Lookout Landing

I think we've scarred that kid for life

Seriously.

He was already scarred...

Oh and Matt Cain is better than the Cardinals

FUCKING BALLS

I clicked on the wrong link

Matt Cain is better than the Cardinals

Giardi

I think I would have put Manny on there.... 2nd and 3rd two outs, Manny already having gone yard on Mussina... I'd rather take my chances with Youkilis then Manny.

Instead 2 run double Red Sox back on top 3-2

MfaninAlaska - April 12, 2008 reply

cock

balls

saltydog75 - April 12, 2008 reply

I'm really amazed at how few posts there are on the other SB Nation blogs

I swear, we have more posts pre-game than most have post-game

saltydog75 - April 12, 2008 reply

Pfft, fuck Thomas the Tank Engine

Bob the Builder dude.

A series win.....Can we build it? You bet your sweet ass we can.

Notor - April 12, 2008 reply

What about a 20 year old with the internet maturity of a 15 year old?

Corco - April 12, 2008 reply

Shitfuck

Damn. Hell. Piss.

Fuck this goddamn shit

We're going to kick some fucking ass

Corco - April 12, 2008 reply

i'm not gonna lie

i clicked on the under 18 even though i'm 26. Go play the balloons game and see what score you get. i got an 82.

I scored a 135

But I'm pretty sure that gives me -1 billion in life

wow

me too! and I'm halfway to the moon too (thanks g&t!)! for some reason I do better at games while up in space.

ewakio - April 12, 2008 reply

Oh

And clicking the yellow ones is fun. It looks like it's splattering piss all over the place.

111

I need to practice this for a bit.

Rollo Tomasi - April 12, 2008 reply

118

I actually broke out a mouse for my laptop JUST for this.

iheartjavelinas - April 12, 2008 reply

just got an 82 using a mousepad.

i need something better to do...

sirbrianwilson - April 12, 2008 reply

Mung, Festesio, Angola

Semprini

Rollo Tomasi - April 12, 2008 reply

Was anyone else nervous enough

About filtered links to a game thread that they checked the URL to make sure we weren't being HHrolled?

Meekrab

That is all

Sportszilla - April 12, 2008 reply

dang

i thought i did good...

I got 253 on the whistle game

then I stopped caring. how's everyone else doing on that one?

Justin Upton is not yet 21

I told B.J. last year his brother was better

He flipped me off.

If that's true that's awesome

Yeah..on that CF landing

Me and my buddy were chanting at him that "Justin's Better"...after we got a few more people on the landing to chime in he turned around after a pitch and flipped us off. Which only egged us on more, of course.

i'm pretty sure

i'd rather get run over by a train than play the whistle game long enough to get up to 253. F that.

I think

This is the funniest fucking thing yet on this site. Thomas the tank engine! I'd write lol but I think writing lol is fucking corny

Don't look down...

LOL

My web filter at work won't let me go to the under 18 site. Fuck this shit.

Um so ... what went down in last nights game thread?

This year has been great already for GT's, don;t ya think?

Let's just say

I learned where the line is for what flies and what doesn't in the face of GTE. Only by crossing it, of course.

Without content either

:)

Guh

Hey, give him more credit than that

There's a little red "X"

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a345/BobaFett42/hr.jpg

Uh

Ah

That must have been a hell of a popup

Allowed Ankiel enough time to circle the bases and wait on home plate for the catcher to drop the catch. That's how it happened, right?

Did not even notice that...

I'd guess swinging bunt that shattered the bat and hit everyone with splinters rendering them unable to make a play on it.

Let's just say Jeff was right about the SF defense

BUT THERE WERE NO ERRORS SO THEY HAVE GREAT DEFENSES

HOW MANY OTHER TEAMS WOULD HAVE THE CATCHER ATTEMPT TO CATCH THE HOMERUN? INTANGIBLES INTANGIBLES INTANGIBLES

On Gameday it says he hit the homer to CF

But then if you look at the location of the hit, it seems to be behind home plate. Maybe he hit it so hard that it circumnavigated the globe and ended up behind the catcher.

timc - April 12, 2008 reply

This calls for video

Confirmation: it was to straightaway center

*shrug*

Where's the fun in that?

I was enjoying the rampant speculation

You've been about as successful as Kenji this year

Erm

I want to watch tonights game, but I don't want to watch Silva and I have work tomorrow. :(

silva is an angel slayer.. .are u kidding me? he's 5-1. whats not to be excited about?

Alaska - April 12, 2008 reply

Every start Silva will ever make for the M's, I will expect him to lose.

Why?

Silva gets a bad rap, he's a pretty decent pitcher. He's not gonna blow other teams away but he also won't give the game away either.

I am just a pessimist/realist bread on a steady diet of M's blogs.

The first M's related website I ever found was USSM. Go figure.

I thought he sucked too...

until I read about him from somewhere else than USSM. I soon figured out that he isn't a bad pitcher, just a wildly overpaid one. If the Mariners signed him for what, 3 or 4 million a year, it'd actually be a good deal for the mariners, but paying a middle of the rotation starter 12 million a year is just stupid. I suppose USSM used its groupthink powers on its readers to convince them he's a bad starter. (the last sentence was sarcasm, I realize there is no way to interpret sarcasm into text on the internet).

Fin - April 12, 2008 reply

Well, I'm too stupid for independent baseball related thoughts, so I'll stick with the negative bloggers comfort-blanket.

I'm fine with Silva for...

4 years 32 million, but I dont' see him as that much better than RA Dickey, or Feierabend (though he did suck last year, but looks decent in his one start this year)

Just sleep now, and then wake up when the game starts

and then sleep again after it ends. If you are having trouble falling asleep, just choke yourself a little

ya me too.... i was at a concert. missed a great one. I heart raul.

Alaska - April 12, 2008 reply

?

Wrong reply?

I'm pissed I missed that game last night

It was pretty awesome

I've still got a mixed bag of GTE lingering from last night, it was that good.

