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    Articles by Mike Henderson
    Smart trades to make the difference
    Smart trades to make the difference
    By Mike Henderson • August 4, 2009 4:51 pm

    Slogging through the baseball blogs as the July 31 major league trading deadline approached, one perceived a theme about how…

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    Mariners needed Husky pitcher
    Mariners needed Husky pitcher
    By Mike Henderson • June 8, 2009 12:23 pm

    The fifth of June was a giveaway night intended to pad the Seattle Mariners’ crowd count. The gewgaw to be…

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    Scoreless innings and booing fans
    Scoreless innings and booing fans
    By Mike Henderson • May 22, 2009 12:32 pm

    In theory, the Seattle Mariners could score just once every 18 innings and still finish 81-81 instead of the 61-101…

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    M’s offense is offensive
    M’s offense is offensive
    By Mike Henderson • May 8, 2009 4:57 pm

    The old newsroom joke: Those are the reporters. They can write, but not spell. Those are the editors. They can spell, but not write. Over there in that office is the publisher, who can’t write or spell.

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    M’s accomplish much with very little
    M’s accomplish much with very little
    By Mike Henderson • April 24, 2009 2:23 pm

    So far this season, the 10-6, division-leading Seattle Mariners have done so much with so little that one wonders if eventually they will accomplish everything with nothing.

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    Better baseball through chemistry for ’09 Mariners
    Better baseball through chemistry for ’09 Mariners
    By Mike Henderson • April 14, 2009 12:34 pm

    On the eve of the 2009 home-opener at Safeco Field (April 14), “chemistry” continues to be the key word associated with the 33rd edition of the Seattle Mariners. During the offseason, the term was invoked so often that I wasn’t sure whether I was reading a sports section or an academic course catalog.

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    100 losses for M’s?
    100 losses for M’s?
    By Mike Henderson • September 9, 2008 4:55 pm

    Something especially scary greeted fans when the Seattle Mariners started their latest home stand, and not just because the inter-league game against the Washington Nationals was on Friday the 13th. Due to a coincidence of hard times in the financial and batting industries, the M’s management was stuck with a promotional event with Washington Mutual sponsoring a giveaway of Adrian Beltre bobbleheads. The significance: Beltre was coming off a 1-22 week, his batting average dropping to .222, the baseball equivalent of the nadir reached by WaMu stock last week.

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