Seattle: 40-69
Kansas City: 46-62
| MARINERS | Δ Ms | ROYALS | EDGE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HITTING (wOBA) |
-129.2 (30th) | 1.7 | -17.7 (22nd) | Kansas City |
| FIELDING (UZR) | 14.2 (10th) | 0.0 | -10.3 (20th) | Seattle |
| ROTATION (tRA) |
1.8 (17th) | -4.5 | -52.1 (28th) | Seattle |
| BULLPEN (tRA) |
-26.4 (29th) | 0.0 | -30.1 (28th) | Kansas City |
| OVERALL(RAA) |
-139.6 (28th) | -2.6 | -110.2 (26th) | KANSAS CITY |
In the late 80s and early 90s as the Soviet Union was crumbling under the weight of years of economic neglect, the coal miners perhaps had it the worst off. Notably in the far eastern provinces and areas such as Sakhalin, the mining infrastructure were so poor that it would take workers upwards of two hours to get through the tunnels from topside to the actual coal to be mined.
They weren't paid for that time, as it was considered a commute. Some workers crawled and shimmied for two hours each way through rocks likely to someday collapse and crush them all for the privilege of being able to inhale large amounts of coal dust, commute another two hours and then go home to almost nothing.
Compared to that, the Mariners aren't so bad I guess.
This is a depressing preview. I apologize and will now attempt to mitigate those feelings with pictures of baby animals. Always end with a high note.
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God our wOBA is so ba- d'awwwwwwwwww.
Kenneth Arthur - August 6, 2010
And tomorrow after we run the marathon we decide to run again further injuring ourselves.
Slurvey - August 6, 2010
Whohooo!
Now we get to face bad teams that are better than us!
ThundaPC - August 6, 2010
Fuck Hamsters
Whoever domesticated those finger eating assholes needs a swift kick in the balls. Now baby seals and puppies, those are cute.
OceanBird - August 6, 2010
Bunnies!
Mariner John - August 6, 2010
The Mariners have hardened my heart.
I re-read the paragraph about Russian coal miners a couple times, but only gave a cursory glance at the cute animals.
katal - August 6, 2010
He's biting the other dogs nose!
Matthew - August 6, 2010
And husky puppies are adorable!
JY - August 6, 2010
Kitties!
JY - August 6, 2010
This is my favorite series preview since the one where you mentioned my testicles.
Robert - August 6, 2010
Looking over the pitching matchups
and thinking that at least we might win the Vargas game is sobering. Even worse is expecting to lose to Bruce Chen.
rehoser - August 6, 2010
How does this relate to the cute puppy biting the other puppy's nose?
pdb - August 6, 2010
I got distracted and started thinking about baseball.
I’ll try not to let it happen again. Combining thoughts, analogically, is the big puppy eating the other puppy’s face Zack Greinke to Luke French or the Royals to the Mariners?
rehoser - August 6, 2010
The Mariners are the chicks the white cat is about to maul.
Jed MC - August 6, 2010
Yeah, that's better. Or the Ms are the kitten with no body next to the rabbit.
rehoser - August 6, 2010
Don't think about sports.
Matthew - August 6, 2010
Way to lower the bat, Matthew.
So the stuff about the miners was your sunny, pollyanna-ish side?
rehoser - August 6, 2010
Someone doesn't seem to be acquainted with Pictures for Sad Children.
JY - August 6, 2010
Wow, that's almost as bad as Buddy Holocaust
I can only find one of his sunnier ballads, “We Will Retake Saigon” online.
rehoser - August 6, 2010
You have to be optimistic to truly adore dark humor
Matthew - August 6, 2010
Thanks Matthew. Those baby animals have successfully neutralized the rage caused by the realization that we're worse than Kansas City.
Allen Wu - August 6, 2010
I think I can only come up with misleading captions for 2 or 3 of those pictures
Well done Matthew.
Drew_D - August 6, 2010
Scratch that
I can do everything but the baby seal.
Drew_D - August 6, 2010
Imagine the baby seal as the Mariners and the rest of the AL as a baseball bat and I'm sure you'll come up with something.
pdb - August 6, 2010
Wrong kind of misleading.
Drew_D - August 6, 2010
Like so?
Nate Dogg - August 6, 2010
Jokes are usually best left without full documentation
Matthew - August 6, 2010
If there is one thing that a large chunk of LL could learn from this site this should be it
pdb - August 6, 2010
I thought the image was striking enough to be worthwhile
but here I am explaining a joke so obviously I missed my mark.
Nate Dogg - August 6, 2010
No I think we got the joke without seeing the picture of someone clubbing a seal.
d0nkey - August 6, 2010
He's not gonna club the seal.
look at his foot position relative to it.
Marinerfanjake - August 6, 2010
So the Battle for Grass Creek is pretty much turning into a fight over who wants to own a Superfund site.
pdb - August 6, 2010
Kitten! Bunny!
Eyeball Kid - August 6, 2010
I feel like if I keep watching they will sync up
BaronVonBullshit - August 6, 2010
Anyone else bothered by the fact that the seal image is named "cute_puppies?"
bamfor - August 7, 2010
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