Seattle Mariners

No, not the younger players, actual kids! I am taking my first game off today and since Felix Hernandez is pitching that means I will be watching the game to see if something “special” happens.

Brock and Salk give this week’s Miller Lite Man Up Award to Erik Bedard, who’s gone seven innings in each of his last two starts, both Mariners’ wins.

It is almost as if Eric Wedge saw this coming . A couple of weeks ago I asked if they could try and think ahead of the bumps in the road that Michael Pineda would inevitably face.

We caught up with a couple of relievers who are currently on the shelf. David Aardsma is resting his arm after coming up with forearm stiffness. He told me he first felt it after his second rehab start and then it became hard to ignore after his third. He is taking it in stride and […]

This is a once in a lifetime chance! One lucky fan WILL throw out the ceremonial first pitch before tonight’s Mariners Rangers game at Safeco Field, then be escorted to FOUR commissioners box tickets to watch Michael Pineda get all diabolical on the Texas Rangers.

All sorts of notes from today’s pregame talk with Eric Wedge . . . Glad to see this . Instead of waiting for an appeal of his suspension Milton Bradley will serve it tonight.

Major League Baseball issued Milton Bradley a one-game suspension and undisclosed fine in wake of Bradley’s ejection from Saturday’s game against the Red Sox in Boston.

In baseball the breaks go both ways. Ichiro lost a ball in the sun and the Mariners lost a ballgame. “As soon as it hit the sky I couldn’t see the ball at all,” Ichiro said through interpreter Antony Suzuki in the clubhouse following the game. “It just disappeared. I didn’t see the ball at […]

For your planning purposes Bedard, Pineda and Vargas will pitch in the series against the Rangers in that order. Then the rotation gets shuffled again because of the off day. Once again Felix will stay on regular rest and pitch the opener against the White Sox on Friday. It seems like we have seen more […]

Enjoyable road trip so far and I am not just talking about the Coney Dogs . I have found myself having to practice saying things like “extra base hit” and “three run homer” and “runs score”.

What will we see from Erik Bedard tonight? Good question. Over his first four starts we have seen just about everything. We have even seen some things we haven’t seen from him before.

Sometimes things just go right . How much did you want to see Justin Smoak hit a home run in his return to his team just three days after burying his father? How much did Miguel Olivo and his teammates need to see a break go their way in dramatic fashion? Forget the record, sometimes the guys just need an opportunity to breath.

Bud Selig announced earlier this week that baseball was moving swiftly toward expanding the playoffs to include 10 teams as soon as 2012. Selig made his intentions to expand the playoffs first known during the World Series last year. At the time the commissioner said that implementing the new format in 2011 would be a […]

The clubhouse was a little louder this morning than it usually is on a Sunday . Maybe it was the Easter Peeps . Felix Hernandez was watching the Heat and Pacers game, he is a huge Dwayne Wade fan, and yelling “Defense!” when the game was tied in the third quarter.

Franklin Gutierrez has returned from the Mayo Clinic with a diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome . “They found something that was very common, IBS . ” Gutierrez said at his locker, “So I need to take some medication and see if it works.