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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I don’t see why we wait?
There were scattered boos and applause (????? why??????) at Tacoma for Everett. I imagine the same will occur at Safeco today. Luckily for me, since I was rooting for the Rainiers Saturday, I was able to simply demonize Everett as just another of the players on the opposing team and deal with it that way.
Instead of directly booing Everett, I advocate a chant that endorses Petagine’s presence in the lineup. Although I recognize the difficulty of creating some sort of snappy chant that includes “Petagine.”
Didn’t there used to be a chain of gas stations that sold inflatable dinosaurs? Oh, wait… I have it
right here.
I booed his every at bat in Arizona. It just felt necessary (and great, though I’m not sure what that says of me. I suppose if people walking down the streets had signs that notified me of their parental neglect, I’d boo them too.) I think you’ll know what to do as soon as you hear his name announced.
You can probably find inflatable dinosaurs at a party store. If you are lucky enough to find an inflatable Barney, then that would be a double score as Barney, in addition to being a purple dinosaur, is also most definitely gay. I can see Carl twitching now.
I will probably just not cheer. My strongest instincts say to boo but I will be attending the game with my kids and I want them to grow up to be a better person than I am.
haha, I think DoesntCompute just got dad of the year.
I have never boo’d a Mariner, even Bobby Ayala, but I will boo the SoDoMoFo!
I’ll sit quietly and glare, until he does or says something stupid, or performs badly for several weeks, at which point I’ll commence booing. Free Roberto Petagaine!
It appears there are lots of places to buy inflatable dinosaurs on-line. I can’t find any links for an inflatable Barney, but a google reveals someone who rented an eight-foot-tall inflatable Barney from somewhere for his kid’s birthday. That would be something to see in the left field bleachers.
But isn’t the man himself kind of an inflatable dinosaur?
I’ve had a long-standing rule of not booing anyone on Opening Day. After that, however, all bets are off.
From the people who advocated strongly against booing Arod on his return, this should be a no-brainer.
Kudos to DoesntCompute for taking the high road, at least partly for the right reason…
So, who’s the lucky one to sit with the three authors? I’d be curious on a recap of their play-by-play remarks.
Yes, because booing Arod and Carl Everett are exactly the same thing.
I ain’t booing Everett. I want to live to see 2007.
# 11
I think the USSM guys should print up so “Free Roberto Petagine” T-shirts…maybe wait to see if he’s released in 10 days first.
I must say I am very jealous that I can’t be there for opening day. Someone drink a beer for me!
Maybe the Baseball Equivalent of this. http://freedarko.blogspot.com/2005/11/got-it-4-cheap.html
DoesntCompute… if you really loved your kids, you’d buy them this to wear to games:
http://www.costumeshop.biz/Dinosaur-Costumes—Triceratops-Puppet-Hat—Child-P1371C293.aspx
I’m happy to drink a beer for anyone willing to pay for that beer’s demise.
“Daddy, this hat hurts.”
“Grit your teeth and smile! We’re not being paid by the hour!”
I’m not booing Everett either as I’ve been thinking of the line from “Hoosiers”:
“I would hope you’d support who we are, not who we are not. These six individuals have made the choice to work, the choice to sacrifice, to put themselves on the line twenty three nights for the next four months, to represent you, this highschool. That kind of committment and effort deserves and demands your respect. This is your team.”
Petagine Chant “ROBBIE ROBBIE ROBBIE!
Talking about what to expect with Crazy Carl today reminds of two other much-anticipated but very inauspicious Mariner debuts. In 2002, Jeff Cirillo was given a huge ovation on opening day, and promptly went 0-4. I remember his shoulders sagging after his 3rd and 4th AB’s. He was already mentally defeated in game one. Then, in 2004, Rich Aurilia booted a DP grounder in the top of the first on the first ball hit to him and then flung the ball wildly into RF trying to recover. Two runs scored on the double-error and Aurilia was, in effect, done with the M’s almost before he even started. Any guesses on Carl’s line today?
You know what? He’s a jerk. We know that. But I’m not gonna boo him unless he stinks up the joint.
I’m going to this weekend’s games. If he’s hitting .200, and he’s 0 for 3 with 2 K’s in the 8th with runners on, the game on the line, he isn’t lifted for a PH, and he meekly grounds or pops out, then I’m gonna give him hell. Given in part what he said this weekend, I’m giving Bavasi the benefit of the doubt until I see reason to believe otherwise.
