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5/26: Open Game Thread, Part 3

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God that was an amazing play.
The fuck?
how'd you?...
Maybe he's recording the whole game live?

o.ol

You can watch the video highlight of it on gameday
Oh right, duh
I'm pretty awesome
Did they just skip our turn to hit?
Anyone know a free radio feed that isnt Komo online?
MLB isn't allowing any of that.
Wow that was quick Jeff
Holy crap that was quick.
The stuffed crust pizza thread was bumped

hahaha

That was a great thread.
Jesus Christ we're in the top of the 6th already?
Best. .gif. on. LL. EVER.
the 1-hitter takes it methinks.
HAY GUYS DID YOU KNOW ELLSBURY WENT TO OSU??

And Jerome Bettis is from Detroit?

Fuck Jerome Bettis.
Did the Krueg'z just diss on Oregon?
So the Penguins can't score
is it 7-0 on the series?
Yep
Sweet hippie bling Pedroia
Ellsbury better than Ichiro!!

Ellsbury has a .379 obp while Ichiro’s is .351.

You registered here just to post that?

You’re a very sad little person.

I hereby invite Kreuger to eat my ass.
Like Azamat?
Fuck you and your love for grit, Kreugar.

it’s broadcasters like you that breeds stupidity into the minds of casual fans.

What kind of chant is that?

LETS GO MAERSOX

robert's at the game doing his part to confuse everyone
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! K!
Not a strike, but funny
I hate you so much Kreuger
HBP LET'S GO FELIX SHOW YOUR MEANSTREAK
SHUT UP KREUGER SHUT UP SHUT UP

Would winning Mariner style be doing exactly what they did in the past 6 games?
reliving a laugh

Hahahaha I missed this
BRB GONNA GO GET SOME DESSERT

FER REAL THIS TIME.

i love your passion for food, turbo.
What the fuck!?

A balk!?

Balks are stupid
Mac don't argue a balk
Yeah, no argueing balks and strikes.
More bendy things!

MOAR!

Nice swing you gorilla

...I’m not being racist, he just looks like a gorilla.

That's racist!
HATEMONGER

Flagged.

I thought you liked Ortiz?
I do like Ortiz
David Ortiz isn't balck anyway.
Uh huh.

I bet you still keep around a Crayola “Flesh” Crayon just because it aint black.

It's called "tan"
Not in the 80s it wasn't.

Right along with “fleshtone” bandaids from Johnson & Johnson.

Jabba the Hut.
That's Joba the Hut.
Oh, yeah, you're right.
I bet Jeff has lots of friends who are black
I have a friend who goes tanning
Jeff loves black people

He thinks everybody should ow… okay stopping that joke right now.

PLEASE HAVE YOUR WAY WITH ME FELIX!!!!!
FELIX

Yes, BENDY

You just got keyhole'd papi
Seriously FSN, fuck your camera angles
you wish you had him!
Stupid, stupid post number 2.
Why are you still here?
Die in a Fire assclown.
I kinda want to know who we wish we had...

I guess I’m playing right into his hands though

Niehaus nearly had a coronary calling that strikeout
Dick's Sporting Goods is pissed
Ironicall they carry vwery little team appearal.
Thanks Elmer.
Oh my
It sounded pretty witty in my head.
I think the lesson here is that Ortiz is good at hitting fastballs
Better than Felix is at throwing them.
Ichiro: healthy
Dive for that you girl
I'll cut you bitch?
steal home from 1st ichiro. show us you're healthy.
Didn't look like it hit him...
How on earth did that hit him?
HE SAID LOAFIE

I SWEAR.

Josy?

Damn you Krueger. You son of a bitch.

That totally did not hit him.
You know we suck when the #3 hitter is bunting.
Come on Turbo

One time….

I hate that our #3 hitter and DH bunts
Vidro makes himself of use!!
We just bunted with our #3 hitter
WE JUST BUNTED WITH OUR #3 HITTER

IF YOU DON’T TRUST HIM TO HIT WHY ARE YOU HITTING HIM THIRD

Hey I thought you didn't like roles
PS

Vidro likes rolls

Having your DH bunt

is kind of sad

brb
more dessert? where is it....
You don't have to tell us when you're leaving.
"He knows how to play baseball"
Kreuger is giving me a rash.
A butt rash?
As much as I hate bunting

I’m really glad we don’t get to see him swing the bat this inning.

shit it's better than a DP.
I was going to be annoyed, but then I realized he was going to GIDP otherwise.
Wait, what?

What does that even mean Krueger?

I want to bunt Bill Krueger in front of a snowplow
Way to throw him under the snowplow
What feed is mlbtv featuring?
Mariners
I figured

I would take anything besides this.

Mariners.
Everybody wins: runners advance, Turbo gets back to the dugout before the buffet closes
Vidro is the anti-Ortiz

Low average, no power.

Similar mass.
Ortiz never legs out a bunt single

Therefore doesn’t know how to play

"Vidro knows how to play baseball. He played in the National League."
needs a better caption

Hahaha nice.
"I got one!"
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut
"...AND YOU CAN EAT IT TOO!"
I think I like it as is
I caught my own pop-up!
winner

Thats what that is.

N--- stole my basehit
I may or may not regret this

LL is not 4chan.

gb2/b/.

4Chan

the birthplace of the RickRoll.

