TERRY MOSHER
I find it somewhat amusing that the Houston Astros have gotten out to such a great start to the baseball season that they have left behind everybody else in the American League West. This from a team that when it moved over form the National League to the AL was pegged as the sisters of the poor and were expected to be the doormats in the West.
Well, those doormats have picked up and are now occupying the penthouse suite while the veterans of the AL West have been kicked out the door. And that includes the Mariners, who were a hot pre-season pick to wind up in the World Series.
What happened to the Mariners? Where do you want me to start? Let’s try starting pitching. Other then the King and the less known J.A. Happ acquired from Toronto for outfielder Michael Saunders, the starting rotation has had the wheels come off of it. An Arm injury to Hisashi Iwakuma rattled the wheels first and the inconsistency of the two kids, Taijuan Walker and James Paxton finished the wheels off.
Then a bullpen that was the best in baseball is no longer that.
To finish this off, the lineup other than Kyle Seager, Robinson Cano and Nelson Cruz, who with 14 home runs already is on pace to set a Major League Baseball record that even a chemically induced A-Rod won’t be able to reach.
How you can have a guy who has blasted 14 dingers in 26 games on your team and you team is outdoors knocking on the door trying to get in much less go the penthouse is beyond me.
And if you thought like me that Cruz would be lucky to hit 30 home runs this year, you are welcome to join me in jumping off the Warren Avenue Bridge as punishment.
Of course we all have the stand-by answer when faced with a puzzling question: It’s still early in the season.
Maybe even more puzzling is how the Seahawks who believe in doing things right believe they were right in drafting Frank Clark. I can see a boxing promoter taking Clark under his wing. A fight between Clark and the Money Man, Floyd Mayweather might be more appropriate – both have fought and allegedly beaten women.
When you think about it, Money Man has done more punching outside the ring then he did in the ring Saturday night against the Pac-Man. He knows how to run, though.
It is a bad thing for a man to hit a woman, but really, really bad when a man powered by supped-up testosterone and God only know what else hauls off and hits a female as the 6-foot-2, 275-pound Clark allegedly did.
Then how bad is it for the Seahawks to draft him?
I don’t know, but I do know this is a strange world we live in. When a group of monsters like ISIS go around killing innocent people just for the fun of it, it’s too much for me.
I wish I would wave a magic wand and make everything right, and make the evil guys disappear in one swipe of the wand. But barring that, the best I can do is continue to expose them by writing about them.
Be well pal.
Be careful out there.
Have a great day.
You are loved.