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Felix Hernandez

  • 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

    December 9, 2011

    Ken Levine, TV Comedy Writer and Mariners Announcer, Gives a Final Salute to Col. Potter

    Harry Morgan, RIP​"Harry [Morgan] was very much like Colonel Potter" of MASH, writes Ken Levine. "He raised horses, and in fact, in the final episode when he says goodbye to Sophie, that really was one of Harry's horses. The picture on Potter's desk was of Harry's real wife, Eileen. And the ... More >>

  • 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

    May 20, 2011

    9 National League Pitchers Who Out-Hit the 2011 Seattle Mariners

    Image source​The 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

    April 13, 2011

    Don't Trade Ichiro! Why The Mariners Should Never (and Will Never) Let Him Go

    Image source​Yesterday 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 >>

  • Arts

    April 6, 2011

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

    Image source​Yesterday 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 >>

  • Calendar

    March 30, 2011

    $7-$95

    Image source​Yesterday 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

    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.

  • 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

    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

    June 21, 2010

    The Case for Keeping Cliff Lee

    Should such happiness be forgotten so soon?​For baseball purists, the Mariners home sweep of the heavy-hitting Cincinnati Reds this past weekend, in which Seattle's pitchers yielded a total of one run over three games while scoring a mere seven, was as good as it gets, and provided a glimpse o ... 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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Mariners Commercials Fail to Make Use of Crazy Milton Bradley's Acting Chops

    Yes, the 2010 Seattle Mariners commercials -- like "Running Catch," featuring a golf-ball-snagging Franklin Gutierrez -- are cute. But they fail to draw from newest Mariner Milton Bradley's significant well of crazy. And just as you don't trade for a bat only to leave it on the bench, you also don ... More >>

  • 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 >>

  • 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 17, 2009

    Comment of the Day: Seattle Sports Stars Get Screwed Because They Play While Everyone Else is Sleeping

    Does Ichiro get less love because he plays here?​Reader Keegan responds to Felix Hernandez Finishes Second in Cy Young Voting, But Here's Why He Should Have Won. They've got an interesting take on the old East Coast bias trope common to many a sports argument. "Seattle games/teams/players rar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    What To Do With Jose Lopez?

    ​One of many key decisions the Mariners will face this off-season is what they want to do with Jose Lopez. A second baseman with limited defensive range but a potent bat, the M's have lined him up at first base more and more as the season has progressed, a move made possible by an injury to Ru ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Finally, It Was the Best of Times, or at Least Good Ones

    ​The last few years haven't been too kind to the Seahawks, Mariners, or Husky football team. Which made this weekend particularly welcome relief. To review: The Huskies beat the University of Idaho (of Chris Kornelis fame) 42-23, ending a 15 game losing streak. Moreover, Jake Locker was once ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    Another Night, Another Lopsided Loss for M's

    The Mariners got shellacked at home again, this time 11-4 at the hands of the Toronto Blue Jays, whose fans outnumbered the Mariners' at the Safe. (We knew about Red Sox Nation, but Blue Jay Nation?) But the M's were actually up 4-3 after 5-2/3 innings, until a two-out, no-on, four-run rally by the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    King's Ransom: Keeping Masterful Felix Looking Pricier by the Day

     Hey, Mariners' fans, remember the 90s, when we had all those good players but couldn't/wouldn't spend to keep them? Then, under Bill Bavasi, we spent to keep guys we couldn't get rid of. Now, under Jack Z., it seems we've hit the Goldilocks "just right," finding all kinds of value and avoidin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    M's at the All-Star Break: Reasons to Be Optimistic, and to Trade Erik Bedard

    The All-Star break is a time to take stock of the first half-plus of the baseball season and prognosticate on the rest of it. Last week, Mike Seely offered five questions for the Mariners. And yesterday, Vernal Coleman looked at whether the team should trade talented, oft-injured pitcher Erik Bedard ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    All-Stars!

