FUCK THIS STUPID FUCKING GAME I'M OUT OUR SEASON IS OVER THERE'S A GREAT BIG WOULD OUT THERE AND I'M NOT GOING TO WASTE IT WATCHING JARED BUTTHOLE WEAVER MAKE US LOOK LIKE A PONY LEAGUE TEAM
They can continue to over react, I don’t see why I can’t continue to say “Hey you’re over reacting and it is annoying to me.” which is essentially what I’ve been doing.
They don’t have to care what I think.
If it’s that much of a problem I guess I can just try harder to not let it bother me. I think I should be allowed to voice my annoyance, however. Subthread closed?
I answered esoteric's question just as the thread closed ...
re: Moyer, no to a trade request; according to Moyer, he was miserable enough with the losing that he was even talking retirement when the Ms called to ask if he’d accept a trade to the Phillies
Washburn once again received no offensive support. The Mariners mustered just three hits over seven innings off starter Jered Weaver and that pretty much ended things right there.
But players can get out of whack in innumerable little ways...
Even when their true talent doesn’t fluctuate. First, there’s the whole mental (confidence) dimension of the game, then the mechanical/timing, then there’s just seeing the ball (for hitters), and any little flaw can throw off someone’s entire game if not corrected. So I think “getting someone back on track” in this context can be good baseball thinking all-around, if done with self-awareness on the manager’s part.
I think this bears repeating: Gutz is in a mental slump right now.
Early in the court, Gutz is always taking strikes he can mash. He hit his homerun off a ball at his knees. In his second AB, that strike two called on the 2-1 count was a fastball at the belt in the fat part of the plate. And he let three straight called strikes go by in a similar place – two upper outside part of the plate, one lower outside part of the plate. He just has no confidence right now – he’s in a mental funk. We need to snap him out of it – any ideas? Sing him a song about how he has it in him to be a +10 RAA per year guy?
Excellent, Endy!
Decatur - April 26, 2009
Woohoo a nice AB!
CMON GRIFFEY
EnglishMariner - April 26, 2009
Urghh.
EnglishMariner - April 26, 2009
Will he GIDP?
BRKLN M'S - April 26, 2009
Nope just a very shallow pop up
gregrabble - April 26, 2009
Endy Chavez: inexplicable plate discipline
esoteric - April 26, 2009
This thread is dead unless Griffey pulls one out of his ass.
russak - April 26, 2009
AAAAND DEAD THREAD
esoteric - April 26, 2009
Beltre is due a FB
EnglishMariner - April 26, 2009
Facebook?
Fastball? French blonde?
kevin_ess - April 26, 2009
Fat Bastard.
msb - April 26, 2009
Ahh. Get into my belly!
kevin_ess - April 26, 2009
Mercy Killing
Robert - April 26, 2009
Damn that sounded good at least...
Decatur - April 26, 2009
I want the term Crapanese to stick.
I’m in love with it.
kevin_ess - April 26, 2009
Ken Griffey Jr. is a Crapanese immigrant.
He’s only been a citizen for three years or so.
esoteric - April 26, 2009
You can only get there on a stretcher converted into a raft.
kevin_ess - April 26, 2009
But then it will be dead meme'd
but brought back to life briefly with the variation Crapanese-American.
Eyebrows - April 26, 2009
Your the only happy one here.
russak - April 26, 2009
Let me have it.
The last two games have sucked.
Eyebrows - April 26, 2009
He's not really.
He’s one of us now
Kirsten Schlewitz - April 26, 2009
This is a fucking miserable game to watch
gregrabble - April 26, 2009
Meh. It's a loss, and they happen.
esoteric - April 26, 2009
Someone understands my apathy!
Eyebrows - April 26, 2009
This
BrettJMiller - April 26, 2009
"This" is a Dead Meme.
Matthew - April 26, 2009
Was not aware, sorry.
I’ll have to go take the time to read through that thread
BrettJMiller - April 26, 2009
Just read the list in the OP.
Matthew - April 26, 2009
ENDY IS A BALLER!
Decatur - April 26, 2009
Let's play a game!
How many pop ups can we have today!
EnglishMariner - April 26, 2009
Add 1 to whatever the total was after Beltre!
gregrabble - April 26, 2009
Safe on the Tag up!
SeaFan - April 26, 2009
Good thinking by Chavez.
Nice.
ThundaPC - April 26, 2009
This game feels like last year
Dewey N - April 26, 2009
That was super funny!
