U.S.S. Mariner

Record: 11-13
Overall: 52-53, 3.5 games back of Oakland
Hitting: .255/.308/.391 (AVG/OBP/SLG), 4.21 runs/game
Pitching: 119 runs allowed, 4.46 ERA
(Major) Roster Moves
In: CF Adam Jones, DH Eduardo Perez, DH Ben Broussard
Out: “DH” Carl Everett, DH Roberto Petagine, OF Jeremy Reed
The Good
People may harp on the M’s for failing to make a big splash at the trading deadline, but [...]

Game 1: Can the M’s beat the Orioles?
Game 2: Can the site hold up?
4:05, FSN.
Mariners:
RF-L Ichiro!
2B-R Lopez
3B-R Beltre
LF-L Ibanez
1B-R Sexson
DH-R Perez
C-R Johjima
SS-R Betancourt
CF-R Jones
Pitching, Gil “The New and Improved” Meche
For Baltimore:
2B Roberts
LF-L Fahey
3B-R Mora
SS-R Tejada
DH-L Gibbons
1B-R Conine
CF-L Patterson
C-R Hernandez
RF-L Markakis
and pitching, Adam Loewen.

Hey all,
Well, what a roller-coaster ride that trade deadline day was for the Mariners! As it turns out, Jason’s show-opening prediction (”I don’t see them doing much of anything”) bore itself out.
To boost my post-per-TV-appearance ratio, which is close to 1:1 these days, I figured I’d bust out a behind-the-scenes recap of what I [...]

You may have noticed we’ve been up and down for a while, despite having a new box and having pushed out another back-end change to reduce server load.
I’m not sure, frankly, that there’s anything that could be done to survive today.
I don’t know what happens now. I’m working on it. If I seem a little [...]

The trade deadline has come and gone, and the M’s have made no moves. Which I’m totally fine with.

Seeing as how I’m geographically challenged, I won’t be appearing on KCPQ 13 with Derek, Jeff, and Jason tonight, when they join New York Vinnie and Dan Devone at 10:30 on Q It Up Sports.
I know many of our readers won’t be able to view the program either, so, for those of us [...]

The first day up facing traffic and we did fairly well. The game thread got up to 150 and I saw some delays, but it never took more than a couple of seconds to get back to me, and we didn’t see any timeouts, which is good.
That said, I have to admit that I was [...]

UPDATE: Jason’s in, too.
With Derek’s heroic efforts to revive the site having borne fruit, we’re off to dabble in other forms of media again. We’ll be on Q13’s Q It Up Sports show tonight at 10:30. Evidently, we’ll be discussing Mariner (in)activity in advance of the trade deadline.
It’s live television, so there’s always the [...]

I started to kick this around today and it’s interesting, particularly with the trade deadline near. Bavasi’s thinking about this as he works on trade possibilities for this year, and you’ll see that some of the possibilities start to cascade into others.
Position players
Cornerstones
RF: Ichiro!
I suspect many columnists, on and off-line, have macros or column templates [...]

Joel Pineiro vs Cliff Lee, 10:05 am PDT. Standard line-up vs lefties. No Willie, shockingly enough.
Trade deadline is in 27 hours, and the M’s are unlikely to do anything else. There was talk about Jose Cruz Jr yesterday, but they weren’t interested. The only team likely to make a serious run [...]