Game 4, Athletics at Mariners
DMZ · April 6, 2006 at 2:18 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
RHP Loaiza v RHP Meche. 2006 salary battle: $5m vs $3.7m. 7:05p, FSN for TV.
Also, it’s the season opener for the Tacoma Rainiers at 6:05. Fireworks and everything. They’re taking on the Colorado Springs Sky Sox.
As noted in another thread, the M’s traded Carvajal for another righty who doesn’t require a roster spot.
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So, thoughts going into the first series with the evil, evil A’s.
Is the new Meche for real? And will he stick with the plan, or fall back into old habits the first time he gets hit hard? He seems to panic and try to overthrow as soon as he thinks batters have figured him out. Can Jo keep him on track? Can anyone?
I predict we’ll hear no end to the chatter about the “two seam fastball” from the announcers. The last game they were talking about it like it was a newly-invented pitch, trying to guess which kind of fastball a given pitch was (often incorrectly), and generally being incredibly annoying. I realize it’s the Mariners’ Corporate Marketing Focus for this season (”Same old rotation but with New, New, Fastball! As taught by New, New Pitching Coach! Hey Now! Catch it! Mojo!”) and they do sometimes run out of things to talk about and fall back on their scripts, but sheesh….
Other thoughts: Johmamma is now on pace for 108 HRs. Hey now.
Are we currently at the high-point for winning percentage for the season?
How many games can we go before the masses demand an appearance by Mr. Gritty? I’m guessing the Bloomster gets at least a pinch running assignment tonight whether it makes sense or not.
If we keep winning games, I doubt the masses will demand anything.
Heck, the masses probably wouldn’t care if we had Niehaus patrolling in left field as long as we were winning games.
On a related note, if we did put Niehaus in left field, would he have a better zone rating than Ibanez?
#1 – I’m guessing Willie (aka McLemore-Lite)either starts at SS or 2B in one of the games over the weekend. Whether we like it or not.
Regarding Carvajal, I recall the USSM’ers being pretty high on this guy when we got him from Colorado (either that or my memory is poor, LOL). Did we get close to equal value in return for him in this trade? Just curious.
What should we look for from Nageotte, who’s starting tonight in Tacoma? What pitches do we want him to be throwing? What are the keys to his success?
a WFB sighting is particularly likely as Hargrove says he is planning to give everyone some time off the next little bit…
dang but it’s a shame that Piniero-for-Wilson rumor was nothing but a rumor… according to the Reds’ broadcast team, Craig Wilson is a bonafide, game-changing, bat off the bench…
RE 4: 1. Two-seam fastball. 2. Two-seam fastball.
RE 4: First-pitch strikes. That is the key, I am Fairly certain.
A 1-2-3 first inning for Clint, with two Ks.
I’ll believe that when I see Petagine starting at DH.
I dream of Petagine.
Im loving Dave’s lounge singing act
My first post since the registration system began-Meche hasn’t thrown a pitch yet and I’m tense already.
So much for the sinker?
Nice start by Mr. Meche, I see.
Who else is that in the booth?
That was a nice dive by Reed though. He really looked like he might get it … so close to rivalling Beltre’s catch the other night for “fielding highlight of the season”
Oh ok, Hendu
Meche is missing his spots by 2 or 3 feet almost every pitch, if this continues we’re in for a long night.
Does anyone believe the A’s will draw more fans if only they were located away from mass transit in one of the least populated regions of the Bay Area?
What the crap Gil!
Belt high fastball! and Henderson says “staying away from the walk” – by giving a power hitter a pitch to tattoo? That is really digging in the dregs of the positivity barrel
Assuming we’re smart enough not to buy into jinxes, I’ll point out that Nageotte has given up no hits through five innings.
At least he only gave up one run….in the 1st inning.
Now that’s the Ichiro! we know and love. Swinging at an obvious ball and getting a hit out of it.
DO NOT BUNT HERE! SHEESH!
1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 SO, 1 Groundball out, 1 Flyball out.
Observations:
I think Reed was dreadfully out of position on that triple. That ball was up in the air a long time and he still almost got to it. I think he was probably playing more towards left center. Would make sense because of Meche’s current pitching selections.
