Lookout Landing

I created a facebook app just for that

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

Uh that was here

Nice.

Uh… excellent work on those as well.

AtomicGarden - September 5, 2008 reply

Suck it Yankee fans. You'll be doing the same thing we're doing come October.

Rebuilding?

Ah yes pinch running with Pudge

Betancourt ran down a little infield pop-up

does it surprise anyone else?

Betancourt has been making good plays this game.

I can't believe he actually got to that ball behind 2nd

He hasn’t done that in a loooong time.

That actually did surprise me

Please get Brandon the Win now.

LEAVE PUTZ SITTING

BRING IN KOUFAX

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

Tony S - September 5, 2008 reply

Justin Thomas looks like Grape Ape

or maybe I just have an odd primate obsession

I think you are calling white people monkeys so you look like less of a Klansman

Honestly I can't bring myself to be that mad at the Yankees right now.

I don’t know why.

There's nothing to be mad about

They got a hit. In 7.2 innings.

This season seems to have turned me into a more rational fan.

Hello!

Not the same, I wasn't at this game in person

fuck you

Robert - September 5, 2008 reply

I was at the game..

when Ben broke Wang’s perfect game. Karma? =(

And Morrow had no business still being in the game when they got that hit

That was pretty much asking the impossible for him to still be effective at that pitch count.

You know

We drafted this, yet we spent $115.5 Million in contracts on stuff that’s worst that this….

ThundaPC - September 5, 2008 reply

Just think about next year when STRASBURG is our set up man!

GOD

ITS LIKE 20 DEAD MEMES IN ONE

You mean the ones you ran into the ground single handedly?

Those dead memes, you insubordinate boob!?

Subthread closed before it gets even unfunnier

I honestly don't understand that comment.

Hey you're not supposed to comment under closed subthreads

You are a living dead meme

Nick S - September 5, 2008 reply

You mean whoever we pick after Strasburg

I'm not sure what part of this comment is supposed to be funny

makes you wonder

Had Morrow replaced Sliva or Tits at the start of the year, how many more wins we could of had?

Not enough to matter.

True

but maybe enough to make things more interesting, we could have been fighting for .500 instead of fighting for Strasburg

Yeah, but....

Bavasi might still be around

oh god

your right

Probably a demoralized kid pitcher with a bad elbow.

We also did everything we could to sabotage his career.

Morrow is cute.

zeuswsu - September 5, 2008 reply

Leave it to Beltre to get a hit from that

OH GOD JJ

IF YOU BLOW THIS I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU

watch: 3 consecutive homers

he’ll fuckin blow it

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

Come on fuckface

douche

Oh Fuck Beltre's hurt.

Wait what??!!

Nothing on the radio!!

Beltre limping after that slide.

He slides like he swings.

Faux - September 5, 2008 reply

It's ok man we have Tui

Nick S - September 5, 2008 reply

Wow, the game is so over for me.

Wins are so fucking useless, I’m kinda done after Morrow’s performance. Hell of a game for him.

Morrow deserves the win

Morrow deserves a trophy

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

Someone's getting a Putz shaving cream facial today.

gay

Putz better get his shit together.

He couldn’t carry Morrow’s jock right now. I’m hoping Putz quiets down for a bit. Gotta be the man before you act like the man.

And an open letter

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

Dear Morrow, Please have sex with me. <3 Jeff.

HARRYP09 - September 5, 2008 reply

Dear Brandon,

Sex me.

Yours,
all of us

I won't deny feeling this way.

Im still trying to clean my computer monitor up.

Slica - September 5, 2008 reply

ewwww. One less in line! Awesome!!

He does.

Ah, it's the performance not the win.

When I’m on to one team like holy on the pope, I know who’s worth his shit and who needs to take a break. The bullpen could blow this, and I’ll always know what Morrow did because I was on the edge of my seat for nearly every pitch.

Wins matter to pitchers though

True this.

Hey the game's ripe for yet another blown save by one of the worst closers in the majors today

Miguel Batista?

