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5/1: Open Game Thread, Part 2

It's two o'clock on a Saturday. Go do something.

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Yes, keep showing Felix dipping.
Hm...I think I'm going to do something else with the rest of my time today.

Jeff is wise.

Time to spark it up.
First pitch. I think I'm going to take your advice.
TNT Mariners Twitter
Colome is coming into the game, but he had to be directed where the mound was , it had been so long
Haha Colome.

Shawn Kelley?

Oh just excellent Jesus.
Whelp, down by three again.
IT'S A GOOD THING WE SENT SHAWN KELLEY DOWN, RIGHT GUYS?
Well, Colome is getting work...
I don't know why Im letting this get a hold of me more than it needs to

I hate being a die-hard fan :(

Goodbye baseball.

For today at least.

Happy Felix Day!
I hate Bad Felix
Good Felix, makes bad Felix all the worse.
Commas, are so confusing.
Fuck it. Even I don't know what I wanted to say.
You just can't replace a guy like Colome

Did you guys not hear? There’s no way Colome would have cleared waivers.

Who could replace Jesus?
Buddha?
I think we're more likely to find a Mohammed.
Jesus

but you’d have to give it a few days.

Beautiful...
Mowing the lawn is sounding better and better.
Fuck, I have to mow today as well.

Although, it might be more enjoyable than this game.

Gouging a needle under my fingernail sounds good right now...
My lawn is like two feet tall.

I really hate mowing the lawn.

Can I come along and join you?

And if someone could stab me in the tits with rusty nails, that’d be pretty sweet, too.

Ever seen "Taken"?

How about a long spike driven into your thigh, then hooked up to an electrical current.

But hey, look on the bright side – Griffey is back for another year.

Taken was great.

Liam Neelson (sp?)

Neeson.
There it is.

He has a great voice.

I haven't, but that sounds like fun!
Well let's just give them the game.
WWJD
"Lay down his life for his friends."

Just a suggestion!

Throw a bunch of balls
Thankfully I have to go to work.

I never thought I’d say that I’d rather go to work than watch the rest of an M’s game, especially on Felix Day, but there you go.

God damnit it Rob.
Oh it was more Colomes fault?

Damn you FOX.

That's not on Rob.
Good thing he took his time
This is ridiculous.
Wow take your fucking time guy
So, what is more depressing

Last weekend vs the White Soxs or the last two games?

Last two games, without question.
Yeah. It was Cliff fucking Lee and King Felix.
These.

Losing on the road I can accept.

The White Sox series

Did not feature Cliff Lee or Felix. Easily this series.

Definately these two games.

Division rival, Felix and Lee pitching, I wanted revenge badly after losing the series in Texas.

Although, the Soxs series we should have won two of the three.
We should have swept. We led in every game.
Colome does have good stuff if Adair can harness it.
I know a game is messed up when Rob Johnson is not the most infuriating player on the field.
Who is?
Nevermind Sweeney is in the dugout.
Oh. I know there are a few Rangers that infuriate me, but because they are good players, unlike rob who infuriates for an entirely different reason.
Come on offense.

Matt Harrison.

God we could win this game and it would still suck.
It wouldn't be overly encouraging, I'll agree with that.
I'd be quite happy if this occurred.
Errors.

Take advantage of this shit. PLEASE.

Gold glover!
Eat more shit Michael Young
Between Matt Harrison and Rangers Bullpen

Coming back and winning this game is doable. If only we had a major league caliber offense.

Haha. Michael Young just did that.
Michael Young makes me happy. He should be a DH.
That would mean he isn't on the field.
The hell is with Young?
A double error, Karros?

If you throw it into the stands, that’s one error.

That is Eric Karros?
Where the fuck is Frank Francisco when you need him
Waiting to give up the walk-off hit.
Franklin get out of your funk NOW.
Well that will work, too.
Thanks, Michael, for providing an occasional smile.
I hope that breaks Guti out of his slump!
SEX BUNT
I'll take it Gutz.
MOTHERFUCKING GUTIERREZ
"Runners at the corners for..."

He could’ve said “soon-to-be double play” and I wouldn’t have been shocked.

What did the Ump say?
"blah blah blah I'm a worthless blind cunt blah blah"
Ha Ha.

Would have been priceless.

Let's at least tie up the game this inning.

