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The Seattle Mariners are doing the best they can to become the first team in Major League Baseball history to lose 100 games with a $100 million payroll.
Part of the reason appears to be the incompetence of the front office which despite tremendous interest has been unable to unload salary drags like Jarrod Washburn or solid guys that contenders were intrigued by like Adrian Beltre or Raul Ibanez.
None of the three were dealt by the waiver deadline July 31. Now, reportedly, the Mariners ran Ibanez and Washburn through waivers. Both were claimed – Ibanez by the Detroit Tigers and Washburn by the Minnesota Twins – giving the Mariners a 48-hour window to negotiate with them.
With the football season getting underway I wasn’t sure www.brushbackpitch.com would debut until sometime around the first of the year. After all, it’s not like the founders of this site don’t already have enough going on.
But this baseball season also has me intrigued, with Tampa Bay contending for the first time, the Chicago Cubs appearing to be one of the league’s strongest teams as they try to break the 100 year streak and the Milwaukee Brewers trying to make the playoffs for the first time since I was 7. So I’ll accelerate the schedule a little bit.
But the issue that has me most intrigued, or irritated, these days is the idea of a mid-year rule change introducing instant replay into Major League Baseball.
Commissioner Bud Selig, according to the Associated Press, expects an announcement “very shortly” that the technology will be available to assist umpires soon.
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