On the one hand, I'm still really pissed about that defensive debacle of an 8th inning that almost gave the game away. That was disgraceful and it's happened way too often this season. I think if I see another one of those two error innings with the game on the line I might just snap and throw my beer through the t.v..

On the other hand, I'm overjoyed that we won and have a pretty good chance of winning this series now.

I saved some screencaps of the better GTE last night and showed them to a friend who is a Yankees fan.

He found them to be pretty shocking.

Upload them.

Stuck them in fanshots. Not sure where else they would go.

Why do we underage people have to have our

reps tarnished by Coach? His personality represents .01% of all 16-17 year olds.

Side note: AJ is currently tied with Luis Hernandez in OPS

Also, Evan Longoria is making his debut

So in the NLCS last year, Justin Upton, after sliding hard

into 2nd base to break up a DP, was hit by a pitch in his next at bat. He was a little pissed and Troy Tulowitzki told him "Hey calm down, we didn't want to hit you, we want you in the box. Because your nothing but a .200 hitter." (this is paraphrasing, but it's close).

20 year old Justin Upton, after going 3-3 with his 5th homer today(which is tied for the major league lead) is now hitting .415/.447/.805.

Tulowitzky is hitting .159/.245/.205.

The DBacks are 9-2. The Rockies are 5 games back at 4-7.

What now Tulowitzky? Who's the .200 now you little bitch.

Haha wow what an assholeish thing to say, especially for a rookie

But hilarious

I found the actual quote

"Why would we hit you?" Tulowitzki barked. "You're a .200 hitter! We want you in the box! Shut up and go to the bag!"

In other news, the Braves released Player A.

Link

The Braves released Spiezio on Saturday after he showed up to a AAA Richmond Braves game unprepared to play Friday, according to Braves general manager Frank Wren.

"We had an agreement with Scott," Wren said. "There were three things we asked him to do: No. 1 is to continue his aftercare, which included testing, No. 2, that he attend AA [meetings] and No. 3 he would show up at the park every day ready to play. And yesterday he was not ready to play."

Wren declined further comment on why Spiezio was unprepared to play. Spiezio’s agent Barry Meister declined to comment on specifics on Saturday as well.

Bah. Why doesn't the quote ever extend past the first line?

This makes me happy

Kevman22 - April 12, 2008 reply

Jon Suckland and the Sucks vs. Silva and the Mariners

I like these odds

Any doubts I had about the M's scoring tonight has quickly evaporated

ningwers - April 12, 2008 reply

I dunno if I will be home tonight

But go M's!

phil333 - April 12, 2008 reply

HOW CAN WE FAST-FORWARD TIME?

Is it like the 75 word limit on fanposts?

one hour later one hour later one hour later one hour later one hour later one hour later one hour later....

...dammit, this isn't working.

Carmona is abusing my fantasy teams WHIP

Whoa, WTF?

8 Walks in 3.1 Innings?

17 in 16.1 for the year

Indians pitching suddenly not looking so hot

Small sample size of course, but wowie those are some epic meltdowns by their best pitchers.

Contract year for CC too

Oakland is pissing me off.

I didn't want to believe USSM but ... were they right about the A's?

They seem to be right about TEX so far

Hot streak.

This doesn't strike me as being sustainable but they could settle around .500.

I'm only watching this game because I'm curious

how many runs our bullpen will give up tonight.

I guess we lead the AL in walks

I think we're close to filling our quota already.

Yeah

We need to get those pesky walks out of the way early so we can swing all we want later in the season.

joof - April 12, 2008 reply

I still don't understand dow this is possble

even through 11 games.

We lead the league in IBB

not so much because our hitters are so good as so many of them are so bad.

Since we're over 18 now, can we post boobs?

I can imagine some pretty hilarious photoshops. Vidro with boobs. Sexy. Think about it.

And think of all the hilarious beluga tits pastabilities

Papelbon is awesome.

His stuff and control is even better than JJ'.s IMO.

Somebody remind me, is that an automatic 30 day ban or 60 day ban?

Well why don't you just go suck a big fat Boston sausage?

It's not

But he is good

But it's definitely not

I think you mean virtually identical

Vidro batting 5th

What the cheese?

Lineups don't really matter so don't worry too much.

Unless they plugged Vidro in at leadoff, of course.

I worry about any McClusterfuck tinkering

Vidro is not a power hitter, and the #5 hole should be a power hitters spot. Unfortunately, Sexson and Wilkerson don't interest me in the #5 hole either, so meh.

Sadly

McLaren's tinkering is better than anything we've had in years.

Hard to dispute that

but it would be hard to do worse

Okay, FSN can eat a bowl of dicks.

If they want to show Jazz basketball here instead of baseball today, fine, whatever. But put that in the goddamn listings so I'm not beating my wife in rage when it's Mormon Pregame instead of Talking Microphone Nightly.

you call your dick

your wife? That's odd...

What exactly is a bowl of dicks anyway? Is it like a bunch of dicks just wiggling around? Or is it like a bunch of dicks sticking out like baguettes?

Louis C.K reference sort of worked...

I weave Louis C.K references into my every day life.

If you're asking that question

you don't go to enough parties, they're everywhere nowadays, can't have a party without beer or a bowl of dicks, standard

Had to dig the fan out of the garage today.

Nice and warm. Too bad it's not gonna last(at least not around here).

It was 92 degrees today

After years of pretending I could live without it in San Diego,

I'm buying A/C tomorrow. I can't do another summer of this shit.

That one ~week last August was fucking unbearable

Yes. I had company in town for four or five of those days, too.

In a one-bedroom apartment on the second floor. I don't care what anyone says, it DOES get too hot in San Diego sometimes.

80 degrees at game time in APRIL

Tough to beat a day like this.

Well, that was a Mariner-like start

circa 2007

What with our newfound patience (!)

Too bad Felix couldn't have done that

Yes, that line drive looks EXACTLY like a popup.

