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5/31: Open Game Thread, Part 2

This is among the most perfect ways today could have gone.

update: whoops a doodle!

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Except that the Angels have scored a run.

Thus, I’m not entirely satisfied.

What are the chances we option Morrow when RRS comes back?
I'm guessing we'll send down Stark instead.
I did not have sex with Megan Fox today.
I did.
"That was NOT an Act of Love."

(some old movie sample on the first My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult album I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits)

You and every single male on this planet.
No! Comeback!!!
Noooooo Garrett Olson.

You were making me feel more and more awesome about the Putz trade. Don’t fuck it up!

And heeeeeere come the Angels!
So how are we gonna blow this one?
Well that sucks
Fuck, nobody out and this shit starts up
Yeah weakly hit groundballs are the worst of all indicators
Batista in the pen?

Really? I know it’s a 6 run lead, but still.

Vlad is perfectly capable of making a weak out here.
(Can you tell how reluctant I am to make a confident prediction here? Is it that obvious?)
Reality check

Yuni still sucks at defense

That was a hell of a throw.
I'm fine with that
We are remarkably insecure fans with a six run lead.
With good reason.
Nobody who's seen this team play should have trouble understanding that.
AND THERE YOU ARE
Wow Olsen is a fag
This isn't very comfortable anymore.
OH FOR GODS SAKJE
So Olson's completely lost it now.
Of course, couldn't be easy could it?
JEFF YOUR HUBRIS HAS DOOMED US ALL.
Rec'd for "hubris"
We still have a 6 in 7 chance of winning this game
Jeff jinxed us.
This is still enjoyable
My thread isn't auto updating and thus I cannot give you a real time update of my most uninteresting thoughts
Don't worry I've got it covered.
Just link us to your Twitter and it's all good. What did you eat for breakfast this morning?
What is the deal with Grape Nuts, huh? Have you ever noticed that it's neither a grape, nor a nut?

Who are these people?

Rec

For observational humor.

Fuck I'd be more comfortable if it weren't only the 6th
Are we happy to see Miguel Batista?

Do we trust him in a non-vulture role?

Negative, on both fronts.
I never trust him.
Miguel Batista ≠ happy
This is most unbueno.
This team can't just take a big lead and ride through the game with it without some drama.
What the fuck is happening
Hey, everyone!

I think I just sobered up!

YOU CAN HEAR THE RETARDED RAT FACED ANGEL FANS ENJOYING THEMSELVES AND THIS UPSETS ME
Showing the rally monkey when you've already put up a 4-spot seems like a douchey move
If you cheer, he will come
STOP THE BLEEDING, MASTER-POET.
Batista in,

Rally over! Hmm or not.

Oh dear...
WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!??!?!?!
THIS IS LIKE THE OPPOSITE OF YESTERDAY
Only not keeping me up til 6am, so not too bad.
WE WERE WINNING 8-1
Our WE% is 82%
The Mariners don't believe in WE!
This is just like when the Rays lost the ALCS to the Red Sox
WE doesn't know that Batista is pitching
THIS IS NOT HELPING WHEN I SEE BATISTA THROW THREE STRAIGHT BALLS
Now our WE% is 86%
At least we're setting up Aardsma for a save.

If he sustains this unsustainable success for just another month or so, he’ll be a great trading piece.

Miguel Batista, on the other hand, still sucks.

The two b's in Robb Quinlan's name annoy me.
Start warming up Felix in the pen.
Batista will slow the game down now

‘cause he’ll get all thoughtful and shit.

It doesn't affect me. I'm not feeling any pain, or any panic, or anything.

I think it’s because I missed the last few games. I’m just totally resigned.

Throw fucking strikes
Losing this would be a statement game
Jeff was right

Watching the team on Gameday only with no audio or video is terrible

what the shit are you doing?
I'm in Oregon with no cable TV
"Batista doesn't look like he has his good fastball"

does he ever?

Occasionally
He looked OK the first game of the year.
Batista has good stuff but awful control.
Crap, It's Napoli.
Lowe in the 7th?
Mike Napoli seems like a good home run candidate
Wow he did it.
Has Batista's 4-seamer always been 88?

Seems like either a slow gun or he just sucks.

It was at 95 a couple of seasons ago.
He just sucks.
Pretty sure he sucks.
Speed isn't Batista's problem
That is a gigantic relief
That was a horrible inning
Our WE is 89.3%
Those four runs only cost us about 9%
We didn't want that 9% anyway.
can't we ever just win easy?

without losing the nine percent?

I predict that the next four runs will cost us more.
This makes me think WE is complete bullshit
Emotions tend to overreact to positive and negative stimuli
Lies, damn lies and statistics
How do you calculate it on the fly?
Excel spreadsheet because fuck Fangraphs
You should just claim to be a mathematical savant.

Idiot-savant, of course.

Do you account for momentum swings?
Only in statement games.
He's just good with numbers.
That was dissapointing
Pop-ups are cool
I like perfect tits
So we haven't seen Denny Stark in a while.
What was Yuni's double like? Gap, or something cheap?

There was an emergency broadcast test right when he hit it.

Well hit to the wall, to the foul line side of the left fielder.
I believe it was a low line drive down the LF line
Lopez loves him some Angels pitching.
Alright if we're able to continue hitting I'll feel much better
Um how did that drop in?>?
What the hell has gotten into Lopez?
WE'RE NEVER GOING TO WIN THIS GAME
Ichiro and Griffey are tied in home runs
I can't believe he waited until age 36 to decide to hit homers
The homers choose him

イチロー!