Sounds like a good idea, ya?

How about take the lead?
32 years.

Get a real job man.

Please end this HR drought.
Whatever, it's a run.
I will accept this new run.
I'll take it Lopie!
Good God, Cousins

If I suck at my job, I get fired

More Milton Magic

Maybe

Alliteration!

Badass Bradley Bomb?

We may actually flirt with less than 100 HRs this year.

I know it will pick up over summer, but I can’t see us hitting as many as last year.

Definitely won't.

We don’t have Branyan anymore and Milton certainly doesn’t seem like a major HR threat. Though he can hit the ball.

Milton's going to tie the game
I blame you for this.
Twister?

Battleship? Monopoly?

Don't. Please.

Not now. Not ever.

Sorry.

Certainly wasn’t the baseball game.

Whatever happend to all the Sodo Mojo?
Mercifully retired as a slogan.
To be replaced with "Believe Big!"

…ugh.

Sodo Mojo sucked.

All of the Mojo slogans sucked.

Yes, it did.

Believe Big isn’t any better.

No where near as bad.
I am talking about the actual Sodo Mojo.
Why do we need a slogan. Let's retire slogans.
There are a couple of things in more urgent need of being retired.
Agreed. But it's on the list.
Safeco isn't even in SoDo!
Uh, yes it is.

From Spokane Street north to King Street, bound by the transit tunnel and the waterfront.

I don't consider that to be SoDo
That's the actual formal definition of Sodo.
Formal definitions of neighborhood boundaries quite often don't mesh with reality.
And I realize I am being kind of a pedant about this but it's a thing I am weird about
So for the sake of discussion,

where is SoDo on your imaginary Seattle map?

In the general vicinity of the I-5 corridor, between I-90 and Georgetown.
SoDo originally meant South of the Dome
Safeco is still south of the dome.

Qwest Field stands where the dome used to stand.

Should the area be called SoSo now?

South of the Stadium

I'm all for calling it the Stadium District.
I think of that part of town as the Stadium District (or something like that) and everything south of it as SoDo.
From Starbucks headquarters to King Street Station is my general conceptualization of the "Stadium District."
That encompasses a lot of the ID, though.

I generally think of it as everything between Pioneer Square, Alaskan Way, I-5 and ~Holgate

You two are right. This game is boring.
The International District is across 4th Ave from King Street Station.
Amtrak station or Metro?

Amtrak station is on the west side of 4th but what the Metro station is on the east side.

The Metro Station is Union Station, not King Street Station.

I know the tunnel stop is “King Street”, but the actual building is Union Station.

This seems like something I should know.

Weird. In that case, yes, agreed.

Also I don't love "Stadium District" because it's what one of the best neighborhoods in Tacoma is called.

I think about this stuff way too much.

"One of the best neighborhoods in Tacoma."

All I could think of here was “Stadium District and…Old Town? Yeah, I like Old Town.” Because the rest of Tacoma sucks.

I disagree.

Proctor is great (and I actually prefer it to Stadium,) 6th Ave, lots of Hilltop. Tacoma is awesome.

I mentally connect Proctor to Old Town, since coming down 705 leads straight into Old Town,

and then up to Proctor. mental slip. Because Proctor is swell; I’d love to live down in that general area.

Proctor is one of my favorite neighborhoods not just in Tacoma but anywhere else.

If it were in Seattle I would never leave.

If it were in Seattle, I would constantly fight with myself over wanting to live in one of:

a) Green Lake
b) Phinney Ridge
c) Wallingford
d) U District
e) Capitol Hill
f) West Seattle
g) Proctor

A-C are pretty much interchangeable. Just depends on which side of the lake you want to live on. They’re culturally very similar.

Capitol Hill is really the only Seattle neighborhood I want to live in.

If there was a light rail connection between there and Georgetown, Mt. Baker, Greenwood or Wallingford it would be a different story.

Phinney has changed a lot in the past year, and it’s not a change I particularly care for.

I liked Mojo Risin'
Christ really?
Because it made me think the magic of 2001 could live on.
Seven years later?
Beats the usual 15.
Why?

What could possibly possess a person to like this?

Does Bradley make better contact from the right side?
God damnit Milton.
Not his fault.
This umpire is a worthless piece of shit
WHAT THE FUCK COUSINS
FUCK YOU SWEENEY.