Plenty of good seats still available

I'm such a cheapass

Should've bought tickets, definitely the series to go to, specially Friday and Sunday

...hit right at Raul Ibanez

AND HE"S THERE AND HE MAKES THE CATCH.

Raul's awesome cause he makes even these plays exciting

Nice job Richie

Matthews in CF, Anderson in RF

HIT THE BALL TO THE OUTFIELD!!!

And Anderson's no cheetah

Way to KO that ball, Richie

It was a tough fight there for a few, but you managed to subdue it

In between hop

Trust me..im critical of the guy every change..but a great play there. Although he's a pussy and wears a cup, I think

There's an Angels fan near Red's usual seat

Are we being Punk'd?

There's still 2.5 hours to go in the game at least

That's enough time for anyone in Western WA to organize a possie and go hand out justice

Possie?

Paging AK.....

I think lynch mob is more his type

Or SS commando unit

Minus the tactical skill

Silva looks extra greasy tonight

I'm starting to adore the grease.

Vlad is getting hosed

I love it

7 pitch inning.

Sounds good to me.

2 balls smoked though

2 GB's and a decorated pop-fly

Stylin'

7 pitches. Oh yeah,

this game's gonna go quick.

But, Garland's an ace!

You can never have enough pitching! Especially when given the chance to give away a Gold-Glove .300 shortstop for an aging flyball pitcher who cant strike out to save his life!

We need to send Garland a message right here

and it should read 'we have you by the short and curlies'

Apparently Garland is a sinkerball pitcher

Touche, Ricoh.

Could someone photoshop carlos silva to give him multiple arms and call him Carlos Shiva?

I don't know why, but that just sounds awesome

I wish ichiro would at least start looking good

Doesn't have to get hits, but at least some good ABs

Like Jose?

yeah sorta

but Jose has some good numbers and is looking good/patient/notweakerthancrap/notlostlikealittlekidabandonedinamall

I wish MLBtv would let you resize the screen

If you open it in firefox, you can.

We get one more wish

Defense wins championships.

Its hilarious to me

how predictable Ichiro's seasons are and how hard a time the different systems have projecting him.

Wide zone today

Oh, Howie

Defense!

Thanks Howie

You underachieving idiot.

Hahaha...that was funny.

It's always funny when it happens to the other guy.

I'm digging Jose's turquoise batting gloves.

FUTBOL

Howie Kendrick is the worst 2nd baseman of all time

Vidro

Soriano

Random question

What is GTE?

Game Thread Emotion

you know it when you see it.

It'll be here shortly

Game Thread Emotion

Example A

is on Goose's signature

Oh ok

I must have missed the birth of that term. I thought maybe it was something sexual

It can be

It. Can. Be.

Grand Theft Equestian

if someone asks you to fuck his pussy you'll know

Howie's rusty.

He needs some oil

Just run your fingers through Silva's hair, Howie.

I get back and it's already the bottom of the 1st

Who are these Angels? The Mariners or something?

RUN LAOFIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RAUUUULL!!!

rauuuuul

on fire!

who says he has no legs?

triple!

TRIPLES OF LONDON~!!!!!!!!!!!!

RAUL TIME!! TRIPLE?

HOLY SHIT IBANEZ

Your U's are infinite

You are the fucking man at the plate Rauuuuuul

IBANEZ IS ON FIRE!

Triple!

Holy fucking shit Raul

RAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

(ahem) (cough) UUUUUUUUL!

sounds like me...

you got a bug or something?

Susheel Ramasahayam - April 12, 2008 reply

Warm welcome to you

Raul with a triple?

Man's got some speed

he blew his wad in the first prepare for mucho dropped singles now

dsgjshghdslkgsdgadgadh

RAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL

All right.

Adam Jones

would've hit a homer

BALLLLLLLLLLIN

ANGEL KILLA

HAHAHAHA Garrett Anderson in LF

How did he stretch that into a triple?

His legs must be feeling good.

HIT THE BALL TO THE OUTFIELD

IT IS NOT A GOOD OUTFIELD

Jon Garland, extreme flyballer

Is McLaren managing the Angels?

I was just going to say that

left hit it left

don't blow it Beltre

Musta hit his sinker...right?

Despite being slow in the OF

Raul actually get his fair share of triples

He's not that slow, he also takes horrible routes.

Damn you, Beltre

No help there

WTF?

That looked like it was going alot farther.

Beltre, you have been less than awesome with the bat recently.

c'mon hotdog fingers

show them what you're made of

Is Anderson worse than Ibanez?

Defensively?

Heavens no.

Halo's Heaven NO

Is anyone?

Morse?

last year he was the worst LF in the majors.

ouch

dammit Dave

Have we had a lead in all games but one?

yes

I don't know if there's a strong correlation between that and wins over a season

but I approve

not sure

but we've been at least tied in every game so far

Good call

That didn't look like a popup...

I really hate slampig

Get that outta the way before he flies out

"AND THAT BALL--...popped up into shallow..."

To be fair, I was completely fooled on that as well.

didn't want to admit it

but me too

not a strike

A minute ago FSN said Garland hit 96

I giggled and drool came out

WFB: Flu-like symptoms

HAHAHA WHAT A HORRIBLE HIT!

AHAHAH VIDRO!

Vlad like swing.

Woohoo!

man,

Bonds would destroy Garland.

BUT WHO CARES BECAUSE VIDRO SMELLS SAUSAGE AT FIRST!!!!!!!!11111111

Nice little 'excuse me' swing there, Vidro

VVVVVVVVIDRO

Nah, doesn't have that ring to it

Heart attack!

Raul with a triple and Vidro driving him in???

Wow!

PositivePaul - April 12, 2008 reply

Turbo!!!

So, we have an offense

This is a pretty decent feeling

Vidro!

How did he get air under that?

I'm getting the vapors.

Richie gets a hit?

Garland sucks.

Haha Garland is terrible!

Yeah you really got a gem there Angels

Garland is damn near an ace!

I can't believe that cleared the infield. >_<

hahahahaha Jon Garland blows.

