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| '''U.S.S. Mariner''' is a sports-based ] that focuses on the ], a ] team. It was created in 2002 by authors Derek Zumsteg, David Cameron and Jason Michael Barker. It has been widely noted as one of the first baseball team-based blogs to extensively utilize statistics and ] to analyze performance of the team. | |||
| Zumsteg, a Seattle native, is the author of The Cheater's Guide to Baseball] as well as a former contributing author of the ] website ]. | |||
| Cameron has written extensively about minor league prospects for ], Baseball Think Factory and various other publications, both on-line and in print. He is also a scheduled weekly guest of "The Groz" on KJR AM radio in Seattle, WA at 2:20 pm every Friday. | |||
| Barker is the creator of the Cooking with Jason blog and was previously a contributor to Grand Salami Magazine and StrikeThree.com. | |||
| Among the notable accomplishments of the site: | |||
| *Coining the nickname "King Felix" for the ] pitching phenomenon ]. | |||
| *An "open letter" to Mariners pitching coach Rafael Chaves about Hernandez's pitch selection that caused the pitching coach to alter Hernandez's pitch selection.<ref>http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/mariners/2007/07/hernandez_keys_40_win.html</ref> | |||
| == References == | |||
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| See also: http://www.slate.com/id/2172223/ (describing the use of the "Open Letter to Rafael Chavez" as "one of the greatest moments for nerdom since Ric Ocasek married Paulina Porizkova.") | |||
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