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What, they aren’t going to win 162?

Posted by Vince

April 5, 2007 7:33 a.m. • 0 comments

MARINERS

Some of you just might have held out hope. You were thinking sweep, weren’t you? Well, Rich Harden and Miguel Batista took care of those thoughts in a hurry.

Comcast did broadcast the game in high-definition for you digital cable subscribers (channel 664) but Batista’s performance was low-def at best.

Here’s John Blanchette’s game story from Seattle.

The M’s are off today, and play in Cleveland on Friday afternoon, the Tribe’s home opener.

Today’s hot list …

• The game stories, of course, either talk about Batista’s poor performance or Harden’s dominating one. Or both. Here they are, from the P-I, the News Tribune, the Herald and the Times. And from the Bay Area, here are stories from the Chronicle and the Oakland Tribune.

• The Tribune’s Dave Boling wonders if you thought the M’s were going to go 162-0.

• The biggest story from Wednesday might have been Yuniesky Betancourt’s new contract. Here is the P-I story and the Times’ notebook.

• It hasn’t actually been hot in the Northwest this week, but Cleveland should be even colder.

And our question for the day …

• With the Masters going on this week, we’ll ask this question: If you could play a round of golf with anyone from the Mariners, who would it be and why?