^This is how the last couple of games have appeared to me.  Seattle comes roaring along with some exciting rally, then the Rangers shut them down before you even know what happened. 

What a ballgame.  Mariners come back from a 7 run deficit to lead Texas 10-9 going into the bottom of the 9th.  Too bad J.J. Putz still isn’t the J.J. Putz we had last year and blew the save.  I guess Brandon Morrow won’t be starting this season after all.
Well, Johjima was injured, so maybe something […]

I’ve heard a lot of Mariner fans, myself included, ask why is Cairo hitting second?
While we may still be a bit confused on the matter, there is no doubt in Ichiro’s mind where Cairo should be hitting.  ”I personally think that Japanese make the best No. 2 hitters, but (Cairo) is as good as anyone […]

Seattle’s young ace King Felix Hernandez gave us some interesting things to talk about tonight.  First of all, as mentioned in an earlier comments thread, he miraculously went deep to right center field for a grand slam in the second inning off none other than Johan Santana.  Follow this link for video.  On a side […]

Tonight’s starting line might be the best of the year. The best in the last two years. Etc. If you haven’t heard of it, now is the time.
Felix Hernandez (6-5, 2.87 ERA) vs. Johan Santana (7-5, 3.04 ERA)
This promises to be a good one.

The Mariners crush the Braves in the opening game of the series 10-2 to give new skipper Jim Riggleman a win in his Mariners manager debut. The Mariners just flat out hit the ball in timely situations. It looked like it would be another long day when Beltre was robbed of a home run, but […]

Positive Note of the Month
Brandon Morrow has been off the charts. Last year, I would have been okay with a trade centered around Morrow. I was completely for it. I wrote an old post….
Brandon Morrow - Morrow does not have what it takes to be a starter, yet. It will take time. He pitched 3, […]

If a song were to describe the past 6 days, that song comes to mind. This roadstand was absolute destruction. The Mariners not only had their pride destroyed, but it was raped, abused, trampled. How much humiliation can one team endure? We’re about to find out. Boston comes to Seattle starting a 3 game series […]

Which team in the AL West has the distinct ability to fold once they find themselves losing 2-1 in only the 2nd inning?

Over the last 13 years of my life, I have never become uninterested in the Mariners. That is, until about the last week of April, 2008. I typically would watch all 9 innings of a game. When I would go to games, I would stay until the very last pitch, including the Cleveland double-header last […]

Can you believe that our Seattle Mariners are only 7.5 games back in the AL West?  With the way they’ve been playing I keep expecting to see that they’ve fallen to 10 or 15 games back already.  Seattle still has a shot thanks to sub-.500 play from the Angels and A’s.  7.5 games is a reasonable deficit […]

In 1965 Bruce Tuckman put together the Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing model of team building and development that is still taught in business classes today. 
If we follow this model, the Seattle Mariners spent all of Spring Training and April in the “forming” stage, which makes perfect sense because the team featured a lot of new faces, the bullpen […]

I’m not really sure what to write about anymore.  The starting pitching has been great overall.  The bullpen had some tough times, but you can’t pin too many losses on them.  The Seattle Mariners offense simply needs to produce more runs for the starters.
The additions of Jeff Clement and Wlad Balentien helped, but they’re rookies […]

I think I just developed a stomach ulcer.  J.J. Putz fails to slam the door, yet again, and memories of Seattle winning almost every game once leading after eight seem distant.
So what’s wrong with Putz?
Here is one of his walks from tonight:

First of all, tough ballgame tonight.  I missed most of it but when I got into my car I was greeted with something along the lines of this:
“…a high popup to shallow center, Ichiro settles under it and the carnage is over.”
Thanks to Dave Neihaus for that one.  That, of course, was referring to the […]

Sunday night: King Felix Hernandez dominates the Oakland Athletics for 7 innings, keeping them scoreless and striking out 10 while walking just 2.  He returns for the 8th inning and walks the first batter.  Then surrenders a double.  Then walks another batter.  Then surrenders a single that drives in a pair.  Tied ballgame.  Felix is […]