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4/25: Open Game Thread, Part 2

Sean White

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Eric Byrnes scares the broadcasters as well.
Boo-yrnes! I was saying Boo-yrnes!
I'm afraid whenever the ball is hit to Byrnes. The man makes routine catches look scary.
Any ball hit to Eric Byrnes scares the shit out of me
Byrnes

is oblivious to the term “routine fly ball”

Eric Byrnes terrifies me.
Mr. Shiny ERA actually got the job done.

I’m actually surprised.

Right. But not really.
Cliff LeeK!
Kliff Lee!
KliffK KleeK!

Wait, what are we doing?

Cliff Clavin!

Wait, am I doing it wrong?

Any fly ball in US Cellular is scary

Byrnes makes it heart stopping

I want to see Kotchmans Dump face.
He even has an 'I have the ball face'

Let the record show that Andruw Jones lined out
Wilson and Bradley are missed dearly
I feel bad for Shawn Kelley
That was a filthy pitch
So the gamethreads have been improving?
Tui just hit a bomb.
Huh?
Hmm

In my head I phrased it like I was telling him to do it.

Tui, just hit a bomb?
This would be the correct.
That's probably why he struck out.

You need to be more clear when you’re telepathically using the imperative.

Sorry Scruffy, but this one falls on you.

Griffey's bobblehead looks like it is in pain.
Tui sucks.

He is going back to Triple A when Hannahan is ready yay!

Boo-why does it tell me the audio for Tacoma is unavailable? >:(
This is the last day these ichishoes will be worn.
I was hoping that Danks would manage to complete the spider he was throwing at Moore.


Oh well, nine pitch at-bat.

It seems like Ichiro has gotten like 1 hit all season.
This comment flummoxes me.
Guti being on fire

is made moot while Figgins and Ichiro look like shit

How has Ichiro looked like shit?
Maybe it's a comment on his physical appearance
I get how that describes Figgins but not Ichiro in that case.
He's hitting .293.
That's his slump, but I agree, he in no way looks like shit. Ever.
It's relative
.293 this early in the season is literally a few lucky bounces away from Ichiro's career averages.
Stealing time
Do something Figgins.
Something positive.
Chone needs to pretend he's on the Angels
That work for you?
It does!
Couldn't have drawn it up better
Positive!

Get out of the game Danks!

Yay

Now hit another home run Guti.

I like how Beckham flails his arms like he's going to catch it.
Woooooooooooooooooooooo!
Fast Ichiro is fast
Doily in the works?
Come on, lets go Passed ball!

PASSED BALL PASSED BALL PASSED BALL PASSED BALL

Guti is the key
I am the lock!
That sounds sexual.
Wait. So who is the gatekeeper and who is the keymaster again?
Sigourney Weaver and that guy from Little Giants.
There is no RBI only Zuul.
I don't know if this is sexual or a ghostbusters reference
Make him pay Guti!
Make Jeff dance!
I can't believe not one person in the future has time-traveled back to the present and blown us up
Why would they when the future is a balanced, sustainable utopia
We must be in the first parallel universe.
Right call for Ozzie here: definitely bring in the reliever, right?
Oh noes 0-2!

DO IT GUTI!

PLEASSSSSSSSSSE!
Damn no Pitch f/x on the Lee start.
Oh well... still have one more inning before they go into walk-off mode?
Did we actually deserve to win those first two games?

Maybe yesterday, but we almost Angel-ed the Friday game.

Shouldn't you be asking if he is the father?
KKliff!
23 pitches awesome.

Wish we knew how fast he was throwing.

I don't want to jinx it, but...
So, anyways, I hope Mike Sweeney hops off a building at some point today.
This seems extreme
Seriously a pulled back muscle will do.
I mean we're talking about a dead Mike Sweeney here
It's just baseball!
Eric Byrnes seems more likely to do this.

And survive.

I would argue Snell.

What with his history and dead relatives and all.

S. White

Needs to become good for this inning

I'd rather he wait till he's pitching
That'll be tough since B. League is pitching.
Couldn't figure out which spelling to use?
DAMN YOU ERIC BYRNES.
Sean....

