The real story of the Mariners this year is the new Manager's obsession with EYEBALLS! Cut and pasted from various Mariner blogs:
"If you even look at his eyes before and after, it was a different set of eyes," the manager said.
"I saw [bedard] as good as anybody when he was back in Baltimore," Wedge said. "He's just had a lot of trouble with injuries. But I look into his eyes and see good eyes."
"Good eyes. I am a big believer in that, good eyes in the room. They were all locked in. They were paying attention, the room felt good. I felt like they were hearing Carl, hearing me. It felt good."
Even Felix is converted!
“It was different,” said Felix Hernandez when asked if this was the same Wedge he saw off the field in Seattle. “He is intense. You see his eyes and he wants to win. It is good for us. We have a lot of young people here and it is good.”