Have yourself a Patrick Swayze Christmas, people.

I swear, those aren't tears in my eyes hearing Dave Niehaus exhorting grandma to get out the mustard and rye bread because it's grand salami time...nope, definitely not tears...

It's never too early to call the Mariners front office dumb, short-sighted, foolish, unaccountable, etc.

Growing up in Seattle, Edgar Martinez was, and still is, the living personification of what we wanted our professional athletes to be. He was a consummate specialist. He did one thing, and he did it with consistency and excellence. Were it not for Martinez and Griffey, baseball would have left town.

The problem is that running a football team is a staggeringly expensive endeavor. My guess is that part of that six billion would go towards operations once the purchase goes through.

It fits with everything we know about Mariners ownership, that's for certain.

He apparently was suffering from broken ribs for the entire game as well. And yet, SKC managed to win in a shootout against Nick Freakin' Rimando.

Even without having the inside dirt, the dysfunction of the Mariners organization has been readily apparent to anyone in Seattle with a remote interest in baseball. The M's haven't been worth watching over the past 10 years, and in that time, the only constants have been Lincoln and Armstrong.

He is basically Khal Drogo.

The Calhoun Kids!

The beauty of a Group of Death is that nobody is in for a cake-walk.

I really hope the Ghana curse is limited specifically to Bob Bradley, and does not travel through bloodlines.

Agreed. I think Diaz sees Boyle as a friend, which actually speaks fairly highly of Boyle, since Diaz does not come across as the sort that makes friends easily. Hopefully, Boyle gets that and is okay with it.

The way he holds a telephone receiver…I could go on, but I won't out of courtesy to my fellow AVClubbers.

By the bag!

Dick's sells burgers by the bag-full, so you can go have a bag of Dick's.

Granted, it's the same challenge faced by any team that relies on a single player to pull off its game plan. In salary-capped leagues, that kind of depth is a difficult buy. In EPL, though, that kind of depth is easier to get, and much more necessary. Certainly, getting a high-quality player to sit on the bench is…

I don't see Lewandowski going anywhere before the summer window.

Granted, even without G-Translate vocabulary enhancement, the concepts he is describing are definitely intelligent and well-informed.

I would play the hell out of a game like that.