SOMEONE KILL HIM.

Another first pitch swing
What a surprise.
But seriously Wak

What the fuck do you see in Sweeney

I'm surprised that Milton didn't break his bat over Cousins' head

It would have been completely justified.

Worth the suspension.
Also worth the jail time.
Didn't Clemens throw a bat or something?

He got away with it.

That's been a strike today

It touched the zone.

The first pitch to Young looked like it was in the exact same spot

As far as I can tell from MLB At-Bat

Indeed

But you can’t expect every borderline pitch to be a strike or a ball. There’s a gray area.

Gosh Jeff

I admire your objectivity :)

There's already enough to be mad about
WE GOT A RUN THIS INNING OH SNAP
A run an inning would be cool.
.

I'd like to imagine that is the sun above him

And its sneaking up on him.

If only he hit lefty...
Hey wait a second
So we could see him suck from the other side?
Then he wouldn't be a platoon option with Jr.
Also

Wait a second….

I guess he'd be a bedroom option for Jr
Way to work the count like a veteran Sweeney.

I mean he swings expecting results like he’s Ted Williams or something.

This is why I have given Rob less grief this year. Going 0-4 with 20 pitches seen is just so much better than 0-4 with 9 pitches. Our bad hitters can be “productive” by making the starters work. Sweeney apparently still thinks he hits too well to work a count. He’s too smart to not get it. Maybe the coaches need to shorten his leash, pull him aside, and say “Take a fucking pitch Mike.”

Rob plays more and plays the field. So he gets more of my anger.
Usually this is a plus, being a catcher and hitting better than your veteran DH.

In this case, him being a catcher is a negative. To think that someone could begin an argument that Rob Johnson is a better DH than our current ones, well that is mind-boggling. I wouldn’t like to make that case though because it will look dumb in a few months, when Griffey/Sweeney are slightly better. How hard is it to have a league average DH on your roster? It seems like the easiest spot to fill.

"Car-port door?"

Come on.

Quick, we need to score some more runs or this game might get rained out.
We have a roof?
Only cost an extra $150 million.
Colome throws 99?
He's always had an electric arm

He’s just never done anything with it.

Zumaya throws 103
Used to throw harder, apparently

FOX tells me no-one threw more 100+ MPH pitches than Colome in 2004.

Fox- why do you fail at everything baseball?

You host the World Series and put on a shitty production nevertheless.

Wow sounds like an awesome play by Lopez.
Hey nice play Loafie.
So yeah, I think you have to tip your cap to GMZ and Wak for the Figgins/Lopez swap.

Lopez looks so much more natural at third than he did at second.

Why the hell! Enough of the suicide squeeze replay FOX.
You can hardly blame them, it was a pretty strange play.
Also,

Josh Lewin.

Their play-by-play guy is Texas' TV broadcaster.
Lopez is a decent 3B, maybe even above average by next year.
That's a good one
It's also potentially true.

I did say MAYBE. I only said he’s been decent so far, it’s too early to tell. Really though, you look at Michael Young and say, that guy is a MLB third baseman? He’s awful!

A shame he'll be plying his trade somewhere else
I think he has more value now, which is nice.
What is the positional adjustment for 2B/3B?
7.5 runs for each
I hate FOX.

They don’t let me see the game in Texas. Stupid Astros. No one cares!

Watching horse racing with closed captioning on is hilarious
Can the algorithm actually keep up with how fast those events are called?
It didn't even get the lyrics to the National Anthem right
Okay Cisco

why are you advertising expensive, non-consumer grade stuff on TV and why are you using Ellen Page as a spokesperson?

Their ads confuse the hell out of me.
Because they're selling the brand, not the product.
The same reason ADM advertises on the Sunday morning news shows.

To raise brand awareness and define an image in the consumer’s mind.

Harrison out for the 5th art 98 pitches?
Who let Dusty Baker in the house?
I think you're missing a 'thou' somewhere
Hey, you know what I never thought I'd be saying on May 1st of any given season?

“Gee, thank god I still have the Nationals to root for, at least.”

If Sounders don't win tonight I quit sports and plan to take up knitting
Are you taking requests?

If I could get an angora noose, I’d be grateful.

I plan to knit only legwarmers for meerkats
Oh, come on!

