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4/11: Open Game Thread, Part 2

Checking in real quick just to see...yep, Russ Branyan is amazing.

wait Felix wtf

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Kenji is trash
Fuck trash.

Kenji is dog shit. The runny kind.

KENJI YOU ARE THE NEW MORROW IN MY EYES
Has Rick said a single thing this entire game or has Dave just been rambling this whole time
I seriously forgot he was even there
Batista warming up?

Might be time to find something else to do…..

ALSO FUCK THESE UMPS
I do not understand that first pitch to Branyan being a strike.
PONY FUCKERS
No chat speak please
wtf, gtfo noob
brb gotta have dessert
Seriously now Batista?!?!

You have Lowe still!

Super awkward

moment on radio with Niehaus

Because that's rare...
It is

when it involves dancing

RUSSELL THE LOVE MUSCLE
Branyan!

Wow that is a looooooooooooooooooooong single!

Daaamn almost had another one

Russ is a sexy beast

Powerful single.
The hidden risk of having many old or slow hitters.
Having players that can get on base?
Russell Sexson, except better
If Branyan equaly Sexson's 2005 I will laugh the laugh of the ages.
Better than Sexson of today.
Of course.

My point is that we paid Sexson a truckload of money and gave him four years while Branyan was cheap and required no commitment.

Yes indeed.

While we love to bitch about Z’s moves surrounding relievers, it could always be worse.

The only one that bugged me was Aumont.
I'm calling a Wlad success I can feel it in my bones.
Fly ball

= Success?

Why do you hate America?
I'm tired of fly balls
At least they are not GIDP
Joh Joh

Redeem yourself.

This is the worst team in professional sports
Pittsburgh

Pirates

Pirates will be good soon.
I'm glad others are starting to see this too.

The pirates were always my bad NL team.

New York

Islanders

How did you lose thrice to a team that has given up 9 goals twice?
Clippers don't play until 7:30
This is not overly humorous since we know it to be completely false
Detroit Lions

San Francisco 49ers
St. Louis Rams

DO SOMETHING YOU PONY FUCKER
How about a Kenji jack to redeem yourself
You are setting yourself up for my failure, my good sir.
Our favorite catcher is up!
Kenji fucking owes us

Even more than he usually does.

God, he sucks.

HIT A HOMER FUCKTARD
Well Kenji turned to Wlad according to the TV announcer
*into*... now he is back to Johjima

The missed catch is a much talked topic…
If it gets scored an E it at least takes two ER off of Felix.

Just saw the Kenji replay.

Yea, WTF?

NOCTURNAL FINGER STINK
A's stadium announcer

Sounds like he could croak any second

You are bad at baseball.
EAT SHIT AND DIE KENJI
I'LL RIP OFF YOUR HEAD, AND SHIT DOWN YOUR NECK, KENJI
I love how Kenji's zone chart is ice blue.
He's single handedly curing global warming.

He’s a goddamn hero.

Fucking ball fucker donkey ass
Cool, so more line drive outs

This is nice

How close was that?
there was nothing close

at least not at second base

No, getting into the OF.
Cabrerra could do nothing with the ball but it reflected right to Ellis.
Kenji is soo worthless. This bastard shouldnt be hitting anywhere other than 9th in the lineup
This is just not our day
Well, that was retarded.
I dont believe this.

I SIMPLY CANNOT FUCKING BELIEVE HOW WOUND UP THIS GAME IS MAKING ME FEEL.

It's fun to care about games again, atleast.
If Kenji hits again today, Wak is a fuckin lunatic
Rob Johnson?!?!
PH Griffey next time and put Rob in
I hope Clement get's called up soon.
Batista in, Chavez from LF to RF, Loafie in at 2B and Cedeno to LF.

Wlad out.

KENJI TO THE DUGOUT PLEASE TO TRIM RECTAL POLYPS
Those aren't polyps - that's just his head up his ass.
Why is Wlad out?
Feeling pain in that wrist?
We have more defense now
Probably

what happened earlier in the outfield

he hurt his wrist on a play earlier
I love how we have Sweeney blocking Shelton and Kenji blocking Clement.

