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5/21: Open Game Thread, Part 2

He wasn't sad. He was powering up.

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This whole scoring thing is becoming passé
REGRESSION TO THE MEAN MAKES MY DICK HARD
I WANT MORE RUNS!
Okay, so seattlebruin was right.

The last game thread was excellent.

And that man was so mean too!
Let's make this one better!
Do good game threads come from scoring runs or do scoring runs come from good game threads?
I'd go with the former.
Zen meditation doesn't seem very Christian.
He's going New Age.
Punching Reporters does!
Where are my chi crystals!!!!!
Mike Sweeney stole them.

Also not very Christian, I should add.

Hahaha we've scored 13 fucking runs
If only we could have spread them over 5 of our one run losses instead.
By the fourth inning!
And it didn't take a week!
We've only had 4 innings? Holy crap.
We've got 5 more innings of this, goddamn
WHAT THE FUCK MIKE SWEENEY HIT ANOTHER ONE? I MISSED IT
MIKE SWEENEY IS LEADING OUR TEAM IN HOME RUNS
This is a bit like 'own goals' being Man United's second highest scorer this season.
I hope they don't regress all the way in one game...

let’s spread the love out to four or five :-)

Don't worry it doesn't work that way
I don't care. I want runs. As many runs as possible.

I wan’t the umps to end the game early to prevent the San Diego from committing seppuku.

The worst part of blowouts is the not scoring or the not getting hits after scoring all our runs early.
Win Expectancy

99%, I assume?

http://www.fangraphs.com/livewins.aspx?date=2010-05-21&team=Mariners&dh=0&season=2010
Can't link with subject lines :(

Here ya go.

Whoopsadoodle.

Thanks :)

That caption got me pretty good. Nice one.
Ichiro's had an at-bat in four straight innings.
Padding his stats
*Sarcasm : )
He's so selfish...

;-)

What was that game show where they made contestants stick their head to a bat and then spin around?

That’s what it looks like what Mike Sweeney is getting ready to do.

Yeah, Adrian Gonzalez is pretty good.
Don't throw him strikes
Adrian "I can go Oppo" Gonzalez

Jesus, dude just keeps pushing it

Why do I have a smile on my face during a game?

Feels awkward.

So Lee chose a good day to be human.
Oh my god this game is awesome

I'm so cheesed right now.
Team batting average tonight...

.480!

Jose Lopez batting average tonight

.00terrible0

Cliff Lee

“SEND ME ANOTHER ONE”

He makes me so smiley.
There was a gift for you in the OT

by the way

BAHAHAHA. That's awesome!
You're not at the game?

I think that’s why he is pitching sub standard for him. He doesn’t feel your good vibes in person.

So true.

I know, I’m a bit disappointed in myself but I gotta be up before 6 tomorrow. Yes, yes Cliff would be worth it, I’m a terrible human being.

One more for Kermit!
Brad Penny has more homers than Griffey.
Carlos Gomez has 3 more homers than Griffey.
Griffey and I have the same number of home runs this season.
This game is single handedly reducing the value of a win.

Dammit.

Reducing the value of runs
Wins is wins.
Even worse!
See you don't need defense when you can mash
Sweeney should play shortstop.
I can't believe its only the 5th.
We scored 136 runs coming into tonight.

And 13 through 4 tonight. In 4 innings we had nearly 10% of our runs for the season coming in. I’m still trying to figure out how to think about this.

Okay, I clearly just can't watch the Mariners this season.

I go out to get Subway; come back and they have 13 runs.

Sweeney hit two home runs today!
What did you get?

It better have had bacon on it, because there’s no other way that sandwich will be satisfying.

No bacon, but it did have pepperoni.

Subway’s bacon is always sortof limp and sad.

Their pepperoni is solid
Liquid pepperoni is disgusting.
I have to stop for a while

This is a prety nice way to start my hiatus.

MC Hammer is coming to Seattle. (radio ad)

hahahahaha. That’s awesome. I almost want to go just to see if he still wears the poofy pants.

He doesn't :(
EQC I believe.
You sure it's not Snoqualmie?

WE COME AGAIN

The asian prince guy came to Emerald Queen Casino.

Even with the mustache I have a hard time beliving this is a man.
He's like an asian unicorn.
I demand an explanation.
Unicorn = Mystical Creature
He has a slight resemblance to Adrian Gonzalez.
Let's Go Figlet Let's Go.

