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Game 7, are you excited? This year’s M’s have been pretty special.

I moved here as a kid, but with a different team. So I didn’t live and die with them the same way as some of you did, but they have been a staple of the city. But I was here for the Griffey years. And 116 wins. And so many Almost Live! jokes in the lean years.

The fans who stuck with them through terrible seasons deserve this one. The fans who saw bad games in a bad Kingdome deserve this season. The fans who want to games in the middle of the playoff drought deserve this season.

Of course sports isn’t about deserve. And game 7 on the road is not going to be easy. Go M’s.

Comments

  1. GLOBAL WARMING IS A MYTH!

    Mosquitoes arrive in Iceland

    Three mosquitoes were found in Kjós in recent days. This has been confirmed by the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. It is the first time that mosquitoes have been discovered on Icelandic soil.

  2. Excellent work guys as always.

    Sunday morning

    Newscum is lying. He closed the highway — not only did nobody at the White House or the Marines ask him to do so, the Marines repeatedly said there are no public safety concerns with today’s exercises.
    Newscum lies and tries to make it about himself? Day ending in ‘y’

    Later that same day

    Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’
    Celebration, California
    Officials Say
    The mishap, during an anniversary celebration for the Marine Corps attended by the vice president and defense secretary, underscores safety concerns that Gov. Gavin Newsom voiced before Saturday’s event at Camp Pendleton.

  5. Family of US citizens in El Paso comes home to find their house covered in blood and their family dog lying dead inside their kitchen door.

    CBP entered without a warrant acting on “an anonymous tip”. Shot dog. Closed the door and left.

    DHS is investigating itself to make sure everything was “okay”.

  7. @ 1

    GLOBAL WARMING IS A MYTH!

    Mosquitoes arrive in Iceland

    If you had the scientific interest you would find that the identified species is Culiseta annulata. That species overwinters in caves in northwest Russia, which gets colder than Iceland does.

    When the individuals of Cs. annulata and Culex spp. on cave walls were counted during overwintering and their numbers were compared, a similar decrease in their numbers was found, but when catalase activity was analyzed, a significant difference between Cs. annulata and Cx. pipiens pipiens L. was revealed, with higher activity in Cs. annulata. Higher catalase activity in Cs. annulata, as compared with that in Cx. p. pipiens, was also revealed in males collected in fall, which indicates the true interspecific differences (not linked with blood consumption) and suggests a better resistance of Cs. annulata to low temperatures.

    It’s because of the evolution of catalase

    Catalase is an antioxidant enzyme, which is important for lifespan extension and stress resistance during diapause in overwintering mosquitoes.

    in this species that it can live in cold climates.

    So it’s evolution, and international commerce, and not “Global Warming”, that explains the existence of mosquitoes in Iceland.

    Better luck next eon.

  9. Yeah, if the Mariners can squeak by the Jays in 7 they’ll have the honor of facing a very-well-rested Dodgers team.

    The Dodgers are defending WS champs, and have made the playoffs in 13 consecutive seasons, second-longest streak in MLB history.

    GLWT.

  10. So, it’s global warming again? What happened to climate change?

    Regardless of whether it is Global Warming or whether Climate Change, the data still concludes that you are fucking Neanderthal that has tendency to kill your bitch and your bitch’s babies.

  13. Hey G, go get a DNA kit from Ancestry.com and see if YOU have any Neanderthal DNA. You might be surprised at the results.

    What is this “Neanderthal” thing you’ve got going on in your head? Give it a rest, already!

  14. @4

    Senator ‘snowball’ Inhofe. That was a solid joke.

    @7

    EVOLUTION IS A THEORY!

    TEACH THE CONTROVERSY

  15. @ 13

    What is this “Neanderthal” thing you’ve got going on in your head?

    G-clown is HA’s resident psychotic homosexual. He is under the impression that hetero intimate partner violence is far greater than homo intimate partner violence.

    His fangirl cheerleading for homosexuality leads him to conclude inaccurately:

    43.8% of lesbian women and 61.1% of bisexual women have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime, as opposed to 35% of heterosexual women.

    No one treats a woman more viciously than another woman.

    26% of gay men and 37.3% of bisexual men have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime, in comparison to 29% of heterosexual men.

    [Source: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence]

  16. America: The largest single day public demonstration against the government in more than half a century.

    Fat Hitler: “It never happened. Oh, and here’s a Sora video of me as your sky-king dumping shit on you, America. Go fuck yourselves.”

    Speaker MAGA Mike: “The President is probably the most effective user of social media in history”.

  17. I don’t know about anyone else.

    But I do know that “Jesus” is not my king.