The more things change…

I'm already tired of Sweeney.
Sweeney

is way too happy in the clubhouse for my tastes

Clement is blocking Clement

And Sweeny and Shelton are more or less a wash.

Clement isn't blocking Clement

The front office is blocking Clement

Yeah, the FO sent him down to AAA and that wasn't the best move.

But Clement didn’t do a whole lot to earn a spot on the roster. It was between him and Rob Johnson and Johnson beat him out

It should never have been a competition

and spring training stats don’t matter. He needs to face major league pitching, period.

I don't think it was his hitting that they were that concerned about

From all accounts I’ve heard his defense was terrible. I agree he needs extended look at ML pitching but the DH slot was kinda full and his defense was to the point they didn’t want him catching in the big leagues.

God I miss Ichiro
Oh great, its tits.
Just 94 pitches for Felix. Couldn't he go one more?

Also not one groundout. 7 FO’s 8 K’s

No reason to have him do so

Not for the difference between the fifth and the sixth

He pitched poorly, no need to prolong the torture.
Ah, not having a great day, no need to push him
Fucking tits....
WALK THE WORLD
We need to have an uplifting comeback first

Then we can get our hearts ripped out of our collective chests!

Pujols rocks

Oswalt sucks

Wlad leaves with strained left wrist.
Maybe Griffey can get some more playing time in LF now. Yay.
I have no hope for this game

The ump decisions + Kenji being an idiot make me feel this is destiny to be a loss.

I've been impressed how that kind of thinking has turned out to be wrong this season.

Not that I can blame you…

5+ games

Wait on it

Buzzkill.
When keeping it real goes wrong
This is the perfect use of Batista.
Angels are losing now

4-3 Boston

Cmon M's please have a five run rally right here ... please?
How's next inning sound?
Well Done Tits
TRADE TRADE TRADE!
A popup

Awesome

Cmon string together a couple hits
FUCK ALL BYE
Endy's regression will be painful to watch
Batista needs to implode right now.
FUCK YOU WIZARD OF OC
If the Mariners win, I will eat my hat.

This hat is not made of nachos.

Can it hold beers?
If I had a hat that could hold beer I would exclude it

from hat-eating proclamations.

What if it was made out of nachos?
This would be some sort of magical super hat then
Why this is the most common result for "Nacho hat" I do not know.

...

0_o He’s… sleeping with those animals…

His hat/hand are conspicuously placed
That monkey is conspicuously positioned
Why is his hat full of holes?!
Maybe he was eating it.
It's made of whiffle.
EAT YOUR HAT MOTHERFUCKER!
YOUR RANGE IS PATHETIC YSELESS, I COULD HAVE RANGED AND REACHED THAT.
I bet you couldn't.
I reckon I could, I'm faster than Yuni.
Went to go get food.

Guess I didn’t miss much.

Hope its good food.

Because this game is not so tasty.

I would particularly enjoy a four-run inning here
I'll take 2

lets not be greedy

I want a 10 spot. Go hard or go home!
I would like Stephen Strasburg here.
See? Isn't this fun?
So Lowe will come in in the 8th and 9th?

Or are we gonna keep Tits out there?

Batista's been fine.
This game is pretty much lost.
It's not that bad.
that's what she said
Only use "TWSS" for the juiciest opportunity of them all.

That did not qualify.

That doesn't even make sense.
2 runs deficit with two innings left?

Really?

If Beltre hits a FB here it's tied

I wouldn’t say it’s lost yet

That'll work too.

Team effort! Come on Russ!

As soon as I said this, Crosby errored.

I’m good.

This was a poorly timed comment

Or was it well-timed?