BRKLN M'S - April 26, 2009
FUCK THIS STUPID FUCKING GAME I'M OUT OUR SEASON IS OVER THERE'S A GREAT BIG WOULD OUT THERE AND I'M NOT GOING TO WASTE IT WATCHING JARED BUTTHOLE WEAVER MAKE US LOOK LIKE A PONY LEAGUE TEAM
PEACE OUT
JI - April 26, 2009
That's not over reacting at all.
gregrabble - April 26, 2009
Probably tongue in cheek.
EnglishMariner - April 26, 2009
Great big would!
Eyebrows - April 26, 2009
I have an accent.
JI - April 26, 2009
I appreciate this post, because game threads are getting ridiculous.
BrettJMiller - April 26, 2009
Knock it off.
People can be upset about a team losing, especially to our most hated rival.
Kirsten Schlewitz - April 26, 2009
But they can't do the wave.
Graham MacAree - April 26, 2009
I can be upset about the over reaction.
They can continue to over react, I don’t see why I can’t continue to say “Hey you’re over reacting and it is annoying to me.” which is essentially what I’ve been doing.
They don’t have to care what I think.
If it’s that much of a problem I guess I can just try harder to not let it bother me. I think I should be allowed to voice my annoyance, however. Subthread closed?
BrettJMiller - April 26, 2009
I was voicing my annoyance at you continuously voicing yours in what seemed a condescending tone.
So yes, we both have a right to our opinion.
Kirsten Schlewitz - April 26, 2009
Sounds good, I know I come off that way, both in real life and online. I probably do talk like an asshole even though I don't mean to.
Glad we’re squared away here.
BrettJMiller - April 26, 2009
Call up Chris Shelton
esoteric - April 26, 2009
YES!
Decatur - April 26, 2009
I answered esoteric's question just as the thread closed ...
re: Moyer, no to a trade request; according to Moyer, he was miserable enough with the losing that he was even talking retirement when the Ms called to ask if he’d accept a trade to the Phillies
msb - April 26, 2009
Thanks for the info
esoteric - April 26, 2009
It was probably the best for all concerned: I doubt he'd have been as successful in the AL as he has been with the Phils.
And he got a ring too, which makes me happy.
esoteric - April 26, 2009
Branyan gets a pass for swinging at the first pitch.
ThundaPC - April 26, 2009
Right, that's it.
I’d rather go iron my shirt than watch this. Which is what I will now do.
EnglishMariner - April 26, 2009
Weaver's beautiful three-hit shut out with 3 GB and 9FB
He’s playing with fire, not pitching particularly well. Even the Mariners can hit home runs.
Decatur - April 26, 2009
I have to wonder why Washburn is still pitching
gregrabble - April 26, 2009
I was about to say the same thing
BrettJMiller - April 26, 2009
At this point, he's taking one for the team.
He’s a Team Leading Team Player, you know.
msb - April 26, 2009
Aardsma doesn't like giving up a game we already lost.
kevin_ess - April 26, 2009
Because we need to get all the Marinerness out of our system as quickly as possible.
Decatur - April 26, 2009
The "Regression Reaper" has bent Washburn over a table and massacred him.
russak - April 26, 2009
With that wild pitch, it's all coming back into place
esoteric - April 26, 2009
So, essentially the team is already on the bus, and en route to the airport by this point.
msb - April 26, 2009
Yeah, why not?
esoteric - April 26, 2009
The bus just went to the clubhouse.
Two Rs and Two Ls - April 26, 2009
Nice toss by Ichiro.
SeaFan - April 26, 2009
I didn't see - what did he do?
Decatur - April 26, 2009
Prevented the runner from advancing from 2nd to 3rd.
esoteric - April 26, 2009
Amusingly, the Giants are 8-8 and the Dbacks are 6-11.
esoteric - April 26, 2009
Even more amusingly, both the Bucs and the Padres are 10-7
Ah, I love the early season.
esoteric - April 26, 2009
Words you're guaranteed to hear from Geoff Baker today.
“Lack of run support.”
ThundaPC - April 26, 2009
Well it is true.
But then again mere “run support” probably wouldn’t have been sufficient today.
esoteric - April 26, 2009
Even if we're shutout today,
Washburn will still average 4 runs of run support per game (2-0, 11-2, 4-2, 0-whatever)
Decatur - April 26, 2009
Very close, but no cigar.
rickpo - April 26, 2009
Hopefully Sean White performs well and Roy Corcoran can go the fuck away
BrettJMiller - April 26, 2009
Who is Sean White?
SeaFan - April 26, 2009
The guy who is pitching for us
BrettJMiller - April 26, 2009
Here's USSM's take on Sean White:
They actually think he has quite a bit of promise now.
Decatur - April 26, 2009
Cool
Thanks!
SeaFan - April 26, 2009
Is this how we made Angel's fans feel?
russak - April 26, 2009
Elaborate?
