Thursday Thoughts

1. It is looking increasingly likely that the Mariners starting rotation down the stretch (and into the playoffs, if applicable), will be headlined by these three starters: I mean, I know about counting chickens and all that, but still. Assuming…

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Special Sauce

When I first got into baseball, the Oakland Athletics were my team. It’s hard to admit as a loyal baseball fan that I had a team before the Mariners, that my eternal and undying fanhood is not to my first…

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Top Nine Highlights and Lowlights for 2009

I’m thinking about compiling one of these for the decade too, but let’s look at what made 2009 great and not so great. In summation, looking back at this year, it’s been one of those seminal and all-encompassing annums. It’s…

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Life Just Keeps on Getting Better

Holy cow. The Mariners, apparently not satisfied with filling step one of my philosophy on baseball (stock your team with speedsters like Chone Figgins), are apparently a little bit of paperwork away from filling step two, which is to stock…

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Figgy!

Didn’t write a D&C today because the focus was on catching up on chapter 51, left unwritten yesterday because I was hanging out online with the Meppers all night. But it’s done and now I’m very excited that the number…

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The End of the Season

It’s October. There’s a lot of sleight of hand involved in October, but perhaps its greatest achievement is bringing an end to baseball season without generally making me upset about said end. Granted that the excitement of playoff baseball and…

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Ups and Downs

It’s been a crazy week on my home planet, one that presses the line of credibility to an extent. It seems all the books have major crises one after another, piling into one great crescendo that’s either cataclysm or triumph.…

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Mariners Baseball: A New Day, A New Way

Trying to ride Obama’s coattails into ticket sales? Trying to distance itself from the Bill Bavasi era? Trying to highlight an ABCABC three-letters-or-less rhyme scheme? Trying to simply point out that tomorrow is, indeed, another day? Whatever the motives behind…

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