Stop being so freakin’ hittable!

MISS A BAT

Hey man, Sean isn't pitching
Um Leage?
Sorry

I had my screen minimized and though Wak was going to stick with his buddy

Wow Sean gets blamed for everything.
It's always an adventure when Brynes gets a fly ball.
"Byrnes saunters under it."
Eric Byrnes is quickly becoming my favorite Mariner
I think Byrnes may have been a Satyr in a past life.
I can see it.

But you need to make a .gif or something of it.

Preferably this one.

Good ol' Greeks...
Ah

Brandon…sorry nvm

FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
League does it instead

Awesome

Oh shit....again
HAHAHAH...fuck this roadtrip
Royals next!
We're going to get destroyed by Yuni and WFB.
Jose Guillen will single-handedly kick our bullpen's ass.
For FUCKS sake.

Swept by the fucking White Sox.

At least it isn't the 9th.
Well, at least it's only the 8th
PUT IT ON THE BOARD!!!!

WAIT- FUCK

Fuck you baseball
I am very tired of him.
THROW YOUR GOD DAMN SPLITTER!
I don't think he heard you.

But seriously, he should throw his splitter.

This is unbelievable
Well there we go...
This is gonna be a really annoying sweep
Fuck this gay ass little league park. What the fuck.
I'm tired of being of all my teams being absolute

SHIT on the road

Fuck the Sounders roadtrip.

I am assuming this is what you’re referring to.

Wooo no walk off!
It's the little things, right!!!!!!
Fastballs! Fastballs...seriously.
God I hate this park.
That was an amazing play
That was the single most entertaining 3-1 putout I've ever seen.
KOTCHMAN!

FACES!

Casey Kotchman, the best defensive 1B in M's history
Olerud?
John Olerud sucked
Just checking to see if the meme is still alive.
I never saw him but I have a hard time believing he could be better than this.
He was pretty darned swell.
Olerud was pretty good.
Plus he rocked a helmet in the field.
Very good, but Kotchman is a freaking wizard over there
I don't disagree.
I think Olerud was better.

And he was local, just like my produce.

It's a fair argument and they are 1-2 either way
Olerud couldn't charge and throw on a bunt like Kotchman
No, certainly not.
How oftern is this a factor in a season? 5 times?
You do it once though.

And it takes away the idea you can bunt someone over to third. Sorta like the Ichiro Terrance Long throw.

I will buy this argument... for now.
He's done it once already this season.
This is true... and I agree with you.

I just don’t think it makes that big of a difference in the grand scheme of things. But then again nothing does.

Won three Gold Gloves with us.

For whatever that’s worth. He was pretty good. Big guy, ranged well to get to balls.

And by ranged...

I mean more he was rather good at having one foot on the bag and managing to stretch his way to wherever the throw was coming in.

I don’t remember him being especially mobile otherwise.

The mobility is where Kotch edges him I think
I could agree to those terms.

Either way, ecstatic that Kotch is working out so well for us.

Gold Gloves....

Heh.

Isn;t there some stat about the error rate in the Toronto, Met & Seattle infields increasing after his respective departures?
I believe so.
That's what I've debated in my head, but I think Kotch is it
Kotchman is better defensively than Olerud

Nostalgia is always great though, right?

Nah just kiddin

Kotch is the bee's knee's
Awesome throw-from-your-arse face.
League fucked up that bag
The pitch to Konerko was a fastball on the inside corner

Just a lucky home run.

All of our best relief pitchers have blown ties or leads.

Ouch!

KotchRocket

Is our only hope

Don't worry guys. We got some great power hitters coming up!

Oh wait.

Loafie, Sweendog, and Kotchrocket??

We could do worse.

Excluding Kotchman.

I’m not counting on another Loafie homer.

Does Shawn Kelley still exist?
I'm beginning to suspect not.
Good thing we have a 7-man bullpen
I hope they put Milton in for Tickle-Me-Elmo
It really feels like we should have won twice in this series, not gotten swept
Getting swept with a -3 run differential is pretty unlucky.

