ussmariner.com - 3/8/2009
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With so many young players in camp, and the media’s general ignorance of the various quality of prospects (this isn’t meant to be an insult - most of the beat writers just don’t have time to do any real prospect analysis and have to rely on skimming Baseball America and taking ...
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Seatowning 3/8/09, Omar Vizquel and a Snake
SeaTown Sports —
... is a little different now, we are going release the weekly grades on Mondays, we have a new format of the weekly poll that will be released on Tuesdays, on Fridays you can expect a Grinds my Gears post, and on Sundays and Wednesdays I will have "SeaTowning" posts up with the latest links. It's awesome to finally see some good news in the Seattle Sports world!
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+Greeting Cards by Erik Bedard [Lookout Landing]
+Filling out the Mariners' roster [USS Mariner]
+Extremely random story about Omar Vizquel [Seattle Times] ...
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