What, they aren’t going to win 162?

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?