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I’m not sure if I could have come up with a more boring headline for this one. I could have tried, but I have limited time on  my lunch break, and I’d rather devote it to the actual bulk of the post. This week has just been one hurdle after another, and I will be [...]

So the big news today is that Roy Oswalt is going to be a Ranger, and James Paxton has been placed on a short DL with a bruised knee. As awful as both of those things sound, neither of them seems to affect us in the immediate term, so while I feel like I should [...]

I haven’t been writing but I have been watching and listening. And this weekend has been  a soul crusher. Had I been in less of a hurry to get to sleep on Friday after the game to post, I would have posted the shot of Albert Pujols hitting a home run and left it at [...]

This one I was supposed to take care of ages ago, but Ryan got tickets to a game the day we were going to talk, then I got busy, then everything went completely nuts last week with my schedule, and now even with two games to actually go to this week, things are a little [...]

I’m writing this on virtually no sleep, and during tonight’s game, so if it sounds incoherent, forgive me. I was very wound up when I got home from last night’s hitfest, and just couldn’t shut my brain down, so I’ve spent all day today paying for it. You haven’t really lived until you’ve done my [...]

Well, this doesn’t look good. I approach the Rangers cautiously as far as thinking the Mariners will beat them, but I am still really jacked about this evening’s game. I will be headed to Hooverville later today to meet my friend Eric, the Red Sox fan. Tonight, though, even with a Boston hat on, Eric [...]

The Mariners had a good game last night against Colorado, and it was a pleasant surprise. And much-needed.  I am having a get-together at the house tonight, so I was not able to watch the entire game due to cleaning and getting things ready in general, but I did get to see most of it. [...]

This is what Ken Levine said, on air, during the 7th inning of today’s Mariners game in Cleveland. One of my co-workers telecommutes from Texas, and is a Rangers fan, so we have occasion to talk about more than just work, depending on the day. Today was one of those days, as Lucas Luetge loaded [...]

Per an early-game Tweet from Shannon Drayer, the Mariners did not get in any sort of pre-game field warmup due to rain in Boston. So I can sort of forgive the two runs in the bottom of the first, which came at the hands of the Green Monster and Casper Wells’ miscalculation of the bounce. [...]

I haven’t been writing a lot lately. Even if that wasn’t blatantly obvious by the fact that I know that the last time I posted here was five days ago, I just had to log myself back into this site, something that only happens after lengthy periods of inactivity. There have been several contributing factors [...]

As the Tigers and Mariners game started this evening and Justin Verlander and Kevin Millwood embarked upon what would start to feel like a tremendously long game, I fired up Gmail chat and pinged Moira Koskey down in Portland, OR. As Austin Jackson took a Millwood fastball for a 2B ride to center field, Moira’s [...]

So the interview thing with Ryan did not pan out yesterday – he wound up getting tickets to yesterday’s game, and I can’t blame a guy for wanting to see free baseball, not on a day like yesterday. I listened to the game on the radio while running errands around town, and am glad to [...]

Taking a break from my extremely busy work day to down some coffee in preparation for another long night. I used to be able to go to ball games, run home, upload my photos, go through them, crank out a blog post, go to sleep and feel fine the next morning. I think those days [...]

I have very little to say about the sweep. I listened to the post-game show today hosted by our very own Matt Pitman, and my biggest conflict right now is Brendan Ryan. My personal issue is simple; I don’t feel like we can risk having him out of the lineup, because we can’t afford having [...]

Well now I feel like a complete jackass. Hopefully anyone who is a regular here knows that I would never ever wish injury on anyone, not even my most hated player, not even my most hated player on my most hated team. I have joked about such things before, but find me a sports fan [...]