Ichiro's May OPS: .917

Griffey: .667

I see Ervin Santana is broken.
Lopez is up to .231!
Didn't we completely destroy Bulger the last time we saw him?
We saw him on Friday and no we did not
Ok.

Thanks – my memory is not doing so well today. :/

No worries, you're still drunk
No no!

I sobered up! Right around the 6th inning!

JASON BULGER I LOVE YOU!
At any given moment somebody in Anaheim is holding up and shaking a plush rally monkey
Quiroz does a Beltre move!
Intentionally walk Endy
Squeeze please
One of Endy's typical rollers to second would work here.
What are you talking about?
This is like when the Red Sox brought in Pedro to pitch in relief in game 7
That made a world of sense
MLB.tv highlights just came up with

“Atkins scores on a muff”

This means something different in England.

It means the same thing here.
Ok, I wasn't sure if it was like "shagging balls"
It's the same in the US
as in "muff-diver"?

That’s universal.

Jason Bulger has comically large ears and a funny mouth.
It looks like he says Aw Geez a lot
His name is the shape a penis makes in pants
More like nutsuck but ok
By no authority whatsoever, I declare this subthread closed
Who would like to talk about their majestic penis?
So, it says Endy hit a home run to deep right center

This can’t be right

Also, the E & Y in his name seem superfluous

Well fuck.
Chavez, that at-bat gave me an anti-boner.
The king of boners is at the plate.
Hmm, maybe "baron of boners"
or the boner baron!
That sounds like the villain

in a children’s pornographic storybook.

I think Gutz would play the role really well.
Walking him would be fine with me.
Well that was an obnoxious play
That was a momentum killer
REFUSE TO MAKE THINGS EASY
Fuckers.

Figgins must not be killed.

Allowing two basserunners an inning was going to screw Johnathan Sanchez eventually
I liked this game better when it was more boring
More Batista?

Hmm.

I don't think it's fair to say that Aybar got the 6th inning started
The catalyst just kind of happened to him
Batista has five pitches apparently.

They all look the same.

Miguel Batista breaks PITCHf/x
His sideburns break my eyes
Sit down bitch
TIts to the starting rotation.
That was a strike

if Quiroz caught it

Reply fail sorry
In Gameday it is right in the middle of the strike zone.
If we don't draft Ackley I will never forgive the FO.
We should draft Pujols
We had our change and blew the pick on Leone
Leone could not be a bigger queer
Less of a queer than Cirillo who was a blimp sized homo
I still haven't forgiven them for hiring Bavasi.
We will, my sources tell me it is certain.

My sources are my own dreams, for what that is worth.

There's got to be a diabetic starter we can convert to closer out there
Figgins reaching base should speed this inning right along
Well that should actually help us
Batista + Figgins on base = another hour until the 8th inning.
2 throws over, 1 pitch
Could be worse, could be Kenny Rogers
Retired?
He finally retired? No kidding! Hated watching him pitch, he must have held a record for throws to first base.
Know when to fole 'em, know when to hold 'em.
That wasn't much of a throw but it didn't matter
WE NEED JOHNSON CATCHING

He would have thrown Figgins out!

Quiroz throws like a bitch.

But he still makes Rob Johnson look like Randy Winn.

THIS GAME IS REALLY SUCKING
Ahahahahahaha
God fucking dammit

I hate everyone

Fuck fuckity fuck
More Batista suck.
Tying run in Vlad Guerrero!
Thanks Miguel!
8-1. WE WERE WINNING 8 FUCKING 1.
But hey, WE has only gone down like 15%

All is well!

TITS, GET THE LAST OUT ALREADY.
Bring in Shawn Kelley's hobbled ass.
Wonderful.
this is fun.
Oh thank God it's Sean White

I actually have confidence in him sorta

This team contributes to domestic violence
This team doesn't hit well enough to contribute to domestic violence
Quiroz looked pissed at Batista

Also, I miss Kelley.

I'm just looking forward to an Aardsma outing!
Has Sean White been good?

He’s so bland I’ve stopped paying attention.

He is better than in 2006

Has a more velocity and some groundballs.

Not by tRA he hasn't!
Vlad needs to become a hitting coach so bad
That fastball hit in front of the plate
Too bad it didn't hit Rob Johnson in the face

It could have gone into the dugout

Ah.

According to Gameday it was one of those mysterious underground pitches.

I'm scared!
I'm relieved!
Texas is going to win in case anyone is wondering.
Lame

They can come the fuck back down to Earth any time now.

That's getting annoying
I had a dream where I told someone how bad Matt Harrison sucks
Phys sounds amazed that Vlad didn't swing at that.
BRING IN DARREN GOUGH!!
Now Jeff knows 3 cricketers!
Fucking retard!
Thank God for Vlad being a retard
Baaaah hahahah.
Nice, no strikes for Vlad
That was one of the worst at bats I've ever seen in my life!
YES YES YES!!!!!
Although in defence of Vlad, you have never watched me play baseball.
They play baseball in England?
Yep.
Thought it was strictly cricket.
You sure you're not talking about cricket?
Fair play to White that was smart pitching.
The location of that pitch on Gameday is hilarious.

Pitches 2 and 3 actually. Pitch 2 is about the lowest I’ve ever seen a pitch, and Vlad swung. And I can’t see pitch 3.

My God

Is Vlad swinging at pitches in front of the plate a new thing?

