After an 11-month battle, the Seattle Mariners and Safeco Field appear ready to drop their case against a proposed strip club a half-block south of home plate. An item on today's agenda of the Safeco Field Board (formally the Washington State Major League Baseball Stadium Public Facilities District) would allow the group "to execute a settlement agreement" with a proposed Déjà Vu cabaret on First Avenue.

Mariners spokeswoman Rebecca Hale confirms the agenda, but says, "I actually can't comment until after the board meeting today. Depending on what happens today at the meeting, we may or may not have something we can send you." Déjà Vu attorney Pete Buck also confirmed a settlement discussion is in the works, but would not provide details.

In lawsuits filed in December in King County Superior Court, the Mariners and stadium authority said Déjà Vu strip clubs have “adverse impacts repugnant to a family entertainment environment.” Their arguments were so fantastic as to suggest that the pay-to-enter stadium and an adjacent parking lot—surrounded by a chain-link fence and padlocked shut—were actually parks. Those arguments were tossed out in June. The team then took its case to the Washington Court of Appeals. It had already lost three times at the city level.

The team was ultimately attempting to establish rules that would prevent adult cabarets from opening within 800 feet (about a block and a half) of sport stadiums, arguing that the facilities are places where kids congregate, on par with community centers and parks. Although settlement would certainly entail concessions by the strip club owner, Roger Forbes, the team and stadium ultimately lose: They concede that a strip club can, in fact, open next to a stadium.

Terms of the settlement will remain unclear until after the public facilities board meets at 4:00 p.m. I'll post details later.