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5/2: Open Game Thread, Part 3

This could be a really short thread...

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**pain continues**
This could also be a really long thread.
I'm guessing it will be pretty long.
So much for saving the bullpen.
Hopefully a bit longer than shorter.
Haha, I was thinking the same thing...
Let's try one of these where the leadoff hitter doesn't get on.
I don't care anymore.

I just don’t want to play Texas anymore.

At least get one win? Please?
Whatever

Not like a win is going to make me feel a lot better about this team

Yeah, I know what you mean.
So much for going to work on time.
At least we are all here together, yes? **group hug**
Great start!!
It'll almost certainly be shorter than yesterday's short thread.
Sick of Lowe's bullshit
I fucking hate baseball
There we go.
I want to bite.
Here comes the rapey feeling again
After Friday and today

I’ve seen 22 innings of baseball and 4 runs
What in the fuck

They get a blooper?

Lame.

Why do they always say "sit around wait for three run homers"

I’d rather sit around and wait for grand slams, myself

I tire of our team... really... can't we play a game without this bullshit?
I suggest meditation.

Calms the mind

Why is Brynes on the team instead of Langerhans?!?
BYRNES

Good god.

THIS, is a great question.
Yikes it's Lowe
Yikes?
He's often pretty damn wild.
It's gonna end this inning
Rob JOhnson! YAH
ROB JOHNSON YOU FUCKING STUPID PIECE OF SHIT
Sigh.... Rob Fucking Johnson
DAMN IT.

And I’m back to hating Rob Johnson.

Off of Rob Johnson's glove!?

surpriseface.jpg

ROOOOOOOOOOB
There's our Rob!
My god how is that a wild pitch.
It wasn't

Passed ball

Never mind

I can’t listen and type at the same time apparently

Oh this is the game.
Looks like we need another Rob Johnson.
I think we need 8 more...
Wild pitch? He could have caught that ball.
Professional Baseball Catcher.
HOW THE FUCK IS THAT A WILD PITCH? IT BOUNCED RIGHT OFF HIS FUCKING GLOVE

THIS IS THE WORST SPORT

They heard you and fixed it.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Rob "Professional Catcher" Johnson.
And here comes the run that loses the game...
That didn't look nearly enough outside to be a wild pitch.
We have sooooo many bad players
Really feel bad for the starting pitchers who have been excellent (with the exception of RRS and even he hasn't been bad as the other players)
Mariners are killing my weekends
It's funny how this team is the polar opposite of the late-90s Mariner squads.
He's trying to bunt. Let him bunt!
Then field it!
I think they misunderstood what you meant
Changed to pass ball

As it should be.

FUCKKKKKK.
Good Lord.
I hate baseball
And we're fucked
Does anyone else think that this feels cliche?

I mean, we’re about to lose on about ten weak balls in play and a crucial defensive play by a guy we cut for not playing good enough defense. Seems like it’s been done.

Yeah.

This was my thought immediately after that Garko catch. It’s a thing we’ve seen before quite a few times.

I DON'T EVEN THINK I CAN WATCH THIS SHIT ANYMORE.
Please... make the pain stop..
Game Over.
I hate my life
You KNOW it's fucking coming omg
I can't watch much more of this.
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT
We're so fucking pathetic
Oh my fuck
Mariners baseball!
Remember how we said our team was going to be annoying?

Wasn’t it supposed to be in a positive way?

Double Edge Sword?
Hey, can we catch a break for once?

Is it too much to ask for?

Apparently
Seems like god likes to screw with us
You do realize that we won a game in KC on a Jose Lopez infield double, right?

We get breaks, just not this series yet.

I don't know when then
Good point.

We barely beat KC, after all! All things are equal!

That's just proof that God hates Zack Grinke this year a little more than he hates us
The Ichiro catch was our break for the day, I think.
That's not really a break. It's just Ichiro being Ichiro
Maybe, but a strong gust of wind from the baseball gods and that's a home run.

So I’d say there is a touch of luck involved with that. Not to take away from Ichiro because it definitely was brilliant.

I think I enjoy pain

At least we don’t have to watch Baltimore.

They just swept Boston?
I mean.

I wish I was an Oriole fan? Life would be great

It'd be more fun to watch than losing to Texas with Cliff Lee, Felix Hernandez, and Doug Fister pitching.
Yeah, I'd hate to sweep the Red Sox
Texas sure knows how to drag these 1-run losses out.
Pitching and defense! Ra ra ra!
Oh throw strikes

End this shit.

This almost feels masochistic
I am deriving no pleasure from this

it’s just painful.

Funny. I feel nothing at all
It's not like they have their good batters coming up.

Oh wait… yes they do…

Shit.

