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6/5: Open Game Thread, Part 2

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PLEASE GET THE HIT

NO!

Damn! Step On A Crack Break Grandma's Back Ichi!!!
Okay that does get old I suppose...
Especially when it does not make any sense whatsoever
So we may need extras now
Or a huge 8th inning rally
The end goal is that this game never ends
Selig would call it a tie before it got that far
Schroedinger's game?

If it never ends, we can never lose.

Dont do that I had withdrawls
It was dark in there and I got scared
I can't decide if it's good or bad

to be cheering for extra innings.

Makes it more likely ichiro extends his streak at least.
So it appears that RRS may not be back as soon as hoped
He almost hit his pitch count though!
He summed it up well

tonight

Is Ichiro! boned?
Only need two guys to reach for him to be up in the ninth

Erm, maybe only isn’t the right word.

So, boned then.
Is that an Achewood Reference?

If so, color me impressedd.

BRING BACK FELIX
Ibanez just blew it: "Ibanez so near and yet so far" says Vin Scully

Double for the Dodgers. Jumped up and the ball touched all sorts of his glove before being dropped.

[surprise face]!

But he hits homeruns!

Some epic Raul defense in LA.
Gif?
they pretty much rain down from the sky
I'll make a gif of it if someone someone tells me what program to download.
Aviedit

It’s not free though, unless you do something to make it be free.

Ah, I see. Thanks for the tip.
GIFs on request are so fucking dead meme'd

and the ultimate in trying to fit in.

I'm thinking if more people know how to make them there will be less gif-begging
Have you met LL?

There’ll just be a ton more GIFs on stuff that doesn’t need to be GIF’d and they’ll be posted wily-nily to slow down threads.

It's like you could read my mind.
Oh god what have I done

I’m tired and wasn’t thinking. There’s no such thing as a program for making gifs, ignore me.

This place will turn into DRB
Yikes. Sorry.
If only we had JI
Like he'd do it
Jeff was a better gif'er
I could make gifs just as good as his if I felt like it.
Sorry, Felix.

hey look! the whiny baby is in to pitch!

Sean White?
Danielle Lawrie was laughing at him earlier, because he was to catch her ceremonial pitch, and he kept asking her what she was going to throw.

She said she decided to take it easy on him, if he was going to be such a baby

Ryan Franklin?
I feel like Joe Crede

Wears old fashion headphones where ever he goes.
I don’t know why.

Not a lovely time for a walk
Pitch f/x...

has Felix at 3 change-ups tonight…that’s simply not true. He threw that pitch 15 times at least tonight and it was dominant.

It reads it as a fastball usually, I think.
Atta boy Rob
Fucking terrible throw, fucking terrible catch

I hate you both

Did Wak just throw out the sign for "get him to hit into a double play"?

if so, it didn;t work.

It looked like Lopez had never fielded a one bouncer off of grass on that one.
WOOOOOOOOOOOO
Holy cow White has 3 swinging strikes in his first 15 pitches.
Bad throw, half assed attempt at a catch.
Top 8, tie game, runner on second, 2 down

What time is it Safeco? Its fucking wave time! WOOOOOOOOOO

Out! Out! Let It All Out!
Johnson took a hit?

WTF

What the flying fuck was that?
WHAT THE FUCK I LOVE THIS TEAM
Holy shit, I am absolutely amazed that Rob Johnson held onto that ball.
He used both hands.

Fairly would be so proud.

Holy shit.. He held on to it
Well, he didn't really get hit very hard.
Given his track record

it is still a miracle. I was expecting a fuck up of some sort from Rob

Well that was exciting.
HA ha idiot!

Did Sims just call him Loafie?

I feel like Dave Sims is an LL kinda guy.
THAT WAS AWESOME
Wow

Why won’t you just stay down Rob

I hate him slightly less now
I dont
Don't worry my hate for him will rise again after he inevitably strikes out in his next AB
I love Johjima!
Wow, suck it Tolbert, Rob Johnson is better than you.
So Johnson did something right
haha...

My favorite part of that play is that I believe Lopez gets charged with an error.

Play assumes one out, and one out was recorded

it will be scored Busched reaches on FC, Tolbert out at home

hmm...

