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8/20: Open Game Thread

Could this game be going any better? I don't think this game could be going any better.

Postgame update: I should probably stop posting things like this

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Hyphen could be throwing a no-hitter.
*French* could be throwing a no-hitter

just to rub their noses in it.

I could be home watching it

That’d be far superior to sitting here at work.

Try going to work from 11PM to 7AM tonight, alone, and wishing you had RC's pretzels to warm you.

Anyone else have a shitty job schedule?

No, but I have this tiny violin....
Put it in Kenji's butt.
Kenji's butt

Can’t play a sad song for your work schedule. It’s not that much of a virtuoso.

I work 9pm-7am M-Sun

but then I get the next week off, so I don’t feel like I have room to complain.

Lead-off double :(
Let's hope this game doesn't get worse.
There are so many gifs I want to make from this game.
And we want to see them!
You will.

Oh, you will.

So how do you hit a HR and then break your bat like that?
RAIN OUT! RAIN OUT!
Rain now is good!
Rain!

Call it!

Wouldn't you want the HR derby to continue?
This game has already been super-awesome

I’d like the win now, please.

Raindrop get in your eye?

That was a strike.

RAIN FOR 24 HOURS!

I COMMAND YOU!

Let's go rain!
Hurry up and get us out of this inning.
This game could be going better
Hyphen could be throwing a no-hitter
Where have I heard this before?
Could be but isn't.

Get used to it.

If Ichiro found a cure for cancer between innings, it could.
Lead-off double :(
That's what I mean
Let's hope this game doesn't get worse.
Or getting worse.
There are so many gifs I want to make from this game.
And we want to see them!
You will.

Oh, you will.

Someone's bored.
No injuries yet >:(
How about getting a dry ball?
It would suck to sit behind someone with an umbrella

you wouldn’t be able to see shit

This happened to me during the Jays games during that unbearably hot week.

This French(-Canadian?) family brought several sun umbrellas into the 300-level. Took them several minutes to realize there were people behind them wanting to watch the game. They eventually surrendered.

It has been mentioned before,

But Brandon Inge’s Gameday picture is horrifying.

Deliverence kid is down on strikes!

Yeeeehaw!

One out.

Hurry up.

Where's Hargrove when we need him?

More trips to the mound. Let’s have someone lose a contact lens. RR-S could take a twitter break. Wak could try to pull a double switch or argue balls and strikes.
Put on the brakes. Get the victory while we still have the lead, please.

Send Batista to the mound to give RR-S a talk

on how to delay the game.

Pitching change?

Good start.

Someone needs to go to ground and fake an injury
We don't need two soccer teams in Seattle.
We are the ones that knock the other team down!
And here comes the tying run.
RR-S said a curse word.
That was some loud cursing!
Pitch two was a strike.
Bollocks.

Call the game, quick!

MLB wants Detroit to win this game
What
If anything they would want them to lose.
CALL THE GAME CALL THE GAME
Ha ha ha

Rain is Seattle’s BF4F.

DELAYED (RAIN)

CALL IT

So if the game is called, does this count as an appearance for Jak?
Since the game is in a break:

Usain Bolt with 19.20 over 200 m.

I fucking hate the fucking fact that I fucking missed everything in this game so far and that fucking Gameday doesn't fucking have any fucking highlights.

FUCK.

But: Kenji hitting a homer off of Washburn's Dolphin?

FUCKING AWESOME.

ARE THERE ANY GIFS?

Yes, I’m violating a cardinal rule by begging. This is one of those “break glass in case of emergency” situations.

Poochie should have one coming soon
.

Thanks, but I dunno, Kenji seems different somehow
This delay will last, like, 30 minutes.
If this gets called, does the top of the 6th still count?
It's an official game, I head that much.
...not really my question.
Yeah, I realized that after I posted.

I’m slow like that.

I believe so.
I'm assuming it's no different than a normal game when the hometeam is winning after 8.5 innings.
That's a very, very different situation.
Good question
Dont think so
I thought it went back to the last completed inning
I believe the top of the sixth counts

if I’m remembering right, plays from the top of the sixth only don’t count if they change the outcome of the game, but since we were leading before the sixth began, the plays would stand

I like that the Mariners' Insider has overcast skies, too.
Someone call it

The Tigers are sleepy, and they have a long flight.

ERA up to 3.18!
FIP up to 4.3something!

tRA up to god knows where

Somewhere quite bad
5 and a halfish?
Every time this happens

I’m reminded of the fact that I have nothing but love for our stadium.

Wait...