Speaking of the most inauspicious Mariners of recent times, guess who seems to have made the Cardinals’ roster.
Wind a couple of these up and let them loose on the top of the dugout:
http://www.mcphee.com/items/09865.html
I don’t see any former M’s on the Cardinals roster. Jeff Nelson was with them in camp but got let go at the end of last week even though he had a good spring.
oh man, on one channel we have Mahler & Fein discussing the Ms and if you go a notch up the dial it is Thiel, John Carlson & Ken Schram…
I don’t see any former M’s on the Cardinals roster.
Maybe it wasn’t updated yet when you looked. No, not Nelson, worse than that.
If you’re booing Carl Everett because of his personal beliefs, that’s intolerant. If you’re booing him because of his personal transgressions, that’s judgmental. If you’re booing him because you don’t like him, that’s childish. If you’re booing any home team player on Opening Day, that’s simply bad form.
Ultimately, what does one gain from booing a home team player, absent a bonehead play? If it’s worth the enmity you likely incur among those surrounding you, go ahead. After all, you paid for your ticket just like they did. But I would suggest it’s simply not worth it.
Anyway, best wishes to all who get to be at the Safe today. Go M’s!!
How about getting an entire section to serenade Everett with selections from Wee Sing And Learn Dinosaurs? “Millions and millions of years ago dinosaurs roamed the earth!”
32 – Oh my god. Oh. my. god.
I couldn’t imagine who could be worse, but you’re right. How on EARTH did that happen?
Now there is a gaping hole in the infield…
#35– he was getting good reviews from LaRussa and other coaches during spring; and as Bavasi pointed out, when here it wasn’t his body that failed him, it was his brain exploding, so maybe the arrest, etc., finally straightened him out….
If it’s intolerant to express your disapproval of someone with intolerant, crazy attitudes, and it’s judgemental to express your judgement of someone who’s, at best, neglected their kids, or to express your judgement that his signing was bad, then color me intolerant *and* judgemental with the Brian Rust paint kit, folks, and send me out on the town.
Spiezio?
Oh yeah, and to #4 etc, well, we could go adapt Petagine’s old player cheer song from his time with the Yomiuri Giants, but it’s pretty dumb (from the bottom of this page, roughly translated it says “He’s a home-run-hitting machine, everyone’s waiting in the stands for them. We love Roberto! We love giants! Hit the ball, Petagine!”
So, on that note, I offer instead, inspired from back when my brother and I used to cheer “Eeny, Meeny, Morandini!”, we could do “Eeny, Meeny, Petagine!”
I’m with you DMZ. Totally.
Dibs on childish and bad form.
Spiezio hit 194/301/371 on the spring.
Here is a quote from Spiezio quote on the Cards website:
“It just got to a point where I was absolutely miserable,” he said. “They put me in, every 12th game, maybe lefty, maybe righty, against the closer. I trained my [behind] off, and if I didn’t get a hit, I knew I wasn’t going to play another 12 games. And even if I did get a hit, I might not play for 12 days. So I was really looking for any way to get out of there. I think they weren’t happy with my tattoo, that’s why they got rid of me. If I had known that, I would have gotten it a lot earlier.”
Spiezio had 3 hits last year. One was in his last game before going out with the injury, and one was in his last game of the season. After he came back from the injury on July 2, Spiezio played in 13 games in July, getting 1 hit in 19 AB. He got 367 at bats in 2004 for the M’s. What a piece of crap.
ah, so he’s still on a boat up Denial, hmm?
my favorite quote? “I’m pretty level headed but I love to joke around and have fun,” Spiezio explained. “In Seattle there really wasn’t anyone who liked to do that.”
Have the Cardinals gone mad? Or is he maybe a sacrifice to the baseball gods for when they start playing in the new stadium?
I think it has to do with the baseball’s biggest scandal.
No, not ‘roids.
Not gambling.
Strippers.
Baseball MUST do something about the ongoing infiltration of the league with Commun^H^H^H^H^H^Hstrippers.
Do we want our children subjected to more strippers as Mrs. Claus? Or ball players with massive tattoos of strippers on their biceps?
Freedom isn’t free, people. We are at war. We are winning the war on terror. And letting strippers date and marry baseball players just shows the enemies of freedom how weak we really are — to let our finest Americans fall prey to a $20 lapdance.
Let us stand behind true, freedom-loving, Godly American heroes like Carl Everett, whom the liberal media hates because he tells the truth.
