The Seattle Mariners need to hire a new field manager and a lead radio announcer this offseason. Who has the harder job to do in filling these two positions? Is it President of Baseball Operations Jerry DiPoto, who will make the call on the replacement for fired manager Dan Wilson? Or is it the Marketing & Communications Department, which is tasked with replacing Rick Rizzs, who retired after serving for 41 years in the radio booth?
Continue readingThe first MLB game played under the lights took place on May 24, 1935, in Cincinnati. This week, 84 years later, a two-game series between the Mariners and Athletics takes night baseball to the extreme—at least for Seattle and Oakland fans on the West Coast who want to watch or listen live as their teams kick off the 2019 season. The games are in Tokyo.
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Yesterday the Valpak mailer showed up in my mailbox. Normally I toss it without opening it. This time I browsed through the offers from various local businesses hoping there might be a coupon for Shur-Kleen car wash. There wasn’t, but the Valpak included something better—the 2014 Seattle Mariners baseball schedule.
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