Silva kissed someone?
I’m listening to 710, and Brock Huard just said Silva kissed someone…

First game thread. There's a GIF
I was working

Will go look, thanks!

All Silva does is kiss people
That took forever for my work computer to load

But well worth it.

It's a good job for him.
HAHAHAHAH HOLY SHIT WE BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HIM
Oh fuck they have the bases loaded
Dear freaking christ.

I went over to Bless You Boys (no commenting, don’t worry) to see the Washburn reaction. It’s like a turn of the millennium chat room in there. Thanks J/G/M for preventing that. I feel so dirty now…

I see they are getting the buyer's remorse
Are they?

I couldn’t make it past all of the:

Hi!
   Howdy
           How’s it going?
                   I love Johjima!
                           Nice to have the day off.

Way to work the ILJ into that exchange.

Tip o’ the cap.

A comment from over there...
Why would Washburn only give up 11 home runs with the Mariners and give up six already with the Tigers? Outfield defense has nothing to do with that.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

WE TRIED TO INFORM YOU
Maybe it's.....

Maybe it’s……………

What’s that word?

I dunno.

Don't say it!
Awww, but I was hoping for a PeeWee's playhous kind of reaction.
Only one of those homers is out for sure in Safeco
This one's my favorite.

Amazing.

I saw it and was thinking of sharing.
But you cut off the best part from the last comment.
Well, that wasn't quite as stupid,

since PECOTA and UZR actually ARE sabremetric-type stats, and plenty of great baseball fans (my dad, for one) get bored as hell by them.

But I’ll fire it up anyway.

PECOTA is not a stat!
PECOTA's not a statistic but ok
Projection, sorry.
"What stats I follow are limited to

what’s used in fantasy baseball"

These people might be worse than traditionalists.

"A little learning is a dangerous thing"
Much much worse

At least trusting what you see is understandable

And if you're at all good, you can see a lot more than what ERA, errors, and BA tell you.

Watching a pitcher give up lots of deep fly balls, or get into lots of jams only to turn double plays, is a clear sign that he’s not as good as his numbers. And traditionalists at least have a chance to pick up on that. Fantasy baseball has no clue.

Here you are, Eyebrows.

We are spoiled here.
It's probably worse than a turn of the millenium chat room - those chat rooms didn't have LOLcats.

Be you warned, for here there be LOLcats.

My IQ dropped 10 points from clicking that link
My God, what an awful, awful place
This is what prompted my original outrage.
I started browsing their thread when the game started, but then the LOLcats showed up and I exited.
So, while I was gone ...

they smacked Jarrod around, and then the rains came? How is RRS doing?

Alternating between really good and uh ohs
Brock just wondered about whether he could get a fine for the loud expletive, so I gather it got testy there at the end

loss of control with the rain, or was it the ump?

To be fair, I don't think the HRs were that uh oh
Walks, couple other long flies
Bill Haselman thinks errors are the be-all and end-all of measuring defense.

Salk and a caller are both trying to explain to him that it is not so. Really.

Oh Bill Haselman not Brock. Shit I must be tired
Brock was the one repeatedly saying 'WORP' over and over

and not letting Salk get a word in edgewise. It was rather annoying.

I think Brock right now is arguing that not making any errors is more important than having good range

Although I’m not positive

Haselman wants a player to make the plays he should make, and not get fancy trying to make the other ones.
Mike Salk and Bill Hassellman

are going at it on the rain delay show about advanced defense metrics vs errors.

Maybe we should've started Bill Hall today.
We could re-start him.
Any idea how far Branyan's went?

I just saw it on Gameday, and from eyeballing comerica at hittracker, it looks at least 425 feet away.

The announcers said 425.
And we're back!

:(

This situation is shitty.
Come on Jak, let's see a double play here....
Let's go, Jak!

No win for Hyphen? :(
He's eligible for one if we don't blow this lead
Ummm...

As long as we hold the lead, he does.

Only if Jak blows it here.
Why would you say that?
Third pitch was a strike dammit.
Fuck fuck fuck
Where's Julio Mateo for the groundball when you need him!
Where's Jose Paniaqua for the bean ball when you need him?
I still don't like this.
I guess I'm happy about that. I thought he was gonna walk him
He tried his best to walk him.
Not as bad as it could have been.
From the reaction here I thought he allowed a hit
Yeah what the fuck man.
No surprise that Mike Blowers started a sentence with "No surprise"
Why not?
He says that and "No question about it" like a broken record, it seems.
My joke was that he also says "why not" constantly

In fact, my roommate and I have a ’finish your drink when Blowers says “why not” rule. It leads to blackouts.

