Lookout Landing

That was the start after the Dice-K game

I just get sad because he sucks

and looking at BBRef, it was Jake Woods that actually came in, not White

That indicates how much I hate Sean White that I strongly associate him with that negative memory

We all have that sinking feeling of sadness.

My sadness rises

but I’m odd like that.

Then we lost to Carlos Silva and the Twins.

Oh, I see what you did there!

ThundaPC - June 1, 2010 reply

Did Silva get 11 strikeouts?

Don't even go there.

Hey, cool, Sean White is warming up!

Vargas still in.

So, we're going to give up nine home runs now?

Fuck yeah a fast inning

DA poster?

micky D - June 1, 2010 reply

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

NOT SEAN WHITE, PLEASE NO

I Lick Squirrels - June 1, 2010 reply

Jeez, if he gets in trouble here we've got Sean "The Fireman" White warming up

What did you expect?

Not complete numbness. Strangely I feel nothing

The wry comment was purely reflex

Quick vote,

who do you like more, Jason Vargas or Doug Fister?

Figlet.

Vargas

Fister

I’m still a novice at sabermetrics and all the analytical stuff, but it just seems like he’s got a more sustainable package to me.

Vargas has a major league pitch at least.

But Vargas is uglier!

Science!

He throws one of the worst pitches in baseball like 75% of the time

It works!

Yeah, but I also think it's a stretch to call it more sustainable than Vargas

I think they are just about equally okay as back-of-the-rotation starters

Or as candidates to have their shiny ERAs traded off to a team with a lesser FO.

Man if we get another Mauricio Robles I will be happy.

When we get Bedard beak in July we will be unstoppable

Doesn't Fister have better command, though?

I know “stuff” and velocity are sometimes easier to sustain than command, but my heart just always wants to go with the guy who can command his pitches – some part of me just feels that’s more “skillfull” than whipping your arm at blinding speed.

Fister has better command and is a great deal more hittable

You build me up, you tear me down

But OK thanks. I continue to learn.
(I thought he was only marginally more hittable)

Tell me more about Fister's package please!

Vargas

Just because he's better

Fister

Fister.

Fister

Felix.

micky D - June 1, 2010 reply

Fister.

Fister

His name makes me giggle.

Rachmaninoff - June 1, 2010 reply

Fister.

drblacknwhite - June 1, 2010 reply

Fister

Allen Wu - June 1, 2010 reply

The Fist. But it's really close.

Over

Sterling Hitchcock

Fister.

Fister.

Cablinasian - June 1, 2010 reply

Tie

Fistas?

It's a wash, Doug's name is the tiebreaker.

Fister.

Sean White

I'm cutting your brake lines...

Much better to put a pin sized hole in the top of them so the brake fluid doesn't all leak out at once

No point in destroying the brake lines so he’ll instantly realize it when he backs out of his driveway at 4 MPH, causing no damage.

Better to have him realize it when he’s going 60 down a mountain road

That's for sure

What highway would you recommend he take, with cut brake lines?

SR 129

SR 7 between the McKenna cutoff and Elbe would work too, if we have to stay in the Seattle area

Cabbage Hill, south of Pendleton

That would definitely work as long as he's heading westbound

Oregon? Really?

Hey, this was an open question "what highway"

After the baseball/football fiasco in the last thread I double checked this time

Pick a highway I might have a slim chance of driving.

Haven’t been in Eastern Oregon since the 1980’s.

Can we make it SR 410?

It’s so scenic.

Yeah that would work as long as we make sure your brakes go out right around the top of Chinook Pass

But of course!

Though coming down the backside towards Ohanepecosh is even better. Lots of switchbacks.

Wait hold up if you actually want to die I'm out

But SR 129 is more scenic in my opinion

No giant mountain to look at but the rest of the scenery is awesome

There's SR20 and Washington Pass.

In fact, SR20 is pretty damned gorgeous AND excellent driving.

That would definitely work as well

Why is there still a conversation about highways going on?

