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4/9: Open Game Thread, Part 2

Is this offense that I see before me?

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Anyone wanna give me a quick recap of anything good thats happened?

Ichiro RBI 2B, Lopez sac fly, Beltre Funk Blast, Wilker-double, Vidro RBI

Good outing from Washburn.

Lopez stolen base :D

Beltre made a great charging defensive play too.

Ibanez throwing out Aybar at homeplate.

Does that count?

Ibanez power arm!!!

Eighth1!!!!!!!!!11

Ibanez outfield assist

oh lawd

Read related: buh

What a gun on that Ibanez fellow

We should lock him up long term

Raul guns down Aybar.

Yea, that's going on Baseball Tonight.

three lefties due up in the 8th

dear god, don't use Green Mac.

I gather you don't see many Mariner games.

I *think* even Mac isn't that stupid

Of course, since RRS is now conditioned to exclusively pitch in the 9th because of his mindset...

Of course, Adam Jones gets to that before it hits the ground

But good job Raul *pats head*

He's not

that stupid. But hopefully that's not too much to expect.

Aybar never even touches the plate

Raul has a good throwing arm...

Not great, but average strength and it's usually accurate. His arm isn't his fielding problem. Not really a huge strength, but not a detriment.

Maybe it's because I don't pay enough attention to football,

but why exactly did Jamie Burke use his Kicker skills in that play?

7 from Washburn

That's huge

Adam Jones makes that throw!

wait, I don't think I did this right...

He looked out to me..

Oh he dropped it.

The ball blended with the bag to me.

Sexson knock down!

lol

Get out da way.

Sexson = Jolly Green Giant

Richie never tries to make contact with anyone.

haha

What a bitch

bunting sexson over with wilk up

classic

Fuck you, Mac.

WILKERBUNT?

WTF?

BUNTING?! WHY?!

Unless you're going to pinch run for Richie that makes no sense.

We have to save our pinch runners.

We don't have enough.

They should pinch run for Sexson here

Wilkerson bunt.

Ouch.

I wonder if Wilkerson realizes he hits better against lefties?

To be fair to Wilkerson, that probably wasn't his call.

I know, but he could pull one of these:

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Brad Wilkerson:

Gritty player.

Wilkerson OPS'd .857 vs. LHP last year.

Way to go Squinty, you fucker.

Of course Mac bunts him over!

The PH is up!

Physical hitter?

Hyphen warming up

Cha-Sueng Baek?

I don't think they have hyphens in Korea

HEEEEYYY!!!

Is there like 25 people at that park?

There's like one really drunk heckler and that's it

What about the orgasming girls someone mentioned earlier?

Is there a grammar class in your future?

To be fair, as soon as I hit post I thought to myself

"Did I really just post "like". Ewwww"

Well

I was referring to the improper use of "is"

Ah yes, I suppose that should be "Are there like 25 people at that park?"

My bad.

Bullpen

Hyphen warming up for the Mariners.

Hadoken warming up for the Rays.

USE YOUR BENCH!

Ryu warming up....

He's going to come in and throw fireballs and uppercuts.

Then we pinch hit Blanka

Yes Pepe

He has a much better eye than Jose

at lesat we haven't seen Migeul Cairo yet

MAn, so close....

That was mighty close.

Dammit that would have been

AWESOME

That was

AWESOME!!

FUNK BLAST!!!

BURKE!!!

BURKE FUNK BLAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jamie Burke bitches!

FUNK BLAST!!!!

JAMIE BURKE HOLY FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!11

BURKE FUNK BLASST WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SHIT YES

Burke Funk Blast!!!!!!

hahahahahahaha

BURKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRKE!

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Jamie FUCKING Burke FUCKING owns!

HAVE MY BABIES JAMIE

OUTTA HERE

BURKE FUNK BLAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BURKE!!!!!

Holy shit!!!!!!

Burke for starting catcher

Yaaaaaay Jamie!

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURKE

You get Raul's U's.

AWESOME

BURKEMANIA RUNNING WILD!!!

that was destroyed

i wonder where these guys are

Burke isn't going to be as good as we was last year.

....he's going to be better.

That's 20 feet in fron of the wall at Safeco.

40% odds that this means Washburn comes out for the 8th.

Burke for starting catcher!

How come Bavasi is better at finding

cheap non starters than actual starters?

Great observation

Burke for DH!

or 1b

Burke is really hand jobbing the man now

The man is chafing like a motherfucker right now

I feel like

Burke would be cool enough to throw some KY on there

I love me soem Burkake Funk Blasts

They're blinding...

DO NOT SEARCH THIS

Happy Burkake to you?

For me, its not such a happy occasion

It is for the other 30 guys

Burkakke on JP Howell!

I love this game thread.

