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May 25, 2012
Five Things the Mariners Should Consider Doing with Chone Figgins
Oh, Chone Figgins. The Mariners can't win with you, and the team doesn't seem inclined to lose without you. With Casper Wells sent down to Tacoma yesterday to make room for the mighty return of Miguel Olivo, the team squandered yet another chance to rid itself of the most glaring blemish on GM Jack ... More >>
Arts
May 23, 2012
The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events
Oh, Chone Figgins. The Mariners can't win with you, and the team doesn't seem inclined to lose without you. With Casper Wells sent down to Tacoma yesterday to make room for the mighty return of Miguel Olivo, the team squandered yet another chance to rid itself of the most glaring blemish on GM Jack ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2012
10 Essential Summer Road Trips (With Stops For Sports Fans, Socialists, and Punks)
Ah, yes. The weather is getting good out there, just in time for one of America's favorite pastimes: the good ol' road trip. Right, the gasoline is inexplicably more expensive in the West right now than just about anywhere else in the country. But that shouldn't stop you. Instead, make the best of ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2012
Comment of the Day: Sports in Seattle Suck, and So Do $10 Beers
Yesterday, inspired by the smallest crowd in Safeco Field history for Wednesday night's Mariners game, we took to Daily Weekly in a (humorous) attempt to dissect the attendance problem.
Blogs
April 19, 2012
About That Pitiful Crowd at Safeco Field for Last Night's Mariners Game
In case you missed it (and, let's be honest, most people did), last night's crowd at Safeco Field was small ... like, really small. Like the smallest in ballpark history. And the poor showing has people talking ...
Blogs
April 12, 2012
Cleveland Will Rock: It's Always Been About the Songs
I have a mishmash of topics that I thought should be discussed among ourselves here. We love books here-- that has become very evident. Sports? Well, some of you can get on board. There's also a happening in Cleveland this weekend. Let's start at the top: Baseball! Optimism! Hey, Seattle! Check ou ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2012
Watch Today's Arena Proposal Announcement Live
At 11:45 a.m. this morning Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, along with King County Executive Dow Constantine and uber-rich hedge-fund manager Chris Hansen will deliver an announcement on Hansen's Sodo arena proposal. While there's a good possibility they'll touch on concerns about the project recently rai ... More >>
Music
April 4, 2012
Duff McKagan: Where Are the Local Hits?!?!?
It's time to look beyond the Jungle. (OK, just a little bit.)
Music
April 4, 2012
The Dogfather
The enduring legacy of Gregg Greene, the man who let the dogs out.
Music
April 4, 2012
Answers & Advice: Coming to America
John Roderick goes around the horn with the M's latest Japanese export.
Music
April 4, 2012
Editor's Letter: Play Ball, Punks!
Where sports and art go together like strikes and . . . gutters.
Blogs
April 4, 2012
Howard Lincoln Should Shut Up About the Sonics' Arena
The CEO of the Seattle Mariners bitching about possibly having to share a neighborhood with an NBA and NHL arena is like a registered sex offender complaining about the nice young couple building a house next door.
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April 4, 2012
Mariners vs. Oakland A's
The CEO of the Seattle Mariners bitching about possibly having to share a neighborhood with an NBA and NHL arena is like a registered sex offender complaining about the nice young couple building a house next door.
Blogs
April 3, 2012
Roderick & Iwakuma, Vol. II: On Ichiro, Figure Skating, and Catching the Groundhog
For this month's Answers & Advice column, we invited the Mariners' new relief pitcher, Hisashi Iwakuma--who's making his major-league debut with Seattle after a cJohn Roderickareer in Japan--to send Roderick a few queries about his American hometown. The full column runs in the April issue of Reverb ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2012
Questions for Roderick Courtesy of The Mariners' New Relief Pitcher, Hisashi Iwakuma
For this month's Answers & Advice column, we invited the Mariners' new relief pitcher, Hisashi Iwakuma - who's making his Major Leage debut with Seattle after a career in Japan - to send Roderick a few queries about his American hometown. The full column runs in the April issue of Reverb Monthly, wh ... More >>
Blogs
March 27, 2012
Worst Move in Mariners History? Tino Martinez to the Yankees, Says Shipwrecked Author Jon Wells
From the Heathcliff Slocumb catastrophe to the regrettable departure of Ken Griffey Jr., the Mariners have made some monumentally awful trades over the years. But the worst move, according to Jon Wells, author of a new book about how the team's front office values "profits over pennants," was sendin ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2012
Hey, Let's Play Ball (And Some Local Music While We're At It)
Ah... it is finally that time of year. Spring training is well under way in Arizona and Florida and, at long last, the official regular season of America's favorite pastime will soon be under way. It's Baseball season!! If I haven't been clear of this before, it should now be clearly known that I a ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2012
Watch New Mariners Commericals and Vote for Your Favorite
The Mariners will hit off the MLB 2012 season on March 28th (playing in Japan against Oakland for some reason) and the players warming fans up with new commercials. See which commercial hits it out of the park and, after you make up your mind, you'll get to vote on your favorite.