I sincerely doubt that.
Man oh man do I hate Bill Kreuger.
I see his name every day in the offseason, because he's in my schools baseball hall of fame

It irritates me greatly.

where'd he go to school?
University of Portland
ouch

That’s a small school too.

OH GOD DIE DIE DIE
Niehaus mentioned a pinch runner in the Dodgers-Cubs game named Chen Hu

Meaning they had… Hu on first. And then he took 2nd, so Hu was on 2nd.

who = hu

zomg cleverrrrrr!

Came back soon, Sims.
For those of you who missed the game yesterday:

Caption

Bill: No, Angie! Grab Wang when the cameras are off…..awwww yeeeeahhh….

eww

She’s way too attractive for him.

I wonder if Nikki Z has tasted the Krug yet

He's had to hit on at least one of them

Look at his slicked back here. He looks like the guy who would do that.

Still with the demon N's
That couldn't be helped.
I just realized that someone else posted this

hahaha

Here comes a K.
Live in a Fire Krueger.

You don’t deserve the release of death.

Yay tie game!
Felix leaves next inning, Rhodes walks the world, Varitek grand slam.
I'm so proud of the middle of our lineup
Yay to Productive Outs!
Last time I watched Colon pitch, Beltre hit two bombs off him.

DO IT, DUDE.

Taking a close pitch? Taking on 3-0?
Pussy McPussyfoot
Didn't they do that at the beginning of the season for a little while?
Okay I've been on the phone for 30 minutes, what'd I miss?
butthol ate some dessert.
Once

But said I would 3 times.

Only the best catch ever
Luckily I was here to see the catch

T’was awesome

You didn't miss much.
hay is is Vitor artinez
They comes a point where watching the games just isn't worth it anymore.
Can you please possibly post a clip of that?
I tried, camstudio not compatable with my sound card.
screen recorder?

just the audio is also acceptable

You need both.
Funnier if I don't
someday i will see this commercial
Regardless of what happens, we'll always have that catch
A rare Mariners web gem on baseball tonight for sure.
Celtics sucked
:tear:

Is that Ellsbury?
he does have some native american in him.
His mom sure did.

OOOOH!

Anyone but Boston!
Ugh. NO WALKS!
Is Triunfel good defensively?
Felix is just not Felix anymore and it sucks
That part was Felix though
Felix is trying to cheer you up with that DP.
can you imagine if Hanley had stayed in Boston?

Man, Derek Jeter 2.0

Instead it's more like "who is Hanley"
Only outside of fantasy baseball.
DOUBLE PLAY!
Throw one of your other pitches
Beautiful.
Scott Erickson sucked
That was a strike
throw a

Mexican?
i was going for hispanic, but that works.
I just bought the Futurama boxset.

I forgot how good this show was.

There is more coming down the pipe!
SMALLER
sorry sorry!
p.s.

that’s what she said…?

THATS NOT WHAT SHE SAID
I don't know blue
shut up Krueger

christ, I would gladly trade my life to have you never talk again.

It's called radio.

Even better, Niehaus and Blowers are on it. I highly recommend using it. You can play old Super Nintendo games like Shadowrun while you listen, too.

I've been playing alot of Super Mario RPG lately.
i hate how it capped at level 30.
I just started playing Shadowrun again because I realized that Bartolo Colon looks EXACTLY LIKE the troll deckers in the game.
Okay ump, die.
I LOVE YOU FELIX!
This ump can gobble a bag of nuts.
Angel Hernandez is legendarily awful
hay is is AJ BURNETT
I would love to know more about Incubus
Felix - 85 pitches through 7 :)

Colon – 71 through 6 :(

Hey papolo

You wish you had him.

We're already in the bottom 7th?
Safeco wouldn't have the balls to play Sweet Caroline if we win
That would be so awesome.
The Rays did it

):<

The Rays are made of awesome.
Really? That's spectacular.
Sadly, they play it non-ironically at Nationals Park in DC.

Makes me feel like they’re self-hating or something.

AHHHH QUIT TALKING YOU SACK OF SHIT! QUIT FUCKING TALKING! QUIT QUIT QUIT!AHHHHHH
Please come back soon, Sims.
This is proof of concept that it can always get worse
Baker's readers seem to prefer Kreuger.
It can get worse.

Hi again everybody! look who is joining Bill and I, it’s Red Ron Fairly!

Who was the guy they got in for some of the radio broadcasts last year?

He was kind of nerdy and pretty hilarious. I want to hear more of that guy.

Ken Levine rocked
I love Ken Levine
agreed

It’s the awesome that comes around only when the Sklars guest host Rome

The pitcher turning around to face second base

One of the most exciting plays in baseball

Hate Ken Levine... sooo... much...
You are in a club of one.
I'm just being honest.

He really, really bothered me.

Shut up Kreuger..
Your words burn my ears Krueger
What in god's name is he saying? How bad could it be?
Krueger is play by play chlamidya
Where does Boston find pitchers like this?
They have a USSM Premium subscription
Reed looks like a real good hitter...

in Tacoma

and i'm sure that had sarcasm in it.
Richie Sexson with an infield hit!?
What just happened?
The Rockies should copyright Fluketober.
Sexson infield hit?

I’m heading to the bomb shelter.

100% sustainable

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I simply cannot believe that Richie Sexson beat out an infield hit.
ALRIGHT CAIRO TIME
6:48 AM Tuesday
Took me 3 reads to get it

Well done.

