Seattle & King County
Let's try Jeff Weaver at first base
Well, why not? He's big and can't be much worse than Richie Sexson at the plate. Pitchers get to bat during this road trip to National League parks.
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Enough of that dunk bunk: Let's try raising the basketball hoop
An experiment on Saturday in Seattle will see what a game with 11-foot rims would be like.
Seattle & King County
Keith Olbermann they're not
The tradition among game announcers for the Seattle Mariners and other teams is that the voices from the booth will flack any sponsor products or services called for by the script. Game-callers are particularly loyal, of course, to team-supporting sponsors. Evidently, this message loyalty now extend
Seattle & King County
If not for television, a W for UW
Those of us who were present with two eyes ranged from the hoi polloi to the highest echelons of state public life: at least one former guv (Booth Gardner) and the University of Washington's omnipresent Mark Emmert, "one of the best [college] presidents in the whole damn country," according to UW re
Seattle & King County
An apparent vacation over, the Mariners get back to work
And just in time. This week they take on the Angels and the Red Sox.