So if a ball goes through the legs of a 2B and the hitter/runner tries for 2B and gets thrown out, it’s not an error?

That would be, because the fielder wouldn't have a choice until the batter-runner had already reached base safely (first)

in this case, since Tolbert was already on base, theoretically Lopez had a choice to attempt to throw out Tolbert or throw out Buscher – it doesn’t matter which one he gets.

But I may be wrong on this, because he may have needed to throw out Tolbert at third rather than home to avoid the error, but it doesn’t look like they charged him with one, so I’m assuming they scored it the way I had originally. (by “had,” I meant “said,” not that I’m actually scoring a game on MLB.tv)

Do you just show up after Loafie sucks it up?
Don't be mean to Jose!
You said you wanted to kick him!
You said you wanted to kick him!
Don't suggest you like Nick Punto!
I didn't! =(
Plus I was really looking for the sb reaction
I showed up after my NexDef dies suddenly and I'm no longer ten minutes behind the game
you are welcomed with open arms
We capitalize here at Lookout Landing
*Capitalise
Quit pretending you're British
I've noticed Poochie is always correct on your/you.re
JI never knew when to pick his spots.
How do we even know JI was a him?
It seems assumed
I just assumed form "his" taste in women "he" was a lesbian.
That's a bit awkward
I'm jut trying to fit in. >:(
Talk about your age more and post links to the archives.
I am so mature my age is irreverent
You can just commentate on the attracctive ball girls
Assuming they are of legal age

I’d like them to handle my foul balls.

You're getting the hang of this
You should come by more often
It's nice for new members like myself to be welcomed to such an intimidating community

with the analysis of posters like Robert and Fogel, I feel very out of place trying to have discussions with these luminaries

Be comforted that your analyzation of such luminaries has brought you into the fold
Bitch yeah you wish your milkshakes were hot like me
Who the hell would want a hot milkshake?
Good God Loafie

also, first time to compliment Rob Johnson, he didn’t get hit as much as he drilled Tolbert

Nope, Tolbert ran his ass over
That play went from fuck FUCK, FUCK YES!
I love Russel Branyan.
That was a play, shit.
Why's Kenny Powers Hiding From A T-Rex He's A God Damn Bullet Proof Tiger!
That's a headscratcher
Two more of these and you're taking a break.
Oh Poopsticks A Second Warning? Okay I'll Retire It's Been Fun.....Cheers.
What's a poopstick?
Don't get him going.
Guess what cannot happen?
Don't ask these things
Sims is way too excited for water bottle night.
Gives him a new place to store his booze
I wouldn't think that would be his drug of choice.
Who says you can't mix and match?
In general, he's always too excited.
Depends on what you put in that waterbottle
He's putting some adult beverages in there for sure.
In a kids' water bottle.

Whoda’ thunk?

I wish Beltre was better at recognizing breaking balls
I love me some pussy hits
BUNT SWEENEY BUNT
Bunt again!
Oh, Ervin Santana white thing in nose issue is cleared up

He had a nose bleed apparently, so I guess that’s a tissue

So you're saying he's been hanging out with Josh Hamilton
Aardsma Time.

Yay.

How'd that get here?
This was an odd place to post that comment
Gameday has Aardsma in. Is this untrue?
This is true

But he used it as a reply to a joke about Josh Hamilton doing crack

Crack makes the mind wander and shit appear in weird places?
Crap, this team is just crap.
UGH

We’re gonna have to go extras for Ichiro to continue the streak

2-on, 2-out, bottom 9 game winner.

Just like vs. Korea, baby.

Oh god that was glorious.

Even my Korean girlfriend was clapping for Ichiro.

Damnit!

That doesn’t help us get back around to Ichiro you dumb motherfucker!

Aside from scoreing our only run, Sweeney is really stinking up the joint.
If there is a god, Shelton will be up tomorrow and Sweeney will be out on his ass
But he hit a homerun today! His power is back!
Maybe Mike would like to retire, and take up a position as Steve Hecht's new assistant.
What

The fuck?
.

link

Or

there is this

Teams are getting creative with first pitches
Here comes the annoying Gomez bunt single.
Please, PLEASE throw strikes
Seriously why does he always go to Aardsma?

