Got bad news? Don't shoot the Messenger ('cos he's just been called up to Seattle)

According to John Hickey of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (a local paper to the city of Seattle, in the state of Washington, in the western half of the United States of America), in his most recent blog post, Mariners relief pitcher Mark Lowe has been optioned to AAA Tacoma -- a minor-league baseball team called the "Rainiers" because of their proximity to one volcanic mountain, and probably taking their name from another former AAA baseball team, the Seattle Rainiers (who were, I believe, called that because the one owner of the team probably had something do do with Rainier beer, which isn't very good and never really was -- Oly was far, far better) -- to be replaced on the 25-man major league roster by one "Randy Messenger," formerly of the San Francisco Giants of the National League.

So, to summarize:

Lowe down,

Messenger up...