Biggest Contribution: Ichiro, +11.1%
Biggest Suckfest: Yuniesky Betancourt, -20.9%
Most Important AB: Ichiro single, +16.1%
Most Important Pitch: Inge single, -15.3%
Total Contribution by Pitcher(s): +16.8%
Total Contribution by Lineup: +4.5%
Total Contribution by Opposition: +28.7%
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Yuni needs to be Old Yeller'd.
Aaron Campeau - April 17, 2009
I missed the first half of the game. Just watched that play by Yuni...
I don’t think Old Yeller’d will cut it. They had the decency to take that dog out back and do it… Yuni doesn’t deserve that.
d0nkey - April 17, 2009
Was Old Yeller lynched?
JI - April 17, 2009
I think they took him out back and shot him to put him out of his misery.
Fearless Frog - April 18, 2009
The hand of God came down and touched the M's whilst crushing the Angels today...and I missed it all to watch Dave Letterman with my girlfriend.
I’ve got nobody to blame but myself.
esoteric - April 17, 2009
Don't worry
I missed the game to see “17 Again” with my girlfriend. Yea.
Fin - April 17, 2009
Zac Efron's hair is amazing.
Slurvey - April 17, 2009
Oh god
I was in the theater with my girlfriend and a bunch of teenyboppers, squealing everytime he came on the screen.
Fin - April 17, 2009
What's hilarious is that the lesson they should take away from the movie should be that Zac Efron will look like Matthew Perry eventually.
Aaron Campeau - April 17, 2009
I guess there could be worse things than that.
He got to hook up with Courtney Cox on Friends.
Fin - April 17, 2009
I don't think they actually did it and if they did her ribs and neck bones would cut him
JI - April 17, 2009
Everyone knows he was hooking up with Jennifer Aniston, the real prize!
Fearless Frog - April 18, 2009
You are correct.
royalcurve - April 18, 2009
Validation!
JI - April 18, 2009
Did you at least get some action out of it?
appleshampoo - April 17, 2009
I believe the proper terminology is "bone her?"
OlSalty - April 17, 2009
Anyone have the link where this one started?
I must have missed the origin.
appleshampoo - April 17, 2009
According to the search function:
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/6/18/554585/6-18-open-game-thread-part#6847526
Wilder. - April 17, 2009
In retrospect that comment is hilarious.
Aaron Campeau - April 17, 2009
Right?
royalcurve - April 18, 2009
Wow.
I just laughed a lot at that. So many good threads out there in the LL history…
appleshampoo - April 17, 2009
Just about every game thread is awesome when you look back in retrospect.
Seeing “CAN’T STOP PUMPING CUM” green in one of the vs. Angels game threads (sometime after the Ichi-slam) was unexpected and funny.
Fearless Frog - April 18, 2009
It really wasn't that funny.
Aaron Campeau - April 18, 2009
It being rec'd at least 6 times was.
Fearless Frog - April 18, 2009
I found that insanely annoying.
Aaron Campeau - April 18, 2009
Let me borrow that top.
royalcurve - April 18, 2009
What are you saving it for?
Aaron Campeau - April 18, 2009
I see you = rightfully - placed blame on Yuni
for that crap play in the 2nd.
sammy - April 17, 2009
Actually I didn't
and instead charged him with a fielder’s choice instead of a run-scoring groundout when the catcher dropped the ball.
Jeff Sullivan - April 17, 2009
I think you meant:
Vatinius - April 17, 2009
I think this makes me uncomfortable
Jeff Sullivan - April 17, 2009
Yes
JI - April 17, 2009
Man I'm ripped
Jeff Sullivan - April 17, 2009
And omnipotent.
sammy - April 17, 2009
You're also sitting on a pile of naked babies
OlSalty - April 17, 2009
Who knew
that heaven was so uniquely appealing to Jarrod Washburn?
TheBishop - April 17, 2009
I think I can see your nipples.
JI - April 17, 2009
Purrr.
royalcurve - April 18, 2009
I don't understand and yet it's still brilliant
seattlebruin - April 17, 2009
This has been an awesome start.
Any news on Branyan yet?
Slurvey - April 17, 2009
Re-evaluated tomorrow
Don’t expect him to play this weekend.
Jeff Sullivan - April 17, 2009
So we're gonna see Sweeney at 1B huh...
WE could do worse like Cairo…
Slurvey - April 17, 2009
Or Lopez with Cedeno at 2nd
Jeff Sullivan - April 17, 2009
As a temporary solution I like this.