White is perfectly capable of pitching more than one inning

You just have love for Sean/Shawns
I just think it's stupid to waste an extra pitcher when there's a perfectly good one already in the game
Especially when said pitcher got tired on the last road trip and kicked the team in the balls
From pitching every day when he wasn't necessarily needed
That was a big swing.
Sit the fuck down
Not ecstatic about the impending Aardsma-Mauer matchup
If he gets Span out, no worries.

And it will be another of our frightening relievers taking on Mauer and Morneau.

I sure hope it's Morrow or Stark
We're at 100% percent for extras!
I just found out how to make video of the Beltran strikeout the screensaver on my phone.
Wait, this game is still going on?
No,
No what?
it is not going on

damn the tiny keys

But Me and Mrs Jones

that is still goin’ on.

Lets see how this straight high fastball approach

works on Mauer and Morneau.

I find Span to be really annoying
Terrible fucking throw Johnson
Well that was unexpected.
RONNY RONNY RONNY RONNY RONNY RONNY RONNY RONNY
Cedeno > Yuni
Does this need to be stated?
My initial thought is no, no it does not
Only had to bring it up after he made a great play.
RONNY!!!!!!!!!
RONNY YOU CUTIE.
SUCK IT DENARD
If we don't go into extras I will kill myself.
Rob Johnson is the best player surnamed Johnson ever to paly for the Mariners!
I know you're the expert but I disagree
I wholeheartedly disagree
You may not be aware, but Randy Johnson once played for the Mariner's and he just recently won his 300th game.
You may not be aware, but Matthew is one of the mods on this site

and thus is probably aware of the team’s history

Randy Johnson recently earned the 300th Win of his career, joining an elite fraternity of pitchers and is well on his way to entering the hall of fame on the first ballot

Rob Johnson recently rented the movie 300

That was Mark Lowe
Twinsies!
Well there goes the joke
I believe you're thinking of Mark Lowe.
Throwing out Denard Span is pretty damn impressive.

And that was a great tag.

Yuni will be back tomorrow.
No one better hit a fucking walkoff before Ichiro comes up

Oh, who am I kidding, that isn’t a real concern

loafie wanted to prove you wrong

but he didnt

Oh wow I enjoyed that close up
I very nearly shat myself
You almost fucked that up Lopez.

Also, opp. field?!

He hit it the other way.
Working the count.

Oh, yeah.

Wlad take.
I think we've got a good shot at seeing Ichiro again.

Maybe twice at this rate.

GRIFFEY GRIFFEY GRIFFEY
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Nope!
GOD ROB JOHNSON SUCKS
I FEEL LIKE I'M WATCHING HISTORY

THE FIRST AUTISTIC FUCKTARD TO EVER MAKE IT TO THE MAJORS

Griffey!!!
FUCK its ROB.
WHAT KIND OF FAGGOT SHIT IS THIS
I guess Jr was just bored of sitting.
Probably didn't want to waste their walk with 2 out no one on
What the fuck I thought Griffey was pinch hitting

Why did they change that plan, it was a good one

Had there been fewer than 2 outs

Griffey would have probably hit.

Well that was quick but not painless
At least it guarantees Ichiro! another at bat, I guess
Gutz hitting a walkoff HR would be the height of irony.
Lowe's straight fastball with Mauer and Morneau makes me think that won't happen.
Oh my how did I forget The Streak!
Wow. That was awesome.
ICHIRO WILL GET ANOTHER CHANCE!
Man this is one wussy song.
Why the hell does Wak not pinch hit?
Ichiro has a higher batting average than Rob and Ronny combined
Hey Mariners, let's play more really close low scoring games that still take a long time.
This is going to be horrifying
Well this won't end well.
Which Lowe will it be tonight?
The one that sucks.
How the fuck is that not a strike?
Hooray pitches that are strikes being called balls

because it’s not where the catcher set up.

Awe Wlad, your killing me.
The Raul Memorial.
Oh I wish Endy was playing.
Dammit this needs the all hands team on the field
Ugh... Endy would have had that
That's a fucking DOUBLE?

