Marc W

@marcwbaseball.bsky.social

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Recovering baseball blogger. Used to write about baseball at USS Mariner (mostly), Baseball Prospectus (rarely), and probably a few places I’ve forgotten. Love music, Seattle sports, cooking.

A black and white dog in front of two blue chairs. She has a white chest and stripe down her muzzle, and the rest of her fur is black.
A buff Orpington chicken looking directly at the camera/you. She doesn’t seem to like what she sees (what did you DO?).
Dramatic sunset with lots of orange. Darker clouds cloak the orange at the top and the right.
A photo of Hieronymous Bosch’s late-period work Death and the Miser from the National Gallery of Art in DC.
Michael Dawson climbs over Chad Marshall’s back as a cross comes into the box. This was given as a penalty, which the Sounders converted.
FIFA’s map of the home base for each World Cup team, showing Charlotte in mid-Florida, and then the state lines get crazier as you go north. Ohio is now a coastal state, as is Kentucky (both are only semi-recognizable). There’s a blob hosting Norway and Germany, but Virginia is reduced to an offshore island, and New York is just gone, stranding many teams to what we assume are Islands.
A man in a Seahawks sweater and a brown knit cap grills a mountain of chicken on a grill. To his right is a smaller grill that contains delicious chorizo.
A wordle distribution chart, showing solves by guess number. It goes, 1, 51, 268, 447, 246, 88.
Barry from Joyce Manor on stage singing in front of a huge Joyce Manor sign, and drummer Jared Shavelson. A crowd surfing person is in the foreground obscuring the bassist and creating a diagonal line through the image.
A sunset over water. Clouds to the left are pleasantly orange, moving more towards yellow to the right of the image. Above the horizon and the clouds is a much brighter blob of yellow that kind of looks like a cat’s iris?
Cole Young’s baseball savant fielding metrics, showing in the 4th percentile for range and the 4th percentile for arm strength
Randy Arozarena has just hit an upper deck tank at T-Mobile. He holds the pose shown here, left foot forward, bat high. It’s not a bat flip, it’s statuesque, which is appropriate for the day the M’s unveiled a statue at the stadium. There is no malfunction in this celebration, however.
Shohei Ohtani with a wide eyed look like he cannot believe what you just skeeted.
Thee Sharp Pins play the voyeur. Kai Slater is at right in an orange/red shirt with white dots. Joe Glass on bass is on the left in a denim jacket and Peter Cimbalo is in the middle, behind the other two on drums.
A roadside sign in Packwood, Washington entitled “Big Bottom Cowboys.” It is not, as the post implies, a nickname for the Cal Raleigh-led Mariners, but…it could be. We can transform the things we find and use them for our purposes. No offense to the Cowboys named on the historical marker, such as Evan Blankenship and Carl Hornquist. I wonder if Evan Blankenship was related to longtime Tacoma Tiger and sometime Oakland A Lance Blankenship?
A framed certificate naming Kate Starbird a parade all-American in the 1992-93 season.
A gif of former Ireland, Sunderland, Ipswich, Blackpool, etc manager Mick McCarthy. He is wearing a dark coat with a Wolves insignia, and as the gif starts he is looking out on the field. Then, he turns directly towards the camera, raises his eyebrows and does a smirky grin.
A male howler monkey on a thick gauge wire rope. His back has lighter brown fur while his legs, face and chest are darker. His mouth is open and his left paw is in front of his face; his right paw grips the wire.
A baby howler monkey clings to its mother. Both have light reddish/brown fur on their backs and very dark legs. The baby is looking at the camera while the mother keeps her eyes forward, moving right to left.
My dog on a moss-covered log. The dog is mostly black with a white chest and white on her nose. There are coniferous trees in the background and leaf litter on the log.
Black and white dog eyes something intently. Her right paw is raised, so it looks like she’s grabbing for it. She is attempting to shake hands in return fo whatever it is.
Mt Rainier from White pass (so, looking North)
Tiny baby bunny with a white patch on its forehead and a tan coat in grass/moss/buttercup.
A black and white dog wearing a small pointy party hat sits and looks upwards, intently. Her tail is a wagging blur behind her.
Yellow bird with a reddish cap flanked by black, some black on its back. Sitting in a branch, looking straight down with green vegetation behind it.
A black and white dog sits near a field of river rock and downed timber; the Cowlitz river flows through there somewhere. There are mountains in the background and some fog. The sky is cloudy.