CAIRO IN

CATALYST-ACTIVATED WIN COMPLEX

needs more Clement
We're not scoring runs here
Again, shut up Krueger.
I wonder how JJ will do tonight
Walk-off HR to Varitek?
That would be unfathomably strange
That would be difficult.
I keep forgetting that the Mariners are playing at home today.
They're not.
They are.
Not really. Not with RSN in full bloom.
We need to deflower them.
Maybe walk off single followed by a comedy of errors
HIT IT ON THE GROUND

THE GROUND
HIT IT ON THE GROUND

All right you fuckers

play this in a continuous loop and suffer like the rest of us.

I tried playing it, then MLB.tv actually had the commercial.
That required some dedication
It took 3 minutes.
That required some dedication
I just found out that cell phones can record video.
Jeff...what is your opinion of Willie Randolph as a manager?
what if McLaren called pulled the squintism card?
DO NOT LISTEN TO CAIRO
Rickie?
Never gonna give you up!
woo good defense
Bunting is stupid.
Cairo sure is good at that
So Cairo found something he's good at.
i just ordered my Miguel Cairo jersey
STOP TALKING KREUGER
I'm Bill Krueger

I think Jacoby Ellsbury will hit for power. I will support this argument by citing his 40 time.

Hey You Guys!! Have i missed anything in the last few days?

Best catch ever
The drunken master is here.
A lot of creative losing plus the catch of the year from Ichiro.
This is pretty much my weekend....

I guess ill have to find the catch on line. What inning?

What are those, some kind of sex paddles?
National title weekend for lacrosse...

or when your drunk enough sex paddles to use on the lacrosstatutes

Just started watching... when did that Ichiro catch happen

and who did he rob?

Goddamnit

I’m bad luck once again!

Does Krueger have a daughter?

and can you imagine that ‘first date talk’?

hilarious

I’d like to see his keys to the game for mundane tasks

1. Pull stroke
2. Go deep
3. Finish strong.

Bloop single, game over
Harder hit bloop
Dammit.

Game over.

SHUTUP ASSFACE
Game..I want Colon to have a CG now.
That was fun, we lose, nice hustle Raul
No one gets that...Felix is dumb for throwing a fastball to Pedroia there
It didn't look that far away from him to me
SHUT THE FUCK UP RED SOX NATION
Be less predictable.
I hate your fastballs down the middle Felix..asshole
That fastball was actually on the inside corner
outside of the inside corner..more plate than not..I just hate the fastballs here..fuck shit

“Thank for you choosing Fastball King, what kind of Fastball would you like?”
“Hmm, 94mph, middle-in”
“Bzzt, thank you, please pull through.”

“Thank for you choosing Fastball King, what kind of Fastball would you like?”
“Actually, do you have any breaking balls?”
“Sorry, no breaking balls, but we’re running our ‘Establish the Fastball’ special, why don’t you give one, or more, a try?”
“Well, okay, that sounds good. Give me four, and just send them out back to back.”
“Excellent choice. Please pull through!”

8 IP, 2 runs, 2 earned. L

Felix must hate life.

2 runs?
8 IP, 3 runs, 3 earned, L.

He still hates life.

Red Sox Nation Seattle,

consists of UW sorority girls and that is all

That should have been caught
SeanGreenSeanGreenSeanGreen
Richie needs to charge and throw his helmet at every Red Sox fan in the building
can't lie; that would be awesome.
God damn it Felix
Fuck.

7 straight.

Fastballs are stupid.
Is his fastball established yet?
Whatever, M's lose
It's cool keep throwing those, they've only led to like every hit you've allowed tonight
I'd ask Dave to write another letter, but the jokes on us, McLaren and Mel can't read.
Go to hell Mel and Norm.
Everyone out of here!!

OHHHHHH SHIT!
I hated that the teddy bear died.
i thought i was the only one!
It was a better death than what Kirk got.
The RiffTrax is highly reccomended.
i still need to watch the transformers one
Bedard is probably dying to sign a long term
Bedard has his own shit to deal with right now.
Mel is telling him to keep throwing that fastball.
OH GOOD STOTTLEMYRE WILL TALK SOME SENSE INTO HIM

Die of a stroke, hope-ruiner.

Maybe if he sucks enough, he won't get the huge free agency payday and stay with us
Throw Harder

BAHAHA...we really suck
Another 8th inning collapse.

Wonderful.

collapse? it was downhill from the 1st inning.
Aaaaaand that play sums up the rest of Beltre's career with the M's
You are still a bad mofo Adrian
I really wanted this one

I thought we had a chance Thanks Bartolo. I feel stupid.

"And the Red Sox have the bases loaded... my... oh my. When it rains it pours."

Never leave us, Niehaus.

9/11 2.0: Prudential Center
ha ha....

ha?

Jeff is now in the crosshairs of Homeland Security.

I recommend you take a trip somewhere
Graduated from school

Already vacated.

I’ll be back on June 17-19. Should I not be?

You do know that they send out the Party Van for less than this

Not just for you, but “social networking” is enough for Person A to get Person B in trouble for purposes of the round-up list.

So basically, GTE is getting us all sent to Guantanamo.

They don't show the Mariners there right
Depends on whether or not they need information.
Only if you believe they've stopped torturing people there
I'd say yes, but the Few Good Players might lessen the effect

So they probably just show clips of Vidro GIDPs and Raul chasing after deep flies.

