MEET AN ASTRONAUT: NASA celebrates it's 50th anniversary and sends astronaut Clay Anderson to Seattle! Anderson will throw the first pitch at tonight's Seattle Mariners game against the Minnesota Twins. Don't expect to stay in your seat, as Anderson will be signing autographs on level 300 at the top of the second inning. 1:40 p.m. // Safeco Field, 1250 1st Ave S // $7-$73 MIDWEST, HARDCORE RAP: TECH N9NE sports fierce, personal rhymes, hard beats......

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......

When can the Tyrone Willingham Era be said to begin? The day the UW hired him to coach the Husky football team? The first day of spring practice? The first game? The first time he appears, as he inevitably will, in a commercial for Pro Golf Discount? This is one of life's enduring mysteries. But, for the sake of this post, let's say that the Tyrone Willingham era begins today--the first day of fall practice......

The Mariners finally found a taker for Bret Boone, minutes before yesterday's 11am deadline to trade or release him. Boone goes to the Minnesota Twins, in exchange for a player to be named later. The Twins also get an unspecified amount of cash in the deal, which means that there are 28 major league teams that quite literally would not take Bret Boone if you paid them. Minnesota has had a revolving door at second......