Thats unfair

how they can have good batters

Jeff should be tracking our negative doilies.

Annoying runs scored against us, or runs we really ought to have produced, but didn’t.

This will end badly.
YES BOO KEEP BOOING
Waiting for the balk call to send the runner home.
Pefect.
*perfect.

Whatever. My spirit is broken.

That would be the perfect insult to end this game.

Game, series, and week.

Please use the subject line
Can't use italics in subject line.

Hence the bold being added to keep with the format.

.

Do a period or something like this.

You still need to put something in the subject line.
That wouldn't even end the game
Okay, stepping off toward third and looking at first NEVER EVER works... STOP DOING IT.
The best part is that after the Rangers get two runs here

We get to watch the Mariners flail at the ball for three outs.

Or get one run

And leave runners on 2nd and 3rd with no outs.

Strikeout, Double play
Bless your optimism.
You're one optimistic fellow
But I guess it comes in handy?
Yay! Half a wish granted!
One down, one to go.
Dial one up, Lowe
At least we're getting used to losing again
Cold Blooded
Accurate, though.
Young has had some bad K's today
Suck it Michael Young
Well at least MY still sucks.
Your what?

OH!!! Michael Young..

Michael Young has played like shit today.
Swung at a bad pitc.
Thank you for fishing, Michael Young
DP? We could still get out with 0 runs given up?
No. We're the Mariners.
PLEASE DON'T LET DAVID MURPHY BEAT US AGAIN.
Griffey + Sweeney for Michael Young + assloads of cash

straight up?

They'd have to toss in Feliz.
I feel like the assloads of cash makes it even more unrealistic.
Depends on how many assloads.
63
That's an assload of assloads
63 Griffey assloads?

Hell yes.

Hope we're paying them in 1 dollar bills
Because Griffey has a really fat ass
That would be a horrible trade
That's not "straight up."
Griffey and Sweeney for Michael Young and a rosin bag...

still worth it in my opinion.

No.

This would be an awful trade.

Griffey and Sweeney for some BBQ?
They don't have any hugging experience in Texas.
GOD JUST THROW A DAMN PITCH LOWE
At least Michael Young is on the same page as the Mariners
Damnit Damnit Damnit
And Ballgame!
Not quite

We get another chance to show off our terrible offense

And there we go...
Well fuck.
That's that.
We could trade Cliff Lee?

We desperately need a bat…

Sorry ,meant as reply
Yes let's trade Cliff Lee
We only have him for one year
You don't fucking trade your best player if you want to get better
Needs more angry.
Hey, its just a hypothetical proposition. I'm not saying we should do it.

Do you think trading Cliff Lee would hurt us worse than not getting someone who can actually drive runners in?

Game Over!
This is your fault, Rob
OF COURSE.
Grand fucking surprise
2-1

The score. That’s the only thing that tipped me off to the fact that I wasn’t watching a replay of Friday’s game.

And yeah woo hoo
Wow this is gay.
Don't blame the gays for this... I doubt they would have passed that ball RoJo effed up...
I don't blame them for anything, besides being awesome.

Just doing some un-PC venting.

Why even show the thing- Byrnes isn't going to throw him out
I have lost faith in everything now.
Screw this

I’m moving to Baltimore.

Final Fantasy XIII or keep watching...

This is truly a tough decision.

Lowe does it again.
At least we can trade Lee for something shiny at the deadline.
A gurney for Bedard?
Hey guys I'm back

And damn if this isn’t an awesome sandwich.

Third time's the charm?
Hurry up and lose
At least its Lopez Bradley Kotchman up

We still have enough for a sliver of a hope. BELIEVE BIG.

FUCK YOU ROB JOHNSON THAT'S TWO PAST BALLS AT LEAST ONE CAUSED A RUN
And two passed balls as well!
Will they finally release Byrnes?
Can we pair the 97 Mariners offense with this pitching please?

Get Doc Brown on the phone.

Why would you want the rest of the '97 Mariners when the one we have is fucking awful?
How many pitches will Feliz have to throw in the bottom?
Just not our day today
Week

You mean week

Or yesterday, or Friday...
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
So I searched for the dog saving the power plant .gif and didn't find it

But I found something I’d like to drink

I think I'm watching this exact thing right now on FSN.
I wish a few Mariners would get sent back to their home planets and then die on the way
Alexei Ramirez doesn't play for the Mariners.
WOO HOO YEAH ROBn
BAHAHA, Rob is the best
Annnnnd TV off.
FUCKING HELL
ROB JOHNSON
It's like clowns coming out of a car!
ROB YOU ARE TICKING ME OFF!!!
FUCK YOU ROB

FUCK YOU ROB
FUCK YOU ROB
FUCK YOU ROB
FUCK YOU ROB
FUCK YOU ROB
FUCK YOU ROB

Are you fucking kidding me???
SUCK A DICK, JOHNSON
I wish Rob Johnson was dead
Eric who?