Blogs
March 7, 2012
The Kingdome's Original Dugouts and Benches Are For Sale on eBay
Do you love the Mariners, and have a spacious man-cave? Looking to trade your couch for a less comfortable but infinitely more kick-ass seating arrangement? Have a few thousand extra dollars burning a hole in your pocket? If you answered yes to those three questions, the old benches and dugouts from ... More >>
Food
February 8, 2012
Seattle Weekly's Drinking Issue
From news to reviews, an issue saturated in booze.
Blogs
January 6, 2012
Ichiro: "I Felt Desperate Last Season"
It is no secret that at times Ichiro Suzuki has stirred angst in the Seattle Mariners clubhouse. There have long been whisperings that he's not a team player, that he lives by one set of rules and his teammates by another, that he could have been more of a prolific base-stealer and run producer, dri ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2011
Greg Halman, Slain Mariners Outfielder, Was Buried in His M's Jersey
Murdered Mariners outfielder Greg Halman was laid to rest today in his native county of The Netherlands. Shannon Drayer at the Mariner's Blog gives this account of the service, related from attendees.
Blogs
September 15, 2011
2011: The Mariners' Best Bad Year
With the exception of a few glorious years in the mid-to-late nineties and early aughts, the Seattle Mariners indisputably rank among the most hapless Major League Baseball franchises of all time. Hence, the true diehard Mariner fan must be trained to view even seasons in which the club finis ... More >>
Blogs
September 5, 2011
The Most Exciting Restaurant Openings This Summer
The summer of 2011 didn't suffer from a shortage of restaurant openings that excited local eaters; people lined up at Potbelly's, for Pete's sake. But a few openings were especially significant. Here, a list of the restaurants which could prove most meaningful for the Seattle dining scene.
Blogs
August 18, 2011
The Dog Days of Summer Bark for Beer at Norm's
Curtis Cartier/Seattle WeeklyDublin prefers GuinnessThe Watering Hole: Norm's Eatery & Ale House, 460 N. 36th St., Seattle (Fremont) 547-1417. The Atmosphere: The first word of advice for walking into Norm's in downtown Fremont is to look down. Because as perhaps Seattle's most dog-friendly ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2011
~~Free~~ Cheap Tuition, and 9 Other Reasons You REALLY Know Atlanta Is Not Seattle...
Joe WilliamsIt's been three months since I first arrived in Seattle, and though I'm foaming at the mouth to stay in the Northwest, my education calls. It's a bittersweet departure: I'm not looking forward to 95-degree heat, but I'll be binge-eating Chick-fil-a chicken biscuits for two weeks, ... More >>
Blogs
August 8, 2011
With Booming Bats & Weak Arms, the Tacoma Rainiers are the Bizarro Seattle Mariners
Since Jack Zduriencik took over as the Seattle Mariners' general manager a couple years ago, he's stuck to a consistent sermon: Exceptional defense and pitching trump the crack of the bat as the key to winning. And at Safeco Field, a notoriously bad park for power-hitters, that may well be tr ... More >>
News
July 20, 2011
Poet's Park
Why doesn't Seattle have a green space for writers?
Blogs
July 20, 2011
Gigantic $1 Billion Radar Chugs Through Elliott Bay at 9 MPH (But It Isn't Leaving Yet)
Theoretically, if Felix Hernandez could pitch a baseball toward Seattle from 2,500 miles away, the giant James Bond-looking platform floating in Elliott Bay could detect it as it approached the U.S. The platform, a Sea-Based X-Band Radar, is a $900-million addition to the Missile Defense Age ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2011
More Mariners Bad Luck? Kyle Seager Has Heart Condition...
Image sourceAfter dominating every level of the minor leagues, 23-year-old Kyle Seager was promoted earlier this week after only 12 impressive games at AAA Tacoma to play third base for the Mariners. He made his major-league debut last night against the Angels, but went hitless and struck out ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2011
The Sound(s) of My Summer: From Glasvegas and the Saints to Prince and Band of Skulls
Band of SkullsDuff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His sports column on ESPN.com runs every Wednesday.It has come to my attention that whilst I have been away, Seattle Weekly has been having "guest writers" chime in with what is on their iPod's "Top 10" list. Thought this was ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2011
We Don't Recycle, and 9 Other Reasons Atlanta Is Not Seattle
No, we don't actually call it "Hotlanta." It's nearing on two months since I left the Peach State in search of something less hot and more liberal. Since this is my first time to the Northwest, and the Atlanta Braves are in town to show the Mariners a thing or two about baseball, I figured I' ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2011
Dropkick Murphys Bring Their Concept Record and a Little Bit of Boston to the Paramount
Dave LakeDropkick Murphys Paramount Monday, June 27 The mere concept of a concept album is often enough to make most rock fans bristle (Kilroy Was Here, anyone?). Add punk rock to the mix and many fans will head screaming for the hills. But as Green Day proved in 2004 with American Idiot, an ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2011
The Erik Bedard Conundrum: To Trade or Not to Trade?