All the fielding of Raul, none of the power.

Fuck Joe Mauer.
And Wlad.
I don't think Wlad is our best option in the field.
But Wak values defense!
I thought Wlad was past the sillyness in the field :(
I don't think is worth Ichiro getting another AB

It will probably be against Nathan.

That was really, really ugly Wlad.
Mark put on your fucking 300 Helmet on and get the fucking job done.
9 balls, 3 strikes

Good ratio

Four of those nine balls were intentional you flaming codpiece
Mark Lowe, you are absolutely worthless.
He's nose deep in some pickle juice now

Don’t ever change Dave Sims

Is that the 97th hitter our bullpen has started 2-0?
Picklejuice - what?

Dave Sims is talking crazy talk.

Nose-deep in some pickle juice?
HOLYHOLYHOLYHOLYFUCK
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
Holy fucking shit.
GUTI YOU SEXY MOTHERFUCKER I LOVE YOU
Well alright
HOY FUCK HOY FUCK HOY FUCK HOY FUCK HOY FUCK HOY FUCK HOY FUCK HOY FUCK
My L key is stuck
LOLOLOL

or for you

OOO

Someone can't read the rules.
YES YES YES YES YES
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
DEATH TO FLYING THINGS!!!1
SEX IN MIDAIR!!!!!!!!!
Take me now GUTZ
GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

MIKE CAMERON INCARNATE!!!!!!!!!!

ADAM WHO

GUTZ I LOVE YOU WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

FRANKIE IS A FINE MUTHERFUCKER
HOW THE FUCK DID HE HOLD ON TO THAT BALL!?
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST I LOVE HIM

WE’RE STILL FUCKED BUT I LOVE HIM

HOW THE FUCK DID HE CATCH THAT
"OH BABY!" indeed, Mr. Sims.
Play of the year
We're still going to lose.
After that catch if Ichiro gets a hit I'm counting it as a win.
God that was such a great catch.
Damn, I dont get to see it. Was it a diving catch?
Up against the wall, glove over the wall, to bring the ball back
He robbed what would've been a 3 run homerun
Robbed Kubel of a HR.
It sounds like he scaled Goliath to stab him in the eye.

I want to see it too :(

Leap at the top of the wall by the landing
Just over the wall, brought the homer back.
Ranged back really far to steal a homerun. Incredible.
That was a ridiculous catch
Wow, that was incredible, wow.
Impressive that he held onto that in his glove.
HAHAHAGHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHA
YES YES EYS YES YES YES OH MY GOD YES
HOLY SHIT THEY BLEW IT! YEEEEHAAAAAAA
WAK IS A GENIUS
BEST DOUBLE PLAY EVER
Except it wasn't
I know. Best pair of outs, ever, is more like it.
MARINERS WIN
KSDDFKL;DFKLDFKLJDFKLJDFJKL;DFJKL;DFDF
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
hahahaha!!!

Stolen signs rule!

Holy crap, bad base running, and we didn't do it!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

I'm guessing Lowe missed the pitch out sign.
HOLY FUCKING FUCKING SHIT
This is some crazy shit right here.
I LOVE WAK BALL!
THAT WAS ALL ROB JOHNSON!!!
TRIPLE DIGITS?!
Do you think Wak figured out their signs?
How much more luck can they string out this inning
Ichiro is hitting a home run next inning to win it.
Or not
Nick Punto is awesome.
And Little.
The obvious bait is to say he'd be a better backup than Cedeno
NOT TOO MUCH APPARENTLY
Not much, I guess.
Damn you Wlad! Should have been out of the inning!
What the FUCK is going on in the 10th???
Wak can read minds
Did Wak call that or did Rob Johnson?
GOD DAMMIT WLAD
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Goddammit why isn't Endy out there
OHH WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?
Fuck you Balentein
I HATE WLAD.
WLAD! I HATE YOU!!!!
Balentein, I will light you on fire
Fuck Wladimir Balentien
OH FOR FUCKS SAKE WLAD
When did we get Raul back?
If we have to lose, that is how I want to go out.
Wlad being lazy.
Your fired, I want Endy back NOW.
Fucking hell, Wlad.
WLAD YOU ARE A BAD FIELDER AND YOU SHOULD FELL BAD
FUCK YOU WLAD

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK YOU

FUCK ME IN THE FUCKING ASS

GET A FUCKING BUS TICKET TO TACOMA, WLAD YOU SACK OF SHIT

Three amazing outs in a row wouldnt have been mariners baseball.
That's it, Saunders to Seattle right fucking now.
I bet we can beat Nathan
Mostly Lowe's fault for giving up so many line drives
Fuck that

GMZ put together an outfield defense for a purpose.

