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As we wrote earlier, the Huskies play Cal-Berkeley tonight in the first round of the Pac Ten Tournament. They'll be doing it without an injured Jon Brockman, seen by many as the team's best player. However, is he any good?

Today Seattlest welcomes our new sports correspondent to the fold. Drew Milam is a longtime Seattle resident who recently returned to the Emerald City after some time in the Bay Area, and claims to be super tight with fellow Santa Clara alum Steve Nash, Brandi Chastain and NFL referee Mike Carey. No word on if he got the gig because he is a Hillary supporter (pleasing Editor Kim) and a Garfield alum (pleasing Seattlest David).

My God, it's beautiful outside. When did that happen? Here we are sneezing and coughing and oozing from every orifice on our face when we look outside and Holy Obamalove, Batman! It's really nice out!

A hundred or so people met at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill last night, to serenade the full lunar eclipse with Bonnie Tyler's '80s classic, "Total Eclipse of the Heart." The plan was to sing the song for the entire 51 minutes of the lunar eclipse. Sadly, Seattlest could not take the song or the cold long enough to see if they succeeded.

Cal Andersen polar by Norskette, a welcoming image after Seattlest's long trip to the east coast. The Seattlest Flickr Pool is full of welcoming reminders of why we love it here so much - add your own, why don't ya?

Last year we invoked the name of Cal Worthington as a flimsy excuse to post the amazing "Montgomery Flea Market" ad. Now, we actually have an ad from the master himself. Big ups to Cal for wearing a Mariners jacket (and also for the zebra). There is a definite lack of men on horses leading zebras around in our television advertising today.

Seattle's known as one of the least-churched cities in the U.S. But consider this recent report from the Barna Group, which found that three out of every four American adults interpret literally the Bible story in which Jesus rises from the dead after being crucified and buried. The numbers are taken from a thousand-person telephone survey. There's some interesting poll information there, and some even more interesting commentary from the Barna Group ("Your partner for information, strategy, execution and transformation!" says their website):

A minority of the people who believe these stories to be true consistently apply the principles embedded in these stories within their own lives. It seems that millions of Americans believe the Bible content is true, but are not willing to translate those stories into action. Sadly, for many people, the Bible has become a respected but impersonal religious history lesson that stays removed from their life.

Dan Savage and Jamie Pederson aren't the only gay dads in town--apparently there's a whole bunch, and some of them are looking to form a support group. "My partner and I had a baby a few months ago and were surprised at the lack of support, social outlets for Gay men with babies/kids so we decided to get off our ass and start one ourselves," says Larry Nicholas. Good on ya, Larry. They're meeting at Cal Anderson this Sunday at 11am.

Seattlest arrived on scene soon after the Capitol Hill Block Party had opened. We wandered, checked out the stage locations and thought about getting a beer, then spotted a booth touting free bottled water. It looked like the booth had something to do with praying to the Earth Spirits or some other new wave white hippy crap, but we decided to take our chances. We asked for a water and oddly enough their were no questions asked of Seattlest, no "Is your spirit at peace with the world?" or "Do you ever cry for Mother Nature?" We did, however, get thoroughly eye-fucked by our water purveyor. We told him thank you, took a mental bath and off we went to hear some music. (And before you reactionaries out there start accusing us of homophobia, get over yourselves. We're not talking about getting "checked out." We're talking about a look that said, Right now, in my mind, I'm eating spaghetti off of your chest.)

The Pac-10 media pre-season football poll is out--saw it first on the Husky football wonderland that is Bob Condotta's blog--and the Huskies are ninth. USC is a unanimous pick for first. Only Stanford will suck worse than the Huskies, according to the fourth estate.

The first thing Mike Hargrove did after quitting the Mariners? He followed Alan Jackson's advice and bought a Ford truck. Jim Moore of the P-I talked to Hargrove's car salesperson:

Jerry Korum of Korum Ford in Puyallup read that the Hargroves always said when they retired, they would get a red truck, call it "Retired Red," load up their belongings and drive off into the sunset.

Continue reading "Old Managers Never Die, They Just Buy Expensive Trucks and Drive to Wine Country"

Last week we made it out to our first Duck Dodge sailboat race of the year -- there was no theme, but it was hot, the upper-80s, and there was a good breeze which made for an actual race as opposed to beer drinking and chip munching punctuated by the occasional slow-motion tack. Notes on the race from Duck Dodge HQ mention that "Shoot the Moon had a kayak that just couldn't stay away from them," which may explain their mid-race consultation with the Police Boat. We (the crew of the mighty Ig, a Cal 20) spent most of the race jockeying with a boat with a WSU logo on its stern. In Lake Union! By god, they come over here and try to steal our wind!

We did our best to ignore the shirtless guy's bongo tappy tappy, but when two California poseurs got him to provide a beat for them to rap to (badly), it was time for our person to move along.

--It may be just a Wednesday night for you, but Japan's already buzzing with anticipation about Dice-K vs. Ichiro. Via Deadspin

Last night the Huskies beat, barely, a crappy Cal team in a game that they should've won by 20. Once again, turnovers-a-plenty (16) held the Dawgs back.

Ever since Jack Roberts died and Cal Worthington disappeared, there's been a definite lack of goofy commercials on Seattle airwaves. If you, like us, are jonesing for silly ads, this ought to well satisfy your cravings. A Seattle transplant working at MTV dubs it "the best music video I've seen in a long time."

The results for the Baseball Hall of Fame voting are in. Cal Ripken, Jr., and Tony Gwynn make the Hall, Mark McGwire wasn't even close.

This morning we noticed that someone had dumped some Ultra detergent into the fountain at Cal Anderson Park, which made a bunch of pretty foam, but which perturbed us because we weren't sure if that was getting into our drinking water. The park, as you might already know, is basically a very cool lid for the reservoir that sits underneath it.

Coach Romar changed his lineup tonight (bringing Quincy Pondexter and Justin Dentmon off the bench), and tightened his rotation (eliminating minutes for Hans Gasser, Artem Wallace and Brandon Burmeister). Still, a third straight loss for the Dawgs, 96-87 to Arizona.

On the last day of September, the Huskies beat Arizona for their third consecutive victory, and the Seahawks were in Chicago, feeling pretty good about inaugurating October against the Bears. Sure, Shaun Alexander was out, but their potent four-receiver attack had rolled over the Giants.

-Four percent of the country's beer went up in smoke in a warehouse fire in Yakima yesterday.

We're going to have to disagree with this assertion by the good folks at subscription site Dawgman.com. They're talking about the PAT block that helped UW beat Fresno State on Saturday.

USS Mariner updated their "M's Future Forty" list today. It's their exhaustive summary of anyone who could potentially be anyone for the Mariners. And, though the farm system's thinning out as players reach the majors (Adam Jones) or get traded for useful parts (Shin-Soo Choo), the news is good:

Pass on local boys Tim Lincecum and Travis Snider, instead selecting RHP Brandon Morrow from Cal, who supposedly throws 99 mph. Watch video of him here.

We recently got an email from Bradford Bohonus over at VRSeattle that alerted us to the fact that he's updated the site with a new crop of that peculiar kind of wrap-around picture. The screen capture above of Cal Anderson park is not one of the new ones. We just really like that one. These are the new ones.

Strolling through Volunteer Park on our lunch break, we spotted a new skate bowl where the antiquated reservoir used to be. With what looks like a (mini) super-collider laid out on the bottom, it's Seattle grunge meets Seattle hi-tech. Is this a response to the success of Cal Anderson Park, just down the Hill, with the younger set? If so, Volunteer is firing both barrels.