Lookout Landing

Well, at least I will definitely laugh at this later.

I hate everything.

God damn it.

That about sums it up.

I stand by my decision to no longer be that invested.

But these games aren’t very high on entertainment value either. They go pretty slow and generally fall apart at the end.

I would argue that this has incredible entertainment value for A's fans

I was thinking that, actually

And I’m not sure. You may be right. I’m not invested in the A’s either. But at the same time, this isn’t the most exciting comeback. It’s just… you know… good.

Considering what Felix looked like this is pretty great for them

Yeah, you're right, that's a good point.

Winning against Felix has to be a thrill.

+1

Like finding a $100 bill in your change from a ten dollar purchase!

One won lost won - April 27, 2008 reply

Our team would spend it all on a half eaten moldy burger with bolus experience.

What do you expect, it's typical AL baseball

These games are getting ridiculously long.

future - April 27, 2008 reply

Shoulda pulled Felix after the first walk.

Not that it would have helped.

IcebreakerX - April 27, 2008 reply

Shouldda pulled the plug after the first walk.

For Felix. And Morrow.

IcebreakerX - April 27, 2008 reply

I didn't think that Felix should've come back out for the 8th - he was looking kinda shaky there in the 7th, and he used up all of his "continues" on the previous bases loaded spots.

Jordan of Boise - April 27, 2008 reply

I don't think it matters.

Offense should’ve scored more runs. Not to mention the bullpen hasn’t exactly been lights out.

I don't think it matters.

Offense should’ve scored more runs. Not to mention the bullpen hasn’t exactly been lights out.

best thread intro ever

SEASON'S OVER

DFA ALL THE PLAYERS
TEAR DOWN THE STADIUM
THERES NO POINT IN PLAYING

BURN THE TREE!

Two Rs and Two Ls - April 27, 2008 reply

Don't you remember?

This is why we play the games!

Norton is cool

Corco - April 27, 2008 reply

I'd argue that Betancourt was pretty good today

Aside from the rally ending GIDP

yea, at least just ignore norton

he doesnt deserve a “fuck you”

Karma Police - April 27, 2008 reply

He's in the lineup, we're losing, he isn't Beltre, hence fuck him

Reasoning ftw

I can't believe how this game turned from the best of the year to the worst.

Hasn;t the last month taught you anything?

This is like, what, the fifth time this exact same bullshit has happened to us re: late cockpunches?

EnglishMariner - April 27, 2008 reply

I endorse this thread completely.

I like how they're all smiling

whoopdee shit

season’s done with anyway

Sean Green should have like

+65% in WE

Sweet merciful jesus it's finally over.

esoteric - April 27, 2008 reply

i hate everybody in life

Robert - April 27, 2008 reply

McLaren and Bavasi should both be sacked and raped by the Iron Sheik after this one.

EnglishMariner - April 27, 2008 reply

What did McLaren do wrong?

Trust Felix?

I would have pulled Felix when he walked the first guy.

His PC was already over 100 by that stage, including quite a few high leverage situations.

EnglishMariner - April 27, 2008 reply

Noicole Zaloumus has her own fuckingcommercial?

If our offense didn't suck so bad this would still be winable.

You forgot this guy:

What's our record when leading going into the 7th

this year?

0-162

Edinson Volquez

7 innings, 5 Hits, I ER, 3 BB, 10 K’s

Just sayin’
my fantasy team loves that waiver wire pickup

Edanger6 - April 27, 2008 reply

The party hard pictures

almost gave me a seizure

Scruffy Lefty - April 27, 2008 reply

It was a timely creation of a new game thread

the gif with the fat chick froze while it was on the fat chick

Damn.

Fucking Casilla

Get the fuck out of our games.

Well the Rainiers game sucked

so at least I have the end of Felix Day to look forward ok what the FUCK

Only our offense.....

It would be nice not to need to hold a team to 1 run every game just to win.

4 runs wouldn’t be a bid deal if we… you know… had offense.

nice swing...