No

Ryan Franklin

Guardado

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

Uh oh.

No no no no no no no….. I almost can’t watch….

Putz in game over.

Now is that in a good or bad way?

Foreshadowing.

Slica - September 5, 2008 reply

I'm angry I didn't think of this.

Rec'd

HARRYP09 - September 5, 2008 reply

...and now Adrian's playing third.

While hurt.

Oh great, here we go.

And it begins.

Oh great.

Not tonight, JJ. Don’t blow it tonight.

This is how Riggleman does defensive subs?

HARRYP09 - September 5, 2008 reply

Do I laugh?

Or cry?

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

c'mon JJ

CORCORAN CORCORAN CORCORAN CORCORAN

uhhh?

Thundertruck?

Faux - September 5, 2008 reply

Uh what?

At a certain point

don’t you get your entrance music put on hold when you really suck?

Hoffman didn't

Derek Jeter-

One hit closer to the Babe. So is every other Yankee that hit today.

LL is going to turn on JJ so quick.....

Hey guys

Did you know Morrow had a no hitter going?

Mariner John - September 5, 2008 reply

I think I missed that.

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

Sims mentioned something about this

I don't like feeling uneasy with JJ on the mound.

I can’t help it though.

Yeah, it's to bad we don't have someone like, say, Morrow in the pen.

That was textbook indifference

This team is professionally indifferent

I still care.

I wonder if Jose Guillen would do his megatakeout slides on indifference

I always enjoyed those.

That man is only acceptable in a sporting context

Doesn't matter unless he cuts a bitch

Is there a time he doesn't do them?

Mariner John - September 5, 2008 reply

He'd run through the second baseman on his way there

Kind of like Nelson when he and Bart played Football

Wow Kenji actually framed a pitch and it worked

Lowe and Dickey?!?!

How about someone better please.

Morrow was doing pretty good as the closer

Damn you Jeff Sullivan

Damn you straight to hell

BOXED

Religion has no place in baseball.

GOD

Stop it!

He needs a passport to Canada to get to Ottawa...

Slica - September 5, 2008 reply

No he needs to stop ruining surprises

Fewer than six people get this

not game thread appropriate

I count 7

Its good to go

Robert - September 5, 2008 reply

SIL-VA SIL-VA

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

Jeez almost, JJ

Real close there

That was a good pitch

Now this feeling is more familiar.

I'm scared

krb - September 5, 2008 reply

Wlad looks good out there

He looked uneasy on that earlier fly ball, but that was a good route

Yeah he kinda caught that one with his wrist

Imagine if he starts hitting

Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck I have a bad feeling about this

That was a lot of ground there.

So who's booing him? The Mariner fans or the Yankee fans?

Mariner fans, at least where I'm sitting

Idiots.

Wlad covered 3x more ground than Raul to get to that

krb - September 5, 2008 reply

what are arod's numbers against JJ?

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

Meaningless

well, NOW they are

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

Always are.

YUNI!!.......?

wha…?

PShwa - September 5, 2008 reply

Did Yuni lose a piano this week?

He looks a bit slimmer

That wasn't as impressive as the first inning. He was playing close to the middle.

And I thought that was the 3rd out.

Oops.

YAY! YUNI'S PLAYING LIKE IT'S 2006!

When did 2005 Yuni show up?

Mid-2005

Clever

I laughed

Wrong! January 1.

I assumed you meant in Seattle

If only the kidnappers had broken his legs...

He looks like fat Don MAttingly

Don Frye?

He needs to go find Chuck Armstrong

and treat him like Frye treated Takayama

what the fuck?? Yuni made the play

And while I'm thinking about it

How about a big “fuck you” to myself for sitting in my car next to the stadium tonight and deciding not to go, although I had no reason to not be there

Except that I was tired

Jesus I suck

This much disappointment in a season I feel ya'.

I haven’t been in the 7th level of hell this year, but I can see it from where I’m standing.

I blame you, because your applause could have helped Morrow get Betemit out.

