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The Bad Baseball Card Tournament: Final Four
The four worst baseball card designs face off, for the right to be unfairly compared to the fallen Metal Universe.Where once were 32 (actually, 64, but I saved you guys a week's worth of reading),...
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The Bad Baseball Card Tournament Championship
It's time to choose, once and for all, the ugliest baseball card of modern times. It's time to end this.We've made it. Twelve days, nine articles, fourteen jokes, and 29 ballots have successfully...
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Stop me if you've heard this one before
An old friend returns, and carries with him some old jokes.The Seattle Mariners yesterday signed free agent outfielder Franklin Gutierrez to a minor league contract with an invitation to Spring...
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Sporcle Friday: High Draft Picks
Feel bad about yourself just in time for the weekend.It's been a rough week. The Dubuquette is sick, and refuses to eat anything not in the shape and flavor of watermelon. Did you know that the...
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4/8: Open Game Thread 2
This game has everything a fan could want, and more! More than we could want.April 8: today my daughter spat watermelon juice onto my shirt, and then yelled out, "Mom, daddy mess!" as if I had just...
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The Seattle Mariner Experience
This article has no preface, because it is an article about prefacing.The Seattle Mariners will never win the World Series.This is a lie. If every team started each season had equal chances, there's...
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Mystery Science Baseball
A guide to laughing at the not-too-distant future.The world is small. There was a time when the thirty miles between Tacoma and Seattle was a trek one might make once in their lifetime, a pilgrimage...
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D.J. Peterson: Full Speed Ahead
D.J. Peterson had to make a pit stop on his race for the majors. Now, it looks like he's ready to get back onto the track. AP (TACOMA) - It hasn’t always been easy, but D.J. Peterson may finally be on...
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Softball
Join your fellow Lookout Landing readers and authors and play some highly low-stakes softball in North Seattle.UPDATE UPDATE UPDATEThe current forecast (as of Thursday morning) is that there'll be some...
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10/2: Open game thread
Hisashi Iwakuma in potentially his final start as a Seattle Mariner.I started working when I was thirteen, laying salami on waxed paper and filling mayonnaise bottles in my parents’ Subway sandwich...
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Goodnight baseball
A little father-to-daughter recap.Dear Sylvie,Tonight the Seattle Mariners lost a baseball game. It’s the 206th time it’s happened in your 2.25 years, as omnipresent as goldfish crackers and Daniel...
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What we know of Gary Gray
Part one of a one-part series.Gary Gray played baseball. He wore powder blue clothes and tri-color hats. He stood six feet tall, weighed 187 pounds at some point, but he looked larger than that. He had...
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World Series Game 5 Open Thread
Watch baseball with people who are also watching baseball.Edinson Volquez takes the mound against Matt Harvey. The last time the Mets won a World Series, Jamie Moyer was a rookie. The last time the...
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The offseason plan suggestion box
Making an offseason plan is hard work. That's why we want you to do 8% of it for us.Last week, as you may recall, the Lookout Landing staff had a bit of a chuckle at the earnest reader's expense....
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Lookout Landing plays the Seattle Mariners
A couple days ago I asked you to provide 8% of the Offseason Plan. I lied. It was actually 108%.There’s nothing better than a good social experiment. Once, when I was a student teacher, I gave named...
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The semi-professional
A few hundred words about a man defined by his inadequacies. Across the lake they were burning draft cards, wearing bellbottoms and snaggletooth necklaces, drinking and smoking and copulating in dorm...
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40 in 40: Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor struggled in 2015, as we all struggle with the human condition.Chris Taylor was born on August 29, 1990, to a virgin mother under a blood moon in a blanket of snow. It was the first day of...
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Meme Court
On the docket: the Crying Jordan Meme.Welcome to Meme Court, where the members of Lookout Landing debate the merits of a given meme and judge them to be of value to society. By reading this sentence...
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The Fall of Miguel Fuentes
Miguel Fuentes threw the final pitch for the Seattle Pilots. The final pitch in Seattle Pilots history was also Miguel Fuentes' last in the majors.It must have been strange, wearing those powder blue...
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The Rose not taken
Once, a very long time ago, the Mariners failed to make a big mistake.Thirty-two years ago, an anonymous AP copywriter tossed together 62 words, meant to pad a column in the back of the sports page if...
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40 in 40: Chris Iannetta
Introduce yourself to Chris Iannetta. You've already met.One of the things they don’t tell you about growing up is how easy it is to become a caricature. When you’re young, you’re constantly listening...
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Podcast: Lookout Landing plays the BP Guessing Game
Meg and Brendan faced off in a battle of wits and cunning, and you can enjoy it through the magic of prerecorded audio.Were you aware? The Baseball Prospectus 2016 Annual is on various shelves, both in...
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An Ode to Felix's Bleached Goatee
(A Saturday morning poem)Yes, Felix has the crown to match. #MarinersSTpic.twitter.com/vwV3spFQVo — Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) February 19, 2016There are many places that I have not gone. I know...
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The Invisible Villain
A sad story with no ending.July 22, 1988, 10:30 PM: The roars of the Kingdome echoed off the concrete and the empty seats, abandoned amidst a twelfth straight meaningless season. The M’s needed a win,...
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LL Season Preview: If it all goes wrong
The 2016 version of a beloved LL tradition.You know what? Forget it.You don’t need this article. You don’t need me to close your eyes and paint a picture of another disappointing October, one where...
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UPDATE: Lookout Landing Baseball Game
Introducing the first annual Danny Tartabull Lookout Landing Actual Baseball Memorial.FURTHER UPDATEThere is nothing new to update. The game is tomorrow. Attend.1590 NW 90th St, Seattle, WA 98117UPDATE...
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This is your fault
We've done all the analysis. We've looked at the numbers. And we've discovered that there's one common thread in every single disappointing Mariner season: you.It's been a rough stretch for your...
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Being Safe
A moment of rest, before the action begins again.I don't know what drew me to baseball as a child. Perhaps it was a warrior instinct, the visceral act of raising a plastic yellow club and striking with...
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Lookout Linkage, 9/27/16
The internet is full of so many things.There were times, before HyperCard came out for the Macintosh, when you couldn't just hover your mouse over something, click on it, and get taken to a new screen....
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The story of Brian J. Giles, in the sense that we are all Brian J. Giles
One last story about a player you've never heard of.We may as well start with Brian Jeffrey Giles.May 13, 1990: He stepped into the box, made the motions all hitters do with the bat, crouched, spat,...
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