(BTW, this is a joke. Don’t flame me.)
ill give carl a chance before booing him…then again me doing it in connecticut through my television wouldnt be very effective anyway. i dont mind guys who can be a-holes as long as they can play.
#46 – so at least the Kris & Anna Benson split is a step in the right direction…
Freedom isn’t free, people.
Of course not. Freedom costs $1.05.
It’s Opening Day!!! HALLELUJAH!
anybody check out espn’s page 2 day by day preview (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=gallo/060403_april), the whole things pretty funny, here are some of the mariners ones on it…poor carl haha:
April 12 — Mariners outfielder Matt Lawton announces he will begin speaking to school groups to tell them that he is proof that steroids don’t work.
April 28 — In Baltimore to play the Orioles, Mariners outfielder Carl Everett takes a trip down to Washington, D.C., to visit the Smithsonian. In an unfortunate occurrence, he is crushed by 1,500 pounds of dinosaur bones when a dinosaur skeleton display tumbles down on top of him. Luckily, though, Everett is uninjured because dinosaurs never existed.
May 7 — On a dare from teammates, Mariners catcher Rene Rivera catches starting pitcher Jamie Moyer barehanded for an entire game, and suffers no ill effects.
June 10 — Mariners outfielder Carl Everett tells teammate Ichiro Suzuki that he doesn’t believe he exists because he’s never come across any mention of Japanese people in the Bible.
July 20 — The Mariners announce they will stop displaying the speed of Jamie Moyer’s pitches at Safeco Field so as not to embarrass him or those he somehow gets out.
August 22 — Before a game in Seattle, Yankees center fielder Johnny Damon asks Mariners starter Jamie Moyer how he is able to throw the ball with such velocity.
Spiezio hit 194/301/371 on the spring.
He did lead the Cardinals in walks, though. And those numbers are way better than last season for us, so he’s obviously making, ahem, great progress.
Great jab at Damon’s noodle arm.
Seriously – I think he’s right handed and just doesn’t know it.
Millwood:
5IP 5ER 5 Years $55,000,000
Wow, does that mean Moyer has 12 or 15 years left in his OTHER arm?
Welcome to Texas, Kevin Millwood. Have a nice life.
Ha! Dave Campbell was just speculating that perhaps Millwood might want to negotiate himself out of Anaheim.
Actually that was mandated by the Collective Bargaining Agreement, and is part of the effort by Major League Baseball to bring hottie parity to the teams (since financial partiy seems to be a lost cause). This is why the Cardinals picked up Spiezio — he is not an asset, but his girlfriend is.
Of course this also explains the M’s otherwise strange attachment to the Bloomquists.
Nice to have real live game threads again – woo hoo!
BTW speaking of sucky ex-Mariners – I heard Franklin is no longer penciled into the Phils’ rotation. They are not as stupid as I thought. And apparently they’re significantly less stupid than St Louis.
2 run double by Varitek. 2 run HR by Ortiz.
If you’re going to pitch your first game in Arlington, do you really want it to be against the Red Sox?
Maybe I haven’t been paying attention, but “No No Nageotte” cracked me up.
Ace handle.
Ahh, opening day. I shall be another year older in a couple of weeks.
Dang, Youkilis couldn’t get a hit in the 7th to complete the set (all starters with a hit). Stupid Moneyball guy.
Ah, the one week where I can watch Mariners baseball without having to pay an inordinate amount of money.
oh man tell this sox game to finish up so i can watch the mariners game!
Hmm, looks like Philly needs somebody to stop the bleeding
jesus did vlad did take jamie deep…i could have promised you that was going to happen
NOW the 2006 season has begun.
Vladdy…grrrrrr…damn he’s good.
Nothing like an era of 18.00 to start off 2k6
Well, that was quick.
That’s more like it… all of that off season / clean slate BS is over with.
wait, i’m confused. we signed everett cuz he is a proven hitter in the middle (3-4-5) of the lineup. opening day, and he’s batting 6th? tell me it’s enough to fire hargrove over.
Frekin’ Gameday Audio, I payed $15 for this stupid thing and all I can get is a error message saying “bad file path”.
I guess he’s used to it now.
http://fantasyhockey.usatoday.com/content/player_news.asp?sport=MLB&id=1853&line=165725
Carl Everett is upset about being moved down in the batting order by manager Ozzie Guillen, and Guillen is upset that Everett complained to the press.
