Biggest Contribution: Jose Lopez, +42.9%
Biggest Suckfest: Milton Bradley, -15.4%
Most Important AB: Lopez grand slam, +42.1%
Most Important Pitch: Swisher homer, -12.2%
Total Contribution by Pitcher(s): +28.1%
Total Contribution by Lineup: +6.6%
Total Contribution by Opposition: +15.3%
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Sell!
lemonverbena - July 10, 2010
Thank you, Justin Smoak, for being exciting enough to make me watch this awesome game.
Even though you sucked.
Teej - July 10, 2010
Smoak looked horrrrrrrrrrible.
But he’ll be fine. I imagine he was pretty nervous.
Jeff Nye - July 10, 2010
He looked antsy as all hell.
Teej - July 10, 2010
It really seemed like he was trying to hit everything halfway to Canada.
Jeff Nye - July 10, 2010
I could see his teeth from the center field camera while he was in the box.
Teej - July 10, 2010
Wasn't very focused at all...
C-Nage - July 10, 2010
If I was the "guy who we traded Cliff Lee for" I would feel some pressure too.
Jeff Nye - July 10, 2010
Isn't it pretty reasonable to expect a young hitter to struggle against pitchers who throw a ton of off speed stuff like Vasquez was tonight anyway?
Zwakamatsu - July 10, 2010
The change-up killed him tonight.
Per Gameday, he saw five, swung and missed at all of them.
Teej - July 10, 2010
Yeah he had the change going all night and he had a great game plan for Smoak.
I just kind of expect young guys to completely whiff at the off speed stuff and I expect to see a lot of it in the future. Smoak did look really clueless tonight.
Zwakamatsu - July 11, 2010
I was at the game on 1st base line.
When he first came on the field someone yelled at him and he literally blushed and then avoided looking at the crowd during his workout. He was nervous and I’m sure it affected his concentration.
MT Olson - July 10, 2010
Drayer was saying that at BP he was talking with Bob Christofferson, of all people
and then his teammates made their way over and introduced themselves
msb - July 11, 2010
I thought he looked really jittery as well. Fidgety.
JonBBT - July 11, 2010
I <3 Felix
wyte_lightning - July 10, 2010
I've always mentally translated <3 as
“teabag.” I mean — it really looks nothing like a heart, which looks more like &.
short - July 10, 2010
I bet you hate the greeting card industry too
Jeff Nye - July 10, 2010
Theirs are always upright
the sideways one is so…equivocal.
short - July 10, 2010
The first time I saw it, I thought it was a scrotum until someone informed me otherwise.
Teej - July 10, 2010
Doesn't something like <=3 make more sense
A triangle penis would just be kind of strange
Edgar for Pres - July 11, 2010
damn it...
Edgar for Pres - July 11, 2010
The fact that Jose Lopez always looks so nervous and lost made his cockiness all the more enjoyable.
Fuckmikereilly - July 10, 2010
It barely cleared the fence.
And he acted like he’s Mark fucking Mcgwire. Dude can’t even hit a grand slam correctly.
CapSea - July 10, 2010
What a fuck-up.
Even when he does something right, he does it wrong.
wyte_lightning - July 10, 2010
He looked like Milton Bradley on that swing.
Swing as hard as you can, slam the bat to the ground while doing your best statue pose, and then walk a few steps with some swag.
Wilder. - July 10, 2010
I actually enjoyed his cockiness
Griffin Cooper - July 10, 2010
Me, too.
Teej - July 11, 2010
Me three.
MT Olson - July 11, 2010
Well, me too
But sometimes stupid things are enjoyable.
CapSea - July 11, 2010
I beg to differ
A GS is the same anywhere – give him credit for getting a win out of the lame offense we have. Safeco is a pitcher’s field.
Sirbunt - July 11, 2010
Smoak was as bad
as Lee. I think we chalk up both thier performances to the sheer madness that must have been the last two days for each of them.
I just hope Cliff Lee is not hurt too badly by the park in Arlington. It would suck if he was the big loser of the whole trade.
short - July 10, 2010
Maybe he will pitch terribly and his price will come down to the point we can re-sign him.
I wouldn’t mind if it went down like this.
Wilder. - July 10, 2010
I would like him to be just bad enough to give Felix the Cy Young.
Fuckmikereilly - July 10, 2010
Cliff Lee will be fine.
Meanwhile, I’m glad that Justin Smoak got to be part of our team on an exciting Saturday night game with Felix pitching.
ignacio - July 10, 2010
But don't you see? If he's horrible because of the park maybe it drives his price down to our range and scares of the Yanks.
Gotta…have…hope…
SethGrandpa - July 11, 2010
I hope Lee is hurt badly by the park in Arlington
And I realize I don’t know shit about baseball compared to most others here, but the commenter here http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-mariners-smoak made even me shake my head in disgust
Aly Edge - July 11, 2010
Love Jobaville getting bombed!
The fact that every Yankee cocksucker thought that guy was Clemens incarnate and now his big fat drunk ass sucks elephant dicks makes it even more delightful.
RustyJohn - July 10, 2010
Wow.
Not that I don’t agree with the general sentiment, but…wow.
