Mariners at Minnesota Twins: May 24, 2011 game thread

Doug Fister will try to keep this six-game winning streak going against Nick Blackburn. Remember him? Blackburn is one of the guys who was rumored to be on the block three years ago when the Mariners were said to have a shot at trading Jarrod Washburn to Minnesota in August of 2008. So, a trade of "burn" guys. Ha, ha. The M's were said to have a chance to offload all of Washburn's salary for the rest of 2008 and all of 2009 and get a player as well. Minnesota sources denied emphatically in the media here that Blackburn was the guy. We'll never know. All we know is, the M's dealt Washburn to the Tigers 11 months later for Luke French and Mauricio Robles.