As for Gil, I saw him throw more changeups then anything else. He threw mostly 2-seam fastballs, but threw one 4-seamer to Chavez (that was raked). Only 1 curve ball. So right now he’s primarily Change -> 2-seam fastball pitching. I’m wondering how much of this is Meche, how much is Chavez calling pitches from the dugout, and how much is Jojima.
Brantley on BBTN is giving Reed crap for not catching that Scutaro triple. “Come on. I thought he was faster than that!” Idiot
#26, was he really trying to bunt or were you just saying that preemptively?
Shin-Soo Choo hits a two-run dinger.
BBTN? I still have Mets/Nationals on the four letter network.
29, looked like was definitely choking up to bunt. It made my stomach lurch.
Yeah, Im on the eastcoast if that makes a difference (also in the Nats broadcast area so maybe they arent showing it??? who knows)
I would say Gil’s best pitch that inning was his change, especially to the lefties. They were flailing at it.
I would have liked to have seen an overhead shot to see where Reed started from, what his jump was like etc.
Re: #4, Where away Big Clint?:
–Two-seamer in the zone with movement, to get ahead in the count and keep the pitch count low
–Also to set up the slurvy slider of his for an out pitch
–Occasional four-seamer out of the zone for another look
Ellis was horribly fooled on Meche’s change. So it’s working to the righties too.
Yes he was about to bunt.
Stop the presses: Greg Dobbs took a walk.
It’s not as simple as just stopping the presses. Now you have to replate the page. Geez!
Hey Bradley… that pitch before was strike 3 too. You got off once, not twice. This is not a spectator sport.
Meche is looking damn good tonight. That grooved 4 seamer for the double was bad but he is pitching for the corners and either hitting or missing off the plate.
Hah! Oakland broadcasts keys to the game include: “Mess with Meche” and “Dominate the Division”. Brilliant!
Nageotte leaves with his no-no intact … 4 Ks, eight groundball outs, one fly ball out.
nice.
2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 SO, 1 Groundball out, 2 Flyball outs.
Threw more curves this inning, especially to Swisher, who couldn’t touch them. Bradley sruck out on a change, so did Swisher.
2nd inning for Gil >> 1st inning
That 2nd inning from Meche was easier on the heart.
Yeah, the 2nd inning was great but if that fly to center is 1 foot more towards Reed then Meche has a shut out brewing. I don’t think that first inning was that bad.
Is it me, or does Beltre always seem to hop around on breaking balls?
Beltre was finding it hard to hold back on that low and away dirtball….
Pow. That’s an Adrian Beltre stroke. Too bad he pulled it foul.
Great swing by Beltre on that foul ball. I want to see more of those.
Yeah, the 2nd inning was great but if that fly to center is 1 foot more towards Reed then Meche has a shut out brewing. I don’t think that first inning was that bad.
31 pitches. Yes it was. Second inning was only 14 pitches.
More swingin’ at garbage. C’mon Adrian!
POW! There you go Adrian!
I spoke too soon, nice rip!
whew. he tipped that other low-and-away, he got lucky to get his bat on that one. he needs to lay off those, dammit.
Hey, lead-off guy on two innings in a row. Not sure what that means, but it seems good.
Now, if only Everett weren’t up…
Needs to lay off that crap over his eyeballs too.
That Beltre hit looked like a blooper on GameCase. I gotta learn how to tell what kinda hit it was from this thing.
TIF- The pitches were up, but that inning was 1 foot away from being harmless. He threw some great pitches and kept it from being a great inning. I am not sure why the 2nd inning has anything to do with the first being good or not.
BOOM
bang!
Ladies and Gentlemen….
RALLLLLYYY DIIINNNOOOO!!!!
LEFT HANDED SOCK IN YO FACE!!!!!!!
Um, do we cheer for that or not?
Carl goes Jurassic on Loaiza’s ass
I was just commenting on how pudgy Carl looked.
I didn’t see that coming-I was waiting for a K
Do I have to be excited now?
Whoa…what have we got here? A homerun by Everett…are we supposed to cheer?
Let’s go back-to-back!
C-REX with a bomb!!
The SoDoMoFo Comes Through! I still don’t like him.
Carl Everett! A poor man’s Ken Griffey Jr.! Worth ever penny!