Fair point. But Wlad should have caught both of those balls.
I dunno about the Mauer ball

that looked like it really sliced away from him. The Tolbert ball was hit right where he should have been though

Yeah he should have

But they were both fairly difficult plays. Difficult plays he should’ve made though.

The second ball was very catchable.

He took a shitty route to it.

So was the first.

He went back and found the wall and forgot there was a fucking baseball he had to catch.

That ball was slicing away from him.
It wasn't an easy play but a major league left fielder makes it.
He took a pretty crappy route to the first one too
What is funny is that Gutz made the most difficult play of the inning look easy.
Endy better be starting tomorrow
GOD I HATE YOU WLAD
bahahahahaahahhahaha I love how they show Endy now
Endy is not amused by wlad's defence
Why is everything that is hit off of Lowe completely scorched?
Because if the hitters know exactly where the ball is going to be, it's not that hard to hit it
His fastball is dead straight.
He threw ONE offspeed pitch that inning.

And it was a change up. He got seven swinging strikes in one inning against the Twins earlier this year – all off his slider. Why doesn’t he go back to that pitch?

Mauer, Morneua, Kubel are lefties and the slider issn't the best pitch to throw.

But Lowe has a pretty good change-up that he wasn’t throwing of course.

I'd like to blame Balentien for all of that inning, but Lowe was getting absolutely hammered
I cannot believe that Guti held on to that ball.
This inning was really one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Idiot fielding, all-world catch, blown squeeze, idiot fielding. Beautiful.

A new day. a new way.
Indeed.

I’ve never seen something quite like that before.

Oh hey, they hit it to someone who knows how to catch.
FUCK YOU WLAD AND YOUR FUCKING ONE HOMERUN

and shit defense

Endy has TWO home runs.

Fuck you, Wlad.

That was an insane inning.

Wlad needs to go bye-bye.

Also, yay Joe Nathan!
So without Wlad it's very possible that would have been a 1-2-3 inning
So how long before Wlad gets back in another game
I think someone was under the influence when they made that Morrow Bobblehead commercial
under the influence of insulin?
No, definitely crack.
FREE MICHAEL SAUNDERS.
Might be a good time to pinch hit...
Hey let's make sure we let Cedeno bat.
Why is Griffey not hitting?
He has to PH for a CFer
What the fuck is Wak's problem with PHing Griffey?
Wak has nervous fingers.
No PH for Cedeno. What the fuck, Wak.
Blowers just wondered aloud if something was wrong with Endy or Yuni, as they are both still on the bench here
They must be fine if he would pinch hit for GUTZ
WHY FOR GUTZ
I WANT TO SEE GRIFFEY PLAY CENTER
I am mildly confused as well.
Gutz hits behind Rob Johnson so I am convinced that wak thinks he is the worst hitter in the lineup
The way he has been batting him 9th and making him bunt constantly it's clear that he does
Which is dumb

I’m starting to question whether he really knows what he’s doing.

He may want speed in front of Ichi and 8/9 doesn't matter that much
THEY PINCH HIT GUTI

WHAT THE FUCK

SERIOUSLY? GUTZ=SEX!
You're pinch hitting for the wrong person, Wak.
WHAT THE FUCK THEY'RE PINCH HITTING FOR GUTZ.

FEEL My WRATH, WAKASATAN!

WTFFFFFFFF

Cedeno Ok, Gutz not

I do not understand this at all
It's about time.

GRIFFEY!

