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2/27: Open Game Thread

Listen liveLineups from Baker. I hear some girl is starting the game for the Mariners, which I guess is news.

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I believe you are in error good sir

If a woman were to play in a major league baseball game I doubt we would just now be learning as it would likely be front page news, and a lively topic for discussion.

Not an "offical" female.

But, some reports had it that the player was a whussy that cried like a girl all the time.

Believe this is aimed at one Erik Bedard

who may or not be a little bitch

Based on the apple-polishing he's been doing with media & fans...

I bet Erik Bedard doesn't make it two innings today before he is pulled!
Give Eric another chance

So he isnt talkative with the media, and he was injured last year. That doesnt mean he can’t contribute well this year. Its not his fault the Ms traded too much to get him.

His interview on KJR the other day was great.

You must be new here

We are actually Bedard fans here, we just like to get a bit sarcastic with the way the media and more casual fans view him.

Yeah, youre right

Been hearing too much Eric bashing from various places. :)

You've found a home, my friend.
Are You Alex Rodriguez?
Yeah, I have nothing but high hopes for the guy.

I hope he has a career year with the M’s this year!

Erik is my favorite
It wont happen, but I think an LL interview with the Erik Bedard would be amazing.
He made it two innings :p
Gameday Link

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2009_02_27_lanmlb_seamlb_1

Thanks.

I’ve been having a rough time finding these links this year.

They usually don't show up on the front page

until the end of ST.

Is it just me

Or is it impossible to scroll past the top of any inning? I can’t tell if this is a standard Gameday ST bug, or if my Linux+Firefox combo is causing problems.

the KIRO feed suddenly went to both the live feed & the delay.

just a little distracting.

echo echo echo
Oh my god

it’s full of stars!

Here's some Bedard on the radio.

He almost sounds like he might be a normal human being.
Linky

Wait was that really a 3 pitch first inning or is gameday crazy?
4 pitches

You have it on one pitch mode I think

Gameday for Spring Training has only been put down the exact number of pitches to signify something

1 for contact, 3 for a strikeout, and 4 for a walk.

Wait, how was the ball deflected from Matt Tuiasopopo over to Jose Lopez?

Did he just punt it to second or something ridiculous?

Ever think that Niehaus gets the list of new players and is like "Isn't anyone name John Smith anymore?"
So, if this years motto is "a new day, a new way"

and they have Jay & Gar in, to do an ad …

will the flavor of the ad be “get off my lawn, ya young punks”?

Funny!

It would be great if they were yelling at Clement and Felix. (Trying to think of the youngest guys on the team.)

The ad could be a parody of Gran Torino
Flu-like symptoms, huh Morse?
Let's hope

the base running is better today.

I can't believe Felix has two children.

I still think of him as being about 14 years old.

Agreed.

He was the first player in the majors younger than me.

Your big toe is on my lawn.
Congrats to Felix!

But it is hard not to think of him as just a kid, even at 23.

I'm 26

and I’m not even sure when I want to start having kids.

I know, I turn 31 next Saturday.

I feel like I am maybe 5 years away from being in a good place to have kids.

Still, Congrats to Felix!

All the best to you, on and off the field!

He doesn't even turn 23 for another month or so.

Sign sign sign!

...BEFORE HE GETS GOOD!
I assume that means they announced the arrival of their son?

I thought he was due later in the month

Not mututally exclusive!

Cedeno is sure getting a lot of chances.

I hope he is impressing Wakamatsu. I would love to see him starting opening day.

Weird to be playing the Dodgers in spring training

thought they’d be in Vero Beach forever, but AZ makes much more sense geographically

Tui seems to have come to camp prepared

2 triples and now a double for the spring…

LAHAIR!

What just happened?!?

I don't know... if you're listening, help a brother out.

Gamecast will tell me what happened in about a half hour.

LaHair

“I really really want to be on the roster”

Silva vs. Zito tomorrow?

Scintillating.

World Series Bound!
Fuck yeah Beltre!

And LaHair, I guess.

Holy crap I'm so behind.

Need to remember my radio at work…

Russ Branyan is a pimp
I certainly hope this isn't true because as much as I'd like winning baseball here in Seattle the continuing exploitation and objectification of women is not something I want my favorite baseball team associated with.
He pimps manwhores.
The point is that the sex trade is reprehensible and signing a player in any way involved makes me question the direction of the new front office.
If you are that upset perhaps we should trade him for another outfielder

perhaps Elijah Dukes? Washing has many outfielders from which to choose

I think we should consider a trade for Ugueth Urbina.
I would hope these players are washing regularly.
I mean that he dresses well.
So many triples
I'm missing whats happening

darn these phone calls.

Ooh, Blengino's in the booth.
preach that out!
Dammitdammitdammit.
Shawn Estes not looking so hot.

I didn’t know he was our #1 draft pick in 1991. Huh.

I've got a baseball card of that.
I saw him pitch in Mt. Vernon at the field on Cleveland Street.

Estes was ok, but what I remember from that game is when someone got picked off first. He attempted to dive back to the bag, but just belly-flopped straight down.