There are three images of Mt Rainier, taken around 4pm on New Years Eve from the US 12 scenic viewpoint. On the left, 2024, the snowiest one. In the middle is 2023, cloudy, not so snowy, with a small cloud below the vantage point. On the right, tonight, 12/31/25, the sunniest one, with light on the left flanks of the mtn. No snow on the trees in the foreground.
Mt. Rainier at sunset, the left flank bathed in a pinkish orange light. This is from US-12, so it is looking north. It’s just a great stratovolcano.
Xmas table with a bottle of wine, a bottle of sparkling cider, Brussels sprouts. Bread, green salad, roast veggies, a beef Wellington. And six Christmas plates.
A stone barrow, a chamber under a large stone slab in southwest England (Cornwall). Two toddlers are under the roof of the barrow. A road is close behind it, and ferns and rocks are in the foreground.
Dark grey cat with yellow eyes in a living room.
A howler monkey with dark fur, lighter towards the back (and the sun) making its iconic vocalizations. It sits on a metal braided line. Its left paw is near its mouth. This is a male, a female and baby are approaching from the right (not in the picture).
A screenshot from MLB game day in which the app says that voting for “player of the game is now open”. This, in a game where Shohei Ohtani has been the most valuable player in perhaps any game, ever. But sure, let’s vote and make sure.
Pork tonkatsu, red cabbage, white rice. And chicken or the woods mushroom katsu. It’s really hard to tell the pork and mushroom apart.
Dave Hernandez from one of my all time fave bands, Scared of Chaka. This was one of their reunion shows in Seattle many years ago.
Jamie Moyer pitching for the Las Vegas 51s in 2012 at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma (The Rainiers SP that day was top prospect Danny Hultzen). It didn’t work out in the Toronto system, and he retired not long afterwards. One of my favorite Mariners.
A beautiful bird in Ecuador, per the awesome original poster, Jen Cross. But it appears to lack any sort of mouth parts. I hope it’s not suffering.
A very young Deandre Yedlin playing at Cheney Stadium for a pre-Defiance Sounders youth team. I think this was 2012?
Today’s Immaculate Grid. Mexico was the country category today, so I got to use a current Mariner, a player I was terrified when the M’s faced him in the 80’s, and a random favorite from the 90s.
Tottenham players from the early 2000s. Most all of them do not have pictures? Only Steed Malbranque and Younes Kaboul do? Can that be right?
M’s prospects turned relievers for other teams.
An immaculate grid….grid with nine MLB players from Australia who played in the 21st century, but were t big stars like Liam Hendriks or Grant Balfour.
Pete Alonso graphic from the Mets, featuring several images of Pete Alonso in an arctic/icy landscape with a polar bear to his left and right. It’s ostensibly for him becoming the career HR leader for the Mets franchise.
A Douglas squirrel with dark fur on its back and yellow-orange fur on its belly sits on its hind legs on a cedar shake roof. Its front legs are held such that its “hands” are by its belly/chest.
A chart featuring all of Luis Ortiz’s pitches vs SEA on 6/15, colored based on pitch type. The one that’s got him in hot water is a slider to the right of the image.
Nolan Ryan in the stands at a Rangers game, shaking his head and saying “no” multiple times.
Protest at the state capitol in Olympia, WA. A sign says “I’ll tell my daughters I did not stay silent.” There’s an upside down American flag. There are large signs at the top of the Capitol steps.
A large bird with a black back mottled with white, yellowish feathers on its left leg and throat. It stands on a rabbit it has just killed, and is not particularly bothered by the large human male taking this photo on his phone from close range.
A young grey squirrel on a tree trunk that has some moss growing on it. It is looking straight up at the camera, and its tail is down in the background, to the left.
A large bird of prey with black plumage on its back, speckled with white, stands atop a rabbit carcass.
Black and white dog on a beach with dark sand and pebbles. Her paws are in a small hole she’s dug.
Black dog with a white chest and nose stripe on a log with ivy growing on it.
Receipt of donation to the charitbundibowl
Mt Rainier looms above a ridge with buildings and green trees. In the foreground a large pier sits in the water of Puget sound. It’s high tide.
People staring up at the eclipse
A 3x3 grid with words in each box. The words are Hawks, Hi-Lites, Crows, Cards, Sinners, Jays, Magpies, Robins, Chucks. What’s the special word? What are the categories?
Smallish cream-colored owl with dark bars on its chest, and very prominent ear tufts that are slightly darker. It has a long tail. It’s sitting on a bare piece of wood. Behind it are posts for its enclosure at the British Wildlife Centre, and some chicken wire is visible above it.