”Well, good, I won’t even put him in the lineup (today),” Guillen said. ”Carl always thinks it’s a personal problem, and I don’t know why he always thinks like that. The way he’s swinging the bat right now, I’m trying to get him to relax a little bit and take the pressure off of him. It’s not just because it’s him.” Sounds like a healthy way to run a baseball team.
Colon’s dealing. 3 K.
An auspicious start.
My mlb audio just went out too… and is now unavailable. This makes me unhappy.
Wow. Allow a 2-run dong in the top half. Bartolo strikes out the side in the bottom half. Sounds like par for the course for YOUR SEATTLE MARINERS! By the way, I’m already jaded with the 2006 season.
Not as unhappy as Colon striking out the side, however.
3 batters, 3 Ks, 3 weak swings. Let’s move to the next inning.
I don’t mean this as spam but MLB TV is worth the money for what the Daves are saying in between innings. Anybody else watching knows what I mean.
77 – imagine being able to look out your office window and see Safeco and the best thing you’ve got is Gamecenter.
Ugh. Way to set the tone. Anyone want to start a pool on when the Scrappy Ignitor gets in the everyday lineup? I’m going for April 17th.
Yeah, I recall Bavasi’s comments yesterday about Everett being a “middle of the order” hitter. I guess Bill interprets “middle” and “heart” as two different things.
I miss living in Seattle, and just thinking about seeing Safeco makes me even more sad.
Even more sad than what Colon did to the M’s in the bottom of the first.
I really was excited for today. It’ll come back. The Mariners will score some runs, it will be an interesting day, and win or lose, we’ll be looking forward until tomorrow.
Of course, I have officially declared Friday a holiday in my house. Felix, I am pretty sure, will not disappoint.
Contact! Ball in play!
It’s gotta get better. I pray.
everett gives his thanks to the fans with a tossed bat into the stands
Ok, Carl, we’re sorry about the gay paleontologist jokes!
That was worth 4 mil right there.
And already, Everett pisses off the fans (the ones 8 rows back anyway).
Welcome to the Carl Everett era. Let’s hope some fans survive the season.
Was he aming for DMZ with that bat throw?
Heh, Carl Everett’s first at bat – the bat goes 9 rows into the stands. BWAH!
First pitch with his new team and a new league: Spiezio flies out.
The more things change…
MLB.TV rocks. I give it my full endorsement. Though, their customer service blows.
3 Ks. 3 ground outs?
2 ground outs, and one extremely gritty fly out by Carl.
I just want to say – I missed Dave Niehaus. He makes these games bearable. For four and a half innings.
did Dave Henderson just say what I thought he said?
Those not watching the game on mlb.tv are missing out on Hendu’s and Dave’s banter between innings.
I would throw 4 balls away and way over Vlad’s head here.
What’d they do with the batting helmets? There’s some “grooves” or something on them now.
Johjima grounds out.
Looks like they could’ve left everyone but vlad and bartolo on the bus and done okay.
9 up, 9 down…gotta assume the next time through the lineup well have better success?
9 up, 9 down
Not a single baserunner. Can’t say we weren’t warned… This team is pretty bad.
Why do I feel like I’m in Groundhog Day?
small sample size. once thru the lineup. (yeah, 4K’s out of 9 batters isn’t very impressive, huh?)
At least Dave talking to Clyde provides some giggles.
You mean these?
http://espn-i.starwave.com/media/apphoto/AZMG10603212332.jpg
Several teams are using them this year…more extensive coverage here.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=lukas/060308
Well, at least Jamie’s pitching pretty well.
Nice play Johjima!
gotta keep that ERA near 9.00!
Yikes. Not looking good.
A run saved by Johjima
It looked like an Adidas, or Bank of America logo on the helmets. Nonetheless, they’re still really lame.
Instant jinx. Goddamnit.
There goes the perfect game
Boo, no perfect game.
hit by lopez…at least we won’t get no-hit this game
Poor Chone, he looked so sad
Good, because he was on pace to throw a perfect game in under 100 pitches.
oh man seeing fatty colon go after that one…love it!
Heh. The first two hits are little squibs.
Has anyone, besides Crazy Carl, put one in the outfield yet?
Whatdya say Big Richie here duplicates his performance last year on opening day
This, from mlb.com bites, almost as bad as Bartolo Colon’s fastball:
We were unable to successfully validate your address information. The Credit Card you entered was accepted, but it doesn’t support address verification, please use a different Credit Card for validation.