Big Sexy!

for all the sexson bashing, I think he's looking fairy decent this year
As long as he hits over 235 i'm fine

he's alternating looking good and looking like shit

which is a lot better than last year.

The fuck?

VIDRO GOES 1st to 3rd!!

THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF BAD OUTFIELD

PROFESSIONAL SHITTER

that was meant to be
PROFESSIONAL S HITTER

Ah there's the GTE

Nice Richie

this is his game!*

*once a year

Graham is pissed that he's missing Garland's regression.

Graham is always pissed.

time for your 1st homer Brad

This is one professional pitcher

YOU CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH SHITTY ARMS

Vidro got the third on a sharp single

.. another odd inning

JON-NY GAR-LAND

CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP

What's Garland's swinging strike %?

Near 0.

negative

Last year? 10

on his first two starts this year, 3%

How come the Halos never make people

pay for errors this badly? >_<

um yesterday?

2 errors in the same inning and we got 1 run.

Then left the bases loaded.

Let's go Wilk

I like saying "Wilk" so I need him to stay around.

Wilkerson...

Looking bad...

Aww Jeezz....Wilk.

This ain't the Masters Wilk

Jon Garland - second ace of the Angels

This is especially sweet given Rev's intro to his game thread

"Jon Garland Verus Carlos Silva is going to be a fIP-fEST for you sTAT-hEADS."

Garland throws like a situational lefty

worse stuff

Read: pansy?

dammit brad lean into it

WTF Dave?? that game is in the 7th

Dude

It's to the point where if I DON'T hear a mistake by Dave within an hour I think something's wrong.

If Rich Harden and Halladay were totally healthy

I'd put them up there with the top 4 pitchers (felix bedard santana peavy)

what's wrong with Halladay?

Halladay isn't quite the man he used to be

Still very very good, but not what he used to be.

Brad swung at balls 1 and 2 there

It sounded like Dave said cocksman

So....Wilkerson

good patience...but jesus..when he swings he turns into complete garbage as a player. His swing is so late and...ugly

The rumor with the Nats FO was that he was on the juice and once he got off it he lost a lot of his bat speed and power

Take that FWIW, since it is just subrosa rumormongering after all.

bat speed is the biggest thing for me when watching

he hasn't made enough good contact yet (i've only seen one great swing with contact for him).

It's really the same thing that's undone Richie as well

His bat has slowed down so much that he's looks like he's just guessing at the plate more often than not these days. It's a shame, because as perverse as it sounds, I've always liked the big lunkhead. I wish he wasn't deteriorating so clearly.

I hate these sonics commercials

The sonics just stand there... no one cares about the Sonics anymore,if they were being treated fairly, we might though

that was so not bradtastic

it was more bradgelina

haha

I LOL-ed

Just joined the game thread..

Did I miss anything? Started to read through it but got lazy - I figured this was the next best way.

I'm still having problems with silverlight

anyone know how to access the sound options so i can try and figure this shit out?

What the...

Jon Garland has a 56% groundball rate so far this year.

SSS

I know, but these things tend to stabilize pretty quick

remember Washburn last year

he had almost sixty through April

Repeat after me:

Wilkieson sucks.

negative

NO!

Only when he swings

MLB 08 keeps telling me that Sexson is underrated defensively and Ibanez is above average. Should I get my money back?

Haha yeah I hate those comments

On my rosters I went in and edited down Sexson and Ibanez's defensive ratings, and Ibanez's hitting vs LHP.

I don't understand why the game has the M's as the 7th best team.

bluemax - April 12, 2008 reply

Well if the M's last year were the fifth or sixth best team in the AL

and the AL > NL, then maybe.

Continuation of the Free Extra Innings thing from last night..

I talked to a guy at work tonight and he is getting it for free still too - anyone else in Arizona using Cox and getting it for free? I know there aren't too many AZ M's fans but yea - anyone?

Speaking of Arizona and free baseball

The DBacks are offering Randy Johnson's return on mlb.tv for free on Monday against the Giants.

Lopez seems to only have one facial expression.

confused

Really?

This year, whenever I see him he has a sort of cocky Jeter look about him.

Carlos Silva has a shell?

Damn, that thing must be the biggest shell ever.

i think they meant Shell Station

greasy mo-fo

God Bless Safeco Field

Silva..no..keep the balls on the ground!

Uh-oh

Twins practical jokers don't end well for us

Though without Eddie we'd not get the Putz Splitter, so..

Carlos Silva is a large man

For some reason before I saw him with the Ms I always thought of him as alot skinnier

I will always love Hunter for that pinata commercial

Truth.

That commercial was legendary

that's because Silva is freaking bear

is "a" freaking bear

fuck me

more groundballs please.

Fuck Geoff Baker

With Raul turning three singles into doubles in the last two games, I hope that shuts Geoff Baker the FUCK UP about Raul's defense not being "that bad".

Geoff Baker has earned the right to occasionally say a silly thing or two

We should count our blessings that he's the guy minding the local MSM store.

I concur

He has earned a lot in the bank with me, but on this one, he is repititiously and flagrantly wrong. The rest of his moderate tone he tries to bring to the M's blogshphere I actually really appreciate.

Howie Kendrick's gameday photo makes him look like a lion

ICHIRO!!!

HOLY CHRIST

we seem to throw a lot of people out

at home

ICHIRO!!!!!!!!!!

ICHITASTIC YES!!

He almost makes up for Raul

HOLY FUCKING SHIT ICHIROOOOOOO

HOLY FUCKING ICHIRO SHIT

JESUS FUCKING ARM CHRIST!

ICHIRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ICHI-CANNON

ICHI-BAZOOKA
ICHI-RPG
ICHI-SNIPERRILFLEEJOPJOPUTWIU94E34!!

Holy fuckballs

Ichiro is fucking awesome. He's fucking the man awesome.

PositivePaul - April 12, 2008 reply

NO FUCKING WAY DID THAT HAPPEN

FUCK YES!