I love Bobby Crosby!
Nice defensive substituution!
Bad pitch to swing at. Nice play Bobby.
Well that sure looked like a meatball.
That was way up
Oh snap it's big Russ
Branyan please flex your muscles!
Branyan needs another jack
Yea, here we go
Chance for Lopez to be a hero coming up
FUNK BLAST BRANYAN IM CALLING IT FUCK YOU HATERS
I'll just call it a walk.
3-1 count Branyan up.
OUTSIDE
And up

have you seen the framing job?

Lefty strike.
I'd be pissed if I were a lefty batter.
The least this ump could do is be consistent.
BASES LOADED BITCHES!
WHEEE bases loaded for Lopie
Bases loaded, no out.
Bases loaded, zero outs

I like this potential

This is promising

Don’t fuck it up

ALL YOUR BASES ARE BELONG TO US!
Let's go Lopez

No GITP

What's a GITP?
Oh ok, I thought it was a typo, I get it.
Grounding into a triple play
Yeah, I'm just dumb
So is the double play going to be on the first or the second pitch?
Why stop at a double play?
Way to be a Debbie Downer
here comes the unassisted triple play to Orlando Cabrera

that cunt.

Booooh even more
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Let’s do thisssss.

Ok Lopez, time go get for real.
Joh better not be in that on deck circle
I really like Branyan.
We all do

Walks are a lot more fun then singles because they’re so damn rare to us.

Where's the Last Fan of Jose Lopez?

If he’s not in attendance, I’ll take his spot.

WOOOOOOOO GO JOSE

The Last Fan of Jose Lopez hasn't posted here in a long, long time
probably because there are a lot more now these days
Or maybe it's because that dickstain couldn't keep his shit together
His relationship to butthol became very apparent at the very end.
It was the lack of clown photoshops that did him in.
Yeah gameday had that last pitch as a strike

Guess the ump is just squeezing today.

Taking a walk is a good thing.
Ziegler in, run scoring chances boned.
What's his deal? Strikeout guy? Grounders?
Insane groundball machine.
Not like Lopez has been hitting into double plays lately or anything
Sidearmer.

Massive GBs

And megadeath to RH
Do you know anything
You graph must have been upside down
Six out save for Ziegler
Ziegler time.

Getting down to the wire.

Harness the WBC aura, Lopez.
Just in time for a patented Loafie GIDP!
CMON BOYS LETS DO THIS!!!

FOR KENJI! SO I DON’T HAVE TO HARPOON HIS FAT ARSE.

man the torpedos!
Don't fuck this up, loafie.
PH Griffey?!
I would for Johjima.
Better for Cedeno when he is up
YesYesYes for Knji.
Does anybody know what song that Ziegler comes out to?
And quickly Loafie is 0-2.
2-2?

Good eye?!

Damn Kenji
Yeah

We need Lopez to come through.

2-2 now.
Do we really need a running update on the count?
LOAFIE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brad Ziegler looks like a gremlin.
YES YES YES YES YES YES LOPIE!!!!!!!!!
YES YES YES YES!
I LOVE LOPEZ
How in the hell

does someone throw a fastball W/ 11 in of break???

YES YES YES YES!!!
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
Jesus Dave, be more excited!

(I never thought I would ever say that)

SHAWEEEEEEEET
I LOVE YOU, YOU VENEZUELAN SEX MACHINE!
WHAT HAPPENED FUCKING GAMEDAY
IN MY RUNS YESYESYES
WHY IS KENJI HITTING!?
...I'm so sorry Kenji.
DONT BE A HATER
Optimism, bitches!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
HOLY FUCK JOH!
HEEEEEEEEE HAW
LOPEZ!

The new hotness!

Holy cow

He’s redeeming himself!

SEE! LIKE THAT DAVE!!
YES YES YES YES REDEMPTION OMG OMG
Are those mlb.tv announcers neutral?

Joh!!!!

They're Oakland A's radio network
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
CLUTCH JAPANESE HITTER
YOU BET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KENJI???

Run scores!

Well this is more fun
JOHJIMA HITS BASEBALL

WUT?

