Lookout Landing

If he had that exact outing at Fenway, it's an L.

Way to know your surroundings, Mr. Aardsma!

He realized it.

He said he was over-amped

msb - May 15, 2009 reply

Maybe Aardsma should close when Jaku pitches:

On April 10, Aardsma recorded the first save of his career, pitching 2 innings of relief against the Oakland Athletics. This save also marked the first MLB win for Chris Jakubauskas.

Wilder. - May 15, 2009 reply

Holy fuck, we won?

I turned it off in the 5th to watch a movie. WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

awwwww

A buddy of mine caught this one. The first one went right over my head.

It was a night of Ichiro glory in Right Field.

I was going to ask if that first one got to you

Looked awful close on tv but the camera guy moved too fast for me to get a clean look with the DVR

tootthekazoo - May 16, 2009 reply

The guy behind me had it hit him in the mitt and he dropped it.

That play was what started the “fight” and eventual removal of a Sox fan from our section.

What was this "fight"?

redwolf75 - May 16, 2009 reply

I caught the whole thing on video!

It’s awesome!

Kermit. - May 16, 2009 reply

Well played.

Excellent.

Yeah, someone in my area said "Did you know your boy in the green hat got in a fight?!"

Fill me in, I want to know what happened.

BrettJMiller - May 16, 2009 reply

It wasn't really a fight.

He had been standing at the top of the stairs all night watching the game from up there. Every time I went past him he was talking smack about Boston.

After Ichiro’s first home run we were leaving to go have a smoke and he got up in my face saying I was a loser for dropping the home run. I grabbed his hat off his head after he got a little too close for me and I threw it on the ground.

I walked away and told my usher to make sure he was gone when I got back and he was.

What a flaming douchenozzle.

Aaron Campeau - May 16, 2009 reply

That word was used a lot last night.

Generally my response to the threat of physical confrontation is to run away limp-wristedly and skrieking

but I have the feeling that were I ever to get into a fight again it would be with a Red Sox fan.

Aaron Campeau - May 16, 2009 reply

I suddenly had a vision of the fight at the end of Blazing saddles ...

The Typical Idiot Fan - May 16, 2009 reply

By rapidly changing the pitch of your scream you can distort their depth perception.

Robert - May 16, 2009 reply

You do realize...

Your grabbing his hat was you assaulting him first…

A jackass with the smelliest breath can get up in our face, or a little too close, all he wants, but as long as he doesn’t touch you…

Just sayin’… dickhole or not, you might be in the wrong here.

I'd have your bail money Sec if any dickbag were to see events this way

Matthew - May 16, 2009 reply

Appreciated, but Typical is incorrect.

This is because from a legal definition perspective assault is to threaten, battery is to physically touch without consent.

Therefore what the guy did was in fact assault, and touching someone’s hat is not battery.

Sec 108 - May 17, 2009 reply

There's the legal definition of wrong and the actual definition of wrong.

Aaron Campeau - May 16, 2009 reply

Being technically correct is the highest form of correctness

Poochie - May 17, 2009 reply

Maybe next you could circle the Red Sox fans in the picture that have ever actually been to Boston?

faceplant_04 - May 15, 2009 reply

Yeah, I mean how the fuck do you become a fan of a team from a city you've never lived in?

It's fuckin pathetic

I guess I kinda understand it.

I mean, for a while there was a lovable loser quality about the Sawx. The whole Yankees vs Red Sox rivalry added a bit of mystique to things too. Then when they started winning WS titles a whole new group of people jumped on.

Like Chris Rock said about OJ “I wouldn’t have done it. But I understand.”

I was actually just talking shit about Jeff and JI.

The vast majority of Mariner fans do not live in Seattle

Legend has it I've been there!

City is implied to mean region in this case.

Still probably true

The vast majority of Mariner fans live outside of the great northwest?

wizzle wozzle?

Or more accurately have never lived in the great northwest

I thought you meant outlying suburbs

Basically I mean places where you can watch the Mariners on regular cable.

Well then that includes Oregon Idaho and Alaska

Yes

Those places are nowhere near Seattle

They are in the region

Seattle is the closest major league city to these states.

In general.

Although Southern Oregon may be closer to San Francisco.

Not positive though. But Giants games can be found on the airwaves at times.

This is why I said in general.

I gotcha.

Just saying.

http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=sea-lmt%0D%0Asfo-lmt&RANGE=&PATH-COLOR=red&PATH-UNITS=mi&PATH-MINIMUM=&SPEED-GROUND=&SPEED-UNITS=kts&RANGE-STYLE=best&RANGE-COLOR=navy&MAP-STYLE=

Klamath Falls is ever so slightly closer to San Fran than to Seattle

Torgen - May 16, 2009 reply

Haha, nice work.

nickmo - May 16, 2009 reply

I've made it to just one time zone away from St. Louis

Whoosh!

Your jab went over my head like a Dennis Miller analogy on MNF.

Minor league affiliations?

I’m only an M’s fan because of the Vermont Mariners and a depressing lack of modern Expos

Tube - May 15, 2009 reply

I just hate Redsox Nation.

I just can’t stand that people become members of Redsox nation, just because the Sox are usually good and it’s easy to be a bandwagon fan.

faceplant_04 - May 15, 2009 reply

OH MAN I KNOW.

Hold on a second.

I was a Mariner fan long before I had ever lived in Seattle. I’m also a Saints/Hornets fan and I have never lived in New Orleans.

thewyrm - May 16, 2009 reply

Way late.

thewyrm - May 16, 2009 reply

95% of Man Utd Fans, Red Sox fans and Yankee fans fall under this.

marinerdan - May 16, 2009 reply

I don't think I've ever met an Arsenal fan who's lived in Arsenal

Dewey N - May 16, 2009 reply

Seems like a dangerous place to live.

