By the way, if you haven’t been to Wonkette recently, do check it out. It’s funnier than ever. There was a dry spell after Ana Marie Cox left, but they’re firing on all cylinders now. Good stuff.
Now Playing: Episode 354
Obama and McCain get ready for the conventions, news from Georgia, Russia and Pakistan, the wages of the War on Drugs, and finally, WA’s Governors race gets ugly.
Links Mentioned: The case for not surging in Afghanistan … that drug “bust.”
What’s truly maddening, from the standpoint of a fan, is that they’re not even trying to garner fan support by fielding a halfway decent team.
Worse, they went from being contenders to laughing stock about as quickly as you could in this day and age.
Not that this would make the deal any better, but at least the Mariners built a better team, and thus built public support, when they needed a new home.