V-tek bomb would be awesome
You and I have differing definitions of awesome
By awesome...I meant a fitting conclusion to the suck that is the Mariners tonight
Needs to be off JJ
And as the camera pans to follow the ball to the hit it here sign, the mikes pick up JJ's screams as one of his ribs detaches

and Felix makes a “call me” gesture to Francona from the dugout.

Brett is probably killing someone right now.
KRUEGER ASKS FOR A CURVEBALL BRAIN EXPLODED
He basically called Pedroia sitting on the first pitch fastball
WHY IS HE STILL IN
I want Mel and Norm's heads on a pike.
Let's remember happier times:

I'm tempted to flag this
Just make a video of Justice's house burning
I drank to that
Needs more Boone.
Wasn't on the team.
goddammit

just dammit

Why is the hanmer yellow?
Yellow hammer?

This isn’t Sasaki.

I want to kick that kid's face in.

That works.
Somehow that's the most racist thing ever
I have some very fucked up friends
That's racist.
The kid started it!
WHY IS HE STILL PITCHING GOOD GOD MAN
I can't watch this anymore.

This loss isn’t funny, it just sucks.

It's kind of funny when comparing

Colon’s minor league contract to Silva’s huge deal.

Good now let's let RRS enter another lost cause
this just keeps getting better and better
WHY IS HE IN THERE?!?!?

i can't even smile anymore.
Hey guys, we're just one more run away from another 5-run-plus loss! We can do it!
Fire everyone.

It’s a shame ownership doesn’t care about this franchise.

I hope Jon Papelbon signs up for a name on LL so I can ban him
My ass hurts now, thanks.

I wish the Mariners would stop raping me. =(

and i says: THATS NOT THE MARINERS; THATS MY WIFE
hay is is Vitor artinez
I completely forgot about O'Flaherty
On the plus side, this will be the fewest amount of runs we've given up in a week.
Pretty sure Felix was just crying in the dugout
I think I saw that.
I'm going to watch some Futurama.

Entertainment should be entertaining.

We challenge each other

Good chemistry!

Why didn't we go to RRS earlier again?

oh yeah – fucking Mac.

Why would you want to trust our 4th best pitcher* with any sort of leverage situation?

MOP-UP FOR THE OZMAN

*I looked it up in my gut

Yeah, we should have used a PC to make the pitching change

The Mac wasn’t compatible with the email program used for pitching changes.

Bill Krueger doesn't understand dark people
You're one to talk
I talked to one once
You would have died at Seahawks training camp.
To be fair, drunk drivers don't just kill racists
My best friend is Cuban.
So is Jose Lopez'
The only black Krueger knows is the Just For Men he puts on his head every month
No play for Mr. Grey!
There'll me no Mantink play for Mr. Grey!

SUICIDE PACT

BEFORE IT GETS WORSE

GM Pick To Click: Downtown hot dog vendors
Much moer tasty than spinich.
Nodeath Cults? Havent we learnedfrom Jones town and Heavens Gate?

Why dont we just riot like soccer hulligans?

2 for $6 right by VIdro's condo

They cut them in half which is annoying but they were good for hotdogs.

Lester is unflappable?

I’d say he was pretty well flapped by the cancer.

I just noticed that this was one of the rare Jeff posts that went un-replied-to.

Bwahahahaha.

Oh shut up
Waxing poetic about Lester and father

will to live approaching zero

Krueger waxes poetic about modern medicine

Krueger spits venom at modern baseball analysis

Lester used performance enhancers.
ahhh back to that old familiar feeling

sweet sweet failure

I hope his mother gets cancer as well.
Wahoo...GTE is breaking down barriers!
...she already has native american in her. can't be much worse.
He's talking about Lester, not Ellsbury doughboy.
I hope the whole family gets superaids.
What about Megaids?
I don't know about Megaids

But I know if you get one teaspoon of superaids in your butt, you’re dead in a week.

I hope their pool's closed
zounds
More screentime for Wilson.
Thats a really white Beltre bobblehead
Remember when i said "whats the over/under on mariners runs scored against colon, 2? and you wrote false in full caps?

Good times.

That looks less like Adrian Beltre than anything I have ever seen.
Whoever thought of the name Mooriah Farms needs to be genocided.
I have to admit...I sort of thought we might win today.

That’s what I fucking get for having hope. My dick knocked in the dirt.

Impressive.
Sorry if this is old news

But Geremi Gonzalez got struck by lightning and killed.

Shocking.
I'm sorry that was uncalled for.
Wait for it









Wait for it…





RIMSHOT

He never had electrifying stuff.
He pitched until his arm was fried
Made the hair on my neck stand up.
Now he has a very magnetizing personality
That's why he didn't bolt to the majors.
At least he went out to a thunderous ovation.
This sort of joking about a man's death is revolting.
We should probably zap this subthread right now.
Going through hot flashes are we?
At least we're talking about current events.
Gonzalez's death must have come like a bolt from the blue for his family. I'm sure they are stunned at the jolt this has caused them.

And I know this message will meet with some resistance here, but I’m dismayed at how everyone has conducted themselves.

He must have got hit by the lightning after someone charged the mound.
Their emotions are currently static
His enemies are probably amped by the news.
He had probably had a cup of coffee before getting hit

He was clearly wired.