It is always eye-opening

It's Corco.

And he was baited by a USSM mod, no less.

His work here is done

Why isn't there always a conversation about highways going on?

Because when we go down that road it's like we can never find the exit.

yuck

There really isn't an exit on those highways...

Stay off controlled-access roadways and you won't need to look for an exit

I got this one covered, Corco.

Highway 1. When he crashes into the ocean, there will be little evidence left of what went wrong.

The mods will have to clean up the gamethread.

I have no intention of driving to Idaho, for the record.

You can always hope that Sean White's in the car.

Of course, with the M’s luck this yeat, it would be Fister AND Vargas.

Nah it would just be a relative of Jose Lopez

Or his last fan!

Excellent!

Loafie will be good for the rest of the season!

I suppose this is where I mention I'm selling my car.

You are a scary person.

That's like, my opinion man.

w00tah - June 1, 2010 reply

Scott Sanders

One Lost One Won votes for Sean White.

Fister

bomdal - June 1, 2010 reply

Vargas despite his probably being worse

Nick S - June 1, 2010 reply

No, he's not

Fister.

1. Felix 2. Fister 3. Vargas 4. Lee (awesome, but first year as a mariner)

First and last!

First and last, unfortunately.

If you're not first, you're last.

First year as a mariner?

I just really don’t know what to say.

Varg

RRS :(

Batman

This answer wins the prize.

Ogopogo.

I've got to vote for the lesbian mafia don.

Sorry Doug, I actually like you better, but the other guy gets my vote here.

TrustBaseball - June 1, 2010 reply

Greasy lesbian mafia don from New Jersey who might also be amphibious.

Wait, isn't he also a vampire?

Shit.

Remember when Felix struck out the side on 9 pitches against the Marlins. That was pretty cool.

King-slam off of Santana!

I was at Shea to see his slam, so that probably gets my vote for favorite Felix memory.

How did you react?

WE COME AGAIN!!!

Less than a week later.

My favorite Felix memory is stealing the spotlight from Matsuzaka in Boston.

Complete game 2-hitter…awesome.

Rachmaninoff - June 1, 2010 reply

Vargas!

The Twins feel our pain

And are trying to get out as quickly with as few pitches as possible for Vargas so that he stays in.

Woooo Vargas!

Olson warming up?

Wak is going full retard tonight.

Using your worst relievers with a 4 run lead isn't dumb

Not always

But sometimes it is…

Using your worst reliver with a 4 run lead isn't dumb...

… in the 9th inning, for example.

Not really dumb in the 8th either

It's dumb if it's Sean White.

Disagree.

It bothered me with Vargas still on the mound, depending on how long his leash was

He could have gotten into trouble pretty quickly at this point in the game

I think they've shown a monkey could get a 3 run save 97% of the time

It's not that bad in the 8th, either.

It’s still not all THAT likely you score a 4-spot off of bad relievers.

Warming up Olson for Mauer and Morneau is not a terrible idea.

drblacknwhite - June 1, 2010 reply

Maybe he just wants to make sure we're sellers this year?

Keep your fingers crossed

I can’t take it anymore. Every single game I feel like we’re gonna lose in the 8th or 9th inning.

I'm having a great evening so far, but by God if Sean White ruins it I'm going to stab things.

Preferrably, Sean White.

Better sharpen that knife.

If we lose I am officially at the Tropic of Cairo

I haven't decided but I'm pretty sure that isn't something you can know ahead of time

Regardless, it's not an event horizon or anything.

You can come back.

I came back once!

Then the Angels came back

Again?

We come again

Fuck. You.

I got that damn song stuck in my head because of YOU PEOPLE!

We won again?

SMILE! SMILE!

I saw that!

Christopher Lloyd was awesome.

Also, Joseph Gordon Levitt! He looks so weird, even as a kid…

If we lose I am officially bathing in Lake Nyos.

Most of the time it is fine

The fact that you're willing to make threats (or proclamations) like this tells me that you still care too much.

