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Cy Young Award

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    February 24, 2012

    What Lurks Inside a Box of Athlete-Endorsed Cereal?

    ​Kellogg's has been producing Frosted Flakes for 60 years, but the Michigan cereal manufacturer may lose a few local customers this baseball season. Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander, who last year became the first player since 1992 to win the Cy Young and MVP awards, this week introduc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Tim Lincecum, the Pride of Belltown, Doesn't Mind Taking It One Contract Year At a Time With SF Giants

    So what's up with Tim Lincecum? Well, it so happens the "The Freak" is about to cash in big on a one-year arbitration deal. He wants $21.5 million and the San Francisco Giants have countered with $17 million -- which breaks the record for most money sought and offered in arbitration for a player not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    The Erik Bedard Conundrum: To Trade or Not to Trade?

    Image source​Erik 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

    April 6, 2011

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

    Image source​Erik 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 >>

  • Calendar

    March 30, 2011

    $7-$95

    Image source​Erik 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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    The Five Best Days for Seattle Sports in 2010

    ​Yesterday we gave you the Seven Worst Days for Seattle Sports in 2010, a list that was unsurprisingly top heavy with Mariners misadventures. Today we try to do the opposite: count down the best days for Seattle sports in the past year. And man was today's list a lot harder to compile.

  • 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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Felix Hernandez Wins AL Cy Young Award: Too Bad the Rest of the Team Still Sucks

    ​Felix Hernandez might as well have told the rest of the Mariners to stay at home when he pitched. With the lowest amount of run support in the big leagues and the fewest number of wins (13) of any top pitching-award contender, he didn't have the normal bona fides of a classic Cy Young winner. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Benching Felix a Final Fuck You to Mariner Fans

    ​In explaining his decision to have ace pitcher Felix Hernandez skip his final start of the season, Mariner general manager Jack Zduriencik called it a "precautionary move," adding that "one more start shouldn't make much of a difference" in terms of its impact on Hernandez's Cy Young Award ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Target Practice: Chone Figgins, in a Season of Disappointments, Is the Mariners' Biggest

    I'll repeat: 5'8''. Goes by "Chone."​Target Practice is our daily aim at a hypocritical politician, worthless law or random nincompoop who deserves a bit of buckshot in the backside. When the Mariners signed former Los Angeles Angels third basemen Chone Figgins to a four year, $36 million con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    Milton Bradley Says He's Baseball's Kanye West

    Yo Zach Grienke, I'm really happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but King Felix had one of the greatest K/9 rations of all-time!​Milton Bradley may have a little trouble accepting responsibility for his actions. The Mariners newest left fielder is, after all, the guy who recently blamed Chi ... More >>

  • News

    February 3, 2010

    Statistical Heat

    Despite positive steps since last season, the computers say the M’s have their work cut out for them.

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    If Lincecum Gets His $13 Million, He'll Have Felix to Thank

    "Are you sure you don't deserve double what the Giants are offering you, Tim?"​Felix Hernandez has reportedly signed a five-year, $80 million extension with the Mariners, and UW grad Tim Lincecum has filed for arbitration in an attempt to settle a dispute with his employer, the San Francisco G ... More >>

  • News

    January 13, 2010

    Saluting the Unit

    The real appeal of Randy Johnson.

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    Remembering Randy Johnson's Black-and-Blue Collar Appeal

    The Big Unit will doubtless be the only Hall-of-Famer to have rocked a greasy, curly mullet in his prime.​With Randy Johnson's retirement yesterday and Edgar Martinez's coming up well short in today's Hall-of-Fame balloting, it appears that it will be the former who will be the first player to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    The Sun Won't Come Out for Morrow, Whom We Can Now Officially Brand a Bust

    Now, imagine this jersey with "Blue Jays" on the front.​When you look back on Brandon Morrow's Mariner career, what will you remember most? Will it be his near-unhittable streak as a flamethrowing late reliever in 2008? His first start later that summer, when he flirted with a no-hitter agains ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    And Now a Few Words From the One Pundit Who Doesn't Have a Raging, Mega-Huge Hard-On Over the Cliff Lee Trade

    Vladi-dadi, he likes to party -- and the M's had best sign him.​Cliff Lee's an easy guy to fall in love with. He's a throwback lefty with at least four pitches, amazing control, and a tendency to actually complete games. He's good-looking, charmingly candid, and comes to the M's at the insanel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Cliff Lee and Jake Locker Make for Hot Stove Day During Cold Seattle Winter

    Cliff Lee: Almost definitely not Erik Bedard 2.0.​This year has featured more than its fair share of rainy days for the Seattle sports fan. The Seahawks can't stay healthy. The Mariners won more than they should have and still finished in third place. The Huskies won five more games than last ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Seattle Blogs: Bill Gates Plays Role of Jesus in Arkansas Secular's Version of a Nativity Scene

    Every manger scene could use its own billionaire.​The best of what the Seattle blogosphere has to offer. - The Microsoft Blog says that Gates is one of a few familiar faces (including Albert Einstein and John Lennon) featured in the Arkansas Society of Freethinkers' secular holiday display in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    Tim Lincecum Wins Cy Young, Proves Voters Don't Mind Less Victories or Pot Arrests

    This guy likes to get stoned? Impossible.​Former University of Washington pitcher and current San Francisco Giant Tim Lincecum won his second-straight National League Cy Young award yesterday. The hardware comes a couple days after Zach Greinke took home the same honor in the American League. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    The Five Best Years for Good Pitchers on Bad Teams

    Zack Greinke's good year for a bad team may have been great, but it wasn't the greatest.​For too long, baseball writers who selected the year-end award-winners relied too much on wins to determine who had a good year. The arbitrary 20-win mark became a bar that, if crossed, almost guaranteed s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Felix Hernandez Finishes Second in Cy Young Voting, But Here's Why He Should Have Won

    "Hey, Greinke, you weren't the only ace whose team couldn't hit a lick."​To the surprise of few, Kansas City Royal Zach Greinke won the 2009 American League Cy Young Award by a significant margin over runner-up Felix Hernandez of the Mariners. There's no doubting Greinke laid a strong claim t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Tim Lincecum Busted for Pot Possession

    You don't get nicknamed "The Freak" if you don't occasionally get freaky.​UPDATE: Prosecutors dropped the possession charge against Lincecum. Details after the jump. According to the Washington State patrol, former University of Washington pitching star and current San Francisco Giants ace Ti ... More >>

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