U.S.S. Mariner

King Felix Day to end the year! 1:05 (which means 1:10), KSTW.
Jones plays! Morse plays! Burke plays!
Texas respects the season by playing an even worse lineup than we’ve seen.

Apologies - I was off helping a friend work on his house, and didn’t get back until now. What’d I miss?
5-1 in the 9th? Wow. Go M’s.
Aaand it’s over. Well. Sorry folks, I blew that.

Hi all — Dave and I are increasingly falling behind in comment moderation. So we’re considering deputizing, to the point where we’d take help if it’s available. We’d like to have kept on top of it, but we can’t, and it’s pretty clear it’s eating into our available posting time, the quality of comment discussion, [...]

I’m pushing out a new Wordpress version. Please report any wonky behavior that recurs for more than a couple minutes to us at ussmariner@gmail.com. Thanks.
10:15: still doing backups
10:30: new files are up, checking
10:45: wonky caching behavior, wheee
10:50: think I cleaned that up
11:10: fixed another couple of secondary issues… looks pretty good
11:20: tags are up. I [...]

Volquez v Weaver. Fortunately, the Rangers aren’t very good.
M’s run out Clement at DH again, because… I don’t even know. The 1B is Morse. Jones continues to be punished for God knows what. You stink, McLaren, extension or no extension.
Hey, let’s play an end-of-season would-you-swap-em, then…. Mayybe, yup, yup, nope but maybe… nahh, no [...]

We’re doing it at 1:35 pm today. I’ll give you one guess what the main topic of discussion will be.

The day after the announcement, the local writers weigh in.
Larry Stone: Mariners Go for Stability.
Stone writes a straight news story instead of the opinion column, getting some solid quotes from all involved.
“John McLaren stepped in, and he led the team to a winning season,” Lincoln said. “He certainly has the confidence [...]

Byrd v Baek. With McLaren supposedly assured of retaining his job, it’ll be interesting to see if his… Clement’s DHing? And Ibanez is… really? We’re going to have a whole other year of this?
Cleveland shows their respect for the rest of the league with a sub-tastic lineup.

Chuck Armstrong announced a few minutes ago that Bill Bavasi and John McLaren would both return to their jobs in 2008. P-I story is here.
“We’d just come off three losing seasons,” Lincoln said, “and it was important to put a winning team on the field. Bill did that. And John came on [...]

Game Two game thread.