Oink Oink.

Figlet is the best nickname
We have him for 4 years and I love the nickname so I'm trying really hard to get it to catch on.

I’ll stop overdoing it soon.

He starts hitting and the havoc on the basepaths I'll have opportunities to carry the flag for you
I don't want to post the Figlet picture too much either

but I am tempted to do it a lot.

Jose Lopez is the only Mariners without a hit.
Well this is surprising.
Way to understand how plural nouns work, jackass
When I threaten to stab you this time, you have actual reason for concern.

There’s a knife right over there.

I live on the other side of the country
That's a knife.
Yeah Figgers!
So why's this guy still pitching?
Why waste all your pitchers in a game you're probably not going to win.
Their starter left like two innings ago
May as well not use up the rest of the bullpen when you don't have to.
David Eckstein throws like a girl!
13 hits is a season best.

This offense is terrible. Just terrible.

We've had innings of 7 and 5 runs.
SHHHHHH Don't jinx us. We may not have innings like this again for another month.
Oh my god!

They are actually afraid of our DH!

Maybe some day he will draw an intentional walk!
The Car Fax Car Fox?

Diediediediediediedie

Get this: Sweendog actually has a .268 average

He’s almost looking like a ….gasp…real DH!

Look at his OPS
Hat trick right now. here it comes
Can I get a bomb job x3?
Wow, this guy throws fat pitches too.
No.

Stop cell phone waving.

A called strike on Sweeney??

What the hell is going on today!!!!!!

Okay now I'm just confused.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
MIKE FUCKING SWEENEY

6RBI

Figlet!

This is for you, CapSea

Spring Training!
The Sweendog Six!
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Sweeners scores the Figlet!
Mike's postgame interview is going to be unbearable.
UNBEARABLY ADORABLE
Spoilers: its all because of Griffey
"I was powered by Griffey"
Maybe we should just grind Griffey into a fine powder, suspend it in saline, and inject it right into every player's bloodstream.
Would that violate the drug policy?
It's all about the love for Griffey.

He came out last night and showed us how to win a tight game. I wanted to open up the floodgates for him.

I love emo Sweeney
Jeez, it is still just the 5th?
Sweeney is outscoring the Padres by himself.
Some hitters have nice looking swings

Sweeney looks like he’s just swinging as hard as possible trying to kill the ball.

He seriously looks like a damn 12 year old when he swings
I always thought Branyan looked like that

And then he killed his own back

Come on Loafie!

Everybody is doing it.

Zombies possess superhuman strength, right?
Awesome Laofie!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

LOAFIE YOU SUCK!

At least he didn't GIDP
Ha! The Rangers only scored two runs today. Pathetic.
Gameday got my hopes up.

It said in play runs, on a fastball up. I want the hat trick Mike!

Plenty of time yet
true maybe he can tie cameron's record
Speaking of records

We are so topping that Texas 30-3 Baltimore game tonight.

Please capitalise. Thanks!
Very true.

I’m thinking 46. Sound good to you guys?

Finally someone doesn't take everything all person.

Kudos

So Sweeney has nearly bested Griffey's production for the year in one game.
Loafie is just saving his dingers for close games.
Milton!

<3

Milton's having a decent night too
Yup!

3 singles is nothing to sneeze at, especially with this offense.

What's this? This feeling? Is it...joy! Oh god, it's joy! It burns!
Wakamatsu should walk over to the Padres dugout and apologize.
"I'm sorry... I swear, I had no idea we could score this many runs!"
I love interleague play.
Wait until we play the Cardinals :(
Paper tigers them.
Better yet, who we get to face in interleague play this go-round.

We get the Padres 6 times, Cubs 3 times, Reds 3 times, the Brewers 3 times, and the Cardinals 3 times. That’s going to be nice.

Texas gets the Astros 6 times!
Sweeney 6 RBI's today; That's just one shy of Griffey all year ;-)

It is also just about 1/3 of all the RBI’s the Sweeney/Griffey DH tandem has produced all season.

Holy shit we're only in the fifth.
Lopez has not gotten a hit.
How the fuck are we still scoring runs?

The blowout is already over with

Hvordan mærkeligt .... Jeg ser på baseball game, og jeg er glad. Er der noget galt?
Yeah, pretty much.
Ooops. That wasn't supposed to be in THIS box.

But yea. The sentiment’s there ;)

[Har du taler dansk?]

