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4/19: Open Game Thread, Part 2

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I hate baseball
It may suck, but there's a lot of it.
I prefer baseball to stabbing myself with a knife
I just hate Silva.
I miss Russell.
We all do.
Like the desert misses the rain
Russell Branyan is the glue that holds this team together
Mlb.tv has been very unstable this year.
Yeah it just came back with 1 out and a 3-2 count on the second guy.
It's almost as if they just take the money and then laugh.
Yeah, I have Gameday up all the time just in case
I still believe in some late inning comeback magic.
I mean, this game is only half over.
Silva will leave soon enough anyway.
Then we get some hot Corco action.
If you only miss Silva scheduled starts

You will have approximately 90-100 hours to work on personal development, such as:

Fitness
Writing a Memoir
Tending a garden
Spending time with lonely loved ones
Volunteer work

Not that anyone here cares

but James McDonald has some awful control, 41 strikes, 34 balls so far.

How is that even possible?
I don't know

but he only has 1 walk so far and 2 Ks 4 hits allowed and 1 hit batter. And he’s pitching a shut out.

I wish we had a young promising hitter or two in the lineup, to at least make

watching our offense somewhat interesting. Watching aging veterans make outs is quite boring

The only person that really fits that description today is Griffey.
Burke as well. It's more about the lack of promising young hitters

that will be a part of this team’s future.

We'd probably losing like 6-1 right now without good defense
Last year it would be 6-1 for sure
Uhh we had Beltre last year
mlb.tv sure is good at not going to commercial breaks
It's really annoying on radio
It's trying and failing

Much like this offense.

YES WHAT IS THAT MUSIC
Take Me Out to the Ballgame on banjo
That sounds better than sex
Bottom of the order coming up, our strong point!
Burkie makes me sleepie
Help is on the way.

Lowe in the bullpen, thank god.

Ronny Cedeno has Rick Porcello's number.
Ronny Cedeno wears #3
I can't quite tell whether you're being sarcastic or whether you actually missed the meaning of what I said.
Sweet, we get a Mark Lowe sighting today.
Let's do it Ronny

Own this guy again.

Whoever does the local Bud ads on KIRO

calls it “An-how-ser” Busch.
That mispronounciation still isn’t as annoying as Pepsi MAX guy.

God this team was so exciting up until this weekend

I miss it

At least they're quick!
56 pitches through 4.2 innings? Against the Mariners? No way.
This offense is offensive.
So Gutierrez can't hit at all?
The Florida State League

scored more runs against this guy than we have.

Oh God we look terrible.
Good inning guys.
Ball four!
Not if you swing.
GOD FUCK THIS!!
This doesn't sound like the type of request typically made of God
But if he really loves you like he says then he'll do it
Instead of watching Silva pitch next weekend, I'm just going to forcefeed myself a beehive.
I recommend this choice.
Really fucking hate those bank commericals with the fat bald retard
Me too, M's need to start showing better commericals.

Or at least different ones.

Radio's breaking the "no politics" rule...
It appears that our offense is exceptionally bad
Gutierrez fooled me that first series. He really can't hit.
He's streaky
I think he just stinks at hitting.
I don't think this is true
He hit alright as recently as 2007
That was an adequate year. He was bad last year.
He was well above average for a CFer

I don’t get why you’d want to give up on a 26 year old player because he’s had one bad week.

I am talking about him as purely a hitter. I said nothing about his defense or his

overall value. I also did not say anything about getting rid of him. I just said he’s not a good hitter.

And I'm saying it's too early to tell because it's been one week
JI was saying he was a well above average hitter for a center fielder.

Not that he was well above average value wise for a center fielder. Though with his defense, he undoubtedly was.

I believe.
Do you think he's not good or do you think he stinks?

Those are two very different things and I only agree with one of them.

I would say right now he's not good

but the potential for adequacy is real

Adequacy != good

but yes.

I would say adequate hitters are valuable

But it’s just semantics at this point

I don't think he's good.
That is... so sad.
Mike Blowers is almost certainly trying to sleep with the Rally Fry lady (Cynthia)
Well Silva was bad but at least we're still somewhat in the game
I think the pie in Tigers fan's face is the highlight of today's game.
Hey cool doom slider.
How many swinging strikes did Silva get today?
2

1 fastball, 1 change

So Lower got that in 4% of the pitches it took Silva

Nice

Think I'll go for a stroll.
Yeah I'm off to the bar to catch the rest of this
Lowe in? Guess I can toss MLB.TV back up
Well I'm glad things went right for us for almost 2 weeks before they turned to shit
4k inning for Lowe, coming right up.
Burke amost has a "I wish I was still in Tacoma" look on his face.
I like the combination of Lowe and Kelley for a reliable bullpen
In my opinion Morrow is better.
Not quite reliable though
Apparently neither is Lowe
As long as Wak doesn't break Lowe.
Lowe cannot be relied upon yet
Nice play Burke. I like how he was yawning as he walked the ball back in.
The strikezone is gone!
It's back
J E F F

C L E M E N T

So I am trying to slowly indoctrinate my girlfriend to the intricacies of Baseball.