Now just throw Baek out there for the last 2 innings

that'd be the smart move.

Do you wan to lose?

*Want.

strrrrrrikkkkkkke one

Baek isn't a bad pitcher.

dude, we're up by 6.

we've got another game here then a series against the halos. Personally, I'd like our relievers as rested as possible for that series. But that's just me.

Jeff Petland...

is obviously on the same crack that McClusterfuck is.

Offense?

Wuh-?

I'm not quite sure how to react, other than BURKE WOOOOOOO

Burke!!!

Welcome to 2 minutes ago loser.

2 mintues ago was awesome, I'm not leaving

Shoryuken!!!!!!!!

Hadouken!

HotteptupHadouken!

Tatsu maki sen puu kyaku

Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku!!!!

It has now officially been taken too far

You must have missed Buarkake.

Shin-ku-HADOOOOOOOOKKKKEEEEEEEEEN!

Jay Cook You

Another scary looking Ray.

not a sentence

When did we trade Baek to Tampa?

Haha, Gameday doesn't know

what that first pitch was.

Awww...Kenji looks sad!

Okay, i just got in front of my computer again, so I have to do this:

BURKE!

Okay, back to regularly scheduled programming.

Welcome to three minutes ago loser

Free Baek!!!

Imprison RRS!

I wonder if Kenji and Burke get along

Of course. Kenji just super happy to be playing super fun baseball!

is that suppose to be funny?

Cause it's coming across as racist.

FSN seriously wtf

fix your audio wtf

oh....

that loud static noise isn't in my head.....that's good.

How do you get out against this guy?

So RRS why?

I guess he hasn't really pitched much, but its 7-1.

Look who's our manager.

*Look who our manager is

He was warmed up....

may as well pitch him.

he had him up because of all the lefties

He clearly needs more breaking in.

<//Mac>

Playing the percenteges

/Montgomery Burns

Washburn 4 Cy Young.

Why don't we ever replace raul for defense?

Because he's an underrated fan favorite.

I see.

The Red Sox replace Manny for defense. >:(

The Red Sox hired Theo Epstein as a GM

Understand the difference?

As evidenced by the 0 votes for him

in our fan favorite poll

We have very few old women voting here.

Who would we put in?

Um

Really?

Well, we have Bloomquist who sucks.

Cairo is horrible and Morse is horrible. They'd all probably be upgrades but Raul has the best bat. (Just in case).

Yeah well apparently we have a guy named Jimerson

on the bench.

Haven't seen him to confirm though.

Glove on a stick?

YES!

Seriously..Glvoe on a Stick for starting LF

Glove on a Stick / Pitch-o-Matic '08

New Starting LF

This is wonderful.

Jimerson? Willie? Cairo?

GLOVE ON A STICK!

Willie's kinda skinny..

Glove on a stick is

a 5 < x < 15 defender

Isn't Jimerson gone?

...why would he be gone?

That's what somebody said.

A couple of days ago.

Orange Traffic Cone

or Strike O Matic even

Jimmerson

Every single game, Jimmerson.

But Glove on a Stick makes no errors...ever.

why is our closer in?

Part of me is sad that RRS will now be horribly overused

but the other part is saying AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE OI OI OI

Got to love that curve...

to the lefties.

K!

Bring back the 2 IP SV!!

K

He just owns Pena.

That curve....

must make those 90mph fastballs look blazing.

nice try, CAR-LOS PENA

He really Penas me.

Thanks, Moises Alou.

Moises Alou say, man who do business in whorehouse get jerked around

Potatoes warming up.

OMGZ RRS FACING RIGHTY NOOOOOO

fangraphs doesn't have our game up

weird

http://www.fangraphs.com/livewins.aspx?gameid=280409130

just found it.

it's not on the index/live scoreboards page for some reason.

RRS>>>>>>Pena*

*SSS

What did the Rays announcer just call O'Flaherty?

Hopefully Potatoes?

It sounded like O'Flatertice

O'Flatulance

Glove on a Stick catches that.

It would be very interesting to have Glove on a Stick and Strike-o-Matic on the same team.

I would have been on board for Clement/Morrow/Wlad

for Strike-O-Matic/Strike-I-Nator

6 runs and we go with RRS?

And why are Green and EOF warming up? Games like this are the reason that Baek has, and Dickey should have, a roster spot. Save the big bullpen pitchers for close games.

I love RRS, but this isn't the time to use him.

Yeah

I just got home and tuned in and was wondering the same thing.

I asked this before.

I guess we already had him up, so Squinty thought it would be too difficult to change

everybody else pitched yesterday

How do you post images anyway?

img src="url" ... put that in between this: <>

picture button

I didnt even see that...

nice

Under the subject line for comments, you should see a tree picture.

Click the tree, paste the URL, and

Voila.

