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What They're Saying

By Seth Kolloen
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"We're definitely shattered to lose Jhon and his presence on the team, his one-on-one defending, his quality. ... We can't hang our heads and worry about it now. We have to go forward and make the best of a bad situation."--Sounders GM Adrian Hanauer (full Todd Dybas column on loss of Hurtado).

"Kennedy has been a great defender. Like I said, I think one v. one he is one of the top couple of defenders in this league."--Sigi Schmid (full comments on Joshua Meyers' Sounders blog).

"This weekend, the Sounders lost at home again, and so did the Mariners. The UW softball team continued to be awesome. This trio of plotlines has repeated itself enough that it’s starting to feel like that movie Groundhog Day."--Robert C. (full Seattlest column).

"I now wish the Mariners wouldn't have had their success last year. Caused Wakamatsu to believe his own myth, contributing to this disaster."--Jeff Nusser, via Twitter.

"I was told a long, long time ago that it's a helluva lot harder to stay on the top, than it is to get to the top. I think we're going through a little bit of that right now, where you think it's a foregone conclusion that you can step out and be successful at home because we've got 30,000+ people and it doesn't work that way."--Kasey Keller (full comments on Joshua Meyers' Sounders blog).

"(Earl) Thomas doesn't just intercept mistake passes. He can intercept seemingly any and every pass he's close to."--(full John Morgan scouting report on Seahawks' Thomas).

"Chris Clemons has really improved a lot. ... We are hoping Aaron Curry on the other side will give us two guys who can go into Qwest (Field) and light it up on the edge. There won't be many teams faster than those two guys off the edge."--Pete Carroll (full Mike Sando column on Seahawks OTA).

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what??!?!
"I now wish the Mariners wouldn't have had their success last year. Caused Wakamatsu to believe his own myth, contributing to this disaster."

So Wakamatsu is at fault for Figgins, Lopez and many, many others on the team hitting below .200? The lack of a power hitting anywhere on the roster is Wak's fault? The injuries to Wilson? Milton Bradley?

Maybe he's given Griffey too much rope, maybe he should have pinch hit for Johnson on Sunday, but it's not like he has a world of options at his disposal.

Bottom line, we were lucky last year. We shouldn't have had the record we did. But I didn't hear Wak preening about how his system worked and that he had all the answers or that he was the reason for the team's improvement. He definitely wasn't the one hailing himself as the savior (it was the media) and he's not the cause of the failure this year.


(Good piece from True Hoop's Henry Abbott on the Blazer blog with a similar theme about McMillan in Portland: http://blog.oregonlive.com/blazers/2010/05/you_be_the_gm_nat )
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