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That was fun n a little sloppy at times, but some of the most exciting plays I've seen all year. Coach Fox promised, by the end of the week, 'We'll put a smile on your face.' All the Seattle guys were smiling.

That's the way it goes sometimes. Maybe in the Seattle series the ball was going right to the infielders. Maybe in the next series they'll hit line drives right at people. That's the way baseball works.

I wasn't really anticipating it to be as big of a controversy. I knew about the clause. I knew it would be hard for Seattle to match. I did what I thought was best for me and my family.

I would love to finish my career in Houston, to be back in front of the hometown fans and in front of my family. You never know what can happen. I'm happy in Seattle right now. But at the same time, there's no place like home.

We're all just amazed, ... that the Seattle Symphony people have stepped forward on our behalf like this. But I know that people in the LPO would have done the same thing for them. It's a small world symphonies are like families, so we're all sort of related.

We have to take care of business at Seattle and rely on Los Angeles.

You always want to try and beat your home state team. But I mean this the NFL, man. It's just good to win. Seattle is a great team. They went to the playoffs last year. They've got Pro Bowlers all around the board.

We established something great here in Seattle and we can build on it. But it's a tough, tough pill to swallow.

We are thrilled to have the chance to face a team we are familiar with in Seattle Pacific.

We played the gig in Seattle in a 300-capacity club, and 27 people turned up.

We have a lot of things to be proud of. We took Seattle to a place it's never been before.

We have a lot of improving to do. We haven't even scratched the surface of what this team can accomplish. It's a great win. Great to be 1-0, but we have 15 more rounds to go and Seattle is staring us in the face.

We've got offers from a number of markets to move the show. Denver would like us. Miami would really like us. Seattle is very interested.

We just didn't have people step up and hit shots. And you've got to be able to hit shots to beat a good team like Seattle Pacific.

We hadn't seen Seattle in a long time and they are the defending champs, the team with the title. We were excited about matching up with them to see what we could do.

We were sitting in the Seattle locker room after we lost, ... and we knew that with two more wins, we would have had the game on our court. I think it was an eye-opener. They had been content just to be OK but it was clear to them how important the home court was. They found out what it meant during the finals.

Trey has done a fantastic job in Minneapolis, where WCCO has performed a miraculous turnaround to become the market's leader. I'm confident his creativity, laser-like focus and discipline will be of great value to us in Seattle as we prepare for the local launch of The CW Network in this market.

We're not going out there playing a 50-win Seattle team of last year. We're not going out there to play a Sacramento team that's won 92 percent of its games at home. It's a little bit of a different flavor out there.

We're not going out there playing a 50-win Seattle team of last year.

Those were limits for legislative districts. In Port of Seattle commissioner races, they cover parts of 11 legislative districts.

Today's announcement of Boeing becoming title sponsor of our Seattle event is the perfect complement to the other community components already in place and adds yet another very strong company to the Champions Tour roster of sponsors, ... We're going to have an outstanding inaugural Boeing Greater Seattle Classic and we invite golf and non-golf fans alike to join us at Snoqualmie Ridge.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

We're just continuing to try to prepare as best as we can. Seattle or the NFL won't push back the game because our head coach is having some health issues. We still have to get ready to go and play.

We're just continuing to try to prepare as best as we can, ... Seattle or the NFL won't push back the game because our head coach is having some health issues. We still have to get ready to go and play.

We have been proud to call Seattle Center home court for four decades. Were the city to proceed with a project and be willing to enter into a lease that meet our requirements, we would join with the city in extending that legacy to our mutual benefit.

We have four players from Seattle looking forward to playing at home. My job is to make sure we're ready to play but also keep everyone focused.

We're not playing as good as we can right now, ... And if we keep this up, we'll be in the basement, and Seattle will be winning it.

Why did Seattle make such a dramatic move? All of the positive forces are expected to come together at the same time.

Why are there so many highly educated people? The answer is this area can attract them. Seattle is a nice place to live. For its size, it has a lot of cultural amenities as well as natural amenities, and we're fortunate to have some pretty interesting companies, Boeing and Microsoft being just two of them.

To me, Seattle has always been a cornerstone of the NBA. It would be shame if the team had to leave.

Those 224 companies operate more than 4,700 facilities in Boston, Miami and Seattle alone,

Trying to get an opinion from an A&R guy is like trying to get blood out of a stone! It doesn't breed creativity. As a matter of fact, it would really sicken me if something like the Seattle sound happened, and all of a sudden there's hundreds of bands who wear grungy clothing, have greasy, long hair and sound like their in Black Sabbath. The whole music industry is geared to following the next big thing. It's sad, but that's the business.

The only thing the case is about is the conduct of the Seattle police and some of its personnel, which, from our perspective, is pretty darn bad.

The photo may not be exactly what the Pittsburgh Opera expects, but it carries out the wager and reflects the feelings of all of us at Seattle Opera.

When we left Seattle I was convinced we were the best team in the NFC. In certain situations we played like it. In a lot of situations we didn't play like it.

Experiments at Seattle aquarium prove that octopuses can tell individual humans apart - even when the people are dressed identically - just by looking up at them through the water.