I missed your joke due to stupidity. I like the game though!
Be careful with it

In fact I probably shouldn’t have brought it up here. People could die.

Honorable deaths, at least.
Yes, the last thing you'd remember is the dulcet tones of Mike Blowers talking
Injured Jakubaustrich?
Judging by the meeting, it looks like Jak's shoulder is only pained when he throws a ball.

So this should go well.

Cramp, maybe?
Get him out please.
Fuck fuck fuck.
Now will you take him out, Wak?
That's why I wanted to get out of the inning before the rain delay.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Oh great a laugher is now a 1-run game.
And all those runs goes to RRS, that sucks
TAKE HIM OUT HE IS HURT FUCK
Another hit after getting ahead in an 0-2 count?

WE still 65.6%
THAT IS BY NO MEANS COMFORTABLE
Just lie back and enjoy it.
Does that account for having a bullpen that is practically fake?
Gameday sucks at keeping score.
It keeps rewinding back in time for me.

It skips back to an inning before.

Excellent!
Not excellent, but you know what I mean.
BTW, Joh GIF

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/8/20/996450/this-could-not-be-more-perfect#19970445

That homer says "suck it Washburn" loud and clear.
It's almost like he knew it was coming...
Holy hell that was a pop up
Washburn no-decision imminent.
My original intent was to post something bemoaning the fact that I am at work right now

but now I am slightly less agitated.

Hit a home run, Saunders.
For fuckssake, Mariners.

Regards,

We beat Verlander yesterday.

What more do you want?

Another win today, preferably.
We'll do our best to hand Washburn a loss
Shut up we're still winning
Such hostility towards someone who is rooting for your team!

Anyway, I don’t trust the Mariners with a 1-run lead. Against Detroit, nonetheless.
I’m a little surprised that you do.

We have like the best record in the league in one run games
We have the best 1-run record in the major leagues!
That inning was awful
GOD DAMMIT GAMEDAY WHY WON'T YOU WORK FOR ME
Washburn getting a no-decision will be this year's Carlos Beltran slide.
I would take that as this year's shittiest moment.
More really large filesizes!

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/8/20/996613/some-moving-images-courtesy-or

SBN doesn't like that
This link does not work for me
I don't know why that's an or

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/8/20/996613/some-moving-images-courtesy-of

This is a 40+ MB gif
I said it was large.

Answer your damn e-mails

Also, man, the original version was over 100

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/145796/GIF_File_Size_Reduce_Software.exe

So help me god if you fuckers dead meme giffing
Well that did pretty much nothing.

Enjoy a 34 MB gif now!

Oh good, Miguel Cabrera up as the tying run
That'd be the go-ahead run
That's what I meant to type, I don't know what happened
...leads off first base

He didn’t finish his sentence.

That must be it
I'm pre-rationalizing by telling myself that hey, Miguel Cabrera is really good.
Which explains why Shawn Kelley is good, I guess.
KK-elley!
Bill Hall may not be happy with another strikeout.
Wow lots of swinging strikes this inning.
Yay now we just need another seven outs
Shawn Kelley is back!
YEAHHHH POP OUT

I don’t understand how that ball is so often misjudged.

Okay I hate Rizzs.

It’s like he takes advantage of the fact that we can’t see what’s happening and artificially makes things sound ten times scarier than they are.

I love Guti's smirk in the Gamecast picture
Did someone just yell "Close your eyes and make a wish"?
Is Felix batting?
It was probably Sweeney on deck.
Dave Sims is a huge Entourage fan!
Aaaand now I'm terrified
We miss you Adrian.
I am starting to realize how spolied we have become...
The Beltre play doesn't work for Hannahan :(
Bill Hall makes that play.
Bill Hall is worse than Jack Hannahan
Because he's black, right?
Jack Hanahan is black??!?!?!
Ramon fucking Santiago
So is this Ramon Santiago exacting revenge of his own
It seems like Ramontiago always whips our asses.
Nice throw, Franklin.
We are so god damn spoiled.
That is such a good play...
Gutierrez is so awesome.
I love you gutz
Be taller, Polanco.
I heard he wishes that he was taller.

Also, he wishes that he was a baller.

And a girl who looked good so he could call her.
Hey ump some strikes are higher in the zone.
WHAT A CATCH!
WILSON

DEFENSE BEATS THE TIGERS

THAT WAS INCREDIBLE
NICE
This game could pretty much sweep Web Gems tonight.
Could

but won’t.