I’d like to off myself before the All-Star Break. Help a girl out!

I see you include both loss and tie in this outcome.
It's soccer, you have to.
Well, yes, I realize that a tie happens in soccer.

It’s more that you don’t even find a tie an acceptable outcome.

I thought I had typed "lose" :(
Kotch is hitting the shit out of the ball
He wants to fit in.
3 up and 3 down please

I’d rather not waste Ichiro.

Young looks like he's gonna hurt himself today
I wish you said Sweeney instead of Young.
Rob Johnson fails at getting hit by a pitch.

Ugh.

Fixed!

Rob Johns fails at getting hit by a bitch.

*Fixed again!

Rob Johnson fails at getting hit by a pitch.

What
Keyboard lag introduced by some background processing.

Also, apparently SBN doesn’t recognize the < s > command for strikeout formatting.

LOOK INJURED BETTER!
ROB JOHNSON WALKS WOO
Eric Karros, encouraging players to lie to umps.
Eric Karros is an annoying little shit.
I am glad Rob Johnson can take a walk.

YES!

Seriously?

Harrison at 113 pitches and we can’t destroy him yet? Why do we suck so much.

Swinging strike!
This would be a great time for a Jack Wilson homer!
I'll take a double
I'll take a single.
I'll take a GIDP.
Thats Rob Johnson's job
This would also be a great time for a unicorn to fly through the window and vomit up naked women and winning lottery tickets
Is there ever a bad time?
It would be awkward if your mom was in the same room
Or your girlfriend

Or wife or any other significant female in your life.

You'd think she would be happy with being rich
But she's a woman, so she'll focus on the other naked women in the room
Dang, that sounded pretty kinky
We must know different women
We must.

Though it would be pretty cool if we knew the same women, because then we’d know each other, and I’d laugh more often than just in game threads.

No, no there isnt.

I disagree

Oh my god

This game was nightmarish enough

He'd look better sideways
He looks pretty damn sideways as it is
We have very different visions of unicorns.
Hahahaha, what the fuck?
Thanks, you just ruined unicorns for me
There's a handsome lad
You should knit that

Right after the Sounders draw tonight.

Like a woolen tapestry.
That sounds like it's more likely to happen.
I love when Johnson walks.
This team needs a spark.
Like the ump didn't hear that bat crack, fuck you Karros, just shut up.
117 pitches? Really?
I'm waiting for his arm to go flying into the stands.
As much as that would hurt, that would be awesome looking.
For the love of fucking god.

It’s Matt Harrison and he’s at 115+ pitches.

But you have to remember that he's a perennial Cy Young candidate.
They just said he's usually at 110 pitches.
God this inning is so much like a Mariners' inning

Kotchman almost lines one down the line, but it goes foul. Kotchman almost hits a home run, but it goes foul. Johnson almost bloops one down the line, but it goes foul. Johnson almost gets hit by a pitch, but it hits the bat.

The fact that Johnson almost did either of those things is impressive.

He didn’t record an out!

What the fuck is up with Cousins' strike zone?
It's a complete fucking joke
A joke? As in the Mariners' offense?
At least the Mariners' offense is consistent
It's subjective
Ichiro is going for 135 pitches.
Playin' defense even when he's at the plate.
Why do I feel like the Mariner's offense can't do anything?
Because you've been paying attention?
So true.

And because I have been watching them this past couple days.

I see you're a perceptive person.
Really? M's bats are you serious.
throwing hard to get Ichiro

95,94,96,95

I guess he REALLy wanted to stay in

Unfuckingbelieveable.
Harrison's going to get a dead arm and the Rangers are going to have to call up Holland.
maybe that is the plan all along
This is like the Angels getting better by losing their catchers.
the Rangers did
Ichiro for four...
WARRIOR

He looks like David Wells
Except a little lighter.
And way more retarded
The Mariners are doing that to him.
What will the rotation be like in August?
Hey look, a completely irrelevant Yankees mention.
How the fuck is it only the 7th.

Damn.

I think we get it now. The Mariner's offense is struggling.

Gosh.