Aaron Campeau - April 17, 2009
mikes weeney
?
JI - April 17, 2009
Bring up Carp and his .1250 AAA OPS
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
A .125 OPS is pretty terrible... :o
BrettJMiller - April 17, 2009
We can use him for bunting
OlSalty - April 17, 2009
This team would be so much better off without Yuni
OlSalty - April 17, 2009
But of the poor animal trainer who would be out of a job.
Fin - April 17, 2009
Oh cmon, Yuni has been playing good baseball so far. While I agree that we'd be better off without him,
I will at least wait until he starts playing his usual bad baseball before I get on him.
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
He has been playing bad baseball.
Aaron Campeau - April 17, 2009
He has been swinging at everything as per usual and getting lucky, meanwhile his defensive placement has been awful and he still can't take a goddamned walk.
esoteric - April 17, 2009
It's a known fact that he's responsible for that placement? How do we know this?
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
Yeah, I guess there's no way of knowing whether his positioning is his own responsibility.
I guess I’m relying on the assumption that infield positioning is mostly down to the infielders, whereas OF’ers are more often directed where to be from the dugout. Which is, of course, wholly unsupportable and basically just me making up shit in my head.
Still…it’s just so HARD for me to give Yuni the benefit of the doubt. Help me conquer my hate.
esoteric - April 17, 2009
Burden for the proof of not sucking lies on the player that's sucked for two plus years.
Aaron Campeau - April 17, 2009
He's been bad already
OlSalty - April 17, 2009
He's been playing like he gave his two weeks and it's day #13
JI - April 17, 2009
That pretty much sums it up. He gives up on every ball hit near him.
d0nkey - April 17, 2009
This is the best comment of the weekend.
royalcurve - April 18, 2009
Sportscenter just played the Beltre mocking Griffey moment.
Wilder. - April 17, 2009
Damn I want to see that
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
What inning was this?
I’m about to pull up the game on MLB.tv, I want to skip to this.
esoteric - April 17, 2009
8th inning.
Wilder. - April 17, 2009
I want to see this.
Fin - April 17, 2009
The anchors had a good laugh at it, too.
Wilder. - April 17, 2009
Did you find it on MLB.tv? Or did they cut it out of the broadcast?
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
Haven't gotten to it yet.
But it’s guaranteed to be there. You know you can now watch both team’s feeds in the archive now? Fucking awesome.
esoteric - April 17, 2009
Yea, i was watching the archived Angels broadcast on the night Griffey and Ichiro went yard. It was entertaining
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
Does anyone else have issues skipping to later innings?
MLB.tv won’t let me skip past the third.
sammy - April 17, 2009
Nevermind. It works if I turn off Nexdef.
Man, Nexdef is buggy. Also, water is wet.
sammy - April 17, 2009
The end isn't archived yet
Jeff Sullivan - April 17, 2009
Still waiting for someone to make a gif of this
ralphie81 - April 17, 2009
Would you like someone to wipe your nose for you as well?
Aaron Campeau - April 17, 2009
Give us some god damn time
Jeff Sullivan - April 17, 2009
2:14:27 if you haven't marked the spot yet.
Wilder. - April 17, 2009
Here's one
Jeff Sullivan - April 17, 2009
Silva is loving it. And I like Jak in the background
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
And here's two
Jeff Sullivan - April 17, 2009
The only downside of being at the game was that I couldn't see this on the broadcast.
BrianL - April 17, 2009
Love it
d0nkey - April 17, 2009
Thanks man.
That’s so awesome
dbroncos31 - April 17, 2009
My contribution for the evening:
JI - April 18, 2009
Griffey is the first black person I've seen high five in a while
Jeff Sullivan - April 18, 2009
Sweet
Thanks, Jeff. Sorry for my impatience.
ralphie81 - April 18, 2009
Here is a preview:
Wilder. - April 17, 2009
Please hide/delete this for everyone's sake.
You can do this for the other ones I put together when you have those posted, too.
Wilder. - April 17, 2009
It's almost like you don't want it at all.
JI - April 17, 2009
Find the shot of the bench telling Beltre to lift some weights back at him
Please
d0nkey - April 17, 2009
I want the happy feet dance that Jr did after he'd crossed the plate.
msb - April 17, 2009
These are screenshots I am doing compiled into .gifs, so the quality isn't great:
Wilder. - April 17, 2009
The new format makes it really hard to get a good grab.
I don’t mean to be mean, but doing this is a lot harder than it was last season so unless someone feels like buying me a new computer I’m not going to be making very many.
