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7/25: Open Game Thread, Part 2

This is a necessary game thread.

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So we can talk about the Angels!
Because we want to discuss the game right now not getting Brignac.
What's the fucking point
There is none, 2012 is just around the corner
End of the world?
We're going to win a world series before then

So I don’t care if it is the end of the world, I’ll be able to die happy anyway

my life would feel complete
But then it's like,

now what? Where do I go from here?

I would spend the entire offseason bragging about how I was still a huge fan even when they sucked

Then I would hope for a repeat

All the sudden

knowing stories about 2008 would be cool.

I'm fine with the Mayan prophecy so long as we win the WS before then
Late.
I had to ponder this for a moment, you quick little bastard
Chris Woodward is still on this team.
My new roster move prediction is Bedard to the DL, Vargas up.
I dunno...then there's no chance of trading him...
Yay

His gait isn’t the only thing that’s long.

Can we forfeit please
I know.

I can’t bear another loss. This team seems so ready to compete and just…. doesn’t.

It's 8-0
It's infinity-zero!
Wake up dude, it's still yesterday

The game hasn’t even started yet

I'm gonna go ahead and turn the radio off now
Cleveland is going to score 10 runs today.
And then a hit by pitch haha what the fuck has happened to this team
Damnit, we needed a brawl.
CLEAR THE BENCHES!!!!!!
Oh well whatever nevermind
We need the pitcher to chrage to plate it's the onyl time they're ever gonna cross it this game.
Seriously?
Rob Johnson is a peacemaker.
WAS THERE A BRAWL? I TURNED OFF THE RADIO
No. Rob Johnson mustered all his skills and calmed everybody down at once
Gay
No kidding, he should have punched the batter in the back of the neck
I would have brained him with his bat to start things off.

That would have the added benefit of removing Rob Johnson from the game of baseball forever.

Rob Johnson

stopping hits from happening. I’m not surprised.

Just what Rizzs and Niehaus said, they said he calmed the batter down

Walked him up the line to first or something, I tuned out when they said the bullpens turned around

Thank goodness.

For a second there, I thought our team was alive.

What just happened?

I’m out of market. All gameday says is “on field delay.”

Someone that can see or hear the game tell me about it!

brawl-want

DAMMIT ROB JOHNSON YOU STOPPED OUR ONLY SPARK!
God he's such an asshole.
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE RICHIE SEXSON

A LONELY NATION TURNS ITS EYES TO YOU.

WOO-WOO-WOO.

I didn't used to hate Rob
Nothing happened.

The bullpens showed up to make an appearance and everybody decided that their spots on the bench were covered with urine or something.

That’s it.

Sorry

I couldn’t make it in time.

Encore.

Best. Fight. Ever.
Whats the little white thing that flies past the mound?
Is that a mouthpiece? Did somebody (the catcher?) spit out a mouthpiece?
I thought of that, but that wouldn't really make sense would it?
Yeah,

going into a fight you want the mouthpiece in.

Football players take their helmets off?

I’m assuming catchers wear a mouthpiece, spitting it out before a fight would be kind of dumb. Unless he was trying to yell or something. It might not be a mouthpiece. Never noticed the white flying object until you mentioned it.

The remainder of Sexson's soul
I think that that's more entertaining than this game
Yeah!

Through that helmet you lanky fuck!

There is a point in sports fighting where it ceases to be about the game and become assault two.

I could watch this all day

just looping.

SEXSON HAD NO REASON TO GO OUT THERE, THE PITCH WASN'T NEAR HIM.

OH GOD, GAMEDAY EVIDENCE!

Now

you shush.

At the Kingdome a million years ago, in the 2nd game of a post-strike doubleheader,

I witnessed Rod Carew charge the mound from 1st base, resulting in a massive bench-clearing brawl. It was awesome.

This seems like a much better way to go.

If the pitcher isn’t facing you, they’ll be much slower to react.

They were still jawing at each other after a HBP
Anybody going to bitch about Catcher ERA?

Or can we shoot that baby in the head now?

But he calls such a good game!

And he has a good belief system!

Rob Johnson is really good at catching...
It feels like this should be the 8th not the 5th.
Whats the over/under on how many runs cleaveland scores?
Comeback time faggots!
We might get a run!
Well maybe not
You're so young and full of hope.
JOSE LOPEZ IS UP!
Jeremy Sowers' gameday pic looks like he's hiding a dirty little secret
He has a secret beastiality fetish.
His dirty little secret is that he's actually Cy Young.
I'm afraid to ask what the score is

I don’t really want to know either.

0-0

Sounders get the tie despite close shots on goal

Oh thanks

I had to turn it off early. Anyone else get ejected besides Torrington and Ljungberg?

Oh

My bad.

I did actually mean this game

But the Sounders result doesn’t suck nearly as bad

Time to focus elsewhere, regrettably
Nope, 10 a side the rest of the way
Cleveland 8 Seattle 0
Phillies reject Toronto's proposal for Halladay

May I show you something in a Bedard?