Danish?
Yup. Wrong box. My bad.
Hey good news Matthew I finally figured out what Danish looks like.
Cream cheese, little bits of apple in there what's so hard about it
This is crazy.
Why is Mike Carp pitching for the Padres?
How about another bomBARDment?
They're just showing off now.
Normally I would say put that kid in the lineup.
Maybe we should put that little kid in.....

Why not

That kid is frightening.
He sees dead people.
We have now tied the Twins for lead in runs scored today.
Well that kid has a future as an axe murderer
That kid had cold, unfeeling eyes and terrified me.
I suddenly realized that he would make an incredible rally .gif
Anyone else think its time for Wak to put in Langerhans or Saunders for MB to save his knees?
Lefty strike?
Catcher comedy!
What's funny is that under normal circumstances the baseball team that is winning by 11 will go to its reserves.
I bet Bradley is pulled for Saunders before long.

Maybe even Langerhans for Ichiro.

If Saunders goes in for Bradley, who would be backup catcher?
Unless I'm mistaken, Ichiro, Lopez, and Figgins have all played every inning of the year so far.
One of those things is not like the other.

I don’t think we have anyone on the bench that could sub adequately for any of the infielders.

I want to see Ichiro play shortstop.
Yes, make that happen.

Someone tell Matthew to get on it.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS HOW THE FUCK DID WE SCORE 14 RUNS?
Two words

MIKE SWEENEY!

answer: Griffey
Yup. Just ask Sweendog.
SINCE WHEN DID 2010 SWEENEY AND 2002 SWEENEY SWICH PLACES?

AND WHY COULDN’T THEY HAVE DONE THIS EARLIER?

Apparently every game should be live blogged
Take notes, Wak.
HAHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU HAIRSTON
Oh, that's hilarious.
This game is now complete.
Whoa Jerry Hairston is flipping out
GO HAIRSTON GO
OH SHIT THE PADRES ARE GONNA BE FIRED UP NOW
Hariston should mellow out and be like Milton Bradley.
THIS GAME HAS EVERYTHING
Hairston needs a chill pill.
Why?

Then he wouldn’t have had that gem.

It was pretty entertaining.
I tried to get my wife to drive up to tonight's game

She said no. Damn it

I've got a wild hunch he isn't going to be watching the rest of the game real closely Rick Rizzs
Really??? When you are down by 11??? Really?
The man has a point, and it's probably better to get tossed from a decided game than one that is still close
Also, there's another stupid Hairston just waiting to take his place.
Both good points
This game rocks.
Hairston realizes that this game is going to go on forever so he just wants to get back into the clubhouse a little earlier.
Veteran presence right there
Meanwhile the A's lit up Zito

Interleage!

15 runs on 15 hits!
Cliff Lee

71% strikes tonight.

CRIFFF REEEEEEEEEE
I think I have a Cliffy

Seeing him smile in the dugout gives me a happy in the pants.

Guy is garbage...

haha

I'll challenge the person who said that to a fist fight

Oh wait…

hahahahahahaha
Tony Gwynn Jr. is wearing his father's pants.
I think we're cooling off a little.
I don't know, Ichiro is due for a double.
Griffey should pinch hit for Sweeney before Sweeney's back locks up.
After weeks of wishing the Mariners would cut Sweeney, this is weird to read.

But I couldn’t agree more.

Put Griffey in center field!
I want to see Griffey at Shortstop......

I have no reason

Can't be much worse than Tui...
Actually it could...
I would hope it would be
Just to clarify

I wasn’t being serious here.

So how would you define the ratio of what caused tonight?

Was it more our bats actually awakening and taking advantage or LeBlanc and Ramos monumentally imploding?

5 Rabbits : 3 Lincoln Logs, roughly.
Good Process, Good Outcome.
Regression on both sides.
Have you seen the bright blue stars in the morning sky?

Was it more of a greenish red hue or a black and gold one?

I hope for the former, but my head's telling me the latter.
We always dominate inter-league play?
The motivation of playing against our hated interleague rivals
Baseball!

Things happen

I haven't watched or listened to the Mariners since the middle of the eighth yesterday.
Me neither
I just turned it on at the start of this inning!
And now we suck

104!

I did not, because I'm irrationally terrified I will ruin it
GOD. I WILL NEVER GET TIRED OF CLIFF COMING OUT OF THE DUGOUT WITH A QUICKNESS.

NEVER. EVER. EVER.

