The Seattle Times preview special is all about pitching; a major change from as late as 1994, when Mariner coverage was all about short-field home runs.

The section also lists where 23 of this year’s Ms live. Three spend the off-season in Seattle; two call the suburbs home. Three live in Arizona; two each in California, Florida, and the Dominican Republic; one each in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Colorado, Illinois, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Kobe, Japan (guess who?). So, when Griffey moaned about wanting to live closer to his family, he might have either been less than sincere or was behaving as a stuck-up diva. (Not that I’d wish his injury-plagued post-Ms career on anybody.)