I guarantee we will win this game

Snowman1025 - June 1, 2010 reply

Do guarantees include Sean White liabilities?

Well I'm relieved. I can go do homework now.

Eliezer Alfonso

Better than Rob Johnson.

It's actually Alfonzo.

But yeah, I’m kind of a big fan of him too.

This guy.

Better than Rob Johnson.

Figgins has a lower swing% than Reggie Willits.

Maybe it's just me...

But it looks like he’s been swinging the bat more, and his average is actually rising.

I think he's just making more contact then he did before.

Chone!

FIGGY!

Kawnliee - June 1, 2010 reply

Thats my Figga.

So Chone Figgins is good again?

woot!

Yay now he's off my fantasy bench.

Oy vey.

What's the G stand for?

Please do not talk about fantasy baseball in the gamethread.

Slurvey - June 1, 2010 reply

Or anywhere else, right?

Am I misunderstanding the site guidelines?

You're new here.

So, just a heads up: we do not talk about fantasy baseball here. No one cares. Really.

Sorry.

Thanks for the help.

Quick start guide!

This off-topic thread was very helpful to me. I’ve only been here a few months, but it’s a pretty easy to follow style guide and rules of the road. Read the fanpost itself, and scroll down a bit to read a comment that was rec’d into green-ness. Both are helpful.

Neither mention fantasy baseball, but they probably should. Because it’s a generally acknowledged fact of the site. I’m new; you’re new. But it’s a great site, good community. Welcome.

Who did you bench in favor of him?

And what round did you draft him in, anyway? I want every detail about this team of yours.

Corrected:

So Chone Figgins is good ~~again~~?

He was never bad, he just chose to walk more than hit, and had some bad luck for awhile.

He's was kind of a pile of shit in April

His April and May were almost exactly alike.

But early May and late May were not!

His K% was 7 points higher in March and April and his LD% was 3.6 points higher

His LD% was higher in May, I should have said

And he struck out a lot.

And he rarely made good contact

So I guess you guys are going to win!

arr!

You guys have Joe Freaking Mauer, we deserve one per series.

Joe Mauer + Michael Cuddyer

the GIDP team as of late

Are you seriously complaining about Mauer?

We have complained about Felix

Since he's become Awesome Felix?

Yes.

That's like complaining about Ichiro.

No.

It’s like saying “You’re fucking awesome, why aren’t you pitching like it!?”

You ever seen Ichiro during a month when he hits .260?

Ichiro has done this a grand total of six times since 2001.

And 3 of them were March/April splits.

Guilty.

Well yeah but he's a tard

We could probably take em off your hands if you want.

I will give you anyone on this team for Mauer.

I would give him my own mother's decapitated head for Mauer

It's weird that you just have that laying around.

Laying around?

*On your mantle.

In other news, who the hell has a mantle anymore?

I have 3.

rickpo - June 1, 2010 reply

Way to hog the mantles, dude.

Earth does.

Yay another volcano thread

I tried. :(

My current chapter covers Mount Pinatubo!

To wikipedia!

Great, now I won’t get anything done.

Where you aware the only volcano with a train to the top is Mt. Vesuvius?

I was made aware of that yesterday

I posted that in a game thread 3 days ago!

I was made aware of that 3 days ago!

You should teach us how to make a baking soda volcano.

rickpo - June 1, 2010 reply

Get Play-Doh.

Make into Volcano shape.
Pour vinegar into hole
Add baking soda.

It's much better to use peroxides instead

http://www.millenniumhouse.com.au/title-earth.html

You might love this

Yep you have 5 billion dollars lying around.

All in stocks.

Come to think of it, I wonder how they’re doing. I stopped checking around October 1929.

INTERESTING

Who doesn't?

I wouldn't give up Felix

Lee, yes, only because of his contract

Yay Figgins!

Oh I love it when he plays well.

Annoying!

Yeah, suck on that, you supremely talented Maple Leaf.

Rob Johnson makes that play.

I can’t take myself seriously.