73 C-REX ahah thats classic
I know everyone wants Carl gone, but if you really are questioning whether or not to cheer about us taking the lead, go ahead and stop being a fan because there is really nothing for you to cheer for.
31 pitches in an inning is a bad inning by definition.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDD!!!!!
reed!
Yes, I like that – C-REX.
Jeremy for 3!
TRIPLE!!!
reed with a triple!!! the guys are lookin good on offense
Whoooooo!
That’s some frickin offense right there
Yeah Reed.
We’re a double away from the cycle this inning.
harry- Where can I find that definition?
Carl Everett for MVPEE
suicide squeeze try eh?
Wow squeeze attempt.
HOLY MOLEY!
SQUEEZE! I love it!
Can he hit it? Yu-Bet!
W00t Betty!
OK, that’ll do, YB.
Yu-Bet!
Bunt? NO! Hit? Yu-Bet!
Chicks dig the infield-in RBI singles
sweet. nice hit Bet.
chicks do not dig dropped transfers, however
Wow. That would have been bad for Betancourt if they’d said Bradley dropped it anyway.
Yu-Bet? YOU BET!
Home runs? On a Carl Everett?
Suicide Squeezes? From Mike Hargrove?
Snakes? ON AN AIRPLANE?!
3 runs that inning…pretty good even coming from C-Rex
man I wish I could SEE this team.
I really like this team, I’m having fun! That only happened like 4 times last year.
Oh man…SNAKES ON A PLANE!!!!!! thats gonna be the best movie ever!!
C-Rex, man thats classic.
Snakes on a Plane is pretty much going to define 21st century film. Anyone who misses out on seeing it will not understand movies made for the rest of the century.
Wow Ump… where the hell was that?
Wow Take 2.
Man, it looks like the super agressive syle is paying off! (rolleyes)
Also, could Meche please throw a few more pitches?
Wow! This team is starting to put me on a manic-high. Maybe Everett has brung a new attitude to this team.
Non strike 3 call leads to walk. Wow. That curve was beautiful, how the hell do you not call that….?
Gil-you’re beginning to annoy me. Again.
Hey, what’s up with those crazy new helmets?
Wow, that was a nice strikeout.
Well blow me down. Sit Kotsay.
Anyone know if ESPN GameCast’s pitch location is accurate?
#120- As far as I know they’re pretty close anyways.
120. Sort of, but if the call is bad they compensate. So it’ll show up as a strike regardless of where it is.
They should make Mariner hats with a meaner looking logo like the Seahawks did a few years ago and come up with a catchy slogan to commemerate the change in attitude of the organization.
The Seattle Flesh Ripping T-Rexes. I can see it now, World Series in no time.
How about a guy throwing a trident into the heart of an opponent as the new logo?
Man, that curve is pathetic!
125. I’ve been meaning to talk to you about that… maybe you should lay low for a little while.
Would it be ok to sue Meche for ulcers?
wtf? What does it take to get a strike called?
70 pitches in 3 innings? Niiiiiccccceeee
Is Jake Wood our long reliever tonight?
3 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 4 SO, 2 Groundball out, 3 Flyball outs.
Does everything about this team have to be exciting? I don’t know if I can handle this all year.
The A’s clearly have a good gameplan of taking pitches. Not sure how many managers think about a 4 game series, but it seems that if you can blow off the first game starter quickly you will be up against a short bullpen the rest of the series.
70+ pitches, isn’t that dandy.
He has another inning like that, and he’s done.
There’s no way Meche is giving us more than 5 innings tonight.
Pitches by inning:
31, 14, 27… sheesh. While I appreciate a high strikeout rate Gil Meche….
Thank God I’m drunk and talking with my girlfriend and her friends, or I may have passed out due to the drama of that inning.
#134 – I totally agree. What I find funny is Hendu was talking about the A’s game plan, with almost a total disgust.
Ha ha ha! Oh wow.
Ibanez was out.
WOW! Third triple of the game. Thought he was nailed though.
Whats with all this CRAZY base running…i mean i like aggressive play but it seems like EVERY time theyre running like maniacs
IBANEZ = WHEELS!
He was so out.
What’s with all the triples tonight?
