Game One, Angels at Mariners
DMZ · April 3, 2006 at 7:53 am · Filed Under Game Threads
RHP Bartolo Colon vs LHP Jamie Moyer. 2:05 PM, FSN.
I’m excited.
To the Everett issue — what’s appropriate? Do you boo him starting with the first game and then keep booing until he’s released? Or is polite support for someone who wears the team uniform appropriate? If you don’t like the move, or if you don’t like Everett, I’d say the baseline is don’t applaud anything except the scoreboard announcement that he’s been traded to Tampa for a PTBNL. Waving inflatable dinosaurs… hmm. Where would you get one?
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Wow, that was one hell of a blast.
HeYYYYY
First AB,HR
COME ON NOW!
hmmmm. Carl Everett or Roberto Petagine….hard to choose. (okay, yeah, small sample size but still…)
Roberto . . . . .dude . . . .
The PETAGINE MACHINE IS CRANKED!!!!
Boo-YA!
Petegine!
W00t! Petagine!
He’d hit 35-40 of ’em if he was an every day player
I was reading this book “Mind Game” yesterday and it had a chapter about how most managers misuse their bullpens by reserving the closer for situations where they don’t really increase your chances of winning very much. And that this is statistically quantifiable but they keep doing it anyway. Some guy named Zumsteg wrote it I think. Anyway it’s always fun when you read about something, then the next day it happens live right in front of you. So now I have another reason to specifically justify why I think Mike Hargrove is a dumbass.
Pet-man is on a pace for . . . 162 homers!
That’s it then… same old Mariners. But it’s OK. I say we can still go 161-1 this season.
Barking–Absente the fake stuff but as strong as Ouso. I think
Why did Lopez bat?
Question? Who do you bring in first Soriano or Putz?
363–who else from this bench was available? WFB?
Another month of Carl laying eggs and Petagine hitting bombs, and I think Petagine’s gonna take a starting job from a certain Bigotsaurus.
Who would have batted in his place is the question? Nevermind, I forgot about WFB!!
I would normally have flip flopped: brought in Putz for the 7th and 8th innings and used Soriano in the pressure cooker spot. But I see how Soriano/Sherrill had to face the 3-4-5 hitters and Putz was brought in to face the bottom of the lineup. He just did his Thornton impression at the worst freaking time.
At least the M’s hung in there and responded for a change.
Guys,
let’s try and look at the bright side of things
..we won on Opening Day last season,and then look what happened next..
..plus,i still have a fair share of aftershock left for the next losses,er,geames,i meant games..
That said,bases loaded,no outs,and you DON’T SCORE A RUN??
The horror,the Horror,as Col.Kurtz would have said.
I switched to the Giants-Padres game now. Baseball is SOOO much more relaxing to watch when it is not your team that’s playing.
(glug glug)
I hereby dub our newest folk hero “Petagine-gine, the Power Machine” ….
Petagine is going to make tough on management. My bet
My Q about Lopez batting was rhetorical, i.e., “nice bench”
Aaaaaaand the Bavasi Coundown Clock commences …. (humming “Final Jeopardy” theme) ….
“Bigotsaurus.” Heh…
The crowd response for Everett (Jurassic 8?) was really strange. Kinda cheering, kinda booing, but just generally indifference.
I don’t think I’d ever heard that “indifferent sound” for a position player. Maybe for a AAA placeholder 12th pitcher coming out of the pen in a 12-3 game, but never for a starter.
Jim, I think the Hargrove Countdown Clock is running considerably ahead of the Bavasi one.
please oh please.
Had great seats for this game. Club level, just to the first base side of the press box, six rows back. Great view, although I was at too sharp of an angle to be able to tell balls and strikes very reliably.
There wasn’t much energy in the ballpark for an opening day game; might have had something to do with it being rainy and cold, or maybe it being Monday. Even when the score was close, the crowd didn’t seem really into it except when certain players were up to bat.
Thoughts:
-Jose Lopez looked good, aside from his horrible baserunning blunder.
-Man, is the Angels bullpen good.
-The $15.50 (!) Kobe beef blue cheese & bacon burger is not worth $15.50
-Boy, wouldn’t it be nice if Betancourt added a plus bat to his stellar defense?
And, lastly…
-Boy, am I glad to have the season finally start up. This was a really, really, really long off-season.
Mike Goff says it’s not a baserunning “blunder” if he’s being “aggressive”.
Sweet mother. 380 responses. It was a long off season.
Thoughts:
Nice to see the offense wasn’t completely supine.
Everett is unlikely to out-hit Petagine. Let’s hope he doesn’t outlast him.
I’m glad I missed the sixth.
I have not at all warmed to Hargrove as a manager. If Lou was angry and Bob Melvin was woebegone, Hargrove is just DOUR. It’s like watching a team managed by a Puritan turnip farmer.
Absente the fake stuff
Come up and visit. You can get real absinthe here.
I don’t advise consuming it with tequila in the same sitting.
#7– my thought while watching those classic comebacks was ‘but Edgar vs Black Jack is hardly the same thing as Jeremy Reed vs F-Rod…’
6) zzyzx, here’s the thing with Opening Day crowds: they’re large, but it’s mostly an event, like the Super Bowl. Therefore you get a lot of a) corporations and businesses handing out tickets as gifts to colleagues and b) casual fans who attend the game seeing it as an event, thus you get a bunch of casual suits and casual fans who aren’t really into baseball.
… actually, now that I think of it, that’s similar to every Mariner crowd. No wonder you can’t get people in Safeco excited for crucial moments.
8) Eh. I think it’d get really smoky if the Mariners hit too many- wait, what am I saying?! Nevermind.
9) Didn’t Ichiro hit a walkoff blast in that game too?
Whoa, clean off my comment: it was in response to a comment that has since disappeared.
Yeah, clean this one off too.
Gomez – this is my 11th straight opening day, so I know how those crowds work. It was a disengaged crowd.
Fun game to be at once we started knocking Bartolo around. If before the game started I could designate 2 Mariner hitters to knock an HR, I would have selected Johjima and Petagine.