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4/6: Open Pregame Thread



1) How great does that look?

2) Why do we have Mike Sweeney again?

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Sorry but this is a hockey comment

This should be the Harlem Globepuckers.
So now I finally know what it's like to have my thread nuked by a .gif

stupid hotel internet and crappy work computer

Plus Jeff's gifs nuke things.
Now with reaction!

It is quite easy to understand what he's saying!
Ugh.

Tell your Senators to lose one more so my Sabres can finally lock up the division. The Mariners aren’t the only annoying team you’re following. Cant beat them to save our lives. At least let us have the division already!

The first couple times I watched this, I didn't realise this was an own goal.

Hilarious.

I just came a little...

and took the over. Nice lineup.

Yay for no Griffey hitting clean-up
That is an awesome lineup

No Griffey and no Sweeney, nice.

Why were people getting upset Sweeney over Garko again?

We should just be pissed we don’t have a extra actual baseball player on the bench.

On second thought "great" might have been a little aggressive
Better than this time two years ago.
I took it to mean "best we've got against lefties"
It's pretty good against LHPs
This is a pretty good lineup. Everyone roughly average at least. That's not weak.
If we project everyone to about average (and I haven't run the splits on any of 'em)...

and we know that at a bear minimum we have 27 plate appearances, then .327 (league average wOBA) x 27 plate appearances = 8.83 runs. Woo run support!

That's not quite how wOBA works.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-joy-of-woba/

Shhhhhh....

Let him have his run support fantasies.

I forgot the 1.15 league average multiplier.

So sad. So what you’re saying is…our offense isn’t that good? Damn.

I'm comfortable with that

Here’s to Snell having the season of a lifetime

It still blows my mind that the players I hate the most always end up being mariners in the end

Figgins
Byrnes
Kotchman
Lee (pure jealousy, I admit it)
Weaver
Everett (goddamn it)

Why in blue blazes you hate Casey Kotchman so much?
I dunno, just one of those weird things

You know those players that seem to get a hit every single time you see them bat? against the mariners?

Albert Pujols slept with your mother and called you a bad name.

Then he stopped returning her calls.

Stopped returning her calls?!

Future stepdad come back! I love you!

Shit I think im doing it wrong

Finally getting to post

After 24 hours of waiting to do so after creating an account. These west coast games are killing my sleep schedule

When did that start?
My 24 hour wait period?

Yesterday at 8 ET

zomg a girl
Crazy i know.
Oh dear
not many girls on these posts. interesting.
There are a few, I'm just slightly worried now that Corco is onto you
But how is on to her?
Could we not?
Thats not what I intended.
Seriously for once.

I just worded that horribly.

It's okay, I assumed you were just looking for a reaction.

You are the master of baiting.

Oh I see what you did there.
I'm nothing if not subtle.
should have given it up for Griffey! Lent like the rest of em.
We have to go one more night without pleasure?!?

This lineup sucks!

And Rec' for win.
If he does anything...

I’ll just give him the bradley stare down like last night in the outfield

I like you already
I have a bat ready to break over his face.
Why wait for him to do anything
That would seem unnecessary
Although I would welcome the opportunity to sue for large amounts of money
No such luck.

I’m broke after spending $120 for mlb.tv to watch west coast games.

I'd settle for your MLB.tv subscription so I can watch west coast games
If $120 is a large amount of money, I don't know what to tell you
I'm a college student.

Therefore, $120 = $1 million according to my math

This
Please refrain from these comments. Site rules.
My bad

I thought +1 was banned but “This” was OK

No see that is where you are wrong.
$120 is enough for me to drive to Kansas City, get a burger at Steak 'n Shake, and drive home

That’s worth getting beat in the head with a bat

Steak n shake sounds great right now
Wait what?

That’s a deal

No deal.

But I still have the bat ready in case.

Why are you the way that you are?
Because Steak 'n Shake is delicious and only 675 miles away?
Oh nevermind that makes sense now.
This was my feeling till I got laid off.
When I was in college, I lived off like $120 a month
I saved up a lot of money

And then blew it all on baseball. Its worth it.

Hm, my friend who goes to UPenn can't seem to live off anything less than 15x that
Damn rich kids
What the hell can you possibly spend $2k a month on in college?

I barely spend $2k a month now and over 50% of that is rent

two words

hookers & blow

& is not a word?
Nope!

It’s a punctuation mark that is pronounced as the word “and.”

You english writing types make me confused
just like batman

it’s a symbol

PhD student from Orange County
The last two words are all that's required
I'm not rich anymore

Thanks mlb.com

$120 is not the difference between rich and not
That is completely context dependent and definition dependent
In my eyes

Anything over $20 is rich.

I'll give you $21 to hit Corco over the head with a baseball bat.
I'll match that if we waive all allegations that I matched that
Your new fixation on suing everything is Coach Owensesqe
I want to sue Librocrat because he likely has more than $120
That is if you can find him

He hasn’t been around these parts in awhile.

er...CapSea
Yes, that's the joke Corco.
That twat is fucking baller.
I spent 180 dollars today and I feel absolutely terrible and irresponsible.
I also buy a bagel every day

That ends up costing me a lot each month.