    And Chip Roy can go get fucked.

  18. Fucking HELL Chip, we were just starting to make inroads with the Kike vote. You can’t say that out loud. Keep it on the group text.

    Chip Roy (at MAGA Mike Jesus Johnson’s daily ‘It’s the Democrats fault’ PC): “The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it.”

  19. What is this “Neanderthal” thing you’ve got going on in your head? Give it a rest, already!

    Seems like that bothers you. Why?

    My DNA doesn’t determine my disposition to hate and kill, your virus does. You come here to talk and listen (or read) about everything and everything but not the murderous Virus of the Heterosexual Neanderthals. Why?

  25. I REITERATE! Representative Grijalva should be serving her constituents. Ot does not matter that only I can make her a Rep at this point, she has no office assigned, no government email, no access to the house travel service, no access to the Capital without escort, no ability to come to the floor, no per Diem…

    She’s a representative and should be doing her job instead of asking to be sworn in by me.

  26. No one treats a woman more viciously than another woman.

    Please cite the data or findings where the Lesbian was not attacked by a man but by the FEMALE partner.

  27. 61.1% of bisexual women have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime

    Ummm, what percentage were victimized by the Male partner. I suppose it doesn’t matter in your mind.

  28. In a split screen yesterday CNN had dueling MAGAT Congress members (on vacation) simultaneously blaming an “International Conspiracy of Jews” for the massive, nationwide #NOKINGS protest, and then also claiming that the purpose of the protest was to spread “antisemitism”.

    I tried to explain on Saturday to a local journalist about the frogs and other inflatable costumes. I told them that to some very significant extent our politics have ceased to be a battle between ideas. And that a very generous portion of the blame for that is owed to so-called journalists. We live in a post-idea world, dominated by images and perceptions. The frogs and kazoo bands and line dancing furries make it very hard for anyone to perceive ICE agents and ICE facilities as being “beseiged”.

    Of course they are not. But how do you portray that?
    MAGAputbican, pro-fascist members of Congress aren’t always on message. But it’s more important to remember that the “message” isn’t always what it appears. At least it isn’t if you are searching for a coherent set of ideas. There are no ideas, when it comes to fascists other than power and authority. Those are their only ideas.

  30. @7 That species overwinters in caves in northwest Russia, which gets colder than Iceland does.

    Surely this proves global warming is a hoax?

    Or maybe it reveals Russia has sent an advance party of mosquitoes to Iceland, which is all the excuse The Donald needs to get our military there first.

  31. @9 “GLWT”

    Sez the guy who couldn’t make it in the minors. I wonder how many failed ballplayers go to medical school? Musta been a Caribbean medical school.

  32. 29,
    The pivot towards owning the fascism is remarkable.

    We must hope that it’s premature. But if so, then it’s honestly helpful. The impact of 7 million “old Boomers” carrying signs “made by Jews at Kinkos” is that, despite all the fascism, Republicans could not stop it, could not disrupt it, could not even offer a coherent response to it. It shows people that America is not fascist yet. The fascism still has a long way to go before it can consolidate enough power and fear to prevent such a massive, public uprising in opposition to it.

    Republicans bear-hugging the idea of Fat Hitler as “President-for-Life” may be invaluable to our cause. He’s never been very popular. But, having grown high on the smell of their own shits, Republicans have all lost sight of that.

  34. @15 The poster at #13 pushed the misogynist’s Woman Hating Button. But how can a woman-hater be anything other than (a) gay or (b) incel?

  35. CNN: 20 days into the shutdown, Donald Trump’s approval rating is up one point.

    Only 48% of Americans blame Donald Trump “a great deal” for the shutdown.

  36. Cancelations of Disney+ and Hulu doubled immediately after Kimmel’s fake-firing. So Disney stepped in.

    The fascism is still very, very weak. There may still be time.

  37. The ICE Fat Ass who used his assigned government DHS vehicle earlier this month to ram a Chicago woman’s car and then proceed to open fire through her windshield emptying his weapon into her, then immediately fled the scene and drove the vehicle to Maine to hide it.

  38. 35,
    Every day from now through next month American voters in MAGA states are opening up their renewal notices and seeing their 2026 quotes.

    It’s all downhill for the MAGA rollercoaster now. 🎢

  39. Cuomo’s closing argument, “Young people are socialists and anti-Israel. Anti-Israel above all else.”

    ‘Hi, I’m Andrew Cuomo and I’m a Republican.’

  40. @35 40% approval. Bring us the finest meats and cheeses for a celebratory feast. Make them ground meats, fried, on sesame buns.