    The game isn't until next Tuesday, but Mariners Ichiro Suzuki and Felix Hernandez have been named All-Stars. (Full All-Star roster here.) Ichiro was voted in as a starter (for the 9th time in 9 years--here's hoping this year he'll accept the invitation to do the home-run derby) while Felix, like all ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Cameron Dollar, Future "Coaching Superstar," Gets Some National Ink

    Last week, Seattle-based ESPN writer Jim Caple interviewed Storm star Sue Bird and praised M's ace Felix Hernandez. This week, he visits with new Seattle U. men's basketball coach Cameron Dollar. UCLA Bruin fans remember Dollar as the point guard in the team's 1995 championship game in Seattle. Husk ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    A Reminder of Why You Should Watch the Mariners (at Least Every Fifth Game)

    There are a number of reasons to watch every Mariners' game--Franklin Gutierrez's defense, Adrian Beltre's defense, Russel Branyan's offense, Ichiro's everything, and boredom. But last night we got a reminder of why one out of every five games really is must-see TV. Felix Hernandez threw a two-hit s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 28, 2009

    The Amazing, Ageless Ichiro

    The Mariners have been a pretty sad bunch of late, but they're still providing some reasons to watch their games. Felix Hernandez and Erik Bedard have been mostly masterful, Jason Vargas is off to a terrific start, and Franklin Gutierrez is covering more grass than John Deere. But the undisputed sta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    Mariners News: Lots of Bad, a Little Good

    Brandon Morrow blew another save yesterday--his second in a row. After missing spring training with an injury and asking out of the starting rotation, the M's 2006 first-round pick has an ERA of 9.72 and clearly needs some sort of rest/re-set, probably in a role other than closing for the M's. (For ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2009

    The Mariners Haven't Had a Cy Young Candidate Since 2001: Will They Have Two This Year?

    One of the pleasures of sportswriting is premature, homerist speculation. Another, it seems, is stupid Cy Young votes based on won-lost record, one of the statistics over which a pitcher has the least control, as it's so dependent on the play of his defense and especially his offense. That said, 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2009

    Mariners on Pace for 162 Wins, 162 Homers Apiece From Griffey, Gutierrez

    High-fives for everyone!For at least one night, the M's looked like a juggernaut. Despite a sprained ankle, slimmed-down Felix Hernandez pitched like a mature, efficient ace, needing only 97 pitches to cover 8 innings; Ken Griffey Jr. picked up where he left off (at least at the plate) with a home r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    Opening Day!

    Admittedly, this Mariners' season isn't inspiring a lot of excitement. The team's star outfielder is out with a bleeding ulcer, its top pitching prospect decided he no longer wants to start, and its left fielder is a hobbled shell of his former self. Having inherited a total mess, Jack Zduriencik an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2009

    Like the Rooster, Ichiro Scandal Won't Die

    And we're making it worse by posting on it. The Mariners had four unquestionably good players last year: Felix Hernandez, Adrian Beltre, Brandon Morrow, and Ichiro. Yet for the last six months, one of them--Ichiro--has been the subject of considerable bitching among former teammates and baseball s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    USS Mariner Scribe Gets Gig With Wall Street Journal

    Now featuring Dave Cameron!Local baseball fans and stat geeks are well aware of Dave Cameron, the USS Mariner blogger who delights with his humor and trenchant analysis, and who taught Felix Hernandez the importance of varying his pitch selection. This morning he announced that he'd published his fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    M's Re-Sign Surly, Injury-Prone Bedard

    With most jobs, when you call in sick for work half the time and act like a prick to customers when you do manage to make it in, you get fired. But the job of major league baseball starting pitcher clearly isn't most jobs. To wit, Erik Bedard signed a one-year, $7.75 million extension yesterday. Fel ... More >>

  • News

    August 13, 2008

    The Bright Spot in an Awful Season

    The Mariners’ Brandon Morrow is the subject of great debate.

  • News

    August 1, 2007

    USS Mariner: Surprise! People Do Actually Read Blogs

    Even major league coaches.

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2007

    I Ate This: SauBall Grinder

    Even major league coaches.

  • News

    April 26, 2006

    Silence in Sodo

    The Mariners are the coldest ticket in town.

  • News

    August 31, 2005

    A Duel at Safeco Field

    It's Randy Johnson vs. Felix Hernandez!

  • News

    August 10, 2005

    Catching Mariners Fever

    Now in center and right fields, Ichiro Suzuki!

  • News

    July 6, 2005

    Head Cases

    Can Scientology save the Seattle Mariners?

  • Arts

    May 25, 2005

    50 Ways to Celebrate Global Warming

    We all know it's getting hotter out there. Here's how to make the most of your ozone-free summer.

  • News

    March 9, 2005

    Beltre's Numbers

    It's almost too much to comprehend: a potentially explosive Mariner offense.

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