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None of Seattle's typical "too cool for school" stand-offishness. Tens of thousands of cheerful riders, oohing and cooing, tweeting and twittering along SoundTransit's light rail line. Dozens of staffers in dayglo green shirts directed (human) traffic, and the trains (speedy, quiet) ran every ten minutes or so, tunneling under Beacon Hill and emerging high above MLK in Mt. Baker. (Big crowds expected at the Stadium station, where the MLS Sounders played Chelsea.)

Opening Day for boating season is just a few weeks out, but the news stories are already starting to come in from off the water. This morning, ferry workers had a rough start to their day as they discovered a body of an adult male around 8:30 a.m. under the Pier 52 Colman Dock. On Saturday, a tugboat sunk to the bottom of Lake Washington--near Kenmore--spilling 40-50 gallons of diesel fuel into the lake; they refloated the tug on Sunday. Don't worry, the state's Department of Ecology is on it. Over by the Ship Canal, one guy realized that the sky wasn't falling on his car, but parts of the Ship Canal Bridge were. Thankfully for him, yesterday proved to be a great day for a sun roof.

Excuse our giant smile, but it's Opening Day!!!

Today there is an extra skip in our step, and song in our whistle. All across Arizona pitchers and catchers are reporting to work, which means Spring Training is underway.

No one scored any runs except in one half of one inning, the concessions people were all new on the job and took forever, the scoreboard went blank for three or four innings, the roof closed in response to about twelve raindrops, the game only lasted like an hour and half and it was fucking freezing.

After Felix Hernandez' terrible eight-inning reign, the A's won't be contesting Jarrod Washburn's accession to the mound. What a performance--the best in Mariner opening day history, and one of the best in opening day history period.

Today is Mariners Opening Day, and we are feeling optimistic (buoyed mostly by the two dollar Rainiers at the Triangle). However, there are people in the world who don't like the Mariners. One of those people is our college friend Bill Arkansaw, who besides being an A's fan also loves to punch kittens in their face. We asked Arkansaw to preview the upcoming Mariners season.

When we asked which Mariner hit the game winning home run on Opening Day in 1986 we felt we had come up with a question that would stump the room. However, when we saw that nearly half teams correctly answered Jim Presley we realized that we weren't the only ones to have their childhood ruined by the boys in blue and yellow.

SATURDAY: In addition to talks and tours, you and the kids can see live demonstrations of wood carving, drum-making, and weaving at the Opening Day Celebration for In the Spirit of the Ancestors, the Burke Museum's new exhibit of contemporary Northwest Coast Native art.

Japanese import Kenji Johjima homered in his second at-bat as a Mariner, and Roberto Petagine homered in his first, but the Mariners lost on Opening Day thanks to the continued failings of incumbent players who ought to be able to drive in a run with the bases loaded and nobody out.

Daylight savings time either starts or ends on Sunday, which means that you either get or lose an hour! What are you going to do or not do with it? Here's our plans...

The Mariners roster is almost set. Jose Lopez won the second base job, as expected. Longshot bench aspirant Roberto Petagine made the team with a hot spring.

After M's centerfielder Jeremy Reed hurt his hand running into a wall last week, trainers x-rayed him and found a wrist fracture. He was to miss 6-8 weeks. Turns out that fracture is at least four years old, isn't serious, and all Reed really has is a sore hand. He should be ready for Opening Day.

Kenji Johjima, the Fukuoka Soft-Bank Hawks' .300-hitting, 30-homer-slugging, seven-time Gold Glove winner, is your new Mariner starting catcher, according to the Seattle Times. The Times' Bob Finnegan reports that Johjima will leave the Japanese leagues and sign a three-year contract with the M's.

Ever seen the spectacle of hundreds of women lined up outside Nordstroms at 7 in the morning the first day of the Anniversary Sale? This is like that for mountain bikers. Saturday April 30th, the Whistler Mountain Bike park opens for the season.

Time, Boswell once wrote, begins on Opening Day. That's Washington Post sports columnist Thomas Boswell, not the Scottish biographer and noted lothario, James Boswell, who is said to have contracted gonorrhea 17 separate times. No man who sets his personal clock by a professional sports season is likely to get that much play.

Usually we cringe when sports commentators suggest wildly hypothetical milestones. It was one of these that finally turned us off of sports radio. The Cincinnati Bengals were 2-0, and the host said "Here's what we are going to talk about this hour--can the Bengals go undefeated?" Of course, in theory, they could have (they didn't, finishing 6-10). Hell, in theory, anything is possible. The Devil Rays could go undefeated! Pokey Reese could hit 80 home runs! Our cousin could find a full-time job!

March is a limbo month--too warm for winter, too cold for spring.

Once, the pinnacle of fame for an American athlete was to appear on a box of Wheaties. Now, however, the Wheaties box is less relevant. The meal itself is a relic of a bygone era. With what product do we jumpstart our 21st century mornings? Starbucks!

New Mariner Richie Sexson hit two home runs, Jamie Moyer pitched 5.2 strong innings, and the bullpen was perfect as the M's won on Opening Day. Today Gil Meche faces the Twins' Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana at 7:05. The game will be televised on KSTW (Channel 11). Buy tickets.