    48% say Trump is ‘A great deal’ to blame? How about adding in ‘some’ blame’? What if you add in Congressional Republicans ‘Greatly’ to blame? Do you get the extra 2 points or is it more like 10-15?

    Thanks for the shitpost.

  44. The video of Trump getting indignant over, “What do you say to American Farmers who are saying you’re bailing out Argentina and not them?” and calling Argentina his friends is probably going over really well in the Heartland.

    “Can YOU UNDERSTAND ME? They’re FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES” Of course he meant his buddies in Argentina and not farmers int the US. It’s not like an entire season of crops unsold is their lives or anything.

  45. Hey remember the fake outrage over the totally not real hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition the IRS was buying?

    Any thoughts from you guys on “guided missile warheads” being in the ICE requisition requests?

  46. 45,
    Whenever anyone spends that much that quickly on small arms the risk that weapons are “leaking” and being used as barter in exchange goes asymptotic. Unless there are incredibly strict controls.

    And are there? Nope. Not at all. DHS hasn’t had the time, and as an agency it entirely lacks the relevant expertise. They are just purchasing shipping containers filled with weapons and ammo, parking them in a warehouse yard, and dolling them out until they are gone. Then ordering more.

    Plenty are going home with employees. Plenty more are being traded at shows and in private sales to people without any background checks.

    Coming soon to a cop shooting near you.

    Which is of course the whole point. Flooding our peaceful communities with weapons helps them justify the fascist authoritarian take over.

  47. You know there can’t be such a thing as heaven or hell, otherwise Repukes would be concerned of thier evil acts… and they don’t. Just another Prop, like the Bible, the flag, the constitution, the Ten Commandments, etc.

  48. Heyl, look what I pulled out of my hat! It’s Hell. Hey look it’s heaven. Let me keep digging. Hey it’s the American fag. How about this, it’s the Bible.

    You Snowfkake. You commie. You tree hugger.

  50. @45 Since ICE is a domestic agency, we have to assume those weapons are intended for use against Americans.

  51. Orange pants shitter nominee Paul Ingrassia:

    Using an Italian slur for Black people, Ingrassia wrote a month earlier in the group chat seen by POLITICO: “No moulignon holidays … From kwanza [sic] to mlk jr day to black history month to Juneteenth,” then added: “Every single one needs to be eviscerated.”

    https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/20/paul-ingrassia-racist-text-messages-nazi-00613608

    A white nationalist magat.. so what’s new? Good news, the fucker is so bad, like bad as that pompous asswipe pants shitter favored to lead BLS, repuke Senators won’t even bother to meet with it.

    https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/20/congress/ingrassia-thune-republicans-00616010

    What great “judgement” from orange dear leader..

  52. OH?

    Lindsey Halligan, the insurance lawyer Donnie hired to get revenge his enemies when qualified government attorneys said “no fucking way“ apparently spent a couple days texting details of her cases, including grand jury testimony that she is not allowed to release, to a reporter and then at the end saying of course this is off the record. Which is not at all how this works.

    https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna–lindsey-halligan-here

  54. Yep. Criminal. SCOTUS May have given Donnie immunity from just about everything but the contractors the architects the guy driving the bulldozer today are in a ton of legal jeopardy.

  57. $50 says there’s some blunt force trauma involved.

    Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers All-Pro running back and Boise State star Doug Martin, 36, died while in police custody following a struggle with officers who were investigating a break-in at a home in Oakland, California, on Sunday according to the Oakland Police Department. Martin became unresponsive after his arrest and was transported to the hospital after receiving medical aid on the scene.

  58. Second amendment while black.

    Gave cops his concealed carry at the traffic stop. The Concealed carry license is part of his personal property inventory at booking. But officers at the scene say his wasn’t in the state database.

    Easily fixed, right? Nope. Prosecutors moved forward with felony charges.

    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AnGP1y/

  61. @ 57

    $50 says there’s some blunt force trauma involved.

    You really should look before you leap, Hops.

    Athletes First, which represented Martin when he was in the NFL, issued a news release Monday night that said he “battled mental health challenges that profoundly impacted his personal and professional life.”

    As part of the release, the agency also said Martin’s family sought to clarify the circumstances of his death.

    “Doug’s parents were actively seeking medical assistance for him and had contacted local authorities for support,” Athletes First said. “Feeling overwhelmed and disoriented, Doug fled his home during the night and entered a neighbor’s residence two doors down, where he was taken into custody by police. An investigation into what transpired as he was detained is underway.”

    https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46663137/ex-rb-doug-martin-died-custody-break-police-say

    I’ll take that bet, asshole.

    More likely is one or both of

    • chokehold
    • illegal substance in the bloodstream

    George Floyd much?

