Good Tuesday to you, as the Mariners head into full crisis mode with their aging legend Ken Griffey, Jr. Next on the schedule is Baltimore, meaning I've got a train ride to take, at least on Thursday, but may tomorrow instead. Need to check the pitching matchups.

For those that missed the story, apparently over the weekend, when the M's were in need of a pinch hitter, the notorious clubhouse sleeper was doing just that, taking a nap in the locker room during the seventh inning. This story obviously blew up, with the main question being asked, "why did he play the next day?" Well, this isn't high school folks. A 40-year old isn't being "rewarded" with playing time. He's Ken Griffey Jr. When it's his time to be in the lineup, he'll be in the lineup. Also, it isn't like it requires a whole lot to wake someone up and tell them to get ready to hit. Count me as one of the people that thinks the sleeping thing is being blown way out of proportion, especially when you need not look past his batting average to find criticism for the guy.

Anyway, like I said (or Jerry Brewer did), it's crisis mode, which is saying something when you are coming off of a win and heading to play a team you swept earlier this season. Come talk to me on Friday.

But before you do, read this. M's beat writer Geoff Baker has some fun with the whole situation.

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Nothing important happened yesterday, really. Only the first female Solicitor General and first female Dean of Harvard Law School (also, one of the most well-liked in the school's history), was named as the President Barack Obama's second nominee to the Supreme Court.

Both of the nominees have been women and both different in their own way. Justice Sonia Sotomeyor was the first Latina to be nominated. Elena Kagan, the longtime front runner for this nomination, is the first nominee in nearly 40 years with no experience as a judge. All she's done is blaze trails her whole life, working for Thurgood Marshall, Bill Clinton and Joe Biden, before becoming the nation's leading lawyer, arguing cases in front of...wait for it...the Supreme Court.

Here is a look at how the confirmation could play out:

Elena Kagan will be confirmed with 65 votes -- 3 fewer than Justice Sotomayor, and 4 more than Kagan got for solicitor general last year. Here’s the math, from someone smarter than us (we welcome your quibbles/rebuttals): For solicitor general, Kagan got 61 ayes and 31 nays. Safe to assume if you were one of the 31 Republicans voting nay then, you can't vote aye this time? Probably. Of the 61 ayes, seven were Republicans: Collins, Snowe, Gregg, Hatch, Kyl, Lugar and Coburn. After conservatives flexed their muscles in Utah last weekend (the Bennett effect), it’s hard to see Coburn, Hatch or Kyl voting for her this time. So that would theoretically put her at 58. But Specter voted no, and could now be expected to vote yes. So that’s 59. Four Democrats missed the vote. Of these, Boxer, Klobuchar, and Murray would be yes votes. So that’s 62. The fourth missing Democrat was Kennedy. His successor, Brown, might be gettable. (Is the Massachusetts senator really going to vote against the Harvard Law dean?) So that’d be 63. And Franken was not seated yet last time, but would be a yes now. So 64. Three Republicans did not vote: Cochran, Ensign and Graham. Of these, Graham is gettable, but it would be tough to envision either of the other two Republicans voting for her. So that puts her at 65. That's with every Democrat (including Ben Nelson) voting yes, as well as the two Maine-iacs, Scott Brown, Judd Gregg, Lugar and Graham.

Alright, somehow, after posting this, I lost a significant amount of it. Just disappeared. So, I'll add this video. There was some stuff in there about oil, but surely I'll come back to it.