Jarran Reed’s six-game suspension is the sort of thing that cuts the margin of error for the Seahawks, a team that could just as easily have been 6-10 last season.
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.
Before his racist tweets, Trump suggested protesting NFL players should leave. He doesn’t care about the difference between dissent and disloyalty. Some of us do.
The NFL Monday suspended DT Jarran Reed for six games after an episode of domestic violence more than two years ago that resulted in no arrest.
Finally, good Mariners news: Edgar Martinez joins the Baseball Hall of Fame Sunday. Just when you think you know the story, along comes this book . . .
The Mariners’ 2019 carcass likely will be picked clean of veteran talent by the July 31 trade deadline. Which leaves, well, the Sept. 1 callups as the final reason to pay attention.
One of the 100 greatest players in NHL history and a two-time Stanley Cup champion, Ron Francis will become the Seattle NHL expansion team’s first GM.
Talks aimed at a new collective bargaining agreement are underway in the NFL. The most controversial idea is an 18-game schedule, with a 16-game limit per player. What?
Never shy, Clippers owner Steve Ballmer upended the NBA again, this time acquiring two big stars for a title run. Perhaps thinking about Paul Allen, he doesn’t want to wait.
At the same time USWNT was making a statement at the World Cup about pay equity with men, MLB continues to pay its minor leaguers worse than summer interns.
The Mariners were beaten Sunday nearly before the anthem finished. But for a club that leads MLB in roster turnover, it didn’t really matter. The season is about “little victories.”