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. It started with Ryan Langerhans’ dramatic walk-off home run Friday night and ended with a masterful performance by Ryan Rowland-Smith (hereafter RRS) yesterday, which spawned this entertaining anecdote: RRS has lately wanted to throw 100 pitches in a game, so team captain Mike Sweeney offered manager Don Wakamatsu $100 if he let RRS hit the century mark. Yesterday, RRS was throwing rocks, as The Big Lebowski’s Donny might have put it, so Wakamatsu left him in–obviously because RRS was pitching well, and not because of the offer, which is mere pocket change to MLB-ers. Nevertheless, after the game, Sweeney swung by Wakamatsu’s office and “flipped him a Benjamin.” Not to pick on Sweeney, who is noted for his philanthropy, but the flippant (no pun intended) exchange of large sums of money among professional athletes never ceases to amaze.