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Category Archives: Unscheduled Programming

Seattle Mariners rally from seven runs down to sweep Blue Jays, win, dance, and advance

Excerpt: In a game that will surely enter the annals of not only team but league history as one of the greatest comeback wins of all time, the Seattle Mariners prevailed 10-9 over the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre to win the deciding game in a best of three wild card series, keeping their season going and setting up a second playoff series with their division rival, the Houston Astros. 
Published at:8:15 PM on Saturday, October 8th, 2022
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Seattle Mariners end playoff drought, clinch postseason spot with walkoff win

Excerpt: The victory brought the longest ongoing drought in professional sports to an end in spectacular fashion, sending the very ready sold-out crowd at T-Mobile Park into a massive, raucous celebration. Mariners players donned October Rise shirts and caps and took a team photo out on the field as the display boards in the parks shimmered with the word "CLINCHED" repeated over and over.
Published at:10:33 PM on Friday, September 30th, 2022
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Kevin Mather’s departure from the Seattle Mariners was absolutely necessary

Excerpt: The ex-club president proved, repeatedly, that he doesn't have the qualities needed in a leader. It was absolutely necessary that the Mariners sever ties with him.
Published at:5:30 PM on Monday, February 22nd, 2021
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Release The Kraken! Seattle’s NHL team gets a name at last, and it’s drawing attention

Excerpt: Through what Seattle NHL officials have called methodical process of elimination, the franchise settled on the mythical sea creature for the team name as opposed to alternatives like Sockeye, Steelhead, or Totems. 
Published at:2:37 PM on Thursday, July 23rd, 2020
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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MLS Cup returns to Cascadia as Seattle Sounders defeat Toronto FC at home

Excerpt: Our Sounders have done it again. They're champions for the second time in three years, having defeated Toronto to win the MLS Cup.
Published at:7:53 PM on Sunday, November 10th, 2019
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Seattle Storm win third WNBA championship, sweeping the Washington Mystics in D.C.

Excerpt: Tonight is a night for celebration. The 2018 Seattle Storm have once again brought a championship home to the Emerald City, sweeping the Washington Mystics in a best-of-five series to claim their third title overall -- which is the most of any Seattle professional sports franchise. Way to go, Storm -- we're so proud of you!
Published at:9:55 PM on Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Seattle rallies to celebrate the Sounders’ historic MLS Cup victory

Excerpt: After an ardu­ous elec­tion year with shock­ing results, Wash­ing­to­ni­ans were in des­per­ate need of a feel-good sto­ry to close out 2016. Cue the under­dog Sounders’ barn­storm­ing through the MLS Cup playoffs. The unex­pect­ed loss of the team’s two top scor­ers and mid-sea­son fir­ing of head coach Sigi Schmid set the stage for a sto­ry­book turn-around that […]
Published at:11:35 AM on Thursday, December 15th, 2016
Written by:Dominic Barrera
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WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!! Seattle Sounders FC win 2016 MLS Cup, defeating Toronto FC

Excerpt: Break out the blue and green vic­to­ry ban­ners — the MLS Cup is com­ing to Seattle! After many years of com­ing up short in the play­offs, the Seat­tle Sounders FC have final­ly won it all, defeat­ing Toron­to FC on their home turf in Canada’s largest city to bring home their first cham­pi­onship. It was a […]
Published at:8:35 PM on Saturday, December 10th, 2016
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Everything you need to know about a state government shutdown

Excerpt: Judg­ing by the news today, the pub­lic is start­ing to become aware of the pos­si­bil­i­ty that Repub­li­can intran­si­gence over the bud­get could cause a shut­down of the Wash­ing­ton state gov­ern­ment. If a bud­get isn’t approved by June 30, then start­ing on July 1, many state gov­ern­ment oper­a­tions will slow or cease. As a pub­lic ser­vice, the […]
Published at:3:00 PM on Wednesday, June 17th, 2015
Written by:Robert Cruickshank
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Help us give Geov Parrish a hand up

Excerpt: As some­one who’s been involved in pro­gres­sive pol­i­tics for almost half a life­time, I have great admi­ra­tion and appre­ci­a­tion for peo­ple who have ded­i­cat­ed their lives to activism and orga­niz­ing. Most of us in the pro­gres­sive move­ment are part-time activists; we choose to be involved because we care, but our oblig­a­tions to work/school and fam­i­ly […]
Published at:2:35 PM on Monday, December 15th, 2014
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Bill intended to force construction of Keystone XL pipeline fails to advance in U.S. Senate

Excerpt: By the tight­est of mar­gins, the U.S. Sen­ate this evening defeat­ed a poor­ly con­ceived bill intend­ed to give oil giant Tran­sCana­da a green light to build its pro­posed Key­stone XL pipeline through Mon­tana, the Dako­tas, and Nebraska. S.2280, prime spon­sored by Repub­li­can John Hoeven of North Dako­ta and pro­mot­ed by an increas­ing­ly des­per­ate Mary Lan­drieu […]
Published at:5:40 PM on Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Biggest political loser last night: Tim Eyman

Excerpt: This morn­ing, as I had rather expect­ed he would, Tim Eyman sent out a cel­e­bra­to­ry email bask­ing in the results of the 2014 midterms, which Pres­i­dent Oba­ma referred to ear­li­er today as a good night for Repub­li­cans. Eyman did his very best to spin the results of the elec­tion in Wash­ing­ton as some kind of […]
Published at:4:08 PM on Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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School districts across Washington State lead a revolt against failed federal policies

Excerpt: At least 28 school dis­tricts in Wash­ing­ton State have cho­sen to fight back against U.S. Edu­ca­tion Sec­re­tary Arne Dun­can’s demand that they label suc­cess­ful schools as “fail­ures” due to a law backed by George W. Bush. When the state leg­is­la­ture refused to tie teacher eval­u­a­tions to test scores, Dun­can revoked the state’s waiv­er from Bush’s […]
Published at:8:30 AM on Tuesday, August 19th, 2014
Written by:Robert Cruickshank
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How democracy saves Seattle schools from bad superintendents

Excerpt: With the depar­ture of Jose Ban­da from the post of super­in­ten­dent of Seat­tle Pub­lic Schools, we’ve seen the usu­al hand-wring­ing and recrim­i­na­tions over the future of the dis­trict. Ban­da’s depar­ture led the Seat­tle Times to pub­lish an arti­cle and an edi­to­r­i­al decry­ing sup­posed med­dling by the board in the oper­a­tions of the district. The edi­to­r­i­al […]
Published at:10:44 AM on Thursday, July 31st, 2014
Written by:Robert Cruickshank
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