Oh man, Ibanez was soooo out.
We’ll take it…
He was dead to rights…
I imagine we’ll chill out eventually
Hendu and Niehaus are argueing about the call – hilarious.
Ibanez = square wheels
I agree … Ibanez was out by a foot. Tag got him right on the butt.
Over agressive baserunnings not in the bible. Hmmm, on second thought, maybe the escape from pharoh through a temporarily parted sea counts
I wonder if agressive baserunning leads to more calls in your favor overal? Seems to be the case for the M’s so far anyway.
Lol, I love how Neihaus is yelling at hendo that he was obviously safe because it was a “pop up” slide.
Man, he was out. After the Seahawks screw-jobs though, we’ll take it!
Look at him, he’s totally gassed..
I wonder if the plan is to use that to get more fans in the seats. I could see it working.
Loaiza is likely to throw more pitches than Meche… Damn not after that.
If Grover is likely to get fired, as we heard at the feed on Sunday, maybe that is affecting his managing: “What the heck, I’ll go down running.”
When even Hendu thinks you’re being stupid it’s time to re-think. Also it’s clear that the scouting report is to throw Beltre junk low and away. He did hit the ball hard though, just right at the 3B.
Yeah, that wasn’t even close. This aggressive baserunning crap is starting to grate on me even more. Ibanez should have been out, just like Reed a couple of days ago. But now Hargrove is going to cite these as examples of what a great strategy it is.
Will Carl Steal!??!
Everett? Walking?
OH SHI~!
That is the problem with Beltre isn’t it? The ball was low and away and he still pulled it?
Kenji Johjima is so dreamy.
man, we are rocking Loaiza
I hope this is not just karmic payback for the Superbowl. That would be Seattles luck to get karmic payback for the joke of the Superbowl in a regular season baseball game 1 of 162. God owes Seattle the Superbowl next year in my opinion.
Why do I feel like Hargrove thinks he is managing the Indians team from Major League???
Now who’s getting to the pen early? Huh? Huh? Pitch count this buddy!
This game is going to be four hours.
“I thought you said we don’t have any high priced talent.”
“We don’t, that’s Dorn he’s just high priced.”
On the aggressive approach, there are choices that the player makes (going for extra base, some steals), and plays the manager calls (squeeze, other steals). It’s a little easier for Hargrove to vary the risk on the stuff he calls than to suddenly call a team huddle midgame and say “Forget all that aggressive stuff I preached in spring training – at least for the rest of this game”.
RBI-SAN!
C-Rex intentionally walked…they fear him now!
Can we stop with the K-Joh and such and just start calling him ROY?
This Johjima guy can hit a little.
TJ – hey, the Indians won the division!
I watched that movie for the first time a few months ago. I can’t believe that the big plan was to move the team to Miami. That’s sure worked well in the real world.
I also don’t understand why the owner continues to root against her team at the end of the movie when the fan threshold has obviously been reached. Might as well hope for a profit at that point.
What’s Johjima trying to do, out-hit the ‘05 M’s catchers’ seasons in four games?
Looks like he’s doing a good job.
Does anyone know what’s with Johjima’s necklase? He kissed it and touched it to his bat before the at bat, then kissed it again when he got to first.
Somebody tell Meche he has a 4 run lead and can throw a couple of strikes.
Anything that goes that far should have a stewardess.
Chavez sure likes hitting against Meche.
Just not there again please.
UGHHHHH, That pitch didn’t work when he roped a double, why throw it again????????
I didn’t expect him to get yanked now, after the load the other three starters carried.
doh!
Oh – 101 pitches – nevermind.
hey, meche could have done a lot worse. I’ll take that from him every time.
So gamecast on ESPN.com is pretty cool, er umm well would be if they actually properly charted the pitches, its location was way off. Perhaps I have just got a bad sample of it though, as I’ve only used it this inning in the first two at bats.
This could get interesting.
Least the pen gets to rest a bit tomorrow (hopefully) when the ball is in the court of King Felix.
What a catch!
Sexon is going for the gold glove this year!!!!!!
He will beat you every time with that..
Ichiro still has some wheels….
Has he ever broken a bat before (on the M’s)? I can’t recall him ever breaking a bat.
I think that was going to be an easy double steal.