Wait. Is this new?
No. Lewin and Karros.
Krakatoa warming up.
Yay, Colume.
Heart of the order!
We hate submariners
Define "we"...
Aww, I like the Rainiers
I, for one, think this joke is quite good.
God shut the fuck up Karros.
McCarver is getting up there. Fox is just grooming the eventual replacement.
Karros is McCarver but with ten times the douche factor.
Amazingly, this is true.
This is really close to getting the mute button.
This game is really close to being over!

Yay! =(

Welp

That was fucking fast

I'm gonna take Jeff's advice and go do something.

Felix is out, Sweeney still playing, the Fox announcers are fucking faggots and I hate this Rangers team.

I need some positivity in my life.

But Milton is due up next
The Fox announcers are cool dudes.
I know I've been posting too many pictures, but this is it for today I swear. Gross!

Holy fuck.

I knew there was something fundamentally wrong with submariners.

I can't even think of an onomatopoeia that describes the sound I just made accurately
Its not the right arm's grotesque angle, as much as

the left arm growing straight out of his chest.

Also, the elbow.
The whole thing is so gross!
Has a GIF of that Jack Wilson "whoopsie!" play at short been posted yet?

Because that was priceless.

God fucking damnit
Michael Young... Michael Young..
And... on comes the mute.
I fucking hate baseball.
Time to stop listening.
This is so fucking frustrating
I'm glad I stopped caring like an hour ago
Baseball is stupid. Beer is awesome...so are hot chicks
BASE FUCKING HIT WOOOOO
I smell a GIDP
Maybe I should say that more often
Not possible anymore

But a LIDP sure is.

Who's the man? MB!
I'm surprised Sweeney didn't swing on that.
Sweeney's second 3-0 count of the day!
Karos is total douchebag
Pleeeeeeeeease don't fuck this up
Way to not listen, asshole
And yet another useless out.
Oh god Paul Konerko alone has more HRs than this entire team.

Damnit.

...

Fuck Mike Sweeney.

Fuck you Mike Sweeney.

How many times does this need to be said.

God fucking damnit
If Mike Sweeney dies later I would find it difficult to care.
I've lost the energy to be emotionally invested in this game.
FUCK YOU SWEENEY, THAT'S THE LAST STRAW
Geez

You must be the most patient person in the fucking universe.

Last night was the last straw.
I thought last season was the last straw.
His 2008 where he wOBA'd .322 should have been the last straw
That .322's looking pretty good right about now.

Last night absolutely erased my (ever-decreasing) belief that Mike Sweeney could post a wOBA even close to that this year.

Yeah, that really was.

I was hoping for a rally right here though =/

I ran out of straws a long fucking time ago
So coming into the season people happy with Sweeney on the roster pointed out that he was healthy and had always been productive while healthy.

wRC+ in 2010 is 36. So clearly he is injured, right?

Put him down already.
Damn, Kotchman's hitting the ball hard.
When he starts straightening these motherfuckers out....
Ahahahahaha we're pinch hitting for Wilson again.
I'd honestly rather have Wilson hit than Griffey.
WHY IS GRIFFEY ON DECK FOR WILSON AGAIN.

WHAT DID WE FUCKING NOT LEARN FROM YESTERDAY?

OH MY GOD WAK

You didn’t fucking learn from last night??

Muted. Christ sakes
What the FUCK!?

Griffey is on deck to PH for Jack Wilson.

Biggest Suckfest: Wakamatsu, – ∞

Holy shit.

Rob Johnson walks again
This is unfortunate!
I can't fucking believe this.

I’m really getting sick of Wakamatsu.

Rob Johnson is turning into a fucking pimp.
I can't fucking take it
I'll go out on a limb and say weak groundout to second.
You got owned! No weak groundout for the Griffen...
If Griffey homers here, I will still think he's a worthless pile of shit that should have retired three years ago
No you won't!
I absolutely guarantee you that I will
I'm pretty sure he will.
You I'd be fine with this if Jack Hannahan was on the roster.
Here comes the let down.
How is it a let down if you are expecting to be an out?
expecting it..
This would be exciting if Griffey were capable hitting one out still
This can't go wrong at all!
Wow that was an ugly swing.
He's just setting the kid up...
Prove the haters wrong, Gfiff-dawg!
He is so fucking overmatched
Not if he doesn't swing.
WALK, YOU FAT FUCK!
Maybe the plan is to create more public failures for The Kid

So the public is behind them when he is cut.