AND THE MARINERS HAVE TAKEN A 7-5 LEAD!!!
ALL WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC, ALL THE TIME
HOW'D THE FUCK DID WE BEAT ZIEGLER!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

WOW I love this.

Holy Shit!! I Love this Team!!
SO FUCKING HAPPY!

This calls for booze!

ALL YOUR LEAD ARE BELONG TO US!
Is Morrow ready?

And who finishes the 8th?
Where is Junior??

Well, better keep the D in with the lead now
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!

FUCKING AWESOME!

Eat Shit Ziegler!
Woot! Felix stays undefeated!
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Our new slogan should be Game's Over? My Ass
It stinks!

Just kidding. I like it. It’s rather fitting so far this season.

KENJI I DIDNT MEAN IT YOU ARE AWESOME

AARDSMA MY BALLS INSTEAD

Good use of Aardsma as a verb
REFUSE TO MOTHERFUCKING LOSE

2009 MOTTO

the kids will LOVE it!
14 YEARS LATE!
Bring in Lowe for the 8th I say
Double orgasm!

I wasn’t done celebrating the Lopez hit.

It's amazing how quick we can come to love this team again.
It's been building over the first couple games
I should get rec'd for saying this game was lost.
THANK YOU THANK YOU DONT FUCK THIS UP NOW PLZ
This team is so much more fun than last year's.
And we have now held the lead at some point in all six games.

Just like last year!

Yay! First Week of baseball!
shut up shut up shut up
Your facts are inconvenient.
What's our record trailing at the end of the game?
Depressingly predictable.
We are going to need to start winning more of those games if we hope to have a chance at the division.
Albert Pujols is God
I thought Lemmy was God
Yay there's the GIDP we wanted.
But luckily it was timed in a very inconvenient fashion for the A's.
Just a note that someone up there said they wanted to

rip Kenji’s head off and shit down his neck.

Not that his clutch hit just now changes anything. I’m just wondering how you came up with that thought

It was the heat of the moment telling me what your heart meant.
Apparently GTE is a new concept.
You're somewhat new here, it seems.
That was me.

I was continuing a line of Duke Nukem references, thank you very much.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Soupy Sales

what an awesome name. I don’t know how it’s spelt but that sounds amazing.

Mark Lowe is up.

Awesome.

Fantastic!
Oh terrible.

Who knows yet.

Oh well

still 7-5 lead, i’m happy.

Cedeno's trying to be the new WFB
Fuck that.

Cedeno is the new Mark McLemore.

Only he can field

And hit

For those watching, were the boys pumped when we scored those runs?
SWEENEY WAS GEEING THEM UP GOOD TO SEE

SHAME HE SUCKS MAJOR COCK AT THE PLATE.

I doubt it.

:-/

Why does Cedeno care about the catcher there?

Strange though that it happened now twice to our guys to hit the C with a broken bat

Injury Delay?

Please tell me it was Kenji.

Nah, the other catcher

got hit by Cedenos bat

Wrong catcher
You got the "catcher" part right.
That rally made me dislike FOX even more
I pretty much maxed out with Firefly
Thanks for bringing me down with memories.
Remember that time you did something awesome and enjoyed it immensely?
...no

:`(

Remember that time a friend told you about when you drank a lot and did something awesome and supposedly enjoyed it, although it may have been the booze talking?
That thing was really not awesome and I did not enjoy hearing about it afterward.
Yuni taking 4 pitches?
WIN. WIN. WIN. WIN. WIN.
GREAT INNING BEST OF SEASON SO FAR.
I'm really starting to like this team
Will the Mark Lowe of a couple nights ago please report the mound... no shady shit here Lowe
stupid laptop overheats like a bitch

when watching video

I'm still worried, prove me wrong M's.
For real this team is special

just when we were about to give up on them that happens

Gotta put the odds at 50% that he walks Cust here
now its 1-0

and the odds are 90%

The only thing that would have that inning better would've been if the back-to-back 2-RBI hits were by Endy and Gutz
Lowe in lock 'em down.
So is anyone actually able to watch this game?