FERGET about throwing him out, pal!
Its early and I’m probably setting myself up for disappointment, but this is much more fun than last year.
197 – Amen!
ESPN’s showed Everett’s homer like 5-6 times already. I keep watching it hoping to see something else, but that’s pretty much all they show.
#179 Maybe Johjima has a laughing Buddha necklace or soemthing. I know quite a few oriental Buddhists that engage in all sorts of ritualism to ward of evil spirits etc.
Last season, they got off to a slow start, and never recovered. Same in 2004. In 2001, they got off to a fast start, and just kept rolling.
The past couple of years, everyone kept saying, “It’s just the beginning, you can’t judge from the small number of games they’ve played.” But the way they lost those games, it didn’t feel like there was better play to follow: it really felt like April showed what the rest of the season would look like.
So these games are making me optimistic. It feels like they’re just going to play at a higher level this year than in the past two.
Everett’s Homer = Jurassic park’d ?
I lost all hope. If Benta can’t get that ball up the middle we have no chance at doing anything this season.
If I were commissioner, I would suspend Nick Swisher three games for ugly facial hair. You gotta think of the future – the guy’s scaring small kids away from the park with that whisk broom sticking out of his chin.
200 – did you really just use the word *oriental*?
DMZ is going to love this.
Oriental = from the east.
The Orient is properly the area once known as Persia. Most asians do not appreciate being called “oriental”.
At least, most asians I know and talk to. And my wife being chinese, I know and talk to a lot of asians.
Oriental = rug
Asian = people
Johjima’s necklace is one of those ridiculous titanium jobbies, isn’t it?
Swisher’s beard is mandated (not man-dated) by the league to assist the umpire in cleaning off the plate. Maybe he should take a tip from Jason Kendall, who apparently shaved his moustache off during this game.
What, pray tell is a “Jake Woods”? I have been following the M’s fairly closely, but I totally missed this fellow. Any idea where he came from?
In case you can’t tell, I’ve been tasting the fruits of the grape a little this evening. Hi-ya.
Though I must say I have no problem at all being referred to as an “Occidental”.
Steve T is a dis-oriental.
Wah? Who? Where’s that voice coming from?
Well, whoever Jake Woods is, he deserves a hand for keeping the A’s off the board. The three walks, on the other hand…
Dec 20, 2005 – 12:12 pm
Mariners claimed LHP Jake Woods off waivers from the Angels.
Deep breath. Sigh of relief
You know, not that we couldn’t still find a way to lose this game, and King Felix is untried this season, but we have a great shot at getting 4 in a row and starting the season off 4 – 1 with all of those wins against the division.
And Texas lost tonight.
Not a bad way to start the season.
Ooh, bad luck, but wow, what a great catch. I’m glad he wasn’t hurt.
Funny memory: Dobber’s game winning hit last year with the assist to Eric Byrnes and his dive from a good 15 feet away from the ball.
#210 The thing about language is that it’s contextual and laden with history. A word that may appear innocent to you today and still have an ugly history – such as Oriental. There are still covenants on house deeds in the city of Seattle that forbid the house to be inhabited by “orientals except for chinese houseboys.” These covenenants are, of course, not enforceable today, but still rankle many/most Asians such as myself b/c of such history. Anecdotally, wealthy Asians were de facto often excluded from buying a house in Magnolia, for example, as late as the mid-1970’s. Not as long ago as you might think….
Occidental, on the other hand, has no such ugly history. Hence there is little reason for anyone to mind being called Occidental.
OTOH, it is clear to me that no harm was intended. I say, no harm no foul as long as the M’s go 4-1!
Golden Sombrero for Swisher!
Please accept my apologies, topher, if my joke struck you as being ignorant of the associations with “Oriental”. I am not. Please see my previous post, #209.
Does Dave sound like he is in a much better mood. Maybe he is just relieved that he isn’t facing a year of calling losing baseball. We had the luxury of not watching last year. Dave did not.
Come to think of it, wouldn’t you love to take Dave out for dinner + 2 bottles of wine after he retires. I suspect he knows where all of the bodies are buried.
Go Putz! What a way to put them away.
3-1!!!!!
YEAH!
How long has it been since the M’s were 1st in the division? I really can’t remember.