 She almost came over to watch this game with me. I am very glad she didn’t.

It would have been good for her to see the level of anger baseball is capable of generating.
I want her to like it though.

And this game makes me more frustrated and apathetic than angry.

Niehaus misread the Rangers score.

Still 5-3, end of 7.

Maybe he was trying to read it off the outfield scoreboard?
81% fastballs for Silva today
Lots of grounders though
I'm going to make a rally Wal-Mart run

We better be winning when we get back

Purchase one quart of ham salad for every run the M's need.
A gallon of ham salad

Dat’s a lotta ham salad!

Oh haiyyy! Gonna need some help eating that ham salad?
Guillen is still a fucking nightmare up there.
Carlos Quentin is up to his old antics again...

And wow this is fucking horrible everything is going right for the Tigers

Guillen?
No, I was quoting Blowers
FUCK BILL BAVASI AND RAMON SANTIAGO

AND JAMIE BURKE

I want to trade for Adam Everett

Extremes are the funniest

This is not going well, at all.
I think I shall turn this game off and do laundry.

Laundry!

This is your fault,

Jamie Burke.

Five no-hit innings for Randy
Bless you
Six!
The hilarious thing is that you just know that the first hit RJ gives up with either tie the game or give the lead to the DBacks.

That’s what you get for pitching behind the Giants’ lineup.

Oh no, I'm fully expecting a no hitter here.

Why? Because fuck me, thats why.

I missed bothhis no hitters and I'm not missing this one.
It didn't even occur to me until right now that he is doing this against the team that lowballed him in the offseason.
I think if Arizona faced Seattle, the game might go 20 innings before a run is scored.
Way to drop the third strike Burkey,.
He had little shot at that ball.
I didn't see it.

But they scored it a WP. Was it easily handle-able by Burke?

Batista in the pen.

Wak waving the white flag.

Turn out Derek Lowe can't pitch

might as well DFA him

Derek Lowe?
We signed him over the off season.

Lookout Landing told me so.

We're about 2 pitches away from me turning this game off.
No god dammnit don't warm Batista up
I guess I'll just start drinking, nothing wrong with that, right?

I need help.

What a shitty game
Pavano in NY today: 6 IP, 1 R, 4 K
The Yankees want him to know they don't like him.

WTF? What is that supposed to be? Closed captioning for the hearing impaired?
I think so.
I think so, yes

And that is fucking hilarious. Hahahahaha

The scoreboards at both NY arks are entirely too big

Reverse Safeco!

Yeah this game's over
God bless it
Game off.

Night guys./

Forget first place
Everyone else is losing too!
Laugh it up Yuni... Losing is fun, right your dirty fuck
Remember how we were all laughing at the Yankees yesterday?

It might have been too soon.

Bettin on Treanor getting his first hit of the year here
His first RBI at the very least.
Nope, thank God Beltre is so reliable
Well, I guess that's why you shouldn't play retarded gentle giants in your lineup.
Well, that could have been way worse.
Beltre is awesome
I'm going to regret saying this but we may still have a very small chance
That's really going out on a limb
But in reality no at this point triumph is impossible
As recently as two days ago we were on a boat.
Doing and flips and shit
But then we messed up one of the flips and ended up in the water =(
With Carlos Silva as our life preserver

frownfrown

He floats.

Because he’s fat. lawl

Actually, we were supposed to use Silva to get back on the boat

he was going to save us!

Somebody sank the boat.
Fuck trees; we were climbing buoys.
I know, right
Anything is possible, except a tiny baby counting every grain of sand in the world in a fraction of a second
This is a strange comment
Strange but true
So the only run to score is the one who got on because of Burkie's oopsie.
Royals on the verge of blowing lead in the 8th. Fuck.
I hate this team
This game stinks.
I'm thinking of changing over to the Giants game.

Hearing Jon Miller calling what might be a piece of history? That would be so much cooler than this shit.

Sunday Night Baseball tonight

Jon Miller missing, I assume

Wtf is Endy doing tonight

and why is Griffey still getting such a loud ovation even though he’s sucking horribly today

The name on the back of his jersey means we'll cut him slack for a while.

Not for much longer.

Well, I see Endy finally made his way over from New York.

Welcome, Endy!

Does anyone have a single ounce of faith in Griffey?
Everyone at that game does, I'm sure
He usually finds a way to get on base once or twice a game
He's going to hit a lot of grounders this year.
Getting on base one out of every 4 plate appearances is not good.
We fucking suck this is miserable
And the Rangers have tied it.