OH YES

THAT'S RIGHT

DO NOT RUN ON ICHIRO

YOU WILL USUALLY REGRET IT.

Holy shit

What a throw

I never get sick of seein' that.

Do not run on Ichiro

I want to have Ichiro's babies.

Well that was irritating.

I love how this comment stands out

Susheel Ramasahayam - April 12, 2008 reply

Disconcerting......

for a lurker like me

What does not belong...he's like waldo

if waldo looked like David Ortiz showed up to an Aryan Nation summit in Montana

WOW

Owned!

That throw was sweet

Angels announcers got scared knowing there would be a play as soon as it was hit.

bluemax - April 12, 2008 reply

The way Ichiro approached the ball

I didnt think he was even going to try and throw home

ICHITHRO

ICHITHROWNED

Just a bit outside... porn music

That was impressive.

Joh did just as good a job as Ichiro.

Neihaus is awesome!

"...the throw to the plate will beeee....not in time IT DOES!!!!!"

that whole play was classic Dave

never leave us.

I can forgive Dave for that one...

...I wouldn't have thought Ichiro had a chance.

I thought Kotchman had rounded third like three seconds before Ichiro even got the ball

Nah

So long as the throw was on line, there was no way Kotchman was going to beat that

I thought there was no way he was even going to attempt a throw at home

First thing I said when I saw it: "No way is he going to get him."

How wrong I was.

Joh seems to be doing a better job of blocking the plate too

Johjima, pretty underrated on defense.

joh's been better in all around

he's been improving his game every year a bit

One reason why I'd be wary of Clement starting at C full time next season.

contract year

tough to say with Joh in a walk year-- perhaps he'll draw a lot of FA interest. I'd like to lock him up for 1 more year and phase Jeff in over that year.

Beautiful throw

I wonder if he was actually out

Either way Ichiro's a badass

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that.

Not that it matters now.

HH is for sure calling to protest the game...

ICHIROOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Great call by Neihaus as well!

sirbrianwilson - April 12, 2008 reply

I think that throw somehow managed to get higher as it went.

Not in a sailing away kind of way but in a my names Ichiro and Im a fucking badass kind of way

Ichiro hurts this team by not obeying Newton's gravity.

Ichiro would punch Newton in the face

and take his ice cream sandwhich

because he was cold

and kick his dog

What, was Newton from Cleveland?

Physioc's picks for 4 best AL leadoff hitters

Ichiro
Granderson
Sizemore
Figgins

Thoughts?

bluemax - April 12, 2008 reply

Figgins? No.

Can't argue with the other three though.

If we're only counting 2007

and this year, Phys has a point.

One of these players is not like the others

meh

sure why not.

Susheel Ramasahayam - April 12, 2008 reply

about right

I'd put Swisher in there, now that he is batting leadoff

So can we all pitch in to buy Dave some glasses?

Kotchman was out by a mile, awesome throw Ichiro

No

I like him better this way.

???

a mile?

The dollar isn't the only American unit getting smaller

TWSS~

that's what she said

this is sad

unkillable meme

Apparently you clicked the wrong link in the game thread

ummm

He was out barely by the half inch Joh's plate block bought.

Which is why Ichiro's flyball BABIP last year was below .160

Or thereabouts

espn gamecast

is way behind. it just now showed ichiro throwing kotchman out at home.

This will be a quick game

this is like the king and queen of pitching to contact.

Who's the queen?

Enquiring minds want to know

The one that sucks

this is why chess never made sense to me

and kinda of a big strike zone

That was a really quick half inning

my brain is still thinking about the Ichiro throw..and then the inning was over already..ugh

Jon Garland: 10 batters faced, 4 line drives

Jon Garland is an all-star

just like 2007 Jeff Weaver

Hahahahahah

I LIKE THIS TRIVIA QUESTION

it was 92 in SD today!

It was 80 today in Monterey, which everyone was bitching about.

I hate yielding 0-2 hits

learn an out pitch Silva

2 feet either way and its an out.

Great 0-2 pitch Mayor Mayonnaise

Silva's getting a really wide inside corner...

replace "inside corner" with "ass"

Eh, Garland seems to be getting a lot of low stuff he shouldn't be too

Wow

Nice pitch....

Well that was weird.

Uh....

holy crap, that went between is legs

I have never seen that before

a veteran hitter gets hit by that pitch

That's new. 0_o

Okay, on the Radio side

I like Dave Sims totally losing it in the background to the little kid's banter with Rizzs.

Yuni, you fatass.

Yuni of not year gets to that routinely

that went between his fucking legs.

or not....haha

Sigh

Remember when Yuni used to get to those?

Seriously what's wrong with Yuni lately

that used to be a 6-3 DP

He 'bulked up'

Where did your range go Yuni?

Dave is kinda optimistic tonight

What happened to Yuni?

He looks like he's lost a step

Old Yuni would've had that

Mr. Whimsy is no longer a plus defensive shortstop

make that play you stupid cuban

Wow, I thought that

was a DP for sure.

Oh well can't get em all YuBet

nice call by Dave "double play ball" indeed

Silva and Vidro must have taken Yuni under their wings

I'm telling you it's the number stealing

when he gets #3 back next year it's over

For spring training every year lets just put him on a raft ,

in the middle of the ocean and force him to get back in time for the season to start.

I'm FOR IT

I'm choking on beer, thanks.

Mac would call for a bunt here

It's 7pm, how is he still squinting?

John McLaren's son must be Josh Hartnett.

Lay off Hartnett! He's dreamy and good at acting

:-\

He is to acting what Mac is to thinking.

this infield needs more Adam Everett

Bad.

ok, this is quickly deteriorating to suck level

Need a third double play ball

Maybe the third time IS the charm..

I hate you. >_<

Leading the league in GIDP

Is something a baseball team does not strive to accomplish.

That wasn't so bad

We really need to score here fellas.

No, we don't

Mmmm

Blowers seems to think that the guy

going to second is the lead runner with two on

DP!