But it’s bound to happen a few times with this bad offense/good defense combination.

We didn't even face Buerhle or Peavy. This is sickening.
Peavy's bad now.
I don't see how it's that sickening.

We are built to our ballpark, the exact opposite of US Cellular.

Looks like another day of rooting against division rivals.
So far only the Angels are cooperating.
And not anymore.
We're not going to pinch-hit for Sweeney are we?
If we do, it'll be Griffey.
Why the hell not, one annoying old DH for the other.
Bradley would be a welcome pinch hit

The problem is we would have to pinch run Wilson for him

It should be Milton.
Time for us to come back on their closer...

YEEEEEEEEEAH!

I was really hoping they would put that Putz fellow on the mound.
4-5-6 batters coming up!

Oh wait, that’s not a good thing.

I've never heard the term ducksnort before today
And now, twice in one day.
Hawk'
s been saying ducksnort for years
Heavy Metal Reference

“Nothing for eighteen years, and now, twice in one day”

HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK
Mike Sweeney in still.

Man. What the fuck Don?

Your other choices are Griffdawg and Rob Johnson
GOD
WHY
JESUS FUCK NO
This is deserved for the roster construction
Seconded

F’ing belief system…

swing, swing, swing, swing, swing, swing, swing, swing, swing,
That's legitimately true.

Nine swings in a row for Sweeney today.

Are they even trying to win this game?
He doesn't swing

He hacks with style ;)

Good lord this weekend has been all kinds of stupid
Atleast the Seahawks had a good draft
I generally feel that this sort of thing gets decided way too early
Fuck you Sweeney.

Fuck you Wakamatsu for leaving him in.

So it's up to you, Kotch.
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeney and a miss!
DAG FUCKING GRAVY
Just stop Sweeney.

Like the whole baseball thing.
Just stop.

I'm sure glad Sweeney's still on the roster
Time to Old Yeller the Sweendog...
At least Casey can do something.
Holy crap that was stupid Kotchman.
Well Adam Moore is coming up....
NOPE GRIFFDAWG ALERT
If it wasn't for Chelsea's win, today would have been really really shit.
WOW

KOTCHMAN RAN OUT OF GAS AND MADE IT

Wow that seemed pretty stupid.
But then we remember its Juan Pierre throwing across his body.
WOOHOO

HOLY FUCKING WHAT

Wow he shouldn't have gone to second

Terrible throw Pierre! Thanks!

Holy fucking shit Kotchman. Scaring the shit out of me.

Eric Byrnes. Sigh.

AND ITS ALL UP TO BYRNES!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

You tried to warn us.

You did all you could.

RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN

He’s like Vlad!

JUAN PIERRE SUCKS
Not Byrnes...

Please not Byrnes.

Who else do we have?
Milton should be available for pinch hitting.
Thank God Byrnes is up now-we're saved.
from suffering another walk-off loss in the bottom of the ninth?
Wow. I got really excited.

Till I saw Byrnes was up.

YES YES YES
Can we just skip ahead to Ichiro or something
If we win this game on Kotchman's legs, then God loves us after all.
Game ending pop-up.
Gee you know what would be nice right now?

Ryan Langerhans.

And one of his glorious game-winning homers.
WAK!

WTF! YOU NEED A LEFTY OUT THERE

IF YOU HIT A HOMER BYRNES I WONT GIVE YOU SHIT FOR A WEEK!
WHOA BYRNES TOOK A PITCH

<3

BOOOOOO-UURNS!
BOOOOOO-UURNS!
Hahahaha @ Byrnes shaking his head

“No no no, I didn’t go”

Walk, Byrnes, walk!
Be nice if Bradley could PH
That headshake thing was hilarious
Eric Byrnes is a crazy person.
Oh god Griffey is on deck...............
4-3
And that's not the score I'm talking about.
Hey if Byrnes tied it up a walkoff HR could decide this game
YES

JUST TAKE

JUST TAKE

Oh my god oh my god oh my god
Wow, must GIF that Brynes reaction.
THREE AND OH? WHAT
How sad that now when I hear "Ken Griffey Jr on deck to pinch-hit"

my first thought is, “like that will help”

Why not Milton????