JI - April 17, 2009
Silva checking Griffey's heart and Bedard doing the gear shift would also be good
That whole exchange was hilarious
OlSalty - April 17, 2009
Err, Sweeney*
OlSalty - April 17, 2009
Ah, would have been 10X better if it was Bedard
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
Go find the .GIF of Felix hitting his Grand Slam
Plenty of Bedard there.
esoteric - April 17, 2009
Best I could do to give you a tease:
Wilder. - April 17, 2009
I just watched the whole sequence on the MLB archive and it's more than just funny - it's downright touching
For whatever reason, the feed doesn’t cut to the the stupid “MLB.TV PREMIUM” commercial screen for a looong time, so you get to see the camera trained on the M’s dugout (as Leyland is making a pitching change) and what you see is awesome: Griffey and Sweeney are leaning up against the railing laughing their asses off about Junior running the bases, jawing at Beltre from second, and smiling like kids. Silva’s standing next to them, participating in the conversation, and then he puts his head against Griffey’s chest, as if to check his heartbeat to make sure he hasn’t seized up or anything. Sweeney’s demeanor the whole time is just infectiously likable — he may not be much of a ballplayer at this point, but it’s easy to see why he has a reputation as a clubhouse guy.
Funny how winning makes everyone like each other, innit?
esoteric - April 17, 2009
How are you getting it on archive? I can only get the first 58 minutes
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
Disable Nexdef
OlSalty - April 17, 2009
Ah I see. Thanks
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
I just jump straight to the 5th inning using that big ass button that appears on the center of the video screen when your cursor moves there.
esoteric - April 17, 2009
One annoying aspect is that, right now at least, the video seems to be several seconds ahead of the sound so everything's out of sync.
esoteric - April 17, 2009
And of course then they recap all of this right after they come back from commercial.
esoteric - April 17, 2009
The best part of that..
Sure they are winning, but even after a couple of tough losses to start the season, they are able to bounce right back. Which would never have happened if last year carried over. It really is a new day, a new way. I love it.
d0nkey - April 17, 2009
Let's not too carried away here
All it takes is a tough losing streak and we could see these people snapping at each other like amped-up box turtles. Winning and losing can both feed upon themselves.
esoteric - April 17, 2009
I wouldn't disagree with that.
I think that winning early is having a lot to do with it. But they way they have carried themselves through some pretty tough losses. And maybe I’m biased, but the Morrow blow felt like getting dumped in high school.
I could be jumping the gun, but I get the feeling that everyone is on the same page. Personally and professionaly.
d0nkey - April 17, 2009
Griffey cleanses clubhouses and purifies souls
And Mike Sweeney talks to foreigners.
cwel87 - April 18, 2009
Felix and Verlander are tied for first in strikeouts.
Fin - April 17, 2009
I look forward to our confrontation next week, Mariners.
Sylar - April 17, 2009
It was painful to watch Yuni at short.
especially with Cedeno on the bench, most of the game.
msb - April 17, 2009
I was looking through some old thread that was linked to in today's thread.
And found this gem:
-SethGrandpa
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/5/10/507375/14-24#6030782
I’m sure someone has brought this up, just thought it was funny that he called the end of the season (basically) on May 11th.
dbroncos31 - April 17, 2009
That's pretty funny
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
In fairness it's not brilliance on my part...
Really, it was fairly easy to see coming.
SethGrandpa - April 18, 2009
Listening to the replay on the archive, I'll say this much: I never want to hear the phrase "Wak Ball" EVER AGAIN
God is that enervating.
esoteric - April 17, 2009
Yea it's ridiculous, but when I said this yesterday lots of people seemed to like the term
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
WHAT THE FUCK WHY DID THE FEED GO DEAD RIGHT AS ICHIRO CAME TO THE PLATE?
esoteric - April 17, 2009
MLB.TV was having an arseload of problems during the game.
ThundaPC - April 17, 2009
But what kind of sick perverted timing is this? This is the part where Ichiro gives us the lead and it's JUST MISSING
esoteric - April 17, 2009
Wait, it's finally here, after two minutes of dead air
Man this is weird stuff.
esoteric - April 17, 2009
Yea, they cut back to just in time for his single.
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
The Tigers feed works, though!
:-/
Wilder. - April 17, 2009
Can't wait to watch the whole inning all over again with the Tigers feed. It'll be funereal.
esoteric - April 17, 2009
I decided to watch the inning on the Tigers broadcast.