WOOOO!!!

YEAH BABY!!

Silva you lucky bastard

I can dig it though

Wow, that was smoked.

Oh well, DP.

BOOOO-YAH

HGH that you bitch

Third times the charm.

I like when fat people try deceptive pickoffs

JLO!!!!

3 should be DPs in an inning

Had to work eventually.

Just what the doctor ordered

That's some unorthodox doctor

Loved how he said that.

so much for the "meat and potatoes" of the lineup

Silva lives of meat and potatoes.

Only we may have potatoes

OMG

where is O'Flaherty!

smothered in grease and angels since he is somehow our annoited "angel slayer"

yeah with a side order of lard

Easy Greazy!

that one should stick

tryin

I would go gay for Carlos Pena

Yes.

He is keeping my team afloat while Ortiz sucks a bag of dicks to start the year.

flaming or mild?

hah

flaming

Dear God he hit another one

He's like the new David Ortiz.

He is absolutely carrying my fantasy team.

well big deal

I'd go straight for Kate Beckinsale
You can't go gay for someone when you already are gay...

is anyone else upset by RJD2 in a bank commercial? for retirement?

very much so

they've ruined ghostwriter

Dukey - April 12, 2008 reply

Not since they used the Buzzcocks for the same thing

LOPEZ!

So, Silva...

kinda like our very own, spicy Latina Cupcakes?

That's my boy

I believe in Jose Lopez

for Gotham City D.A.

So if you believe Lopez's new approach will stick

How many wins does that add to a projection? 1-2?

Something like that

The Angels have the highest team GB% in baseball.

Beginning to understand the double plays...

I'm going to cry if Lopez scores. Seriously.

I would enjoy that.

Want some kleenex?

taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkkkkeeeeeeeee

raul says no thanks

for fuck's sake

heat check

Even the outs are hard hit..

Raul is feelin it.

That was on the ground

Hit them in the air, Raul.

Oh well, whatever.

You're forgiven.

Nice play.

Swear to God Raul

STOP TRYING TO PULL OUTSIDE FASTBALLS

He's had 3 XBH in his last 5 AB's.

I don't wanna hear it.

I hate when people swing on 3-0

BELTRE!!!

awesome glove GMJ!!!

Dave Sims needs to stick to basketball

He does okay with football on the radio

Dave Sims is awesome and you shut your mouth

Dave Sims seems like he would fit in well here

And I agree with you

Robert - April 12, 2008 reply

CRUSHED

HAHA THEIR OUTFIELD IS TERRIBLE!

KING AWESOME!

He smoked that one!!

i renounce my earlier comment re: beltre's bat

YES ADRIAN BELTRE

HOLY SHIT ON A BISCUIT I THOUGHT MATTHEWS CAUGHT THAT AT FIRST

same here i was already yelling at the t.v.

Thank you Matthews

Ichi gets that with seconds to spare

Adrian you magnificent bastard!

Hahahah...

Feel the burn of King Awesome

YESSSSSSSS

GMJ!!!!!!!!!

ok, must score at least one of these

BAM

there's your sign that KA's about to have one of his upswings.

Hooray for these Angels in the Outfield!

HAHAHAH Vidro IBB

The King!

Richie always has the bases loaded

Oh man...Walking Vidro to get to Sexson

Now that's humiliation.

IBB Vidro to get to Sexson

Yea, this is getting ridiculous.

isnt this somewhere around 8 times hes been up with bases loaded this year already.

Fear Jose Vidro

OH FUCK NO YOU DIDN"T

adrian, you may marry my daughter. Once she's 18

Just don't hit her.

(You can hit her. Just don't leave marks!)

Why wait?

IBB our power hitting DH!

I love this shit!

SLAMPIG IBB

LAWL

Torii Hunter catches that. >_>

That's when you know you suck at the plate

Grand Slam...

Or K, I'm calling it

Way to walk out on a limb there.

I'm gonna call a 2-run bomb

Walk to get to Richie

This is starting to get sad

and this is why we lead the AL in walks

i don't care how we get them

This is a good strategy.

....except that Garland sucks.

Please Richie..

Everytime he is up with guys in scoring position I cringe at the thought of him striking out.

Richie, you'll get a weeks reprieve if you come through here

....and we don't even have Barry Bonds.

we could though

we easily could...

Funk walk?

Here's another chance for ya, Richie

He's gotta be leading the league in Bases Loaded At bats by now. Anybody got a stat on that?

OK Richie silence the critics

For one day! PLEASE!

Somehow I'm betting we don't get a DP here.

nope, K, K

strikeout

Draw a walk draw a walk draw a walk

What's the stat for deers in headlights with the bases loaded?

Dammit MLB.tv cut off thebottom of a fan sign reading "Sexson 4..."

I want to know if that guy's awesome or a retard.

"Sexson 4...

Strikeouts Per Game"

At least the last time someone did this

He made them pay for it with 3 RBI's

Come on Richie get PISSED!

They just walked Jose Vidro to get to YOU!!

Damnit, it's 0-2.

I am not ecstatic right now.

If Richie K's here, will he be booed?

Mercilessly

mightilly

What is your avatar?

two naked chicks?

they're friends.

(no nudity)

In a word? Yes.

Tim Timmons parents hated him and decided to punish him for life.

Welp - he didn't K

:-\

A Pop-up?

lame.

Well that was as good as a strikeout.

Except...

It got him booed less.

this is too much for me

I have to take something for all this anxiety

Sexson you fuckbag mcgoo

Ugh......

Richie...

Saw it coming : /

He probably leads the leagues in person in front walked to load bases for you.

boy that's a mouthful

I'll take that action.

Someone should look this stat up if its even recorded lol

schwagnah - April 12, 2008 reply

Almost as bad as a K

Fuck you in your forehead

horseballs

better than a DP

Teehee

At least he didn't strike out against Garland. *that* would've been embarrassing.