Also Vlad needs to take up cricket ASAP.
The end of Vlad's career will not be pretty.
"will be"?

More like “isn’t”

Vlad just made Yuniesky look disciplined
Okay bring in Lowe and Aardsma and pray that they don't blow it
Three pitches went through the floor plane.
Only Ichiro can hit pitches like that.
Yogi Berra used to hit stuff like that, from all reports.

He’d golf swing at some stuff.

That was hilarious.
Imagine being a Halos fan and watching that destroy your rally?
Remember Miguel Olivo?
ALMOST!
Ichiro is a pussy for not trying for three
ICHIRO IS LOOKING CUMTASTIC.
I don't know if Ichiro has ever looked better at the plate than he does right now

EVERYTHING is getting killed.

Decline pahase! Must trade immediately!
I hopes he's on steroids
DAMNIT

Thought that was the trip.

"He shoulda gone for it, and gotten thrown out at 3rd!"

Says one of the Angels announcers, and amazingly Rex Hudler defended him as not being a selfish lpayer

Ichiro's OPS is up to .871
If they both caught that would it have been two outs
The only time in history two guys caught something at the same time was

in a threesome with Freddy Mercury.

I am skeptical
I imagine the game would've been halted due to the groundbreaking science of it all
Ichiro needs to steal home.
Vlad's AB on Gameday

ahahahahahaha
God fucking dammnit I hate my life
THIS GAME IS GONNA END IN UTTER DISASTER
Griffey FB time
WE ALWAYS SEEM TO FUCK THINGS UP WHEN THE OPPOSITION BRINGS THE INFIELD IN
Wow, his pickoff move is terrible

It’s like the Thriller dance

OH MY FUCKING GOD
WHAT THE FUCK AGAIN
Titcock!

Ichiro shouldn’t have tried to go home!

Designed play to go on contact.
Ahahahahahahaha
Damnit the A's fucked it up.

And we may be on our way.

Bad baserunning image please
SERIOUSLY IJNWEFNHFENEFNEFNENJ
Yeah I fucking hate our team that was the fucking stupidest fucking inning I've ever fucking seen
Well we looked fantastic there.
YOU FUCKING BELL CHEESE SNIFFING RETARDS
That's graphic
YOU JUST KILLED MY GRIFFEY BONER YOU BRAIN DEAD HACKING FUCK
YOU'RE FIRED
2 straight runners thrown out at home.

Awesome.

Someone check on Hines - is he OK over there?
NOT EVEN FUCKING USAIN BOLT WOULD HAVE SCORED FROM FIRST THERE YOU DUMB FUCKING FAT FUCK
If we blow this game I blame Bruce Hines
WAY TO RUN YOURSELVES OUT OF THE INNING YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER MONGS
I like how Beltre hadn't rounded third yet by the time the infielder had the ball
Are you fucking serious?

That’s horrible. Why would they have sent him home

THIS TOTALLY WONT COME BACK TO HAUNT US!
Right, we didn't need that little would be rally to get through the next 2 innings.
Remember how Matthews got caught napping off first after his single yesterday?
What's our WE now?
Hopeful yet anxious, with fingernail shards
FUCK WE IT'S A LOAD OF HORSESHIT. DOES IT FACTOR IN "THE MARINER FACTOR"? NO. ITS FUCKING SHIT. FUCK YOU BELTRE.
Adam Kennedy just gave the A's a one run lead.
Yay, that scrappy little shit!
AND FRANSISCO FINALLY GAVE UP AN ER
Oakland just took a 5-4 lead
This is a most important inning
I bet next inning will be important as well
Adam Kennedy has two homers today.
SHOOT ALL OF THEM FUCKING KIDS
Only the Mariners...

Could have 2 doubles in an inning, one of them leadoff…and still not score a run.

I blame the 3rd base coach for that.
How do we still have a lead?
Patience, my friend...
Ok cmon 5 more outs that's all we need!
Hunter backed off that brushback like 25 dramatic feet

That’s how Manu Ginobili takes pitches

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!
Well, good defense, Beltre.

Wheee!

No 3B in the league gets a glove on that
Goddamn pussy hits.
Typical fucking pussy Angel hit there.
Angels in the Outfield.
Well that's shitty luck
Morales scares me.
Lowe in the pen?

No Aardsma?

9th?
Maybe he'll get up in the top of the 9th.

Good point, forgot Aarsdma’s pitched a lot lately.

Aardsma has worked 3 of the last 4 days
Yeah but fuck him he should pitch if the bell rings
If we lose this game with 8 runs on 14 hits

I will unleash holy hell onto my living room.

Watch out throw pillows! You might live up to your name sake!
I'm feeling stabby...and there's a pair of sewing scissors within reach.
Please, put the cat outside first.
So is this where they tie it?
No, next is where they take the lead
Scoff

Napoli bomb to take the lead

Come on White....
Racist.
Is there an echo in here?
Quit padding your comment count.
Quit padding your comment count.
Quit padding your comment count.
Racist.
Is there an echo in here?
Racist.
Is there an echo in here?
Gutierrez's ears perk up

Due to lack of comma

Damn you guys got me
I find this remark to be unremarkable
That scared me
Four more outs that's all we need don't fuck this up!
I feel like every fly ball White allows is danger to the max
White's hair makes his hat look too small for his head
A's beat the Rangers.
I'm in Texas and my housemate just audibly slammed the remote onto the floor in the other room
What does ge mean our bullpen is second to the Mets?
The Nationals are 13 and 36
Yes, they're quite pitiful
I hope Strasburg suffers a career-ending injury on Opening Day.
May you be crushed under the wheels of a bus.
Why?