Fuck this sport.

The Rangers shortstop might be two people

“Elvis and Russ?”

Blowers hates himself.
Pedro Sandoval just tripled and was compared to a horse.
Now it's funny.
Pablo?
I heard Pedro

but basically the same thing

WHY THE FUCK AREN'T WE WINNING YET
Not enough small ball...
Vintage start by Batista to the inning.

Base hit.

He' more of a dude that walks people rather than giving up many basehits
Good point, he's pretty good at both.
Elvis Andrus has an OPS approaching 1.000 and Jeff Clement can't hit major league pitching.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

The Seattle Fucking Mariners are also 7-3
8-4
Wait, what's our record?
8-4

Well….8-5.

Soon to be 9-4 after the impending 15 run inning!
They've won more than seven games

Lost more also.

"Not a law firm but a dawg gone good double play"
James McDonald's final line

4.1 IP 95 pitches, 50 strikes, 45 balls, 4 hits, 3 walks, 1 HBP, 1 WP 2 SO, 0 R 0 ER

Rockies should’ve taken more pitches.

I hate this game.

But I do like the RRS commercial.

We better win on Tuesday I'm gonna be at the game
Frank Francisco looks like he's shutting down the Royals

Young, Hamilton, Jones in the bottom of the ninth against Soria should be good.

Fuck teams willing to go over slot.
I hate Inge on so many different levels.
I fucking hate everyone god dammit
Ryan Roberts(who?) breaks up RJ's no-no with a leadoff double.
I wish Inge were a Mariner but since he is not I hate him
Warning Track Power tm.
I hate this park
Move in the fences
Should have done that when A-Rod asked us to.
Should've re-signed A-Rod
This is so depressing
Yuninininini
WHAT IN THE FUCK YUNI GETS ONE NICE HIT AND IT HAS TO BE RUINED
Jesus nice couple of plays by Inge
OH FUCK YOU INGE
Fuck you Inge
Inge is on my hit list
I think Brandon Inge should be our target when Beltre leaves
I wish Inge would get stabbed
This is becoming embarrassing.

And I still hate Inge.

Strolling did nothing to improve this game.

it’s very pleasant outside, however.

Rangers win
Walk off by Michael Young, off Soria.

Theme of The Natural playing on The Ballpark’s PA.

Micheal Young just went yard. Ballgame.
One of these Miggys is not like the other.
I wish our offense didn't go in ridiculous slumps
Still 2.5 up.

I’ll take it.

Oh hey,

Another Tigers starter that made it through 7 innings.

I'm glad we were able to give their pitching some confidence

Nice play Betancourt

Screw this game, I'm watching Idiocracy.
Why come you don't got no tattoo?
Fuck wish I had known it was on
Nice defence by Yuni, good lord.
SO Yuni lines it at Inge, OUT

Inge grounds weakly to Yuni, SAFE.

HOLY BALLS YUNI
Awesome

Scott Elbert with an RBI double, I love when relief pitchers get hits.

Get the fuck of this team, Betancourt.

Now.

Well

Yuni sucks.

TIME TO SEND THAT HORSE TO THE GLUE FACTORY
The Yuniwheels are coming off
Let's send Yuni back to Cuba
Yuni covers his glove and hand with vaseline before each half inning
HAHAHA It's the Yuniesky Show ladies and gents!

Step right up and watch Ronny Cedeno wet himself.

Yuni needs about a week off, clear his head, cause this is insane.
The M's are about to have lost 3 of their last 4 games!
Griffey gets to that
Batista and Yuni SUCK!
GOD

FUCK YOU CHAVEZ DID YOU SNIFF SOME IBANEZ GLUE

Fuck this team. I'm outta here.
I think we're in good shape guys
HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY
Miggytime! Miggytime!
This is unbelievable.

The most depressing day of baseball yet.

WHY DOES RAMON SANTIAGO HAVE 5 RBIs
TIme to eat. It's been fun.

Fuck you M’s/

hahahahahahah, fuck you Yuni.
Only 149 games until 2010
Like we'll be any better...
I was kinda hoping that would happen.

Inning should’ve been over.

Ironically enough, Batista has done a decent enough job.
Comeback time!
I'll bet you $40 right now we don't come within 5 runs
I will take this bet only on the grounds that you are not able to and will not ever be able to collect from me
It could be worse.

At least it’s not 2008.

Well at least the only 2 teams that we're going to have to compete with lost

But the Angels are going to be significantly better when their SP is more intact, so this isn’t really the time to be glad to hold a 2.5 game lead, this is our chance to build a decent lead in the division. We’re kinda fucking that up.

This is the problem with scoreboard watching in April.
Batista forgot how many outs there were.