Too bad his only real success was in the junior circuit.
This subthread is fantastic.
But it strikes me that I'm out of ideas. So good night.
You can't have a negative attitude ane expect positive results.
Well watt do you expect with me being a fan of this team?
Out of ideas?

I got one point twenty one more.

This took me a minute
It was well played.
Because you are slow
I didn't get it until this morning.

I feel dumb.

Griffey pandering yay
Nice swing you bitch
We still have Ichiro's amazing catch...so take that Scrappy
We still have Ichiro's amazing catch...so take that Scrappy
I had that ready to go.
I
No, Jeff, tell us how you really feel.
Nice dance you bitch
needs a gif
Let's not get greedy
fuck you assbag
Needs less hits, more sitting on a porch with a Budweiser while unemployed
Holy mother of awesome
Niehaus nearly had another coronary calling that DP
I'm starting to think that when he dies

it will be on the air.

Kinda like Joe Pa?
He needs to calm down.

Or his HOF speech will just be him drooling at the podium.

Defense is awesome.
That play meant nothing
In WE maybe, but to the Rick Rizz publicity machine, that was a game saver.
It was still awesome
Yes

I just wish we could do awesome things that matter.

we won 116 games in 2001 then went to the playoffs!

Needs more Sasaki.
This gif needs to be burnt
Jeff made it.
I actually made one of my own but it was worse
I wasn't expecting not to get thrown under the bus.

And, yeah, this is pretty much my best work.

A little pixie dust is left in the bag..

the magic just continues!

Well now you're just being greedy.
Both he and Niehaus lost their shit over what was ultimately an inconsequential play

Orders from the headsets, perhaps?

I went pretty apeshit.

It was a really good play.

Getting excited about a great play, sure

Niehaus nearly killed himself calling it like they won the World Series or something.

Have to get excited about something
You should've heard it

I could almost see the strain, and I’m only listening on radio.

He's probably drunk.
hay is is Vitor artinez
still funny
I wonder if people hate us
...

My jpeg got hate mail comments yesterday.

I say keep it up
I think it's hilarious, personally.
You're stronger than I am
I don't have to listen to it.
hay is is Mallio Ordoyez
You think they could pronounce their own names.
Is it possible to force the video upon the thread every commecial break?
It would only be right
I'll post it every commerical break during the STL game tomorrow.
Suck it, you bitch.
Woody Harrelson might be an ass,

but he has had some nice ass to grab over his lifetime.

Man, I need to get into acting.

WTF is a Vitor artinez?
WTF is a sexon?
A thing of Beauty?

Needs more

Hell yeah #10

Pass some of that shit over

Any bets on a 1-2-3 inning?
What's the over/under on this being a good inning?
I believe it's 11.
I'll take that bet

If I win, you bring me back my LOST DVD.

I do need to get that back to you, don't I?
Rally time
Since when does Jeremy Reed look like Mark McGrath?

Oh, and I’m back now, guys.

Yeah bringing in Papelbon was necessary
Stat padding
Not a save situation
Appease the Red Sox fans?
Photo-op chance

Sportscenter needs that shot of him puffing before pitching.

My favorite jpeg that no one likes:

ASSFUCK TWINS! WOO!!!!
So much for the stat padding
He does a blowy thing like my CS teacher with tourettes
Kreruger is a cooler full of farts.
Well, I see I didn't miss much being in Vegas.

We still suck.

I should have put money on the Yankees and Red Sox, though.

:(

Can some make a JJ type poster:

Cairo In. Game over.

I can't believe this wasn't a pedophile joke.
"Washburn in. Charges pending"
Nice, works both ways
Geremi Gonzalez better watch out
Don't believe it, it is
I would be honored to have Rays Nation take over Safeco Field
they would be doing it all for you
Could we move the Mariners to Tampa now and get the Rays?
I would also be okay with Scott Kazmir dropping trou and taking a shit in the Fenway infield
Who wouldn't?
Nice throw stupid
Pappelbon pulled a JJ!
Another reason for the Putz-Paps comparisons.
Too bad the grenade was a dud.
False hope false hope false hope false hope
It IS like 2005 all over again!
I'm predicting a wave of false hope in June

Something like a stretch of 16-12 to make the front office make bleats about “we are still in this!” before being completely crushed by another losing streak.

KENJI!!!!
Brian Roberts gets that.
Exclamation marks are banned after the 7th inning.
Why do the mariners always torture us like this?
Seattle Mariners, torturing you since 1977.
Yuni K's, Ichiro grounds out, game over
Been reading mlb.com?
Part 1 of the prophecy comes true
Shorter swing stupid
Holy shit, a strike right in the middle on Joe's Tracer.
It's pretty nasty Rick.
Hay we'r oosing.
You dumbass Yuni
I'm going to semi-inflate an innertube and send it to Yuni's house
At least he tried
Cory Lidle tried not to hit a large building in his plane.
false hope
Hey look.

I come back and there’s false hope all over the place.

False hope

mmmmm my favorite.

Moar false hope
Not even good enough for false hope
More false hope!
This is so funny...just lose damnit
I like the term "defensive indifference"

it makes us seem so pathetic.

Yeah, running home makes a shit ton of sense there.
Settle

Hope is still false, don’t be fooled.

MORE false hope

JESUS.

Are we back to losing close games again?
Thats what i get for going to Dairy Queen
Going to Dairy Quenn is always the correct choice.

I miss it so much.