Fair is fair. I believe that Seattle is really, really close to being a dominant team. And I want to be a part of that, but at the same time fair is fair.

but Seattle is growing fast and we're going to need a lot more than roads and bridges to handle the population that's already there.

We need to spend more time here, ... If the show is about personal relationships, we need to expand that and show what their relationship is to the city. I'm certainly lobbying for that. I'm falling in love with the city, and I want to spend more time up here. ... There's nothing that makes you feel like Seattle in Burbank.

You can make a full-time living as an actor in Seattle and never leave here. Dozens of people do this. We also have dozens of actors that have moved from New York City to Seattle.

We were the Seattle Moroners, ... not the Mariners.

Turnovers hurt us in the first half, giving Seattle a short field to work with. Those are things we have to clean up, and we will.

We were raised together in Seattle and San Francisco until Dickie was 12,

We wish to extend our deepest sympathy to the Mateo family. The thoughts and prayers of the entire Seattle organization are with Julio and his family as they deal with this tragic accident.

We felt pretty good that we were going to be able to get the player. We have a lot of respect for Seattle and their organization, and this wasn't meant to be antagonistic or anything like that. It's just business.

We in Seattle are 24 hours away from being in the same position as those people were, if we are not prepared for it.

We certainly got an extreme test of what maximum challenges there are in Seattle and in that we flowed better with Wesley. Now he has an opportunity and that's what he needed.

We think it's appropriate for the state to allow King County and Seattle to make these decisions in any way that they decide.

We had similar situations with the Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears and they responded quickly with our requests to stop using our Twelfth Man trademark. But Seattle has been slow-rolling us.

Even if we would've won (against San Francisco), there's pressure every week to win. We had to back into the playoffs a little bit last year, and we don't want to get in that situation again. Fortunately, Arizona and Seattle stumbled last week, just like us. If we win, we can get back to .500.

Every game it seems like they have a little different game plan, whether they pinch the ends or run stunts in the middle. I don't think the Seattle defense does as much as just that the middle linebacker is just that good. He's fast, he's quick and when you have 320-pound lineman running after you and you're 230 and run a 4.4 or 4.5, you're going to be free a lot of the time. It's hard to get on him.

At one time in Pittsburgh, when Rachel Mellon Walton's father and grandfather were creating wealth, Pittsburgh was probably the wealthiest area in the country, like Silicon Valley and Seattle now.

There's only so much area we can search. After that, you can't send people searching Seattle willy-nilly. We'll wait for a hard lead.

There's only so much area we can search, ... After that, you can't send people searching Seattle willy-nilly. We'll wait for a hard lead.

There's no doubt that over the course of the last century, ... there's been an exponential explosion of available information. Part of the responsibility of people developing this technology -- computer manufacturers, 'big Bill' (Gates) out in Seattle -- should be taking into account the multitasking limitations of people using it.

There's nothing wrong with having Carolina and Seattle in there. As a football fan, the four best teams are playing this weekend.

I've been here before and will use my experience to get me through these last two rounds. Seattle and Vegas will be worth the price of admission for sure.

Think back to the teams that considered moving to Tampa Bay. The Chicago White Sox, San Francisco Giants and Seattle Mariners all were considered troubled franchises at one point. Now they're healthy and competitive, and that's what fans care about.

The WTO is going to write the framework that will dictate how global commerce is done and our problem is that the vast majority of people in the world (have no representative to speak on their behalf at the Seattle conference).

The Seattle Times investigation, which has been going on since last fall, has certainly taught me to be much more diligent in providing specific information on resumes and to those who compile summaries, such as those used in our press guides.

The Seattle football fans have probably gone through some stuff in their history, ... and now we want to give our fans a team they can be proud of, where they can be excited about it, talk about it and have hope.

The Seattle film community is at a grass-roots level. Large film communities used to be small ones. The industry has to be created here.

The Storm organization recognizes its responsibility to the community, not just here in Seattle but across the country and in the communities of our players and staff, ... We applaud Janell for taking the lead on this important cause and urge our fans to lend their support in any way they can.

The talent in the American League is better than the National League. I had the opportunity with Seattle last year to see some National League games, and thought it overall wasn't the same.

Ray Charles is a giant. He was one of my mentors. He would write arrangements in Braille, and translate it to me. At 14 and 16 we used to sit in Seattle on those rainy days and dream about what would happen.

The music map, the Vera Project all of these are steps in the right direction in making the statement that Seattle is a place that has great art, and music is one of those forms of art, ... If the Vera Project is doing well, that means good things for Sub Pop, because those are kids who will want to be musicians or work at Sub Pop.

The Mt. Baker Ski Area near Seattle set the U.S. record in the 1998-99 season with 1,140 inches - exactly 95 feet. If you visualize 95 feet in terms of Kansas' tallest trees ... well, that's a LOT of snow.

The more exposures you get, the more exposures to your brand -- the Seattle brand -- the more people come to discover what a great community we live in.

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

You must listen to the protesters who are going to Seattle to express frustration about a system they believe excludes them. Citizens should have a voice not only in the decisions of their own governments, but also in those of international bodies. They must have access to information and be confident a mechanism exists to address legitimate concerns. China will find in America a confident and willing trade partner.

