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4/25: Open Game Thread Part 2

This game is surprisingly stressful for a 5 run lead.

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This is what you get when you follow Carlos Silva up with Miguel Batista
Yeah, there should be a rule about that.

It’s not fair to the fans or the other teammates.

LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE
LOAFIE RANGE!?
HOLY SHIT LOAFIE YOU MAGNIFICENT FUCK
HOLY SHIT LOAFIE YOU MAGNIFICENT FUCK
Mike Sweeney has back spasms
Russell Branyan has back spasm too.
Just one?

You wouldn’t think that would keep him out of the lineup for a week

It was one really long spasm
It was a motherfucker of a spasm.

Whole set of discs just seized up on him, he looked like a paralytic inchworm.

Game over

in the 7th!

YES LOPEZ YES!
Lopez saves the day!
That's the second time tonight he's gotten to a ball up the middle that, off the bat, I thought would get through.

That’s refreshing

Loafie is kinda slow out there, but he's never been the black hole of indifferent-to-surly suck that Yuni has become.
And I wonder if it was positioning more than range.

He squared up in front of a ball I thought he’d have to dive for. Maybe he’s playing a little more up the middle than I’m used to? I don’t know. Whatever. It’s nice.

Tits leaves with a respectable enough 2 inning relief appearance, too.

Though we who saw it will know otherwise.

First inning was great
Well, there was at least one well hit ball, IIRC.

But yes, it was just fine.

Neihaus' voice over Peanuts piano music is excellent

One of the few Mariner FSN commercials I don’t find horribly annoying

I disagree about the level of stress.

Nice to see Lopez showing off some range.

That was a good catch for Loafie.
Checking in
We're going to the WS!
Free Jeffie!
Screw you Rob Johnson
So the pitchers like to throw to weak hitting catchers.
Yuni being Yuni
I can't imagine how opposing pitchers prepare to face him...

only throw balls, only throw balls, only throw balls

Wow Yuni you are bad
Yuni looks like shit

Whenever he makes contact it all looks entirely accidental

I'm having such difficulty seeing anything redeeming about him at this point.
He runs funny
He still looks uncannily like a California Raisin

I guess I like that a lot

Yuni for Pasture!
3 hits for Ichiro
God Ichiro is fantastic....
ICHIRO

3 hits woo

And Ichiro looks fine.
Ichiro is magic!!!!
ICHIRO

I still don’t know how he does it

Chronic back spasms.
If I could have a spasm anywhere, I would want it on my back
I was worried that the missed time might hurt his quest for 200 this season, given his typically slow starts

But he’s just made up for it by coming right out of the gate this time.

When Ichiro struggles, I often wonder silently to myself if age is catching up to him or if he needs to change his approach because pitchers have him figured out

And then he goes and has several 3 for 4 games and I realize how stupid I am for thinking that.

It's bound to happen someday, and he is getting up there.

It’s not stupid to worry.

Yeah, but on the other hand he's Ichiro

It honestly wouldn’t surprise me much if he hardly declines over the remainder of his contract.

I wouldn't be surprised either.

I’m just trying to temper my expectations by reminding myself that is probably human.

It's that .0001% chance that he isn't human that keeps me going

My theory: cyborg sent from future

would that be unnecessary?
God the slo-mo Ichiro. So hot.
I think that Ichi suffers from BJ Upton Syndrome

In that they make everything they do look easy, so they get accused of laziness or selfishness.

Also they look exactly alike
Exactly.

He makes the magical ordinary.

Pop quiz:

Why does Ichiro get called “selfish” and Upton get called “lazy” for the same thing

Gotta be a racial thing.
East coast bias

(racism)

A: Because Ichiro is short
Where's Endy?
CF

He doesn’t quite have the range to get to that.

Oh shit, my bad.
I guess I should have said:

Why has Gutierrez not come in as a defensive replacement?