Figgins should get credit for 2 SB for that.

And so marks the death of the Snoqualmie Casino joke.

Time of death: Yesterday.

Calling it a joke would make it seem like it was funny at one time.

Oh it's funny all the time

That figures.

Hey guys we are winning

Wait...

We're actually losing the Anthony Rendon sweepstakes by quite a bit and we're also way behind in the AL West standings.

The big picture says we’re losing.

Damnit.

I hate how chrome doesn't show you what box you've tabbed to.

Wha?

I have no issues with LL on Chrome.

Chrome is the best thing to come out of the internets.

Well… porn, so second.

I detest Google.

But I can’t walk away from their web browser until Firefox fixes all its memory leak problems.

Hate the company, love the product. Story of my technological life.

Nah, I hate Apple and its products.

Works out really well.

What's a memory leak?

Remember Windows ME?

Is that the self-centered version of Windows?

Corrected:

Remember Windows ME?

(I’m an IT Manager)

Meh.

Windows 2000, XP, and 7 have been very stable operating systems and have served both my work and home environments well.

Vista after SP1 was decent, too.

I never had any problems with it.

Oh sure, get all serious on me

Decent versions: XP SP2, Win Server 2003 and later, and MAYBE Win7 (I’m reserving judgement until its been out a little longer).

Also, OS X 10.5.6 and above; in some environments (home and a few specific business cases).

Win 7 is far and away the best OS I've ever had installed on my non Mac machines.

I have no respect for OS X.

Slapping a user interface shell on BSD Unix is not building your own operating system.

Uh...

A BSD-compatible layer =! BSD. I know people who contribute to BSD and they’d throw that one back into your teeth. BSD doesn’t have a Mach microkernel. OS X does.

Also, you might go look up Mach and where the grad student who helped develop it ended up working.

NT 3.5.1 was good too

NT4 was brilliant.

I prefer the classic interface of 3.5.1- it could do everything NT4 could without the goddamn start button

If you're running Windows, open up an instance of Firefox.

Perpetuate it with a few different tabs. Now hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and view the processes tab in your task manager. Under the memory column, watch the Firefox usage tick up and up and up and up and up in an unstoppable fashion. Bad coding does this.

I have a Mac, so I'm good, right?

The unicorn blood and pixie dust in your Mac prevents this from happening.

So thats what they use. I always thought macs smelled a bit funny.

Not sure if the problem occurs on Firefox for Mac.

But that just makes me ask why you bother running Firefox. Safari is programmed natively for Mac OS X, and both are running the WebKit rendering engine.

Firefox doesn't use Webkit, Chrome does.

Firefox uses Webkit?

No.

I demote myself one geek point.

OTOH, Camino DOES use Firefox's rendering engine, and IS programmed natively for OS X.

If you’re going to use a Gecko browser on OS X, use one that doesn’t look like a shabby port.

hahahahahahahahaha

It’s called “Activity Monitor” on your Mac

I would assume no, unless Mac has some sort of magic programming I'm unaware of.

When someone forgets to free a pointer

bluemax - June 1, 2010 reply

I love Chrome now

I just wish it highlighted the post button when you tab there.

Does Firefox do that?

Does Internet Explorer?

Firefox, yes.

Until Chrome does NoScript, I can't hop on the bandwagon.

TAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEE

Kelley!

Who the hell replaced Mike Sweeney's eyes?

I want to thank that person…

Ball 4!

Sweeney got hosed...

Nevermind

Well that was horseshit.

Ball 3 and strike 2 were in virtually the exact same place.

This ump just wants to go home.

Sweeney taking pitches?

Madness!

Fuck this ump.

Fuck every ump.

Machines I say!

Loafie!

Ball 5!

Lopez!

Loafie is back!

Holy fuck this inning is still going.

Bloop singles!

Hip Hip

Jose!

Everybody clap your hands!

Run support.

Jesus Jones - June 1, 2010 reply

Sweet!

ThundaPC - June 1, 2010 reply

Comment!

