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Don Wakamatsu

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    April 19, 2011

    How to Heckle Horrible Mariners Without Getting Thrown Out of Safeco Field

    ​Safeco Field feels a lot like the Kingdome felt in the '80s, only less fun. Sure, the Safe is a modern marvel of (cookie-cutter) stadium design, the food and drink are swankier, and fans are afforded the benefit of taking in a game in the great outdoors--not that the outdoors are frequently a ... More >>

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    August 20, 2010

    Tonight's Game: Seattle R's vs. NY Yankees

    ​From the Times today: Heading into Friday night's series opener against the New York Yankees, 14 of the 25 players on the Mariners roster will have spent time at Tacoma this season for reasons other than injury rehabilitation. Couple that with the importing of Tacoma manager Daren Brown to r ... More >>

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    August 12, 2010

    Seven Seattle Times Celebrity House Ads That Failed to Make the Cut

    ​Never mind that its editorial side might actually have to report critically on some of the local luminaries the Times has recruited to appear in its nauseatingly rah-rah house ad campaign, Fairview Fanny is in cahoots with such radiant Seattle personalities as Ciscoe Morris, every last member ... More >>

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    August 9, 2010

    Don Wakamatsu Fired By the Mariners

    ​When you're as crappy a team as the Seattle Mariners -- blessed with both the worst starting pitcher and worst hitter in baseball -- it's only a matter of time before you go looking for some scapegoats. Today, Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu became that goat. Except he didn't eh-scape blame. O ... More >>

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    July 26, 2010

    Two Dugout Fights Better Than Chone Figgins Vs. Don Wakamatsu (VIDEO)

    ​Dugout fights are notoriously crappy. Baseball players aren't really the brawling types -- for visually-pleasing fisticuffs your best bet is and always will be hockey -- and the teammates hanging around have an incentive to break things up before anyone can land a solid punch. Friday night's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Jack Zduriencik Is Threatening to Become Baseball's Joe Dumars

    ​Former basketball star Joe Dumars is to Detroit as Edgar Martinez is to Seattle. But unlike Martinez, the former Piston works for his onetime employer in the very important position of general manager. Despite dubiously passing on Carmelo Anthony in the draft, he acquired Ben and Rasheed Wall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Ken Griffey Jr. Is Retiring

    Ken Griffey Jr tribute @ Yahoo! Video Manager Don Wakamatsu told reporters before tonight's game that the 40-year-old designated hitter is finally hanging up his cleats. It was beyond time. Griffey, when he was actually playing, looked lost at the plate and was hitting below the Mendoza line. But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Ken Griffey Jr. and the Mariners Keep Tossing and Turning, Can't Put "Sleepgate" to Rest

    When it comes to Sleepgate, Griffey hasn't made solid contact yet.​The alleged misdeeds perpetrated by Ken Griffey Jr. in "Sleepgate" are far less nefarious than the crime that first spawned the suffix. But the clueless reactions of the player, his team and now his agent have proven that the s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Milton Bradley Decides to Take Some "Me" Time

    They say the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.​If you had May 6 in your "When Will the Milton Bradley Experiment Blow Up" office pool, consider yourself a winner. Per yesterday's announcement by the Mariners, Bradley, the self-described Kanye West of Major League Baseba ... More >>

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    May 5, 2010

    Milton Bradley Leaves Mariners' Dugout Mid-Game

    Bradley's not just flipping off the crowd. He's presenting a metaphor for how he treats fans of any team who have the unfortunate task of rooting for him to succeed.​Milton Bradley, baseball's Kanye West if Kanye West were even poutier, kind of has a problem with authority. In that he thinks t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    Adrian Beltre Won't Take Cup Questions, Will Wear Cup

    ​Testicle jokes are funny, unless it's your testicle people are joking about. Then it can get old. At least, that's the experience of Mariners third baseman Adrian Beltre. As you probably know, he's been on the Disabled List for a few weeks now with a contused testicle, the result of a bad-hop ... More >>

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    August 19, 2009

    M's Shouldn't Wait to Call Up Tui

    ​ While Trader Jack and Wak have indeed done a sensational job holding the M's roster together with Scotch tape and gum, we'd like to take this opportunity to debunk one notion that's gained some traction in the media: Namely, that players such as Jack Hanahan and Ryan Langerhans -- both of wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    "I Flipped Him a Benjamin"

    ​Imagine a workplace where you casually toss your boss $100 for giving an assignment to a co-worker. So it went in the Mariners' clubhouse this weekend. The M's took 2 of 3 games from a vastly superior Tampa Bay Rays team, moving within 4.5 games of the Red Sox for the Wildcard playoff spot. ... More >>

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    July 8, 2009

    Five Questions for the Mariners to Ponder Going Forward

    1. Should red-hot Franklin Gutierrez hit third instead of fifth? No, but he should hit cleanup. Baseball sense would dictate that you leave a thriving young hitter in the spot in the order where he's thriving, but the M's anemic, Beltre-free lineup dictates that Ken Griffey Jr. is currently the cle ... More >>

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    June 6, 2009

    Mariner News More Depressing Than Their Extra-Inning Loss to the Twinkies

    The M's 2-1, extra-inning loss Friday night against the Twins was depressing on several levels. Depressing because the team wasted another stellar outing by its ace, Felix Hernandez. Depressing because a Little League-esque error by Wladimir Balentien in left, where he came in on a fly ball that en ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2009

    Tonight M's Fans Will Party Like It's 1989

    1989 marked the year that both Ken Griffey Jr. and Randy Johnson made their Mariner debuts. While Edgar Martinez and Jamie Moyer may be more beloved for their loyalty to the Trident, there is little disputing that the former pair constitutes the best hitter and pitcher ever to don a Mariner uniform ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    Who's the Boss? Don Wakamatsu Is!

    A problem with previous Mariners managers--particularly a guy whose name rhymes with McLaren--has been a tendency to kowtow to veteran players. Well, apparently new M's skipper Don Wakamatsu is serving notice that kowtow he won't. Yesterday he had Ichiro hit 3rd in the batting order, something the ... More >>

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