Why I have hope Beltre will return to the team
We’ve talked about this a little before, but here, from an article on Mike Lowell: Adrian Beltre, after a disappointing five-year run in Seattle, could come at a reasonable price for a team willing to chance that Beltre may yet have the thunder in his bat that he displayed with the Dodgers, for whom he hit 48 home runs in 2004. Were you disappointed in Beltre’s five year run here? I was not. He earned his money and then some. Anyone who thinks he was paid to repeat 2004, or that his value is dependent entirely on his ability to hit, is not giving the subject enough s

Mariner-related thanks
This is the first Thanksgiving holiday in a long, long time where I haven’t dreaded potential team news. Last year, I had hope, but we didn’t really know how things were going to go. And now, I feel like I could safely go on vacation for a week, or a month, and not come back to find that the team made some colossal error we’d be complaining about for years to come. Leaving me to concentrate on cooking crazy potato dishes. Muwahahahahahaha! So thanks for that, still-relatively-new Mariner front office. -- This post came from: U.S.S. Mariner, and is copyright by the authors. This RSS feed is intended for the person

Griffey’s deal details, to be accompanied by schmaltz
$2.35m base salary $3.9m if playing time >= 400 PA && attendance > 2.5m && Griffey’s DL stays = 0 This will be accompanied in all articles by descriptions of his miraculous effect on the team clubhouse and past glory with the team. -- This post came from: U.S.S. Mariner, and is copyright by the authors. This RSS feed is intended for the personal use of readers and not, for instance, spam blogs.Griffey’s deal details, to be accompanied by schmaltz

On bringing back the Bus
Ah, remember the good old days when we were putting out sales pitches for Jarrod Washburn, hoping some dumb team would bite? Good times. Well, now there’s talk he might return to Seattle. And his knee? You won’t believe this — couldn’t be better. “It feels great now, almost like I didn’t even have a surgery. So, I don’t see it being a problem for me in the future.” As if he was going to say something else. “It feels kind of weak and does

AFL Championship Game on MLB.com
Right now. It’s free. Recent 40-man addition Anthony Varvaro is starting and Dustin Ackley is leading off for the Javelinas. Why aren’t you watching this already? -- This post came from: U.S.S. Mariner, and is copyright by the authors. This RSS feed is intended for the personal use of readers and not, for instance, spam blogs.AFL Championship Game on MLB.com