Upshot: I can’t watch game with my Chinese addresses. I’m glad the good ol’ USA is so up-to-date.
Two cheap hits are better than none
Must of missed something–Is Fairly gone? Replaced by Henderson?
Fairly is on the radio with RIzzzzzzs I think
Every time I hear ‘Petagine’…I begin to crave pasta.
As Gene Simmons once said in Kiss Saves Christmas:
“Someone stole Santa? THIS DOES NOT ROCK!”
(cue trombone going wah-wah)
Wow… Terry Mulholland snuck on with Arizona. Color me amazed and surprised.
I have a night class to attend…when I come back I expect some goddamned runs to be put across for the good guys.
Nick in Taiwan-It is the weekend change of time that confuses everything. Nice an overseas viewer is here.
YAY KENJI!
JOHJIMA!!!!!
SWEET!
Johjima!!!!!!!!!
KENJI!!! and we won’t get shutout now!
JOHJIMA!!
I finally got directv hooked up right on my computer… I hung up with customer service when the game finally came on…. five seconds later… POW!
I’m glad I missed the first half… his homer was the beginning of the season for me.
Weeeee— doggy!
Thatta boy REED! Doubles the other way! Slice that gap in half!
Wish Dave N were still on TV to announce that.
So, is that already more home runs than we got out of the catcher position all last year?
Yay, Reed!!!! Ah, the offense is finally starting to show up.
“silly putty and butter”?
Maybe that homer will be a rally starter, instead of a rally killer.
John in LA- Now you can not change the mojo.
DanO: I can personally attest that Olivo hit one out at the M’s-RedSox game I was at last spring. Actually, Olivo crushed that one, no doubt about it off the facing above the further away of the two bullpens. (The home one I believe… been too long.
)
I think that was about the last ball hit ever hit hard though.
Whaaaahhh?!?!?!? Offense from the bottom half of the order? I shed a single tear for Miguel Olivo.
You’re not your brother, Jose.
BP from Italy here,connected just in time to see kenji’s HR
and jerry’s double. Cool. Here’s a (glug glug) to the M’s
The beverage of choice for tonight?(12:25 Am here) Cinnamon After Shock,if you’re interested..
Jeremy’s having a great game considering that this time last week, we thought he’d be on the DL.
BETANCOURT!!!!!!
Yuneisky!
YuBet! 3-2 with Ichiro up.
3-2…good to see the bats could wake up the second time around
heyyyy.. Go yuni
god,i love opening day!
ICHIRO!!!
Yayyyy IChiiii
Ichiro! Betancourt slides in safe at third.
Sodo Mojo?
wow…what’s going on this inning with our offense?? also i thought guererro was gonna throw him out, that was real close.
RA-LEEE RA-LEE RA-LEE!!!
Offense from the BOTO — that’s the necessary improvement this year.
Oh my…. Betancourt was out. =)
It should be Willie Bloomquist as our 2nd baseman for situations like these.
that was close..
All opposite field hits, too.
Hey how about the youngsters and the rookie (ha ha) with the hits so far. Cinnamon after shock? Woof!
what? Hendu sctually making sense??
What will happen next??
Now that one was more questionable then the Guerrero throw.
dude, he was so out. twice now. is this seahawks karma evening out?
JO LO
“Pokey” Lopez!
Wow, Betancourt thrown out twice in sixty seconds. This season’s luck is off to a good start.
Lopez!!!!!! Tied it up! Oh, he got greedy. 3-3, boys. Good stuff.
Ah Lopez, well at least you got a hit, not a great swing but… he hit it to right!
why jose,why?
still,we’re ba-a-ck!
Consider my foot in my mouth. Thank you very much Jose Lopez.
A run driven in, then maybe a run lost on a baserunning error. A sac fly no longer works.
Why was’t Ichiro on second? Or even making Colon trow over to keep him close?
Bartolo’slost it..
29 pitches for Colon this inning.
user name goes from mrbean259 to norm charlton fan club…if anyone cares haha
Good stuff. Let’s hope Moyer can hold ‘em scoreless now.
That would have been a sac fly.
Ugh.
now fuming in taiwan at lack of pictures (oh to share they joy!)… any advice how to contact these people???
Aw man… if Lopez didn’t go to second, Ichiro scores on a sac fly. Oh well. He was trying to make something happen.