BrettJMiller - April 26, 2009
Oh wait, I read that wrong
Nevermind.
BrettJMiller - April 26, 2009
Angels announcers on Dave Niehaus:
“Oh he’s a dandy”
Dewey N - April 26, 2009
To their credit, they're just marveling at that fact that he can put a coherent string of words together.
kevin_ess - April 26, 2009
Unlike Rex?
msb - April 26, 2009
Yes. And much less gel.
kevin_ess - April 26, 2009
Dave has always been known for his flamboyant sartorial style
esoteric - April 26, 2009
When you think 'dandy', it's Niehaus & Don Cherry who leap to mind.
msb - April 26, 2009
This game just gets worse and worse..
gregrabble - April 26, 2009
How the hell did he get a hit off of that pitch?
BrettJMiller - April 26, 2009
Since this game is so exciting right now, I will make a DVD recommendation.
Brick. Netflix it. Watch it. Neo-noir set in high school, with the characters talking like hard-boiled 1940s shamuses and femme fatales. Awesome.
esoteric - April 26, 2009
Heard of it but never took the time. Has that one kid from "The Lookout".
russak - April 26, 2009
Robert?
kevin_ess - April 26, 2009
And much entertainment value from Joseph Gordon-Levitt
and that evil Lukas Haas
msb - April 26, 2009
A shamus?
Like an Irish monk?
Smegmalicious - April 26, 2009
'30s/'40s noir slang for a private detective
esoteric - April 26, 2009
You missed it.
(Big Lebowski)
Smegmalicious - April 26, 2009
I was proud of you for that comment.
kevin_ess - April 26, 2009
Haven't seen that film in something like a decade.
esoteric - April 26, 2009
That's a bummer, man.
Smegmalicious - April 26, 2009
So this is fun.
krb - April 26, 2009
Get used to it...
Smegmalicious - April 26, 2009
I think I remember Jeff saying something about maybe doing Sundays with Sean White
I think it’s a great idea
Dewey N - April 26, 2009
So, time to score some runs here.
ThundaPC - April 26, 2009
That inning took a long time.
russak - April 26, 2009
Three swinging strikes by Sean White that inning.
Those last 2 sliders to Hunter looked especially good.
Decatur - April 26, 2009
Add 1 more to the pop up tally
gregrabble - April 26, 2009
Oh, 1 more.
gregrabble - April 26, 2009
If we keep hitting popups surely one will drop for a hit eventually
Dewey N - April 26, 2009
We've scored a total of 7 runs in 6 "Final games of the series".
ThundaPC - April 26, 2009
That's ridiculously bad
gregrabble - April 26, 2009
And after today we're going to be .500 in those games.
ThundaPC - April 26, 2009
This game is making my brain numb.
russak - April 26, 2009
I don't like the Jackasauras-Danks match-up
BRKLN M'S - April 26, 2009
No but I do like our odds in the other 2
gregrabble - April 26, 2009
The A's are winning. 7-1
russak - April 26, 2009
ZOMG - there goes our stronghold!
kevin_ess - April 26, 2009
That seemed less snarky in my head. Sorry.
kevin_ess - April 26, 2009
Ohhhhh Nice, Beltre!
ThundaPC - April 26, 2009
Why waste Shields with a 6 run lead?
BrettJMiller - April 26, 2009
To get him back on track I reckon.
Hasn’t exactly been lights out.
ThundaPC - April 26, 2009
I don't know, I guess I just don't buy into that.
Players go through hot and cold streaks…but their true talent level doesn’t really change.
That’s probably Scioscia’s reason though. I just never really believed it.
BrettJMiller - April 26, 2009
But players can get out of whack in innumerable little ways...
Even when their true talent doesn’t fluctuate. First, there’s the whole mental (confidence) dimension of the game, then the mechanical/timing, then there’s just seeing the ball (for hitters), and any little flaw can throw off someone’s entire game if not corrected. So I think “getting someone back on track” in this context can be good baseball thinking all-around, if done with self-awareness on the manager’s part.
Decatur - April 26, 2009
Another K for Gutz.
russak - April 26, 2009
Wow. Perfect bunt.
Smegmalicious - April 26, 2009
I think this bears repeating: Gutz is in a mental slump right now.
Early in the court, Gutz is always taking strikes he can mash. He hit his homerun off a ball at his knees. In his second AB, that strike two called on the 2-1 count was a fastball at the belt in the fat part of the plate. And he let three straight called strikes go by in a similar place – two upper outside part of the plate, one lower outside part of the plate. He just has no confidence right now – he’s in a mental funk. We need to snap him out of it – any ideas? Sing him a song about how he has it in him to be a +10 RAA per year guy?