I hope he is worth ever bit of the hype, and is traded to the M’s in a year by a stupid Nationals GM.

And yet, but for three wins at the end of the season, WE could be drafting Strasburg.
They're in line to get the best player in next years draft.
I wonder how much Adam Dunn likes playing baseball NOW
So Strasburg will be in the rotation in July?
They won't sign him and then when he goes back into the draft next year he'll be drafted by the Nationals
That's a loophole that needs closing I reckon
SOMEBODY CALL IT DAMMIT
Are you fucking kidding me
That was a new one
BRANYAN I WANT YOU TO STEP ON LOPEZ'S NECK
STEP ON HIS FUCKING NECK
Sounds like a clusterfuck
HOW MANY TIMES???
Way to call for the ball guys.

Welcome back to little league.

Loafie did that on purpose.

He wants to be a hero again.

I wonder if he'll homer now
White is superior!
SIT THE FUCK DOWN
Thank you Sean White.
THREE MORE MOFO'S AND WE'RE THERE!
SEAN WHITE I WANT YOU TO GIVE LOPEZ A PURPLE NURPLE
BRANYAN AND SEAN WHITE I WANT YOU TO GIVE LOPEZ A SWIRLY AND SMEAR ICY HOT ON HIS NUTSACK
Im ready to ship our entire middle infield off
HAVE A SEAT!

GO SEAN WHITE!

WHITE FUCKING SUPREMACY!
So we have to wait until next inning to cough up the lead?
Insurance please
FYI Texas Lost

Whee

Stupid fucking Angels announcer

Just said the M’s aren’t a good defensive team. His rationale being fielding percentage.

Rex Hudler can think what he thinks, if you call it that
If his rationale was middle infield,

would you be okay with that?

Apparently they have never seen our outfield before.
Sean White has one fewer strikeout than he has walks!
Racist.
There's still an echo in here.
How is this even a meme?
Didn't say it was a good meme.
Rally for another Ichiro atbat!
If we blow the lead, this might happen!!
On our way!

Thanks Russel!

So Ty Johnson is going to return any day now, correct?
He's throwing 84-86 and the team is thinking about shutting him down again
They're terrified of our only true power hitter. Damn it feels good to have a guy that opposing pitchers fear.
Is anyone else's mlb.tv taking a dump?
Russell Branyan has the sexiest walks.
Loafie I still count that as a GIDP because of how SHITTY that PITCH WAS and how BADLY you SUCK
FUCK YES

GUT TAKE A WALK OR SOMETHING

Please try a pickoff attempt to second
Gutz, show us your patience.
So the Justin Speier contract is working out as well as predicted
Three more left ... go DA!
Aardsma Time!
Fourth appearance in four games...
Color me mildly surprised
This is suggestive

Made Ichiro uncomfortable
Is that RoJo riding an unseen person?
Glad to see the dugout sybian is getting some use
bahahahahahahahaha
I predict this will be an important innnig
Has this been used since I was lasdt here

This game has become terrifying.
I will think only good, positive thoughts.
Best M fan on the road

Ever.

One of us?
He was eating a rally monkey...

So possibly.

God I hate Rich Aurilia
Come on, give me four four four...
Whoa. Some game.
OAK 5-TEX 4 finall...
Wow I wish someone would have told us earlier
Didn't see it upthread...
That's big news!
Aaron Rowand wears his hat too high
He's no McGriff.
.

And he's black too....

stunned, just stunned

Jeff, did you pledge to eat a nacho hat if we lose or if we win?
I only pledged to eat a nacho hat if Santana came out throwing 94
Is it a Homer-style nacho hat or an urban dictionary style nacho hat?
There's a gross kind of nacho hat?

This greatly offends my delicate sensibilities.

Terms of Service, dude.
"Nacho Hat" is an inverted Dirty Sanchez
That is disgusting....
Aardsma used his splitter? I call bullshit.
I am still thinking only happy thoughts. Double Play time!
Here we go again...
Here we go.
You just walked Izturis you dumb fuck.
AARGHdsma...
Hopefully this is just Aardsma carefully getting Angel fans' hopes up so that when we win, we get more delicious Schadenfreude
NOW IS NOT THE TIME AARDSMA
Who's the professional here? They're professional entertainers.

You’re like someone talking in a movie theater.

A DP ENDS IT RIGHT HERE!!!
Double play, RIGHT NOW.
Aardsma has a miniscule GB-FB ratio, correct?
Ah Chone

You have become one of my least favorite this weekend…

Are we still winning
Still up 2...
Hey David please ruin him now please.
OH FUCK PANIC PANIC PANIC
Oh boy, this is not going well.
DANGER DANGER
WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING ARRGHHHHHHH
Good thing the potential winning run is either a lefty or Vladimir Guerrero
We should bring in Olson to pitch to Abreu
Well, we're boned
Do you really wanna face Abreu, Aardsma?
He wants Hunter
Good thing Abreu has no power.
He just doubled off the wall
"He's been really consistent throwing strikes all year long"

Oh, Blowers, you slay me.

