Hey, they were still playing in October? After finishing yet another disappointing season Sunday, the Seattle Mariners await an anticipated makeover by new general manager Jerry Dipoto.
The team now goes their separate ways: to winter ball, the golf course, or, in the case of manager Lloyd McClendon, the Seattle-King County WorkSource Center.
Shake a leg: Students in Mukilteo, Lynnwood and elsewhere in Snohomish County are lacing up their shoes for National Walk to School Day on Wednesday.
In The Buzz’s day, National Walk to School Day was held in January. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways.
Don’t know much about history: In the vice presidential debate on this day in 1988, after youthful Republican Dan Quayle compared himself with John F. Kennedy, Democrat Lloyd Bentsen responded: “Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”
One would say that Quayle was “pwned,” but Al Gore hadn’t invented the Internet yet.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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