Lookout Landing

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D'oh.

ThundaPC - June 6, 2009 reply

You're right...I suppose it could always be worse...

SethGrandpa - June 6, 2009 reply

If only Franklin was more black..he would have jumped so much higher to catch the ball tonight.

kentroyals5 - June 6, 2009 reply

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I hate you both

for making me feel more shitty

Scrupio - June 6, 2009 reply

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Oh God, I miss him so much. When is he returning?

russak - June 6, 2009 reply

I was at this game

Denny Stark proceeded to ruin my night further.

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Ahahahaha

This is the best subthread of the season

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/5/29/892671/two-things#16323158

I love how he's clutching the leg that has all the dirt on it, as if his source of power ran dry.

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Hahaha yes!

I was wondering what the link marked "teabag" was

I love that I think/know that this was absolutely deserved.

You're stealing my hard-earned recs

Payback's a bitch sugartits

Poochie - June 7, 2009 reply

I wish I still had that one of Kenji getting nutted

I'm here to help!

Worst game of the year for me.

Kelly going down, plus Stark’s epic fail was a double-cockpunch that ruined my whole week.

This is hilarious

In retrospect it is a perfect summation of our season to this point.

^

If you keep outdoing yourself people are going to start expecting too much.

All i know about Poochie is that he's hip, and amazing in every sense of the word.

I don’t think thats too much

He's also proactive

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Hahahahaha god damnit.

This shit is probably waaaay funnier to me than it should be due to the alcohol in my system, but I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time.

If thats a Johjima nut shot that im seeing, my life is complete.

I never ever thought I would see the glory that is a Kenji and a Vidro nutshot in one thread.

I think my head might explode.

Well the Vidro one was a headshot. You get the picture though.

Players who make me mad should foul more pitches off of themselves, thats for sure.

Significant pain is the key.

I feel like it's sort of an eye for an eye thing

Vidro doesn't have enough eyes.

That's because i took them; I had had enough.

I like how Rob Johnson stands over his corpse

He's such a nice guy

He’s probably asking ‘are you alright?’

How caring!

Damn it!

Kenny Lofton was awesome

Literally the first thought in my head after I found this

was ‘How the fuck could he not get a job?’

Why are these better than Poochie and JI's if you've been gifing for a much shorter time?

Robert - June 6, 2009 reply

His budget is infinitely bigger than mine

I would have used the word taller there but hey its your comment not mine.

Robert - June 6, 2009 reply

Money is not measured in height you imbecile

I've heard of money being measured in stacks so I believe you are incorrect

Dewey N - June 6, 2009 reply

I, for one, think it's about time that we round up a posse.

I was rooting for Balentien for months and was really enjoying his progress, but after today, I’ve become convinced that he should be hung from a tree in front of his family. Also, we should set fire to Don Wakamatsu’s home.

LIGHT YOUR TORCHES!

Teej - June 6, 2009 reply

I didn't see the game.

What retard thing did Wlad do tonight?

Decided that the tenth inning would be the perfect time to try his Raul Ibanez impression.

BrianL - June 6, 2009 reply

Meh.

I would be more angry about him if our dogshit offense had actually done something for the first 9 innings.

Wlad!

Slow Country - June 6, 2009 reply

God fucking damn it.

Now Wlad’s going to be Rob Johnson 2.0 around here for a few weeks. Fuck.

marc w - June 6, 2009 reply

I remember when he was supposed to be Adam Jones 2.0.

Fin - June 6, 2009 reply

Of course the M's traded the good player and kept the shitty one.

russak - June 6, 2009 reply

Damnit that one stings.

Dub9 - June 6, 2009 reply

I remember when people thought AJ sucked because he dropped some fly balls and hit .200.

marc w - June 6, 2009 reply

The difference, of course, is that Balentien has plate approach problems that Major League pitchers can easily exploit, while Jones does not.

Not to nearly the same extent at least. Also, Jones has hit at the MLB level while Wlad has not. And Jones is younger. And plays CF quite well.

I understand what you’re going for Marc, but c’mon. Wlad might be somewhat useful at some point but Jones is light years ahead of him.

I don't think this is a comparison of AJ to Wlad now

it’s a comparison of AJ when he was a young Mariner to Wlad as a young Mariner today.

I understand that, but I don't think it's a fair comparison.

Jones dropped some balls, but his routes and jumps were obviously improving and he was still new to the position. Wlad has always been an OFer and aside from a short period of time when he looked better in LF he doesn’t seem to have improved at all.

I hate to be contrarian, but every time I've seen AJ play, he's taken crappy routes.

It seems like he’s just fast enough to outrun some bad jumps. I’m no scout, so my opinion doesn’t have any real weight, but I guess I’m saying even if his routes were improving, they were, and still seem to my eyes, to be pretty bad routes.

BrettJMiller - June 6, 2009 reply

I wouldn't necessarily disagree.

Jones is still definitely learning as a CFer but as you said, he has the speed to overcome bad routes, whereas Wlad doesn’t. I’ve only seen him play five or six times this year, but compared to last season it really seems like he’s gotten better. His first step seems correct more often than not, which I recall being a huge problem in the (rather limited) time I saw him last year.

But like you said, this is all based on an absurdly small sample of watching the two of them play the OF. I agree that Jones still has some work to do in terms of his instincts and route running. But when he first came up he made current Wlad look like vintage Andruw Jones in terms of his fielding instincts. Even is he’s still bad at reading balls and getting to them he’s way better than he once was and he’s so athletically gifted he can overcome it more often than not.

Although I suppose it's worth pointing out that 2008 looks like an outlier at the moment

but that’s working with less than two full seasons of data so yeah.

Where the fuck was the defensive replacement?

I feel like one of the things I was most excited about Wak was the fact he understands that defensive replacements late in games is important, especially in safeco, and ESPECIALLY LEFT FUCKING FIELD. The knock on him was he wouldn’t pinch hit, and today he pinch hit and no defensive replacement. The routes he took on not only the ball in the 10th but the slicing ball away from him made him look like Raul. It’s not like Balentien’s bat is so amazing that replacing his bat with Chavez’s was going to make a difference.

God fucking damnit.

I mean for christ's sake I learned when I was 8 years old that your first step is BACK.

Always. Doesn’t matter where the ball is hit. What did Balentien do on that last fly ball? Took a step in. Even in my intramural softball league guys get yelled at for not taking the first step back.

Oh good, MLB.TV finally archived the game

Now I can see the Greek tragedy of Wlad with my own eyes.

Holy shit, that error was hilarious and pathetic at the same time.

I’ve seen Little Leaguers (and Ibanez) take cleaner routes to the ball.

First. Step. Back.

Shouldn't you always play deep in the field anyway in that kind of high-leverage situation?

I mean, Gutz can get away with playing in, because he’s Gutz, but what the hell was Wlad thinking out there?

I absolutely agree, but really the fact he came in first makes him look like a dipshit.

With a man on second, you're most concerned about preventing singles

so playing shallower helps accomplish that.

The fuckers that open this thread deserve to have their browsers crash

Gifs don't crash browsers.

Tis an urban legend.

Big Jared - June 6, 2009 reply

Bitch we got a pony its ok

Robert - June 6, 2009 reply

Was Wlad given "credit" for the misplays of the balls in the outfield for his WPA?

The second one