Bagels are delicious
Einstein Bros

Every single day. Dude at the counter has my order memorized.

...Where's that?
It's a chain of bagel shops.

Stop stalking the new girl.

In... Seattle?
No. I don't live in Seattle.
You've never been to Einstein Bros?
I have not.

And considering I’m Jewish it makes me sad I haven’t heard of this place.

Its amazing.

I’m Jewish as well. Thats not why i go there.

They're in California and other places.
There's one in Boulder
Ah. Have not been to bagel joints in California.

In New York though I did it every day twice a day

Discuss your masturbation habits in the Griffey thread, not here.
Like those of us who chose to microwave their Einstein Bagels
There are in fact TWO in Washington.

One at Seattle Pacific University (oh, the Christians!) and one at Ft. Lewish (oh, the military!).

Isn't "oh, the Christians!" and "oh, the military!" a little redundant?
There is no possible way this can end badly
Hey guess what

Shouldn’t be going down that road here.

I'm not a mod, but I'm pretty sure that's hinging really close to political/religion.

Not to mention I know several military members who aren’t Christian, and I’m Christian and not in the military. So, uh, go figure.

That's exciting

I expect everyone here to go.

Don't tell him!

Stalker.

You West Coast people

Are deprived of the good things in life. Driving so many miles of an Einstein Bros bagel….

We'd share the account

But I’m worried you would steal my credit card information.

Take it from me, that doesn't work
It worked last season

I shared with somebody in Seattle and never got a blackout error

I've never had a problem with it either.
Why are you the way that you are?
Is this directed at me?
This question is always directed at Corco
And occasionally Last Fan Of Jose Lopez.
What kind of retard would be a Jose Lopez fan?
The worst kind.
I like acquiring money?
True.

Pre-emptive strike is best in these situations

Welcome to LookoutLanding.
After a game thread or two,

it will no longer be interesting. It will be explained by experience.

This is the most interesting baseball blog

I think I have ever read.

Oh just wait until the game starts :)
Have you read through the game threads from yesterday?

Welcome to LL by the way and way to jump right in.

Oh yes.

I’ve read through a lot interesting posts.

Oh, no, the blog is fantastic!

The lack of girls is, uh…well, let’s just say there’s a reason for it.

Hello. Welcome to Lookout Landing.

Have you read this site at all? There are reasons for it.

And I am a tard.

Thought you said there’s no reason for it.
My bad.
IGNORE ME!

Because y'all are so incredibly unattractive.

Ride a bike once in awhile.

I ride a bike every day
Your personality is unattractive. Read a book once in awhile.
And not the dictionary
I read a book every day
If your response is what I know it is I will drive to Wyoming to fag drag you myself
South Dakota is a nice state
Closer to the truth but not quite there...
Not all of us live in Portland.
Isn't it even more unattactive to watch a fat person in tight bike clothes?
Hey man, I'm peddling as hard as I can.
Two fat guys on one bike. Priceless.
The double play twins?
Yuni had too much character for one face
and that's just the beginning
Was that a Yuni penis joke?

I am out.

Yeah I figured that out

But I think its hilarious.

Behave
We need to get a leash for Corco.
Why are you the way that you are?
Thats a rhetorical question
Amen to that sister
Why are you the way that you are?
Lou Gehrig's Disease
Ironic cause last night you made me feel like the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Gay
I was talking about your decision to draft Kyle Blanks
Dingers baby!
Combine him with Yuni and we have our own Albert Pujols!
Albert Pujols does not possess the sixth tool that YuniKyle Blanksencourt would have
Dinners baby!
Mike Sweeney

Was the difference between Milton Bradley breaking his bat after striking out last night and Bradley going apeshit and killing all the first born in the stands

We can laugh at the former later on.
Baseball!

But trouble with mlb.tv again… Anyone getting any video to function?

Yanks/Sox worked for me earlier today
Only getting one audio stream to work, no videos.
Bal-TB is working for me right now.
Huh, thanks.

I’ll keep trying.

They are having a lot of problems.

Try reinstalling the NexDef app

I updated adobe and it's working!
sweet!

I bought it yesterday and was having problems with it, too, and that seemed to fix everything. But I came very close to cancelling it and causing a “scene” with the customer service department. That would show MLB. …right..?

You and the other eight hundred people that do it every year.

I’m sure they’re just about to change for the better because of it.

I gave up on last nights game.
I kind of hope that Lopez doesn't complete the Lopez challenge tonight since I can't drink anyway

and this will make it seem more impressive when he does homer

Dallas Braden starting tonight?
Got meselfs a nice new wide screen monitor

Time to see if I can take my posting to the next level.