182-
Unfortunately no one told Richie
Hey, Barking Pumpkin. Are you still in Italy?
“Upshot: I can’t watch game with my Chinese addresses. I’m glad the good ol’ USA is so up-to-date.”
That’s too bad. It’s likely a result of mlb trying to enforce their blackout restrictions by making sure they can validate the address of those subscribing to mlb.tv.
watching the game on MLB.TV you don’t get commercials between inning tonight..
there’s nothing more annoying to hear RR going BUBBA!YOU THE MAN 2-3 times in a row,believe me…
Anybody see Jake Woods pitch at all in spring training? This guy any good?
Much as I hate walks, walking Vlad isn’t a bad idea.
I had that problem all last year. Even though they’ve defined all of Canada as Blue Jays territory (so I can watch M’s games all I want, but Jays games are blacked out), it wouldn’t validate my address.
I blame MLB for misspelling British Columbia in their dropdown menu.
Barking–Aftershock? Really? Will have to dail it up a notch here to keep up. You understand now you will be required to drink that for the entire season when a rally is needed.
192-yup,still living in firenze..
6-4-3. Guerrero nullified.
643. Nice.
DOUBLE PLAY TIME!
199 Great to see you back this year. You usually make me laugh. At least this game is at a decent hour for you.
Ah… I got an answer to a question I’ve been wanting to ask. Gameday recorded Jamie as having 6 groundball outs before that double play. Now it’s 8. So a double play DOES count as TWO groundball outs. That’s interesting.
Jaimie’s ERA is now down to 4.5
Geez, I’m following along on Game center and it’s about a half ining behind I swear. At least you guys are keeping me up to date!
Adam Adam Adam…. you suck.
MLB Gameday seems up to date.
Hey Evan, how’d you resolve this problem– sorry to cut in on the regularly schedule broadcast…?
Mmmmmmm…..Angel errors.
I must say, being in NY and watching over mlb.tv isn’t the greatest, but…
There’s no commercials and the leave it running during the commercial breaks. I don’t think the announcers know. What a bunch of dumbs—- the M’s have in the booth…
people..
sooo lame it’s unbelievable..
RR is singing we’ve got a ballgame
Hendu is singing Colon has got another inning..
(glug glug)
B@@@@cks! don’t know what happened here,but MLB.TV has switched automatically to the Astros game!
Carl Everett, ladies and gentlemen.
2 on, nobody out…kenji lets hit another home run!
BUNTING? WITH JOHJIMA?!
Heh. Crazy Carl with a hit. Johjima after his power display is trying for a bunt.
Carl ends his bid for the Jeff Cirrillo, Scott Spiezio, Rich Aurilia sucky debut memorial. I’m almost sad.
hey..
this is for those of you watching the game on mlb.tv
here,they switched to the astros game with no sound on
Is this happening to you as well??
218-
It sure is
I find Everett’s picture in gameday to be rather funny. He looks kind of forlorn, almost like he was uncerimoniously dumped by last year’s World Series champs. Oh wait, that did happen.
Colon can’t get offspeed stuff by Jojima. He’s trying to hit it the other way. I think we should have a farm team in Japan with Japanese coaches.
Great at bat by Kenji
Kenji’s havin a nice lil at-bat here…get that pitch count up!
Kenji, what a terrific AB. Why would you consider bunting with him?
HBP, wow.
Johjima HBP. Bases loaded, nobody out.
Ut Oh Colon is on Tilt
Well I’m still getting a mute Astros broadcast. I’m switching over to audio, somebody please let me know if it switches back.
Kenji Johjima = sweetass.
KJ got the runners over after all. Now a double play ball puts us ahead.
i can’t see a thing besides gameday, but maybe just maybe we have a lineup..
Damn..
Boys,MLB.TV has decided I’m not worthy of a M’s rally,and is forcing me to watch the Astros game,so for the moment i’ll have to rely on your comments to get what’s going on
and 188-I’ll gladly take the punishment,so to speak!
Jeremy Reed,
Last season you batted a paltry .250. We know that with it being your rookie season, naturally some adjustment period would have to be made. We understood you.
But others doubted you. Now you have a great chance to shut up some very ignorant sons of bitches. Shut them up, Jeremy. Shut them up.
209 – Nick, I didn’t. They advised me to phone them during business hours before any games had started that day – a 3 hour window ending at noon eastern time – to work out a solution, and I never did. So I didn’t get to watch any live games except when their system broke and failed to ask me to verify my location (which happened remarkably often).