J FUCKING WILSON
UNBELIEVABLE!
WOW!!!! WHAT A CATCH!!!!
JOSH FREAKING WILSON
Yuni gets to that
THANK HOLY JESUS FOR DEFENSE
OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH

MMYYYY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

HOLY BUGGERS OUR OUTFIELD
That was our shortstop
The out came from nowhere I swear.
HOLY BUGGERS OUR FIELD
I think that is what I meant.
Wilson made that catch in the outfield, so, technically...
And that's where my ears went.
Wow! I almost pooped
I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT HAPPENED!
DEFENSE MATTERS
That inning was all kinds of frightening.
Replacement Defense!
I like you Josh, you can stay.
I fear for Bill Hall's first fuck up
I predict there will be unpleasant things said.
By Yoyogi
Wait, because he's obsessed with Jack Hannahan or because Bill Hall is black and he's a racist piece of shit?
Josh Wilson has been taking lessons from his older brother!
But Dan Wilson was a catcher
Dan knew how to catch, let me tell ya
In a span of 24 hours, I heard MLB Network, ESPN, and the BJ Shay Morning Experience call him Jack Wilson.
It's like our defense is sending a message to Jarrod

“See this? You’re gonna miss this”

Gosh, I'd sure like to see another run or two in the board for the Mariners.
No biggie it's only Thames Raburn and Miguel Cabrera
It's always interesting when a hitter strikes out looking against a sidearming opposite-hander
Aardsma time
I find this more terrifying than usual.
I'm frightened.
I want Washburn to be stuck with a loss so badly.
The M's didn't get any hits post rain-delay, did they?
Don't fuck up please!!
This could be an unfortunate inning.
We should probably prepare ourselves for at least one baserunner
Or a dead person
I expected that to fly off Johjima's glove and strike Washburn.
Think positive thoughts!
Hot news from MLBTradeRumors
One AL exec isn’t sure Bryce Harper’s the guarantee people perceive him to be.

Well gosh

A sixteen year old catcher might not be a sure thing?

Here comes the BB
Sometimes it's just too obvious
Dammit.

Positive thoughts!

I hate it when our pitchers get into putaway counts
I've seen wilder pitches

That's a hell of a pickoff move.
I like the ending, when the guy who gets the ball yells at the guy with the backwards cap.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Win or lose this game

I hope we trade Aardsma this offseason.

I'd love to get something shiny for him.
Kind of depends

Don’t know how far one season would go towards erasing his reputation.

I wouldn't trade him just to trade him.
Wooooo one out!
Oh goody it's Miguel Cabrera
That pitch terrifies me.
I'm amazed it's as effective as it is.
This game is going to end with a flyout to the warning track
And anyone listening to the radio will have a heart attack.
.

End be tied by.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
That was terrifying.
Oh.... balls......
Shitshitshitshitshit
Well that turned out better than expected.
FUN TIMES!
That smug smile comes right through the internet.
It's like frankie time!

It’s fun when it’s not my team.

Enjoy the show!
Walk him and go for the DP?
Aardsma is known for his control and groundballs
Right, but that runner at first is meaningless.

May as well give it a shot, right?

Oh right, the walks.
DURRR.

I did not sleep much.

That worked well for us the last time Aardsma did that!
I can't watch any more.
I feel perfectly fine about this still.
I think you're sitting at home drinking.
You would be wrong.
I really don't want this to happen.
This reminds me of the Angels game
This is SO much fun.
IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN
That was nearly a wild pitch intent ball.
Load the bases for a guy with no control.

Intelligent!

It's Felix's throw day, right?
Actually this raised our WE by 0.2%
WE doesn't know who is pitching.
We're pretty much boned.
The best game of the year is going to be ruined.

By our worst in the majors bullpen.

I am sure Aardsma will not walk i nthe tying run.
Sometimes Wak is a fucking retard.
Throw harder please
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK THIS
KENJI YOU TOOLBAG
YOU UNBELIEVABLE TOOLBAG
Yeah, that's on Kenji alright...
I can't see it, I can only hear Dave's radio call, which suggested just that.

Don’t blame me, blame our cataract-ridden friend.

Aw shit I hate extras
Hey you may just get lucky then.
You and me both, sister.
Damn sac fly.
At Joh blocked the plate.
FUCK THIS TWICE
Fuck you Deliverance kid!!!!
FUCK YOU KENJI JOHJIMA ROB JOHNSON GETS THAT
Not true.
Rob would have let the winning run score too.
These reactions are hilarious.
Nice job Wak.
Yeah, the IBB really caused that...
CATCH THAT KENJI
Nevermind that hop was much lower looking from the other angle.
Great. Washburn gets a no decision.
FUCK YOU AARDSMA
Dude has got to have been in the most high leverage situations of anyone in the Majors

and he’s been our only awesome reliever.