Speaking of racists, does 3 Ks in an inning make J.J. Putz a member of the KKK?
Choska- He may have heard where the bodies are burried, but it is painfully clear that he has gone nusto in the last couple of years. He can’t even remember who is in the lineup or even tell if a 200 ft flyball is a homer. I think it would be great to take him out to dinner just because he is so crazy.
Brad Adams says they were in first in early April last year, by a half game. They’re a full game up now. Gosh, maybe mid-2004?
Nice game. I retract every bad thing I’ve said. We’re Number One.
Bravo. Very Nice.
#221 – Actually, Steve T, this one’s my gaffe. I was actually more responding to #200, of course, and just used your post to prove the point. Had I actually noticed your post before, I would have written it differently (he says, trying to remove foot from mouth).
By hey, I say all is right in the world. We’re 4-1 without even a Felix start!
Thanks again for your patience, Steve T. I’ll try to keep it straight in the future.
You know, I remember last year in the first few games of the season the M’s seemed like they were hoping to win, while other teams like the Angels were loose and joking around like they expected to win.
The lads seem a lot more confident this year.
It’s all because Joe Borchard is kicking ass in the clubhouse, of course.
Mark Hendrickson from Mt Vernon and WSU threw a shutout for TB today against Batlimore.
227 – You are right about Dave. The way he can’t tell the difference between even a 200 ft fly ball and a HR drives me crazy. I can usually tell by just the sound of the bat. His signature call is, “Swung on and BELTED . . . and the outfielder drifts over and it’s one down.”
But I do cut the guy some slack. If any of us had spent the past 28 years calling mostly losing baseball for the Mariners, we’d all be nuts. Or drunk. Preferably both.
Let’s all say it together, “The Seattle Mariners are in sole possession of first place, and Felix Hernandez takes the mound tomorrow.”
I’ll go to sleep tonight knowing all is right in the world. At least, all is right in Mariner-land. The world . . . not so much.
How can we be 4-1 after four games?
From the Associated Press: Adam Dunn takes a backhanded slap at Ken Griffey Jr.:
“Dunn has hit the only homer that left Great American on the fly [--] a 535-foot shot in 2004 that cleared the batter’s eye and landed on the street, then came to rest on a piece of driftwood in the Ohio River.
“I don’t watch them too much,” Dunn said. “They all count the same, whether they go front row like (Ken Griffey) Junior’s or 500 feet.”
Its the new math, but I’ll take it. We are guaranteed to be in first place even after tomorrow. That’s a happy thought. Whats the magic #, 157?
#233: I predict Hendrickson’s five strikeouts will be his season-high.
The aftergame interview, question: “What’s the difference between last year and this year?”
Hargrove: “We’re scoring more runs?”
Later in the same answer he said “There’s more energy…” then, obviously backtracking, “Well there was energy last year but it was more… internal.”
If you were deaf, looking at Hargrove you’d think we’d lost our twentieth straight. What a poker face.
219 — Like you I’m a Seattle Times reader. After reading the article today I told my half-Japanese, 1/4 Jewish wife she needed to move out since our home probably contains language in the deed prohibiting both the aforementioned groups from inhabiting a dwelling in our neighborhood. Some may be unaware that our marriage would have been illegal in some states as recently as 1967. There is a very interesting book out titled Sundown Towns about entire towns that do not permit minorities inside their boundaries past sundown. I say “do not” because this is likely still happening today.
Sorry for being pedantic, but I was frankly as surprised as anyone by that last bit.
Go M’s.
Now that was the Good Putz I hope to see regularly. His splitter is outstanding; it gets the zone for the call, but still is practically in the dirt by the time the catcher gloves it. Difference of 6-8 mph between the split and the four-seamer, which is good enough though more would be better. Good mix of splits, and change of location on the four-seamer, with only a few of the later down the middle on a blow-it-by-’em basis. I didn’t see JJ shake off Joe-Jim once, so we know who was responsible for the pitch mix. Totally worked, had the Oaklanders playing defense at the plate, either guessing fastball and swinging to try and catch up to it, or protecting the plate. If Putz will just let Johjima take over the thinking, this battery will pound the other team into the ground. [Now if Chaves can just remind the big galoot not to overthrow All Will Be Well.]
