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Biggest Contribution: Jose Lopez, +6.6%
Biggest Suckfest: Ian Snell, -33.2%
Most Important AB: Lopez double, +8.0%
Most Important Pitch: Young single, -8.6%
Total Contribution by Pitcher(s): -34.6%
Total Contribution by Lineup: -16.3%
Total Contribution by Opposition: +0.9%
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I almost feel bad for him.

It’s has to be rough to go out there start after start and suck that much.

Snell is a very unhappy man who will have a very comfortable early retirement
He's in an ok place. Young, can retire, doesn't need immediate employment.

He’ll be fine. Yeah, he sucks at baseball, but he can learn to do something else for the rest of his life and he probably doesn’t need to worry about what that is for a couple of years.

... and be paid millions of dollars to do it...
That game you were looking for,
Sorry, mobile post.
That game you were looking for, Jeff.

I think it just happened.

Good thing our happiness isn't totally dependant on a sports team

right guys?

Don't know if its a hard and fast rule,

but adding -ant to a verb generally denotes a person who performs that action ie defendant, attendant, pissant (ok maybe not pissant). If you want to make a verb into an adjective you generally need to go for -ent, ie dependent, excellent, ardent etc. Sorry to be a painintheassant, people on this site do it all the damn time and I finally thought I’d say something.

I learned something.
This is the right way to be a Grammar Nazi
Zoloft manufacturers

and doctors completely agree.

The D-Backs will stick him in their rotation next to Donrelle.
He doesn't give up enough home runs.
Holy hell am I glad I missed this game.

So when is Snell going to get shitcanned??

Who knows, he could pre-emptive strike and retire tomorrow.
I'd say 50/50 tomorrow
Does this mean noon?
We have now regressed to our potential level of suckitude.
There is no floor
I'd argue that losing the number one overall pick after winning the final series of the year was pretty close to floor.
There was no floor in 2008 and there is no floor now
No, there isn't.

I think that was the lowest we’ve been in recent memory though.

When that pick is the next once-in-a-generation pitcher, then fucking yes, that's the floor

This is the delayed residue. It’s just all floor.

I turned the game on in the 9th.

Had myself a good chuckle. Guess it’s setting in now

What sucks is that even though we're projected to end the season at 63-99, we're still not getting Anthony Rendon

Fuck you Orioles. Be better Adam Jones.

We couldn't suck enough to get Strasburg either. Typical of this team.
Oh hey!

Here‘s Jeff. It’s a shame he won’t be curing our ills.

Haven't seen that yet. Wow.

Yup, no way we are terrible enough to get him.

Dammit you're making Geoff Baker look smart about the Bedard trade is better after all!
Not that I don't like Bedard I love him but goodness gracious that trade was horrible.
There's still Tillman.
We need to dump Lee now before he wins us any more games if we want Rendon
We will never get Rendon.

Stop having hope.

We could always go to a three man rotation consisting of Tui, Sweendawg, and Kotchman

I feel like if we did that we could probably lose enough games to get Rendon

That would mean replacing Sweeney, Tui, and Kotchman with less than terrible hitters.

And replacing Snell, RRS, and possibly Vargas with better options (at least for Snell and RRS).

We might actually be better if we did that!

This video of Rendon cracked me up.

Link. (Tip of the hat to Jon on Twitter.)

Watched about 30 seconds of the game tonight

and that was about 30 seconds too much. Man, this team sucks!

Best picture-on-chart of the year.
So what's in the bindle?
Hopes and dreams of a baseball career.
The remnants of the baseball skill he had in 2007.
His belongings
A bag of dicks
Well it looks like I just missed a dandy

Anyone care to give me a brief recap of what went so horribly wrong?

You can imagine
Well the easy assumption is that Snell was terrible
The damn foot was pointing at third again
Loafie (for about a second)!, Ian Snell, Michael Young, Josh Hamilton.

And then it snowballed.

This Summer is going to suck
Aquasox Baseball!
Aargh.

Just annihilate the team and put all the best goddamn trade chips on Craigslist or something and we’ll try again next year.

Burn the tree?
I will admit, after this offseason I was one of those who felt hope and thought that the site banner could be changed.

Further proof I am a dumbass who doesn’t know shit.

We are all dumbasses who don't know shit.
Now we can bond.
I really don't want to be bound with anybody here.
It's more of a mind meld.
That sounds worse
LL is a hive mind.

You’ll like it when you join because you won’t have a choice.

It's not so bad.

At least I know what to think about things now. The uncertainty troubled me.

Even if a miracle happened and we made the playoffs

I wouldn’t want to be seen watching us play a real baseball team.

Like the Rainiers?
If we made the playoffs, we'd be a real baseball team.

The M’s aren’t making the playoffs without playing like a 90+ win team the rest of the year. If you play like a 90+ win team for 3.5 months, you’re probably a pretty good team.

This team is the Rainers. But worse.
If we were in AAA we'd be so awesome
We'd at least be above .500.
What if we were in the NL?
I really wish the Mariners would just be terrible on a consistent basis

If you are bad enough for long enough eventually you get enough high draft picks to become good, like what Tampa Bay did, or what Washington is doing now, or even what we did in the late 80s and early 90s when we go Junior and A-Rod, but no, we have to be ok just often enough to keep us from getting anyone really good in the draft without quite being good enough that adding one or two free agents in the off season will get us to the post season.

These charts need to start being positive.

How about chance of a great draft in 2011?
(Although Cliff Lee leaving would make that better, don’t go Cliff)

Why does the chart start at 50%?

I’m thinking that based on the way the team plays that the chart should start somewhere around 25%.

38.3%

as it were.

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