Also, Dairy Queen.
haha typo

u r gay now

It was only a matter of time.
Peanut Buster Parfait?
Chicken strip basket

with fries, country gravy and Texas toast.

Best chicken strips in the world, not even joking.

And the gravy seals the deal.

Not even close on the strips.

But the gravy is good.

Around here (San Diego),

they only have the small inside-the-mall versions, so they only serve Cool Treats. No Hot Eats, except for like hot dogs or some shit. The closest real Dairy Queen is around an hour’s drive away. I love Dairy Queen, but not that much.

There we go
That's more like it, Mariners
That wild pitch didn't help us at all
So wait

Papelbon gets a save there…?

No
My explanation was adequate.
Rizzs told me so...

Damn that sounds stupid when I write it out…

7 in a row!

SAS HERE WE COME!

Aaaaand that's a wrap.

Good job with the false hope, guys.

One game closer to Strasburg.
And the natural order of things is restored
Well night guys

Gotta do some hw.

We have 18 wins and 34 losses
2004 M's: 19-33 after 52 games

But remember, the GM and the field manager? Not to blame.

Cool to see that we've learned so much over the five years
The Mariner front office right now is a study in cognitive dissonance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

“In simple terms, it can be the filtering of information that conflicts with what one already believes, in an effort to ignore that information and reinforce one’s beliefs. In detailed terms, it is the perception of incompatibility between two cognitions, where “cognition” is defined as any element of knowledge, including attitude, emotion, belief, or behavior. The theory of cognitive dissonance states that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the mind to acquire or invent new thoughts or beliefs, or to modify existing beliefs, so as to reduce the amount of dissonance (conflict) between cognitions. Experiments have attempted to quantify this hypothetical drive. Some of these have examined how beliefs often change to match behavior when beliefs and behavior are in conflict.”

So, naturally, the players suck, but the GM who built the roster? Doesn’t suck.

That's funny

that you think the Mariners are capable of learning things.

We have 18 wins?

How the hell??

That's bad?
We're closer to drafting Strasburg.
The Strasburg contains potassium sorbate.
That's good.
Strasburg will probably get Boras as his agent and go over his draft slot, so he'll be a Yankee.
You can go over #1?
No, this refers to what the Commissioner tells teams they should pay for draft choices.

So Strasburg would actually NOT get drafted #1, and the M’s would make up some excuse ala Lincecum.

It'd be stupid if it weren't true.
Then the Padres would draft him
Since a 12-14 start the M's are 6-20
We got to 13-14 IIRC

so 5-20

You give up 2 runs and get a save.... that's nice.
Nope he just gets his ERA fugged up a bit

Small victories

Get a surname Brad
Ricky Bobby.
Red Sox had a 7 game road losing streak?

Another satisfied customer.

Good observation.
First game I've completely sat through in a while. Fun.
Only ~4 more months of this!

Fortunately there will be ~5 more months of

No Yankees woooooo!
16 games under .500

First time since 2004!

Well played.
Basically this team has AIDS worse than late-era Freddy Mercury

The show must go on!

an aids joke

how funny

Would you prefer a cancer joke?
yeah, id really prefer that. thanks for the offer
Hey my friend died of jokes

Don’t you joke about jokes

I thought it was worth a chuckle.
you thought wrong
Hey if we can joke about lupus but not about AIDS, what does that say about us?

That we hate leopards?

Leprecy jokes are gold.
haha, that was solid
I'm in charge but hey thanks for trying
Oh jeez did my comment threaten you? MY BAD!!!!!! ...
Flipping the admins shit is always a good idea.
I'm bored with you

See ya

This is wonderful news.
Two banning in one day.

Way to go Jeff!

Who was the other?
That dude all over Ellsbury's balls
Some knob saying Ellsbury is better than Ichiro.
The Red Sox douche.
Ellsbury guy
I must have been videotaping my monitor.
Partial credit for this one goes to Graham
It seems a little sad that he wasn't here for the death blow.
He can at least still read us talking shit about him.
Do you ban by IP?
That was kinda sudden

Was there a history that I totally missed?

Don't ask questions...just fall in line Gomez!!
It's offical

HGH=Steroids.

Yeah

He was like wayyyy overly defensive and got in fights with a bunch of people

He deleted a lot of his own stupidity.
I see. That would explain it.
He had a bad attitude and didn't know much of anything
Geez

You dont see me, a part Native American, getting pissy about Native American jokes on here.

Good on you Funkmaster J.

Well that's probably because you're on a 56k and can't keep up
Well damn.

That just made my nipples flaccid.

But the fact that you remembered that tells me you have been thinking of me…now stop it.

I remember that because I can't imagine the horror of trying to follow this website on a 56k
I can't imagine the horror of trying to surf the modern internet on a 56k modem.
Seriously, its worth it.

I mean when I refresh there is always another 10 or so new comments by the time its done reloading, but im a patient guy. I have had high speed before where I used to work, but its not big deal.

This site is worth it. But I cant go to IGN, and MLB/NFL websites anymore without it taking a LONG time. And of course, I cant watch any videos. I think the only time I get frustrated is when I wanna watch something on Youtube and have to wait for it load…every 8 seconds, 2 seconds of the video loads. Its a pain.

This cannot possibly end well for you.
Thanks for coming.

Hmmm I thought the only reason he was around this long

was that they couldn’t ban the mods of other sites. I guess I was wrong

Where was he modding?
I'm not just sure it was worth a chuckle,

I am HIV Positive.