OK, this is an absolute Carl Everett CLASSIC — in a clubhouse interview on the radio, he said “All home runs are accidents… according to physics, it’s supposed to be impossible.”
Apparently Carl doesn’t know the difference between home runs and bumblebees. I wouldn’t want to live in Carl’s world, but it sure would be an interesting visit — physically impossible acts occuring on a daily basis, skeletons of creatures that never existed getting dug up all the time…
Better dis-oriental than dys-oriental, though I heard no one being diss-oriental which is just as well. Call it a review exercise in social geography.
Did he really say that? Classic. Someone at the UW should invite him to speak at their physics class.
Those deeds still exist, but are unenforceable, because you can’t enforce an illegal provision, and any restriction on housing on the basis of race, creed, or national origin is illegal. But actually changing the language on a property deed is difficult if not impossible, so they just stay that way.
I still remember the lady who came to our door after we moved into our new house on Mercer Island in 1968 and asked my mom if she’d like to sign the “informal agreement” she was carrying to never sell our house to a Jew.
If Johjima keeps playing as well as he has been, he’s gotta take the Rookie of the year, hands down. He’s hitting, calling great games, and had to be at least partly responsible for the good pitching thus far.
Faced with a massive challenge and Joe has really ridden up. Bargain.
As long as C-Rex keeps hitting the ball out of the yard he can talk crazy after the game all he wants.
Actually I think there was an article somewhere a couple years ago where some physicists were trying to measure the force it took to hit balls out of PacBell Park into McCovey Cove, and they kept coming up with calculations that made it look physically impossible. Maybe Carl thinks he’s Barry Bonds or something.
243: For what it’s worth, the idea that physicists say that bumblebees shouldn’t be able to fly is also a load of bushwah.
OK, this is an absolute Carl Everett CLASSIC — in a clubhouse interview on the radio, he said “All home runs are accidents… according to physics, it’s supposed to be impossible.â€
Actually, I’m having trouble figure out that quote on a few different levels. If it was impossible to hit a home run, but you did anyway, wouldn’t that be a miracle, not an accident? Or was Everett saying he meant to bunt?
To clarify:
Miracle: Doing the physically impossible – Example: Dan Wilson hitting an Inside-the-park Grand Slam. In the Kingdome.
Accident: Unintended action, usually with negative consequences – Example: putting yourself on the DL tripping on your luggage.
Mistake: Intentional but erroneous and possibly ill-considered action – Example: walking Ibanez to get to Sexson. Example #2: Spezio, Scott. Mariner’s contract with. (see also Disaster, Blunder, Faus Pas).
But yes, if you hit home runs, you can call them whatever you like.
I like this offense!
I know it’s a load of bullwah (all those fluid dynamics courses at the UW were good for something) — but I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt and guessed that’s what he was misremembering.
I will give you a hundred dollars cash if you go find Carl Everett in person, anywhere, anyplace, and ask him with a tape running what he thinks about fluid dynamics.
“Did he really say that? Classic. Someone at the UW should invite him to speak at their physics class.”
Speaking as a teaching assistant in physics at the UW, I’m going to have to say that if Carl was in any of my classes, I’d have to fail him. It would be difficult for me to do, since he would probably protest loudly, and is a much larger man than I am, but the lucrative settlement from the assault charges would make it all worthwhile.
As long as you film it, it would be worth it. But I don’t want him to take your class, I just want him to stand up in front of your students and rap on physics for a minute or two. That’s all I ask.
But I don’t want him to take your class, I just want him to stand up in front of your students and rap on physics for a minute or two.
Unfortunately, the damage Carl could do in a minute or two would take me weeks to fix. It’s too bad, because an extra hundred dollars here or there certainly wouldn’t hurt.
#236– not realy a swipe; well, a swipe but a humorous one– Dunn & Griffey are apparently very good friends (hear it as a Buhneresque comment)
I apologize for using the word oriental. I didn’t realize it is considered an offensive term to asians. I have been out of touch with academia for so long that I have a tough time staying politically correct and sometimes I unkowingly slip up. I will now refer to all people from the East as Asians. Just to get back at me you can call me a honky whenever you want.