Jeff Nye - July 10, 2010
I grew up in NY- my dad was a cop at the four-four precinct and we used to get in to all the games for free...
this was in the late 70s and early 80s. The past couple of years, though, I’ve come to absolutely despise my former hometown team. I don’t know if it is because the tore down the real stadium, the fact that there are only a couple of players left over from the 90s championship years, or because I’m so far removed from NY now I see how gross and disgusting Yankee fans are, but I loathe the Yankees.
I still hate the Red Sox, and their fans, more though.
RustyJohn - July 11, 2010
Why don't ya tell us how you really feel?
wyte_lightning - July 10, 2010
He's having a good year
Griffin Cooper - July 10, 2010
I did, however, enjoy the salty tears of all the Yankees fans.
There was one group of them that was shouting at people to sit down after Lopez homered, heh.
Jeff Nye - July 10, 2010
I was sitting infront of a pair of Yankee fans that were on my case the entire game.
I didn’t say anything to them, just took it. When Lopez hit the slam I simply turned around, smiled, and watched them flip me off.
BrianL - July 11, 2010
I was surrounded by scouts.
Seven of them that I could identify!
Jeff Nye - July 11, 2010
Who were they scouting?
the other side - July 11, 2010
I couldn't tell for sure, they were a bit too far away for me to really hear what they were saying.
I have some suspicions, but that’s all they are.
Jeff Nye - July 11, 2010
.
Moira (aka Mariners Housewife) had to explain to the “Yankee Fans” sitting near her who Swisher is.
msb - July 11, 2010
In the last game of the WS last year, I had to explain to a "Yankees Fan"...
…what the broadcasters meant when they said Matsui had a chance to hit for the cycle.
JY - July 11, 2010
This is the best comment I have read in quite some time
Poochie - July 11, 2010 via mobile
Here's the Lopez slam in 420fps high-speed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th7Y9YTnPeM&feature=PlayList&p=F68AB0A73403D025&playnext_from=PL&index=0
Some other high-speed videos from the night here.
BrianL - July 11, 2010
Those are awesome.
Thanks!
wyte_lightning - July 11, 2010
Did you have express written permission from Major League Baseball?
Jeff Nye - July 11, 2010
Just verbal.
BrianL - July 11, 2010
Selig told me it's all cool so I'm good right?
BrianL - July 11, 2010
Nice!
I don’t care if Jack got lucky, but that 2x was great!
Sirbunt - July 11, 2010
His agility around the bag is remarkable.
BrianL - July 11, 2010
I enjoyed heckling A-Rod and Cano in Diamond Club seats.
kennerdoloman - July 11, 2010
I might try Diamond Club seats later this year.
Never gotten them before and they should be relatively cheap this season!
Jeff Nye - July 11, 2010
Oh, they're absolutely fantastic.
I was with my mom, dad, and my friend. Amazing seats and experience.
kennerdoloman - July 11, 2010
We won?.....yay!
scooter4 - July 11, 2010
Joba, you couldn't have served up a grand slam to a more miserable hitter.
Here’s to more similarly embarrasing failures in the near and distant future.
Poochie - July 11, 2010 via mobile
If there were scouts in attendance (as said)
then that grand slam by Lopez might have been very timely.
ignacio - July 11, 2010
I imagine there are scouts at almost every MLB game right now
I wouldn’t read too much into it, it was just sortof neat to see.
Jeff Nye - July 11, 2010
Wasn't the grand slam just the epitome of Jose Lopez though?
God awful patients (two pitches seen) terrible sense of the strike zone (the ball was at damn near his nipples), yet the crazy strong/fast hands to turn it barely over the left field wall. Where the ball traveled the classic Wall + 2 feet distance?
SgtSasquatch - July 11, 2010
I just keep thinking Lopez will be traded to a team with a short left-field fence
ignacio - July 11, 2010
I was at the movies. Looks like I missed something mildly interesting.
Predator was totally worth it though
beastwarking - July 11, 2010
That's still in theaters? 23 years seems like a pretty long tenure
Griffin Cooper - July 11, 2010
I think it may have been Predators. I kind of view it like Aliens there is no mre than one alien/predator so add an S!
Slurvey - July 11, 2010
Yeah I forgot the s
Sue me
beastwarking - July 11, 2010
This is not me being confrontational
beastwarking - July 11, 2010
One of my favorite games of the season
JonBBT - July 11, 2010
I miss that grand slam graphic.
Goose - July 11, 2010
missed
Goose - July 11, 2010
Joba is clearly an idiot.
Throw three sliders low in the zone and Loafie is out. Throw a high fastball in his wheelhouse? Whoops.
abender20 - July 11, 2010
It wasn't even a strike!
Jeff Sullivan - July 11, 2010
I was just looking at the numbers
Lopez has a contact rate on pitches out of the zone as Ichiro. That surprised me. It would be interesting to see what his numbers were on pitches out of the zone compared to Ichiro though.
Edgar for Pres - July 11, 2010
I'm not quite following you
theNmarie - July 12, 2010
I bet my ladyfriend $1 that Lopez would hit into a double play.
Fuck you Lopez you owe me a dollar
d0nkey - July 12, 2010
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