RHRP Roy Corcoran has been placed on the 15-day DL with a sprained neck.  Hard to tell if the DL stint is really necessary, but Seattle just wanted him to go away for a little while.  Taking his place is LHP Jason Vargas.  Vargas came over in the Putz trade and has been stellar in [...]

Chris Jakubauskas versus a fat, old Bartolo Colon resulted in a pitcher’s dual, so I guess Felix Hernandez against John Danks is going to be a slugfest. The White Sox caught a break on the Paul Konerko double.  If that ball didn’t take a weird bounce in the corner or if fan interference was called [...]

I don’t like Carlos Silva for the obvious reasons: sucks, paid too much, clubhouse cancer– but I also don’t like Larry LaRue, so I definitely got a kick out of a recent blog post of his.  Excerpt: Carlos Silva came out of the training room and I asked how his back was. He’d had spasms [...]

Part of the allure of baseball for me growing up was the goofy stuff that always seemed to be going on around the game.  The local video rental shop had a couple of baseball blooper videos that I must’ve convinced my mom to rent dozens and dozens of times. You know, bubble gum bubbles stuck [...]

As you surely know by now I haven’t been keeping up with the Mariners lately.  I’m not watching ballgames from start to finish, but every time I do manage to catch a couple of innings it seems like Yuniesky Betancourt is making some kind of miscue in the field. Here’s what we know:  One, Yuni’s [...]