Fuck off Jordan.
Today needed more House.
I saw a "Property of Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital" shirt.

I think I’m going to buy one.

I forgot they wrote Spraky the Gay Dog out of the show.
i don't think jesus went through this much torture before dying

being an M’s fan is fun

the whole Rays thing some of you guys got going on is like getting fake tits

it’s hurts at first, but i definitely get more stares

??

see you tomorrow

Hay, ees ees Beel avasi

See you tomorrow!

Bavasi speaks English
it's latin america night on saturday at safeco

i might go to get a Marinero hat to be signed by future HOF’er Vitor artinez

You know

I’m just gonna watch the Ichiro catch over and over again until I fall asleep.

Hey, look!

Bartolo Colon: good pickup. Too bad no Mariners-related sabremetric blogs didn’t suggest picking him up for cheap instead of Carlos Silva.

Well, to be fair

He was throwing like 80-82 in winter ball and he didn’t even have a flu bug to blame like Raffy did. Allegedly his arm was shredded. Looks more like the Bosox just got lucky that he was able to rebound so well.

I love the randy guitar frottage that FSN is playing over McLaren's upteenth crybaby press conference.
This game sucks so much there's only one thing to do: listen to vintage Springsteen concerts and read all night long.

Georgetown University 12/6/73 here we come. “Walking The Dog,” baby…

im listening to my own shoutcast stream.
oooh nice
I collect his shows from the '72-'74 era like a maniac. I have tons, and they make great study music.
I can't believe how much HQ stuff exists.
Yeah, and it's all leaking out over the past few years. High quality soundboards, radio broadcasts, even a pro-recorded 16 track from NYE 1975.
Any rec for a show that from a 100% from an FM source or better?
Hmm, not quite sure what you mean by this question, but I will recommend you find:

- the newly-leaked (6 mo. ago) 16-track sampler of the 12/31/75 show. Incredible and professionally done, for a live album that never materialized.
- 4/24/73 The Main Point: incredible sound, incredible early/rare setlist.
- 1/6/74 Joe’s Place: same as above. Perfect sound, great show, great setlist.

Oh, and for the record...

12/31/75 – 16- track
4/24/73 – pre-FM SBD
1/6/74 – SBD

excellent, thanks
If you're still reading this, one more great recommendation:

1/29/74 – Muther’s Music Emporium, Nashville TN. (excellent SBD)

An all-time classic show, Springsteen playing to a mostly-empty room but putting on the show of his life. Includes near-definitive performances of “Blinded By The Light” and “Kitty’s Back,” plus the first-ever performance of “Incident On 57th Street.” A humdinger of a doozy of a concert it is.

that sounds good too
i could have been reading up on CSS

my site isn’t going to finish itsself

I bought HGH this weekend.

Will I be banned from LL because of some unknown substance abuse policy?

LL endorses performance enhancing drugs.
If you don't use, you lose
10 recs to the first person to buy me a typo resistant keyboard.
I'll call NASA
I'm not kidding, this thing does some funky shit.
Throwing your keyboard under the bus huh?

Classy.

It's the new black

finally found it

please don’t ban me

Well played
OMG

That was hysterical…thanks for that I’ve spent the last hour or so letting the Mariners get me down and that brought me right back up.

Hey now,

it’s not like Jose Vidro would be an all star if he got to use an aluminum bat…

i shit you guys not...

Texas is considering allowing Hamilton to use and Aluminum bat for Batting practice as a publicty stunt for slumping attendance to see how far it would go…

Im worried it might kill a fan or BP pitcher….

Doesn't Richie do that every once in a while, too?
are you sure Riche wont just K anyways?
I think he does... and it's batting practice, too

I remember he hit one off the back wall of the second deck at Safeco once though. I think it was sometime in ‘06

WOW....

I wonder if Hamilton could hit one on top of the upper deck inTexas with aluminium bat.

Brains are hard to find for sale on the cheap.
Have you considered dictation?
How do you explain players like Shane Monahan?
If you use, you still might lose
So any reccomendations on HGH?

I bought some of this stuff:

www.ghr1000.com

I know this one!

You're safe.

I’m on PEDs and Jeff hasn’t DFA’d me.

What do you use?

I am not looking to build a whole lot of muscle mass, just to stay healthy. In other words, steroids was too much for me to consider and some of the other hardcore substances.

Jesus Christ I was kidding man.
Oh, well okay then.
Scrubs is a really awful show

That is all.

I've been afraid to say this for a long time.

I agree.

The first few seasons were terrific but it fell off pretty hard
Ahh.

I didn’t notice it’s existence until a year ago.

The musical episode that's on right now is garbage.

I’m normally a fan.

It wasn't at first
Here's the speeded-up clip with Red at the end

Red at the end can be exploited in future gifs, like Raul being Raul
Red at the end? Someone's got a picture of that, I think
what i meant was

we can splice to that in future gifs.

I don't think anyone wants to see the ass rash picture in any gifs
you brought that up.

not me

Ass rash.jpg doesn't bring anything up for me

I like girls

Here's Red isolated

No Shannon is cheering too.
The camera zoomed right in at Red too.

Sweet.

Ah I didn't know her name

It’s awesome, panned right in on the two of them.

This thread with over 900 posts and a bunch of gifs, loaded in less than 20 seconds

Firefox 3 RC1 is awesome.

I'm loving FF3 RC1 more and more each day.

