James Paxton topped the 16-K feat in his last start with a no-hitter Tuesday in his home and native land against the Blue Jays. It was his first career complete game.
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.
The Shohei Showdown Sunday went to Ohtani, the Angels’ Japanese sensation who out-pitched the Mariners’ former ace, Felix Hernandez. This will continue to be a problem.
Seahawks release Cliff Avril after his neck injury Oct. 1 ended his season. Meanwhile, Pete Carroll pushed back against remarks from Richard Sherman and Michael Bennett.
Some in Mariners ownership wanted Ichiro to stay for the season, but the baseball realists prevailed. Then came an exit ramp of equal parts grace and awkwardness.
Earl Thomas has professed his love for the Seahawks and Seattle, but after he wasn’t traded, he’ll have to decide between affection and top-of-market money.
The Seahawks filled considerable holes on the offense during free agency and the draft, but now it’s the defense that seems booked for decay in 2018.
The Seahawks draft of Shaquem Griffin wasn’t exactly a shock, but it was exactly a thrill and an inspiration in times that are desperate for both.
Led by the extraordinary Shaquem Griffin, the Seahawks’ seven-player haul on the draft’s final day Saturday had plenty of unusual story lines.
With no acceptable offers, the Seahawks kept Earl Thomas and added 20-year-old DE Rasheem Green from USC Friday in the third round.
As usual, the Seahawks traded back in the first round, and again pulled a surprise — RB Rashaad Penny of San Diego St., who does well what Marshawn Lynch did best.