Day off for an eye infection
Shows how much I've been paying attention.
That will teach him to get his eyebrows waxed.
WHO NEEDS HIM? WOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Please try to not be old Lowe, new Lowe
I don't know if this has been mentioned but according to Angels announcers

We’re about to send them to their first sub-.500 month since June 2006

Nice.
They are this year's Mariners.
For any other team I wouldn't care, but that is fantastic.

It’s also very nice to talk to my A’s fan co-worker, who thought I was insane when I told her that the AL West was wide open and the Angels aren’t really all that good. SSS, of course, but it’s reassuring to know that I wasn’t crazy.

Its also nice to prove that the Mariners aren't as terrible as people thought they would be.
Lots o' season left
Absolutely.

I didn’t expect a .500 team, but I expected it to be just a few wins under. People seem to rank teams according to one factor: How many games they won last year. SI picked the Angels to win the World Series after an offseason in which they got considerably worse. BUT 100 WINS!

STRIKES...STRIKES....PLEASE!!
Theory:

Since Silva is a dick to the team, they are conspiring to take away his W by letting the game tie and then Ichiro will homer on command in the 10th

Entirely plausible
Could do with a popup here
Your wish has been granted
[passive voice -Ed.]
Your wish is granted
Congrats, that was your one and only wish, ever
You're spoiled
Prediction: The M's will clinch the West on a lazy popup to Beltre in foul territory off a letters-high Morrow fastball

The batter will be, oh, Jack Cust, let’s say.

TAKE IT TO THE BANK

People will pile so high on top of Johjima that when his back spasms Endy Chavez will be flung several yards
So are they going to start Joh when he comes off the DL?
That will be a good test of Wak's basic ability to think!
Yeah, if he allows Rob Johnson to keep being a complete fuck up instead of starting Johjima, he can't think.
Lowe once again I fucking love you and think you're awesome but throw strikes.
What the fuck was that?
Has anyone else noticed that Rob Johnson frequently runs/shuffles off to his right
Rob Johnson just unnecessarily ran about 20 feet to his left
Had to make it look special!

That’s the grit and hustle people love.

Lowe's got some pretty fancy bling
Omar Vizquel wouldn't like it
Oh God.

Someone grab the controls! We need to stop this!

There's these things called strikes I heard a myth about once.
I heard about one in 1994
Dave Sims said Aardsma and Morrow where our most consistent strike thrower.
Gun being raised to head...
Can we hurry up here, Lowe?
How the fuck is that indifference?

More like really shitty catching

And now it's going to be Morrow time in the 9th.

Great.

FUCK EVERYTHING
We're still ahead
GTE

I just want this series so bad. I want to win every game by 20 runs.

Get out of my MIND!!!
THE ANGELS ARE AS OBNOXIOUS AS THE SUN IS HOT
Lowe plus no control is no fun...
So Lowe is no fun?
COCK FUCK SHITTING NUTS OF AN ASS FUCK WITH ASS IN THE BALLS SHIT ASS
We're still ahead
What? Oh, I know, I just accidentally stepped on my penis
That would also do it
Maybe he stubbed his toe
I stubbed it with my penis
I remember why I don't trust Lowe now.
Hey let's look on the bright side

We get to see Morrow tonight…

Hey, Mark

FUCK YOU.

I blame diabetes.
Sean Kelley will save us!
When did Lowe start pitching like Carlos Silva?
Wonder if we'll see the Lowe that first got called up?
Yay for inconsistency!
He consistently sucks...
=\

Leave Mark Lowe alone!

Hey, Teacher...Leave Mark Low alone!
We just went from 98% win probability to 94%
And here we were fretting about Batista ...
WLAAAAAAAD!!11
HOLY FUCK BALENTIEN!
WLA WLA I WLOVE YOU
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Sweet Tits that was fantastic!
OH SWEET JESUS THANK YOU WLAD
BALANTIEN?
I saw someone with a Balantien jersey in my section, autographed by Balentien.

I wonder if Wlad had the hear to tell him he’d spent $250 to spell his name wrong.