And how?

Our canadian friends can.
I'm not your friend guy.
I'm not your guy, NO I REFUSE TO START THIS
What if you live in Vancouver?

I would’ve guessed that was an M’s blackout area.

No
Works great for me

I just get no Blue Jay games

All of Canada is Toronto's rights.
I've also heard this is considered true in a general sense.
Go Team Canada?
FUCK YES ADMIRAL CORRECT
What about when the Expos existed?
I've heard it's counted as Jays territory.
mlb.tv

from abroad

Yup from Germany
yESYESYES no tits
Now this is a game I don't want to lose

instead of being resigned to losing.

Don’t set me up for the fall, Ms.

You know she's no good for you

but you just couldn’t say no, could you?

I say no all the time.

It just doesn’t seem to matter.

Surprise sex?
In the worst possible sense.
Dammit Lowe is pulling a Morrow!
I hate that the A's aren't a bunch of free-swingers like the Twins
Jason Bay...Gonzaga...FTW
oh god oh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh godoh god
is that to the Cust hit, or did something else just happen?
Yay for no control after an outing where he was filthy!
That's basically what he did last year
COME ON LOWE

This is April 2009, not 2008.

Dude guys...pitchers give up baserunners...chill out...the sky isn't falling....

Yet…

Ok now's good...
We have one groundball out so far today.

This would be a fabulous time to triple that number.

UGHHH this is dumb
Fucking hell Lowe
Comeon Lowe

No walk

AARDSMA AARDSMA AARDSMA
Warming up Corco?
Is there some righthander in this linup?

This is prob. where having no lefty hurts you.

Travis Buck looks like the flesheating clown from my nightmares.
Corcoran warming up.
When you rally like that, this isnt supposed to happen..
Hahaha

This is the Mariners, we’re talking about. This is their M.O.

Fuck you lowe

I don’t want to sweep my driveway in anger!

Sweep my driveway in anger instead.

It’ll be cathartic.

THROW A STRIKE
If he's going to bunt, just throw him a strike.
Feeling of impending doom returning.
WHAT THE FUCK THROW A GOD DAMN STRIKE YOU ASSHOLE
Just you try to bunt when we never throw strikes!
YOU HAVE TO THROW STRIKES AGAINST THIS TEAM
BRANDON MORROW FUCK YEAH
If we lose this game ITS KENJIS FAULT FUCK YOU KENJI
Haha.

I laughed out loud.

C'mon MARKY MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK!
Mark Ellis = Professional Hitter
Pleeeeease bunt out
Lowe lowe lowe lowe lowe lowe!

This guy is walking the world.

Please

Throw a strike.

Lowe I fucking love you but please throw a strike.
It's last half inning all over again.
Shitshitshitshitshitshitshit
FUCKING BALLS
Okay

This is really fuckin’ stupid

YESYESYESYES
DOUBLE PLAY!
Mark you have yet to earn pie-throwing rights.

This is your chance.

YESYESYESYES THATS THE TICKET
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
Double Play!!
YEAAHH!HHHHHHH@3EWD
We got a GIDP?

Wait, what?

Thank goodness
STOP GIVING ME A HEART ATTACK!
OH FUCK! YEHAH!!!!
Damn you Torri
Why don't you give a litlle more detailed updates?
Hunter just hit a bomb off of Papelbon
On a fastball at his eyes
Haha, now a strike.
DDDDDDDDD

Defense!

Must every game

be so nerve wracking?

Landon Powell...easy meat...I hope...
Throw more sliders please
wohoo still a 2 run lead
CCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

BURN THE A’S

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was close.
THANK FUCK FOR THAT
Yuni with more glovework!
CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE!
Have any of Lowe's sliders been put in play this year?
Other than that one
In that case none.
All of them missed bats.
One I think...

And that was an out.

