Game 99, Tigers at Mariners
DMZ · July 26, 2005 at 6:42 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
RHP Jason Johnson v RHP Joel Pineiro. 7:05.
As noted in other threads today, Snelling turned up in Tacoma today, though there’s no evidence yet of a transaction. On the other hand, since there’s really no public resource for transactions that is also timely, he could well have been optioned. Or traded to the Cubs, who assigned him to Iowa, for all anyone knows officially. Generally we’ll a broadcaster will say something during the game, but they might not, so… we wait for Doyle.
Bloomquist starts at short again, his fourth straight start.
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145 – no, I think I need to keep this one down, Mr. Shadel.
Anybody think that the M’s will pull out at least 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th to keep it going?
Only one run from bases loaded nobody out — at least somebody here can pitch.
Yeah, I was just weighing snowballs and measuring hades for that one…
I think they’ll pull it out. But I’m sleep deprived and not thinking clearly.
151
If this were 2-4 years ago then yes.
But with this team? Nope!
#111–Steve Thornton said: “Ordonez looked like he was 41 on that play, not 31. What happened to him? He’s still a “stealth†leader on a lot of cumulative categories, because he started racking up decent numbers at a young age, but he fields like a DH now for sure.”
what happened? knee surgery (meniscus tear) followed by bone marrow edema that took him out of the end of last season, intestinal disorder all through ST, followed by hernia surgery in April. He just got off the DL at the start of July
Hope fading. Enthusiasm dying.
Farnsworth pretty much humiliated Hansen.
156 – I knew he was hurt and his knees were bad, but not that bad. That explains why there was so little interest over the winter. I’ve always liked him, I hope he does well. At one point he looked like he was going to turn the corner and be a Hall of Famer. He’s still going to surprise a few people with his career numbers, I think.
Find five mistakes in this sentence:
“D Hansen hit for M Olivo.”
MLB-TV just quit on me. But I can hardly complain.
“bone marrow edema” — man, that’s excruciating just to read.
Ballgame.
I’m beginning to think they’re not gonna pull this one out after all.
A 95 mil team like us can’t really expect to compete against a powerhouse like the Tigers.
I need treatment.
look at the bright side! bloomers went 2 for 4 and thus will undoubtedly start again!
In terms of relief pitching, Thorton is kind of like the dream prom date — no matter what happens, you know he’ll show all the guys a good time.
bleagh
I don’t remember dreaming of a prom date who would show ALL the guys a good time.
167 – I’m waaaay past the point where I consider Bloomquist to be a significant problem. He’s fine right now. Bloomy can start every day as far as I’m concerned. We need a catcher, some starting pitching… okay, a lot of starting pitching, relievers, a manager and a minimum of two relief broadcasters. Got plenty enough to worry about.
The 2005 M’s are kind of like an emetic…
Does it look like Hargrove has put on about twenty pounds since the first of the year? He doesn’t look like a happy camper. He looks like his sleeping bag is wet.
I think you’d be a little verklempft if your first big league job started out winning bigtIme in Cleveland (without QUITE getting the brass ring), and then you went to awful teams in Baltimore and Seattle.
This game thread should be preserved in the archives as one of the funniest ever!
Verklempt? I thought he was just fat.
Dmitri Young: “Hey, Big Dog, you look like a man who could recommend a good restaurant here in Sea-Wash”.
I’ll give him credit for nailing that suicide squeeze/caught stealing home in the sixth. That was a thing of beauty, and a rare case where the manager really did make a difference on the field with strategy. I wonder if he caught a sign?
Grover’s had plenty of time to get over being verklempt, now he needs to be a mensch and quit being so farmisht. Otherwise we’re farfalen.
Thank you, thank you. I owe it all to Willie Bloomquist, who showed me Heart, and Derek here, who showed me his copy of Nurse Week magazine in the woods behind his house back in sixth grade.
Not really, but that’s the way I’m telling it.
Over on LL it was noted that the team is pathetic except for Sexson, Beltre, and Ichiro. Which got me to thinking – what if those guys expressed their disappointment a bit more clearly in the locker room? Sure, Ichi is small, but incredibly fast and probably has some bitchin martial arts moves. Sexson and Beltre need no explanation….
Beltre’s been picking it up as of late, sort of, but he’s still the 25th-best 3B in baseball. Who exactly is he going to express these moves on? He’s only the sixth-best position player on the club, according to VORP, which is nothing to brag about.
BTW, according to VORP Miguel Olivo is the second-worst player in baseball, after the amazin’ Cristian Guzman, who has had twice as many PA to be lousy in. How can this be possible?
On the plus side, Richie is now the best 1B in the American League, and is inching into MVP-candidate territory. He’s on the leaderboard in VORP and RARP, and is starting to look like the free agent of the season. I was a skeptic, and still am when it comes to the length of the contract, but Richie has made himself very welcome as virtually the only real bright spot on a bad and boring team.
Did Evil Rick make an appearance on the thread tonight and I missed it? Damn!
Then again, maybe he really did make an appearance in the booth. In the top of the 9th prior to Hasegawa being brought in, Rizzs and Valle were discussing how baseball has become more of a global game. After mentioning South Korea has Chan Ho Park, the camera switched to some guys with silver and blue afros in the field level, prompting Evil Rick to say on cue, “Some of them come from Mars.” Personally, I thought the timing was great and brought some levity to an otherwise drab night.
177: Oy vay.
182 – Does that mean I have your hekhsher? Oh, genug shoyn!
183: LOL. And I agree with the last part. Not sure we want to start a whole discussion on the Yiddish language. I don’t know too much more anyway. Then again, Pineiro’s pitching last Thursday in Toronto prompted the Spanish conversation.
Hargrove is zaftig. Get it right.
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No.
And if a month and a half off is going to be a problem for Clement turning pro, consider that the college baseball season is much shorter, so he likely had whole stretches of months off.
Ya’ know, maybe it’s just the time I put in at the People’s Pub before reading (Hoegaarden on tap, btw,) but this is one of the most entertaining game threads ever.
Re: (# 41) THE BRAND NEW BALLGAME – What are you missing? The same thing you’re missing when the Mariners hit a solo homer, closing the score to 10-1, and an announcer says, “And just like that, the Mariners are right back in it.”