Why?

I'm freaking out.
DEAR GOD PLEASE GRIFFEY!

BE A HERO!

PLEASE DO SOMETHING COOL.
This could turn out really bad.
I, for one, am terrified.
BYRNESWALK
Well, unless he walks, this game is over
Thank God Griff is up-we're saved.
Here comes the groundball to 2nd!
HOLY SHIT

DAMMIT NOT GRIFFEY

Time for black magic.
Racist?
Or sexy?
As long as Dave says it its OK.
And just a little sexy. In a pervy uncle way.
FUCKING PLEASE GRIFFEY.

PLEASE!

I would rather have Adam Moore up.
END GRIFFLENT
Hole on the right side!
Junior against Thornton?

Oh boy.

Junior, find your power and fast
I JUST WANT TO JERK OFF!!

Hit a homer.

SAME!
I'm glad we can connect on some level.

Gay.

I'm gonna jerk off anyway.
Now I have a picture of a 28 year old jerking off in his mom's basement stuck in my head.

Thanks for that. Now it’s my turn.

This is the most predictable GB to 2nd EVER
Thornton coming in, we're fucked
Griffey, please.
IT'S 1997
God I wish.

For many reasons.

Please keep that closer out there
Ozzie is a great manager.
Ozzie"Quit being such a faggot."
Oh fucking christ 0-2 with 2 K's career.
BRING THE LOVE JUNIOR

You can do eet

GRIFFEY

DONT BE WORTHLESS

Pretend this was 15 years ago Griffey
Why not pinch hit Milton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Belief System
Milton would hit an angry 700 ft HR
I'm minimizing MLB.tv

I cannot watch.

There is no fucking way he catches up if he just pounds fastballs.
Call me crazy...

…but I’m sort of expecting a groundout to second here.

Oh my god if Jr. strikes out I am spiraling into a rage blackout
INITIATE RAGE BLACKOUT
Time to remind myself this actually worked in Texas.
I'd rather have Moore hit.
Oh nooooooo.
Yep, we're screwed
Off speed pitch coming!
Hi, Milton. Hope you're warm and safe away from the ballgame.
This is fucking dumb.
Well, nice K Griffey
That was so fucking predictable.
FUCK THIS SERIES AND FUCK YOU JR.
Predictable.
0-3 3K's.

FUCKING GOOD JOB GRIFFEY, GOOD FUCKING JOB WAKAMATSU.

This is Jack's mistake.

He should have talked GRIFFEY into retirement.

K GRIFFEY JR!
Unexpected outcome!
Fuck that. Fuck this game. Fuck this series. Fuck it all.
Fuck this team.
Fuck this. Lamest fucking sweep.
JESUS FUCK GODDAMMIT I HATE YOU GRIFFEY WHEN WILL YOU RETIRE
False hope...Fuck this weekend
RETIRE YOU RELICS! Jesus
Figures

That is adorable.
Haha!

This helps heal the pain that is slowly eating away at my soul.

I fucking quit.

There will be no more road wins this year. None. Zero.

Wak is killing me

Sweeney and Griffey are WORTHLESS

Shittest fucking series ever. I hate Chicago.
Maybe they should invest some of their fireworks money in a FUCKING ROOF
F You, Wak

Seriously.

And you too, Jack.

Screw off.

Fuck Sweeney, fuck Griffey.
Okay Z, it's been a month. Fix the DH issue.
TAKE THE BANNER DOWN!! NOT WORTHY

But seriously, this can’t go on any longer.

A-Fricken-Men

Sweeney earned a spot on this team?

Bullshit.

Oh and the other 3 AL West teams?

Yeah they are winning

I am having a real hard time Believing Big after this series.
We lost by a grand total of 3 runs.

It was a shitty series but I think people are blowing it out of proportion.

Our roster construction is as bad as Lidle was flying a plane.
or your ability to use prepositions
Please capitalize.
Dag gum it.
This is true.

