Being from Seattle, and being a lifelong Mariners fan, it's hard for me to describe my disgust at being swept by the underachieving New York Yankees. What the hell just happened?

After capturing the lead early, the bullpen let another one slip through their grasp today, losing to the Yankees 6-5.

In my opinion, the general manager, Bill Bavasi, ought to get sh!t canned right now. His "wait and see" attitude with trades has cost this team ever since he took over. I'm sure his bumbling, lazy approach to baseball is what led to the Mariner's former field manager, Mike Hargrove, to decide to call it quits in the middle of last season. Who makes a trade for a left handed starter by letting one of their best lefty bullpen talents in the past decade (George Sherill) and their protoge center fielder (Adam Jones) go to Baltimore to get the often injured, often meatball pitching Eric Bedard who's only managed two quality starts so far this year? We didn't need a left handed starter! We needed to get the performance out of Batista and Washburn!

I'm not holding my breath with this team. Many years ago, the San Diego Padres did a "fire sale" trading all their talent away for the future. If the Mariners aren't careful, they'll end up in the bottom third of the league, in terms of talent, and could fire sale some of their guys as well.

Furthermore, get rid of Richie Sexson! All he ever wants to do is hit homeruns, and he closes his eyes on every swing. We're paying this guy a bundle of green to miss straight fastballs. What a moron!

As you may tell by my first three blog posts, I'm a sports fan, through and through. It's hard to distinguish much of my real life from the sports analogous outlook I use to pad my day.

Anyhow, enough of that... I need to check the Madden boards...

Bob-san