Spd: 83 Pitch: Slider Result: In Play, out(s)
You're off the hook this time, Kenji...
Not if we lose, he's not.
Ok Morrow don't suck please
And this sucker may end before the Sens game!

Bonus!

I think the M's know drama better than TNT
Holy shit we got out of it.
Dammit Papelbon
YES YES YES YES YES
Lowe is awesome
YES YES YES, just 3 more outs!
I think I passed out because I couldn't breathe for 5 minutes.
Papelbon is blowing this shit
Oh come on Papelbon

Tying run on 2nd with no outs

Oh boy this is exciting!
Hey fuck that porno music A's.
Good...need insurance runs....
Strange bunt Gutierrez
That bunt was fascinating.
Self Defense Bunt!
It's comin' right at us!!!!
I love Dave on the radio.
C'mon, Sweeney double
Damn, almost called that one.
Wouldn't have been a double...
Yay and Booo Sweeney!
SWEENEY! PROFESSIONAL RBI OUT!
8-5!

Sweeney trying to run, that’s not very smart

Endy picked an awesome time to be lucky and unsustainably hot.
He's our temporary Ichiro.
Insurance run!

Ok Morrow you can only walk 2 people

That run is HUGE
Why would you run Sweeny?

Still awesome though.

Sweeney is possibly slower that Edgar
Wait so what the fuck happened?
RBI single

Sweeney tried to take second on the throw to Home.

Sweeny got an RBI, tried to take 2nd on throw home, got thrown out.
Ah ha

nevermind.

HEY MORE LATE RUNS!!!
Love it when the team can put up runs over the whole game and not just in one inning.
SWEENEY YOU ARE SO SLOW, but thanks for the rbi.
Hey, does anyone else remember Morrow blowing a save in Oakland last year?

DON’T DO THAT AGAIN.

I forget last year

And won’t remember it

That's what Robert is for.
I'm coming after you if ssomething bad happens
I would take a tommy gun full of bullets for EM.
It took Sean Gallagher six pitches to
  • give up two hits
  • give up one run
  • record three outs
Makin' them count.
That is your 2009 Mariners offense!
Only the Mariners could do that for a pitcher.
The man leads a full life.
Was there a triple play involved?
Ah well, stupid me :-)
Yay Papelbon is walking the world!
Guess who else is?
Everytime I watch Papelbon pitch

I want his arm to explode.

Looking at his GameDay picture, it looks like he has been hanging out with Pedroia and Asshat too much.
Yay Morrow is pulling a Morrow!
He's getting squeezed
Those pitches looked like strikes to me.

And the robots.

Wait Morrow threw a breaking pitch for a strike wha?
Oh nevermind
First time all year he's thrown a strike to his first batter?
He got the two batters out last tuesday
At least he's closer to the zone.
According to Gameday, all of his pitches were in the zone
Yuni is getting to balls up the middle?
Ya, what the hell?
Gameday suggests that Morrow ran over the Ump's dog and/or daughter.
Stupid Sweeney swinging at that 3-1 pitch
heh, Morrow knew I was prepping the Cockpunch photo.
2 more outs to go...
Comeon Morrow

Strikes please.

That Morrow is no fun to watch
Strikes and outs are cool
Has Morrow thrown a single breaking pitch yet?

In any of his appearances?

HOLY SHIT I LOVE THIS TEAM ALREADY
Morrow's getting absolutely robbed on Gamecast

In the first at bat at least. All five pitches caught all of the white fuzzy strikezone.

Come on

Papelbon, 1 more out.

Free Chad Cordero's shoulder
I'd prefer if it was not freed from him.
or Josh Fields

or Phillipe Aumont…

I think Wak and GMZ saw Morrow’s control problems coming.

