What’s the buzz from the world of sports? Here are some items that will have people talking:
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It’s not nice to wish your troubles would befall someone else, but we just can’t help ourselves.
The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has a photo of a bunch of sea lions milling in south Puget Sound. Biologist Pete Topping took the picture last week of the animals sitting on a barge at the north end of Nisqually Delta.
“This is the most sea lions I have ever seen at once in south sound,” Topping said. As many Columbia River salmon anglers would say: “Welcome to our world.’’
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It appears the Mariners have about $14 million left to spend on salaries in 2012, according to Larry Larue of the Tacoma News Tribune. While not bad, it’s not Prince Fielder money.
Aside from Fielder, who is still on the market and in price range for Seattle? Plenty – though you may not like the list. Hitters such as Hideki Matsui, Magglio Ordonez, Johnny Damon, Luke Scott, Vladimir Guerrero, Carlos Guillen, and Casey Kotchman remain available. Not a list to excite many tickets sales.
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ESPN Deportes reports the Orioles and Blue Jays have sent representatives watch former slugger Manny Ramirez hit in an indoor batting cage in Miami.
“Manny’s an interesting guy,” Dan Duquette, Baltimore’s new executive vice president of baseball operations, told The Baltimore Sun, in a bit of an understatement. “He’s interesting to the fans. And he can hit. Or he could hit. I don’t know if he still can.”