LOPEZ! YOU MAGNIFICENT STALLION!

WOOOOOO!

LOAFIE

Hits that look easy! yes

WestCoastBias. - June 1, 2010 reply

You know, this is one version of Loafie I can actually get behind.

Too easy.

I COULD GET BEHIND JOSE LOPEZ TOO AND HAVE SEX WITH JOSE LOPEZ

It isn't sex if you're in front of him?

I’m just saying…

Ew

Oh yeah, cuz I'M the one talking up the "sex with ballplayers" angle...

KROTCH!!!!!!!!!!!

What the fucking hell is going on?

We're using our remaining runs of the month.

It's gonna be an awful June then.

KOTCH!

ThundaPC - June 1, 2010 reply

KROTCHROCKET!!!

Kawnliee - June 1, 2010 reply

Kotch?

MARINERS BASEBALL!

SOMEONE IS GOING TO WIN THE 7 CEDARS CHALLENGE

Kotchman!

Yay!

Man, the Twins suck.

rickpo - June 1, 2010 reply

More runs!

HOLY SHIT IS THIS WHAT A RALLY LOOKS LIKE?

Kotchman, finally!

UNDERACHIEVER ATTACK

What in THE hell? Who bodysnatched our team?

I like these dopplegangers.

Can we keep this Figgy? Please?

We score again!

It didn't go directly at a defender!

Regression!

Jesus Jones - June 1, 2010 reply

6 run lead?

Is that even allowed in baseball?

micky D - June 1, 2010 reply

If we score 4 more the game ends I think

In baseball, yes.

Apparently, even in Mariner baseball…

Kotchman actually hits ball well and not at someone?

(Surprised face not used due to non-ironic use)

Singles rally!

Lopez's normal offense + this year's Lopez defense is like a 4 win player!

Getting rid of those two relievers was the BEST MOVE EVER

just look at the results!

Chemistry!

DIdn't we win the game after we fired Cockrell?

That turned out so well after that also

Transaction everyday!

Revolving chain of hitting coaches!

It probably doesn't count unless you're sincere about it

Were we serious about Cockrell?

Is he coaching slowpitch softball now?

Does Eric Byrnes' team need a hitting coach?

It seems like everytime we make a move we win the next day

Incidentally the offense has been way better

Sean White ignites this ball club!

Kotchluck!

any sack cometh!

Give us the funk.

Saunders

He needs a hit. That way all 9 can have at least a hit.

Apparently if you swing the bat...

You might get basehits? Perhaps this has been Casey and Chone’s problems all season.

Ron Maday

He needed a workout. I mean to get worked out.

Haha, well, you get what I mean.

Figgy has had a pretty high strikeout ratio. He’s been taking too many pitches. I love walks and all, but there needs to be a happy balance.

I'm a twins guy, and maday has been awful

but probably not as hard to take as figgy not swinging the bat well.

well not tonight

Let's ask Yuni how well this method works.

Only 2 more innings guys

and we will win for the 20th time this season!

8-19 in May-Baaah Rizzs, that's still hard to hear. Whee for June turnarounds.

Sitting at home in October!!

Not Sean White!

Kelley!

Wait so this game went from being close to not being close so we brought in Kelley instead of White

That’s fucking stupid

No....

saving White for high leverage.

This would be funny if it were not true

My favorite Mariner whose name is prounced like "Sean"

Figgins!!!

You can't defy Nature

This game is boring

who wants to go see sex and the city?

It's boring until the bullpen blows a six run lead

OceanBird - June 1, 2010 reply

That movie is dumb.

I'm in, what theatre?

I would but I'm kinda busy watching the game and lazy from drinking all this beer.

Oh man, so fucking bad.

I'm watching Alice in Wonderland.

That movie was way too terrible to make as much money as it did.

It's entertaining so far-not his best but not like turn off bad like I do with a lot of films.

It was really just, meh.

Exactly like whoever plays Alice, plain and boring.

So is every other live action Tim Burton movie.