SPELL CRIFF CORRECTLY
SPELL CORRECTRY CORRECTRY
SPERR CORRECTRY
THANKS, JBERR523
I love hustlers... especially when they are damn fine players.
This games picked up some speed.
HE WORKS FAST.
Cliff Lee started pitching more like Cliff Lee

And the M’s started hitting more like the M’s

More like the Yankees
Oh shit it happens to Bard too!
So I was away from the game when the M's losing 2-0.

I come back expecting that they’d lost or were about to lose. And then I see the 15-4 score and Sweeney’s night so far. What

Hey, Coach is here!
And Cliff Lee's loaded the bases

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT

Shit happens.
I work as an assistant to a Coach Owens.

I don’t think that guy would be here, though.

Shit happens
Why is Bradley still in this game?

If he hurts his knees playing in a blowout I’m going to be displeased.

He hurts his knees arguing with umpires.
Based on a sample size of one game I'm convinced Adrian Gonzalez is a terrible fit for this ballpark.
Yeah, he should have had at least two home runs instead of doubles.
He has more hits tonight than our 1B had all last week
Adrian Gonzalez can kind of hit a baseball

I think we should just walk him.

Well at least Wak can't bring Sean White in
This would be an appropriate time to use him!
I don't know, Sean White is pretty bad.
So I picked a great game to miss the first half of. SHIT.

So when did our offense turn into the Yankees?

Since Sweeney turned into Babe Ruth.
Babe Ruth would get his arse handed to him by this Padres team.
He can pitch as well?!

So old dogs CAN learn new tricks!

I'm not comfortable with this ten run lead.
Yeah I don't think I've ever felt like this with the M's up by 9...
You don't remember that Cleveland game in 2001 then.
We don't speak of that.
DON'T TALK ABOUT IT
NO-HITTER?!
Only a jinx if Sims says it.
No. No I don't
I meant I don't think I've ever felt how I feel right now with this type of lead.

You just stirred up some bad memories though…

Fuck Jolbert Cabrera
FUCK THE INDIANS
OK, let's take Cliff Lee out now
Thank god that bounced over the fence
Pull Lee already, what the fuck
Cliff Lee just gave up 6 runs in 7 innings and we're winning.

wut

Good thing Cliff had one of his "bad" outings tonight then.
Gooooooood
Hairston's ejection is rallying the Padres.

You can thank Griffey for that one too.

Um, I just got home and checked in on the game.

What the HECK is going on!! Sweeney has 4 hits and 6 RBIs!?
Cliff Lee is bad and we are still crushing them?

Sweeney is channeling 1995 Griffey
1995 Griffey wasn't that great
Welcome to Bizarroland
!

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE200108050.shtml

Gobble a meat dagger.
It would be funny!
It's going to happen
Of course it is

and I will feel nothing.

Such as insane comeback could only happen to the best Mariners team ever.
Best team ever*
Fuck Jolbert Cabrera
Fuck Arthur Rhodes
Fuck John Halama.
Ever notice that "Fuck Halama" sounds like "Fuck a llama"?

OMG! GET SOME OUTS!
No chatspeak please.
Not liking this.

Why can’t we just have a blowout.

Because Mariners
So we could lose this game.
Sorry about chat speak
Nice to see Colome still sucks.
We've given up 4 runs in the few minutes since I started watching.

I should probably turn it off.

JESUS CHRIST JESUS SUCKS!! DFA HIS ASS ALREADY!!!
Jesus does not Save

Colome, exactly what we expected

Hey there's a crowd at Safeco today.
Friday giveaway night
Beach towel night!
My favorite is when they attach the words Little League to the game and they automagically sell 30k plus everytime
Kids are dumb.
Parents are dumber
And they attach that word pretty much every sunday
Mariners fans are so fucking stupid.
And they've grown very quiet.
I wonder if they wrote losmariners.com on the backstop to rub it into Felix on how stupid he is.
And yet you would still suck his dick
I would take it up the ass with a t-rex tipped redwood if that was what he asked of me.
Okay score more runs guys.
That's the spirit!
Let's make it an even 20
Hey look everybody, we're still leading!
Damn you Mariners. We're ahead by 7 runs and I'm getting really nervous now.
Before the inning we were ahead by 11 runs :(
We have fifteen runs and we're giving away rally fries.
They should be just 'fries' at this point

There’s no rally consideration present any longer.