Why are you the way that you are?
Because we like good posters?
Because we like good posters?
Because We Like Good Posters?
Bullshit we don't
His name was Robert Paulsen?
I hate opening threads
I'll do it for you.
Closed game threads!
That was a great .gif

if it makes you feel any better

Make coffee after clicking!
And its your gif. Mines only 44Kb
That's not the reason
I hate when you have hat hair and you can't find your Seattle Mariners hat and you have to run to the store to buy dinner
I'll make it lick you?
Make it a clown licking Jeff! He'll like that one.
I like how you are asking for permission, like you haven't done the gif already.
You should photoshop it into the window behind Jeff's opening day picture
Use your CBS fantasy baseball money to buy a better computer.
I'd have to think this is pretty much the best lineup we can run out there.

Love that there’s no Griffey.

Think of the poor souls who aren't jerking it because of him though
That was my first thought...
Yes, of course!

Won’t somebody think of the children!?

My old lady left the house for two hours

and I cursed Wak and Griffey!

Actually, "jerking it" is another term for masturbation

so I certainly hope you aren’t thinking of the children

As of this moment, I hate you.

Because, yes, that was the joke, and you just turned back on me—and worse, I laughed at it. Fuck you, seattlebruin.

We will be overrun with kittens.
And a lack of baby jesus tears.
I hate that we were pretty good last year and Griffey made the team and played a decent amount

even though the two were not really related. All my Griffey-slobbing friends rubbed it in my face.

I'm actually not that upset about it

sure, he was replacement-level, but as we’ve learned from the Yuniesky Betancourts, Jose Guillens and Jose Vidros of the world, it’s possible to be much, much worse

And I know, "it could be worse" is almost always a terrible justification for doing something
hurry for optimisim
I just wish we could have a DH that is above replacement level.

How long has it been since that was the case?

At least four years :(
Jose Vidro had 1.2 WAR in 2007.
That amazes me

I remember liking that we signed him initially because of his .300 average. I was a dumbass then.

God he was so bad
You didn't sign him.

You actually traded for him! A few people might remember that around here.

How's Fernando Rodney working out?
Why you gotta be a dick?
I was drunk pretty much the entire year of 2007

so I’m not surprised I don’t remember all that clearly.

Fuck you in the ass with a rabid stoat
See! People remember!
Thought the exact same thing

Hopefully the boys bring the bats tonight and Snell returns to form of old!

Mark Teixiera: A rant

Has not gotten a hit tonight. He will halt my Beat the Streak at three games. There goes my winning $3 million dollars. Another Yankee ruins lives.

Hopefully the winner is going Teixiera the wealth.
You would say that
You're funny.

But not really.

How dare Yusmeiro my good name.
And now 0-3

Too bad i already bought that ferrari.

If $120 to you is a million dollars..

Imagine what a million is?

$8,333,333,333.

E-Lizz, when this happens, you should buy the Mariners. Then we can see how good these sabernerds are at actually running a franchise!

I would buy the Mariners

Why the hell not

Nobody cares about your fantasy team.
Thanks.
It's just kind of a rule around here.
To be honest

I just needed a reason to say something bad about the yankees.

Mark Teixeira is a soulless robot and I hope he gets cancer of the motherboard.
I'm not going to last very long in this thread, tonight, I don't think.
At the game

Section 116 – just behind home plate on the first base side. Bought tickets off a season ticket holder for $38!!

If you’re here give a shout out, otherwise go M’s!!!

This Snoqualmie Casino commercial makes me want to end my life.
Just cracked open my first Aprihop of the year.

Baseball!

I love that one!
Elysian IPA here

This is opening day for me, since I was on a plane for the real opening day.

Feels good to be posting on the internet about baseball again.

Fried chicken is the best watch baseball on TV food

Thoughts?

Wings are pretty much my favorite watch sports food ever.
But I guess wings are pretty much fried chicken with sauce so

yeah you’re right.

Ian Snell is sporting the shavehawk
It's like a mohawk except there's a lot less of it.
League had something going on there too
League is much better looking than Snell so I let it slide.
I think League is a really strange looking guy.
Does he look like Mac from Always Sunny to you?

That’s who I see

Holy shit yeah

but a little more asian.

The neck tattoo made me forgive him
That one was sorta weird.

I am not gonna lie..

So...

M’s decided Rob Johnson’s homer was enough to keep him on the lineup today? Not that I have ever liked that guy till yesterday.

Nope, Moore is starting
Adam Moore's the catcher tonight.
All of one homer does not a good hitter make.
That's true..

But when was the last time we saw him going deep?

Last night.

Did you not watch the game?

Oops I meant wasn't

My apologies

mlb.com points out that with yesterdays game, Ichiro has officially been here 10 years, making him eligible for the Hall of Fame.
You people sure are chatty!
What do you mean by "you people"?!?
Tonight is the battle of the foot

Ian Snell has a lead foot he keeps putting in the wrong place, Dallas Braden has no feeling in his lead foot at all.

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