Lookout Landing

Besides being a bit small

the bottom one is perfect.

I might take a crack at the top one later.

Ibanez would be selected in the 36th rould of the 1992 MLB Draft by the [[Seattle Mariners. He would make his Major League debut on June 24, 1998. Ibanez would play catcher and outfielder in his first season. In 2001 he would then sign with the Kansas City Royals as a free agent. He would play three season with the Royals where he would develop into a power hitter and an everyday outfielder. In 2003, he would return to the Seattle Mariners as a coveted free agent. Originally signed as a designated hitter, Ibanez would return to left field to take advantage of his underrated glove and provide solid defense for the Mariners ball club.

seattlebruin - June 7, 2008 reply

Ibanez for CF.

Edgar for Mayor - June 7, 2008 reply

I've seen this time and again

I still facepalmed after seeing these GIFs.

Susheel Ramasahayam - June 7, 2008 reply

How does the management not see this? I'd be ashamed if I were Raul.

I think they see it, they just don't care or think it really is effecting the outcome of games much.

At this point they're probably right.

Matthew - June 7, 2008 reply

Add the Raul look

I love Ichiro's reaction in the first one

WTF indeed.

Jl

Any chance you could make a YouTube montage with all of Raul’s defensive suckiness? I want to prove to my girlfriend’s boss that Raul does indeed suck ass at defense. (He claims that Raul is average. But again, he also listens to KJR and thinks Beltre is only good for his defense and all that casual fan goodness).

Yes, the player who is leading the team in home runs is only good at defense.

That’s flawed logic even for a casual fan.

I tried arguing this with him

But of course Beltre’s standard was set in 2004, so he was expected to repeat 2004 every year with the Mariners, in a stadium that kills right-handed power of course.

So he thought Beltre was Mike Schmidt?

Aaron Campeau - June 7, 2008 reply

He probably doesn't know who Mike Schmidt is.

Okay, now I see what you're up against.

Aaron Campeau - June 7, 2008 reply

If you want to be funny, set it to "Werewolves of London"

Haha

Very good idea! Jl, get on it, if possible.

I suppose I could do it, but I've never edited any video together before.

We need more material too.

Add those 7 gif together, and I still don’t think we have a minute’s worth of footage. If anyone would like to direct me to any asshattery we may have overlooked (the archives go back to 2005) feel free to point out the date/inning of the potential blunder.

Another thing, i wouldn’t youtube it, because it would be removed immediately, my photobucket will host small videos, and I’m not sure, but I think host a video full of mlb owned footage on a SBN website may raise concerns as well.

Alright, just do your best

Anything would be appreciated. Were people here taking tabs on Raul’s suck last year and the year before like we are this year?

I like that idea.

One day when we collect enough footage, Jeff and I are going to have to storyboard that shit. It does sound like a massive undertaking.

The gifs are about 30 seconds long total

even if you stretch it out to include long takes of each play you’re still talking ~45 seconds I don’t really feel like re-watching every mariner game from the last 2.33 seasons, so if anyone has any pointers it would be much appreciated.

scratch that obne was bad take

so it’s close to 35

You can YouTube it, there's ways around it.

Like spelling the player’s name backwards or something.

We could post a secret link and store it elsewhere as well.

There are WWE clips all over YouTube and those are copyrighted

so it can and has been done. It’s just a matter of being conspicuous and not using the material of anyone who is actively out to sue people for copyright violations (like Metallica).

If someone can get me some full-game .avi files I can make any of these videos

I’ve always kicked ass at video editing.

I think I may still have the original viedos on my hard drive.

but right now there’s not nearly enough video to take up3 minutes.

I like the idea of making a story out of the clips.

Like adding some footage of Squinty, Silva, Washburn, and Johjima as well.

Someone get me the files and I'll do this.

My idea

Cut into generic press conference footage of mac in between shots and add captions:

(Real quotes, not these pharaphrases):

“We’re happy with our OF defense”

“We play these guys deep, balls drop in front, we move the forward and they sail over their heads. Now we’re going to split the difference.”

I think that would be a slap in the face to management

I love it, but I think there should also be a story based throughout a game or even throughout the season.

I just sent you all 36 seconds of my Raul archives.

I can't find the video I used for "Dive"

hmmp

Got 'em. I'll work on them later.

oooh a demo

I think setting it to Werewolves of London is perfect.

I have 52 seconds of usable footage on my hard drive. I think it could work well silent, but I also think it would be better with the pbp, unfortunately when I’m recording the mlbtv window I don’t get any sound.

If this gets made

We’re calling it Lawn Darts of London.

KJR seems to defend Beltre on the post game show most nights.

The KJR hosts do a pretty good job defending Beltre.

The M's postgame show is pretty much the best thing on KJR.

Not sayin’ a whole lot, but…

Aaron Campeau - June 7, 2008 reply

I really only listen to KJR when Dave Cameron is being interviewed

but I have heard that most of the people on sports radio are really biased and support the team’s bad decisions, and probably not the best place to go to for sports coverage.

No they've been calling for Lincoln and Armstrong and Bavasi's heads for awhile. Maybe that's why I find it listenable.

Even Lincoln and Armstrong?

Maybe its not as bad as I thought. Are there certain hosts which are better than others?

Post game guys are pretty good except for Jeff Nelson.

I don’t really mind the Groz. The rest are very meh. But they all want to fire the suits as well as the decision makers.