Just get your bat on the ball, Jeremy.
233 – Hear hear!!! Make the mortals tremble at your wrath Jeremy!!!!
Walk in a run JC!
Crap! sTILL locked on the frigging astros game..
Does any of you remeber the customer support email for mlb.tv
(glug glug)
Why do I have a feeling some idiot behind the scenes at MLB.tv got confused by the similarity of the Mariners and the Marlins names? I pay for this, it’s really making me mad.
*&!#@$*$(^*(@!)*#!(
It’s ok Jeremy, Bronson Arroyo would have struck out there too.
so much for scoring on a DP
Damnit. 1-3 today with a double and a run scored. I still love you, Jeremy.
Damn. Ichiro, come on, make something out of this.
Okay Ichiro, pick up Reed and Betancourt.
Ugh…c’mon we gotta get a run here…we had bases loaded, no outs.
thanks Evan. How’s that for customer service?
Ichiro said he like the adrenaline rush of the pressure of the WBC. Let’s hope he thrives on it here.
Now this is the Mariners offense I’m used to seeing!
What happened to being aggresive? Why not a suicide against a new pitcher?
Son of a…
Shades of 2005
Yay, the shit bag Mariner offense comes back to life.
We’re BACK on MLB TV baby!
Go Ms!
MLB.tv is back on.
Did we just load the bases with no outs and fail to score?
Niehaus hates it when we do that.
another uestion for evan: so you could watch the game not-live– i.e., downloaded from the mlb web site?
again apologies
..oh,and 203..
glad to be of service!
Kotchman tatoooed that ball.
HER e on mlb tv it gets better any second..
NOW we have pictures bACK,BUT
BOTH audio feeds,tv and radio,going on at once..
if only i could silence out RR and Hendu and only hear Niehaus..
Soriano warming up. Ooooooooo baby.
not bad,jamie,not bAD
Hey, Curt Schilling threw 117 pitches today – what kind of wimp are you, Jaimie?
The Gameday Alert crawl is really helpful. Just been warned that they’re warming up for the Mets game. And that the Mariners and Angels are 0-0 in the first inning.
Wild Thang…
RR And hendu are frantically looking for info on Soriano right now..
at least they’re not singing anymore..
..i’ll have nightmares for weeks now!
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NOW that’s a first pitch man
Jeez, he was playing terribly shallow, wasn’t he?
wooooo
close too damn close
aftershock,anybody?
The AP’s lead on today’s Milwaukee-Pittsburgh game:
“MILWAUKEE — At 36, Jeff Cirillo has transformed himself into the wise veteran who tries to stay young by occasionally hiking up his socks or blowing chewing-gum bubbles at home plate.
He’s also become the guy the Milwaukee Brewers turn to when they need a big hit
Oh man, that inning had me worried there…let’s get some runs now!
94mph was the fastest pitch I saw. With Jamie in the game, they usually keep the guns fairly accurate because of the mystique of his slowness. So it seems he’s lost a couple of mph from the surgery.
Balls hit like that (or really, a little less right down the line, but still just out of Ibanez’s grasp) are something that puts the fear of death in me, and I suspect will be the bane of the Mariners’ existence this year….
crap!
RR is humming take me out to the ballgame now
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I love free Mariners games on tv… is it me or are they appearing to call the higher strike today?
anyone know of a live radio stream i can listen to? im following the espn webcast…thanks
I hope you really stocked up on After shock Barking Pumpkin! Could be a long, stressful season.
277-
I’m actually down to the last bottle now!
Watch – this game is going to go 14 innings, thus justifying Grover’s insistence on a 12-man pitching staff.
Ibanez does not look comfortable out there in left.
He’s just keeping it interesting. It takes showmanship to make a fan hold his breath during a routine fly.
God Vlad terrifies and mystifies me.
Vlad alone is worth the price of admission.
bye bye vlad,see you later..
Oh my… where was that?
Oh my… twice….
Dave N (on the radio) said that hit to Lopez was a 96mph pitch from Raffie. Which (assuming you can trust the gun) is a good sign.
And yeah, Vlad is mysteriously terrifying and terrifyingly mysterious. He hits bad pitches like Ichiro, and in fact he’s the only right fielder I’d consider trading Ichiro for (but damn, can you imagine keeping Ichiro and putting Vlad in left?) Any game with both of them in it is a fun game.
