I've spent the evening actively trying not to think about Adrian Beltre, so to make myself feel better, I watched an old video. Be you warned, for here there be .gifs.
This was David Cone's 147th pitch of the game. According to Baseball-Reference, that was the second-highest pitch count of Cone's career, behind an astonishing 166 in 1992. Nearly the entire bullpen was available. Doug Strange's career OBP over a couple thousand trips to the plate was .295.
Paul O'Neill was a lil bitch.
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More please
ManifestDestiny - January 4, 2010
Ahahahaha
OlSalty - January 4, 2010
LOVE IT!!
Thanks for the O’Neill expecially
basebliman - January 4, 2010
He was a BIG lil bitch.
msb - January 5, 2010
Wonderful
But I had no idea Strange was that bad.
zeeehjee - January 4, 2010
In familiar fashion:
Jeff Sullivan - January 4, 2010
SMILE PILE!
royalcurve - January 4, 2010
Griffey at his best.
And I keep expecting tears from Lil’ Paulie.
JLProck - January 5, 2010
Also check out the Yanks bullpen stats in 1995...
When Bobby Ayala has better stats than most of the Yanks relief corps, I’d have stuck with Cone too.
basebliman - January 4, 2010
Is the game available online?
greymstreet - January 4, 2010
I believe you can get it on iTunes...
PositivePaul - January 4, 2010
And if you don't have iTunes
MLB.com’s got it
Jeff Sullivan - January 4, 2010
I'm surprised this is actually on there
I was interested when they first got MLB Content. Was happy to see Felix’s domination over Matsuzaka was on there, but then found out it was the NESN broadcast. What the hell? Fuck Orsillo.
And I hated O’Neil so much, him and David Justice can fuck off.
OceanBird - January 4, 2010
Or you can just watch the best parts of it on the "You Gotta Love This Guy! " Edgar dvd over and over and over like I do :). yaya!
wazzu93 - January 4, 2010
I want a copy of the VHS they sold at Eagle Hardware
Mine broke in the late 90’s…sad.
OceanBird - January 4, 2010
VHS
I’ve got a copy that’s not in real good shape-cover’s worn, etc.-but the tape plays fine. I can mail it to you if you want, just write me at letters@1995mariners.com
arnec - January 5, 2010
So it looks like Game 2 was the game in which Mariano Rivera arrived
Poochie - January 4, 2010
I won a bet on game 5
The winning prize was have my head shaved.
The Army was an odd time for me.
Dave Clark - January 4, 2010
Can't tell you how many times I have watched that game.
Wilder. - January 5, 2010
They played it on MLB Network one day.
I recorded it and watch it with my kids at least once a week. They must be subjected to Edgar and Junior (while he was good).
JLProck - January 5, 2010
I hate Paul O'Neill.
That .gif is great.
JLProck - January 5, 2010
They replay the game on MLB Network every so often
And a couple of weeks ago, I was hungover and ended up watching most of the game.
What’s amazing is not just how long Cone stays in the game, but how long Lou sticks with Andy Benes. Now, granted, the bullpen outside of Charlton was basically shit, but still, I doubt any current manager would stick with Benes as long in 2010.
Sportszilla - January 5, 2010
Andy Benes was really really good pitcher and the bullpen had thrown almost 7 innings the night before
Poochie - January 5, 2010
The bullpen wasn't shit...
Check the stats, in addition to Charlton, Nelson and Risley had great years. They were exhausted from pitching so much in the series. That’s why Johnson pitched in extra innings.
basebliman - January 5, 2010
+1
Nelson and Risley were one of the best RH/LH setup combos in baseball that year, and what Ayala did was barely worse than, say, K-Rod’s 2009.
PissedMick - January 5, 2010
Please do not use +1 or other chatspeak on Lookout Landing
Thanks…it’s one of our rules that we’re pretty picky about.
pdb - January 5, 2010
My mistake. I was bouncing between here and minorleagueball.
The +1 is something I should try to stop doing altogether, really.
PissedMick - January 5, 2010
It's not that bad so long as "+1" isn't the entire response.
The annoying part of “+1” or “This” is that, by itself, it offers nothing in terms of analysis or opinion.
JLC - January 5, 2010
It's still not allowed even with followup though
Graham MacAree - January 5, 2010
Also you can now actually give "+1" by clicking the rec button. So it's superfluous.
CapSea - January 5, 2010
I too watched this when they had it on MLB network
They had player/manager commentary…Jack Morris and Cone in particular were great. I enjoyed when Cone said he went into the clubhouse and cried like a little girl.