The public are a bunch of stupid twunts
Now if he walks we might have an ounce of hope.
Maybe he'll get a BB
Holy shit he sure got a hold of that one
Time for a weak three-run homer between 1st and 2nd
Even Eric Karros knows you can just throw Junior fastballs.
Just pipe 'em down the middle and wait for the groundout.
The ball was in the air!
He hit a 97 mph?
God even no-batspeed Edgar wasn't this bad.
He was still in shape.
Junior hit one into the upper deck!!!!
I don't think he did.
Upper deck of the sky, maybe
We is sad
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU

Don Wakamatsu.

I'm getting to the point where I couldn't care less if HE gets canned.
For pinch-hitting for Jack Wilson?

Griffey sucks, but there is at least some potential for a homer with him up, that was the right call. You’re down the 3, the defensive downgrade is pretty meaningless at this point.

No, it wasn't anywhere near the right call.
If he hits a HR, the defefnsive downgrade is very meaningful
The 3 run homer is more meaningful, I'll trade that defensive downgrade for 3 runs.
You're not trading a 3-run homer. You're trading a small increased probability of a 3-run homer
And that is worth the defensive downgrade when you're down by 3.
Out of Griffey's 58 AB's this year which has shown you he is capable of hitting a HR?
More likely to reach base than Jack Wilson.

Griffey sucks and I want him gone, but if he’s on the team that is the time to use him.

More likely to reach base than Jack Wilson?

What?

Their three-year OBP trends (and so far this season)

actually agree with this statement. It pains me to say this.

Do those 3 year trends account for an again washed up 41 year old?
"and so far this season".

Yes.

Pretty pictures!

Thank god for those Walks.
I'm impressed that no one called me out for calling this picture "pretty."

It’s terribly depressing.

I NEVER ONCE LIKED YOU FAT-ASSED SACK OF COMPOST
Can we have the retirement ceremony after Feliz mows us down in the 9th?
Only if Griffey goes all Preston Brooks on Mike Sweeney's Charles Sumner.
Just do the right thing and retire.

It’s what’s best for everybody.

Hey Grifffey. We would love you as a coach though!
Am I right, guys?
Okay you know what

I didn’t start following baseball until Griffey was gone. I didn’t see him in his prime. The only thing I see now is some fat ass going up to the plate and flailing late at fastballs right down broadway.

My only memories of Ken Griffey Jr. are those of him hanging on way past his prime.

I'm also in this boat.
Maybe this wouldn't be so bad if I had memories of prime!Griffey.

Him sticking around just makes me mad. I want to love one of the greatest sports figures in Seattle history, but all I see is someone that’s over-the-hill and either doesn’t realize he’s bad or is too prideful/selfish to admit it.

It's worse, trust me
I have memories of prime!Griffey.

I’m beyond fed up with him.

I love prime Griffey

“The Double” (including his integral involvement) remains my favorite Seattle sports memory of all time.

This pathetic shadow has nothing on that man. It’s not him.

Oh god stop pinch hitting for Wilson when we still have to play defense
Out of curiosity,

Is there any precedent for a full-time player to realize he’s awful and retire?

Mike Schmidt
Wow.
Despite his poor start and subsequent retirement, fans again voted Schmidt to the NL All-Star team. He decided not to play, but he did participate in the game’s opening ceremony.

Really classy.

So the last four Griffey pitches

Weak groundball foul to first
Pop up foul
Pop up foul
Pop up to shallow left

All on fastballs out over the plate. Is that sequence right?

So... About that "In Z We Trust" sign...
I never bought into that bandwagon.

Z and Wak’s micro-moves with the roster drive me nuts. It’s the big ones we win.

So we win the important ones
That's like saying home runs win games.

But you and I both know they don’t. Runs win games, however they are gained. And when we keep fucking up “the little things”, they can outweigh our homers.

If this front office keeps nailing the major roster moves this is going to be a very good team.
No, they can't.

Compared to Gutierrez, Bradley and Lee Sweeney and Griffey matter very little.

They could if we literally did every single small thing wrong

We don’t

I still love our front office for the most part.

I think it’s time they take some of the roster construction power away from Wakamatsu.

Maybe they should just turn the sign up upside down for awhile.
Maybe they should take it down every time Mike Sweeney is in the lineup.
Wak makes the lineups
Yeah, I know. I'm just pissed off and thinking of desperate ways to publicly protest.

