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Unstoppable Second-Place Mariners Take Series From Yankees

Unstoppable Second-Place Mariners Take Series From Yankees

Raymond Schwabacher May 17, 2013 0

Yesterday the Mariners defeated the Yankees for the second time in three days, taking a series in the Bronx and moving into second place in the AL West. Second place! How about that! It

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M’s, Pirates Split Series; Felix is Felix, Harang is Harang

M’s, Pirates Split Series; Felix is Felix, Harang is Harang

Raymond Schwabacher May 9, 2013 1

The Mariners just had an off day. Today is an off day, too, but the Mariners just had an off day right before the recently-concluded series in Pittsburgh. Over the course of the last

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Mighty Mariners Take Two of Three From Baseball’s Worst, Best Team

Mighty Mariners Take Two of Three From Baseball’s Worst, Best Team

Raymond Schwabacher May 7, 2013 0

The Toronto Blue Jays may have lost 89 games in 2012, but that didn’t stop them from storming through the offseason, of which they were crowned unanimous champions. The Jays, as you may recall,

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Mariners Win Consecutive Series; Apocalypse Draws Near

Mariners Win Consecutive Series; Apocalypse Draws Near

Raymond Schwabacher May 2, 2013 0

The Mariners played the Baltimore Orioles three times in the last three days, and twice emerged victorious! One recalls that the Mariners quite recently played the Anaheim Angels four times in four days and

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Mariners Play Opponent, Win More Often Than Not

Mariners Play Opponent, Win More Often Than Not

Raymond Schwabacher April 29, 2013 0

“It’s early.” You’ve heard this, in reference to the 2013 baseball season. You’ve probably said this, in reference to the 2013 baseball season. And that’s good, because it’s true. It’s early. MLB is just

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Awful Mariners Drop Series to Astros, Are Awful

Awful Mariners Drop Series to Astros, Are Awful

Raymond Schwabacher April 24, 2013 0

In Imagination Land, the Mariners just swept a one-game series with the Astros and then went to the beach for two days. In Imagination Land, you’re celebrating the Mariners first series victory of the

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Rangers Deliver Season-Ending Sweep of Mariners

Rangers Deliver Season-Ending Sweep of Mariners

Raymond Schwabacher April 22, 2013 0

It wasn’t supposed to end like this. Not in such stupendous fashion. Not to the Rangers. And certainly not in April. Yet it’s April 22, and here we are. For those of you who

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Tigers Only Partially Maul Mariners in Historic Series

Tigers Only Partially Maul Mariners in Historic Series

Raymond Schwabacher April 19, 2013 0

The Seattle Mariners, fresh off a moderately-uplifting series split with the hated rival Texas Rangers, were feeling cocky. They went out for happy hour appletinis and didn’t even lock the door, they were so

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Series Postmortem: Rangers @ Mariners

Series Postmortem: Rangers @ Mariners

Raymond Schwabacher April 15, 2013 0

Fresh off losing two of three to the Astros, at home, the Mariners looked to rebound against the Rangers, at home. Having invited the presumably worst team in baseball into their home and paid

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Series Postmortem: Astros @ Mariners

Series Postmortem: Astros @ Mariners

Raymond Schwabacher April 11, 2013 0

The Mariners, being a Major League Baseball team, play a season that consists of 162 games, 81 at home and 81 on the road. This hardly makes the M’s unique – in fact, quite

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Series Postmortem: Mariners @ White Sox

Series Postmortem: Mariners @ White Sox

Raymond Schwabacher April 7, 2013 0

Over the last three or four years, “Mariners vs. White Sox” has become a phrase that instills automatic terror into the hearts of Seattle fans. Not that the White Sox have been a particularly

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Joe Saunders Sucks, Mariners Lose

Joe Saunders Sucks, Mariners Lose

Raymond Schwabacher April 4, 2013 0

The first two days of the MLB season probably felt like a crazy dreamworld for many of us. Two days of baseball, two dominant victories. Felix took the mound for the season opener and

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Mariners @ Athletics: Opening Day Liveblog Extravaganza

Mariners @ Athletics: Opening Day Liveblog Extravaganza

Raymond Schwabacher April 1, 2013 1

Hello friends, and strangers, and welcome to this year’s edition of Seattle Mariners Opening Day. After an excruciatingly long spring training in which the M’s clubbed many a dinger and an excruciatingly excruciating offseason

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How’s Your Bracket Doing?

How’s Your Bracket Doing?

Scott Grinsell March 26, 2013 0

Let’s check how you did last weekend: 11 Minnesota over 6 UCLA 12 Oregon over 5 Oklahoma State 12 Ole Miss over 5 Wisconsin 12 California over 5 UNLV 13 La Salle over 4

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Seattle NHL Hockey Team Names

Seattle NHL Hockey Team Names

Paul Novak March 14, 2013 22

One of the more popular posts on SSC has been our question to our visitors asking, “What Should The New Seattle NHL Team be Named?” The poll logged over 1,300 votes and from the

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The Sound Off for March 3

The Sound Off for March 3

Paul Novak March 3, 2013 0

News, giveaways, and items that didn’t call for their own post this past week and ended up here. SSC’s Google + page is up and you can expect to see unique content and giveaways

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Seattle Sports Central on Social Media

Seattle Sports Central on Social Media

Paul Novak March 1, 2013 0

SeattleSportsCentral is the largest independent Seattle sports blog and message board on the internet. SSC was started in 2010 by Paul Novak and has grown to feature its own stable of great writers that

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ESPN’s OTL Sonics Episode

ESPN’s OTL Sonics Episode

Paul Novak February 24, 2013 1

Outside The Lines recently had Sonicsgate director Jason Reid and local TV reporter Chris Daniels on with Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson to discuss the latest on the possible Sacramento Kings relocation to Seattle. Jason

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MLB The Show 13 Team Rankings

MLB The Show 13 Team Rankings

Paul Novak February 23, 2013 1

All team rankings have now been released for the highly anticipated MLB The Show 13 for the Playstation 3. MLB The Show 13 will be in stores on March 5th. MLB The Show 13

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Velocity and Location Data Part 3: Tommy Burns

Velocity and Location Data Part 3: Tommy Burns

Clint Hulsey February 22, 2013 0

In my last two posts, I looked at how pitchers’ threw when it came to location in the strike zone, and where they had success, especially when it came to velocity. I watched Howard

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Revis Island vs. The Shermanator: A Tweet by Tweet Analysis of an Epic Twitter Battle

Revis Island vs. The Shermanator: A Tweet by Tweet Analysis of an Epic Twitter Battle

Luke Theofelis February 21, 2013 2

I was working on a second half NBA preview thinking I would post it today or yesterday, when I hear that an all-out Twitter battle had broken out between Darrelle Revis and Richard Sherman.

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