http://damox.com/seattle-mariners Covering the Mariners from spring training to the World Series Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:35:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I found this clip of Ichiro belting home runs back when he was in high school in Japan. He couldn't have weighed more than 130 pounds at this point, but he's really pounding the ball. If any of you kids out there think you need PEDs to improve your strength ... http://damox.com/seattle-mariners/2009/12/16/this-is-why-you-dont-need-peds/ The Mariners have now officially inked Chone Figgins to a 4-year, $36 million contract. I think Figgins will help the Mariners in the short run, but he's also 32 years old and the prime of his career is winding down. In the final years of this contract they'll be paying ... http://damox.com/seattle-mariners/2009/12/09/mariners-make-it-official-chone-figgins-is-ours/ It's not often that you can get a solid hitting lesson from one of the best hitters in the game. Some, including myself, have said Ichiro has an unorthodox hitting style that is different from every other major league hitter's. I'm not going to back off that statement, but if ... http://damox.com/seattle-mariners/2009/10/12/an-ichiro-suzuki-hitting-lesson/ It only took me a week, but I've finally got a good video clip of the classic Ichiro vs. Mariano Rivera matchup from last weekend. The Mariners might not be in the playoff hunt, but this home run is one of those moments that people will be talking about for ... http://damox.com/seattle-mariners/2009/09/24/video-clip-of-ichiro-vs-mariano/ I came across these great video trailers on YouTube for a documentary about the Seattle Pilots. As many of you know, the Seattle Pilots played major league ball here for just one season in 1969. They were then moved to Milwaukee and became the Brewers. Seattle would not get another ... http://damox.com/seattle-mariners/2009/09/22/short-flight-into-history-a-seattle-pilots-documentary/ Ichiro amazed me once again last night in the Mariners 3-2 win over the Yankees. He beat out a routine infield ground ball for a base hit late in the game -- a typical sight in his career. Then, he did what everyone knows he could do more often if ... http://damox.com/seattle-mariners/2009/09/19/is-ichiro-the-best-american-league-hitter-of-this-generation/ Seattle minor leaguer James McOwen extended his hitting streak to 44 games with a broken bat single in his final at bat last night. This ties him with Pete Rose for the longest hitting streak in professional baseball since 1954. http://damox.com/seattle-mariners/2009/07/08/james-mcowen-extends-streak-to-44-games-ties-rose/ Watch out Joltin' Joe, here comes James McOwen. The Mariners farmhand plays for High Desert in the California League, and he's currently got a 42 game hitting streak going. The record for a minor league player in the modern era is held by Joe DiMaggio, who had a hit in ... http://damox.com/seattle-mariners/2009/07/06/mariners-minor-leaguer-extends-hitting-streak/ The Mariners used their 2nd overall pick in the first round of Tuesday's amateur draft to select Dustin Ackley, an outfielder/first baseman out of North Carolina. Ackley lacks the size you'd expect from a first round pick, as he's only 6'1" and weights 184 pounds, but he does have a ... http://damox.com/seattle-mariners/2009/06/10/mariners-take-dustin-ackley-with-2-overall-pick/ It's not every day when you can lose a game by 5 runs and still say it was close right up until the end. Mariners emergency reliever Denny Stark gave up 6 runs with 2 outs in the top of the 10th inning as Seattle went on to lose to ... http://damox.com/seattle-mariners/2009/05/06/mariners-get-blown-out-in-10-innings/