This is the first playoffs since 2000 we've been really healthy, ... Sheryl is having an MVP type of year, Tina's getting back into form. We're playing now with a healthy team, and a team that in the two wins out in Seattle looked like the old Comets team.

This is not the Seattle we know and love.

This is of critical importance as we move forward with the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement, ... especially for the West Seattle to downtown corridor.

This achievement is a testament to the wonderful fan base we have here in Seattle and something we're very proud of, ... I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all Storm fans who continue to make KeyArena the best home-court advantage in the league.

The years of stewardship of this wonderful place have given me the chance to celebrate many accomplishments, overcome many challenges and make sure Seattle Center is on a solid foundation for the future.

There were a lot of people in the Seattle office that didn't share the policy goals of his clients, and were uncomfortable with him. He was going after a different market. And a lot of folks were uncomfortable.

The reports this week about the long-term landing spot being Los Angeles were nonsensical, ... L.A.'s been the landing spot for the Indianapolis Colts, the Arizona Cardinals, the Seattle Seahawks, the Minnesota Vikings and any number of other teams, and the last time I looked they were all operating in their communities and L.A. is off the radar screen.

This is what Seattle is doing getting architects, builders, designers, etc., on the same page. This is huge.

All of us in Seattle that are football fans and sports fans, I think we like getting some more focus on the town and enjoy that focus. And it's great to be a part of it.

It wasn't so much the coldness as the wetness. I got so much mud in my spikes that it was hard to plate that front leg. There will be days you go out and its muddy. You just pitch through it. It's going to be cold in Seattle and I hope we have a nice day in Oakland.

It was disappointing to lose this one. But we have to go up to Seattle and hope things fall in our favor.

It was such a great time for music. Being in college radio in the '80s, R.E.M. just happened, Elvis Costello was going strong. The biggest, most famous Seattle band was the Young Fresh Fellows. Our town was halfway between Seattle and Minneapolis on I-90, and so we got tons of shows just by virtue of being the gas-money stop on I-90.

It's a dream come true. Two years ago at this time, I just got released from the Mexican League. Now I'm on the opening-day roster for the Seattle Mariners. It's hard to describe.

It really is time for Seattle to move K-12 education to the top of the priority list because of the severe challenges facing the district.

I trained the whole off-season, ... I work out in Seattle with the Huskies. You can do everything you can off the field, but you can't prepare for practice and games. It's going to take me some time.

It's not Ken Lucas vs. the Seattle Seahawks, it's the Panthers vs. the Seahawks. I don't want the emphasis to be placed on me. It's about this team, because I can't go out there and win this game by myself.

It's another game and the next forward step to the goals we're trying to accomplish. We want to get to the Super Bowl and put the Seattle Seahawks and the West Coast on the map.

It's hard to see any team winning three straight road games in three straight weeks with the amount of pressure and what's at stake. It's never happened before, but with Shaun Alexander maybe at less than 100 per cent for Seattle and Pittsburgh playing so well, you never know.

Damien is someone that we believe has tremendous upside. He continually improved throughout last season, and he became a significant contributor for Seattle during the playoffs. Hopefully, we'll see him in a Timberwolves uniform this upcoming season.

Don't believe that. Seattle has got a good football team. If we don't prepare and we don't get ready, they are going to kick our butts.

That last start was so frustrating. I don't know if I overlooked Seattle or what. Maybe I lost my edge a little. But that last game was not me. This is the way that I'm supposed to throw the ball.

The biggest thing for us was everybody hating on us. Everybody was like, 'Seattle hasn't played anybody. Seattle this, Seattle that.' What they weren't talking about was that Seattle was winning. That's all that matters.

The ball was hit to first base, so I took a step toward there, ... and then out of the corner of my eye, I saw the bat and it was kind of like the Seattle thing, at the last second, and I just kind of tried to move away.

Take downtown Seattle for example, where there seems to be condo projects springing out of the ground everywhere. The same thing's happening in downtown Spokane.

It's definitely a surreal feeling. There are a lot of teams in the WNBA that just said, 'Whew, Seattle lost!' I can tell you that much. That's what makes this hurt we had an opportunity to do some great things and defend our title but we didn't.

It's always tough to play on the road and I thought Seattle played really, really well. This is always a tough place to play. We were able to get ourselves back in the game in the first half but we just could not shake them.

Oh, I would love to be part of another one. I've been real lucky, you know. I've been fortunate enough to be with winning organizations ... San Francisco and then to come to Seattle and make it. Yes, it has turned out to be quite a career for me.

It was a great offer, and I'm so appreciative of them for their interest. The opportunity for more playing time was probably in Minnesota, but I'm glad Seattle matched. It shows me that I'm important to them and a part of their future plans. I'm excited to come back to the team that gave me an opportunity and excited to get back into the green and gold.

It's very interesting having Seattle Prep and R.A. Long in our quadrant. You are looking at your cross-town rival or a premiere team from the state of Washington in the second round.

They definitely wanted to do this. And Seattle was Shaun's first choice all along.