Lookout Landing

Thanks

I have MLB alerts on my phone so I was worried when they scored 3 early.

But sounds good to me

dbroncos31 - April 17, 2009 reply

The ghost of Ibanez is alive in left

What happened to Russ?

Out with tight back.

Thanks

Hurt something sliding into home.

Ankle or maybe his back?

Hopefully he's ok.

Awww, Lopez trying to be a good boy and hit to right field... that was cute, but ineffective

I was really wanting lopez to bunt

I just wanted him to hammer a hanging breaking ball for an RBI single, instead he just tried to place it in right

Fuck

shit!

Nice one Ronnie.

Cedeno bobbled the ball, got a great hit, and then gets thrown out stealing.

Crap.

SEND HIM BACK TO THAT CRAPHOLE IN CHICAGO

He should have been on third to begin with. That fly ball took forever to come down, and then bounced away from the fielders

GOD FUCK WHAT WAS THAT

Hey that was stupid

-

I'm confused Re: Rats > Crap > Poop

This is seriously the stupidest image ever.

It's generally not nice to bad mouth gifts

Robert - April 17, 2009 reply

I think you mean gifs

dead meme

Robert - April 17, 2009 reply

Saying dead meme to dead memes is a dead meme

Your face is a dead meme.

I was unaware it was one to begin with.

I always thought crap = poop

And a turd is less harmful than Rats

Yeah that's a Cubs pic

Where did that come from?

I don’t get it

It came from BCB and none of us get it.

That explains a lot

So much for Geico, this inning.

See, that leadoff gift double would have been a great time to tack on to our lead.

Hell, just bunt twice in a row.

KELLEY TIME!

Time for Kelley to bum us all out

I don't understand why anyone would fear Kelley right now

BrettJMiller - April 18, 2009 reply

Kelley!

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

You know what's shitty?

Missing the rally because you’re in a staff meeting. A New Way!

I almost missed it due to mlb.tv taking a dump.

You might as well off yourself

it was spectacular

Maybe Wak is trying not be so predictive.

Attack that zone Kelley!

I loathe hits on 0-2 counts.

That looked like a pretty good pitch that Granderson hit.

Great pitch too

Oh Fuck

I'm assuming Kelley is setting up a double play?

Obviously

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

Bingo!

of course!!!

Correct

Yep.

appleshampoo - April 17, 2009 reply

You can read minds?

Just a lucky hunch.

Kelley is wise beyond his years.

It's a trap.

!

You don't need to get a DP if you strike him out when you've got him 0-2.

DP!!!!!

Woo-hoo!

NICE

Perfect!

HEY HEY HEY

YES!!

Kelley seems determined to convince grown men to stalk him with handmade valentines

YES

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

I enjoy this.

I was waiting since the end of the 5th to post this!

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

YES

WHY DO I LOVE THIS

HOW IS THIS PoSSIBLE?

You did good kid

I approve.

BrettJMiller - April 18, 2009 reply

This is amazing

seattlebruin - April 18, 2009 reply

Yuni does turn a good double play.

GOD SHAWN KELLEY'S PITCHES MAKE ME SMILE

So is Kelley our best reliever?

I'd say Lowe

I'd say Kelley and Lowe.

USSM loves Kelley too.

He’s a rookie, yes. He’s only thrown three major league innings. I know.
But the next time the Mariners are holding on to a one run lead in the 8th inning, he’s the guy I’d want on the mound.

For some reason I keep missing the innings that Lowe pitches, probably because he keeps coming in when we're losing

and I’ve already walked away from the screen in anger, but isnt Lowe still ridiculously wild?

65% strikes on the year

I CAN TELL YOU WHO I'TS NONT

IT’S NOT BRANDON MORROW

REALLY?

i DON’T KNOW ABOUT THAT.

Catch the damn ball Rob

96!

Poop

FUCKING HOLD ON TO THE BALL

Am I right? That’s like at least 6 close pitches he’s dropped.