That was your 4th out, man.

I'm starting to think Miguel Batista might be a bad pitcher.
Surely this isn't his fault.

He got two double play balls in a row that Yuni booted.

I'm starting to think you know what you are talking about
You forgot the 'not'.
I chose my words carefully.
Clement comma J
Ryan Perry would fit right in in the Mariners bullpen
First round pick?
He just through a breaking ball,

so now I disagree.

I like Sims trying to pronounce Gutierrez the correct way
False hope!
2 outs, SO WHAT?!
Unable to hit ball out infield, SO WHAT?!
Ahahahaha classic Ichiro
He's like a regular Endy Chavez
Leyland you idiot,

it was a ground out and you take the guy out with an 8-1 lead, why make this game last any FUCKING LONGER YOU COCK!?

RALLY RALLY RALLY
8-2, yippie!

Nice job by Endy

Endy will save us.
Pretend it's Francisco Liriano!
Thankfully Junior will end this inning quickly
GRAND SLAM TIME
3 run Grand Slam?
With only two runners on?
Junior can do anything.

He built Safeco on his own.

In the 8th?
Whoa shocking another bounce out
You suck Griffey.
Endy has a brother named Ender.
We've already made a picture.
Griffey is fucking helpless against lefties
Is the Cubs-Cards game really postponed or is mlb.tv going nuts?
Everywhere I've looked says it's postponed

Which is very disappointing to me

Rain?
Frogs.
Cats and dogs.

Living together.

Postponed, which is odd

It’s been constantly gray and drizzly, but nothing heavy.

Perhaps there’s something worse on the way.

Boy did this thread ever die a death.
Being down 7 runs will do that

Now 6 runs though!

I just popped in to see if the Yuni meltdown here was as glorious as the one in my apartment.

Bench that fucker.

I'm just wondering if Nemesis will bring the Furies when she calls on Yuni.
Yahoo fantasy baseball stat trackers says the last play for the Rockies game was

undefined single to left

Right*
It was neither a GB, LD, or FB?
No it says the players name was undefined lol

“undefined singled to right”

I guess it could've been anyone
Pull hitter!
Sweeney stretches like a third grader
Good AB Yuni

He had a real good day.

He saw 3 freaking pitches.

WOW.

So did Beltre
Beltre still somehow sucked less... I just know it
Kinda a toss up today.

Yuni’s errors are the tie breaker.

I meant specifically in their ABs in the 9th
Oh, ok.

In which case, I agree. Beltre’s was better.

Yuni definitely sucked more today in general, Beltre had 2 great plays and a hit
Some guy booed Yuni quite loudly.
People notice who is good and who is bad sometimes
That was Graham.
It was clearly a man with a deep voice...
That was Graham.
I was taken aback myself, but it was Graham.
Was it just booing or insults?
Just booing.

Though he did tell someone who gave him stink eye “I wouldn’t boo him if he was good.” I think that’s what he said anyway.

I'm pretty good a booing
That would've been an awesome groundout.
Rallyrallyrallyrallyrally
If Cedeno hits a three-run HR here, we'll only need one more 3-run HR to tie it
Man the remaining 2,000 fans are getting pumped
Thats the second time today that Sims called right field left field
He called Fernando Rodney Francisco Rodney like 4 times last night too
And thankfully, it's over.
Silva loses again, someone is getting thrown against a wall.
We drew four walks in this series.
What a shitty 2 days for sports.
I'm just glad I picked Friday's game to go to
Fuck

That sucked. I can’t believe I got up early for that. :p

I don't know if anyone mentioned this

But today at the game, the stupid “Ask the M’s” question was “What was your favorite toy as a child?” Most players said the obvious (bat, ball, glove). Aardsma said his stuffed bear.

Corcoran said “Mud.”

Aardsma's bear was named Brewster!
Yep, I saw the mud thing, too

I love Roy. And Brewster.

Hilarious.
While our offense would still probably struggle.

Having Clement and Balentien in the back end of the order would at least give this team some potential to actually get extra base hits. Of course you have to weigh the defense vs offense thing when talking Chavez vs Wlad.

However, the way Johnson and Burke have looked defensively, Im not so sure how much of a defensive downgrade Clement could possibly be.

Apparently, Carlos Silva isn't going to regress to the mean.

Maybe he ate it last year or something.

I don’t know what’s more frustrating, watching him pitch or realizing it’s a tossup between him, Beluga Tits and Jakubauskas as to who’s the second-best right-handed starting pitcher in the organization, thanks to Morrow closing.

When Clement comes up he sould be like:

“I heard you guys need a bailout”

Cedeno hit a HR today hopefully that influences the team to give him more starts at SS…

So 2nd time we lost 2 in a row maybe we’re gonna hit another 6 game winning streak or something.

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