That was not a consequence of this series though. Honestly, we knew this all along.

We did, but hopefully everyone else is seeing it now.
I am Believeing Big that this team is not constructed well.
I actually completely hate Don Wakamatsu now.
There needs to be some of deathmatch between Griffey and Sweeney.
It'd go on for a while.

Neither of them would land any hits.

Shoot them both in the head.
With nerf darts, right?
Tranquilizer darts.

We release them back into the wild.

Take 'em out back Ol' Yeller style
This is what was meant
I feel like a weepy 13 year old from the 50s with a rifle shaking in his hands makes the imagery better
If we get swept by the Royals.

I’m finding a bridge to jump off of.

There are plenty in Portland to choose from.
I'll drive there.
At least hold out for a Cliff...
Lee still cruising along at least
Good for him.

Not going to save this sorry offense with 2 elderly men in it.

What the fuck is wrong with Wakamatsu?

Why not use Milton. So fucking shitty. It’s like he DOESN’T want the team to have a fucking chance.

Milton is injured
ie he is incapable of playing baseball
Oh bullshit.

He can walk up to the plate and swing a fucking. I don’t care if he even ran to 1B after hitting the ball.

It most likely would of been better than what Griffey can do.

Should be a "bat" in there. Haha.
And a sensible opinion.
I have no doubt he could swing a "fucking".

Sounds like a milton thing.

You don't know that.
Think of the long term implications. We want Milton healthy.
I want Griffey benched and Milton to be the DH.

That would keep him healthier.

We all want that

But Milton has to heal first

And by "benched" you mean "put out to stud," right?
And Sweeney needs to go

I don’t have the hatred for Sweeney other peeps here do, but really, seriously, he hardly gets any at-bats and is basically irrelevant at this point.

I could live with Sweeney being on the roster if the rest of the bench wasn't so bad.
I think he'd be fine if he got more at-bats

But there’s no way he’s replacing Griffey as the every day DH. So what’s the point? There isn’t one. Hugs ain’t enough for me.

This is irrelevant, but his batting style makes me want to shoot myself.
Let's risk further injuries

That’d be fun.

Think of it this way:

Griffey K’s, we lose the ballgame.

Milton gets a hit, we tie the ballgame. Milton gets injured running the bases. We lose Milton.

I’d rather lose the ballgame than Milton.

It's in the 40s in Chicago and raining and Milton Bradley has a messed up calf.
We should have someone better to use there, but we don't.
There wasn't anyone else he could have pinch hit for.

I wish Moore could have stayed in though.

It's a long season. Do we have to start saying this again?

That is the worst stadium of the M’s. They’re banged up, and we have some on the way. They could have easily won that series.

But the White Sox are not a good team.
They are a good team actually.

Just have gotten off to a shitty start.

No, they're not a good team
They're barely worse than us
What does that make us?
I think we're a good team.

And got off to a shitty start.

I want to believe that.

But Oh My God we are 2-8 on the road.

SELL SELL SELL!
That, or...

We recruit Robert to blow up most of the stadiums in the AL, thus allowing us to play more games at home this season.

He know's their weekness's.

Am I right? Also, spelling is my strong point.

So are apostrophes.
Please help me!

I consider “spelling” to be anything connected with language and syntax.

That's more of a grammar thing.
You say tomato...
JY is correct.
Or grammer.

You win. M’s lose. Let’s go beat our wives. Sub-thread over.

*Grammar

I’m not usually like this, it’s just an error I used to catch myself making a lot.

Right on. Thanks for the correction.

I don’t mind getting called out, I just like to know how to fix it.

"weaknesses"

;)

There we go! Now I know!

Was that a crow? Get Griffey out of the Show!

We say potato
Get rid of Sweeney

And put a machine that gives out hugs in the clubhouse.

They're not bad, they can play over.500.

The team we had out there this weekend is actually kind of average, with Tui, Byrnes, Sweeney, Griffey, Moore, and Johnson not being much better than replacement players. Combine that with the fact our bullpen had a bad weekend (even though are starters weren’t bad), they’re just going have trouble winning in that park with this team. We could have won at least one of those game, too.

