream.