Not a political post

How much must the Mariners suck when so far the highlight of their season (at least for me) has been their recent announcement that season ticket holders can sell tickets electronically with a new system that integrates Stubhub and Ticketmaster?

The Mariners' winning percentage is now .389. That's the bad news. The good news is .389 is actually a lot better than it was one month ago when it was .343. (They are now 20 games back instead of 17.5, however.)

A month ago, the Mariners fired GM Bill Bavasi. Even though they haven't yet hired Nate Silver as I recommended, they've gone 13-12 since firing Bavasi. Of course, that probably has nothing to do with Bavasi being fired. It might have something to do with firing John McLaren -- they've gone 12-11 since replacing McClaren with Jim Riggelman.

I did notice that Felix Hernandez had an ERA below 3, which was great. Of course, the Mariners are so bad he's barely got a .500 record -- but that's not his fault.