Did that whole speech about outs just whoosh over Dave's head?
Niehaus

“productive outs are as good as productive hits”

This is a good example of exactly the opposite of what Blengino just said, Dave.
Blengino bows to Dave's seniority there
For those who aren't listening:

Blengino said the out was under-rated and too often they were given away for silly reasons. Dave interpreted this as “yeah, you’ve gotta make your outs productive.” when Blengino was (seemingly) saying the sac bunt and such are bad moves.

Yeah he was preaching OBP and defense without saying so.

Very sly this new administration is.

"Hu goes down swinging."

“Hu did?”

I love Dave, he’s totally stoned.

Hey, it's Erick Threets...

Used to have the fastest FB in the minors, I believe.
He’s another guy that I’m just surprised isn’t better than he is.

Just think

If Griffey was playing it would be at least 10 to -2 at this point

The Rainiers are kicking the Dodgers asses.
TUI FUNK BLAST
TUI!!!!
Huh... Gameday'll get to that in an hour or so.

Damn, the guy’s looking all right. Bodes well for the R’s this year.

Or a nice piece to package away with Washburn.
Yep, that works.

Oh hey, he hit the HR off his old teammate… how about that.

Travis Chick is a damn good teammate – gave up another shot to another ex-teammate. Wow.

MARINRS CANT SCORE RUNZ
Does anyone else hear the cell phone that keeps ringing in the broadcast booth?

Or am I going crazy?

Hmmmm

I can get game updates from Baker’s blog faster than from Gameday or the live Boxscore. Also, good golly. we’re clobbering them. The ERA column for the Padres is funny.

Poor Greg Miller

from #8 prospect in all of baseball to getting shelled by the likes of Callix Crabbe and Mike Carp in garbage time of a spring training game. TINSTAAPP isn’t exactly true, but it was invented with the likes of Miller in mind.

At this point you've got to go for the 'most runs in ST game' record.
Holy crap we are destroying the Dodgers.
I just tuned in how the fuck did they get 14 runs!
Carp Time!

This is horrifying.
It would've been better if you put a Magikarp.
I thought about it, but I didn't get there fast enough.
I really hate that I know what a Magikarp is.
Something like this?

I would have settled for a splashing animated gif

but that will do nicely.

10X what damage?
I don't know what that means

I haven’t played Magic since I was about 8 and I hadn’t heard of a Magikarp till I saw Slurvey’s comment.

Magikarp is a pokemon.

But then again almost all card games were based of Magic.

The numbers on the side are damage attacks do. The 10X means it's 10 damage times something.

And with that, I’m done with this conversation. >_>

You are the internet version of a weapon of mass destruction.
No.

That’s Rick Astley.

I meant that while your sheer existance terrifies me, I'm glad to have you on my side than an enemy's.
I thought that was Fogel's role?
LL is a populous blog and so our defense needs are great.
More or less great if LL was actually a basketball team and we were up 3 points with 2.1 seconds left.
I deserve this treatment for exposing my weakness to you.
.

You are the internet version of a weapon of mass destruction distraction.

That would be porn.
First Edition, nice find.
Celebrating Mother's Day, is Carp.
17-0 M's!?!?!?!
Nope, 18.
Sweet Caesar's Sandals that's awesome.
Almost as awesome as Sweet Ceasar's Sandals.
Mike Carp

It’s an irrelvant spring game, but I like to see Mike Carp swinging the bat well. Lefty with patience and a bit of power…

WOW

Holy crap, what happened!
And why couldnt we save all this for when it counts! Hehe.

So, based on our pythagorean win %age from these two spring trianing games, we’re goign to win over 100 games this year. World Series here we come! (And no mentioning the small sample size) :P

My assumption was that this meant 0 runs the rest of the season, and that the Dodgers are going to the WS.
Just tuned in.

WHAT THE FUCK? 18-0?

Gameday better not act like this during the regular season.
It won't

this is normal for ST.

I'm, hoping there are more awesome additions like Gameday 3D.
Why stop at 3?

4-D is where it’s at.

4-D is reserved for the PlayStation 3.
Considering Gameday changes through time, it is 4-D.
It was in 3-D last year...

Just about half way through the season.

I know - I'm saying I want more cool things like that.
Luckily for the Dodgers

none of these guys getting teed off on are expected to be contributors.

I think LAD fans always hope for signs of life from Miller
Way too ruin the meaningful spring training shutout, Pena.
Sounds like I missed quite a game
ST question.

So we all know that Spring Training stats are worth very little. So what do you look for in Spring Training? I’m guessing that the coaches are looking for very specific things, like hitting/pitching mechanics, defensive footwork, baserunning funtamentals etc. What should we as fans look for since we can’t always see those kinds of things? 1 on 1 matchups seem like they are important. E.g. if Mike Morse is batting .500 it’s not really notable since he’s facing a lot of scrubs, but if he had several quality ABs against actual good starting pitchers, it might be worth noting.

/brain dump

Luis Valbuena is playing SS right now.

Not sure if it’s just a ST thing, but if Cleveland breaks camp with Peralta at 3B, DeRosa at 2B, and Valbuena at SS, that could be a fun defense to watch.

Asdrubal Cabrera's ahead of valbuena at SS for the Indians

But yes, that could be a fun defense to watch.

Justin Leone took Scott Baker deep today

… it’s like old times.

That must have hurt.

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