I saw someone with a Balentien jersey that was half white, half alternate navy blue

I was thinking, what a waste to get it with Balentien.

That play by Balentien was so fantastic I was dumbfounded, amazing defensive move by Balentien.
Good grief that was ... interesting
Thank you Wlad!!
Fuck the stupid match 4.
BALENTIEN MADE THE CATCH

THAT WAS UNCOMFORTABLE TO WATCH

HOLY JESUS WLAD.
Guys what if Wlad is really good

Guys

Guys what if he rules so much

Guys

Diving catch

Seeing eye single

HR off Ortega

Franchise savior

WLAD!!!

Game has to be close for our relievers to be any good.
Well, I called 11-6 Ms after 8 innings.

Wasn’t too far off.

I see which team you really favor.
Aardsma throwing and not Morrow?
Maybe Morrow forgot his insulin today.
I just hope Aardsma doesn't get burned out by August

ala Sean Green

We're going with closer by committee, remember?

Wait

Aardsma time.
Why the fuck is Lance Armstrong sitting next to Wlad
Wait where?
That's his twin brother Wlance
Are you serious? I'm radio only.

And a big fan of Lance. Picture or it didn’t happen!

It wasn't him

It was a guy wearing a funny tight yellow shirt…sorry to get you excited..

Ahh. You got me, good one. Figured anything is possible and Armstrong has that broken collarbone.
Ahh. You got me, good one. Figured anything is possible and Armstrong has that broken collarbone.
He's still training for the tour.
Like Kevin Garnett?
Come on Beltre
Beltre is pressing a bit
This is the best pitcher we've seen tonight.
The 6 guys that have been in the pen all year

All at least 6 1/3 innings
All at most 7 2/3 innings

Interesting

Suggests to me that Wak is, in some part, still managing like the team isn’t contending, testing out his pen in various situations to see who will step up.

Makes me think about when he brought in Aardsma to face that lefty in game 3

What do you think that would look like if Wak had 3 lefties in the bullpen?

I love his bullpen management, but it’s not he’s had the opportunity to get match up crazy.

Blah

Morrow time

Nope!
Fett42

you got slurved bitch!

That was uncalled for and mean-spirited
Aardsma time.
Aardsma time, hold your breath.
I thought Arredondo was overrated

But that was pretty compelling evidence otherwise

Who the fuck are some of these posters by the way
Yahooligans!
I've been lurking since pre-Yahoo but I'm proud to be a hooligan

What if I become a scallywag

You've got mad rhymes my man, I think you broke the ice pretty quickly.
I still don't get why Lowe wasn't yanked one batter earlier

He could only throw strikes with the fastball and even at 95 that’s hittable

You know what I was thinking.

Any time a casual fan thinks of the Mariners, they are always reminded of those glory days. Griffey, Buhner, Edgar, Randy Johnson, Dan Wilson, etc. They sometimes even say that they would go to a game if they got all those players again. It had me wondering, I know that they were good, but it seems fans grow more of an affection to the players than the team as a whole (Griffey, Wilson are good examples). Is this a result of the team actually playing good, or did the Mariners just have really good PR/Marketing back then?

I'm pretty convinced winning is 95% of profits success
We had an incredible team.

If our pitching had been stronger we would have been a dynasty from 97-03.

A-rod
Griffey
Edgar
Buhner

That’s a serial murderer’s row

Those guys made a core that spanned a couple era's of team turnover. Griffey got there first, and was just about the only bright spot most times.

Buhner had personality and bombs. Edgar was just great, and Dave Niehaus loved him (and all those guys, you can hear it in his voice when somebody is special).

I should have prefaced this with "in my opinion", wow this sounds officious.
Here we go.

Dear Mr. Aardsma,

I have a weak heart. Please don’t do anything to strain it.

Thanks,

Me

Dear ImaginaryRomances,

Fuck you.

Sincerely,

David Aardsma

Cmon Aards let's do this shit
I don't mind Aardsma so much. I'm not afraid.