Glad I spent

most of my time watching Nascar instead of this game…..

I saw that too

First time in years i watched cuz it looks great on my new HD monitor. But man, what an anticlimatic finish.

Edanger6 - April 27, 2008 reply

yep

but that’s restrictor plate racing at its finest.

First Order Strikeout

FUCK

HAY GUYZ WERE THE SEATTLE MARINERS AND WE PLAN ON WINNING htE WORLD SERIES THIS YEAR

Great.

Nothing like the absurdity of striking out on a pitch above Richie’s head to drive the point home.

Why does Greg Norton look 50?

age gate

Corco - April 27, 2008 reply

Watching that last inning made him age super fast.

Why does Greg Oden?

People named Greg age really fast?

And yet, Dicks don't.

(DICK CLARK, PERVS.)

This hurts more than the Torii Hunter loss

Fett42 - April 27, 2008 reply

That camera angle is dumb.

Stop using it.

hit it at

Cust

All in favor?

Funk Walk eh?

Inning ending double play, eh?

I'm going with no

Seeing as how it’s impossible

false hope

Wow. He didn't swing at that...

Oh, hey. It’s Wilkerson….

WilkerFUNK

Where's Clement?

:(

you better fucking homer Brad!

hahahaha

you should start with hoping he actually gets the bat on the ball first.

Nice try, Wilk

You are never going to catch up with that fastball ever.

pinch-hit Bonds

Wilkerson sucks, DFA him

Two Rs and Two Ls - April 27, 2008 reply

Yeah, I think my patience for Wilkerson is gone now.

Man I can't fucking wait for Hawks season

their draft kinda sucked

No it didn't.

I said 'kinda' sucked

Like their last 3 drafts?

We didn’t get Laws or Brohm or anything, but I’m not about to say that it “sucked” purely because we reached for players we didn’t expect Ruskell to grab. I can’t find anything overly sucky about it.

I'll say it now since Felix day is ruined

FUCK YOU BRAD.

”/>

shitballs

Go die Brad

SethGrandpa - April 27, 2008 reply

I can't believe I ever thought he might be good.

Extra attention paid to the bottom box score line.

I feel like Zach Greinke

Awesome?

SethGrandpa - April 27, 2008 reply

Young, rich, successful

nice camera view you assfaces

yeah so he's done

Wilkerson

A nice idea on paper. Time for a new solution.

So I think Brad Wilkerson is officially toast

Yes, I think it's time to make it official.

I wish this was true

Now that we know

3 months from now we can expect his release

I can't believe I added him on myspace

Wilkerson has a myspace?

Sure fucking does.

Wilkerson is currently: Swinging and missing -set on april 27th, 12:30pm

HAHAHA.

His name is actually just Brad on there

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=343971664

You're welcome

Read the blog post. Priceless. I say we quote it to kick off the next game thread.

37 years old?

Guess so.

Must be how old he feels

That does seem to question the authenticity of it....

But, on the other hand, he does have the correct number of friends.

37?

Or 31...

That's not real

vkut79 - April 27, 2008 reply

Brad Wilkerson for guy that dies in a fire

How is this game no over yet?

hahaha crying rally fry douchebags

We get to lead off with Kenji in the bottom of the 9th

Yay.

nope.... they'll hit Turbo.

Mariners 9th: Johjima, Betancourt, Ichiro

That instills me with confidence

could be worse

could be Vidro, Sexson, Wilk

true dat

After some subs

Vidro, Cairo, Bloomquist

Jordan of Boise - April 27, 2008 reply

The enitre offense is toast except two guys

fuck these fucking assholes

IT'S ABOUT PLAYING YOUR BEST!!

IT’S ABOUT NEVA-EVEA!!

Good idea, bad execution

reason number eleventy that RBIs are a meaningless stat

Emil Brown has 22

So I guess it's like completely impossible to hit flyballs off of Sean Green

Clement better be called up this evening.

He had 2 errors today >:(

It's hard to make fielding errors as a DH, though.