Except Sweeney Todd.

I haven't brought myself to sit thru Sweeney yet because non-singers are singing :(

You should, it actually turned out working.

I had the exact same skepticisms.

I shall, but mostly because I'll sit thru anything Alan RIckman does-he's glorious.

Depp was the one who pulled me in. I love him.

I was disappointed with Rickman's turn as Judge Turpin.

Which I don’t like saying because he is, as you say, glorious.

I'm a musical theatre geek who hates Tim Burton.

I loved it.

Oooh, look, it's our non-suck reliever.

Let’s pitch him in a 6 run game.

Win %

99

Good thing we're saving Sean White for a close game!

Do you recall what happened when we pitched our suck relievers with a 5 run lead?

I think you are underestimating just how much some of our relievers suck

wetzelcoal - June 1, 2010 reply

You overestimate how often relievers blow 5 run leads

But those guys are gone!!!1!

Except we were warming up Sean White

Then we scored a few runs and widened the gap, so Shawn Kelley came in. There are two things that could have happened

1) White got injured
2) We don’t want to “waste” White on a 7-1 game

I know which one I'm rooting for!

Mauer is all sorts of dreamy

.

How did I not know that was a Clint Eastwood movie?

I've seen this at least twice and I never picked up on that either.

Donald Sutherland steals every scene he's in is my theory.

Great movie. When there still was a few original ideas.

His brief role as the judge in Reign Over Me was astounding.

Donald Sutherland is awesome.

Why are we using Kelley in a no-leverage situation?

Brian Floyd - June 1, 2010 reply

Because he's not Sean White

Because he's a winner!

When we win this game you will regret those words!

Kelley!

That Mauer guy fucking blows.

God I can't even imagine being stuck with him for 10 years

Oh hey!

The Twins #3 and #4 hitters are pun-opposites!

K.

Hey Wak!

Look, Kelley just schooled their two best hitters.

Wak's Reply:

Hey, I believe in White more!

Shawn Kelley is awesome.

"Morneau stays behind everything"

as the replay shows him getting way out in front.

Is it me or does Alfonzo have a different position each pitch when there are no runners on?

He's dancing to the sound of his own voice in his head.

.

w00tah - June 1, 2010 reply

He's Randy Messenger 2.0

He gets honeys.

w00tah - June 1, 2010 reply

I guarantee he has killed a man

You know how hard it is to break into the bigs?

You have to do…. things…

He looks like Tuco combined with Combo

Only the top 8th and I feel like we're gonna win.

Squeezed... but doesn't matter.

The single most depressing aspect of my fandom is the fact that the UW softball team registers on my radar.

That one pitcher is really good, she'll probably get drafted by the

oh

Why not? She can't be any worse than Sean White.

Yeah but she pitches from a 60 foot mound

She'll go to the A's

They have to keep at least one submariner/underhand pitcher on their roster at all times.

US army.

Kelley looked awesome.

I found the most adorable Yuni picture ever yesterday.

Link please.

I made this comment before I realized my scanner was broken.

Is he riding a unicorn?

.

Awfully skinny, must be 2005 Yuni

.

.

Is this an ironic racism joke?

Yuni is really, really dark.

Well, Yuni is really really dark.

Jinx!

Nope. Just night-time.

kentroyals5 - June 1, 2010 reply

None of you are even close.

?

Awwww he's got his "They told me to smile but I'm feeling kind of depressed today, but that nice Lou guy made me feel better so I guess I will smile" smile on.

?

I like this Alfonzo guy

Better than Rob Johnson. Also, Eliezer sounds cool.

I was hoping he would stumble while he was running backwards.

seattle_since_81 - June 1, 2010 reply

Holy crap - warning track hit off the end of the bat on a bad swing?

Power is enticing!

Alfonzo's hitting everything hard

Allen Wu - June 1, 2010 reply

It's OK Saunders you'll get there one there.

Slurvey - June 1, 2010 reply

Dangit

No hits for Saunders. I really really want him to be good.

