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6/30: Open Game Thread, Part 3

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It seems like it's been awhile since we had a 3 part gamethread
Yankee-Mariner games deserve extra considerations
We like to amp our gamethreads up when we play the Yankees
Bandwagon fans like me only post when we're winning.
I'll probably be gone in two weeks.
How many batters to Grifftown?
Even though Mariano is one of the few Yankees who is actually pretty cool

it’d be kind of funny if he blew this save.

Oh gently caress it's Woodward
There we go kid prove me wrong
Gah.

I hate it when the comments close in the middle of typing.

Gutierrez has a better OPS than Griffey
Better fielder too

I think

Considering how they've been playing lately, this can't be shocking.

Gutierrez ought to be an All Star.

Here comes the bunt.
Why would you say that?
Typo, he's a terrible typist. Hunt and peck
WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU SWING AT THAT?
Becuase you are chris god dam wooward
So how many people don't even pull up gameday and just use these threads?

I do it from time to time and it’s… an interesting experience.

Radio in the background, never thought of turning it off for a thread.
It's often quicker to update than Gameday
When people freak out, I click back.
example:

Jeff’s What in the hell? comment.

HE ONLY THROWS ONE PITCH JESUS CHRIST IT CANT BE THAT HARD
Dammit Rivera already threw today
What in the hell
Haha fuck you Brian Bruney
Man, please don't make Rivera get four outs for a save again.
The save situation will be gone before it reaches that point, so he should be okay.
BUNT TIME! WAK BALL UPCOMING!
Kenji Power Pitch would be awfully nice here.
1 Pitch DP....
Looks like the Mariner can fill up some bases also ...

Maybe you guys should go back to playing your precious home run over and over and over.

Was that Johnson on deck????
KENJIS GOIN DEEP TONITE

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Please, just don't GIDP
Hurry up and win, will you?
Joh DP here. No doubt about it.
Ha! Wrong bitch!
KENJI KENJI KENJI!
That terrified me I was almost positive it was a DP
My thoughts exactly.
Damon throwing like a little girl is funny...
FUCK YES! LET'S GOOOOOOO
HAHA. Really?!

Was not expecting that!

Do not bring in Rivera.

Do not bring in Rivera. Do not bring in Rivera. Do not bring in Rivera. Do not bring in Rivera. Do not bring in Rivera. Do not bring in Rivera. Do not bring in Rivera. Do not bring in Rivera. Do not bring in Rivera. Do not bring in Rivera. Do not bring in Rivera. Do not bring in Rivera.

Girardi might bring in Rivera

If there are TWO outs, but not one in the 8th

Kenji!

Keeping it interesting.

KENJI! CATCHER PRODUCTION!
Holy shit

what is happening?

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet!
SEXI JOHJIMA
Bases loaded...

for Branyan.

If Cedeno doesn’t suck balls.

Yeah sac bunt here for sure.
GO DEEP RONNY AGAIN
Ichiro is on deck. Hell yes.
Wow Johnny Damon throws like a 5 year old ginger
ATTA BOY RONNY!
Cedeno laid it down this time! Yeeeehaaaaaaaa!
Goodbye Poop!, hello Crap!
So far so good!
IBB ICHIRO

BRANYAN FUCK BLAST

I don't get this move
Are they worried about a squeeze play or something?
Try to induce a double play, keep the one run lead.
I get that, but with Branyan coming up? He doesn't hit it on the ground that often does he?
Way to bunt with our best power hitter.
MAKE HIM PAY BRANYAN
They're walking him to get to Branyan. This should be extremely interesting.
BRANYAN TIME BITCHES
I don't feel good about this.
Yeah that's good load the bases for our best hitter
I am nervous and erect
Redundant.
Oh how untrue this is!
I am one of those, hoping to be both.
I'm mostly just erect.
First time, eh?
Inappropriate.

I’m reporting you to the mods.

Who still can't pronounce Ichiro?
I find a lot of other team's announcers put a lot of emphasis on the h.
That bunt actually improved our WE
"Ronny Cedeno gets it done."

Not something the announcers usually get to say.