Why the fuck would they PH for Gutz and not Cedeno

That is absolutely retarded

This should not be something to cheer for.
Doesn't Wak know how this works. The fielder who makes the great play then comes to the plate and hits the homer.
This is the first time I'll say it all year:

This is fucking stupid Wakamatsu.

Unless he’s just punishing Yuni and wants to make sure he doesn’t touch the field.

Why do you want to see Yuni hit or field?
I don't get this
Keeping Cedeno in the game

so he makes sure Yuni doesn’t see the field.

We're saving Yuni to PH for Ichiro
I want Ichiro to tie the game up to extend his streak and send Griffey out the CF for the 11th.
Wlad, Jr, Ichi

2008 all over again

What does this even mean
Jr. wasn't on the team in 2008
Now you use Griffey?

I don’t get why Wakamatsu seems to think Gutierrez is the worst hitter on the team

Goddammit even if we tie we just lost Gutz in the outfield, and probably Cedeno in the infield
YUNI IN THE INFIELD IN EXTRAS FUCK FUCK FUCK
Why is Cedeno out?
Wouldn't they move him to the outfield to cover the loss of Gutz?
Wait, Endy is on the bench.
Endy Chavez
Prob put Endy in CF
If he walks we may have a chance

Ichiro then Russ

I'm only Griffey were this patient when he was good
What would that have been an OBP of .480?

 in his best years

Griffey is just going to sit there without swinging once
Well, that worked out well, dang it.
C'Mon Ichiro, just get 1 hit.
Please get the hit Ichiro so at least something good happened in this retarded game
This might be a good time to hit a homer, Ichi
please don't walk him
#28 for the tie?
Well a tying HR would be a great way to extend the hitting streak
This game is 100% on Wlad.

I know this isn’t true, but so what.

I'm blaming him too, it's ok.
If we all blame him, we must be right.
I'll buy into that
YOU WALK ICHI

AND I WILL FIND YOU NATHON

Consolation prize, Ichiro.

Get a hit and then run into the out to get this over with.

Ichi hit. Sexy Muscle hits a walk off.
This, please.
What a kick in the nadgers for Gutz.
PLEASE ICHIRO

I DON’T CARE IF WE WIN JUST GET A HIT

Dear Ichiro, we havent talked much, but i feel like we've always been pretty close when we do. So it's as a friend i ask you this.

TRIPLE RIGHT NOW DAMN YOU

If only Wak twittered.

He could tweet WTF he is thinking.

What if Lou Twittered during games?

That would be good.

There would be some fine scrambled messages.
I don't think he understands PHing at all.
Come on Ichiro
Don't you dare walk him.
But Branyan.
WELL THIS GAME WAS ABOUT AS FUN AS A ROOT CANAL
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT WHY!!!
OH MY GOD WAK SHOULD BE MURDERED AND THEN FIRED AND THEN MURDERED AGAIN

THERE IS NO WAY THIS TEAM WILL EVER WIN ANOTHER GAME EVER

Nice way to keep everything in prospective.
I'M TRYING TO FIT IN
Crap.

It’s all Wlad’s fault.

WALK-OFF!
In a sense
I WOULD ARGUE IN THE TRUEST SENSE

BECAUSE GAME WINNING HITS USUALLY INVOLVE RUNNING!

Unless you're B.J. Upton
Well that was pretty much the last thing I thought Ichiro would do
WORST GAME OF THE YEAR
The Angels game was far worse
The last time I felt that ill at the end of a game

was USC vs Stanford a few years ago. USC vs Stanford was way worse.

Maybe for you, but we have seen Morrow blow 2-3 times this year in that same fashion.
I blame this all on Wlad.

Even Ichiro’s streak ending.

FUCK THAT SHIT.
Fuckin' Wladimir
I'm sad =(
Hahahahah

What a perfect way to end the game

What a way to ruin train car night.
INTERVIEW WLAD
This is the part where I pretend I'm upset.
So when do all go to Wlad's place with white hoods and torches?
I'm free the rest of the evening.
I know Wlad is out of options,

But why the fuck is he on this team. The only thing that made him special was power, and now he has none.