Fucking lamppost

Please score at least one goddamn run

I'm fine with Sexson's AB

he fell behind early, and at least fouled off a few good ones

OK Brad if you're going to not suck, now would be a good time

DO NOT SWING!

lets go wilkerson

bring the funk

Nobody swing.

hey that was improvement!

I TOLD you he'd bounce back

TAKE

TAKE TAKE TAKE TAKE TAKE

TAAAAAAKE!

TAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEEE

you keep jinnxing us

3-1 do... not... swing...

KEEP BAT ON SHOULDER!

Who will be the first to K against Garland?

Wilk and Sexson are like..

the BAsh brothers from mighty ducks, cept they suck....

Brad WilkerSHIT

See what I did there, I substituted SHIT for SUCK

yeah, you're not funny.

OK then it's back to WilkerSUCK

Eat it.

stop

Yeeaaa... Probably should go the way of Coach..

Post less

You do know that will make me post more

This will probably not end well.

You know I can make you stop whenever I want, right

That's the "probably will not end well" part

Not amused Brad.

God damnit

EPIC FAIL

weebs - April 12, 2008 reply

So not epic

that was probably a ball >:(

That was not a take....

FUCK!

Someone tell Wilkerson he won't be able to hit

in Safeco until the Speiz-beard is gone

Taketaketak....

ah shit.

No Wilk, you were supposed to TAKE that pitch.

Wilkieson Is Not Good

Wilkerson should have been Walkerson

cool

that was awful

Wilkerson is worthless

when he swings..utterly worthless...i hate his face.

Fuck

Why swing? Why?

Now that wasnt very Bradtastic at all.

Good to know other teams can

strand runners.

Die in a threesome with Richie and Wilkerson

Maybe hot dog fingers / sausage cock can get in on the act?

You're still winning.

God, I'm running to Subway the next time Sexson comes up

I don't even need to watch to know what will happen

I thought Wilkerson was a good signing when we did it

And maybe it s, becase if he's just a place holder for Wlad, then that's fine

Random question

When a reliever comes in with men on and gets the final outs who does the strand rate count for?

RP

that's why you'll see RP with LOB% over 100% early in the year.

Heh nice

I AM SILVA, HEAR ME ROAR!

PositivePaul - April 12, 2008 reply

nice

Somebody needs to lay off the mustmayostardayonaise

I tried to embed this, but I suck.

Anyway, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OuPEubf-UY

it ain't Easy

bein this Greazy

I still think

He's a very ugly player, not as ugly as Colon or Lackey, but right in line after those two

Needs more grease

Gererro vs Ms

3 Ks, 4 groundballs

And yet I still curl into a ball when he comes to the plate.

Brad

Fat Face Wilkerson

That was a misleading fly ball

Warning track power.

Ouch

whoops

Bean Richie for payback please

Are we still claiming that Wilkerson is

~avg in RF?

Hopefully he's not hurt....

jk 5-6 months please

actually you're wrong Torii

he doesn't have that much pop

fuck

FUCK

Shit

Please be OK >_<

That was not a misleading fly ball

I'm not posting about that HR at al

yeah, see, that's why you need to score with the bases loaded and 1 out

I like how Sims has to use a different black voice when he tells stories

i was thinking the same thing

It might be awkward if the Blowers did the black voice though

awesome...

oh well we shuld be up 5-2 or something

Game oVER!!

it's tied...

I was joking guys..seriously..come on

If this were ST, yes

Baseball can't end in a tie.

ichiro would have caught that

OH SHIT KOTCHMAN!

fuck it

Yea, that kinda sucked.

Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll FUCK

The one time Safeco Field does NOT work in our pitcher's favor.

Fuck Kotchman right in the ear

crap

well shit

FUCK SEATTLE AND FUCK SEXSON AND WILKERSON AND FUCK BASEBALL.

Wow.. not pulling any punches

I'LL PUNCH YOU IN THE FUCKING MOUTH YANK.

Mystery question of the day.

Will one of today's starters record a strikeout?

Probably not

Garland

Unless he doesn't make it to Sexson Wilkerson again

So...its funny..I wanna see it

the whole die in a fire thing...Silva would burn for days

he'd marinate

Still not entirely sure how he hit that pitch out but ok

barely got it past the goddamn fence

fucking short porch

DLKSDJFLKJDS

gahhhhh

schwagnah - April 12, 2008 reply

Why are we batting are second and third hitters

batting 6th and 7th? >_>

Naples is the worst city in Europe

Belgrade begs to differ.

Paytheline - April 12, 2008 reply

I've never been

but if their pizza is as good as it's supposed to be, it can't be all bad.

sammy - April 12, 2008 reply

Naples is a pile of crap

never go

our WE was 82.7% after the IBB to Vidro...

did it go down to factor in the richie at the bat factor?

Napoli looks like

hes in the Aryan brotherhood

At least Garland is unGood.

Let's get some offense goin!

WHY THE FUCK ARE WE NOT WINNING? FUCK.

You must be having a rough weekend

I WANT TO GO TO SLEEP I STUPIDLY CHECKED MY PHONE AND IT SAID BASES LOADED NONE OUT SO I LOADED THE GAME UP AND WALKED INTO A TYPICAL M'S FUCKING DISASTER.

could you speak up please?

Dude, fuck your pussy. It'll calm you down.

I'm not sure

might be that time of the month

Not to mention your shift key seems broken.

Bummer, man.

I'll bum you

Crud.

Well, that sucked

However -

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jon Garland!

Why the fuck would you go skiing on a day like this?

I vote Jeff Clement

Be faster Kenji

MY HATRED OF LAA IS ILLOGICAL BUT I WANT LA TO BLOW THE FUCK UP.

It's because of Paris Hilton

Why

that wouldn't hurt the Angels

Blowing up Disneyland would being weird Karma

Yuni time!

That grounder had promise and then I remembered oh yeah Kenji

YES YUNI YOU MAY LIVE!!!

Someone needs some drugs

That Yuniesky boy is so nice and helpful.

Not like that nasty Guillen kid.

