Author: Shane Hall
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Road Trip Recap: Is Somebody Gonna Clean This Up?
I have a cat. I have never wanted to have a cat, but I do have one. He is a living consolation prize; a reminder of a time when my wife and I wanted a dog and lived in a dog-free zone. But here’s the funny part: the cat is soul-bonded to me. Imprinted. I’m […]
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Series Recap: No Thank You!
Good grief, did someone install a fresh burial ground underneath Guaranteed Rate Field before the start of this one? Casually recite a few incantations from the Book of the Dead, perhaps? At any rate, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to conclude that the city of Chicago should no longer exist. Since we already talked about […]
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An Exercise in Hostility
The Chicago White Sox and the Seattle Mariners played a baseball game last night. At least, that’s what the box score would tell you. What actually took place was something much weirder, and much more nefarious. By the time Tuesday’s series opener in Chicago wrapped up, we already knew that Wednesday’s storyline would revolve around […]
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Series Recap: Mid-esota
While Trident Deck doesn’t currently have the capacity to recap every game, due to not staffing a bunch of single young-ish somethings with a lot of free time, we are going to try something new this year. We’ll post a series recap at the conclusion of every series just to talk about what went well, […]
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2022 Predictions
If you don’t make predictions before the season begins, legend has it that a little old witch will take you from your bed in the middle of the night and cook you into a pie. In fact, this happened to my buddy Eric once. That’s why you see everyone frantically throwing out their predictions in […]
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Mariners Put Some of Their Money Where Their Mouth is; Extend JP Crawford
While most Mariners fans were either on their way to work or still staring sleepily into a bowl of soggy Frosted Mini Wheats, Jeff Passan broke the news that the team has signed shortstop JP Crawford to a five-year extension. Rapid analysis: Good! Your favorite captain of an internet blog ship has been banging this […]
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It’s Time to Engage OPERATION: TAURUS MAXIMUS
The Mariners have an opportunity to do something truly noteworthy. A step towards the type of radical innovation Andy McKay can only dream about. Something that a major league team would be crazy, perhaps stupid, to even attempt. But if they pulled it off? Oh baby. Abraham Toro came over to the Mariners at the […]
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Calm Down; Don’t Panic: A Journey Through the 2021-2022 Free Agent Hitter Market
Don’t panic! All the big bats are still available, except for Semien. Calm down! All the big bats are still available, except for Semien and Seager. Don’t panic! All the big bats are still available, except for Semien, Seager, and Suzuki. Calm down!! All the big bats are still available, except for Semien, Seager, Suzuki, […]
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Baseballs Underperforming Early On in Spring Training
With the lockout taking away the majority of the offseason and a lot of precious prep time, everyone is scrambling to get up to speed in the short window before Opening Day. And not just the players, coaches, and executives — the baseballs themselves are feeling this time crunch as well. Typically, Major League baseballs […]
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Well, it’s Groundhog Day…Again
Rob Manfred woke up this morning, as he has every morning for the last…..who knows, really? He grabbed his cold milk with a splash of warm coffee, took a seat in his ergonomic chair in front of his comically large desk, and got to work. Well, he calls it work. It is something. But it’s […]
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