Biggest Contribution: Jason Vargas, +21.8%
Biggest Suckfest: Rob Johnson, -22.0%
Most Important AB: Ichiro single, +14.4%
Most Important Pitch: Upton homer, -19.9%
Total Contribution by Pitcher(s): +32.8%
Total Contribution by Lineup: +10.5%
Total Contribution by Opposition: +6.7%
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PLAYOFFS MOTHERFUCKERS
Poochie - June 21, 2009
We need to throw some motherfuckers off the boat first!
Slurvey - June 21, 2009
I'll alert Captain Bananas
Jeff Sullivan - June 21, 2009
I thought Captain Bananas was one of the people we were throwing off
OlSalty - June 21, 2009
He isn't expendable until he's finished disposing of the sundry other undesirables
Jeff Sullivan - June 21, 2009
It's now far enough in the season to use baseballrace.com again
When you watch the standings like this it doesn’t seem so bad.
Spoomeister - June 21, 2009
This is only fun for 2001.
SethGrandpa - June 21, 2009
Holy crap I had no idea we were only 3.5 games back.
Goose - June 21, 2009
This division is SO BAD.
Jeff Sullivan - June 21, 2009
It really can't be overstated enough.
SethGrandpa - June 21, 2009
Soooooo baaaaaaaad.
JLProck - June 21, 2009
Bizarro 2001!
Aaron Campeau - June 21, 2009
Texas' lead is, in fact, not SO BIG
Matthew - June 21, 2009
True, but not an isolated phenomenon
If the M’s were in another division, they would be out of first by (division leader):
AL Central – 3.0 (Detroit)
NL East – 3.0 (Philadelphia)
NL Central – 3.5 (St. Louis)
The only divisions the M’s would be far behind in are the NL West – 10.5 (Dodgers) and AL East – 7.0 (Boston).
lemonverbena - June 21, 2009
I would even argue that the AL West is not so much awful as just lacking a good team. But maybe that's what people mean when they say the division is bad.
Taken as a group, the AL West is six games over .500 this year. Then again, the division has also been outscored by 25 runs.
FlaskInSafeco - June 21, 2009
Parsing, but a fair point
The division is still bad regardless of comparison. But this could be an argument to continue being Buyers. And, the M’s are in the only 4-team division in baseball. Buy!
lemonverbena - June 21, 2009
I was thinking the same exact thing. And we're about to play the Padres again.
We better close the gap a little more before we go to hell for 9 days.
Zwakamatsu - June 21, 2009
I still don't understand why Sweeney started.
Mariner John - June 21, 2009
I'd be more pissed off about it, but the guy actually squared up alot of balls yesterday
Rudy4three - June 21, 2009
Griffey wasn't available
greymstreet - June 21, 2009
And yes I know how to hit reply
I tried and for some reason it didn’t work. My computer doesn’t always cooperate
greymstreet - June 21, 2009
Does your computer have a 5 1/4" internal floppy drive?
Aaron Campeau - June 21, 2009
He runs his programs from a cassette tape.
JLProck - June 21, 2009
I love it when all the lights flash as the tape runs.
msb - June 21, 2009
I meant over Carp.
Especially against a righty.
Mariner John - June 21, 2009
He also had 60 cc's of blood drained from his knee
That’ll teach Wak to let him play the field
Brian Floyd - June 21, 2009
"fluids"
usually water with traces of blood.
just to be pedantic.
msb - June 21, 2009
WHO CALLED THIS SHIT?!
That’s right bitches. .500!!!! We’re adequate now, son!
CapSea - June 21, 2009
I called us sweeping the last series of the year to lose the #1 pick last in May '08.
No one will ever touch that prediction.
SethGrandpa - June 21, 2009
I called Griffey singlehandedly curing cancer in January, 1993.
Once that happens, your prediction will be put to shame.
CapSea - June 21, 2009
Is that running Mariner in the background waving a gun above his head at the fleeing Ranger?
Seattle Rodiners - June 21, 2009
I certainly hope so
Jeff Sullivan - June 21, 2009
Closer analysis reveals:
- The “Ranger”, in street clothes, has just stolen the portfolio of the “Mariner” in business attire.
- The businessman is giving chase, but his prospects for recovering the stolen item do not look good. He is raising his arm in protest while the criminal accelerates and looks back mockingly. The author’s allegory is bordering on sedition.
- The Mariner-man is wearing the team logo over/from his groinal area, while the Ranger-thief’s logo is firmly on his stomach. The symbolism is disturbing.
- Jeff’s choice of cheap stock photography of EU origin, possibly one of the Benelux countries, ultimately hurts America.
lemonverbena - June 21, 2009
You've uncovered Jeff's secret identity as an ecoterrorist.
.Taylor - June 21, 2009
I'm unsure of who the Mariner is, but the Ranger is Josh Hamilton.
He’s making his break with the crack.
JLProck - June 21, 2009
w00t!
I’m calling the broom!
Slow Country - June 21, 2009
Gotta like going like a hot knife through butter through the weak part of the schedule.
I don’t know how the rest of this turns out once we’re not playing weak NL sisters, but I’ll take what I can get after last year. A division with nobody winning 90 and our shot at the lead looks very much within reach. I like this.
eponymous_coward - June 21, 2009
You have it backwards
The Cards bats have awaken after facing AAAA (read AL) pitching the last week.
Poochie - June 21, 2009
Nice to see Wlad's bat speed turning into solid power, he turned nicely on that pitch for the HR.
Now we need to see that more consistently.
EnglishMariner - June 21, 2009
WE CAN DO THIS
Omerta - June 21, 2009
Kiss of death.
“Steve Kelley | Mariners closer David Aardsma has come to own the ninth inning”
msb - June 21, 2009
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