No hits either

did sign my ticket so he gains some cool points

As a designated hitter?

please redeem yourself kenji...

Alaska - April 27, 2008 reply

At least it's not 1-run.

Obviously

Turbo’s days are numbered if you aren’t even called upon to pinch hit for Kenji…...

You'd think so, but nope

right

cause the M’s never cut struggling vets under contract….... they keep them all year without question like Boone and Olerud.

END! END!

Street's windup

Where he moon-walks off the pitching rubber… seems suspicious.

you suck Kenji, I hate you

If Yuni can reach then the tying... oh whatever.

Does every ball Kenji hits go to 3rd base?

on occasion it goes to the shortstop

Or high in the sky, eventually tailing towards 1B.

One of those was not a strike.

I like how only Felix shows emotion..no one else seems to care

They took Cust out :(

this is like getting mugged of all your gobstoppers

You were warned

Gomez - April 27, 2008 reply

well played

Lol

That was the worst game ever

Cleveland says Hi.

Edanger6 - April 27, 2008 reply

10-21-01

you are correct

Night.

well fuck all, we lose

Double06 - April 27, 2008 reply

Nice and quick.

Maybe next season, Mariners.

fuck this stupid fucking team the season's over

Yay,

A +1-run loss.

I would like to be dead

What would Ben think?

Ben wouldl support his partner's right to die.

Ben understands my plight

Well, at least the Mariners are completely horrible.

Good

if you were going to give us a lecture on euthanasia I would have lost my shit.

Well, that was "fun"

Now, onto facing teams with offense….

thanks for ruining felix day wilkerson

Alaska - April 27, 2008 reply

Man, Felix was fucking pissed in that dugout shot

Slamming his glove into the bench like 5 times

Yeah not hard to blame him

That really really sucked.

If it weren't for Cust we would have been shut out.

Betancourt HR ftw?

TheOptimist - April 27, 2008 reply

Cust aided

I'm going to kill myself

Fett42 - April 27, 2008 reply

1-2 punch bonding moment.

Felix slams his glove a bunch of times. Bedard’s like, “offense sucks, it’s all good, man”

Well this ended badly...

TheOptimist - April 27, 2008 reply

BONDS

NOT ENOUGH BONDS

Wilder. - April 27, 2008 reply

NOT NEARLY ENOUGH BONDS

YOU ARE RIGHT, THE ONLY WAY TO IMPROVE TEAM CHEMISTRY IS THROUGH IONIC AND COVALENT BONDS

OUR TEAM IS FALLING APART

NEEDS STRONGER BONDS

BURN THE TREE!

BURNING CONSUMES CHEMICAL BONDS

NOOO! OUR ONE WEAKNESS!!

we actually have several

WEAKNESSES

OUR ONLY WEAKNESS

I believe the correct plural is Weakni

THROW SOME

THROW SOME BONDS ON THAT BITCH

Felix should say "trade me, fuck faces"

Fuck everything

Fuck the A’s and their damn elephant and fuck that queerbag SB nation guy and his backwards adjustable hat

speedomike - April 27, 2008 reply

Boo

Fin - April 27, 2008 reply

I'd just like to say

This is all your fault Wilkerson.

Wilkerson really needs to go.

Alaska - April 27, 2008 reply

I voted for him in the poll before realizing that Jose Vidro was one of the options

Sign Bonds!

HGH is the way

Defenestrator - April 27, 2008 reply

Speaking of HGH, we face him on Wednesday!

Felix wasn't all that good today.

10 baserunners in seven innings, the hits were line drives, couldn’t find the strike zone when he needed to.

Yeah, the offense was bad as usual, but it’s not like they wasted an amazing start.

Rollo Tomasi - April 27, 2008 reply

He was very good for seven innings

Save for the 8th inning

That was a better-than-average Felix start. Hard to call 7.0 innings, 4 hits, 10 strikeouts of shutout ball “Not good”.