2nd most.

Brian Wilson leads the Majors.

Yes but fuck him this game.
Yes boo the appeal
I guarantee you most of the fans thought it was pickoff move
Most of the fans who booed anyway
I don't want extras.
Selfishly, I do.

I didn’t realize the game was earlier today so I just tuned in an inning ago.

Free baseball wooooo!

The only reason I really care about winning is because I want to punch Robert in the balls
Then we all win.
Thank you.
Well at least somebody is happy the team lost.
Not necessarily happy that the team lost, just happy that the game didn't keep dragging on.
That would have been the worst.

Now we can all go do more important things.

I guess I'm just at the point in this season where I'm more concerned with being entertained that winning the game.
Good news!
You should be the only one allowed to say that.
And fuck you umps!!!

For making RRS pitch when he couldn’t even grip the ball!!!

I blame Jak.
Jak retired 2 of the 3 guys he faced
But he gave up no earned runs.
Bases loaded no outs isn't an easy situation, Coach!
There was 1 out at the time.
Whatever. We beat around Washburn, Kenji got his revenge, and we saw some awesome defensive plays.
It would be funny if he is still able to walk in the winning run.
More fastballs please!
WELL FUCK ME
Well, that was obvious.
Well that sucked in several different ways.
I'm still going to punch Robert in the balls
This is probably his fault, anyway.
ahahahahhahahahhahaahahahah
What an awful series
I miss last year.

When losing at least meant better draft picks.

MLB wanted it this way!!!! ARGH!!!
Yep, it's been a conspiracy from the start.
Maybe something besides a fastball, David?

You had 1B open if you missed.

Looks like he threw two non-fastball pitches.
Not in that PA
The entire inning.
Yeah.

I sort of understood that?

Jarrod should point out that the Tigers won because Kenji called predictable pitches
So this game was all kinds of fucking awesome until the rain delay.

BUILD YOUR FUCKING STADIUMS WITH RETRACTABLE ROOFS.

The first part of the game was fun anyway.
Fuck it, at least Washburn was shit.
Morrow for closer!
He saw eight fucking fastballs.

Eight.

I dedicate Nelson's "After the Rain" to this horrific game
We got Beltran'd.
Wish we had traded Aardsma at the deadline.

For something shiny.

Yes that would have been a good baseball decision.
Whee!

You're awfully "rub it in our face"y today.
This was a funny loss.

Even if it was the Angels, I’d be laughing. Plus, I love that gif and will use any excuse to post it.

I can finally rec my own gif
The circle of life!
They wrote a song about it.
I have no idea what happened, except 2 runs scored.

Which is really all I need to know, I guess.

Aardsma happened.
Is that a new t-shirt?
It should be.
it's like you guys don't even care about the White Sox.
I am glad that Detroit won.

I hope they win the central.

Everyone is happier when Ozzie Guillen cries
The mistake we made was getting ahead

We always lose when we are ahead

At least we made Washburn feel like he took a

recent trip to prison where he dropped the soap

He was put in that prison after being convicted for statch amirite
The blind leading the blind.

Vinnie & Haselman.

I'm sure this has been pointed out already

but you aren’t forced to listen, you know.

I hoped they would go back to Salk.
Plus, Drayer.
But hey where else are you going to find out Wak is a players coach, not a coaches coach.

You know you’re in trouble when even New York Vinnie cuts you off and says you’ve got your head up your ass.

Did Brock and Salk really gang up on Hasselmen regarding defensive metrics?
Yup.

Hass felt that if a team had a lot of errors it meant they had a bad defense, and a team with few errors must mean they were really good defensively. A caller even got in on it, trying to point out that someone like Adrian had errors because he got close to balls that other would let by, and Hass felt that he rather have an infielder that made the plays he should make, and not try to get fancy.

Having crazy range is fancy?
I know everyone's a little sensitive over a loss that probably devastates me even more....

But I have been respectful here for the few times I comment every several months.
(And use proper English!)

I didn’t know your 300 pixel limitations, or else I would have followed them.
I’m not sure why everyone pounced or why it needs to be cloaked like it was something offensive.

Great game everyone. Cheers!

I read the tag line "could this game be going any better" and thought...

oh shit we have been cursed. I was right.

Sooo what time do the Sounders play?
7pm
Neat, thanks.
And it's on national TV

so I can watch!

Open game thread later tonight?

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