Seattle Sports: In the Morning

Power outage continues, bullpen shaky, M's lose 6-2.
Angels idle, Indians lost, Yankees lost. M's 54-46, 2nd place, 4 GB (4 GB of CLE in WC, NYY .5 GB of M's)

After seven losses in a row, USS Mariner needs some Soma: "I don’t know what to write...I’m wondering what the point is."

John McLaren is more chipper: ""I think we're fine, to be honest with you. We got good spirit on the bench." (uh, what you need, though is more spirit in the batter's box)

Wazzu coach Tony Bennett's new contract guarantees him $800,000/year.

Wazzu's projected starting right guard won't play this year because he drove drunk.

Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser died at 56. He was Xavier's coach when the Huskies beat them in the '98 tourney.