Saunders just had to be the guy without a hit when we score 7 runs

Get a hit Michael. A single would be fine. Stop missing

and striking out twice on 6 pitches.

I too really want you to be good.

We don't deserve Ichiro.

In 2001 we did.

Good point.

I forgot how good this team was once.

I have a hard time remembering the starting pitchers.

Freddy Garcia, Jamie Moyer, Gil Meche, then?

Paul Abbott!

Halama and Pinata!

Sele too.

Paul Abbott had 18 wins!

Halama and Abbott

Aaron Sele.

Yep, and no Meche

I used to love Aaron Sele because he had a glove that was similar to mine.

I hated Aaron Sele

For some reason he occupies the space between Jeff Fassero and Jarrod Washburn in my mind

FUCK YOU FASSERO

First hometown Mariner that I remember!

Even though we signed Olerud like two weeks before him

From my high school!

Halama? Paul Abbott won like 18 games I think.

We had this weird deal called an offense too.

I remember the hitting

That 2001 team was 80% the result of the position players

which is insane.

THEY WERE THE BEST TEAM EVER

Holy crap I just realized we can look at team WAR on Baseball Reference going back forever.

... not to win a world series

They were the best team ever, period

Pshaw, only in terms of wins...

who cares about those when we have other fancier stats?

Other fancier stats that say, "THEY WERE THE BEST TEAM EVER!"

They tied the 1843 Cubs or something who had like 4 ties.

1908 I think?

Well I got the millenium.

And didn't even make it to the GODDAMN WORLD SERIES.

FUCK YOU YANKEES.

The hilarity of the D-Backs win was an OK consolation prize

True

But still…I will never get over it

bomdal - June 1, 2010 reply

On a scale of 1 to 10 in fucked-upness

It was a 10 that that team didn’t win the WS

Not only did they not win it....Oh never fucking mind.

We won this goddamn game.

They also blew a 10 run lead or something in Cleveland

I still hate Jose Paniagua for that

The game that shall not be mentioned!!

It's mentioned all the time!

It's funny now!

Game A?

I rather us win 116 and lose in the playoffs then win 117 and lose in the playoffs

What the fuck

Because then we'd be the only best team ever to lose in the playoffs rather than one of the two.

agreed. What the fuck?

It would make the flameout even more painful

116 was good enough for me. And it’s not like people actually thought the 1906 Cubs were actually better than us.

They proved otherwise with a TV commercial!

I wish I could find that somewhere.

On their website?

Nope. Only goes back to 2006.

http://mlb.mlb.com/sea/fan_forum/video_room.jsp#2002

Wrong

I'd prefer a more catastrophic flameout.

Um, why?

The mariners lost the last game of the season in the 9th inning

I like that we all collectively salt this wound.

They won 116 games!

How is that a wound?

Nobody in this city can be happy about anything.

Winning 116 games was amazing.

Stalling in the playoffs made my teenage self cry.

`

I will enjoy that season the second I get an actual championship.

Or when the Patriots go 17-0 and lose in the Super Bowl to a little bitch again.

Bahahahaha the first time was gold.

God I hate Eli though.

Fuck Rafael Palmeiro

If I recall correctly

Olerud lined out to first with the winning run aboard.

Matt Erickson - June 1, 2010 reply

It was a 1-2-3 inning

Touche

You are correct. Can’t figure out which game I’m thinking of…

Matt Erickson - June 1, 2010 reply

117 really is a lot more than 116.

It's like one more!

Holy shit.

You’re right.

We're through the looking glass now, people.

No it wasn't.

LET ME REMAIN IN DENIAL

It was pretty hilarious

A sweep would have been. That shit we could have won.

DAVID BELL

If only we had someone other than Al Martin.

STAN JAVIER

Defense!

Stan rocked.

95 got me interested in baseball

2001 is when I fell in love with it.

But I’m a weird kid from Spokane who couldn’t see games on TV until we got cable in ’01.