Someone couldn’t choose a worse series to judge the M’s.

Right

If Wak knew how to make up a lineup and he and Jack knew how to construct a roster.

Comiskey (yes, I know it’s not Comiskey) didn’t beat us. Wak and Zduriencik did. Plus a shitty effort by the bullpen.

Another Kliff K!!!!

Shit this still sucks.

This roster is fucked

We really didn’t deserve to win any of the three games with the lineups that were out there. Also, we’re 9-10 with magnificent starting pitching so far and during an easy stretch of our schedule.

We’re seriously no going to do shit this season until the front office wakes the fuck up and realizes their major league bench is anything but major league.

Below replacement level players on roster: 4 (Griffey, Sweeney, Tui, Byrnes - Adam Moore gets a pass)

Above replacement level players in Tacoma: 2: Langerhans, Hannahan,
This shouldn’t be hard.

The most frustrating part of it is that it's not hard at all
I doubt Byrnes and Tui are actually below replacement level
Just punch him Brad Adam.
No jury in the world would have convicted him
BURN THE TREE!
PUNCH THAT FAGGOT MASCOT

FUCK

"That's enough. I'm going to beat this guy."
Mascot vs Brad Adam

I’ve got the mascot.

CLIFF LEE IS PITCHING THIS WEEK!
Are we gonna score more than one run for him to get the win?
I wonder if we can trade Cliff Lee for Jay Bruce or something
This organization is such a fucking joke.

Griffey and Sweeney are self-centered pricks.

Fuck everything.

This organisation is far from a joke.
I feel like there should be a "z" in there.
Well done.

Unless that was an unintentional GM thing.

Somebody saw what I did there! Or did the Prof do it?
He's using the British variant.
I thought this was America! (Bald eagle screaches in background)
DO NOT start that.

Graham might kill you.

Really? .com motherfucker, not .uk or some bullshit.

AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!

I am now going to run like hell the other way to avoid the crossfire.
Been drinking?
Still drunk from last night/this morning.

Hence all the wierd posting. But you knew that.

One of the mods is from the UK

Several of our posters are also from thereabouts, so adding a u to things like color or honor, or using a s instead of a z in things like utilize or organize, or putting the r before the e in things like somber or theater, are perfectly acceptable.

Yeah, I was trying to make a joke concerning our GM, but everyone is testy after the sweep.

I’ve been lurking long enough to know this, but there’s no way for you to know that. The internet is wierd.

*Weird.

You’re okay, but I recommend working into drunk posting. It’s not something to do right away.

Half the line-up is batting under .200.
Yeah we have a terrible organization
Overreacting much?
Calm down Francis!!!
Lighten up, Francis.
Oh shit!

You’re right! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrllCZw8jiM

I saw it a few months back.

I like it on the Bill Murray factor, but it’s one of those movies where it runs a bit long without enough funny, even though the funny is fantastic when they get to it.

Like the Aunt Jemima treatment

I haven't seen it in years.
I was trying to find Bill Murray movies for a friend.

He hadn’t seen Ghostbusters in about ten years, so we had to do that, and it still holds up I have to say. Stripes, not so much, but there are great moments in it, like the recruitment office and the on-field demonstration, it just largely falls flat in the second half.

I’ve been trying to think of others to watch. He’s not so much into the Wes Anderson thing though, which I can understand, and Lost in Translation, while good, is not especially funny. Broken Flowers was another possibility, but again, it’s not outright funny.

What about Bob and Groundhog Day
We did Groundhog Day!

I think that was the intermediary between Ghostbusters and Stripes, but those are great suggestions. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Caddyshack in its entirety myself, so it always slips my mind.

Scrooged.
Seasonal, but okay.

I still can’t get used to the idea that the irate office drone is Bobcat Goldthwaite. It surprises me every time.

"The Night the Reindeer Died"
Meatballs -one of my favorites

Corny 70’s summer camp movie, but I had a crush on Chris Makepeace-aka Rudy the Rabbit

Quick Change

Bank heist movie where he dresses up as a clown… includes Geena Davis and Randy Quaid. The awesomeness quotient is pretty high in that one.