And the Angels are reportedly

chasing Halladay hard.

So yeah, 2010.

I hope they get him

as long as they don’t extend him.

Speaking of which

You know who Toronto’s starting pitchers will be when they come to Safeco next week? Romero, Rzpczynsk, and Halladay.

I should probably add that those are projected
I'd like to buy a vowel please
LOPEZ IF YOU POP UP ONE MORE BALL IN THIS GAME, I'M GONNA BUY TACO BELL AND INSTIGATE A 'NO JOSE LOPEZ' POLICY.

by EnglishMariner on Jul 25, 2009 2:14 PM PDT actions 2 recs

I didn't realise that Taco Bell was such a huge company and now I fear I may not be able to carry out this threat. :(
Hey Garrett Olson!

Did he grow facial hair?

A PASSED BALL YAAAAY!
WAIT HE'S A GOOD DEFENSIVE CATCHER SO IT'S A WILD FUCKING PITCH? IT WENT OFF THE GLOVE!
They should throw it into his glove, duh
We obviously couldn't sustain our winning percentage

But seriously, the fucking Indians?

SELL!

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So we weren't ready to sell when it was 8-0?
10-0

Remarkable!

I think the 10 runs got sent to the wrong people again.
SELLSELLSELLSELLSELLSELLSELLSELLSELLSELLSELLSELLSELL
But hey at least we've helped raise Ryan Garko's confidence.
weeeeeeeee...
We've been outscored 19-0
This is a massacre.
This is the type of game where, if it was a 'soccer' game, would spark a riot.
Another HBP!!!
I thought the offense was going to regress by getting better.
Our ability to make non descript medicore pitchers look like Walter Johnson is almost surreal.
So I'm glad I don't have to be there to watch this large pile of symbolic feces.

2010 will be fun!!

So Washburn and Aardsma will fetch us something big right?
Raul Ibanez!!
I think i heard someone yell "SELL SELL SELL SELL" after that home run.
The force is strong in this one...
I don't think I was the only one yelling it yesterday either.
It is also the type of game where you go home and carry out domestic violence.
Cliff Lee, TOMORROW!
This is not an ideal way to be spending my saturdday night.
Two days in a row now I've had to laugh to avoid crying

Tomorrow it’s Lee vs. Vargas though so I should be fine.

According to Mariner lore, Vargas will pitch a 3 hitter, and the M's will bat through the order in an inning at least twice
Glad we got to load up on these AL Central weaklings
!!!

I love this picture.
I just wish I understood it.
We are tanking
Like Oakland last year?
Saunders better hit a home run to make this game worth it.
I read that as "Sounders" at first, and, yeah, that would probably be more likely.
We're being shutout by Clevelands version of Hyphen

And no, I did not look up any stats first. GTE of apathy

Rob Johnson should clearly be batting before Michael Saunders
I remember when we used to beat up lefties.
Well that ball was completely in the strike zone.
How can you become a professional baseball player and not know what the strike zone is or what it looks like?
Oops that was probably rhetorical. My apologies Brett

I should go now, this game is doing nothing good for peace of mind

I just wish I had gone to sleep instead of bringing up gameday for a quick check in.

Now I can’t stop staring at the carnage :(

Brutal, I can't believe how badly Cleveland is demolishing the M's
It makes me want to hang myself in half, twice.

To death, even.

At least I understand why Fox has the exclusive broadcast: they're showing an actual MLB baseball game

Jimmy Rollins with a grand slam, Victorino with a solo shot on the next pitch

Yeah man

couple of great knocks.

this is so sad im not capitalizing or using correct punctuation
Brignac is in the lineup

Today sucks.

I think if Minnesota comes back it would just be adding insult to injury.
Geez Louise.

Saunders up? 10 runs? No runs? A kefuffle with Ben Francisco Open Your Golden Gates?

Hahaha Simms says the bullpen reached the infield dirt, and the ump raised his hands and waived them back.

And away they went, awesome. Would have liked to see that

Rizzs, not Sims. Doubled up the m, and put an s on it though.
Garret Olson = lockdown pitcher

for one inning

Just call him the stopper
.

Full sail, pretty
Bad Ship Mariner

Master and Commander: The Far Side of 2010

Gameday seems to think Sowers throws a lot of 87 mph changeups
Flo Rida made a song about Ichiro.
Cal Ifornia made a song about insolvency
So, what error led to Jak's unearned runs?
Getting out of bed this morning
A fan in Philly was shining a laser pointer into the Cardinals' batters eyes

They’ve stopped the game for a witch hunt in the first-base stands

For some reason I thought that read "laser printer"
Not nearly as easy to get away with
What sort of idiot thinks that is a good idea?
Someone from Philidelphia.
They've got idiots to spare in Philadelphia
Someone in SeaTac has been shining lasers into the eyes of pilots so this isn't really a Philadelphia issue
Idiocy knows no geographical boundaries, I agree

But Philly certainly leads on a per-capita basis

Jason Schmidt and another pitcher got in trouble a few years back for shining one at the fans ...

who didn’t have a fast ball coming at them

Didn't the NFL have a lot of problems with that when those tiny keychain sized pointers were available?