A double here ties it.
Guaranteed walk-off loss coming up
Sure smells like it
A walk-off 3-run homer would sure be deflating, eh gang?
Fuck it let's bring in Vargas.
He needs to channel 2007 JJ Putz
Just look at that ERA!
Now we know how the Angels felt yesterday.
I SURE FEEL BAD FOR THEM NOW
THIS IS GOING VERY VERY BADLY
C'Mon Aardsma, throw strikes.
Well this is going well.
Away, away away Aardsma...

Get it a little inside…

I for one would have used Stark
WERE GONNA LOSE

FUCK THIS TEAM

ONE MORE ONE MORE THATS IT
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Thank you Abreu!

This is the most exciting ride in baseball.
More strikes. Only the M's would have a washed-up guy like Aardsma closing for them.
Ok. Fastballs in the dirt. We can do this.
OH GOD - "IT" IS COMING TO THE PLATE
Well that pretty much warrants Abreu being dragged behind a truck for a few miles
Are you trying to revive the failed "Abreu is gay meme" ?
What's that, an out?
If Aardsma throws a strike he should be killed
Pitching around Abreu to get to Vlad? Ugh.
Predictable homer incoming
An out! Yes! An out!
This will be a comical end.
I'm mortified
ahahahahahahahahahaha
NO NO NO NO NO

This isn’t funny anymore.

OH FUCK ITS HUNTER!!!!!!
OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK
WHY WOULD YOU LOAD THE BASES WITH AARDSMA PITCHING
TO TAKE AWAY THE SQUEEZE
HOLY LIVING FUCK
RIVERA?!?!?!? HE KILLS US!!!

OH MY GOD

I can't...I'm pulling my hair out.
Jesus christ this sucks.

At least it’s Rivera and not fucking Hunter that will have to break out hearts.

Gary Matthews Jr. that is.
Nobody knows what's going on apparently.
Gary is on second.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Only to the Mariners.

IT BETTER NOT BE ANY OF YOU FUCKERS'S BIRTHDAYS TODAY
Well fuck.

We all know how much Hunter hates those high heaters.

So I'm thinking he might be gassed and a different pitcher should be used
Good call, I want nothing to do with Hunter.
THIS IS COMPLETELY RETARDED
We're loading the bases?

We’re pitching to Juan Rivera with the bases loaded?

We deserve to lose this game.
A WALK HERE IS THE TYING RUN!
WHAT IN THE DIDDLY FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING WAK
Good basic strategy actually

Although I agree the way AARGHDSMA is pitching today…

THIS IS A TERRIBLE STRATEGY
Walk in the tying and winning run

Yes please

YES LETS INTENTIONALLY WALK THE BASES LOADED

GREAT IDEA

HOW MANY TIMES HAS THIS HAPPENED NOW THIS YEAR??!?!
WHAT THE FUCK??? LET'S LOAD THE BASES FOR A PITCHER WITH NO CONTROL!!
Come the fuck on Aardsma.
I would but I blew my load already.
Strike this guy OUT!
It's over folks.
I'm so glad I don't care.
SERIOUSLY WHAT IN THE BLUE BALLS IS THE THOUGHT PROCESS BEHIND THIS ONE
I could wet myself in sheer terror.
Well at least Juan Rivera hits poorly against us...
Don's going to have a lot of fun explaining this one.
Don Wagawhatthe f-k?
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

Why must you regress now Aardsma?

I wish you look like you cared more, David Aardsma
I love baseball.

Seriously. I don’t think any other sport can come close to the level of rediculousness possible in baseball.

THAT WAS A STRIKE
OH A BALL WHAT A SURPRISE
Ball 1.

Shit.

THAT WAS A STRIKE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PLATE
THAT IS A STRIKE
That was not a ball
WHERE IS THE STRIKE ZONE
WHAT THE FUCWJNVSDK.DKDSK
Wak has given up on the season, and want Z to trade them all.
Haha a ball right down the middle.
Let's go aardsma.
OH MY GOD
And we go to 3-0...
Where the fuck was that pitch?
What was wrong with that one.

Of all the people to squeeze.

PITCH 3 WAS ALSO A BORDERLINE STRIKE
I CANNDJOWDJKOWQJQDJDJN
THAT WAS NOT A BALL EITHER
KJSNDNKQDKNDKNKNKNSDKNDSNDCNASDLKMNASMKL
I believe in you, Aaaaaardsma
Ok, that was a ball.
THIS IS THE WORST INNING EVER WATCHED BY ANYONE EVER
This is not going to end well.
TAKETAKETAKETAKETAKE
Aardsma is becoming Brandon Morrow.
Here comes the tie.
OKAY SO THAT WAS A BALL
WOW...

Fuck this noise.

WE BLEW A FUCKING 7 RUN LEAD
And now here comes the loss.
Tie game.

Fuck this shit.

WAKA YOU STUPID FUCKING HUBWEHUEWFIHJEN
WTF happened to the strike zone?
THAT IS EXACTLY WHY WALKING HUNTER ON PURPOSE WAS A DAFFY ASS DECISION

GO BUILD ME A RAILROAD

You're kiding me.
,svgunaDSG;LNHEWLGNndg;laNFDJEAT'JHNRF;LKMDS
I AM SO FUCKING UPSET
HOW ARE NONE OF THOSE STRIKES
That was a good thing you walked Torii.
Death on a stick
Well I guess everyone saw that coming. The only thing left is the walkoff walk that is coming.
JEFF YOU HUBRISTIC FAGGOT
Yeah god jinxes sure are embarrassing
FUCK YOU WAK
Neither here nor there but at least two of those were strikes
JUST FUCKING END THIS I DONT GIVE A SHIT ANY MORE
THIS IS KARMA I BLAME LOPEZ
Don't worry Morales is 0-3 against Aadsma.