Yes, i dont know what his problem is

Capitalize personal pronouns please.

If you squint, it capitalizes on it's own.

LIES

His problem is he sucks

Simon Phoenix - April 17, 2009 reply

Shit....

Okay, whew.

Miguel Cabrera looks Griffey-esque.

Current Griffey.

Well his slugging percentage is .900

Is that good?

PHEW!

Woot inning over

Inning over, Kelley rules.

Cabrera is a beast. Lets hope we're done with him tonight

FanGraph Twitter updates are awesome

Indigo_Satellite - April 17, 2009 reply

Link me to their page?

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

Classic Yuni

YUNI YOU ARE A FUCKING WASTE OF SPERM AND EGGS

That has to be my least favorite breakfast

Depends what restaurant you're at

Eggs are my least favorite food

Corconcurred

You seriously need to stop saying this.

I've been saying it for years without anyone complaining

What’s wrong with it?

Really?

I complained about it the very first time you said it here.

Robert

GO GO GO

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/5/10/507375/14-24#6032318

?

Perhaps he flagged it.

Or bitched to Jeff in private

Those two events happen on every comment

Whatever, fourth or fifth time.

I don’t care. I told you to stop using it before.

Can you please explain what's wrong with it?

Refering to yourself in the thrid person while using a made up word is fucking obnoxious behaviour.

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/9/19/617960/9-19-open-game-thread#8859577

`

So what I said

Yes, but in many more words that hopefully illustrates our/my frustration with this behavior.

Plus the appeal to your authority, plus the time stamp, and the proof of a broken promise to stop

minus the broken promise to stop

Now I feel dirty

Eggs are delicious.

They're smelly yellow mounds of poop

and they’re murder

The murder is wht makes them good.

Why do you think I like beef jerky so much?

There is no way for me to respond to this without getting banned.

Delicious murder

Almost all sperm and eggs produced in a lifetime end up wasted.

Depends on your definition of wasted

That's what makes the insult burn so good

It's a fine line between clever and stupid

Although every sperm is sacred.

I would argue that sperm and eggs that don't end up as people are better used.

God must be quite irate.

2 swnging K's for Ichiro tonight

Okay Ichiro, that was ugly

Hold your breath, Aardsma time.

If I don't make it I hereby bequeth my comment history and recs to johnbai

I'm not gonna pretend I'm not hurt.

That would be like leaving a simple steel sword to Aragorn.

Awwww.

royalcurve - April 18, 2009 reply

Oh God, it's heart attack time.

Ichino....

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

What a bizarre game. We've been totally shut down, but somehow got our shit together for one inning

where we went nuts we hard hit balls, and then alot of bunting

Felis threw more pitches in the 2nd than his next 2 highest innings combined

13, 36, 7, 21, 13, 14

Verlander gown to 92-93 there

from 97-98 at the start. It’ll be interesting to watch his velo over the season.

First ball strikes.

Lets go!

It's time for...

BEAT MY FASTBALL!

IM SO FUCKING DRUNK WHATS T THE SCORE GODMANIT

Mariners116 - April 17, 2009 reply

5-3 M's

And the baseball Gods were drunk when they mapped out how this game would go too.

Love all

BALLIN LETS GO M'S FUCK THE TIGRES

Mariners116 - April 17, 2009 reply

Anyone recall the last time our pen had a 1-2-3 inning?

a what

Fastball ahoy!

K!

Aardsma'd!

That was cool.

No Blowers, they dont establish the fastball.

And then go to their other pitches

Bye-bye.

Thanks Mike DiMuro!

3? Straight? Fastball? Strikes?!?!?

I've seen Erik Bedard smile more times this season for far than all of last season combined.

maybe he just hated Willie B?

That has to be it.

How many times did you see Erik Bedard last season?

Quite a few, but he was hurt pretty early on in the season.

Urge to not kill Aardsma rising

Jeff Larish looks like a petty felon

Remember those Putz for Larish rumors

KK!!!!!

All fastballs

Might as well go after them with no one on

Sit down Larish!

