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It’s Time Umpires Are Held Acountable

  I crave justice. I’m sure everyone has their own opinions on the events that occured the other night. While both parties were in the wrong, only one is being held accountable publicly. If…Read More

Fansided/BBA Manager of the Year obligatory post…

As being a member of the BBA I have an annual vote in the Manager of the Year category. Last year I kind of let it go to waste, simply because I was lazy. I’m deciding not to allow that to happen…Read More

End of Season Word Association with Jon Shields

This is part two of this series. Last time, we talked with Kirby Arnold of the Everett Herald. I sent out an invitation to five members of the local media and five members of the local blogosphere. I…Read More

Safeco Field Tax Ends

Huzzah! Taxes suck because it’s less money in our pocket. So, this can only be a good thing, right? Four years ahead of schedule, the half percent food tax and two percent car rental tax has come…Read More

The Past Doesn’t Determine the Future

Have you ever made an uncharacteristic mistake? Did you forget the cover letter on your TPS report? Did you pay a credit card bill late? Did mess things up with that girl you like when she did nothing…Read More

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Ichiro: Just For Fun

Let me start by saying: I don’t think it’ll happen. The odds are extremely stacked against…Read More

Draft and Roster Move Q&A

Since last night’s flurry of draft signings, I’ve had some of my buddies who think I’m…Read More

Saturday Cup of Mojo: Felix the Copy Cat, Steve Balboni and More

It’s Saturday morning. You’ve got your paper and eggs. All you need now is your Cup of MoJo…Read More

Line-ups and Splits

I have MLB.tv. Living in Montgomery, Alabama it’s a near essential if I want to follow the Mariners…Read More

Marcus Littlewood And What We know…

A smart person once said write what you know and as someone recently reminded me I don’t really…Read More

Poll: Mariner Minor League All-Stars

With the Minor League All-Star break already upon us I thought it a good idea to take a quick poll about…Read More

Bigger than the game

There are two news items that came up today that, at least to me, are much more important than any games…Read More

MLB.com Headlines

In other news … I’m kind of into jpegs right now.

Mariners 2011 All-Joy-Team

So of course Carson Cistulli is doing his 2011 Team Joy Squad over at Fangraphs and I really like this…Read More

Tempering the Excitement on Erik Bedard

Harrison’s post the other day on Erik Bedard got me thinking. Just how excited should we be that…Read More

Again, Seriously?

Yep, like that crazy ex-girl friend that you just want to get rid of, I’m back! Well unless your…Read More

FanSided Staff All-Division Team

Today I begin collaboration with the other AL West FanSided bloggers on a consensus all-division team.…Read More

Exactly how bad were the 2010 Mariners? A lesson in the flaws of pythagorean projections.

We all know the Mariners were bad, but exactly how bad were they? If you read Geoff Baker’s blog on…Read More

How good are the 2011 Mariners?

I had an interesting result when I looked at trying to figure out a prediction for the 2011 Mariners…Read More

Correlations Between Dustin Ackley and Realistic Expectations

There are those who see a top prospect like Dustin Ackley and expect the worst.  He’ll bust. …Read More