A public option for national dog health insurance? Sound Transit reversing its anti-canine bias.. and permitting dogs to ride light rail? People cleaning up after their defecating dogs at the Genesee off-leash area? Not really.
Recent acquisitions by the Seattle Mariners General Manager Jack Zduriencik have given some reasons for optimism for the 2010 Major League Baseball (MLB) season. The organization signed third baseman Chone Figgins to a four-year, $36 million contract. Then, the ball club traded for 2008 Cy Young winner Cliff Lee.
To use a Dog Denizens of Genesee Park (DDGP) analogy, Figgins (.298, 42 stolen bases, 101 walks in 2009) resembles a whippet: sleek, fast, and flexible. Figgins played second base, third base and the outfield last year. Lee (14-13, 3.22 ERA, 181 strikeouts with two teams) is like a pointer with precision accuracy.
Then, in one of the most intriguing moves, the team then traded an overpaid, malcontented slug of a pitcher (the barely missed Carlos Silva) for the volatile, harmony-challenged outfielder Milton Bradley (.257, 12 home runs, 40 RBIs). The volatile outfielder makes Terrell Owens and Jeff Kent look like "Mr. Congeniality". In 10 years Bradley has played with seven different MLB teams. We anticipate Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu losing his zen cool with Bradley before the All-Star game. Wakamatsu may throttle Bradley by September. The DDGP wouldn't be at all surprised if Bradley was omitted from the play-off roster in October.
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