Better not tell Josh that he's black.

Dan, beautiful photo. And what better way to celebrate our success in the Middle East than relaxing at a baseball game? While Arab islamo-fascist and their families are getting their asses lit on fire, Americans are having a great summer of beer, hotdogs and baseball. Life is good, Israel is strong, and America will prevail.

Dan accurately captures the true evil inherent in white privilege in that photograph. Do you not see the uphill struggle here? How dare you throw that in the face of the masses, Mr. Savage?

Hear, hear. I was tired of watching his bigoted ass flail at diving fastballs off the plate.

As a Boston ex-pat, it was somewhat disturbing to see ol' Crazy Carl turn up on the M's, hilarious as he often was. Glad to see the team came to its senses.

Carl Everett's biggest crime wasn't bigotry or stupidity. It was the fact that he was, despite a few high-profile home runs, a terrible baseball player, one of the worst hitters in the league. A VORP of -7.9 in half a season is appalling, putrid garbage. Especially when you're paying the idiot $3.4 million -- for performance well below what hundreds of minor leaguers could do for the league minimum. See ya, Carl.

Oh, lastly, to clarify the Philosophy of Everett a bit, it's not that he doesn't believe gays exist, it's that he believes homosexuality is simply wrong. So rather than being some sort of pioneer in reality-denying thought processes, he's simply a garden variety bigot.

Hey! Totally unrelated topic, so sue me.. But where else am I supposed to post this link, in which an article relates another story regarding another casualty of Boston's Big Mistake, er I mean Dig. (hey guys, how about a slog wiki) Let's not Nickels get away with his utopian version of what this tunnel would bring. Unless someone can tell me that this would have happened anyway regardless of the option chosen (embarcaderoish 5 lane waterfront , bolstered and quake proof "big ugly" exisiting 99 platforms or suspension bridge). Unlike many of my local politicians, I am willing to be educated. Is this a one off? Two off? By the way, wasn't there a Stallone movie about a tunnel in which everyone gets trapped and he saves the day? I forget.

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=150099

I love this weather. I'm going down to Denny Blaine and basking in the sun. God, sometimes I just lurve unemployment.

To further clarify, he was quoted as saying that "Gays being gay is wrong" (which turns into a pretty mind bending recursive loop if you think about it long enough, especially if you were stoned), and "I don't believe in being gay," which is actually kind of ironic because his Wikipedia entry starts off by identifying him as a "switch-hitter" (yeah I know, baseball, but still...)

He said that he doesn't believe in dinosaurs, because, "You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them."

He does think "someone actually saw Adam and Eve"... uh, yeah, me too, they went that-a-way --->, and they were with Elvis.

All in all, he sounds like a real brainy guy, I'm suprised he got fired.

I've never seen gravity, either, so therefore I can see no reason why I can't fly, dammit.

Given his abysmal hitting, I'd say HE has seen ample evidence of the existence of gravity...

Oh, and since he clearly only believes in the evidence of his own senses, and he apparently believes in God, the man thinks he's seen God. Where I come from, that's known as psychosis.

And to think I saw his very last at-bat for the Ms.

Who went down, 12-3.

Yeah, the guy was a bigot and a lousy ball player, but I STILL say no one can take a fist like him. God, is he tight!

Wondered where you were last night, Dan. I was at the First Baptist Church with others in the community, trying to make sense of the Supreme's ruling. Wished you could've been there - we missed you. Oh well, like you said, at least the Mariners won.

Awww...a loving dad and his boy at the ball game. That's so nice.

Right you are, Dave! Sometimes I wonder if Dan is really gay.

Bigotsaurus sucks. Ben Broussard is better.

Actually, almost any hitter is better. Except for Willie Bloomquist.

nice pic.

Everett didn't seem like a good fit for the feel of this city. It was a questionable signing from the get-go, and he was yet another rent-a-vet that didn't do Seattle right. The Mariners have been snake-bitten for several years with their poorly-executed or unlucky strategy of free-agent signings. It seemed that the post 2001 rebuilding process was hexed by signed "pieces" coming here only to end up having some of the worst years of their careers -- only to get unloaded (at a loss) and play well again elsewhere. It also seemed to expose the M's management as inept in the game of Buy-A-Team.

Easily the most exiciting thing for our ball club over the last two years is the depth of the minor league system and the encouraging, if not fucking impressive play of some of the kids the M's have brought up. This strategy is the good Mariners management's hard work, and it's starting to come together. The fans feel vested in the young players, rather than having to watch a parade of someone elses come here to play. The excitement and optimism is obvious (win or lose) out in the stands at Safeco this year.

for those of you who think dan could have been doing something better with his time....

he's a busy guy, we don't get to relax with him as much as we'd like. so, sorry he wasn't at the mope session at first baptist or fighting against imperialist aggression, but he needed to sit and spend time with his family. you know, the one the court case was supposed to be won for?

and for the record, we didn't even get him for all of this time, as he spent 15 minutes on the phone doing a radio interview from the park, then talking/texting about a future op-ed with a certain national newspaper which will be named later.

....so this was the best way he could have spent his time. with me and our son.

You never have to apologize for going to a baseball game.

My (sniffle) hero.

I'm not Dan's boyfriend. I haven't even played him on TV, but I'll second what boyfriend said. Why the hell should he be expected at some dreary church thing? (btw, I love the term mope session, but it was probably more of a mope-a-thon)

Yeah, I thought the decision sucked, and yeah, I'm bummed about it, but life goes on - and life is to short to sit around in a church with a bunch of "activists" whining about how no one loves us.

Personally, I went home, let the dogs out, made dinner, and rearranged the rec room. Probably the exact same thing I would have done if the ruling had been in our favor.

Your rec room kicks ass, Ms. Vel-DuRay, if I may call you that.

I rather think Catalina is a Mrs, several times over. She's spent too many years in bars not to have a few ex-husbands floating around. Glad you like the rec room.