It's almost like they're just giving away fries to whomever begs the most
Some LL'er should make a "really good" rally fries sign

and on the back put something on the back of the sign saying that rally fries are the worst thing ever. Then when you win, flip it over and justice will be ours.

It should just be a huge middle finger.

Then you take the fries, slam them on the ground, stomping them repeatedly while laughing manically the whole time.

I like this idea.
I'd probably stuff handfuls of them in my mouth and then flip the sign around so it says "HEY LOOK BLOWERS SEEFOOD"
I HOPE YOU CHOKE
GOD I FUCKING HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE RALLY FUCK FRIES!!!
I hate the fact that we only see Rally Fries signs anymore.
They made her hold the rally fries for another minute while they waved at the camera
You don't need rally fries you dickass
Cliff Lee picked one helluva night to suck.

Cliff even your intuition is top notch!

Rally Fries with a 7 run lead.

WOW

Gutz strikes out. Proof rally fries are pointless.
Did Guti just take three sliders down the middle?
Last one was way outside
Oh was it?

My bad, gameday was messing with me

He was distracted by the mass distribution of rally fries in the stands.
The third strike was way outside.
C'mon Loafie

Don’t be the only guy not to get a hit.

Sweeney: hack hack hack hack hack

Consider it regression.

The magic has ended.

Mighty Sweeney has struck out.

I blame the rally fries
Every negative action that happents to the Mariners can be blamed on either the rally fries or Rob Johnson.

This is fact.

But every positive action is because of Griffey.
That is a fact

If you think it’s opinion, Sweeney will challenge you to a fist fight

Well his ass is large enough to have it's own gravitational pull.

I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean but it felt appropriate to say here.

There is no joy in Seattle, for mighty Sweeney has struck out.
Attention Potatoes, says Jeff

I like it.

Me too, that should be the new name.
It's hard to score runs when you're not on base.
Wow, hell of a catch by Denorfia.
Awwwwwwwwwwwww, fuck off Denorfia
Uh Denorfia what the fuck man
Hahahahaha
Shit! That was a good catch. Hairston wouldn't've caught it.
Jeez Denorfia, it's not you guys are gonna win. Such a buzzkill.
That looked like he couldn't have hit it harder

Bring the weights back please

If he had hit it harder, nothing much would've changed.

The angle of the ball off the bat would influence whether it makes it over the wall.

The equipment is irrelevant when it never gets used.

I can see Lopez and Griffey grinding out early morning workouts. Really, I can.

Loafie pulling the ball hard isn't a bad thing.
WE COME AGAIN
And to think I was happy I have MLB.TV and can't watch that commercial
Don't worry, it will be brought up every single time it's televised until 3 months after it's dead meme'd.
We come again.

We won again.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch
2001. Never forget
That was a bad bad game.
Definitely one of the least enjoyable M's games I've ever watched
Just completing the lyric from the Snoqualmie song.

I’m just as terrified as you are.

Offense!

So big

But so appropriate

I'm not sure I want to know why he's wearing a blue bull's head instead of a cup
Has to be a Paul Bunyan reference.
Large but somehow fittingly so.
Sorry on the size.

I put 300 width instead of height.

I think that somehow, LL will make it through your horrible accidental transgression
I regret posting this.
This whole subthread is going to set a flagging record.
I've done worse on my own.
Jeff's distracted by his liveblog

Boy is he going to love the mod dashboard.

*Face Palm*

Doh!

Ah crap I forgot to flag anything
It's not too late!
Oh I'm flagging, believe you me mister
You shouldn't. The gif was a bit large but still awesome. The nonsense above isn't your doing.
Apparently on my way home from work I crossed over into the mirror universe.

There is no other explanation for the M’s leading 15-8 after two Sweeney homeruns and Cliff Lee allowing 8 runs in 6.1 innings.

Technically Jesus gave up the last two.
Dam you Jesus
I want him to become a closer someday.
Jesus Saves!
We still have an inning and a half to go?

Sheesh.

Fuck off, Colome.
FUCK DAVID ECKSTEIN
Disturbing
Oh joy. A Gon.
Gonzalez is up? Uh oh.
So Colome really doesn't have any fucking idea where he's throwing his pitches, does he?
Wow, Colome sucks chode.
Stop fucking shit up, fuckheads
Blarghle, don't use League here.
YES, PUT LEAGUE IN
So this is the guy we can't afford to loose through the waiver wire?

Huh.