Robert - May 16, 2009 reply

David Koresh wasn't a fan?

OlSalty - May 16, 2009 reply

Good luck finding your hockey team funnyface

Kirsten Schlewitz - May 17, 2009 reply

I thought I made it clear that I was Jeff baiting.

Aaron Campeau - May 17, 2009 reply

Didn't see much of the game but godfuckendammit why can't lowe always pitch like that

Also, I am terrified of the idea of Aardsma as closer.

Count the things that are weird

A Griffey jersey that is moving quicker than usual.

A black dude in Seattle

who is friends with white dudes, one of whom, in spite of tremendous douchebaggery, has managed to outjump his black friend (who has pretty good hops) and catch a homerun ball.

Like black dudes in Seattle have any other choice.

And a Cubs shirt!

and the Griffey guy is running away too

Maybe he's embarrassed

Griffey is like our third best hitter against right handed pitching

Maybe he's embarrassed that our tiny Asian has more home runs than his idol

That is cause for concern

especially since Griffey was scratched again in favor of the batshit crazy Larry the Cable Guy enthusiast

Right! the cubs shirt!

Who is completely gay for the black fellow and has grunge era jeans on. Plus the annoying korean kid from harold and kumar in the background.

That might not be the same asian kid...

They all look the same, so who knows.

And the chick behind the cubs shirt is so proud of her gay son!

The dude who caught that ball has been a season ticket holder for 14 years and he is not a douche.

A Cubs fan watching baseball?

From what I hear Cubs fans are the greatest fans in baseball.

From what I hear they like dicks in their butts

I heard that as well.

Well these two things aren't mutually exclusive.

They aren't?

My fanhood has been validated!!!!

I read that as vandalized.

Jaejo - May 16, 2009 reply

Last time I responded to a comment like this, I got boxed, because I didn't get the joke.

From what I hear White Sox fans are worse than Hitler

I always smile when I hear a line like this.

NO!

The best part of that was the Sox fan who’s just off the screen to the right who wants to give the guy a high five for some reason. You see the guy who caught the ball pause, then high five someone else (closer to him). Great safeco moment right there.

I saw that and regret not giffing it

This didn't go as well as I hoped it would

Most awkward high five ever.

Haha...

So true…

ahh.

And now some fun with fast conversations

I can't look away

Who's trying?

I love Happy Kenji.

I wish he’d start hitting, so he’d be happier more often.

msb - May 15, 2009 reply

I just wish Johjima would've gotten back up at the end

Why don't these players take their gif potential into consideration before doing things

A real pro would shop it in.

I think you should write an open letter to Ichiro and Kenji.

This is much more important than any lousy open letter to Felix about his pitch selection.

It's like a 30s screwball comedy.

Yes!

That's the fastest I've ever seen Kenji.

ThundaPC - May 15, 2009 reply

Red Sox 'nation:' You have been Jakubaustracized

He settled down and pitched pretty well.

Ichiro kicked ass.

Wlad wasn’t bad at all.

Nice.

I've done a 180 on Wlad and now I want to bake him cookies.

I nominate this for gayest comment of all time.

We're lucky Gutierrez doesn't post here then.

It would be rad if he posted here

I like to run.

There. Just like DFT.

JLProck - May 15, 2009 reply

We be ridin on spinnerz

Are you talking about having sex with small women

or driving around with spinning hub caps?

I can't link to what I'm talking about without getting boxed.

This saddens me

You should be thankful.

Are you drinkin' the tuss?

I wish

Me too :(

There he go again

And when he stop they spin

You have clearly not been here very long.

appleshampoo - May 16, 2009 reply

Am I a frontrunner for ROY?

Poochie - May 16, 2009 reply

I think that it's obvious that every new poster on LL gets imediate special rights.

Robert - May 16, 2009 reply

Interesting.

aaron c. - May 16, 2009 reply

I signed up two days ago.

It was fun posting during the game yesterday… but damn… I have gotten absolutely nothing done since I’ve signed up. ;)

nickmo - May 16, 2009 reply

Wlad is growing on me.

I wish him grand success.

I've heard some tough actin' Tenactin can help clear that up.

faceplant_04 - May 15, 2009 reply

Welcome to the Wladlands!

Wterrence Wmalick?

No, but that works!

(Is that movie any good?)

Yes!

Malick is awesome.

Warren Woates.

I'm still highly skeptical.

I'm skeptical that he's good but I no longer want him gone.

Branyan = 3-4

How could you forget Mark Lowe

throwing 98 and spotting his change.

That was pretty nice.

I was just thinking that Daniel Bard isn’t much, but is somehow a better 2006 draft pick than Morrow, but then Lowe came in and outpitched him, but throwing just as hard. I needed that almost as much as I needed that 2nd Ichiro funk blast.

I went there on a fucking WHIM tonight

Best, $50 spent. EVER.
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing!
I may be going tomorrow. My hopes are not high, but then I didn’t think I’d find myself cheering for Sean freaking White tonight, either. Holy shit!

section331 - May 15, 2009 reply

Oh that Ichiro!

For those of you debating whether Ichiro can hit home runs at-will, here’s what he had to say about it.

“I’m not Sadaharu Oh,‘’ he said, smiling. "So, I don’t have the abilities to do things like that.’’

Later on, he observed: "I guess it kind of proves that, in the universe, mysterious things happen.’’

ThundaPC - May 15, 2009 reply

He was just being modest...

He didn’t want to show is true, selfish colors.