YEAH

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

KK

Good things happen when Aardsma throws strikes.

WHERE'S YOUR SPLITTER SHITEYES?

Theres one!... Ball

KK!!!!!!

Aardsma'd again!

Wait, what does Aardsma mean?

I believe it was dry-shaving your balls.

appleshampoo - April 17, 2009 reply

That fits perfectly

Oh, he threw something different there

That third pitch to larish was 89 with 7" of break?

A good faith attempt at an offspeed pitch?

The Canucks jerseys remind me of the old Hartford Whalers.

Yeah me too

Crazy to think it wasn’t that long ago that Hartford had a ML level pro-sports team

Why were the fans clapping on a 1-1 pitch?

The wave

Wow.

This outing by Aardsma is quite fantastic

Agreed.

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

...Oops

Fantastic just decreased.

This always happens

Fortunately we didn't have to blame anything on you this time.

You just couldn't get all three batters out, could ya

a what

If we're going to throw at Gerald Laird we should just go ahead and finish the job.

What was the attendence?

35k

njpozner - April 17, 2009 reply

Nice

I wonder why it was only half that the last two Angels games.

probably just because it was a weekday and cold

The power of the Ichiro Bobblehead.

Friday is a more popular day to go to a game.

Plus it’s Felix Day but I doubt that matters.

Curveball sighting!

Pretty sure that's his split

Whatever it was, it was pretty.

BREAKING BALL ALERT

Get up you shitty fans! Make some noise

Yes.

Just Morrow to endure…

If a runner gets on, it's going to be Guillen and Cabrera up to bat...

Makes the Laird walk all the more painful

In fact, I'm going to go ahead and blame Aardsma if it comes to this

"Dug out"

More like he fell over himself

Yee haw

Nice job by Aardsma

60% strikes!

By his standards, it's awesome, ha ha.

Inning over. Nice job Aardsma

Oh, Sims has wisened up to Beltre's fakes!

I want to see Mark Lowe pitch the ninth.

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

Remember when we got perfect game'd through the first four?

Yes, it was like an hour ago

I thought the season was over.

Well, it was a nice streak, Endy.

Verlander must be furious

If it were Felix I would be livid

But as it happens I'm the opposite muahahahaha

Verlander still in? Are they trying to injure him?

I was not expecting that.

I didn't think he could get around on anything that high and away

Finally Griffey gets a hit.

HAH!

GRIFFEY GRIFFEY GRIFFEY

Junior basehit!

Wow

Didn’t think that would happen after his first swing.

OH FUCKING YESSSSSSS

OH FOR CHRIST SAKE NIEHAUS

I WILL DONATE YOU MY EYES ALREADY

Sims blew it too!

FUCK YES BELTRE!!!!!!!!!!1

That was the first time I can remember putting a 1 in a series of !!!!!'s as accident rather than for amusement

JUNIOR TIME

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

Woo-hoo!

Yes... so close!

They have that little faith in their bullpen eh?

pinch runner?

Oh yeah….

GRIFFEY SCORED FORM FIRST WITH ONE OUT

SHADES OF 1995

Shades of Giambi and Derek Jeter actually.

=

Without the dogpile

Wow

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?

Man I thought that shit was gone

So did Dave.

He even called it “And it’ll fly away!” before correcting himself.

Hey see what happens when verlander loses 5 mph?

Beltre with a big hit!!!

Griffey with no speed and still scores!

KING AASIM!!!

So close, but that’ll do.

Did Jr just score from 1st???

Like The Double!

Junior must have forgotten how many outs there were and ran on contact.

BELTRE!!!!!!!!!

1st to home on a double

that takes me back

ERTLEB!!!!!!

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

AND THE MARINERS ARE GOING TO PLAY FOR THE AMERICAN LEAG....

Oh wait…

HOLY FUCK. How did Jr score from 1st!?!?!?!?

We're gonna win this game.

Aren’t we?