Image sourceErik Bedard is finally starting to redeem himself. After three frustrating, injury-plagued seasons and an 0-4 start to this year, he is once again pitching like the guy who finished fifth in the Cy Young Award voting in 2007, ahead of Roy Halladay, Justin Verlander, and Johann San ... More >>
Arts
June 8, 2011
Seattle's Best Art for Out-of-Towners
How to make the accessible enjoyable for your guests.
Blogs
May 31, 2011
Fisty Helps Wedgie Deal With Figgy Problem as Mariners Beat Orioles
Image sourceThe Mariners clawed their way back to a winning record with a gritty 4-3 win over the Orioles yesterday at Safeco Field. The victory came thanks to 7 1/3 stellar innings from Doug "Fisty" Fister and despite another atrocious performance from Chone "Figgy" Figgins, who struck out w ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2011
9 National League Pitchers Who Out-Hit the 2011 Seattle Mariners
Image sourceThe Mariners travel to San Diego tonight to take on their bitter interleague rivals the Padres, and they take with them one of the worst-hitting teams in baseball. Skipper Eric Wedge said it best earlier this week after his club tallied just two runs or fewer in seven of 14 games: ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2011
Skateboader Rob Dyrdek Helping Build New Seattle Skatepark
Meaty and Beefy-less in Seattle.Pro skateboarder and MTV reality show favorite Rob Dyrdek is in town for this weekend's Street League DC Pro Tour at Key Arena - which brings along with it some of the hottest names in skateboarding such as Ryan Sheckler, Paul Rodriguez, Brandon Biebel and Dav ... More >>
News
April 13, 2011
5 Reasons MLB Should Let Players Use Chewing Tobacco
Because it's not like they're smoking.
Blogs
April 13, 2011
Don't Trade Ichiro! Why The Mariners Should Never (and Will Never) Let Him Go
Image sourceYesterday on Daily Weekly, Mike Seely made the case that the Mariners ought to trade Ichiro to a contending team in exchange for a few blue chip prospects. Seely is of the opinion that the team only keeps Ichiro around because he's "the main draw" and, as a sparse Monday night cro ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2011
Trade Ichiro: Record-Low Crowds Remove the Only Reason to Keep Fan Favorite On the Mariners
For last night's phenomenal comeback win, which catapulted the Mariners to a 3-7 record, 13,056 fans reportedly showed up, breaking the record low of 14,543 set a few days earlier against the Orioles. We were there--the crowd was actually about half that. The Mariners are open about the fact ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2011
5 Reasons Why Major League Baseball Should Let Players Chew Tobacco
Image sourceOn March 28, 15 directors of public health from across the nation -- including David Fleming, the public health chief of Seattle and King County -- penned letters to Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and Michael Weiner, the director of the MLB player's association, aski ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2011
Maharaja: Seattle's Best-Smelling Sports Bar
Walk into the front door at West Seattle's Maharaja and you'll find a pretty typical Indian restaurant interior: lots of brown, yellow and orange paint and furniture, gaudy chandeliers, and a buffet table at the far end. Most nights, the dining room is pretty empty. But it doesn't really sou ... More >>
News
March 30, 2011
Hails From Hollywood
Emmy-winner Ken Levine is the new voice of the Mariners.
Calendar
March 30, 2011
$7-$95
Emmy-winner Ken Levine is the new voice of the Mariners.
Blogs
March 24, 2011
Forbes: Seattle Mariners Worth a Paltry $449 Million
If sports teams were sold based on a Forbes value analysis, a lady or gent with $1.7 billion could buy the New York Yankees franchise. But why do that when they could buy three Seattle Mariners franchises and still have $33 million to drop on say, a few of these.
Music
March 2, 2011
Macklemore + The Head and the Heart
Equal what's wrong with Seattle's appetite for sincerity.
Music
February 23, 2011
Macklemore's Moment
How a freckle-faced kid from Capitol Hill became Seattle's favorite rapper.
Blogs
February 8, 2011
Frosty Mugs & Postcard Views at the Athenian Inn
The Place: The Athenian Inn, 1517 Pike Place, 624-7166, athenianinn.com. The Hours: 4-7:30 p.m. The Deal: $2.50 frosty mugs of domestic draft beer (typically Busch or Budweiser), $3 wells, $3.99 appetizers (including fish & chips and elk sliders). The Digs: Business (diner) in front, part ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2010
The Seven Worst Days for Seattle Sports in 2010
Really, this post could have just been entitled "Your 2010 Seattle Mariners!" But that's lazy. And fails to account for the Seahawks' stupidest moment of the past year. And who would want to pass up a chance to make fun of Pete Carroll? (Answer: no one.) Let's talk trash about local sports, s ... More >>
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