Granted, Z is the one that resigned Mike. He could have just told Wak, “NO! You only get one worthless player.”

Z gave Wak Sweeney to play with.
He was a non-roster invitee.
And he was signed.

Z did not have to do that. Z didn’t even have to invite him to camp.

I don't disagree, but Wakamatsu lobbied for it and Zduriencik has given him a lot of control over the MLB roster.

I don’t disagree with taking that approach but it’s time to pull back a bit.

I'm in the same boat.

In the off-season GMZ did so many smart things, but things didn’t go tits up until spring training rolled around and Wak could get his hands on the roster.

Never said

“In Wak We Trust”

I'm glad they keep reiterating that Jr. isn't as good as he once was. I hadn't noticed.
Haven't you guys heard?

Griffey is working on getting his legs more involved in his swing. That’s clearly the problem!

I knew we should have hired Joey Cora.
WOO HOO FRANCISCO

HOPE!

Ichiro walks
Milton slam is going to be the only thing that talks me off the ledge

A Lopez slam just won’t do

Any slam would do for me.
Nothing would negate that though.
Jesus just take all day long against this guy.
Now my hopes have arisen only to be crushed momentarily
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLK
Nobody swing

Let’s see what happens

Now I'm just really nervous at how hard I will take it when if we blow this.
C'mon....meltdown you fuckers!
Don't you dare give me false hope unless you fucking intend to capitalize on it

COME ON GUTI

If they capitalize on it it wouldn't be false hope
You're right

I confused myself though

TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE
Guti-blast!

…please?

Guti it's time for some sex magic right here
If ever there was a time for sex magic

Now is it.

"And the Mariners win on the 6th walk of the inning"
PUT IN FELIZ YOU FUCKFACE
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
GET THE FUCK OUT
OMG YOU BETTER NOT BUNT
DON'T YOU DARE FUCKING BUNT
Why is Guti bunting!?

What the fuck!?

ASSHOLE DONT BUNT
Showing bunt eh
"As a hitter...I'm looking to swing."

Umm, no wonder Karros wasn’t a great player.

More like Eric Karrosh
I don't think he was actually trying to bunt guys
My brow furrowed so hard
What the hell are you talking about Eric?
Chris Karros shut the fuck up
I think the announcers might be right here...
God damnit Guti.
Guti has just looked terrible in the last 3 games
Well there goes our opportunity.
There's only one out.
I'm not very optimistic anymore.
I'm really happy FOX didn't show this in my region

I don’t think I could handle watching it on TV.

I've grown numb.

It’s not so bad anymore.

Just an awful at bat

Fucking terrible.

2 guys somewhat capable of homering coming up

Eh..

GiDP time =(
.......Lopez you've got this (I hope)
It is not a coincidence that as soon as Gutierrez began slumping the offense went totally tits up.
Hey nice sign!
Let's go Mr. Clutch
I have no idea what Eric Karros is talking about.
Neither does he.
You're back on earth now Guti

You can stop coming down

What is wrong with Guti? :(

I guess his shoulders wore out after carrying the offense for 3 weeks

Bad couple games

It happens

TAKE TAKE TAKE TAKE
THAT WASN'T EVEN A FUCKING STRIKE YOU STUPID

AND NO THAT’S NOT WHAT HE FUCKING SHOULD DO SHUT YOUR STUPID FUCKING MOUTH ERIC KARROS

How come there's not been much criticism of Cockrell?
Hitting coaches don't do anything
Criticize him for what?
I think fixing Casey Kotchman.
Crush this pitch.
What an idiot.
Oh my lord.

Jesus christ Lopez.

This has to be a sick joke.
.....BRADLEY PLEASE
The good Washington team begins playing in about a half hour.

A relief after this clusterfuck.

Eliminates the GiDP!
Oh my motherfucking God
Awful pitch to swing at.
WHY LOPEZ WHY?!!!

UGH.

Lopez... Why... Whhyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Loafie being Loafie
FOR FUCK'S SAKE, LOAFIE

/autocomplete, unsurprisingly.

Seattle Fans were getting on Bradley?

Someone go down there and tell them to shut the fuck up.

He absolutely deserved it.
What happened?
He stood there and watched an easily catchable fly ball drop
Oh, okay.