BURN THE TREE!

It's just an example.

I assure you, Squinty is not actually in play. ;)

South Korea??

Wait a minute... This isn't the guy from Street Fighter...

But he does have a black belt in TKD

Lopez walks make me uncomfortable.

Lopez is fucking the shit

he's moved on from the man

In theory....

both are done at the same time....

but when he was fucking the man

wouldn't he also have been fucking the shit? Isn't that how that works?

An asian who's good at martial arts?

and math?

but is a bad driver with a small penis?

My penis

isa so small

epic fail

why?

Do I need to explain?

he probably sees the image fine

since he loaded it from the site, it's in his cache

this is correct

damn...

now i see... It showed up right when I previewed it, and posted right, but now that I refresh I see what you mean

FWIW, I saw the picture immediately.

oops....

fail.....

You.

5 balls to Beltre?

Aybar is going to take Beltre's GG

Fuck Aybar.

A 3-for-5 day with 2 XBH for Awesome would have made my shitty day.

Tampa Bay fans booing again.

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This pic will never get old

Holy goodness Tampa's mascot is retarded

Needs more mouth cancer.

Dave make reference to "Raul's Chew"

AWESOME!

Raul beat it out?

Wtf?

Wow they're bad at defense

Needs more cowbell

He's starting to get the Baek scared look.

Sexson FB time

Hahahahahaha

*that* is a sexson funk blast. He's redefined the term.

Or Sexson fouls off a pitch 4 feet inside time

He was just

protecting his nads.

Wow

the cowbell guy does it up

Did anyone else just hear Niehaus do his karate impression on the radio?

what is this radio you speak of?

I'm listening on Gameday Audio

Niehaus did a "Hiiiiyaaaah!" when describing a martial arts event.

We cant drive and post at the same time.

Some people can't even act and drive.

That was a failure of mammoth proportions.

Ewwwwwww

Haha I just heard someone barking in the stands

If I don't see some Willie Bloomquist soon

I'm going to go crazy

Except for a little Morse, have we even used the bench?

I think Jimmerson came in to PR once

But that's about it

Burkaking?

reply button failure

Burka King?

Iranian women's clothing store?

Or some sort of hamburger establishment?

FREE MIGUEL CAIRO

Free = release

I think keeping him on the bench is a way to get Cairo to ask his way out of his contract at this point.

Free Miguel Cairo

for any team who needs one.

Good News.

JJ's already up throwing again. He's looking much better than K-Rod.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080409&content_id=2508495&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

Baker thinks he'll be on the DL longer than the 15 days.

Jim Street > Geoff Baker

...

OK, I got nothing.

Good thing Baker doesn't matter

!!!

Yeah, But the good news is that he's feeling pain-free.

Well Putz does have a week on K-Rod.

Interesting hearing Yuni call it

I kind of assumed they'd use spanish given our infield.

Don't call it a comeback!!

McLaren's been here for years

AND HERE COME THE YANKEES

Green-aged

Game Over.

Yeah Mariners!

K BITCH

winning streak wooo

Fuck yes.

Two in a row for the first time since 2003!

um...

Were you here for last year?

Unless I'm horribly confused, yes

Appears you are.

The first time we got 3 games over .500, we said

"First time since 2003 that we've been 3 games over .500!!"

from then on, it became a season-long meme of saying "(insert some achievement here) for the first time since 2003!"

Ah, never mind. Hadn't seen that meme before.

YOU GOT BURKAKE'D

I think Burke just got Burkake'd

Greeeeen!

Awesome win. I can't believe Washburn escaped from this game with only 1 run. He gave up a shitload of doubles that just barely didn't clear.

Burke got PUTZ'd

Hahaha, JJ got Burke with the cream

JJ got cream all over Burkake's face?

Thats the kind of stuff I miss with mlb.tv

and I can't wait to move back to Seattle

So, let me get this straight

Get swept by the shitty shit O's, take the first two from a genuinely decent-to-good Rays team.

Makes sense to me

Actually, it does

Considering the O's series proved karma has a larger impact on the functioning of sports than any of us suspected.

thats why they play the games..

Detroit is......winning?!

Oh wait, it's only the 4th inning, their bullpen isn't in yet.

My mistake.

err the 7th*

Tigers bullpen + Boston offense = (0-8) record

Angels win 9-5.

Rev: "Moseley's 4 runs only happened because he had such a large cushion."

I understand Eyebrows' pain.

Tigers are up 6-2

8th inning.

Congrats on the series win

Unfortunately can't say I didn't see it coming.

for those that are interested

Dickey is pitching for Tacoma and he's faced the minimum thru 4 innings... still a long way to go but good outing so far

Awful day to miss the game thread.

I had too much work to do and unplugged the internet. But I got to watch the game. That was sick.

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