Cake.

Aren't you an Angels fan?
ITS OK HE'S JUST SENDING IT TO EXTRAS TO SET UP ICHIRO FOR THE CYCLE
Oh f-k me...

Is that Shea stadium?
Yup...

Old crappy Shea…

It's ok to say the f-word
Holy fuck that's random.

That’s my ex.

Nice pix, very much my thoughts on this game.
HEY WAK: FUCK YOU
Swinging is a stupid idea
Oh great, and now Jak's warming up.
For what?
CHRIS JAKUBAUSKAS.

Unreal…

Wakball!

Catch the fever

11 STRIKES TO 20 BALLS
THIS UM[ IS A JAJAJN
GAME OVER

I HATE THIS TEAM

Oh my God.
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
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Time to sell!
...was yesterday!
I love how we intentionally walked a guy, then walked in the tying run

Incredible “just get it into overtime” strategy.

Fuck these guys.

The one god damn time we need a fucking win and Wak fucks it up.

GOD FUCKING ASDFIJAIFJDIOSDJFOISDJFOISJGFIOJSEOIFJSDIOHFIOSDJF

FUCK FYCK FUCK FUCK
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
OK TRADE FUCKING ICHIRO, FELIX, SELL SAFECO FIELD FYUCK YOU ALKL
WHAT THE FUCKITY FUCK ASS SHIT POO DUNG
The 2009 Mariners

Finding a way to lose…

New day, same old way.
I CANNOT FUCKING BELIEVE IT

FUCKING REBUILD THIS SHIT.

Too many Aardsmas suck...... its official
Fuck this piece of shit team!
I'm gonna go kill myself
Nice prediction.
You say this every time we lose

Eventually there’s going to be a wolf and no one’s going to believe you.

This time I almost mean it

By far the worst loss of the year. Yes, worse than any of the Morrow meltdowns.

I'll be sure to alert your therapist.
Dude it's just baseball.
How on earth did you make it through 2006-2008?
Who cares? Any realistic shot at the post season died in Texas weeks ago.
Oh man don't do it.
Fuck this I'm finding a new hobby
Soccer? I heard that's big in England.
Join a soccer hooligan gang.

You can start up a web site or something.
We just got Aardsma'd!
And by Aardsma'd I mean we had our collective ball sacks dry shaved
We gave that win back in a hurry.
Anyone got any ideas for fun new hobbies?
EATING DOG SHIT WOULD BE MORE FUN AT THIS POINT
Jai-lai?
You can learn how to cook really fancy ass meals.
Martial Arts?

You seem to need an outlet.

Statement loss!
All my internal organs are simultaneously failing.
This is what we get for winning yesterday.
HOW THE FUCK DID WE LOSE THIS GAME???????

SERIOUSLY, HOW THE MOTHER FUCK DID WE LOSE?

I hope Ichiro unleashes

Some nice Japanese profanities on the team after today…

KELLEY IS OUR NEW CLOSER WHEN HE RETURNS AND FUCK YOU AARDSMA.
That was awful.

I’m going to go wash the taste of that game out of my mouth with my dog’s feces.

This is so Seattle
I don't want my family to see me like this but now I'm gonna have to walk down strairs and take this out on them and it's not fair...
Genius managing Wak.
I ever meet an Angel player in public I'm taking them out.

I’ll spend some time in prison for it, I don’t give a fuck.

I think someone already did that

back in April

But I would do it on purpose.

And I wouldn’t kill the dude, just shatter a kneecap or something.

You are

so low

It's a shame Chone Figgins wasn't in the car with him.
Sorry that was a low blow.

But today’s game was a low blow to us.

By reading a game thread of your own volition

you agree to accept all liability for any and all damage done to your delicate sensibilities.

Fuck the Angels.

This is the part where you stop posting here and go back to HH complaining about how we're all bad people
no

I’m not a gay fag. I don’t report everything you say

Yeah those gays sure are notorious tattle tales
That hurts my feelings.
You act like that joke doesn't get made 10 times a day here
I am not trolling

I’m just saying that was a wrong thing to say..

It's par for the course around here and I'm 100% certain you know that
sorry

but I rarely check this site

Do you think we'll be at our best after losing a 7 run lead in this fashion?
Go back to your strip malls and bleached blonde surgery skanks and leave us alone.
The Angels don't play in Phoenix
Fair enough.
You ever watch the Hills?
The Hills doesn't take place in Anaheim
Seriously you people need to get straight your notions of southern California
Anaheim is a pretty shitty town though.

We can all agree on that right?

Absolutely.
Anaheim isn't my favorite city in the world but it has an In n' Out in it
Sounds gay!
I've never been there but it is worse then Poland 1942
DEFINITELY FUCK THAT TOWN.
It's the happiest place on earth.
I think Orlando has taken that title now.
Compared to Orlando, Anaheim is far better.
I always like the part where we resort to insulting entire cities after we lose to their baseball teams
We should go back to drinking lattes and blowing our heads off in an homage to our favorite rock band Nirvana
You forgot to work in rain and being tree huggers.
But California people are tree huggers too, so that's moot.
While sitting in the endless rain.
I'm more of a Soundgarden guy so I think that means 1/4 of me should celebrate by joining Pearl Jam!
ESPECIALLY when we take a series 2-1.
Even if you swept the Angels

you’d still be making fun of Anaheim.