FUCK YOU ROB

Anddddd /ballgame.
ROB JOHNSON!!!!
I have things to do today.

Later y’all.

Me too.

Why am I still watching, then? Is it that thing where you can’t look away from a car wreck?

I don't even know anymore
Only the fourth? good day for Rob
This team is fucking awful.

Rob Johnson needs to fucking go. We need a real catcher and quick. I cannot explain how much I fucking hate Rob Johsnon.

Where's Kenji when we need him?
Hitting home runs in Japan
11-14 =/= awful

In need of help? yes. But not awful.

Stop being rational and get violent
Drop Johnson Strikes Again
I just said that we should trade Johnson for a Dicks burger

And my grandpa said ‘might not be worth one with cheese’

Soo why are we still here you guys?
To plan our revenge on Rob Johnson.
Objectively, this game is pretty hilarious.
I mean, come on guys.

HUMOR!

No, it's just boring.
Yes

Repeating the same ineptitude.

See, I find a sort of morbid humor in that.
A morbid humor in boredom?

Thats pretty boring.

Every Griffer groundball to second.

Every Rob Johnson passed ball.

They at least get a chuckle.

It's less humorous if you've wasted 3 hours watching it
Looks like that short thread/ long thread question was answered.
Garko is gonna hit a 3R bomb here.
If Johnson is still our catcher in a week

then I’m moving to Canada.

Sensible plan.
Hear it's nice this time of year.
This game is turning me into Hitler
I mean the last 10 days
You have weird impulses to kill Jews?
If you're defining wierd as abnormal then that isn't wierd
Let's convince Pat Borders to unretire
Well I thought this was gonna be a sweep.

Sucks it’s not us.

Maybe if the entire Mariner's fanbase consistently sends mail to the Mariners front office

we can get them to dump Sweeney, Johnson, DL Griffey, etc.

Yeah, that won't work.
Perhaps by a child in goodwill?

They can’t refuse those!

or with Make a Wish...
This has been tried ~ 52000 times
I'm just desperate for something...
Only down by 2. Come on guys, we can TOTALLT do this!
This team never gives up!
You can't coach heart.

You can’t coach really shitty players, either.

Captain Planet coached Heart... We just aren't trying enough.

Plus games are won by runs, not team love.

Least we don't have to play the best team in baseball next series.
This team has become a caricature of itself
Well the As and the angles lost!
Wow, no shit?
Go go hypotenuses!
ANGELS ANGELS ANGELS ANGELS

You’d think Einstein would be able to spell.

Equations can't however.
Some days I wish this team wouldn't waste our time losing close.

Get blown out 14-0 or something.

Those games are actually more fun.
Feliz in, M's fucked.
Unless...
We are definitely going to lose.

Unless we don’t.

The Rocky music/clip should do the trick...
Situation is desparate

Hug hard, DH’s!

Here's my best attempt at optimism:

Z is generally a very smart GM.
Z is watching the same thing we are.
The division is still very winnable.
Changes must be coming soon.

Right? Right?

Release Byrnes to start.
Griffey and Swenney both blow out a knee and is on IR?
Not a strike yadda yadda yadda
Gets old, doesn't it.
Hell yes fuck you Sweeney!
I hope Mike Sweeney beomes unavailable for life.
I said it before. I bet his has nude photos of Wak's daughter and is threatening to show them if he's demoted or released.
Seems likely.
On the bright side Sweeney died
I can't wait for a Griffey PH
Wait what happened to Sweeny?
Bad back.
What a pussy

Felix had a bad back and still pitched.
I mean really, even in top condition, Sweeney would get out anyway, right?
I’m sure he could manage that with a sore back

But it's good that he's not out there.

Slightly worse chance of sucking.

Gives someone else a chance to suck
So your argument is that the suck we know is better than the possible not-suck we don't?
Nope

The suck we know is the same as the suck we don’t quite know as well.
Either way, we suck on offense

He's a bitch.
He has a stiff back or something.
Stiff back

Can’t figure out how to un-stiff it

Sweeney in the dugout with a helmet and a bat

Sounds about right

I hate how the Rangers as a whole didn't play all that much better than us

And they’re leaving with a sweep.

That happens a lot to us, it would seem.
When two medicore teams battle, that can happen.
Just close your eyes and swing
Thank god no more rangers for a while
We'll just suck against other teams.
Yeah thank goodness the Rays are coming into town.
I'm ao glad Feliz hasn't panned out as a starter
Why even try to do anything M's?

God.