You're all in this together! One of these men may save your life one day, ya understand that?
If Jack Wilson doesn't get hurt..

Do we win this series? We might have been our hottest hitter.

Are any of the 1B/DH's roaming around Tacoma an improvement over Griffey/Sweeney?
I would think they would have to be.
Tommy Everidge!
Although we wouldn't just be swapping DH's, we'd bring up a player who can give us some flexibility, like Langerhans.
Or here is a novel idea:

Bradley can DH, Langerhans and Hannahan can come up, and Griffey and Sweeney can go away forever.

I thought of this all by myself.

In 2.1 seconds.

Whilst on the toilet.

Not. That. Hard.

Replace Hannahan with Tui and keep one of Griffey/Sweeney to sit on the bench and look cool and replace one of our pitchers with a real left fielder and I agree
I know Z has been good at being objective when it comes to the roster,

but does he really have the balls to DFA two clubhouse/fan favorites?

Griffey isn't going anywhere unless he gets hurt or retires.
Doesn't matter. He needs to do what's right in order for this team to win.

DFA Sweeney’s ass.

Ticket sales are #1. Now, do more people NOT come if he fires Griffey, or do more people come if the team is better?
First of all, I mentioned getting rid of Sweeney. Secondly, more people will come if we have shown ourselves to be contenders.
It was a reply fail.

But you don’t have to be an asshole.

That doesn't seem like a particularly assholish comment.
It was in my head. But my heads fucked up right now, so yeah. Commenting over.

But probably not.

I'm imagining he's gone once Hannahan's healthy enough to come up
Hannahan probably switches places with Tui.
I really wish that wasn't the case

You’re still stuck with the same bench composition if they do switch

Josh Wilson!
Is bad.
But can play the field!
Hannahan is a significantly better option if that's the criteria.
You are not the father
You were wrong!

She’s a man!

Whoopsie, Lee

Forgot to cover first, finally allowed a baserunner.

In what inning?
First batter of the fourth

Bunt single

Whoopsie again

Carrera lost a popup in the sun.

Lee got out of the fourth

DP then a popup.

God dammit FSN I haven't seen the Sounders match yet and you're airing it next. Don't tell me what happened.
I'm just gonna watch Lee pitch to make myself feel better

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2010_04_25_slcaaa_tacaaa_1

Or listen

Here

Scroll down to Tacoma.

I can only listen to the Bees feed.
Thank you cool stuff.
I can't get the Rainiers feed-- it tells me it isn't available.

I can get the Bees feed, though.

Weird, I've got Tacoma's but I'm on the other side of the state
I'm Spokane and can't get it.
This has happened to me before

made more frustrating because the local Catholic radio station has wiped out my (tenuous) ability to get 850 on the radio anymore.

Nobody likes it when their designated drivers get hammered by pitcher after pitcher...

leaving them out in the rain with nobody to drive them home….

Put Sweeney on the DL, call up Langerhans, send Tui down, call up Hannahan, put Milton at DH and move Griffey to the bench.

Oh and DFA Colome when Lee comes back.

Ryan Langerhans looks like a frowning Will Forte in his Tacoma pic.
Lee has thrown 45 pitches through 4 innings

At this rate he’ll get through at least 7, even with the pitch count.

58 after that inning
Granted it's the minors an all, but this is really encouraging.
Wow did you guys see that Chris Jakubauskas got NAILED by a line drive in the head?
Yep-front page a couple posts below this one.
There's a front page post and everything.
That was gruesome.
K to end the inning in Tacoma
68 pitches and Lee's done
They said 80-85?

Oh well, we still love him.

Yea, he got through 6 easily and was just toying with Salt Lake

Probably wasn’t much of a point trotting him back out there.

The Bees are not a good team.
Sure didn't seem like it

At least Lee got some live game experience in. It seems like he’s good for liftoff.

Tough series

If the Canucks lose I might have to go to the hospital for alcohol poisoning.

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