Decatur - April 26, 2009
Is anyone else still watching this?
Smegmalicious - April 26, 2009
Yeah, but it's basically background noise for me
gregrabble - April 26, 2009
Same for me.
Decatur - April 26, 2009
Mariners loss + mimosas = hey, I can't feel a thing!
kevin_ess - April 26, 2009
I'm watching Corcoran pitch himself off the team.
ThundaPC - April 26, 2009
In this way, he's actually helping the team win.
The easier he makes it to send him away, the better. Sean White is way better as a righty sinkerballer now.
Decatur - April 26, 2009
But he's so funny when he talks!
Smegmalicious - April 26, 2009
I finally figured out who he reminds of
Big Jared - April 26, 2009
Dang ol', groundballs man.
groundballs
appleshampoo - April 27, 2009
Success.
No Strikeouts recorded today.
ThundaPC - April 26, 2009
YES YES YES YES YES!
Brian Fuentes vs. Ken Griffey Jr.
ThundaPC - April 26, 2009
And Griffey walks. I am amused.
Two Rs and Two Ls - April 26, 2009
Why did they bring in Fuentes with an 8 run lead?
gregrabble - April 26, 2009
Probably to get some work in.
And to humiliate Griffey.
Smegmalicious - April 26, 2009
Probably hasn't pitched in a while.
ThundaPC - April 26, 2009
Remember last night?
Decatur - April 26, 2009
Why can't Yahoo Sports get off their lazy asses
And update player profile pictures? Brian Fuentes vs. Ken Griffey Jr. != Rockies vs. Reds
Kouvre - April 26, 2009
Griffey wins round 1.
ThundaPC - April 26, 2009
Like it's hard to lead our team in walks.
Smegmalicious - April 26, 2009
Would love to see us not get shut out here
gregrabble - April 26, 2009
Angels have a 100% win expectancy right now.
Smegmalicious - April 26, 2009
That's only because fangraphs only has one decimal point.
If they had four… well, if they had four we’d still be screwed, but eight, now with eight we might have a chance.
Two Rs and Two Ls - April 26, 2009
We should chip in and buy them some more decimals.
Smegmalicious - April 26, 2009
I wonder what the most mathematically improbable comeback in baseball history is.
And I would assume that it happened against the Mariners in 1996-1999.
Decatur - April 26, 2009
Well when we blew a 14-2 lead against Cleveland that had to be up there
gregrabble - April 26, 2009
Probably the one against Cleveland in 2001
BrettJMiller - April 26, 2009
I went to a game in 1996 against the Angels where they were down 11-0 (in the 3rd?) and won 13-11.
BRKLN M'S - April 26, 2009
On May 23, 1901 where Cleveland scored 9 runs in the 9th after 2 were out to beat Washington 14-13.
Per this site:
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Baseball-Trivia-General-2552/Biggest-9th-inning-comebacks.htm
Smegmalicious - April 26, 2009
Awesome
Decatur - April 26, 2009
More info:
http://espn.go.com/classic/s/quiz/4/15.html#
This is why you never leave early, folks. Damned awesome.
Smegmalicious - April 26, 2009
God have we won this game yet
Dewey N - April 26, 2009
I will assume you are from the future, drunk, and talking about tomorrow's game.
Two Rs and Two Ls - April 26, 2009
Hey, that's my schtick.
kevin_ess - April 26, 2009
OH SHIT 2 OUT RALLY
Zwakamatsu - April 26, 2009
2 OUT SO WHAT
Smegmalicious - April 26, 2009
2 OUT SO WTF?
Decatur - April 26, 2009
Yuni will save us!
krb - April 26, 2009
HELL YEAH
Dewey N - April 26, 2009
Motherfucker.
krb - April 26, 2009
Betancourt has poor plate discipline.
BRKLN M'S - April 26, 2009
Hm
BRKLN M'S - April 26, 2009
If Betancourt walks here I will lose my mind.
I actually cursed in disgust when he hit the double off the 3-2 pitch last night. I wanted a walk so badly…
Decatur - April 26, 2009
Well, that went well.
Heydude - April 26, 2009
Wow, you blew it Yuni!!
MFAN - April 26, 2009
Absolutely marvelous
Fuentes threw one honest strike there. Betancourt gave him that.
Decatur - April 26, 2009
Good fucking job Yuni we could have won
gregrabble - April 26, 2009
Yuni swings at a pitch too high
ThundaPC - April 26, 2009
Krueger
says that Jak’s last poor performance were due to some “strategic mis-choices.”
Zwakamatsu - April 26, 2009
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