I don’t think they make them anymore, I’m not sure

This sounds more entertaining than a large part of FOX programming.
I've decided to blame Geoff Baker.
c'mon
By my shrewd math calculations, the Mariners have now been outscored 19-0 over the last 15 innings, at home, by a last-place team (whoops, check that, the Indians’ recent success against Seattle has vaulted them past Kansas City for the dubious distinction of being the AL’s worst club). It isn’t quite like losing 11 in a row or 15 of 17 or anything, but man, when this franchise crashes and burns, it leaves nothing identifiable behind.
2:38 p.m.: SELL!!!!!

I love his most recent game thread

I like Geoff.

It’s most of the commenters that seem to have a chronic case of stupid.

Oh, I'm only blaming him because he got back from his vacation yesterday.
Oh. Sorry, that went right over my head.
Yes, because Baker has such a long history of covering the franchise
It doesn't take much effort to look up past reports and such.
RALLLY TIME BITCHES!!!!

WOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Saunders is going to be the final out of this massacre.
After we go through the order once and it's 10-9
On nine consecutive homeruns. All of them by Rob Johnson!
What the hell
Must have been a warning earlier then?
Oh wait, no one is listening on the radio and no tv

The manager was tossed with the pitcher

I don't recall hearing that warnings had been issued
Slipped through the cracks with the charge of the Spartans from the outfield I guess

They usually announce those details

Dave was hoping they'd head out of the dugout in the helmets.
That was really funny, I think he likes those helmets

Not like he really loves them, they’re just weird and it gives him something to laugh about. I’m projecting

RALLY MOTHERFUCKERS
WHOA WHOA WHOA
Am I missing a brawl?
They plunked Johnson and he gave them a daisy
Angels have scored 11 runs today.
FUCKIN KILL THEM
GIVE THE INDIANS MORE OF WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN FOR THE PAST SEVERAL CENTURIES
I think we need to trade for Padilla first
Oh, I completely missed the HBP.
I really really really hope they bean the next guy too
I'm almost glad this is happening

At least it makes Jack’s job much easier. I feel like the next two months are going to seem empty, though.

Hey, we still get to watch Felix, we get to watch Saunders and we might get to watch a shiny new SS.

And we aren’t going to be Godawful like last year, so there’s that.

Don't forget Gutz
And the return of Adrian
I can't help but wonder if where we'd be if he hadn't been injured
HIT ROB JOHNSON
I WOULD IF I COULD REACH
Nice subtle job by the cameraman right htere
Too bad those girls left the building
The good news is

This sandwich is delicious.

WE MIGHT SCORE

WE MIGHT SCORE AND SAUNDERS MIGHT GET HIS FIRST BIG LEAGUE RBI!

HERE WE GO HERE WE GO HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
AND THE MARINERS ARE ON THE BOARD
And here come the M's!
Why the fuck is he arguing? Who gives a flying fuck
Review it! Get it right!
What happened?

Gameday is lagging.

Fan interference, I think Cleveland was arguing about whether or not the runner passed 2nd base

Since he did it allowed him to score. Something like that anyway

Umpire's judgement.
SAUNDERS!!!!!!!!!!

DAMMIT!

Oh, Dave so wanted that for Saunders.
Oh Dave got my hopes up so much there
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Robbed sad Saunders...
Fuck you Giminez, why would you take away his first major league home run when you have a 9 run lead you selfish prick
That could not have gone more appropriate
Reverse Aardsma'd!
This sounds like something you'd find at urbandictionary
Here they come!!! Watch out Angels!!!
So let me get this straight,

we are going to lose 10-1 and Saunders got his first ML home run robbed?

Wrong. We're going to lose 10-2.
If gameday is to believe, we will lose 10-2

Ce:Deno

Loud crowd still

uh

Torchlight parade after, so everybody is hanging around?
[Rizzs VO] These guys NEVER give up!!!!!!
We still aren't even close to false hope territory, 10-3 though!
YEAH FUCK YOU GIMENEZ
WHOOOOOOOOOOOO
AHHHHHHHH GET FUCKED GIMENEZ
WHERE THE FUCK WAS THIS AN HOUR AGO OR 18 HOURS AGO EVEN
You'll have to ask the ump who gave them that mercy run.
Lol Ibanez was just called a terrific Leftfielder by some Pihllies announcer who praised the of defense of the Phillies
HAVE WE WON YET?
50 some-odd games in fact
WOW WE ARE A BETTER TEAM THAN I THOUGHT
Some very odd games, too.
PECOTA had us at just 4% coming into today

It will probably be down to about 1.5% after.

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