Thursday Morning Quick Hits For The Seven Of You Not Watching Basketball
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 18, 2010 10:30 AM PDT
in Seattle Mariners Regular News
- Michael Saunders - cut. No surprises here; while some held out hope that Saunders would impress and force his way into a roster spot, it was never going to happen, barring injury and a spring torrent of homers. Saunders is a fine player, and he's likely to have a fine career, but that career is still a little ways off, and for the time being he'll continue to develop in AAA. Do not take this as an indication that the front office is down on Saunders. There's just no reason to believe he's ready right now to outproduce what we have.
- Mike Koplove - cut. Comrade has impressed everyone that's seen him this month, so this is too bad, but with Kanekoa Texeira looking great and Sean White seeming healthy, Koplove was redundant. He'll be effective in Tacoma, though, and while I wouldn't count on it, it wouldn't surprise me to see him in Seattle at some point this season. He can pitch to Major League hitters.
- Levale Speigner - cut. Levale Speigner was still around, which, hey, good for him. But he's not around anymore.
- The Mariners sent Miguel Celestino to Boston today to complete the Casey Kotchman trade. You might know the 20 year old Celestino for having the same last name as Jose Lopez's middle name. You will not know Celestino for anything else. On the other hand, Googling "Miguel Celestino" "good pitcher" turns up twice as many results as "Miguel Celestino" "bad pitcher" so we might've just gotten screwed.
- Everybody in Red Sox Nation is becoming familiar with Adrian Beltre's signature charge-and-barehand-and-throw-off-balance play on groundballs. Jose Lopez is incapable of doing any one of those three things, let alone all three in rapid sequence. Going from Adrian Beltre to Jose Lopez in the field is like going from a Palm Pre to cans.
Prospect Insider has learned that one of the minor leaguers -- if there is more than one -- is a catcher, likely from a short-season club.
Whoops.
Janic - March 18, 2010
You better get in that fuckin' mitt
Teej - March 18, 2010
That really fucking pains me to look at.
I hate everything about that photo, and if there are children in the background I hate them as well.
EnglishMariner - March 18, 2010
I bet that guy in the middle loves that photo.
ThundaPC - March 18, 2010
It's going to hurt every time I see these kind of photos.
I had to flag it.
InSpokane - March 18, 2010
Those green uniforms are just disgusting.
Beltre in one and standing next to John muthafuggin Lackey makes me want to start a Joy Division cover band.
I Lick Squirrels - March 18, 2010
HOOO LEEE FUCK! WHAT A PLAY!
It feels like I’m dying.
JAH - March 18, 2010
I'M JOHN LACKEY!
Vatinius - March 18, 2010
Oh god I had almost forgotten.
appleshampoo - March 19, 2010
Does anyone else find it shocking that the best prospect dealt in the Swisher to NYY trade
happened to go to New York along with Swisher? I like a lot of things that KW does, but trading Swisher/Texeira for Nunez/Marquez/Betemit has to be one of the worst moves in recent memory.
And Jeff Marquez is just freaking awful. How do you put up an FIP over 7 in Triple-A?
Satchel Price - March 18, 2010
Sigh.
I can’t wait to see how Beltre’s BBTN play of the day numbers jump.
Baker opines that likely one of the things they want Saunders working on is getting more ‘horizontal force’ on his swing.
msb - March 18, 2010
I can't blame BBTN for not including many Mariner Web Gems.
Only because the show is usually recorded in the early innings of games.
But yeah, Beltre’s numbers are going to increase substantially. To the same degree as Jack Wilson’s will decrease.
Wilder. - March 18, 2010
Wow...
You’re right! Maybe losing Miguel Celestino is a bad thing…
PositivePaul - March 18, 2010
Miguel Celestino bad pitcher
Start pasting that all over the web.
Janic - March 18, 2010
I think Google has a problem
I just did a “fight” and 420,000 beat 43,800,000.
What kind of math do they use at Google?
Paul AB - March 18, 2010
Toasty hazy math
chaney - March 18, 2010
What is a basketball?
Dewey N - March 18, 2010
It's a sport where two handfuls of sloppily-dressed guys
Jump around at one end of a room until a ball falls through a metal ring, then run to the other end of the room and do the same thing. Repeat a couple of hundred times. Aside from the occasional buzzer-beater, it’s something so dull it makes Ryan Franklin throwing to first to hold a runner seem like the X Games.
wandergeist - March 18, 2010
I miss the days when I would have fought this comment like a rabid wolverine.
Chris Hafner - March 18, 2010
You forgot to mention the tattoos.
PositivePaul - March 18, 2010
The last time I actually watched basketball, it was when nobody had them
wandergeist - March 18, 2010
Don't forget that it's a sport with an intentional handicap.
Dribbling.
The Typical Idiot Fan - March 18, 2010
Whatever it is, it's retarded and boring.
BrettJMiller - March 18, 2010
Jeff
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this lately, but the quality of your posts have been extraordinary lately. I always enjoy your stuff, but you’ve taken it to a whole ‘nother level. Keep up the good work (and no, I don’t need to borrow money or a place to stay).
Geeves72 - March 18, 2010
Grammar.
Or the quality HAS been extraordinary. The BYU game this morning drained my use of the English language.
Geeves72 - March 18, 2010
Speigner rhymes with beignets, which I am eating right now
That’s the only reason I care.
Jeff Nye - March 18, 2010
NO NO IT DOES NOT
Jeff Sullivan - March 18, 2010
In my powdered-sugar-covered-world it does.
So there!
Jeff Nye - March 18, 2010
We've done this joke before, haven't we?
The Typical Idiot Fan - March 18, 2010
Maybe, I'm often late to the party!
Jeff Nye - March 18, 2010
Arrrrrrrrrrrr
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2010/2/3/1291941/levale-speigner
Jeff Sullivan - March 18, 2010
I like Matthew's position in that comment thread
I see no reason to be bound by the actual pronunciation of his last name!
Jeff Nye - March 18, 2010
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