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Things just keep going along greatly for the Seattle Mariners this season. The team has the worst record in baseball, their manager and general manager could get fired any second now, and the organization is thinking about blowing the whole thing up and starting over (I wish them good luck finding anybody on the team they can trade, maybe Raul Ibanez).

To make matters worse for Seattle, they just had to place closer J.J. Putz on the disabled list for the second time this season with a bad elbow. Still, there is some good news amidst all this sadness, as Putz's elbow isn't going to require surgery.

The Mariners closer felt better in one important way, though, after finding out his elbow injury would not require anything more significant than rest to heal.

"I'm very relieved that it was nothing structural," Putz said. "Just take a few days off and start throwing again."

While Putz's injury really means nothing to the team this season - closers are quite irrelevant when you never have a lead to protect - it's a relief that surgery won't be needed. If the Mariners do blow things up and start getting rid of everything that isn't nailed down, I highly doubt J.J. is one of the pieces they'd like to move (along with Ichiro and Felix Hernandez), so knowing there's no structural damage to the elbow and that it won't carry into next season is a plus.

Too bad they've still got 95 games left on the schedule this season.