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3/11: Open Game Thread

Listen live at 1:05. Here are your lineups. I can't believe I used to think Dayton Moore was smart.

By the way, apparently Wakamatsu has been reasonably impressed by the work of Shawn Kelley so far, so there's another name to keep in mind as far as the bullpen mess is concerned. He's not going to break camp with the Mariners, but as a reliever blessed with control and good stuff, he could jump up awful quick. Kind of like Mark Lowe, only without the oh my god my cartilage my cartilage really hurts

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I hate this non-broadcasting of games.

the KC station’s feed has switched to Fox radio rather than stream the game.

Didn't KIRO used to broadcast most of the ST games as recently as last year?
Radio only, I think

I’m not sure all ST games have really ever been broadcast – it’s typically one or two a week. Maybe they aren’t spending the money because a lot of the big name players are at the WBC.

KOMO had worked up to broadcasting almost every one, so I have been spoiled.

KIRO is pretty much just doing the weekends, I assume because they are not a full-time sports station yet.

Apparently they feel someone wants to listen to Dori.

Dori wants to listen to Dori.
I'm sure his mother loves him and wants to hear his voice
They used to broadcast every game except for the charity game.
All right Mike Sweeney AB!

ST is awesome!

Gil Mech bases loaded

this situation feels familiar.

I hate how every opposing announcer

has to mention that Tuiasasopo is a big name in Seattle.

Do people really still give two shits about that family?

Not I.

But yes, people do.

I guess not going to college in Washington

has made me not care as much about them.

Now my undying rage for the Huard’s will never end.

Rage for, or against?
Against even
But they are so wholesome.
But

Fuck Puyallup High School. Watching them suck after their dad retired was nice.

Speaking of the dynasty

there is a video up on the Softball site with Ashley (freshman, Softball), which includes side-by-side shots of her swing with Pujols’

More then you could ever imagine.
"We haven't heard a bad thing about him yet"

The Royals announcer on Willie Bloomquist.

Left unsaid:

we haven’t heard much good about him.

Actually I think he explicitly said

that he’s lived up to all the good things said about him so far.

there goes my joke then
It's pretty easy to live up to nothing
the soft bigotry of no expectations
I like the Spork moniker for Willie

He is to baseball what the spork is to cutlery.

"I thought he was a bargain for the Royals"

Rick Rizzs on Gil Meche’s contract.

“He’s a guy you can build around, he has great stuff.”

To be fair

He does have great stuff…he just hasn’t put it all together for great results yet. I think he might still. He’s just kind of a head case….but with Greinke in KC I guess he can probably shake the “head case” label.

I think Graham or Matthew recently demonstrated that he turned out to be worth his contract
His contract still has a ways to go
Should have qualified:

Thus far.

The Royals' play by play guy

is Jim Lefebvre’s son.

Rick Rizzs is in love with Bloomquist
So, wait....

Is there an actual listen link that doesn’t make me pay for it? Am I blind?…

Not that I've found.
MLB loves money.
I hate them.

I hate them so bad.

Feel free to support one of their many competitors then

or as they say in Selig’s office FUCK YOU AND GIVE US YOUR MONEY

I support the Iraqi National Baseball League!
That league is total Shi'ite.
I don't know whether to rec or flag this
no politics but well played
Are you feeling cloudy or sunni?
I don't know whether to rec or flag this
If that pun didn't serb your purpose, why don't you croate your own?
Not sure why haters always balkan at the puns.
If Jihad a dollar for every one of these puns...
It would mecca dollar
I'm the only one listening to this

aren’t I?

Probably.

I can’t stream audio at work so I’m just sitting here hoping Arsenal/Roma doesn’t go to penalties. I hate penalties.

Eh, Arsenal has no English players on the pitch.

They should be fine in penalties.

Penalties terrify me

Ever since Bergkamp’s miss in the 1999 FA Cup against Man Utd I pretty much can’t watch penalties.

I expect the worst from penalties, and usually receive exactly that.

Given recent history, I’m a little bitter.

The one GOOD memory from PKs = Seattle’s first A league crown a few years back. Good stuff.

Given recent history I am bitter right along with you.
Croats apparently suck at PKs too
yes they do
c'mon manuel make a save
Well this is tense
Yep
I'm glad my team have never had penalties in the CL
Congrats on the win Paul
Damn. Nice win, Gooners.
Ugly but effective.
it feels more like an avoidance of a loss than an actual win at this point

but I’ll take it.

The national team should stop playing in Spurs colours if they want to stop being terrible
They tried playing in Man U colors

and the only result was that Man U couldn’t make PKs either.

Entirely acceptable
Hey.
I am also offended.

(I think?)

Quit talking about soccer

WE GET IT ALL READY YOU LIKE SOCCER WHOOOPDIE SHIT

This is an American Base Ball blog about the Seattle Marines and thats who u should root for!!!!11

So, uh, did the game stop or something?