I blame myself

I cam home and put on some pajama-like clothes, cracked a beer, and laid on my couch with the laptop on the table next to me. My life is very boring

It will be when you have to repeat that routine for every Morrow start.

Sucks to be you don’t it?

You know I'm going to

That’s the funny thing. Oh well. If it allows me to have that much joy, I’ll wear my pajamas to the games

yuni doing stuff like that

that’s good right?

Eh.

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

When did 2005 JJ show up?

same time 2005 yuni did?

So this game is actually just a recording from 3 years ago.

When it was college pitcher gets to start night?

And recent HS grads get-to-play-IF day.

So, Morrow/RRS/Felix/Bedard/Fatty 09!!!

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

That is so hot

Fat jokes are better when you don't even try

Yes please

I see it now

Monday: LL is filled with 2-3 pages of pure GTE
Tuesday: LL is filled with 2-3 pages of pure GTE
Wednesday: LL is filled with 2-3 pages of pure GTE
Thursday: LL is filled with 2-3 pages of pure GTE
Friday: “Hello…… Anyone?”

YES!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Yadrian!

Hot damn!

YES!!!!!!!!!!

nice catch, adrian

you've been......THUNDERSTRUCK!!!!...........uhh.....not quite the same as last year

zeuswsu - September 5, 2008 reply

wheeeeeeeee

Nick S - September 5, 2008 reply

That was thoroughly enjoyable.

Fitting end

What a game.

They still use Kernkraft 400?

IcebreakerX - September 5, 2008 reply

So, best game of the season?

I can't think of anything that comes close.

Crystal for DH - September 5, 2008 reply

Beltre!!

My nervousness started to evaporate after that swinging strike.

WOOOOOOOOOO

This game melted my icy heart.

Yay!

Go buy yourself a beer. You deserve it.

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

It cooled my hot heart.

I missed the slightly less jaded Jeff.

I think I speak for all of us when I say I'm glad you got over the total eclipse of your LaHairt

Turn around, bright eyes
Lahairvery now and then you’ll fall apart
But we need you more than ever :)

Box please

You're lucky

I believe you missed a line.

You couldn't wait?

It's over now because somebody likes to ruin things

So I save 10 bucks?

Yes, you save 10 bucks that could have gone to somebody else because that somebody else knows a certain other somebody else who couldn't keep his mouth shut

Oh god this is like a sorority

Blame the old lady.

Hot damn

Need you Morrow than ever

RIP

Brandon Morrow’s no-hitter.

“A thing of beauty amidst a season of fail”

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

I can't wait to get home

and watch that on tv.

Did you Tivo the HD version of the game?

Sorry, no. Just the regular version.

GAME OVER!

ThundaPC - September 5, 2008 reply

All I can say thank you Morrow!!!

For the first time in a long time I can’t wait for the recap.

Happybelly - September 5, 2008 reply

Man that was awesome.

Brandon Morrow ladies and gentlemen. Wow.

Thank you, Morrow.

I can't imagine what must be going through Morrow's head right now

In your first start in the majors to do something like that, at home, against the hated Yankees, striking out A-Rod no less. Must be an incredible feeling, and he totally deserves it.

thank you Brandon Morrow

1st time since probably last august that the Mariners had me on the edge of my seat, just awesome.

People are going to blame Ichiro and Sims for the lost no hitter

but fuck ’em. What a game!

Crystal for DH - September 5, 2008 reply

And once more:

dave sims

no one loves him.

.Taylor - September 5, 2008 reply

I do

So do I.

We all love him

Everyone knows he's a big Yankees fan

This is no secret. It’s sabotage.

He's actually a mets fan

Robert - September 6, 2008 reply

I like him a lot.

Dave Sims is fine

People are jinxmongers. Throwing a no-no is really, really hard.

Ask the Mets

Or the Brewers

ThundaPC - September 5, 2008 reply

No kidding

7461 days and counting

Holy Crap.

That is all.

batura - September 5, 2008 reply

That is sweet site.

Too bad it will come to an abrupt end some day.