Paytheline - April 12, 2008 reply

Ichiro DP?

Huh???

Ichiro???

What a whimsical hit

What the duck?

Ichiro hurts his team

By GIDPs

Vidro possessed Ichiro's body on that one...

Whoa, Ichiro DP

BURN THE TREE!

FUCCCCKCKKCKCKCKCK!!!!1111

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

FUCK OFF I HATE LIFE.

Man I do not want to go through whatever you have gone through in your life

HOLY FUCKING SHITSTAIN ASSHAT COCKMUNCHER EAT A BAG OF ASS AND DIE IN A FIRE AND LICK THE SHIT OUT OF MY ANAL PUBIC HAIR YOU COCKSUCKING RIMJOBBING ASSHOLE MOTHERFUCKERS.

I AM UPSET!

What's with all the ass?

There are other parts of the body, y'know

cocks

Ragh?

Yeah, like Howard Dean.

fuck you Ichiro

Hey guys

LL Softball was legendary as always. This game could be better but it could be a lot worse.

Gomez - April 12, 2008 reply

Ichiro swinging first pitch alot recently.

he looks like Kenji did

last week

Are you saying all Japanese people look the same?

I laughed.

My mlb.tv is way behind.

Mine died. It wants me to go back to work.

JuliaHope - April 12, 2008 reply

Mine is working flawlessly

This is me gloating.

Mine crapped out too.

Maybe because I'm in China.

Switching to audio, captain. RIZZSSSSSS!!!!!

Paytheline - April 12, 2008 reply

Lopez-Ibanez-Beltre next inning

woo!

I hate the Mariners as much as I hate this fucking Geico dancing caveman commercial

no you don't

be reasonable

"Jazz hands -- anything with jazz hands"

I like that part.

I'm excited for someone to do a Best of English Mariner GTE thread

I think it's happening right now

How the fuck does Ichiro ground into a 3-6-1 DP? How?

borgy - April 12, 2008 reply

because Ichiro isn't as good as a lot of people think

There I said it.

You reallllly aren't making many friends here

Felix Hernandez will also probably never really live upto his potential

Life sucks and then you die.

you could die...

I could, but I won't

My legacy will live forever

Yeah

Not really the response I was looking for.

borgy - April 12, 2008 reply

Seriously, can we move to the NL so we don't have to play these cunts 19 times a year?

They really, REALLY piss me off.

We would fucking own the N.L.

Ugly, but I'll take it.

Great acting job by Yuni / Lopez

Agreed.

Kenji?

Why does McClusterfuck pitch out so fucking much

free dan wilson

This is homoerotic

What in God's name Kenji?

Looked like Bill Murray throwing first pitch on opening day.

awww

run on ichiro

That throw was...odd.

Shit

"He must not have had a very good grip on it."

Blowers for Nobel.

this game sucks now

Well this is going well.

This game is fucking murdering me

SKY FALLING

OUCH, tHESE STaRSZ hurT!

Dino Ebel can learn from experience I see.

I hate the Mariners

I dont have a very good feeling about this inning.

...Runs and hides behind a rock.

I am officially the Mariner jinx.

Whatever. I spend 15 minutes watching the game and we totally fall apart. I'm out of here. Gonna try and sleep but I am so enraged now that I may struggle.

This might get ugly soon

This game started sucking as soon as English Mariner showed up

Correlation = Causation

pop up, then dp, then silva goes and eats a burrito

wrong order silva

You have this in reverse order

I bet

the Angels do the elephant walk in the locker room after they win.

borgy - April 12, 2008 reply

nice.

Sorry Silva

Strikeouts are not allowed in this game.

WE GET IT!!

it was fucking 80 degrees today..fuck you

ONE K I JUST WANT ONE FUCKING STRIKEOUT CAPTAIN MAYO

I prefer Mayor Mayonnaise

i'll take it

I'm confident we can score some runs on Garland and the Angel's bullpen

Im not. Pitch around Raul, and K.A. and Yuni cant do it all by themselves.

Ommegang's Three Philosphers

is really really tasty.

sammy - April 12, 2008 reply

Rare Vos is even better

this was my first ommegang beer.

I'ma try'em all now.

sammy - April 12, 2008 reply

the brewery is like 20 minutes from the HOF

You must be in the early going

~30 minutes from now you won't be able to form that sentence.

We took the lead.

Still, **** you GMJ.

Angels lead

I think EnglishMariner might fistrape his neighbor.

I hate visuals

Sad thing is...

his neighbor might like it.

Might already be too late :-\

or himself

Sweet motherfucking jingle bells

that was crushed

10 feet to the right, Vlad.

I'm confident

that the Angels will continue to hit Silva hard.

J.L. White - April 12, 2008 reply

Ew.

We're losing?

We better get this back from Garland/that horrifying bullpen or I will sob uncontrollably

Girl in pinstripe jersey ftw.

Yea

So how bout we score some runs?

Vlad remembered how to take pitches!

That's what happens when the Angels bunk with the Dahli

May as well give up the season.

how many pitches for silva?

A pathetic 68

68. CG immenent.

you'd like that wouldnt you?

Sims is a repetitive machine tonight

And he normally is on my good side..but he's fucking annoying as shit tonight. All he says is "its 80 degrees" and Anderson has "5 hits off of Silva"......fuck you tonight Dave.

He's got one hell of an impersonation of Bob Gibson under his belt, though

Seriously

Let's hear the temperature in fucking Celsius. Mix it up a little.

353.15 Kelvin

299.82

Whoops

God damn Celsius conversion.

Blame GTE

WHy not Rankine

539.67

That McDonald's commercial FTW

Okay, someone needs to give me a proper understanding of this ad.

Amazing is the best way to describe it

That's not a strike, Anderson.

We get it, she has a soul patch on

ON BOTH HER WRISTS THOUGH!!!111ONE!!1

Is that what it was?

I thought that poor child had some kind of disease.

JJ hurt, shaved

this is the worst-timed promotion ever.