With the Mariners only 1.0 game out of the AL Wildcard and 3.5 out of the lead in the AL West, you might think that a team and players accustomed to losing might take the call up of Adam “not Pac Man” Jones as a challenge to step up their game; use the call up [...]

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Let it be known: I still don’t think Ichiro is worth the money the Seattle Mariners will be paying him. While I think this though, I also think that Ichiro negotiated a masterful contract… and you have to give the Mariners their proper credit too for being a little crafty with their money.
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For a President who presides over the team who fired the reigning manager of the year, Florida Marlins president David Samson is not afraid to throw his share of stones. At least when it comes to Ichiro’s fat new contract that is, which I will admit this much: I understand its about more than [...]

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Very, very Kobe-ish behavior coming out of Seattle.
Look, I know Mike Hargrove quit because of “personal reasons”; he couldn’t feed the fire within to keep himself motivated, right? Wow, funny… same thing happened to Stan Van Gundy in 2005. Okay, so we know this: fact 1 - Mike Hargrove quits. Now we [...]

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Its more stories than I really have time to comment on, so here’s what others have to say…
PETA is trying to save chickens from being released on the court at KSU… if they really wanted to help chickens KFC might be a better place to start (Awful Announcing)
Hmmmm. Timmy Hardaway gets crap for hating [...]

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Ichiro’s agent was campaigning this weekend for the fact that the Mariners’ outfielder is not in fact ready to leave the team after 2007. But its not like the rumors came out of nowhere: it developed from a story in Japan Baseball Daily in which they say they talked to Ichiro and he told [...]

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