They've had three chances to say it today
It's a special day.
CHANNEL 2006 SEXSON SEX CANNON
When it's 3-0, Ichiro should swing.
THIS WILL BE THE GRANDEST FUCK BLAST OF THEM ALL
A grand slam seems imminent here.
I would take a fly ball.
I remember Michael Tucker hit a 2-RBI single off an intential walk way way way back when.

Ichiro’s gonna do that sometime this year. Mark my words.

That quiet hush you hear from the stands is the sound of people stuffing money into their orifices in an attempt to change the outcome of the game.
Time for a 2-run single.
Fuck you, Ump.
Was that a strike too, Ump?
Make this 2 outs in the 8th

And Girardi might bring in Rivera

YES TWO MORE OF THOSE
GOOD FUCKIN EYE... should be 3-0.
Wind tunnnellllllllllll please let us see the legendary wind tunnnellllllll!!!!
Happy zone time!
I could cut glass with these nipples
Christ almighty.

I have not been this nervous for a while watching the M’s.

C'Mon Branyan, hit it in that jet stream I keep hearing about.
Holy shit full count
Ball four.
PAY OFF PITCH
Full count =o!
Gettin hot in here
I WILL TAKE IT
TIE BALL GAME MOTHERFUCKERS
At least he did not strike out.
Do you ever experience joy
Watching A-Rod cry might do it.
he hit it to the right outfielder...
"Damon has no arm at all"
HAW! HAW! "DAmon can't throw a lick"
We'll take it, nice job.
"Plenty deep, Damon can't throw a lick."
He can barely hit the cutoff man
Satisfactory!
Nicely done.
Ok not perfect but yes no Rivera with a lead
This is clearly not 2007 or 2008.
My heart hurts.
Well, could've been worse.

At least the game is tied again.

Fucking lopez
I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS GAME IS TIED!

COME ON CLUTCH LOPEZ!

Man.

I was sure it was gonna be a muscle-slam.

Wow Lopez was already out before I could even type "give us the lead Loafie"
Oh, for godsakes Jose.
You are such a cockhead, loafie
I love our new #3 hitter!
Should be Branyan right?
Not necessarily. The book says either 2 or 4.
The Book is a complete scam to dupe nerds out of their money.
SHOULD be Mike Morse.

Oh wait

Way to swing at the first pitch.
Why can't we have a lead. Just once.
3-run homerun needed.
Are they saying Booo or Bruuuuuney?
No sir, they're saying, "Boo-urns!"
Because those two things sound alike
So you're Jeff's Smithers now?
Congratulations, you found the joke.
Why would they say that?
I don't even know why I make jokes anymore
"Smithers…are they booing me?"

“Uh, no sir, they’re saying “Boo-urns!”
Simpsons reference.

OH MY GOD
What now.
"It's a ring toss game?"
It's like Taylor H with no time lapse
What is Simpsons
Isn't that that poor girl who OJ didn't kill
Way to go, bud.
In through the nose and out with a WHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Still boned
I consider even being in this game a gift.
First pitch? Niehaus didn't even have time to set it up, he just called the inning over.
Bullpen regression time!
Shuttupshuttupshuttup!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
You see what you've done?
Thanks for this.
I can't believe how smart I am
WHERE IS LANGERHANS!?
To bring him in would be to admit that Griff cost us some runs already.
Excellent question.
Fuck.

This will not end well for Sean White.

Damnit, I hate gap city.
Hendu loves it
Way to take the high road. I was going somewhere else with that
Oh fuck me with a stick
TRIPLE PLAY LETS DO THIS
We're fucked

This game just keeps picking us up to throw us back down

We just got Wak-balled
Gardner Pinch-running for Matsui

And Gardner can score on anything

Waked this way...
Beltre would have had that
Your regression couldn't have come at a better time.
Regression is very quick.

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Fuckin' Sean White
Well that took about 3 minutes
EAT THE LARGER PART OF MY NUTSACK MELKY
Way to take one for the team dude
That was a well-crafted rally.
Refression. Fuck Regression.

Also fuck left-handedness. Fucking evil lefthanded pople.

Sinister motherfuckers.
Hate.

