Best Game Ever

I posted it last night on Facebook and I feel the same way this morning – Game 6 of the World Series was the best game I’ve ever seen. The Cardinals won 10-9 to force a Game 7 tonight in St. Louis. If you’re like me, you have no idea how they won. They were down to their last strike twice – the first time in the ninth inning...

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Ex-Mariners Galore On Playoff Baseball Teams

It didn’t really hit me until last night when I saw Willie Bloomquist and Yuniesky Betancourt on the flat screen at La Fuente in the Renton Highlands while I was having a Cadillac Margarita. There sure seem to be a lot of former Mariners who are playing postseason baseball. Why did Bloomquist and Betancourt stand out above the...

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When Losing Has Its Upside

With football season under way, no one’s talking about the Mariners anymore so I’ll keep this short. They lost their fifth consecutive game last night, 7-3 to the Angels. It seems like they’re always playing the Angels and always losing to the Angels. Maybe that will change tonight with Felix on the mound, but the Angels...

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Smoak On the Water! A Fire in the Sky

I had just gotten home and figured that Baltimore’s Jeremy Guthrie must be pitching a heck of a game since the Mariners were scoreless through seven innings. Or he might have been pitching an average game – you never know with the Mariners; with their bats, they can go scoreless against any pitcher at any time. They...

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And I Wrote What About Carlos Peguero?

Sometimes – and with me it seems like it’s way too many times - I’m wrong about stuff. Case in point – Carlos Peguero. Yesterday in a seattlepi.com column, I wrote about the Mariners’ impotent left fielders and included the following paragraph about Peguero: “For reasons that make absolutely no...

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