JBell523 - April 17, 2009 reply

YES BELTRE

Is Verlander being punished for something? Why is he still pitching?

Leyland is old and it takes ~10 min for his hand to reach the phone then bring it to his face

Last pitch was a 91 mph meatball.

Yeah, that’s not fatigue at all…

"Still knows how to cut those bases!"

Beltre couldn't have hit that ball

that hard any where else in the park and not hit a HR. Heck, if it wasn’t early May, that’s probably gone.

Dude

It’s the middle of April.

Calendar fail

Of epic proportions

Meh, I've seen worse.

Last quarter I thought my Spanish final was on wed from 2-4pm. Nope, when I went to take the test I found out it was actually on Tuesday 2-4.

You were off by a day

Not by 3 weeks

True

But nothing rides on his remembering what day it is. As opposed to my entire rade rested on my taking the final.

Sounds like you should have been more careful about checking the date then.

Indeed.

Funny thing was I did check the date quite a few times throughout the quarter. Somehow I got it stuck in my head it was on wednesday. It ended up working out as I got an extra day to study for my test and I made up an excuse that allowed me to take the test. But yeah, my finals are entered into my phone this quarter. No repeat of that for me.

It's early May?

Fuck me, that was a hell of a bender.

As I watched the replay I was thinking this guy must hate this park

He's going to steal his home run back.

I wish MLB.TV would stay around between innings like this.

They are all laughing.. Jakabauskas is always lurking in the background chuckling it up

Silva, Griffey, Sweeney(?)

That’s pretty funny.

and Beltre

That's the first time Silva's ever made me laugh

with him, not at him.

I love what I've seen tonight.

Beltre made a funny

That run is huge

It’ll take Morrow an extra 4 pitches to crush our happiness

Detroit seems indifferent to winning this game, I think Morrow will mow them down

WOOOOO BELTRE

Smiles 2009 > Smiles 2008...weird

It's becouse were winning

Beltre is the MAN!

hahaha thats awesome

King Awesome.

That AB needed a bunt

Rob Johnson will make them pay!

Or not.

I wonder if Lopez leads the AL in IBBs

Yes he does

Im feeling like Cedeno's high point of the year will be his catch on the Cust liner last week

Cedeno has not has his high point yet.

He’s going to be playing a lot. Look for a high point in September.

SQUEEZE!

Cause why the fuck not

Pinch hit

Rob Johnson is blowin it.

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

Morrow time.

More breath holding time.

Good Morrow!

(I hope)

Let's hope somebody's got their blood glucose under control

Mine's fine, I think.

Oh, you meant Morrow.

Fresh

Why, does someone have Diabetes?

Dead. Meme.

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

Shoulda known

You're fine. There's a handy post to keep track of them.

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

Morrowtime motherfuckers

I have rarely seen an entire team look so completely overmatched as the Ms did in the first 4 innings

And then Verlander got tired

And Mariners started hacking.

Never thought that would be a good thing.

He still had the velocity in the 5th

That was a lot more luck. But after that, for sure.

Man, Griffey makes everyone smile. It's nice to see.

Winning helps.

Anyone on high blood pressure meds, is advised to make an adjustment.

Im going to wait until he walks Santiago

You're good until Granderson.

I believe in you, Morrow.

I believe.

99

SIT DOWN THROW IN

98!

Brandon in.

Game Morrowver?

Game Morrowlessover?

Much better.

Agreed.

Hey, Johnson held onto it!

Damn

Breaking ball? Who needs a frickin' breaking ball?

Starters!

No chance!

Okay so that 99 MPH fastball was perfect

K the World

100 MPH

Triple digits!

100 motherfucker.

100!

krb - April 17, 2009 reply

Holy fuck

100MPH, Morrow is the only person allowed to throw all fastballs,

He is not of this earth!

JESUS

THIS IS SOME NUKE LALOOSH SHIT HERE

Double 100

HEAT

Now would be a ridiculous time to break out the breaking ball

Big bendy thing right here.

Go Aumont all over Granderson

Dave is saying 98 on radio.