Time to go a’ cuttin’.

Crap.
SHIT FUCK
sister's cunt
There's some rhyming slang I could get behind
A lefty out of the pen would have been awesome for this series.
Well, this was fun...

Wait, no it wasn’t.

If Jeter drives these runs in, they better not show a replay of it.
Now I just want this to end.
And there's your ballgame
Oh Jesus make it stop
I am leaving.

Have a good night, ya’ll.

Jose Lopez sucks massive amounts of leper cock.
Melts in your mouth, not in your hand
Keep the tip!
Game-Over

3-run lead and Mo in the House

You really know how to make friends
I'm not gloating
Oh, so you're just a cocksucker? I see. That's totally different.
Why thank you for this thoughtful bit of insight.
I don't like you.
Please go die in a humiliating autoerotic asphyxiation accident.
Preferably with something amusing lost inside your rectum.
.

or

Hot Wheels are also acceptable
I was thinking magnum of champagne
You have been nothing but pleasant
Don't forget witty and observant
Who is this "Rivera" character? I like his song
Bring me the other Sean.
What can Chone Figgins possibly do here?
Maybe they'll take Endy.
This isn't much fun anymore
On the upside,

watching the Red Sox try to piss away a 10-1 lead is fun.

Outta here. Done with this shit.
I HATE THIS MOTHERFUCKING TEAM
That'll show 'em!
Don't come back!
Fuck this shit.
If only someone had warned us that the bullpen as about to implode
It's okay guys, Corcoran might be coming in.
OH yes Corcoran will stop the bleeding!
Roy Corcoran warming up.

We surrender.

You know, I really wanted to watch NOVA tonight....
Turn out the lights..... the party's over.
Shit damn fuck bitch slut cunt dick ass
Goddammit it's just a frickin' daisy chain around the bases
Even Dave Niehaus sounds bored now.

I’m outta here. See ya.

That was a pretty breaking ball
Ronny!

Nice play

My favorite part is when the bandwagoners loudly declare they are leaving
HIT A-ROD IN THE HEAd
FUCK THAT
It was erhaps the worst post in gamethread history
When you can watch NOVA on tv while listening to Dave sigh in dismay on the radio...
Electric trains and high def!
He's had one helluva game.
Now who's :Dedeno!
OK Mariners, I can't quit you. Let's see what happens next.
Wind tunnel?

Bullshit

Well,

Nobody hit a Home Run to Right Field, although that popup A-Rod hit was close.

It was the rain, I'm sure thats what messed it up.
Rivera time.
Enter Sandman
You are like a Red Sox fan
9-11 should have had more Yankee Stadium
Yeah I'll bet he enters the sandman's rectum every night
What a fucking disappointment of a stadium

Both home runs were to left field, cock.

Just wait till Washburn
Wow Yankee fans are total queers
I didn't realize that Meatloaf was a Yankees fan
Griffey three-run homer!
Sorry, bases empty?

I know, I know.

Fat ugly people should get jobs
I have a feeling we will make this interesting and then lose
It's all over now, Rivera is indomitable this season.

He only has one pitch but he knows how to deploy it most effectively.

It is a well known fact the Mariners line up is lacking in patience and are weak hitters

The best way to defeat the Yankme’s is to have a lead in the 9th inning and not allow Rivera to enter the game. He is unstoppable.

I totally expected this post from that Yankees fag.
I'm more West Coast fag, more laid back. Passive aggressive hostility and shit
You can actually use hate speech when you are legitimately angry
Best way to hit Rivera

 is to go the other way; anything on the inside is going to be sawed off or pulled foul.

Righties have a 1.164 OPS against Rivera when pulling the ball and .639 when going the other way
I said this when Griffey was up

And Griffey is Left-handed.

I predict we'll have baserunners.
I predict we will play Baseball
I predict we will play "baseball"
or... "play" baseball
Oooooo that was a little exciting.
I thought you left.
FSN will be re-running that for weeks.
Ahh dammit.
Where was the wind tunnel on that one?! Fuck you New Yankee Stadium.
He hits that fair?

Sick

My favorite Rivera apperance of all time

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA200110210.shtml

Why are you doing this
.