I remember Sasaki

And how he didn’t lose games in the 9th inning.

What?

Pitchers do that?

I've heard about this shit. Might have to look it up on snopes.

Sasaki is the second greatest pitcher in Mariners history.

I loved Kaz.

I really liked Kaz too

but there’s no way anyone gets past Randy and Felix

Randy left too early

Kaz replaced Jose Mesa and was not Jose Mesa for 4 years. And was a cheating drunk!

Fuck Jose Mesa

The first Mariner I truly hated.

Not even Ayala?

Too young to remember his suckitude.

The only reason why I still like Piniella is the fact that he pubiclly humiliated Jose Mesa by replacing him with a position player.

I can't believe I forgot about that.

John Mabry remains my favorite player to ever play the game

I hope John Mabry burns the American flag.

That was unnecessary

I regretted it the second I hit post

Mine too!

The first time I watched a game from start to finish on TV was the Safeco inaugural game

It was all downhill from there.

Ayala was my first hated player. Mesa was my second.

Jeff Schaefer

then Rich “E-4” Amaral

Left too early for you.

Who's the first?

Are you talking about relief/closers or pitchers overall?

Overall

We seem to do pretty well with the Japanese players.

We trade away our Korean ones. >=(

No, we just forget the shitty ones

such as: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kidama01.shtml

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/suzukma01.shtml

Also:

Quick

We need to get Yu Darvish over here. NOW!

Turns out we lucked out on missing Matsuzaka

Better than Ian Snell

He's also better than Jim Parque

so what?

6 aces!

I like Jim Parque because he blew game 3 for the White Sox in 2000.

Stop talking about High Karate!

Ichiro does not smile upon chin music

Allen Wu - June 1, 2010 reply

When's Langerhans gonna play?

Not that i miss him for Saunders, but just curious.

I miss Langerhans. =(

I never understood the Langerhans love...

Isn’t he just another backup player in a long line of serviceable replacement guys?

He hit walkoffs

And was traded for Mike Morse

We hated the team's fascination with Mike Morse

He was better than Tui

We hate Tui too

With ya there!

For the record, I never claimed Tui was serivceable or replacement level!

It's like if Dan Cortes came up to Seattle and killed an Angel player

We would love him.

Very good defender, lefty, patient, has pop

He might be a league-average player.

Rich Amaral

Basically, he does all the things "stat heads" appreciate

Right, but not a level that puts him solidly above "average"

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate the guy, but still. I’m sure it doesn’t help that the first time I saw him, he had an atrocious game in the field and I couldn’t believe people were talking about his defense.

Average players are really valuable when they're cheap

No one's going to assert that Langerhans is above average.

Above replacement? Most definitely.

Jackle Mackle - June 1, 2010 reply

But good enough to displace any of our regular OF starters? No way

unless somehow Saunders fails to develop into a consistent hitter.

Nobody is saying he should

A league average fourth outfielder is a very valuable thing.

If he actually plays, that is.

Probably not but two of our OFers are stars and Saunders needs to play.

He’s probably better than Saunders at the moment.

But isn't the consensus that Saunders has a much higher ceiling?

That's why Saunders needs to play

You don't have to be an All-Star to be popular.

See: John Marzano.

You just have to beat up Paul O'Neill.

Willie!

I’m doing it wrong, huh?

Willie was popular with morons.

Like Rizzszzsssszzzssssq

Guti

:(

I was at the game where he hit a walk-off dinger off the Rays

so I will always have an irrational liking for him.

This might make the game interesting....

Huh,

more reliable than White, Jesus.

Olson!!!

0.00 ERA. And he's sustained it for the entire start of this season.

Ruh roh

Would this be the proverbial 'soft landing'?

msb - June 1, 2010 reply

It's as soft as anyone's going to get on this team.

Yes, I think this would count.

On your feet!

Clap your hands!

Everybody clap your hands!

clapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclap

(As my girlfriend claps and looks around the stadium laughing and wondering “why? why do we allllll do this?”