Granted, I just turned Gameday on so I have no idea how the game went, but still.

I like him, but he's definitely a little wild.
He's a bit like you then?
He and I are a bit much for this world.
Tigers, both of you.
oh....snap?
Well this is discouraging

fuck fuck fuck

Are they really trying to win for Silva Dave?

I think they’re just trying to win and no one cares about Silva.

Throw strikes you bag of dicks
GIVE US THAT PITCH YOU ASSHOLE
Yay for all around bullpen suckage!
If you have blood pressure issues, you should probably turn your tv off now.
Johnson: THROW STIKES DICK

Aardsma: Oh, ok!

Warm up Morrow, just in case.
Ah, Graham is here. Things are well in hand.
1 down!

Heart is hurting.

Is Morrow warming up, just in case?
I'm considering having this fucking cueball arrested for attempted murder.
They just talked about Torii's god damn ducking walk off grand slam last year
Did I really just say ducking
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
I feel like Aardsma should throw harder than 93 if he is to be as cocky with his fastball as he is
Aardsma throwing to Johnson is like that scene in "Meet the Feebles" where the knife thrower with the heroin withdrawal shakes is throwing them at the retarded hedgehog
SHIT FUCK BALL FUCK YOU TORII
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
MOTHERFUCKER

FUCK FUCK FUCK

He caught up to that one
Oh for fuck's shit
Holy crap, this can't be happening.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

FUCK YOU!

JESUS CHRIST morrorw
YOU MOTHERFUCKER
God I hate Torii Hunter so fucking much.
GOD DAMN FUCKING ASS BALLS TORII HUNTER
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
I want to choke that monkey
What did Yuni have to do with it?
Uh-oh

Here comes the Bullpen homeruns.

Regression is a bitch!
Well thank God we had a three run lead.
NO NO NO NO NO

SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT

MORROW MORROW MORROW MORROW MORROW
Okay whose fuckng birthday is it.
This is the only possible explanation.
FUCK YOU TORII HUNTER!!
FUCK YOU TORII HUNTER FUCK YOU TORII HUNTER FUCK YOU TORII HUNTER

FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

TORII'S GOTTA RUIN OUR DAY

THAT MOTHERFUCKER

God damnnnnnnit
Time to cry.
What the fuck!

Why is this happening to me? How do you throw that pitch in this situation? How?

FUCK FUCK FUCK

JUST GET 2 FUCKING OUTS

Jesus 7 HR in 17 games for him
HUNTER, YOU DIRTY DOUCHEBAG
No. Please Jeebus.
Silva is going to go apeshit
Come the fuck on Aardsma
BRING IN MORROW GODDAMNIT
FUCK THAT DICK KNOT WITH A RUSTY MAILBOX POST
This will just crush their hearts even more when they lose tonight
Get the fuck out of here Aardsma
I go to the bathroom. Only to come back to see the M's are the ones who took a dump.
Actually Torii Hunter took a dump on the Mariners.
STRIKES ASSHOLE!
I THINK THEY'RE LOOKING FOR THE FASTBALL UP, YOU FUCKER
NEW PITCHER FOR FUCKS SAKES
What the hell, Aardsma?
Throw fucking strikes! JESUS CHRIST!
BRING IN MORROW DAMMIT!
What the fuck is going on?
The god damn angels our ruining our shit again
Now the lockdown pitching will come?
THROW A MOTHERFUCKINS TRIEK YOU FUCKING DICKBAGNUGGET
Get back in the box penis smoker...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHJHASDFKJADS;LKFJ ADSF
JESUS CHRIST
I don't get why he didn't just fucking bring in Morrow
OH MY GOD FUCK THAT WAS CLOSE DONT DONT DONT DONT
FUUUUUUCKKKK THAT WAS CLOSE!
HEART ATTACK HEART ATTACK HEART ATTACK
More strikes

And not of the type one smacks around out of the yard

That was dangerously close

BUT TWO OUTS BITCHES!