  62. @ 49

    This paragraph makes clear who’s keeping the government shut down:

    Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has …

    … successfully shepherded a clean CR through the House.

    The Speaker did his job.

    There are reasons Chuck Schumer is rumored to be considering retirement. Poor leadership is one of them. Getting his ass primaried because of his poor leadership is a bigger one.

  63. Schumer’s mismanagement of the CR passed by the House is making it increasingly likely that 2027 will see a Senator AOC.

    And admit it, libbies: Wouldn’t you prefer that?

  64. Bloo jaze.. BOOO!

    They were the better team..

    I hope the Dodgers beat them in 6.

    After 24 years, how does this Mariners franchise recover?

  65. @62 You seem to think House-passed bills are the final word. It’s never worked that way before. In that case, why have a Senate? Schumer’s job is to prevent Republican assholes like MAGA Mike from gutting health care for millions of Americans. He’s doing his job, MAGA Mike is AWOL. In the military, that would be a court-martial offense.

  69. @ 64

    After 24 years, how does this Mariners franchise recover?

    Bankroll trannies. Like the Dodgers do:

    Dodgers sponsor LGBTQ+ award show honoring UPenn’s famous transgender swimmer

    And really, how hard can it be?

    Laura Ingraham
    @IngrahamAngle

    Dodgers CAVE to TRANS cult

    “Putting Dodgers money into a trans event honoring Lia Thomas — and involving kids — isn’t just wrong, it’s evil. Whoever approved it should be fired.” — @dandakich

    5:10 AM · Oct 17, 2025

    It took awhile, but they shitcanned the women who dreamed up the Bud Light/Dylan Mulvaney disaster. Although this is Seattle, so instead of canning the leader of this falsity they’ll do something like expand the City Council to create a new seat for such brilliance.

    So Seattleites, you already do great pretending chicks with dicks are women – you fool yourselves, if not the rest of us. Now all you need to do in order to match the Dodgers is to redirect money from hungry children and addicts living on the streets to dudes who LARP as dudettes.

    Easy-peasy.

  70. Republicans put guns in the hands of people like this.

    Police arrested a man at Atlanta’s bustling airport on Monday after getting a tip from his family that he was planning to shoot up the place, and found an assault rifle and ammunition in his truck outside, the city’s police chief said. Billy Joe Cagle, of Cartersville, Georgia, had described his plan to shoot up the world’s busiest airport on a social media livestream, Chief Darin Schierbaum said during a news conference.

    https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-airport-gun-arrest-6aafd05e7ac71c25af83ee21fb5ed438

  71. @ 65

    You seem to think House-passed bills are the final word. It’s never worked that way before.

    Obamacare much?

    To pass the abomination that is the ACA, the Senate gutted a House-passed bill, completely replaced its text, passed it in the dead of night just before Xmas, and then a few months later the House passed it again with zero changes because Pelosi knew it couldn’t go to a conference committee for alteration of the Senate’s bill language.

    So other than the signature by Barack, the House-passed bill was the final word.

    You are incorrect yet again.

  72. pretending chicks with dicks are women

    this from a boring hater married to enslaved by a radlib dominatrix and “intimate” with barn animals..

    yawwwwn… Dodgers in 6.. Beating the jaze in Toronto would just as dull as the dumbfuck’s blather here.

  73. 52,
    She’s another drunk.

    1 pm on a week day and she’s drunk texting a reporter trying to gaslight her.

    Reading through the Signal text chains I don’t see her disclosing grand jury testimony. But using Signal in this way violates a bunch of public records laws as well as court orders pursuant to cases she is prosecuting for retention of communication.

    Like I said, she’s an alcoholic in the midst of her struggle. She’s probably experiencing a lot of soaring ideation right now about her “power” and influence. It’s going to crash around her when her appointment is vacated. She’s about six months shy of her Rudy phase, farting during press conferences at landscape truck yards and groping at teenagers.

  74. @71 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck assures us the Senate didn’t change a single word in a 906-page House bill.

    Well, here’s what’s different this time: Pelosi’s House gave people health care, and MAGA Mike’s House takes it away.

    Republicans and Democrats aren’t the same.

  75. Note that Doctor Dumbfuck calls enabling millions of Americans to take their sick kids to a doctor “an abomination.” And he calls himself a doctor …

    No wonder they kicked him out of the hospital and sent him to an island.

  76. Note for the record, they were prepared to still confirm him, even knowing he tried to make an underlying stay in his hotel room, and when they already knew about the text string. It was only after WE knew about the racist text string that Republicans gave up on him.

    President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Office of Special Counsel, Paul Ingrassia, appears unable to win Senate confirmation — although he’s still slated for a committee appearance later this week.

    Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., a member of the Homeland Security Committee, told Semafor he doesn’t “plan on voting for” Ingrassia after Politico published racist and offensive text messages attributed to the nominee. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., another member of the panel, also said he cannot support Ingrassia and said the nomination should be pulled.

  77. Republicans put guns in the hands of people like this.

    He’s the Neanderthal that I posted about earlier up in The thread.

    What’s Boob bitching about?

  78. So Dumbfuck, as usual, is OK with cops killing someone.

    Choke holds are illegal. For obvious reasons.

  79. @60 – Yes! Release the damn Epstein files, and let’s find out who has been a bad boy. Let’s make sure they end up in prison – no matter who is guilty!

    (Wouldn’t it just be totally special if Bill Gates or Alan Dershowitz had to go to Big Boy Prison?)

  80. This is the country we live in now, thanks to Republican voters:

    A group of teenagers at a Dutch Bros Coffee in Hillsboro earlier this month was stopped at gunpoint by approximately 10 masked immigration agents and a police dog, according to local law enforcement records.

    “Subjects in a white van and white truck exited their vehicles and pointed guns at the customers at the drive-thru window,” according to a dispatcher.

    Baristas at the drive-thru took shelter in a restroom during the Oct. 3 incident, and Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Hillsboro police responded to the scene. Police later confirmed the agents were with ICE.

    https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/10/ice-agents-hold-teens-at-gunpoint-at-dutch-bros-in-hillsboro.html

  81. One interesting drawback of the Regenerative Braking on the newly electrified CalTrain, is it was wasted, until now. Caltrain will be compensated for what it puts back in the Grid.

    Too bad the Milwaukee Road route was a dismal failure,(The Othello-Avery Unelectrified Gap was costly because of time consuming locomotive changes), this might have been a bonus for them. They also should have continued the electrification on the Tacoma end, that grade to Fredrickson was always a tough one on steam and later diesel (3%), the Milwaukee and later successors tried everything. Tacoma Rail handed the freight customers they had off to the short line that served the southern end of the Mountain Division at Centralia.

    https://www.caltrain.com/news/caltrain-be-paid-clean-power-returned-grid

    https://www.caltrain.com/news/caltrain-be-paid-clean-power-returned-grid

  83. (Wouldn’t it just be totally special if Bill Gates or Alan Dershowitz had to go to Big Boy Prison?)

    Yes, release the Epstein Files! Naughty heterosexual predators of baby vagina.

    And none have to go to jail, pardon them, but let their shameful actions be known. If Giuselle can go free, then let them all go free! Free the Pedos!

    Right Pars, just pardon them. Get rid of the jails! No more jails!

  84. Do you see your flawed logic Pars? You are a flawed individual.

    How fun would it be to pardon all the Repuke Pedos and then let the Libby ones rot in jail with no pardon. See how much fun you could have with this?

  85. Wouldn’t it just be totally special if Bill Gates or Alan Dershowitz had to go to Big Boy Prison?

    Yes. You fat blockhead. Of course it would.

    Get it through your impenetrable Republican voting skull that at this point in time THE ONLY people standing in the way of releasing the full investigative file are ALL THE REPUBLICANS.

    And that includes you, you disgusting, child raping piece of shit.

  86. Regarding comment above ( can’t see the numbering on my iPhone).

    Maybe it’s because he likes young fresh meat too.

  90. @83 – “ Right Pars, just pardon them. Get rid of the jails! No more jails!”

    That doesn’t work out so well, especially in the long run.

  91. Do you wonder if the centrists ever get tired of being proven wrong?

    Bloomberg

    A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state.

    Rich people like rich people things and there’s no NBA or Michelin Star Chefs in Providence or Manchester.

  92. So much violent Antifa on Saturday.

    So much.

    Unacceptable rioting.

    WASHINGTON — A Jan. 6 defendant who was among the hundreds President Donald Trump pardoned in January was arrested for making a “credible death threat” against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the congressman said in a statement.

    Christopher Moynihan, a 34-year-old from Clinton, New York, was charged with a felony count of making a terroristic threat, according to the New York State Police.

  94. Polling…

    60% of Americans are pissed about health care cuts.

    A majority of Americans agree “President Trump is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy” (56%), up from 52% in March 2025, compared with 41% who agree “President Trump is a strong leader who should be given the power he needs to restore America’s greatness.”

    22% of Republicans but 12% of Democrats think political violence may b necessary to save the country (left wing violence, eh)

    Only 37% think discrimination against Christians is real.

    https://prri.org/research/trumps-unprecedented-actions-deepen-asymmetric-divides/

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