Box score hasn’t updated in quite a while.

Halftime, duh
So Miguel Cairo went deep AGAIN?
This is actually crazy.
It loops

You fucker why didn't you take roids when you were on the Mariners
Mike Morse's mom didn't teach him how to share
What a whore
You know Rizzs

I don’t think that Griffey is really smiling that much these days.

his pained grimace looks like a smile so that's something I guess
It is weird that this is the Royals broadcast

and they’ve talked more about the M’s.

Well, you have to consider this question:

Who really wants to talk about the Royals?

Apparently, the answer is "everyone at Fangraphs."
Yes but those people are FAS babies.
FAS babies who looooove to talk about the Royals.
Alec says:

THEY NEEDED A POWER HITTER, THEY DIDN’T GET JACOBS TO GET RID OF BUTLER, THEY WOULD WORK GOOOOOOD TOGETHER, WHAT SHEALY WILL SHOW UP, WILL KA’AIHUE TURN INTO A STARTER, WE DON’T KNOW SO LET’S GET GOOD PEOPLE LIKE A POWER HITTER AND WE DIDN’T EVEN HAVE TO GO GET HIM OFF FA LIST SO BE HAPPY AND HOPE FOR MORE!!!!!go royals

Matthew only likes to talk about the Angels.

Further showcasing his obvious bias.

He's been dragging the site down for too long.
The Royals appear to love the M's. In the worst way possible.
Hint: Jose Guillen, Willie Bloomquist, etc
Jokes are almost always better when you explain them immediately after saying the punchline
Really?

I always thought that the mark of a bad joke was having to explain it to other people.

Shows what I know.

Hint: I was being sarcastic here; that's why it's funny

I was saying something that was exactly the opposite of what I actually think!

it's like you're lying but in a humorous way
Oh, so when used for humorous effect, lying is no longer sinful,

but in fact inhances mirth

enhances dammit
Too late

you’ve ruined this subthread with your typo.

I was hoping for some sort of flowchart or diagram but words will have to suffice
Correction:

Jokes are sometimes funnier when you explain the punchline but only when said punchline is incredibly foul and you wait for a few seconds after the audience quits laughing.

the best example of an explained joke being funnier ever?

“the hammer is my penis”.

That is a good example
"You're a fuckin' dog face!"

“How do you not get that one?”

As is this
I have a diagram ready to go, but I don't know how to upload it, since it's only saved to my computer.
Subject line

This isn’t a diagram at all.

Wlad walked.

It happened a while ago. It’s still worth noting.

I was pretty impressed when I saw Jakubauskas had held a lineup hitless through three innings, but then I realized that Bloomquist was the #2 hitter for that lineup.
It's Spring Training.
Still a nice game for him

It’s not murderer’s row, but it’s not a split squad, either.

2 - 0 Mariners

FYI.

sweet

extra time in Rome. Feck.

Not anymore.....
Go Justin Thomas go!
Gameday:

Link

I saw that a Royal hit an ITP HR to right field and instantly knew Morse was playing today.

He has a lifetime UZR of +15.5 in the OF
Clearly Endy needs to grab some bench.
UZR counts hurting himself and therefore being unable to keep playing as a huge boost in his favour
Were the 4 balls that the royals hit the RF balls that should've been caught but MIke Morse sucked and didn't get to them?
Amazingly only one word needs to be changed for this question to make total sense.

Can you guess which word it is?

Sucked?

It should’ve read: Were the 4 balls that the royals hit TO right field balls that should’ve been caught but Mike Morse sucked and didn’t get to them?

I was just teasing

because I read the question about 4 times trying to figure out what the heck you were asking? Then I realized it was just one little word away from making total sense and was sort of amazed.

I re-read my comment as well and at first I was like wow this doesn't make a lot of since what am I missing?
Well

at least Jeff Clement has 2 hits today.

Man Lincecum made mincemeat of the Japanese lineup.
I agree that Timmy needs a less... um... retarded... nickname

But I’m not sure I can get behind calling him “Man Lincecum”.

Especially as he is so teeny.
Timmy Timmy Fizzlepants
You should get a Giants jersey with TT Fizzlepants on the back.
Wait what happened?
Apparently the Japanese lineup has been reduced to a disgusting sandwich filling
When did they face Lincecum?
Exhibition tune-up.
and I see that

Larry Stone went over to watch

Today - an exhibition game.
Or disgusting pie filling
Obligatory Ham Salad Reference.
"Mike Wilson remains in the game as the shortstop"

What?

!

They should had kept Truinfel!?! in there.

I don't know if anybody else can see it or if it's just me

Apparently GameDay just exploded on Mike Wilson’s position. I think it’s safe to assume he’s actually in the outfield and not linebackering up shortstop

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