Where are you getting this?

tv

Gameday

REPLY

Bendy thing?

YES!

Wow.

We're going to miss the playoffs by one game and then we'll all remember the 2nd game of the season, won't we?

No.

Good.

NO

I thought it was a long shot anyway

99MPH, sit down!

KK!

YES!!

Brandon Morrow throws hard

Man, he's amazing when he has control

Double K

MORROWNED

THIS IS THE MORROW I WANTED IF MORROW HAD TO BE A CLOSER

TOTALLY

If? Had?

Ugh. Polanco.

What the fuck kind of name is Placido?

Placido Domingo.

redwolf75 - April 18, 2009 reply

Brandon Morrow spells heat with Ks

Kelvin.

That's some heat right there.

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

Deep though:

Morrow is still catching up on Spring Training.

*thought.

still deep though

I read that as "deep throat." Uh...

As I recall, you did some Deep Throating over at DailyKos awhile back, no?

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

11 pitches, 10 strikes, avg fastball speel 97.4

*speed

See the first gamethread for the fastball spiel.

That''s counting his splitter as a FB too

Game Over!

HOW THE FUCK DID WE WIN

By scoring more runs than the other team

In light of what I wrote on AC's FB wall, this is even funnier

You and sb are a couple of galdurned smartasses.

ahahahahaha

This is nice to see. That's the Morrow I like.

RING IT UP!!!

DIET COKES AND SUGARFREE GUM FOR EVERYBODY!

Hell yeah!

8-3!

woot

YES!!!!!!! 8-3

We were wondering where you were, rc.

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

That's nice to hear. I just got off work.

WOOOHOOO

WE WIN!

GREAT GAME

Morrow had more Ks in that inning than JJ Putz has on the season.

Putz has been sitting at 92-93 last I checked

I hope he tanks this year

Tony S - April 17, 2009 reply

He's so broken it's a little sad

OlSalty - April 17, 2009 reply

Johnson going for the hug again

MARINERS WIN!

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

This game kicked all sorts of ass.

8-3!

Seriously our WE after the 4th inning was 0.1% hatever the stats say

A new day a new way baby!

GarlicFryCubFan - April 17, 2009 reply

FUCK YEAH

I LOVE YOU MORROW

8-3

Works for me.

I love hockey.

Fighting extends after the game is over.

Happened in BOS-MTL too

It is hilarious because the teams can't leave the bench until the fighting stops.

Happened at the last hockey game I went to!

VICTORY!

12 PITCHES

11 99-MPH+

FUCKIN A

We're going to hate this team's early success with the bunt in a few months.

What, not sustainable?

Sh.hhh

Aw, man.

Thanks Cpt. Bringdown.

I'm still smiling about it right now.

Maybe we need another open letter...

It seems like at the least we have good bunters and fast runners on the team

and we bunt in situations that make sense as well, so maybe it’s not the worst thing ever?

Trying to be optimistic about this

YES YES YES

OlSalty - April 17, 2009 reply

Good Morrow!!!

M’s still on top of the league.

We need a gif of Beltre clowning on Griffey

We need a gif of Red clowning on Beltre clowning on Griffey

Was the gun fast or did Morrow really never throw a fastball under 97?

OlSalty - April 17, 2009 reply

Not according to GameDay.

I can't believe we won!

8-3!!

BELTRE!

You made the old man run!

I think it's fair to say Morrow is back

97, 98 ,99
100, 98, 100, 89, 99, 99
99, 99, 99

Good gravy

I remember when Felix put up something like that against the Angels in 2007 one time.

In the 7th.

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

That blew my mind.

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

Imagine if he did that while starting...

He couldn't

I don't think anyone can.

Fastest average fastball this decade is, what, 96.0 or so?

From who?

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

'90s-early '00s RJ

sammy - April 17, 2009 reply

I believe Felix was 96.3 last year

Don't think so, mid 94 I believe.