Haha he looks so sad with a batting helmet on
Sooner or later a rangers pitcher is going to blow out a arm
Well this was worse than the Sox series.
OH GOD HE WAS LOOSENING UP IN THE CAGE BECAUSE THEY WANTED HIM TO PH FOR JACK WILSON

I GUARANTEE IT

I said 18 pitches before. I was being optimistic...
At least I only watched 2 of these fuckfests.
Fuck the management of this team.
Well this has been horrifying.
NICE! Way to end it fast.
Fans send the team off with boos

Go ahead and make a move on the off day, Z.

Well that was fast.
Im not feeling sad!
I can feel a losing streak coming up
What do you mean coming up?
You mean after the shit hole we're in?
Let me clarify, I can feel a LONG losing streak coming up
It's only the hottest team in baseball, what could go wrong?
We're going to sweep them because why the fuck not
Would make as much sense as anything else that's happened in the last week and a half.
Fuck you for catching that home run Ichiro.

That cost me an extra 30 minutes of my life.

Deals with the devil never end well.
Unless you're the devil
Ask Robert
Was Robert the one who got Lopez that grand slam?
At least Dave Cameron's recap is up
I don't want any moves to occur..I want to see the gloves come off!
That's two amazing starts by SP wasted by our offense. We passed on Jason Bay for this. WOO!
I had hoped people would have shut the fuck up about Jason Bay by now.
Are you kidding
Isn't Jason Bay sucking anyway.

Results based analyses sucks, but still.

Jason Bay is terrible
At least its just the Rays up next
NO FUCKING FLOOR!!!!

On the bright side we are like 1 game out, with the best team in baseball coming to town.

I don't know what's sadder. Us or the fact we're only a few games within the division
Best division in baseball motherfuckers.
Byrnes better be gone on Monday.
Lots of things better be different on Monday
Byrnes isn't the problem.... Not the enitrety. We have a Special Olympics catcher and two AARP DHs...
Byrnes is nothing. I could bat .094.

That isn’t a joke.

No you couldn't.
Perhaps you don't understand how hard it is to hit balls the size of your fist going 90 MPH from 60 feet away
I played baseball in college.

I’ve seen plenty of 90 mph fastballs?

Not gonna win this one, might as well stop.
DeVry has a team?
No. St. Bonaventure however does.
It was sacarcism. I am sure you played at an accredited university.
Never heard of the place!
It's a small college in bumblefuck Pennsylvania
Or New York. Try again.

Also Division 1. What’d you play?

Don't get defensive this series sucked, noones happy.
Wow it's not even in Pennsylvania

I didn’t even know where the fuck it was

Subthread closed

This is ridiculous.

Because you're from Seattle and I'm from Rome, NY?
Rome NY?

Never heard of the place!

Speaking of good arguments!
Just kidding anyway..

I’ve heard of it. Pretty cool you played there.

This argument makes no sense.

You don’t use wooden bats in college. The competition is much worse. You aren’t still playing, et cetera

He is part of the whole

Therefore, he has a direct correlation with the problem.

I'm glad the Mariners have good clubhouse chemistry because most teams would feel bad about getting swept by a division rival in a series where they scored 4 runs total.
Sweeney is there to hug Aardsma for blowing it in the 9th.
A for EFFORT
AND AARDSMA, and, and, ah shit.
On the bright side, maybe this shitty weekend will force some changes.
Belief sys-...

fml.

No chatspeak
Whatever. I'm too mad to care at the moment.

I’m out of here.

slams door

Well......Doug Fister!

If we had managed to score 2 runs today we would have won. 2 runs. Two. We don’t ask for much

NOBODY PANIC!

EVERYONE KEEP YOUR FUCKING COMPOSURE!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT2ae1WkuC0&feature=related

Its too late

I already opened the JD

I LOST MY COMPOSURE A LONG TIME AGO!!!!
At least it's obvious. The problem is not something subtle and ultra-nuanced.
Jermaine Dye here we come!
Why the hell not?
There's a lot of reasons why not
Because he's really not very good?
We have enough old terrible DH's that can't field
Personally I'm done experimenting with old unathletic DH's.
I know this is a background issue compared to some of the more glaring ones, but is it time to relieve the DA of the closing duties?
It's time to re-evaluate everything

But that’s not going to happen. Not for a while at least

After 2 blown saves on the season? Come on, dude. They've got bigger problems than the Aardvark blowing 2 saves.
And I don't even really care for Aardsma. Just saying that it's too early for him to lose his job.
It's not just the two, this wasn't really unexpected. Too many fly balls, etc. etc.
So isn't it ironic that he blows a save on a weak grounder?
This Mets Phillies game is ridiculous, three HR's in the first inning.

I can’t imagine what it would feel like to have offense

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