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		<title>Mariners lose, but in a way they win</title>
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The Mariners lost yet another heartbreaker, this time a 3-2 loss to the A’s in the 11th inning. But are the Mariners losing news anymore? I’ve gotten to the point where I am disappointed when I don’t see an item involving a fired coach or a complaining player. The results of the games have just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing quickly hurts just as much</title>
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The Mariners&#8217; season has turned into a Dr. Seuss book.
They can lose when they score a lot or when they can&#8217;t score enough.
They lose when a pitcher&#8217;s on fire and they lose when his outing is rough.
They even lose when a backup catcher closes the game.
Man oh man, these Mariners are lame.
OK, but really, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s not where your catcher should be</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Jim Bryant/AP 
The sight of backup catcher Jaime Burke taking the mound in the 15th (it was the 15th, right? I lost count after 12) was incredible not because a position player was forced to pitch in a tie game. What was incredible is that Burke taking the mound isn&#8217;t even the saddest part of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R.I.P. McLaren&#8217;s Seattle career</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Charlie Riedel/AP
Leave it to the Mariners to lose, even on a day off. At least this time it&#8217;s addition by subtraction.
Yes, everyone&#8217;s favorite Mike Martz look-alike, John McLaren, was finally put out of his misery and fired Thursday morning during a travel day for the Tacoma Rainers&#8217; Major League affiliate.
 I only hope interim GM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At least they&#8217;re consistent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following yet another loss, this time 5-2 to the Marlines, I’m sure members of the Tacoma Rainers’ Major League affiliate probably wanted to be put out of their misery.
I don’t blame them. I want to be put out of my misery and I just watch the team.

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		<title>The Blue Jays&#8217; talent apparently went on strike</title>
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The American dollar is currently worth just 98 cents in Canada, using a four percent cash rate. You may or may not know what that means (I sure don’t) but all you need to understand is that the American dollar is worth less across the border.
Thankfully, for the Tacoma Rainers Major League affiliate, the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If only all their games were on Saturday mornings</title>
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The Tacoma Rainers&#8217; Major League affiliate has managed to make this season as entertaining as a Wile Coyote cartoon. Each day we&#8217;re all wondering just how this team is going to lose in the end. Will they smash into a painted wall? Or have an anvil fall on their collective heads? No, this team is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This man is not so intimidating anymore</title>
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I felt a little under the weather over the weekend so I decided to take a mental break, recharge my batteries and come back to hit the ground running. While I was gone the Mariners played .500 baseball, going 2-2 in my absence. Hmmmmm. Maybe I should take more breaks.
Regardless, after missing out on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marinermonitor.com/this-man-is-not-so-intimidating-anymore/</link>
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		<title>Mariners win &#8230; Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rod Mar/THE SEATTLE TIMES
This week&#8217;s Sports Illustrated cover is about baseball&#8217;s bizarro world. On Tuesday night Safeco Field was its own bizzaro world.
An 8-0 Daisuke Matsuzaka was going up against a who-care-what-his-record-is-because-its-bad Miguel Bautista. Yet, when the dust settled it was the Mariners who came out on top, 4-3 over the Red Sox. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This team hit the wall long before Ichiro did</title>
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I hoped it would never come to this, but the Mariners have left me no other choice. Thanks to a 5-3 loss to the Red Sox (the team&#8217;s seventh straight) Seattle fell to 16 games below .500 and I have a strict rule that once a team falls under 15 games below .500 they can [...]]]></description>
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