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Monday, March 08, 2004 |
Return To Sender: Griffey Postmarked For Seattle?
Pity Stephen Nelson of Mariners Wheelhouse, or for that matter, any of the eighteen blogs covering Seattle's finest baseball team. When you're one of about a zillion guys writing about a single team, unique insights become tough to come by, and in the interregnum between the last of the hot stove moves and the start of the regular season -- i.e., Spring Training -- you've gotta feel like a mosquito in Alaska before the bears begin to stir. I got a missive from him last night suggesting that he, I, and Tyler Bleszinski of Athletics Nation should get together and launch a single, grand, unified blog for the western divisions of both leagues. It may yet happen, but before it does, I wanted to thank him for his kind words about my blog (isn't it nice that we all get along so well?).
In other news, I introduce yet another new Angels blog, Vote For Lou. That makes five of us. He starts off with a post that should warm Nelson's heart, namely, just how badly the Angels have fared against Mariners pitching in recent years.
* Stephen wrote just now to inform me that I wasn't hallucinating: I did see this story on his blog, but he took it down because, well, U.S.S. Mariner already covered it in more detail than he had time for. Eh, don't let it get you down. I have Jon and Terry to compete with on the Dodgers, and at least Purgatory Online and The Pearly Gates for the Angels.
Anyway, because the Safeco blogosphere is so heavily peopled, it surprises me that he didn't pick up on a rumored move of injury magnet Ken Griffey, Jr. back to Seattle whence he came*. Of course, as the article says,
The biggest hurdle to returning Griffey could be the five guaranteed years left on his contract, starting at age 34 with major injuries wiping out most of his past two seasons. Balanced against that is the fact that Griffey's money is spread out for years after he is done playing — $6.5 million a year is deferred.Yeah, no surprise there. I wonder whether this is the fever dream of Bavasi along the same lines as Epstein's A-Rod-to-Boston disaster earlier, or just the imaginings of a bored Seattle sportswriter.
In other news, I introduce yet another new Angels blog, Vote For Lou. That makes five of us. He starts off with a post that should warm Nelson's heart, namely, just how badly the Angels have fared against Mariners pitching in recent years.
* Stephen wrote just now to inform me that I wasn't hallucinating: I did see this story on his blog, but he took it down because, well, U.S.S. Mariner already covered it in more detail than he had time for. Eh, don't let it get you down. I have Jon and Terry to compete with on the Dodgers, and at least Purgatory Online and The Pearly Gates for the Angels.
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