2011 Pre-Season Preview: AL West â€“ Seattle Mariners

March 23, 2011 by Jeffrey Brown · Leave a Comment

Staff ace, Felix Hernandez Seattle Mariners (2010 record: 61-101) Many pundits believed the Mariners could win the American League West last season â€“ I am numbered among those people. The joke was on us. Instead of making a run at the Angels and the Rangers, the Mariners turned in one of the more disappointing efforts […]

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Been Down So Long

April 17, 2010 by Ted Leavengood · Leave a Comment

A scant year ago, Jim Bowden departed Washington, DC with the Nationals baseball team as ruined as his reputation. Â Just as we tend to forget the desert at the first oasis, so the barren geography of hopeless losing was washed away this weekend as Matt Capps converted his first five save opportunities and up and […]

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Can’t Get No Satisfaction

March 26, 2010 by Ted Leavengood · Leave a Comment

Five days in the Florida sun watching baseball without commuting on Metro, conference calls from hell, or stereo political rhetoric. Â How can the crowds be so small down here when the grass is so green?

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