Although the acronym makes me think that Square-Enix has released some sequel to Final Fantasy 3, the greatest FF ever.

You know if they did, it would be some awful fanservice garbage

Where all the characters are traveling folk musicians and have babies together in pairs determined by market researchers

Speaking of which, I just beat FFVII Crisis Core last night, and it's actually a pretty good game.

Not the abomination like the rest of the FFVII complication is.

Huh, that's surprising actually.

I was over at Kotaku yesterday and saw that Square-Enix is getting their asses handed to them by other companies coughAtluscough

Maybe this will get them to release new games.

Or a third Chrono Trigger game. That would do nicely.

My only complaint was that it was kinda short. I beat it in 25 hours.
Usually only takes me about three minutes

Was someone knocking on the door?

Still beats FFX-2
I'm still trying to get over the abortion that was FFX-2
Hey my dad was aborted

You can’t make jokes about abortions

HEY FOLKS

Tattoo rum and Chai concentrate don’t mix

But I feel like I deserve it

JJ Pootz

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200805232755375

In Nevada

we natives HATE it when people pronounce the name Ne-VAUHHH-da. It’s a surefire sign that you’re one of those loser SoCal imports.

It’s Ne-VAA-da. Pronounce the middle syllable like baa

I miss you Sylar
He's never coming back :(
Say his name three times and post a gif from ytmnd and he will appear
It'd been so long since we won

that’s that gif is going to get some screentime next W, even if the game is a 4-2 yawner.

we lost, fuck you Red Sox Nation

I didn’t watch the game but I’m sure they were there and I’m sure they were annoying as fuck.

Post game show

They’re declaring 2008 over and thinking we should blow it up and start over, taking umbrage with free swinging hitters who don’t work counts and get on base, and generally thinking that there’s a lot of changes that need to happen. Hasselman is convinced that Vidro’s option will not vest, period. Even Shannon Drayer was hostile.

Progress?

A little bit, yes.
Drayer was impressive

Proclaiming that aside from guys like Ichiro, Beltre, Felix, and the other “franchise” players (Bedard, Johjima) the rest of the team should be considered for replacement. She was saying that the middle infield guys shouldn’t be considered unexpendable just because they’re under contract, nor the starting pitchers. She was convinced Vidro would be back, but the other two sounded very sure that Vidro’s option wouldn’t vest.

Tom Glasgow said that Raul would probably be DHing in 2009 if he came back, so he was speculating that the M’s need to find replacements in LF, RF (maybe), DH, 1B, and Catcher. Hasselman agreed with him.

Not sure what to think about this except that Drayer’s a sexy bitch when she’s rosterbating.

Mmmm, female rosterbation
At this point, I don't even think the talking heads can maintain the charade anymore
Didn't Rizzs even get ornery sometime last week?
Who says they aren't still doing their jobs?

I refuse to believe that all three of them just decided to talk about 2008 being over and blowing up the team on their own.

This is Bavasi or the FO putting out “feelers” to see the fan reaction to the idea of rebuilding or blowing up this team to start over.

Nor those damn slippery people.
Yup, wearing the Rays cap tomorrow.
My t-shirt's in the wash

:(

I get the added benefit of being able to rub in that they're the reason Boston is in second in person.

By the way, what Rays shirt do you have? Player/number, or what?

Generic gray Ray's shirt

couldn’t find anything really sweet for a decent price. I’m not ready to drop $200+ on a Sonnanstine jersey given that I can’t imagine when I’d ever wear it.

Weddings?
Well the good news is if you ever get out to that awesome new stadium

You’ll have a lot of good players to choose from. Kazmir, Shields, Pena, Upton, Longoria, Crawford, Price, and your boy Sonnanstine….man, I’d love to have one player not named Felix as good as those players.

For a player/number shirt, of course.
If only I had another reason to be in Florida
Too soon to retire?
Yeah the whole Florida sucks issue stands

But man that stadium looks gorgeous.

I wore a Cardinal hat to an M's-STL game and some guy talked shit to me.
I would do it.

It was this game.

The next night I ended up in left field, where Cardinal nation had taken over, and I was wearing Mariner gear.

The crazy thing, is that is the only time in my life I have ever seen a Mariner fan talk shit to anyone.

(except if they’re giving me dirty looks for making fun of Raul or Ballgame)

The parenthesis thing happens to me a lot.

And yeah, M’s fans get cocky when we’re way ahead, but otherwise they just don’t get drunk enough/hate confrontation so much they avoid talking to people and attempt to shush people as nicely as possible (which comes off ruder because you know they’re just afraid to be mean)

Oh speaking of Raul...

Pedroia’s double. From my vantage point he looked a step or two away from catching it. Reed snags it, right?

Also, Felix’s “walk” to JD Drew looked like a strike to me. Did my eyes deceive me?

We don't usually pay attention to the games.
You know you'll miss it when it's gone

Why? Because we’re all retarded, that’s why.

In case you haven't noticed

wwe make gifs until something gifable happens.

Then some people get overly critical of other people's typing abilities.
I don't think any LF catches that double
Hm, my bad then. It looked like Raul got pretty close to it

I figured if Raul almost got it than any real LF would get it. But my angle is weird.

I thought he was pretty close watching it on tv too
Wore mine to work on Saturday.

I won a bet with an A’s fan over who would win a recent series, so I got to rub it in her face and get the can of pop that I earned.

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