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In every non-playoffs sports season, you can date the moment when your team's hopes collapsed. For the last place 2008 Mariners, it was approximately mid-April. This year's Mariners lasted far longer in the playoff hunt. Nevertheless, July 24-26 was their undoing.

What team can get thoroughly outclassed, yet consider their game a success? The Sounders, if they draw 65,000 fans to Qwest Field -- most of them in Sounders green -- for a game against international powerhouse Chelsea FC.

Phew! What a day!

Erik Bedard returns to the Mariners rotation on Tuesday, having missed the last month with a sore shoulder (according to team doctors--some of our Mariner fan friends contend that the oft-injured Bedard has a sore part of the female anatomy.) Bedard's return takes up a spot in the five-man starting rotation, meaning somebody's headed to the bullpen or, worse yet, back to traveling coach class with the AAA Tacoma Rainiers. Ew.

Trying something new this week--a little preview of the weekend in sports action, to help you not get sucked into brunch when there's a game to watch. (Or, allow you to get sucked into brunch so you can beg off later to watch a game.)

Jose Lopez's solo homer in the fifth gave Bedard the win, but let's also praise the bullpen: Batista, Olson, Lowe and White each pitched a scoreless inning, with the latter earning his first major league save. Also homering: Jamie Burke, in his first major league game of the season. Welcome back, Jamie! Box score. Next game Tue. @ BAL, 4:05 p.m.; Vargas vs. Brad Bergesen.

Blah, blah, M's win, but what we really care about is...Griffey homered! A one-handed line drive that barely cleared the right-field wall, in a game that was pretty much over, but we will take it! The four-bagger was one of three extra-base hits for Junior, his most in a game since June '06. Erik Bedard pitched into the seventh, then turned the game over to Sean White, who escaped an icky jam. R. Branyan, in his first game as the #2 hitter, was 2-4 with 2 R and 2 RBI. And, last but not least, Ichiro extended his hitting streak to 26 with an infield hit in the first, breaking his own franchise record. Box score. Next game Wednesday vs. BAL, 7:10 p.m.; Vargas vs. Brad Bergesen.

Erik Bedard has a sub-par start, and the bullpen can't rescue him, as the Mariners lose the finale in Chi-Town (box). The offense squanders several scoring opportunities, leaving two runners on in the first, second and third innings. Next game Friday vs. Oakland at Safeco, 7:10 p.m.; Carlos Silva vs. Dana Eveland.

After Justin Verlander retires the first 12 Mariner hitters, the M's explode for five runs in the fifth to overcome a 3-0 Tigers lead. Well, not so much "explode," as they have two bunts in the inning, and score on an error and a wild pitch. Felix Hernandez fights through early struggles to get the win, and the bullpen provides three scoreless innings. Next game: Tomorrow vs. Detroit at 6:10 p.m. Erik Bedard vs. Edwin Jackson.

Erik Bedard and Adrian Beltre will probably be traded by July 31. Hopefully, Jarrod Washburn will go as well. They don’t even have to trade him; they can just leave him behind the counter at a Panda Express, or pretend to throw a tennis ball and drive off when he tries to find it.

Erik Bedard, the best 70-pitch starter in the big leagues, has decided to have shoulder surgery, officially ending his season. Bedard had struggled with shoulder problems all season and last pitched on July 4. He was the Mariners' biggest off-season signing last year, acquired in a trade with the Orioles for 5 players. The team expected the lefty to be the ace of the starting rotation this year. Instead, Bedard started only 15 games this season, and finished with a 6-4 record.

First, hitting coach Jeff Pentland was fired, then General Manager Bill Bavasi was shown the door, and yesterday it was John McLaren's turn to up the state's unemployment rate.