The Grand Salami's Seattle Mariners Page

10/13/2022

Having quit maintaining that other website that was all about baseball and the Seattle Mariners, one might think I'm not interested in writing more about them. But even though that endeavor was ultimately a bust, I am still a fan and it is October, when the MLB postseason rules the mind.

10/07/2022

The baseball season is over. You can put 2022 in the books for MLB, and it was a good one. Well, it had its moments. It was fun despite some issues. I mean, the DH thing is a horror show and Commissioner Manfred keeps dicking around with things he should...

09/28/2022

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I went to the ballgame tonight with my friends K & E, who are relatively new converts to the roller coaster ride that is the Seattle Mariners. Well, K is, anyway, E was half in the bag beforehand.

08/11/2022

Well, I never thought I'd see that again.

08/05/2022

Hi, readers. Nice to have you here. Sadly, your number is small.

08/04/2022

Greetings, you rare and few denizens of grandsalami.net. It's been a minute.

07/25/2022

The Rangers are here for three games vs. the . Didn't we just see these guys? Yes. Yes, we did.

The Mariners closed out the first half of the campaign with a four-game sweep of the Rangers at their place in the DFW metroplex, extending their stellar winning streak to 14 games. That took us to the All-Star break and since then Texas has played four games, winning a makeup...

07/22/2022

Now that the All-Star Game and accompanying hooplah are in the rearview mirror (yay, Ty France finally got in! Boo, another really boring ASG with another Fox Sports broadcast that focused on everything except the game itself), let's take a minute and look at how Your Seattle Mariners did in...

07/16/2022

The Mariners are on an historic 11-game winning streak. That's what matters (insofar as anything related to baseball matters in the grand scheme of things). Next Tuesday's All-Star Game is merely an exhibition, a sideshow. Moreover, it's a sideshow that has become a parody of itself in recent years....

07/14/2022

Game time. Bone up on the opponents for the next four days: https://grandsalami.net/opposing-teams/texas-rangers

07/13/2022

As you wait out the rain delay, you can check out the opposition primer for the ' adversary today, the Washington Nationals.

The Nationals are a long way from their 2019 championship. Now in full-on rebuild mode, Washington is firmly ensconced in the National League East basement, 24½ games back of the Mets as this brief 2-game set begins. Currently riding a four-game losing streak, the Nats have lost 10 of 11.

07/12/2022

Major League Baseball announced the reserve rosters for the All-Star teams yesterday, and they included a few surprises. The biggest being the absence of a certain Tyler Lawrence France.