He needs to throw something BESIDES a fastball.
Besides a fucking belt high fastball in the middle of the plate.
And holy shit that scared the bleeding fuck out of me
I GOT A BRATWURST STUCK IN MY AORTA
FUCK YOU AARDSVARK

My heart stopped for a second.

Why can't we just have a nice comfortable blowout?
Is Morrow warming up? Please let it be yes.
Oh my fucking god.

My heart asplode.

So that was right down the middle, Angel fans. Quit your bitching. (the 3-1 pitch)
"Run of the mill" out.

Come on, Aardsma. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me with this shit.

OH MY GOD I ALMOST DIED THERE
Napoli scares the fuck out of me
Okay heart, start beating again
THIS IS LIKE WATCHING THORNTON BUT NOW THE GAMES MATTER
Button your jersey douche
The pathetic thing is that if Aardsma records the out here

he still gets a save for the shitty performance.

To be fair

Saves are useless.

That's kind of the point I was trying to make.
He can have it, because we got it.
One more strike.

Please.

No no no no I hate Napoli
THROW A SLIDER IN THE DIRT NOW
COME ON DAVID LOWER LOWER LOWER LOWER
YES!

Fuck yeah.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

K

WIN!

WIN! Oh my God!

YES YES WIN WIN WIN KKKKKKKK
PHEW

Seriously, what the fuck

Cock Sandwich!

That was almost really really bad…

That was completely fitting for a Silva win
YES THANK FUCKING GOD

I’m actually happy for Silva.

I'm running some hoodoo on Napoli right the fuck now
The Aardvark is silly.

Finally, he wins on a slider.

WAY to close.

Hahahahahahahah

This is funny as hell.

A WIN IS A WIN. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS ABOUT THIS GAME ANYMORE.
Take that to the bank!
WINNING SHOULD NOT BE THIS STRESSFUL!!!!
I WAS ABOUT TO DISOWN YOU DAVID.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I love how much fun Dave is having this year.
This wasn't supposed to be a reply.
MARINERS! YES!!! 11-6? REALLY?
12-6 actually.
I THOUGHT MAYBE 12-6 BUT I WAS TOO SCARED TO HOPE

IT IS A HAPPY MISTAKE

12-6

We’re on a boat!

Grab a paddle, Mark!
Never thought I'd see the day

When a big boat coming my way
Believe me when I say I fucked a mermaid!

ON A MOTHERFUCKING BOAT
Poseidon, look at us
Take a picture trick!
IF AARDSMA PROMISES TO NEVER DO THAT AGAIN

I WILL SACRIFICE A VIRGIN

Suicide is illegal
Thanks for making it interesting. But really you guys didn't have to. Next just hold the 5 run lead, boring is fun too.
OH MY GOD!!!!! WIN!!!

AND AARON CURRY!

And our QB of the future next year!
YES YES YES!! BRADFORD!
Bahahaha poor Robert.
What's Robert got against Bradford?
I think it's just his Hasselbeck love.

Any other quarterback would elicit a similar response.

Well we all love Matt.
We do?
I think so. I don't know too many people that aren't Hasselbeck fans.
My dad, but he's a moron.

Robert shouldn’t worry anyway, if we draft a QB next year he’ll sit on the bench behind Hass for at least one year.

When I was growing up, my dad despised every Hawks QB, including the rare good ones.

I thought Dave Krieg was one of the worst quarterbacks in history because of my dad.

Hasselbeck is a bum.

Any QB can perform like he did with the OF line we had..

How do you explain 2007?
Nate Burleson?

I guess I just never jumped on the Hasselbeck bandwagon.

Nate Burleson isn't special.
Nate Burleson is terrible.
Nate Burleson fucking sucks
Also he's probably the best QB Seattle's ever had statistically.

Not to mention, he’s not one who is going to make a lot of bad decisions. When he’s healthy, he’s a top 10 QB in the league

I will take back the bum comment.