The 8th inning is part of the start, though

McLaren shares the blame for leaving him in too long, but you have to judge the entire start, not just part of it. Overall, it’s a decent start, not a great one.

Rollo Tomasi - April 27, 2008 reply

You were talking about the seven innings though.

He was quite good those seven innings. And those “line drive” hits featured.

- Single to right.
- Single to center.
- Single to center.
- Infield single to catcher.

Three of those hits came in one innings.

Yes, you have to judge the entire start but even then, calling it just decent doesn’t make much sense to me. It’s like using ERA to judge overall performance. It doesn’t tell the whole story.

This was probably his best start of the season until the 8th (An inning which even Felix ends up giving credit to A’s for making adjustments). Quite a shame too.

No, I was talking about hiw whole start

which totaled seven innings since he only got 21 outs.

Rollo Tomasi - April 27, 2008 reply

Not true.

BrettJMiller - April 27, 2008 reply

Another reason McLaren is a bad manager

For I swear like the 10th time this season, he sends his starter out with a high pitch count and does not start warming someone up after they’ve put the leadoff runner on base.

It makes no sense, Felix was at around 100 pitches after he walked the lead-off man in the 8th; there is no reason to not start at least warming someone up then. Then if Felix gives up another baserunner you’ll have someone ready to replace him before too much damage has been done, and if he doesn’t you’ve still got your guy warmed up to come in in the next inning. But no, instead he waits until Felix has put the second guy on with nobody out (and with Felix visibly fatigued) before he even starts warming up Morrow, meaning Felix has to face TWO MORE BATTERS with a 105+ pitch count and men on second and third with no outs while our pitcher gets ready. So he walks Barton to load the bases and his pitch count is over 110, yet what do you know, Morrow isn’t ready yet, Felix has to stay in long after he clearly needs to come out.

This has happened so many times this year, it’s really starting to piss me off, McLaren does not plan ahead at all for these possibilities, he just sits there and waits for a disaster to get dumped on him then reacts way too late.

Wait 'til 2009!

The M’s should go nuts and sign Dunn and Teixeira for one last valiant push for playoffs. Did anybody see Nintendo’s last quarterly report? It’s not like NoA is hurting for cash. Then, burdened with massive contracts for the next three to five years, we can watch Ichiro wilt away at the end of his Hall of Fame career and lament Dunn’s transformation into Richie Sexson 2.0.

This should set the team back five to ten years and let Felix walk through Free Agency.

Fun times to be had by all!

Defenestrator - April 27, 2008 reply

...

no on Dunn

no no no no no no no no no no no no

We need to do that article soon

Off-day tomorrow!

Then again, House tomorrow!

Graham would be asleep by the time House comes on anyway

and I have soccer at 9. >:(

I’m going to try and score the ep early via hulu or torrent

Torrents are proof that even an angry God has a little soft spot for humans

If you want I can send you a series of text messages that ruin the episode before you get to watch.

I already couldn't help myself

and checked the episode summary on wikipedia. They have them filled out for the rest of the season. Be forewarned if you try to go there to find out episode dates. I was dissappointed a bit.

Anyways, what would the text messages be?
9:02pm: Jeff to Matthew – House insults someone
9:05pm: Jeff to Matthew – Cameron is weak
9:13pm: Jeff to Matthew – Foreman acts like House
9:15pm: Jeff to Matthew – Someone thinks it’s lupus!
9:22pm: Jeff to Matthew – House insults someone
9:24pm: Jeff to Matthew – House is wrong about something
9:29pm: Jeff to Matthew – Wilson lectures House
9:30pm: Jeff to Matthew – House insults Wilson
9:34pm: Jeff to Matthew – House is wrong about something
9:38pm: Jeff to Matthew – House makes a passing insult about Cuddy
9:44pm: Jeff to Matthew – 13 acts mysterious
9:47pm: Jeff to Matthew – House is wrong
9:55pm: Jeff to Matthew – House insults Wilson
9:59pm: Jeff to Matthew – House gets it right!!!! (It wasn’t lupus)