Well this is an ignorant comment.
I think I better stop posting for a while.
I'm just going to pretend that Kubel went yard

Fucking Mark Lowe has the most hittable high-90’s fastball in the league

I blame the offense for only getting 1 run off a broken lefty and a bad bullpen.
There were so many times the Twins could have taken this game
And then they did.
Add in the inept offense on the Ms side, you really didn;t even need Wlad to screw it up.
Maybe Endy has the flu or something
Go back to Curacao, Wlad.
I love it.

Rizzs soft-soaping it (“a ball just beyond the reach of Balentin”) and Dave following up with the blunt comment that Wlad should have caught those balls

Shouldn't have pulled Felix out Wak

Idiot retard idiot

11 pitches.

Wak is neither retarded nor an idiot.

111 pitches.
who freaking cares. Pitch counts are so lame.

Every pitcher should try to emulate Roy Halladay. Our bullpen is going to blow it for sure every time. Leave felix in

Jesus tapdancing Christ you're not sounding much above retarded.
Because every pitcher is built like Roy Halladay
Yes it would be fun to see Felix's arm explode into a million pieces just so we can avoid the bullpen
yeah it would.

btter than letting our lame bullpen play

Losing Felix to injury is a much better option than letting our bullpen pitch?
Please stop being a retard.
So we agree then
I'd prefer for the arm of our best pitcher not to explode while he's on the mound.
Please admit that you're trolling.

Because there’s no other explanation.

In his defence, it sounds like sarcasm taken too far.
This isn't the first time he's called Wak a retarded moron for no reason.
Oh, gotcha.

Definitely retarded.

No not no reason
I don't know

based on the sample size of this subthread I don’t believe you’re capable of putting together a rational argument against Don Wakamatsu’s managing style.

Oh, hi there, Nolan Ryan.
He was at almost 110 pitches.
Tell me about it.
Post game

Wak mentions the poor route(s) Wlad took, and when asked about defensive replacement says that you have to find out what Wlad can do out there, and you won’t find that out if you pull him early in games.

In Wak's defense Wlad seemed to have taken a step forward in his route-running before tonight
His arm isn't the worst, either.
I agree to a point, but 9 innings is more than enough for that.

Endy should be out there in the highest leverage situations – particularly with a flyball pitcher pitching.

Thanks for pointing this out, by the way. I don’t have access to the post-game show, so this is helpful.

I suppose it is the idea of seeing Wlad in left, as he's been in RF in the past
Wak also pointed out that the game should never have gotten to that point, that they had chances to win earlier
The man does say all the right things in an interview
I would still like him to explain how he came to the conclusion that Gutierrez is our worst hitter
No one asked him about the PH opportunities
Who's doing the interview? New York Vinnie or is one of the round robin sessions with everybody?
It is always the whole pool, in the interview room
Cool, just checking. There's been a few tweeks since they changed radio stations.

I wasn’t sure if that part was still the same.

They brought New York Vinnie back?

GOD

He was sitting in for Drayer on her days off
That explains it, good to know
Not sure if it's a regular gig, I heard him do a couple on field interviews awhile back, and the post game last week or so
He's gotta find someway to pay for all of those deep-dish pizzas.
Because he's fat.
Or because he's a spokesman for Alfy's Pizza.
I thought it was a New York thing.
I know, i know. Lazy joke.
I'm wondering if Yuni was sick or something.

Cause that’s pretty much the only way to explain pinch hitting for Gutz instead of Cedeno.

Still exhausted from chasing Beltre the other night?
It was the hardest i've seen him run since 2005.
Pitman is ignoring all those draft rumors

and going straight to an interview with Ackley’s college coach,

You'll be surprised to hear that Coach Fox is a big fan of his player.
They just interviewed Wlad, and he looks so sad.
That was kind of painful to watch.
I feel bad for the kid and all but he should try not being bad at baseball.
That would help to ensure these awkward moments don't happen anymore.
I imagine the 2nd one was especially brutal for him

Since that was one he definitely should’ve had

I feel sorry for Wlad

Look at those puppy dog eyes. He didnt mean it…

I read this in Yahoo sport rankings:

So, every afternoon, Ichiro Suzuki and Ken Griffey Jr. nod and greet each other the same way. Ichiro: "George." Junior (given name George): "Pimp." How great is that?

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