Making fun of Anaheim is old hat

It is what it is and it’s no different than a few dozen other cities in the area.

Yeah I know that.

I don’t care. I’m no fan of the area.

Also it sucks and I hate going there
Probably not to this extent.
We're division rivals. Get used to it.
death is something you don't make fun of

WE certainly won’t make jokes if Ichiro died….

It's okay. I'll make them for you.
Yes you would.
I make jokes about dead people all the time

Somehow I am able to both joke about dead family members and wish they weren’t dead.

Depends on how he dies, there's some pretty funny ways to go out
Probably would happen in Cleveland.
Commits Seppuku upon learning he was traded to Cleveland for Choo, Cabrera, and Valbeuna.
Saving a cat stuck in a tree?
OH! Morrow leaves a syringe out, Ichiro sits on it and suffers an insulin coma
And Ichiro gets Morrow's AIDS.
I heard you get that from catching one of the HR's he gives up
How dare you insinuate that Morrow has AIDS.

I’m leaving this blog and NEVER EVER COMING BACK

Hey guys what's up?
Go get AIDS.
Even if I wanted to do just that I wouldn't know where to begin
Maybe Aurora Ave?

O yea…you are in San Diego. Nevermind.

San Fran
Let's say I go to San Francisco

then what?

Do I just start sticking myself with every needle I find in the park?
Seems like a good start.
I think I would probably have an allergic reaction to the wrong blood type long before I found AIDS
Good point

I’d assume a needle in the park would do the trick.

Or find a nice gay man?

It's not like I could just walk up to any random homo and then immediately partake in unprotected sexual intercourse
What if it were Franklin Gutierrez.
He looks kind of AID'sy with that chin stripe
I imagine even the gayest of gays have some standards
You go to the AIDS Store on Geary and say

“Yes I would like to purchase a big box of AIDS.”

And they'd be all

THAT'S IT I'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF
Drama queen

Just busting your balls

It's nice to know that people care about me.

Thanks, guys! :)

Don't start getting all mushy on me man, I'm just one guy
I'M GOING TO DO IT
STEP AWAY FROM THE LEDGE

IT’S NOT WORTH IT MAN

I Wish you step back from that ledge my friend.

You could cut ties from all the lies that you’ve been living in. If you do not want to see me again…I would understand.

I think we'd get over it after a couple of months.

At least you guys aren’t as sensitive as the LSB crowd.

Bitchiro, Ichifag, etc. are used multiple times each game thread at HH

And I don’t mind – it’s a game thread. You would be saying far worse things if he died.

Yeah, you would.

I’m getting awfully tired of other fan bases coming on here and telling us how much better people they are than us.

Hahahahahaha!!!

Oh wait, you think you are being serious?

We would
Ichiro hurts this team by being a selfish corpse.
I would still root for zombie Ichiro.
Zombie Ichiro still hits .320.
I am 99% sure that the first joke made would be "Ichiro hurts this team by dying"
I would be disgusted by that joke because it's so predictable
But it takes the meme to a new level and kills it with brilliance
Wow, that's actually a good one.

Maybe Silva chokes the corpse afterwards.

Silva eats dead people?
He eats anything

/end Silva fatjoke.

In fact Jeff, I insist that be the headline of your eventual write-up if Ichiro passes away.
I wish Rob Johnson was riding shotgun with Ardenhart

and Torri Hunter and David Aardama were in the back seat

That would be quite a sitcom cast.
Thank you.

Finally someone comes around with the courage to dislike death.

It's about time someone stood up to that jerk
Generally, if you have to qualify a statement by saying you are not trolling. . .
How low

can you go?

Go look for sympathy someplace else.
Watch what you say. Remember the Ovechkin thing?
I don't care how fucking close Cleveland was to a title

they don’t have shit on us.

Never has a series win against the angels pissed me off so fucking much
How? How can things like this even happen?
Wow, fourth game in a row for Aardsma?

No wonder.

Don Wakamatsu has no idea what the fuck is going on.
Fuck baseball

Stop fucking over the Mariners every fucking time it’s possible.

I like how the umpires, Don Wakamatsu and whatever deity controls bloop hits to fall in conspired to give the M's a loss
I'm over it already.

Time for tomorrow.

I imagine that even if the ump called those two strikes to Rivera Aardsma still would've walked him
Were they strikes?
The first one was a definite strike

the second was borderline, and the fourth was a maybe.

I've never seen Wak blow it so bad
Of course, the loss is going to be blamed on the two runners on third we didn't score

and not on Aardsma for going all Morrow on us.

No I'm pretty sure it will be blamed on the pitchers
Im officially done with this team this year

This is the biggest fucking excuse for a POS team I have ever seen we cannot do one fucking thing right we UP BY 7 FUCKING RUNS i can’t put myself through the misery all summer, its ruining my life. fuck every single person on this team, the Raiders were more fun to watch then these assholes

Even worse than last year?

Seems doubtful

Way to stick to your team.
Dude thats what i keep telling myself

I’ll probably end up sticking around all year, i’m just extremely frustrated

See you next year, then.
Too late, no takebacks. Bye!
Questionable usage of Aardsma for the fourth straight game. Bad decision to load them up.

And man Aardsma, we know you would eventually have a terrible outing, but this was not the game to do it.

And for the record Im still blaming this on Yuni and his horrible range that allowed the 6th inning to develop the way it did

I NOW HAVE A NEW LIVING ROOM ARRANGEMENT

THANKS A FUCKING LOT MARINERS.

