Photo courtesy of AP/Lenny Ignelzi I’m a Griffey fan.  I’ll admit that.  So feel free to take bias against this post on that point.  But I’m not an idiot.  I get what folks are saying about re-signing him in 2010.  And while I won’t deny that...

Photo Courtesy of AP: Chris Carlson The winner won’t be announced until January, but there is yet another Mariner nominated for the award named in honor of former ballplayer Fred Hutchinson.  For those locals who follow this blog, you’re probably...

Photo by Reuters The season is over and the M’s managed to win a miraculous 85 games.  Much of that success has been attributed to a tickling Griffey (and a giggling Ichiro) and Sweeney as clubhouse leaders.  Griffey’s Spring Training heckling of...

As we approach the offseason essentially out of this year’s pennant race, and post-Ichiro record time, Felix will get to play in the limelight.  The first reason is the Cy Young race.  Most interesting is that writers are fighting over the chance to...

Last night, Ichiro made history yet again.  Not 258 (eventually 262) or 2,000, but 200 this time was his magic number as he became the first baseball player to have 9 consecutive seasons with 200 hits or more.  As our obsessions with numbers that end...