I am really bad at reading FanGraphs, apparently

94.6

AJ Burnett in 2005 and Felix in 2007 both had 95.6 on Fangraphs leaderboards.

That's the highest I saw since 2002 there.

In the 5th inning Verlander threw 21 fastballs averaging over 97 mph with the lowest being 95 and the highest 99

How the fuck did we have that inning

Hmmmm, how about the old Number 1?

Forget about the curve ball Ricky. Give 'em the heater.

Kunkoh - April 17, 2009 reply

YOU CAN'T STOP US MOTHER FUCKER CUZ WE'RE ON A BOAT!

Griffey looks like he's running through a wading pool

Outfield Defense...

Is there anywhere to watch clips of some of the M’s outfield defense for this year? I haven’t been able to catch many games and I’d like to see some of what they look like – can anyone help?

mwalter - April 17, 2009 reply

Bulger

is going to single handedly win the division for us.

JBell523 - April 17, 2009 reply

Isn't it weird how much happier everyone looks when the team is winning?

Even Silva and Bedard were caught smiling in the dugout

Bedard Smiles?

Never seen it

mwalter - April 17, 2009 reply

Silva has alot to smile about with that contract anyways.

Time to go watch ND.

Game time: 2:26

shockingly the game goes fast when half the pitches are going 98+

I love how Bill gives Endy the check on his keys to the game

After he goes hit-less.

2 more grand slams today.

Unbelievable.

This season has been awesome so far.

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

And another cycle

sammy - April 17, 2009 reply

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that.

3 cycles. 13 grand slams. 11 games into the season.

I'm convinced they're juicing the ball.

Miguel Cabrera led the league in HRs in a shit year!

I lied, 3 grand slams today.

Markakis, Zobrist, Kubel

Wait, mlb.com has X W-L now.

Is that new?

Nope.

Well shiver me timbers.

This team is for real right?

I hope I’m not delirious here..

It was good to see FSN pan to Red when Beltre stepped up to the plate

They were a bit late though. It’s early in the season

Tony S - April 17, 2009 reply

#1 in the American League now.

I thought the fucking Padrés were going to lose today.

.

I like the 11" break on his fastball there

That wasn't a fastball.

Brandon Morrow breaks pitch f/x.

I'm surprised Pf/x picked that up as a fastball

it was pretty clearly a curve

Sorry. I thought subtle sarcasm was the way of the walk here on LL

Clearly you have misread us

I guess I'll go back to the quality reading on mlb.com forums

Or the ESPN forum, barf.

YES YES YES

By the by, if you're throwing that hard with that much movement with great location

why bother throwing anything else? The Tigers weren’t catching up to that fastball

Yeah.

Especially with a 3 run lead. You don’t really care if you make a mistake and give up a long ball.

I neglected to get Morrow's final line up there: 12 pitches - 11 strikes, 1 balls

One pitch at 89, one at 97, and TEN pitches at 98-100. That is fucking STUPID

I liked how Griffey and a couple others were giving Beltre shit.

Sending him pumping weight gestures to get that ball an extra foot or two to get out of the park. Priceless

I thought they were making fun of how Jr. reached home from 1st and Beltre only made it to 2nd

Tony S - April 17, 2009 reply

They did that too

But they cut to griffey pumping weights and pointing at Beltre on 2nd.. it was awesome

They were definitely making fun of Junior

Say we go the playoffs this year.

We haven’t gone to the playoffs, of course, since 2001.
What Mariner played started playing in 2002 and left in 2008?

Willy Fucking Bloomquist. Fuck him.

I love baseball logic haha

GarlicFryCubFan - April 17, 2009 reply

.

Hey, at least we won’t lose any ground to the Angels today.

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Shut up until the game is over.

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DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'!

REFUSE TO MOTHERFUCKING LOSE!

WE WILL NOT MOTHERFUCKING DIE!

what

Will you look at that

.Taylor - April 17, 2009 reply

Hey guys, just got back, what'd I miss?

esoteric - April 17, 2009 reply

Lots of awesome.