The Mariners coughed up a sweep. David Aardsma had his worst outing of the year, blew his first save, and exhibited the same shaky control he’s had all year, sans a dominating fastball. The bullpen and the pitching staff as a whole have been better than this all season. No need to worry. More...
When Brandon Morrow chose to exit the Mariners starting rotation, he all-but-ensured that either he or new General Manager Jack Zduriencik would also exit Seattle at some point in the near future.
For years I’ve debated with close friends, or anyone with a functional knowledge of baseball and a willing ear, about the overvalued closer position. The ignorance displayed by paying a guy over 10 percent of a team’s payroll to play less than five percent of a team’s defensive innings seems asinine to say the least.
Red Sox Nation, once thought of as a harmless "fan club" of the Boston Red Sox, has been exposed as a front for a terrorist organization.
The news comes as a result of Operation: Sodo Safety, an operation by Major League Baseball’s little known Department of Home Team Security (DOHTS), and the failed undercover work of an operative who disclosed information to the media under the alias he used while infiltrating Red Sox Nation, Jimmy Chowder. More...
When Ken Griffey, Jr. returned to Seattle in 2007, his first visit since the team traded him to Cincinnati, I thought I’d reached my emotional peak as a sports fan.
I bought tickets to the first and last game of Griffey’s return, a three-game series.
I spent the days leading up to the games avoiding thinking about them. If the Reds came on Baseball Tonight, I changed the channel. When the Mariners promoted the series, I changed the channel. When sports radio hosts More...
Alex Rodriguez is already one of the most hated players in baseball. It started when he left Seattle for a $252 million contract in Texas. It only escalated when he went to the Evil Empire in New York, and three years later cashed in for $275 million contract after opting out of the first contract.
But for the longest time, Alex Rodriguez was also still the shining hope in baseball to restore order to a tainted home run record, which he was and still in easily on pace to shatter. More
