With the Mariners taking the rest of the summer off, Seattlest (along with some other local rag) is adopting the Chicago White Sox as our fake team for the rest of the season. This became official with last week’s trade of Ken Griffey Jr (number 17?!?!). Griffey, who last played in a playoff game on October 5, 1997, is now only half a game back in the AL Central. Plus the White Sox are totally......

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. All casualties of the worst record in baseball. Since Lou Piniella got frustrated with the front office and left following the 2002 season, President Chuck Armstrong and CEO Howard Lincoln have hired a series of "yes men" which they could control. This is what they get.......

The Seattle Times is reporting that Mariner Manager John McLaren has been fired and replaced with bench coach Jim Riggleman. McLaren was named manager following Mike Hargrove's resignation last July. Riggleman becomes the fourth manager since Lou Piniella left after the 2002 season. Richie Sexson still has a job.......

Our Southern California based Al Qaeda correspondent, Jeff Schell, is here with analysis on the new Intel report regarding Al Qaeda's desire to "use contacts and capabilities in Iraq to mount an attack on U.S. soil." Every time the Mariners reach the American League Championship Series, a resurgent Al Qaeda shows up in the news. Coincidence? 1995 Mariners: ALCS. 1995 Al Qaeda: CIA began watching Osama Bin Laden. 2000 Mariners: ALCS. 2000 Al Qaeda: USS......

Somebody get me an Old Style... While this Seattlest has become a pretty big Mariners fan over the past few years, there is no question who we are rooting for in this week’s Cubs vs. Mariners series at Wrigley Field. Our huge Cubs flag pinned to the side of our cubicle has made a few co-workers stop in their tracks to talk a little trash. We grew up watching the Cubs on WGN (Because the......

As the Mariners continue to stagger through the second week of the season our optimism following the 3-1 start has dropped a bit, okay a huge bit. We may need to take a break tonight since we have spent the last few games with our head in our hands. Tomorrow night Felix pitches, which is always fun to watch, and Friday night there is an interesting pitching match up (at least until the game begins)......

FOX Sports hired ex-Mariner manager Lou Piniella for a week. He'll join Joe Buck and Tim McCarver in the broadcast booth for the American League Championship Series, presumably to contribute some heterosexuality. We enjoyed listening to Lou's familiar, husky, clipped voice last night during Game One. He dispensed few of the lame bromides that characterized his post-game interviews while with the M's, instead focusing on his knowledge of the players on both teams. Piniella's only......

Sure, Florida may be our most questionable state, but don’t tell that to the Mariners who have won five out of seven from the Sunshine State’s baseball teams. After beating Lou Piniella’s Devil Rays on Saturday and Sunday, the home team nine stormed into Miami for an interleague match-up with the Florida Marlins and came away with a 4-3 victory. Ryan Frankin was spared another victory when he was removed in the seventh after......

Ten years ago, this very day, was what Mariners announcer Dave Niehaus once described as "one terrible moment in Mariners history." There have been a lot of terrible moments in Mariner history, but none quite as spectacular as the leaping catch Ken Griffey Jr. made at the Kingdome's right-centerfield wall on May 26th, 1995. A young, bad-complexioned Seattlest attended the game, and it was the best catch we have ever seen. Our acne has......