Towel Throwing

It's official, I've given up on blogging the Mariners for the remainder of the season. It'll be a mercy when it's over. It has an almost halfway decent year for them, but I think they've given up, and I can't think of any reason not to join them in their dismay. The only way I'll mention them again is if they get involved in a massive brawl with the Oakland A's that involves actual punching, leaving the field strewn with Athletics. Fat Chance.

But before I quit I'd like to leave you with a boatload of links to Mariner websites, blogs and Seattle newspapers. Yeah, I should've done this a long time ago too.

Mariner Magic
Official site
USS Mariner
Sports and Bremertonians
Mariner Housewife (Best blog of the bunch, plus she's a Portland resident).
Mariner Morsels
Marinerds
Nice Guys Finish Third
Seattle Times
Seattle Post Intelligencer

But I aint done yet. College and pro football is just around the corner, the English Premier League is ready to get going. After all of this is the start of the NHL season, then a month later the NBA (home of hometown favorites Portland Trailblazers).

Tomorrow I'll try to write up a preview of the Golden Helmet League. But for now here is a link to the Deadspin preview of the New England Patriots (my favorite football team), and links to That's on Point's preview of the Premiership, parts one, two, three and four.
I'm rooting for Arsenal, a team that's probably overloved, but at least it's not Manchester United or Chelsea. Chelsea might seem to be the more logical, Russian choice for me considering that its sometimes nickname "Chelski" comes with being owned by the Russian billionare Roman Abramovich and features the talent of the Ukrainian striker Andrij Shevchenko, but they're just plain sick, with throwing money to construct a half-baked All-star team that would leave Grand Sith Lord George Steinbrenner quesy.

And oh yeah school, five weeks away.