Softy and Groz have been tearing into Lincoln and Armstrong over the last month or so.

When Chuckie came onto one of their shows and said “Bill Bavasi has done an excellent job” Softy about lost it.

Sports talk radio is the exception to Godwin's law that 90% of everything is crap

100% of sports talk radio is crap. My dad still listens to KJR just to make fun of the idiot callers.

seattlebruin - June 7, 2008 reply

As well they should because Beltre is good

Sweet Jesus.

I thought Raul couldn’t possibly look any worse in the field.

Did this shit happen today?

Slica - June 7, 2008 reply

Miami vs. Arizona is on ESPN right now

You can watch Yader Alonso, and our 2nd rd pick Raben (Rabin?) play

LantermanC - June 7, 2008 reply

Raben just cured cancer

He also hit a jack yesterday

seattlebruin - June 7, 2008 reply

Raben with 4 walks just now!

Lefty power with walks? Looks fine to me,also his thighs are ginormous, Lou Gehrig sized

LantermanC - June 7, 2008 reply

I want 2130 straight games of awesome out of that big fucker

Raben has walked

all 4 times he’s been to the plate.

MfaninAlaska - June 7, 2008 reply

We can fix that

well played

Boydo - June 7, 2008 reply

Hey looky what I found out

This guy is this guy

Was I the only one who didn’t know this?

I never heard of either of them.

o_O

I only know of this blog because there was a link to it under “M’s Blogosphere” on USSM. Don’t feel like reading it, is it any good?

God dammit, your technique is terrible.

Look at that mouthpiece placement! Off to the side, that’s going to cause all sorts of intonation issues. Not only that, there’s way too much pressure on the top and bottom of the mouthpiece. Even pressures from all angles, you fucktard!

Go die, Kenny G. Better than John Coltrane my ass.

He also just looks like an assbag

Pardon my totla ignorance here, but ...

are there actually people who believe Kenny G is better technically than Coltrane?

Steve Nelson - June 7, 2008 reply

Kenny G thinks he's better than Coltrane.

Therefore, Kenny G is a fucking tool.

He said that?

Seems stupid.

The quote's buried somewhere.

I think Pat Metheney overheard Kenny G say that at some event. This prompted Metheney to write a rather scathing (and awesome) tirade about Kenny G.

What is your opinion on David Sanborn?

As far as the modern pop/fusion sax players go he's one of the best.

Good gritty (and when we’re talking about saxophones this is a good term to use) tone, excellent range over all registers.

My favorite sax player of all time is Paul Desmond, though.

I keep on thinking that its Wierd Al.

At first glance I thought it was weird al too

AHHHH

Weird Al died after Running with Scissors.

the last song he ever did was Albuquerque.

PhilKenSebben - June 7, 2008 reply

Weird Al is way too cool to be compared to Kenny G

OlSalty - June 7, 2008 reply

I also saw that pic and immediately thought it was Weird Al

Wierd Al, Kenny G, & Michael Bolton look too similar for Wierd Al's good.

Jed MC - June 7, 2008 reply

Weird, not Wierd. Exception to that rule for one reason or another.

Is anyone else having a problem with the mlbtv archives sitting themselves the last few days?

I hate it when I JI my curse words.

Regression day

strikes hard.

Edgar for Mayor - June 7, 2008 reply

Looks like you caught a good start from Baek, Jeff

Definitely more exciting than this game

A 2 gif game is usually pretty entertaining.

That's how we're rating games now?

Total number of gifs produced?

Measureing wins by Gobstoppers never caught on.

That's a shame.

It was before my time.

On the other hand

we’ve had 22 Fiddle Cats against 40 Strasburg Christmas Miracles .

God bless us, everyone.

It caught on amongst cool people

Matthew - June 7, 2008 reply

This must be what the secret threads are about.

That was super

Jeff Sullivan - June 8, 2008 reply

Completely out of left field but...

I just realized that the Philadelphia Phillies have a really white team. You don’t think about it since Jimmy Rollins and Ryan Howard are both faces of the franchise and they are black, so I decided to compare them to the infamous white jays

Racial Breakdown Phillies
Black: 3 (Gordon, Rollins, Howard)
Latino: 3 (Romero, Feliz, Ruiz)
Asian: 1 (Taguchi)
Other: 1 (Victorino)
White: 17

Racial Breakdown Blue Jays
Black: 2 (Stewart, Wells)
Latino: 2 (Barajas, Rios)
White: 21

Clearly the Blue Jays are still ahead in the % of white players.
Other white teams: Colorado (9 Non-Whites) Twins (7 ) Oakland (7) Pittsburgh (8) Padres (8)
Just in case you were wondering according to a study of Major League Baseball of the 2005 season, 40.1% of baseball players were non-white. assuming there haven’t been any drastic chances in the demographics of baseball over the past 3 years you would expect about 10 players per team to be non-white so even teams like Colorado and the Phillies really aren’t that far off that mark.

Not as white as the Blue Jays.

or the Cardinals

6 non-white cardinals by my count

Yes, but the white ones are so incredibly white.

and I count 5, with Chris Perez being somewhat ambiguous.

I didn't count Perez

Flores, Lohse, Molina, Izturis, Pujols, Barton

Loshe, Flores?

Their first names are Kyle and Randy. They could be the Marshes.

Lohse

via wiki “Lohse is one of only three non-Hispanic Native American players”
Flores is a Spanish last name and he’s from so-cal, he at least as ambugious as Perez