I’d put Vlad in right and Ichiro in center, just to make the best use of both of their arms. For what it’s worth.
287 – or putting Vlad in RF with Ichiro! in CF?
Soriano looked pretty good – got squeezed a little on that last at bat. Let’s see how Sherrill does.
Wow… I don’t know if that was actually 93mph… but I’ve never seen Sherrill throw that fast.
Next pitch 92. Maybe they modified the guns already. =P
George Sherrill owns lefties. Sit DOWN Erstad!
Nice strikeou by Sherill
Good job by Sherrill. Let’s wrap it up in the 8th for Eddie.
damn, Sherrill looks good
hey now!
Wasn’t Sherrill the one sporting the “anonymous evil henchman in a John Wayne movie” look last year? His gameday pictures is pretty clean cut with a neatly trimmed goatee.
I like the way that Kenji caught that third strike. As if saying “I don’t need to frame a pitch like that!”.
Not only is Cirillo the Veteran Presence on the Brewers, he drove in the tying and go-ahead runs with a PH single today.
Rich Aurilia has a PH single for the Reds. Spiezio is on the Cards roster. What’s next – Bret Boone makes a comeback?
Valle’s in mid-season form. Normally, it takes a few months to reach the insight that a reliever needs to throw strikes.
Speaking of Vlad and those new helmets, that uni watch page has a good point — poor Vlad just got his helmet all pine-tarred the way he likes it and now he has to start over this season with a clean one.
Still no commercials between innings here on mlb tv,and i can assureyou that..
RR and Hendu off air seem to behave just like two frat boys on a keg rampage..
B@@@ocks,Ade!
That was a clutch at bat by Carl
And we head into the 9th…I’m kinda worried going into a bullpen battle against the Angels, but hopefully we can pull this one out
Dang, Sexson and Beltre look like they may get collars today. I hope that’s not a sign of things to come…
Johjima seems to really have a solid approach. Just missed that one, but showed quickness inside the pitch before.
Spiezio himself couldn’t have done better..
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nice pitch!
Did Hendu forget about jinxes now that he is in the booth?
Stop sucking, George.
Why not just walk Salmon and go after Figgins?
What are we saving our “closer” for?
jj putz..
why do i have bad feelings about this??
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My bad, Hendu is in the booth. I’m not in mideseason form yet.
… for a closing situation
I’m pretty sure that we won’t have one of those today.
TIF (312) – Chone’s a switch-hitter.
We’ll see Eddie next inning – if the M’s don’t win it first.
Yes, but Figgins isn’t much of a hitter compared to Salmon.
Somebody knock the legs off home plate!
Man…had the 0-2 count then ya walk Figgins
dammit JJ
I do NOT want to see Anderson or Guerrero this inning!
318 – or lose it. I’m not too optimistic right now.
B@@@ocks,B@@@ocks!
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Cabrera alrady has his hits today
Gotta love Kenji’s body english on that one… (is it still english?)
Man, that was a really bad pitch that Cabrera swung at. Seriously, that probably would have been a wild pitch had he not swung. How could he swing at that… better question: how did he make contact?
And then, right after I say that, he hits a 2-run single.
Who will be first off the bench for Hargrove?
damn, I shouldnt have turned the tv on
Grover is a genius.
Fack!! JJ, puttin’ the putz in Putz!
Nice outing JJ
Come on, not this again.
now,here’s the Ms I know!
anyway,who needs baseball,WHEN you’ve got Cinnamon AfterShock??
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Barking–Should have never tried to keep up with the –Glug_Glug–Evan would be more suited for that.
another 0-2 count gone to the wind..
Wouldn’t it stand to reason that your team’s top-tier righty setup man (Putz) should possess an out pitch?
pensive,
what are you drinking??
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Come on Ms,it’s clutch time!
Petagine is PH’ing for Betancourt.
PETAGINE….gets an AB.
you gotta step up to the big time, oh my brothers:
Mar. 30
News: Putz capped a strong spring with another scoreless inning Wednesday. He hasn’t allowed a run all spring and hasn’t walked a batter.
Spin: Putz has impressed and secured his spot as one of the team’s two right-handed set-up men, sharing with Rafael Soriano. In six spring innings, Putz allowed no runs, three hits, no walks and struck out four.
jerry,oh,Jerry!
WTF??
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YES!
yay!
PETEGINE TIME!!!!!!!!!!
Wow nice introduction Mr. Petagine
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.
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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.
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.