Hilarious commentary on Yuni’s at-bat.
Wilder. - April 17, 2009
Indeed it was.
That said, the best version of the inning is (unsurprisingly) Dave going apeshit on the radio.
esoteric - April 18, 2009
Oh, that was fun.
I don’t listen to Dave enough. His voice is made for radio.
Wilder. - April 18, 2009
Just watching Griffey's single again. Anyone else impressed he turned around a high 95 mph fastball and ripped it
into LF?
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
*RF
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
I don't see why the general concensus is that Griffey isn't a great hitter anymore
d0nkey - April 17, 2009
Because the evidence is that he isn't
Jeff Sullivan - April 17, 2009
He's Raul with less contact and more walks
JI - April 17, 2009
If we get out of Griffey what we got out of Raul
I will be beyond ecstatic.
cwel87 - April 18, 2009
Yea, I was watching either Baseball Tonight or the MLB Network and somebody was saying that
pitchers found that they can just blow fastballs by him. So it was nice to see him turn on a high fastball like that. I’m sure he has certainly lost bat speed, but he caught up to that one pretty well.
Rudy4three - April 17, 2009
Generally great hitters hit better than Griffey has
Graham MacAree - April 18, 2009
Well, his results are still pretty good.
Though I will admit I haven’t looked at his process stats recently.
BrettJMiller - April 18, 2009
He was a below league average hitter last season.
Aaron Campeau - April 18, 2009
Well yeah, last season he was clearly and obviously below average.
However, vs. RHP he was pretty good (.841 OPS, I don’t know where you can find LD, BABIP, BB, K ‘s for split stats) and he’s managed a solid small sample size .874 OPS, with a .188 BABIP before tonight (it’s not updated for today)…yeah, his LD is only about 17%, but .188 is still a low BABIP.
I’m not calling him a great hitter, but he can still be above average against RHP. I wasn’t the guy who used “great”, but thus far this season you could call an .874 OPS “great”, even if he is a true talent level above average bat. My issue was with the saying of “Great hitters hit better than Griffey has”…well, I’m sure that’ll be true in a week or two, but an .874 OPS is a great start, low batting average be damned. Great hitters will hit better than Griffey will in the coming weeks, but 11 games into the season, he’s been pretty solid.
BrettJMiller - April 18, 2009
It was supposed to say LD, BABIP, BB, and K %'s (percent sign and 's if it disappears again)
BrettJMiller - April 18, 2009
I guess I don't know what we're arguing here.
He’s been fine.
Aaron Campeau - April 18, 2009
Graham said great hitters have hit better than Griffey.
I said his results so far have been pretty good.
You said he was below average last year.
So, I did some research to show that while below average overall, he was good vs. RHP last year, and has been good thus far.
I didn’t get “He’s been fine” out of “He was below average last year”…I wasn’t trying to argue, just trying to show that while not great, his results have been close to it even if the process is unsustainable, and it’s likely that he continues to be above average. It was the “He was below average last year” statement that led me to believe I had to say something about how he’s been vs. RHP in the recent past.
BrettJMiller - April 18, 2009
I guess I thought your initial statement was meant to imply that he was capable of being a great hitter at this point in his career.
Me pointing out that he was below league average last year was in response to that assumption.
Aaron Campeau - April 18, 2009
Yeah, I should've articulated myself better.
I was just saying that so far this year he’s been pretty good, even if it is admittedly unsustainable.
BrettJMiller - April 18, 2009
My problem with the numbers, is that was while he was a position player.
He is now simply a hitter, and from what I have seen so far has been some really good hitting. Although the numbers so far may not jump out and scream “great”, I feel like his timing is there, and he still has a great eye for the strike zone.
d0nkey - April 18, 2009
I will try to get some facts to back up my argument.
d0nkey - April 18, 2009
I also know it will be a small sample size.
d0nkey - April 18, 2009
Hitters usually see something of a dropoff in production when going to DH full-time.
Aaron Campeau - April 18, 2009
I mentioned it in the GT and I was
JI - April 17, 2009
I was really impressed with Lopez's single during the rally.
He took his timing step for the fastball, but read breaking ball mid-flight and kept his hands back an extra split-second, then ripped the ball down the line. You could actually see him recognize and pause before the swing – I don’t think I’ve ever seen him do that before.
FWombat - April 18, 2009
That's the mark of a good Loafie at-bat
He’s actually pretty good at doing that when the breaking ball is close in on his hands
Graham MacAree - April 18, 2009
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