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 then [...]

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 a [...]

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 range [...]

Chris Burke, acquired from the San Diego Padres just before the season started as an insurance policy at multiple positions, has been sent back to San Diego to assume their backup shortstop vacancy.
Terms of the deal have not been made public as far as I know, but chances are that the Padres just returned the [...]

I haven’t done a great job at running this site lately.  Some combination of good weather, the NBA playoffs, family outings and some monetary issues have me spending very little time watching baseball.  Excuses aside, I’ll at very least pass on some good stuff from the big guys of the Mariner blogosphere (just in case [...]

I haven’t watched either of the last two games in their entirety; just too much going on, but here are a couple talking points.

Last night’s version of Wlad Balentien looked 100% like the 2008 version.  With the bases loaded Saunders just threw changeup after changeup off the plate and Wlad couldn’t figure out how to [...]

Kenji Johjima —-> 15-day DL
Jaime Burke —-> 25 & 40-man rosters
Matt Tuiasosopo —-> AAA Tacoma
Sean White —-> 25 & 40-man rosters
Even though Jeff Clement is struggling with the bat I’d still like to see him up with the ballclub while Kenji is out, or maybe even Adam Moore.  It would be nice to get some [...]

From Larry Stone’s blog post about African-American players in the MLB:
Cleveland: OF Ben Francisco, OF Grady Sizemore
Sizemore?