We'd all like to think it'll be Johan or John Maine

It’ll probably be someone totally unexpected like Ryan Feierabend after we release him.

It will be Niese so it to hypes him even more.

He looks exactly like Oliver Perez on the mound, but without the fastball.

Hey, did you know that Niese was born on the say day the Mets won the 86 World Series?

I do because I was at the bar one night and ESPN told me 12 times.

I was puking and shitting out the hype for 2 days after they covered that game.

Wrong

Dave Sims is awesome.

no one = you

Sims is our best broadcaster

Robert - September 6, 2008 reply

Did anyone Tivo this in HD?

No. Its difficult with Comcast.

Since the listings are Mojo listings that get overridden.

batura - September 5, 2008 reply

FUCK Comcast.

Let it be noted that I'm not the one who posted this.

For once.

Faux - September 6, 2008 reply

Awesome, 2 out of every 5 games I will now watch a Mariner game in it's entirety

Instead of 1.

I sure haven't listened to much ACDC this year

ESPN news spells it Brendan Morrow

for some reason this makes Morrow’s start more awesome

Pretty incredible when an NHL winger can do this to the Yankees

and they just changed it to Brandon

ESPN must hate hockey

It's my fault.

I called my dad in the 8th.

:(

BUT FUCK YEAH BRANDON MORROW!

No reason to be upset as far as I'm concerned.

Because good God that made the future a little brighter after the Armstrong shitstorm today.

I always feel better when I can include my dad in some history.

I never bonded so much with my dad August-October in ’95.

I can probably say since May of that year, as we were sitting down the right field line and watched Griffey go into the wall.

Ummm...

That line about bonding came out wrong. We bonded the most ever between those times.

Naw it's 100 pitches when he hasn't thrown more than 82 this year

Niehaus said it on the radio: getting through the 8th might have created a dilemma, because Riggleman would have had to seriously considered pulling him for the 9th.

There comes a point where rational thought isn't rational.

I’d risk injury to Morrow 100 times out a 100 if it meant the no hitter.

This

As smart as it is, taking him out would have pure madness

Yeah. FWIW I don't think he was ever at risk of getting hurt

When you’re tired, you struggle just to make pitches, let alone locate them… and someone was probably going to get a hit eventually.

That curve he threw was devoid of fangs.

Yeah. When a pitcher has a no-no or a perfect game going, I'm only taking him out in 3 circumstances.

1. The pitcher gets injured and is physically unable to continue.
2. The pitcher gives up a base hit.
3. The pitcher himself asks me to pull him.

Otherwise, he is finishing the game, I don’t care if he has to throw 170 pitches to do it.

What's funny

Given his current stamina threshold, this was actually a bad time to throw one, in terms of his being able to finish it. If he threw one 3-4 starts from now, he probably doesn’t run out of gas in the 8th, maybe not even the 9th.

That’s splitting hairs for fun, though. I’m certainly not complaining about tonight’s game. No way.

I wasn't worried about injury so much

It just became clear that he’d run out of gas in the 8th before he gave up the hit. His velocity on his fastball was down about 3 mph and he was starting to hang his breaking stuff. That’s why the hit didn’t really upset me, because it was sorta inevitable when he was completely out of juice, and it’s totally fine that he was after throwing way more pitches than he’s ever thrown.

Radio sucks.

I’m firing up the replay on MLB.tv right now. Gotta see this.

You really start sensing it after he goes through the lineup the first time.

When a pitcher has his stuff working that good early on, you know something special is going to happen.

Good on you to watch the replay. It’s like me watching April 11, 2007 six or seven times already.

I've watched that three or four times.

So awesome.

Guess the Mariners were right about how long the transition would take.

SSS, though.

Mariner John - September 5, 2008 reply

I don't expect this kind of performance his next start

but damn today was encouraging.

He'll probably still have some struggles to finish out the year

But this was a hell of an introduction.

Enough to earn a spot in the rotation from now until forever.

No more bullpen for Morrow.

A----MEN!

rtang - September 5, 2008 reply

Lost no-hitter aside

I don’t think this could have gone any better.