Oh good, Brandon League is up.
Highlight of his career.
Rob Johnson lets that one go all the way to the backstop.
Well that was OK.
Thank you Jesus.
I see what you did there
It's funny that the Padres would have to score 8 runs with 1.1 innings left and I'm still nervous
SEE WAK, THIS IS A SITUATION WHERE IT WOULD BE GOOD TO PUT WHITE IN

NOT TO USE ONE OF YOUR BEST RELIEVERS IN A LOW LEVERAGE SITUATION!!

I'm just glad his favorite toy was taken away.

I can start to like him again maybe, particularly if Sweeney continues to decide it’s 2002 again.

Wait, his favorite toy?

Explain please.

I think he means Sean White.
Oh that's right, I totally forgot he was sent down to Tacoma.

Whoopsadoodle

'Wak's favourite toy' refers to his seeming infatuation with Sean White

When Sean White got sent down, that toy was taken away.

So is Jesus Colome not bad?
He is certainly not good.
He seems pretty bad.
Depends what you mean by bad

Actually no it does not. He’s bad

Well, Boardgame's average has certainly been helped by this game...
Today would have been a good day to get Saunders some ABs.
Even if you want to keep Bradley in to help him readjust to regular playing time

you could give Ichiro a few innings off since he hasn’t had any all season.

Everytime you guys start acting up when the mods are away I get one step closer to being Modded.
I would be okay with that.
Is this suppose to encourage or discourage shenanigans?
I would be an incredibly responsible mod who only randomly banned 3 particular posters.
So yeah, Josh Bard is pretty good
Josh Bard is all kinds of awesome today.
Not the greatest defense in the world

But he’s not Rob Johnson, so that’s definitely something

It's certainly saying that's a Major League Baseball player.
Rob Johnson made me lower my standards.
Yesterday too!
Josh Bard is fantastic.
Josh Bard has sturdy underpinnings.
I like your way of saying it best!
His undercarriage is good?

msb has a crush?

He's solidly built, and the high socks rather give him Thome Legs.
It's all that time he spent at Tacoma with Alonzo.
Remember the Josh Wilsonamo.
Josh Bard has won me over.

He can stay.

Three quick outs please.

I’m falling asleep.

Your wish is their command.
Why use League?
Wee, Saunders!
Why are we using Brandon League?
He is the only one who can be trusted with a 7 run lead
Is there a reason why Aardsma isn't being used?

Are they trying to keep League warm? Aardsma still reeling from the last loss? When was the last time he pitched?

Wednesday.
They have a lead and I imagine they'd like to keep it.
Because tomorrow is Ian Snell.

And we’ll see relievers galore.

Snell...

Yeah, I forgot about that?

I don't know, did you?
Maybe? It's dark here. That was supposed to be a statement.

Not a question.

STOP HITTING.
One more out.

Then Sweeney post game interview, yes?

Somebody post it please!
No postgame interview on mlb.tv. Aw well.
Interviewing Milton right now.
One more out, let's finish this game before the game thread explodes.
Wow, so this gamethread got fucked fast.

Too bad. It was going so well.

BRANDON LEAGUE FOR CLOSER
Splitter please. Just one.
Awesome ending, nice pitch!

15 RUNS!

WIN!!!

HEY TROLLS, LEAVE!

Party? Fun? Mariners? Over?

I love Niehaus

Good work Hawaiian!
There we go! Good game! Been fun watching, everyone! (for the most part anyway)

Winning streak!

I wish the Rangers would lose though
Look what Junior started, Brad?

Really?

Alonzo Powell!

I’m gonna pretend this is all thanks to him.

Milton interview!!!
VICTORY!

Night!

MILTON INTERVIEW!
THUMBS UP!
C'mon flash that beautiful smile
And a thumbs up!
2 wins in a row!
That's what the kids call a "winning streak."
End this with a smile Milton!
He does not disappoint!
Milton's so cool!
Milton Bradley's Ipod Playlist is to blame, I love it.
I love Milton
Don't feed the trolls, people.
Beat me to it.
If you don't feed the trolls, the mods will have an easier job

Maybe that will be enough incentive to stop egging them on.

A fine mess you've gotten us into!
Shouldn't a done that, he's just a boy!
Sweeney: I performed well because of Griffey.

Milton: I performed well because of my iPod playlist.

Guns N' Roses!
Breaking news from Brad Adam

Milton listens to Guns & Roses.