The only that can hurt me is William's shot.
The only pne that can hurt me is William's shot.
The only one that can hurt me is William's shot.
The only one that can hurt you is Williams' shot
One more time around
I'm pretty sure I got it right that time
Apostrophe
My favorite was when he blew the World Series after New York's 9/11 cry for attention
I was told it was NY's one chance at moving on.
That actually might be my favorite also.
Easily the best.
Where was Langerhans for the pinch-hit duty?
Wow Boston screwed the pooch

Texas trying

Well at least Rivera is human
Well that was fun up until the bottom of the 8th.
Well that was worth it.
Owned.

Whoops!

Well, that went well, at least for a while.
Ok, back to Oliver Sacks.
Is he on Nova?
Yup.

it’s about music & the brain, so they are talking with Sacks among others. Drummer with Tourettes at the moment

When is the good Sean coming back, Saturday was it?
*Shawn
Every time is the first time, you'd think I'd remember it by now.
Well, look at the LA series.

Lost the first, won the next two. We’ll do that here…

Right? …Right?

Just want to win one
I'm all for doing that again.
Surely Vargas vs. Sabathia will end well
We didn't think Olson vs. Kuroda was going to be a win either

It’s baseball, anything can happen

I am sure there are limits to what can happen
I once saw Felix Hernandez hit a grand slam against one of the best pitchers in baseball
I don't remember that
I doubt we will see Gutierrez use a hand trowel to build himself a moat
Only time will tell
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN!
Like Silva and Batista throwing No-hitters on back to back nights.
On any* nights
Yes but, unlikely
Does Kenji catch Vargas?

Just kidding

I don't follow.
Look how resilient we were tonight

It’s cuz we had good leaders in the lineup like Griffey and Sweeney

Fuck

C-Ward.

Where's that Washburn regression bus photoshop?
So Griffey and Sweeney in the same lineup was all sorts of successful.
At least we arent the Red Sox today!
Poor Papelbon :(
My guess is if we'd got to Aardsma we'd know their pain
Aardsma has had a better season than Pap smear
That's just plain wrong

unless you’re talking about the urban dictionary version of Aardsma in which case I have no idea and will defer to experts.

Actually I had no idea how far Papelbon had regressed

His strike rate is way down, as are his swinging strikes.

The Red Sox are so lucky that he's only signed through this year.
Wel, that was shitty.
GOD SEAN WHITE SUCKS
SEAN PICK A COLOR
Kelly's not a color.

But I guess he doesn’t suck, nevermind.

He's also not named Sean.
Jason Marquis is one-hitting the Dodgers

Something terrible wrong with that offense right now

Wow

On 56 pitches through six innings

Shockingly, Juan Pierre is actually not a very good hitter
And Hudson and Martin are out of the lineup

But they’ve been struggling bigtime anyway

still haven't forgiven you guys for 95

so i love every beat down we give you

Yeah gosh I bet that one really smarts
A co-worker of mine cited Mattingly as a reason for this.
i had snot running down my nose and tears streaming down my face

then daddy proceeded to beat me until i shut up. i hated the mariners from then on.

Brain damage will do that
And then you grew up to be an asshole!

All those social workers sure are right about child abuse!

Seems like the Mariners are the enemy here
How do you think we feel about 2001

Bugger off

And 2000?
Somehow my memories of 2000 are fonder

Guess it felt like more of a ride just to get that point, though now that I think about it, we should have been up 2-0 in that series. God damnit.

The shift key is your friend.
I love how someone who's team has won so many championships feels better after talking crap to fans of a team that has won none.
We did win that series in 1995
And what a series!
Giffey was pimp shit during that series and then we stole John Wetteland
Giffey?

You’re naming your .gifs now?

I retired from giffing
Your jokes are as overly clever as Matthews' and nonsensical as mine
That Wetteland theft will make it all right.
Donnie Baseball retired without a ring

That series meant more to me than 2001. 2001 meant nothing.

Don Mattingly sucked
I like how our 6-9 hitters went 9-15
I was sure we were going to win
We're so going to win tomorrow

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