Maybe it needed to be rearranged

You know, fix the feng chui

Soooo, Wak....

1. Bunting in the first inning with a runner on second
2. Bullpen usage
3. Loading the bases with Aardsma pitching

FUCK YOU

And Fuck you Bruce Hines for one of the most ridiculous "Bad baserunning" moments of the year
That was laughable how bad it was

Not even a close play at the plate

Can we please have a manager that doesn't follow the 1950's edition of "How to Manage a Ballclub the Traditional Way"?
It's not baseball, it's Wakkyuu
Oh go fuck yourself Krueger.
What did Krueger say this time?
Asked us to be happy with the series win.
Well we did take two of three from a division rival, so...
Now don't you start too.

Agreeing with Krueger causes your testicles to fall off. That’s just science.

FIRESALE: EVERYTHING MUST GO.
I have to say...

That was some kind of screwjob the umpire put on Aardsma during the Rivera AB.

The strike zone shrunk at the wrong time.
Like he would've thrown any more strikes anyway
Your right, but it still sucked watching the postage stamp strike zone.
It could've at least, hypothetically, changed the hitter's approach.
Four walks in the 9th inning, walks aren't so silly anymore. That freaking bites so hard
And the intentional one was the worst!
Can't wait for the chart on this one
I thought you left.
I THOUGHT YOU WERE DONE. BYE.
Wow everyone hates me

?

BYE.
Don't be mean unless you're Graham.
No, everyone was just well aware you weren't actually going to leave

And therefore your previous comment was just unnecessarily dramatic

WHY THE FUCK DID WE INTENTIONALLY WALK THE BASES LOADED WHAT THE BLUE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH MY MARINER.
I COME INSIDE FROM A PLEASANT SUNDAY AND FIND THE TEAM HAS GIVEN UP A 7 RUN LEAD. SOMEBODY MUST FUCKING DIE FOR THIS OUTRAGE.
We once blew a lead almost twice as big!
I once witnessed the Mariners blow something like a 12 run lead against Cleveland.
And that was in 2001, no less!
First game I ever watched!

And I became an M’s fan, god, I’m fucking stupid.

THIS TEAM HAS BROUGHT MARINER MADNESS TO AN ALL NEW LEVEL OF MEANING.
Let the record show that Sims gave up after the game-tying walk
Niehaus was happy and jolly when I tuned in at the top of the 8th. MY HOW THAT MOOD CHANGED.
That'll learn the old fucker
I gave up at the IBB
Our WE% is 0%
;(

I haven’t wept this much since the Brits played our national anthem on 9/11.

Let's hear it for Vlad's majestic double
THOSE LUCKY MOTHER FUCKING DINKY HIT HAVING TWATS! FUCK THEM SO HARD THAT IT BLEEDS

FOREVER IN A HAEMOPHELIA TYPE WAY, WANKERS.

Thank goodness the draft is coming up.
Be prepared for a different kind of disappointed
I'm way over not getting Strasburg.

And confidant enough in Zduriencik to make our later picks count.

Plus, Ackley is awesome.

Its like breaking up with a girlfriend.

Initially it really hurts, but then you start looking at the positives.

Too bad none of us are able to go non contact
And then you go to bed alone and cry for three weeks?
Then sit outside his window at night, breathing heavily while making hangup phone calls?
I prefer holding up a boombox blasting my favorite love song outside of the window
That part hurts the most.

But yes.

If this were still the previous regime I would say

YES SO WE CAN DRAFT ANOTHER FUCKING RELIEVER

WHY DIDN'T THE TERRORISTS HIJACK A PLANE CARRYING THE ANGELS.
AND CRASH IT INTO YANKEE STADIUM DURING A GAME.
Because those are charter jets and they probably wouldn't have let a terrorist board the plane
Because they wanted to garner outrage

Not sympathy

TORI HUNTER IS A BASEBALL TERRORIST.
Based on his popularity Torii Hunter is more of a gift to baseball and Alex Rodriguez is a baseball terrorist
Fuck it KILL THEM ALL.
They could have exploited Mickey Hatcher's widely known

proclivities for male strippers.

Jeff, what are the secrets to you keeping your cool amidst all this?
I'm guessing apathy.
I have seen this happen enough times that my unstable and angry response time is fleeting
Let we forget the chair-pool incident
That was Old Jeff

Jeff v2.0 is cool and collected

I like old Jeff

You know, the Jeff that threw chairs and used knife picture montages

Old Jeff died when he got a real job and found out he needed to sleep sometimes
You're New Jeff now.
Decaf Jeff
Jeff Lite
New Jeff is as rad as New Fogel
New Fogel kicks my ass
That was when the games mattered!
If there's any crazy left in these old bones of mine then the Mariners need to start mattering again so I can find out
Ditto I haven't melted down since Ryan Franklin gave up three save blowing homers in a week at the end of July, and I was fairly indifferent towards today's results.
I was somewhat ok with the result. I want the future to be as bright as possible.
We could all see it coming.
Triumphant Disdain
Hilariously the 2-2 pitch that Morales hit for a single was pretty much perfectly located
As were the the strikes called balls earlier
By the way the pitch that Figgins walked on was a strike
So it turns out this was the day of the USSM North Carolina get-together
FUCK EVERY LIVING THING IN THE EAR
I don't think it was my fault.

Although I did have to leave around the 7th.

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