They knew he was mentally weak!
And left in him as closer to start the season?
I'd like a closer with control

I can’t take much more of this

You must have a pretty weak heart then.
That insurance run may prove crucial >:(
At least Bobby Crosby hits like a retarded squirrel
Notice

Oakland has swung at ONE pitch so far

So people have figured out how to beat Brandon Morrow

just don’t swing

Sweeney didn't know that
Sweeney should learn to read a scouting report then
Whats the situation?
Why'd they let him take second? Rizzer is right
What are the chances of Bobby Crosby obliging us by hitting into a double play here?
Much lower now.
I have faith that he'll still find a way somehow
runner on second 1 out
Retarded indifference.
Always seems stupid to me
Cabrera to second on fielder's indifference?

What?

Why did they let him advance?
Well you have a fast pitcher on the mount, dont want to have the 1B close to the bag.
Against a pull-happy righty?
The ball finds holes!
Throw the ball over the plate it help!
They shouldve just throw him out
9th inning adventures for both Morrow and Papelbon.
WOW

Papelbon is not doing well….

I know, I don't know who to root for in that.
Random gang violence.
Red is a gang color in South Seattle
Where are the Crips when you need them?
They apparently took lolablueza off :(
We're not eliminated yet.

Go Red Sox

Fox chose a good time to lock up their feed on Sox/Angels
This is killing me

I have to leave for a Sounders game in like three minutes, and this isn’t finishing like it needs to….

Don't worry, nothing happens until extra time after 90 mins usually
Kidding, I enjoy soccer
The Mariners try to be as convenient as possible for its fans
Nice! ONE MORE
Waka is the beautiful result of a reckless but passionate night between Sparky Anderson and Manny Acta
Come on, M's!
1st pitch strikes! Yay
Get this done!
Yay for 2 strikes!
NOOOOOOO!

No breaks, assholes!!!

OK here we go... One more strike Brandon
Come on Morrow strike him out
Curve, come on, curve
Ahhhh come on
Man is this ump squeezing him that bad?
nice curve, just a bit high. man that would have been a nice ending
DAMMIT LOAFIE
LOPEZ DAMMIT!
NOOOOOOOOO!O!OO!!!!
What the FUCK just happened?!??
Lopez bobbled
Where was that pitch

This ump blows

Surely bad calls against the M's won't come back to haunt them.
It was like you knew
what. the. fuck.
DUMB DUMB DUUUUUUUUUUUUMB
oh what the shit
OH FOR FUCK SAKE!
.............why
FUCKING FUCKING FUCKING FUCK
Cedeno wouldve had that
I take back every good thing I ever said
In a general sense or just about Loafie?
Wooooooooooooo another 2 strike count!
let's go let's go let's go let's go let's go
I'm glad Nomar sucks now
At least it is Nomar hitting.
I like to see if Morrow has an out pitch but first he has to get 2 strikes
QUESTION ANSWERED
And I suck hells yeah!
There was a beautyfull out pitch
SIT THE FUCK DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN!
K!!!! M'S WIN!!!!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
K

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Thank God.

Holy crap that was dumb x2

wasnt Nomar once on par with Jeter?

GREAT PITCH

Jeter sucks dick
Nomar was a better hitter really. Look up some of his early Boston years, it will surprise you how good he was.
Nomar was looking like an obvious Hall of Famer those first four seasons.
FUUUUUUCK EYAHHSHH!!!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

FUCK ME RAW YOU SEXY HORSE

CURVEBALLED!
It was all planned

Lopez wanted him to get the strikeout for confidence boosting reasons

Jeez that was overly stressful

Really nice win though!

He threw a curveball!
Thanks, beautiful!
Amazing battle between Kendrick and Papelbon going on right now.
Papelbon still in the jam.
Not anymore.
Just won it
39 pitches in one inning

ouch

VICTORY!!!!

Let's make it two!
I hear that, see you on the other side
WILL! BE! OURS!
ANGELS LOSE!!!

Woooot!

1ST PLACE SEATTLE MARINERS!!!
How perverse.
Morrow > Nomar
9th inning adventures are over.
Boston wins! First place baby. If the playoffs started today...
WOOOOO Papelbon
Papelbon wiggles out of the jam.
4-2

looks sexy.

