Comments on: Game One, Angels at Mariners http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/ Seattle Mariners and general baseball discussion with David Cameron and Derek Zumsteg Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:32:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Rusty http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/comment-page-8/#comment-91740 Rusty Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:43:41 +0000 http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/#comment-91740 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. 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.

]]> By: zzyzx http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/comment-page-8/#comment-91715 zzyzx Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:20:42 +0000 http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/#comment-91715 Gomez - this is my 11th straight opening day, so I know how those crowds work. It was a disengaged crowd. Gomez – this is my 11th straight opening day, so I know how those crowds work. It was a disengaged crowd.

]]> By: Gomez http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/comment-page-8/#comment-91645 Gomez Tue, 04 Apr 2006 03:27:12 +0000 http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/#comment-91645 Whoa, clean off my comment: it was in response to a comment that has since disappeared. Yeah, clean this one off too. Whoa, clean off my comment: it was in response to a comment that has since disappeared.

Yeah, clean this one off too.

]]> By: Gomez http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/comment-page-8/#comment-91644 Gomez Tue, 04 Apr 2006 03:25:37 +0000 http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/#comment-91644 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? 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?

]]> By: msb http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/comment-page-8/#comment-91633 msb Tue, 04 Apr 2006 03:02:26 +0000 http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/#comment-91633 #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...' #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…’

]]> By: Evan http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/comment-page-8/#comment-91630 Evan Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:29:06 +0000 http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/#comment-91630 <i>Absente the fake stuff</i> Come up and visit. You can get real absinthe here. I don't advise consuming it with tequila in the same sitting. 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.

]]> By: colm http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/comment-page-8/#comment-91629 colm Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:25:23 +0000 http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/#comment-91629 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. 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.

]]> By: eponymous coward http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/comment-page-8/#comment-91626 eponymous coward Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:51:50 +0000 http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/#comment-91626 Mike Goff says it's not a baserunning "blunder" if he's being "aggressive". Mike Goff says it’s not a baserunning “blunder” if he’s being “aggressive”.

]]> By: Jeff Nye http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/comment-page-8/#comment-91625 Jeff Nye Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:34:40 +0000 http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/#comment-91625 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. 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.

]]> By: msb http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/comment-page-8/#comment-91624 msb Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:19:29 +0000 http://ussmariner.com/2006/04/03/game-one-angels-at-mariners/#comment-91624 please oh please. please oh please.

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