Not that I have anything against David Cone in particular, but it’s a nice reminder that, despite not having a ring to show for it, the Mariners have actually inflicted soul-crushing pain on the Yankees and Yankee fans the likes of which we have subsequently experienced by their hands.
Omerta - January 5, 2010
Our sign we took for that game is straight out of the pun wars you all have.
Sec 108 - January 5, 2010
The only bad thing about this memory is
during this game I was studying for a calculus exam and trying to court a cute girl in the class. We started to make out, but then I started to pay more attention to the game than I did her she left before the game was over and we never spoke again. I did well on the exam well though.
InSpokane - January 5, 2010
2/3 ain't bad.
Fuckmikereilly - January 5, 2010
Bone her?
OlSalty - January 5, 2010
Nope. I was watching the game.
InSpokane - January 5, 2010
Oh.
OlSalty - January 5, 2010
Chicks come and go.
The M’s are forever. Foooorevvvvverrrrrr.
JLProck - January 5, 2010
Now I have a chick who also enjoy the M's.
InSpokane - January 5, 2010
Best of both worlds.
JLProck - January 5, 2010
I just realized you made a Sandlot quote.
Phil Hatzenbuehler - January 5, 2010
DVR
Makes everything better now…
zeke5123 - January 5, 2010
I Always Despised Paul O'Neill
I had season tickets in ‘01 and ’02. Whenever O’Neill came to the plate, I’d yell out, “Throw at his head!” That’s the only guy in baseball I’ve ever actually wished harm on. He’s such a self-entitled prick.
robbbbbb - January 5, 2010
Agreed, dude was the worst!
sanford_and_son - January 5, 2010
Plus he was ugly
pdb - January 5, 2010
And his second homer for the little kid was inside the park.
abender20 - January 5, 2010
The hair says it all...
skwid206 - January 5, 2010
And that stupid leg kick he had annoyed the hell outta me.
Just an all-around annoying ballplayer.
JLProck - January 5, 2010
Oh, and Fuck Brent Musburger
That guy spent the whole series as a Yankee homer. He was particularly awful in Game 5. I was in college at the time, or we’d have put Niehaus on the radio and shut off the audio.
robbbbbb - January 5, 2010
It is sad
I have never seen the game. I was traveling from California to Virgina on my ship as it was going to be decommissioned. I missed the whole playoffs that year.
tibbar - January 5, 2010
Buy the DVD if you can.
It really is a great series to watch if you’re an M’s fan.
JLProck - January 5, 2010
The other thing about that series...
In addition to the whole improbable season for the Mariners thing, for the national audience the M’s/Yankees series did a lot to bring baseball back from the brink following the strike.
Paul AB - January 5, 2010
Why isn't Paul O'Neill dead yet? I still hate that guy.
At least John Marzano kicked his ass once.
BrettJMiller - January 5, 2010
Why do people hate Paul O'Neill?
W
EnglishMariner - January 5, 2010
I hate his beady little eyes, flapping head so full of lies, etc.
PissedMick - January 5, 2010
Apparently he cared very, very much about baseball.
Unfortunately it manifested itself in whining about the strikezone, whining about pitchers “throwing at him”, being convinced that managers and other players had it in for him ….
msb - January 5, 2010
I think it's because
He’s the Gold Standard of whiny baby.
wazzu93 - January 5, 2010
His face.
Teej - January 5, 2010
He's the symbol of all things Yankee
Overpaid, arrogant, and with a sense of entitlement. (You ever seen the expression on that guy’s face after he’s called out on strikes? Unreal.)
One particular situation stands as an exemplar, of why I hate Paul O’Neill:
I was sitting in the stands the day that Al Martin knocked himself out on Carlos Guillen’s knee. Martin knocked himself out cold in the process of catching the ball on an ill-advised leap on a short fly ball. O’Neill kept rounding the bases after the collision, and held up when the ump verified that Martin had held onto the ball.
The look on his face afterwards was repulsive. It wasn’t, “Oh, wow, that guy could be hurt over there.” No. It was the standard Paul O’Neill pissed-off look of, “I just got robbed!” The one he put on after every called strikeout.
That’s why I hate Paul O’Neill. Spoiled, self-centered, and arrogant. A cancer on the body of baseball. The game’s better off without him.
robbbbbb - January 5, 2010
Thanks! I've never seen him play, I just know his name and wanted to know a bit more about him.
EnglishMariner - January 5, 2010
Even my wife
who doesn’t watch a lot of baseball has hated Paul O’Neill for years.
PascoJoe - January 5, 2010
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