Should be 5-1
6-0
Could be.

Not should be.

6-0
I thought

we weren’t supposed to win yesterday’s game?

Right now

the M’s are on pace to allow 594 runs while scoring 837 over the course of the season

Here we come 2001.
But you'll never take away 1995! In them days we had to walk to the stadium! Didn't have all these bathrooms neither!
Goddamn kids these days gettin' all spoiled with concession stands! Why, I remember standing in line for a beer!

And we liked it!

The Kingdome will be M's fans now in their 20s

what the Great Depression was for our grandparents.

*for M's fans
I was watching some Almost Live clips the other day.

This is damn nostalgic.

Awesome, how did I ever miss this?

Funny thing is I wasn’t old enough to buy beer in the Kingdome, the adults would disappear for a loooong time.

Wheee sole possession of 1st place
Why couldn't the season be 6 games long!?!
That would suck
Clinched .500 on non-Ichiro games.
Did we have a road sweep last year against an AL West opponent?
Did we even have a winning road trip last season?
Wheee I can finally turn this proxy off
Mariners victory and a Sounders game at 7:30.

Today is fantastic.

Yep. My English soccer team won, hockey team won, Mariners won, Sounders in a few hours.

Good day so far.

It gets better

:)

GO SENATORS!

VICTORY! WILL! BE! OURS!

Russell Branyan was awesome today. Just wanted to reinforce that
I want to see what the batspeed was for his HR, because I am positive it will be top 10 on hittracker.
I cannot believe that we won that.

The A’s must feel awful. Felix was poor, our non-poet relievers walked the world, our lineup sucked and we had two big errors but still won the ballgame.

And I am very happy. VERY happy. BIG happy.

Yet I get a sad feeling that this team is in for some heavy regression against the better ballclubs…

Either way, yay we are fun to watch again! [apart from our heart-attack bullpen].

Felix did K 8

And the ump was squeezing both Morrow and Lowe a bit

I disagree about the strikezone I thought it was consistent most of the game if pretty small.

Gameday didn’t seem to match up with the pictures.

And Felix sucked. Lot’s of strike 3 called and no GB’s.

I think a consistently small strike zone is an enormous fault.

This an isn’t original thought, but every aspect of the game suffers from a consistently small strike zone as compared to a consistently big strike zone. They take longer, they mess with pitchers’ heads and arms, they’re agonizing to watch, etc. It distorts the game much less to have a consistently big strike zone because the hitters will adjust pretty quickly (much easier than the pitchers adjust to the small ones). I’d even rather have an average strike zone that’s inconsistently called than a consistently small one.

I hate small strike zones.
The Lowe/Morrow innings scared the crap outta me.
20 Oakland baserunners stranded.

33 in total in the game, wow.

Team LOB for today was 9.

Of course that makes 22 which still has to suck.

Okay, I think I miss-read what you said.
WHAT A DAY

Plymouth Argyle win 4-0 making it look like they should avoid relegation and now the M’s win, yaaaaaaaaay.

Nothing better than doing the double!

Hope City do the business at 4pm tomorrow and then the M’s at 9PM!

Reading already spoiled what is otherwise looking like a pretty good weekend.
Limeys are weird.
Miguel Batista got the win.

Heh.

Payback for getting the loss in Morrow's first walk-the-world fest?
Morrow was credited with the loss. Miguel took the blown save.
Amazing moment in the KC/NYY game.

Swisher hits a FB to RF off HoRam. Bloomquist, racing towards the line, dives about 10 feet away from where the ball landed. It goes into the corner for a triple.

Yep saw that.

Miscellaneous Dreikaiserbund member catches that.

Ah the memories of Willy playing corner OF spots…

Horacio Ramirez is remarkably terrible

Also, Nick Swisher is rather good.

The whole moment was just perfect.

I forgot how hard Bloomquist makes every play look.

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