I missed that. Tuned in in the 6th.I assumed it was the usual Bradley booing.

Only after that weird missed catch earlier

to my ears, at least.

Bradley looks totally pissed
I hate baseball. I hate this team.
Good contact =(
What a horrible horrible fucking game.

We are terrible. Completely and utterly terrible.

Fuck this fuck this fuck this
Fuck this noise
There is no team in baseball playing worse than the Mariners right now.
This is horrible.

I don’t care about being reactionary and upset, but this is absolutely freaking ridiculous.

I think I'd be about 30% less annoyed if I hadn't listened to Eric Karros the entire game.
I know

and that’s quite a feat on his part considering how much the game sucked.

LET'S GO NATIONALS. HEAL THIS PAIN.
DO YOU SEE HOW LOW YOU'VE SUNK, MARINERS?
Well, those 2 games completely sucked.
I literally got to hear the last at bat of this game, and you could tell from Dave's tone of voice even before you got much info what the state of the game was.

so, 6 runs? off Felix?

Okay Z, take back the roster from Wakamatsu.
He can dump Sweeney, bring up Langerhans, dump Jesus (or White) and bring up Hannahan...

and it wouldn’t force Wak to use those tools wisely.

Replacing Sweeney with Langerhans

And Tui with Hannahan isn’t going to make Guti, Lopez, Wilson, and Figgins hit better.

We won’t start winning until they do.

Figgins was on base 4 times tonight
Replacing Sweeney with Langerhans gets Sweeney out of the 6th spot in the lineup.

It forces Bradley to DH, and elevates Kotchman to 6th.

Hannahan makes it possible to pinch hit for Wilson without having to suffer from the Tui defensive downgrade penalty.

I don't disagree with any of that

But I think we’ve got much more fundamental things to worry about than who’s going to take over SS in the 9th inning.

You are right, overall it won't matter if Figgins, Milton and Lopez won't hit.

But it will make the better and give the team more flexibility. Putting Bradley at DH could also save him from injury.

Make the team better.
I don't know what opportunities are out there

But it’d sure be nice to plug someone with more upside than Langerhans into LF. And you have to assume that Z is plotting how to get someone else into 3B as well. it hurts to say it because I’m a big Lopey fan, but he’s just not Z’s type of player, and I can see him having a shorter rope.

But again, it’s pretty fruitless, since there aren’t any obvious guys to plug in there.

Langerhans--->LEf and Bradley--->DH is a pretty sizable upgrade.
I don't even wanna watch the game tomorrow.
Then don't.
Fister is pitching!
Fister isn't very good
Vargas is the best of our crappy starters by a ways and he's still crappy.
But can't I hold a little hope because of what I have seen this year?

Like we possibly could see a couple more good starts?

I recommend you do not watch the game tomorrow.
Tomorrow seems like appropriate and fitting time for

Fister to get smacked over the head with regression to mean.

Thanks. I have to go watch it.
Meanwhile, somewhere out there Carlos Silva continues to get ground ball after ground ball...
How is Bucky Jacobsen a TV analyst
He does it on the radio!
If KJR feels you're a worthwhile hire I don't want to listen to you.
Bucky Jacobsen on the post game!

This is…bad.

He could be our DH solution..
Yeah, a while ago.
Hid has chance, refused to take care of himself.

Fuck him.

You've gotta look at the camera there, Bucky
So what was it about Karros that irked all?
His an annoying little shit with a douche factor of 11.
So it wasn't anything more specific than him being Eric Karros, then?
Nope.

Just Eric Karros being Eric Karros.

He never shut up and was wrong
I think that rant he went on during Guti's final AB was the worst of it all.
That, and what he was right about hurt my feelings.

(Calling out Griffey over and over again)

Hey! You're back!
I never really left!
Seems like I haven't seen you in a while!
Well I haven't been posting, but I've been around!
Glad to hear it :)
Even Matt Pitman thinks the team needs to cut one of Sweeney/Griffey and bench the other.
I'd almost prefer to see Griffey cut

just for the hilarity factor.

We should have them fight to the death for the right to stay on the roster.

And then as soon as one is victorious, hand him his release papers.

I had the same thought

but…

Heyward has two less homeruns then the Mariners.

Bet he evens it up tomorrow.

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