But I still don’t like him.

Acceptable
I don't follow football like I do baseball.

But he always seemed to throw god awful passes in the last few minutes of a game where we were behind. I suppose that happens often given the situation, but those really stand out for me.

Yeah, but he was also tied or 2nd to only Peyton Manning in game winning/tying drives while behind in the 4th quarter

At least he was in 2007. They put some statistic on screen for the come from behind win against the Bengals.

Funny how the brain only wants to see the bad and not the good eh?
It's true.

I think part of it is how his blunders are usually done in memorable fashion. Like “We want the ball, and we’re gonna score!”

Especially for us Seattle sports fans, it's easy to take the good times for granted.
He seemed like an ok guy.
Robert's going to hurl himself off a building the moment the team selects a QB.
Well that's stupid
And Max Unger and a first round pick for next year!
YES! Fucking great day for both teams!
ME WANT SWEEP
I bet Branyon like NASCAR.
Game was way too interesting at the end.

But hurrah for bullpen regression not costing us the game.

Hang on....

Well, that was proof it mattered that we kept scoring…

Any words on Curry. Does he become a pro-bowl player?
At least Silva isn't winless

He’s still a bust, but not a winless bust…

Those pesky rangers just won't lose.

Other than that, the division is looking good.

The Halos will recover at some point

But since Adenhart’s tragedy, they’ve completely collapsed…

But at what point?
I don't know

Their pitching sucks, its looking suspiciously like, dare I say it, 2001….

They weren't all that good before Adenheart's death and even if they start playing to their talent level they've got a ton of ground to cover.
And unless the As young kids turn out great

It’s looking good at the Safe….

Come on Ms, HOW SWEEP IT IS TOMORROW PLEASE!
Carlos Silva gets the win!

What a stud!

I know, he soooo deserved it.

I wonder if Felix got 9 runs every game how many wins he would have at the end of the season.

In 2001 through 18 games what was the M’s record?

Oh I found my answer. Baseball-almanac says.

Through 18 they were 14-4 in 2001.

And we didn't lose 3 in a row

Until like the second to last series of the year….

That's pretty amazing.
It was an amazing year

And then, we ran into the… Yankees…..

Yuck..
Although this I'll never forget from 2001

"Just days after baseball resumed following the 9/11 attacks, the Mariners clinched the AL West in the most fitting and reverent way imaginable. With ‘Proud to be an American’ playing over the speakers, tens of thousands watched, sang, cried and honored their country along with the players on the field. This continues to be one of my most impressive and touching memories. "

Pictures should be smaller
Couple crazy games today

This one AND the Boston-NYY 27 run marathon…

Who won?
Boston 16-11

They trailed 6-0….

We have a prety easy part of the schedule coming up

Three games in Chicago next week then back home for Oakland….

Drayer "It gets a little interesting in the 9th".

Shannon, it was a heart killer.

Is everybody alive?
I had to revert to the Putz In, TV Off survival mode.
Ms tied with Boston for 2nd best record in the AL

Toronto .5 better at 13-6…

Nice

Better than Mariano Rivera did last night, giving up a game-tying 2-run jack to Boston with 2 out in the ninth….

Morrow out with stiffness in his shoulder?
Where did you get this?
FSN.

He supposedly had it this morning after not throwing, supposedly is not serious but is scary

This Silva interview is what what what?

Was any of that english?

Bahahaha Vern Fonk is making fun of ShamWow guy.
ShamWOW!

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x98/vrykyl250/SHAMWOW.jpg

I am always sold by the commercials, but I have never bought one.

Has anyone tried it?

It works as advertised, but there is the question of durability.
It seems to intense for me. I don't think I could handle a shamWow.
Jesus god damn tits Albert Pujols has seven motherfucking home runs.
And 25 RBI'S!!!!!
So does Torii Hunter.

Three of them against us.

Fortunately for us, we won all three games in which he homered.
I was pissed he got hurt in 2006 and that season ended up being disappointing.

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