Look, as a Seattlite, I want the 'Hawks to win. Yeah, they're pretty good this year. Do I think the 'Hawks are going to win? Sure, I do, but the fact is that the Saints are also a pretty good team. This means that there is a significant non-zero chance that the 'Hawks lose. In short, it will most likely be an exciting…

[p class="YakovSmirnov"]In Soviet Russia, Olympics are excited about YOU![/p]

This led to one of my happier lost bets. Living in Seattle, when the 'Hawks do well, it's hard to ignore them. In 2010, they had really just backed into the playoffs with a losing record simply by virtue of being in a shitty division. With the Saints on a roll that year, one of my co-workers and I figured that there…

Agreed. Teams that never get off-sides calls never get their attackers into dangerous positions.

It's also worth noting that certain drinks are more regionally popular, which in turn effects how their drinkers skew politically. For instance, most domestically-produced whiskeys are most popular in the south, which traditionally skews conservative to begin with. Wine is produced in Washington and California, which…

There's also the fact that he constantly meddles with player decisions, insisting that for the January transfer window, Cardiff only sign players with the number 8 in their birthday. It's basically like if there was a baseball team run by the superstitions of baseball players.

When River "died", her consciousness was uploaded to the central mainframe of the Library, so it's conceivable that she created a kind of church based on that and created a new avatar for herself for use in meatspace in the form of Tasha Lem. Her interactions with Tasha Lem certainly had the same style to them as…

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.