I think we need to discuss better ways of dealing with troll-ish posters

It seems often we are getting sucked into yelling matches with trolls which sucks away some of the fun these threads can have. It would be better if we had a plan which allowed us to encourage them to change their trolling ways but did not feed the trolls with attention that makes them continue their actions.

Flag them.
Flag and don't respond.
There's nothing you can really do short of banning to discourage a troll from posting.

I truly wanted to help Jamkel at first, but I’ve got no sympathy for these people any longer. It’s been a while since we’ve had a true troll, so this was actually somewhat entertaining for me.

If you stop talking to them it helps at least

Instead of causing a 1000 comment clusterfuck. I just think there is easier ways. I don’t mind but it just seems boring.

If you guys enjoy fighting with trolls then I guess its ok if you keep doing what you are doing but it would frustrate me.

Yes, I've certainly reached that point of frustration

And if this game wasn’t a complete blowout in our favor, I’d definitely be quicker to agree. I certainly won’t be feeding the trolls as much next time around.

I think that next time we won't be up by ten runs and we will have better things to talk about
I think the game being decided early (now that Sean White isn't on the team anyway) was definitely a factor.
First time I've ever really gotten into it.

Definitely the last. Try everything at least once I guess, but it’s not nearly as much fun as when somebody is standing right there. Back to flags.

There isn't really any effective way to deal with trolls unless there is a mod right on the spot.

(I speak from experience, albeit not here)

I think we need to make Robert a mod so we have a mod on hand all the time!
Yes there is.

GIVE ME GUNS

Well, the trolls won't be around tomorrow, so I'm going to leave now before they ruin the positive mood from tonight's game.
I'm a bad fan and drunk, but I'm 5-0

wooooo.

SEA!
HAWKS!
ME!
BANE!
On a scale from 10 to 11 how magnificent is Hasselbeck going to be next year?
10.2

Hasselbeck, the later years.

yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
No..I'm 4-1

fucking Aardsma.

Which game was that?
White Sox

I told my wife about fly ball and its correlation with HRs, she walked in the kitchen, and he promptly allowed HR, walk, flyball game losing HR.

That one was swell!
Since I'm still a bit of a noob at LL, and this game thread is sortof a disaster anyway

Is there any way to keep the site from jumping to the bottom when someone makes a new comment?

Will unchecking “auto-refresh” do it?

Shouldn't be doing that - you should just be able to "z" through the comments at leisure

Is it auto-marking new comments as read?

Not that I know of sadly.
Happens to me sometimes, but not usually

Don’t know a solution, sadly.

Ah, well. It's not usually a problem unless the thread moves as fast as this one did.
Does refreshing the page help at all?
It doesn't seem to, no.
Are you using Chrome?
Firefox.
Yeah I use Firefox and it does the same thing.

Haven’t found a solution though

Well, poop.

I’ve had it happen to me several times before and refreshing has worked for me. It must just what you said before about the speed of the thread tonight.

This is the most bizarre bLLog war yet.
We're blog warring again?
I'm as surprised as you are.
Maybe I should have looked at this thread before asking
It's been a clusterfuck
I just did a skimming, and it appears you are right.

I’m not sure if I’m glad I missed it or not.

It was pretty entertaining, actually.
Read the first part, that was much better.
I was here for most of the first GT.

I just missed the second.

Part 1 was wonderful
Ah yes, that most ancient of rivalries between the Seattle Mariners and the Indianapolis Colts. Was only a matter time 'til trouble abrewed
I apologize.

Had I known my size mistake was going to cause such and problem I would have triple checked the image tag.

No one is blamign you.
I know.

I feel bad though.

Who needs Griffey?

Even Sweeney says that we won because of Milton’s iPod.

Yesssssss, they're finally turning on him!
I think Griffey likely retires after this year.

What are your guys’s thoughts on him?

He should have retired after last year.
He's old, fat, and bad.
Fuck him for forcing a trade to the Reds.
The sooner he fucks off the better

He had his storybook ending last season but selfishly came back to stink up the place.

I wish he was on the Colts
He's more athletic than Peyton Manning!
He's getting too big to play QB, though

Profiles as more of a tight end these days

More of a flabby end, I'd say.
Thing is, I bet Manning could turn Griffey into a 800 yard, 5 TD receiver.
Play nice you guys

Everything got out of hand and just about everyone is to blame. I am disappointed in you.

:(

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