This is only the 14th time this has happened in MLB history. The play itself is relatively easy for the fielder (as seen in this video). It is so rare because the conditions leading up to a potential unassisted triple play situation are very rare.

Quoted: Asdrubal Cabrera makes a diving catch steps on second then tags the runner going to second

More on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unassisted_triple_play

Quoted: A new cricket league is trying to spin off India’s colonial inheritance into a money-making symbol of a brash, emerging nation.

An accurate comparison imho...

Quoted: Should we be worried the Mariners are baseball’s equivalent of the Bush Administration? Fiscally undisciplined with negligible positive returns? Check. Marketed as veteran leadership despite any veterans with leadership experience? Check. Sloppy management reinforced with sloppy execution on the ground? Check.

If J.J. is not 100%, this season is over.

Quoted: J.J.'s clearly not healthy. Fuck this season.
I even thought this just felt like a win. I smiled knowingly when Richie hit it out in the 10th. I had felt confident the entire later innings. I was confident with J.J. I was sure he was going to come up and put the fears instilled in that Oakland game to rest. And for one batter he did. Kudos to Batista, Rhodes, Morrow, Richie and Ichiro.

Yay, especially re: Clement...although I wish they had waited 7 days in order to get the extra arbitration year.

Quoted: There is official confirmation, finally - catcher Jeff Clement and outifelder Wladimir Balentien are joining the Seattle Mariners in Cleveland on Wednesday.

I hope they will offer some of the realtime experiences (e.g. GameDay) that you can get for baseball through mlb.com

Quoted: Here’s a deal straight out of Rupert Murdoch’s playbook circa 1994. Just like Murdoch established Fox back then by paying an exorbitant-seeming sum ($1.6 billion at the time) for the rights to broadcast the NFL, Live Current Media is paying $50 million over ten years for the exclusive online rights to official content from the Indian Premier League (a new cricket league in India with a shorter, more fan-friendly version of the game—first match is tomorrow).

Yesterday's game exposed the M's weaknesses this season:
- Weakened bullpen (due to loss of LHP George Sherril)
- Black holes in our offense, specifically Sexson, Wilkerson
- To a lesser extent - lack of a power hitter

Quoted: Six pitches, all of them out of the strike zone. Joaquin Benoit did everything he possibly could to walk in the go-ahead run, and Sexson just wouldn’t let him. If the Mariners continue to hit Sexson cleanup and ask Lopez to bunt Ichiro over every time he gets on base in high leverage situations, we’re going to see this a lot - Ibanez walks and Sexson leaves the man on.
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There’s just no reason a team that wants to be a contender should be hitting Richie Sexson cleanup in 2008.

This random blog thinks (generously?) that the M's are the 9th best team in baseball.

Quoted: 9. Seattle Mariners
They aren’t a great team, but they have a spattering of great parts in their closer, pair of aces, and a lineup centered around Ichiro. The Angels begin the season with a hurting rotation, and this Mariner team will pounce on the chance to gain an early lead in the division.

Hmm, looks like Federer is in a little rut.

Quoted: Roger Federer lost again, this time in one of the biggest tennis upsets in memory. Mardy Fish, an American ranked 98th, shocked No. 1 Federer in straight sets Saturday, with the lopsided score -- 6-3, 6-2 -- making it even more of a stunner. Fish, who pulled off by far the biggest of his upsets he's strung together this week in the Pacific Life Open, moved into Sunday's final against No. - Tennis news