Game 115, Mariners at Rangers
DMZ · August 11, 2006 at 4:53 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
Meche v Wells. Not David Wells, the other one. Not Kip Wells either. No, wait, it is Kip Wells. 5:35, KSTW-11. Lineup’s standard. Mllleaaah.
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High scoring game, here we come.
Mark McGwire: Do you want to know the terrifying truth, or do you want to see me sock a few dingers?
Crowd: Dingers! Dingers!
At least Bloomquist isn’t playing.
Simpson’s reference dw?
At least Bloomquist isn’t playing.
Until the 8th inning, that is.
Nice to see Sexson getting a “partial” day off though. I’d like to see Grover do this with more of his regulars.
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and I’m sure Benuardo would like a game or two a week in the field.
Keeps you bench active, and keeps your regulars fresh. (almost sounds like some kind of feminine hygiene ad!)
7 – the best part is when he puts the printout under his hat and gets shifty eyed.
sorry, I mean to respond to #1
sorry, I meant to say meant
About 100 pages of printouts, so his hat is riding a foot off his head! Classic Simpsons. They actually had quite a few players guest star in episodes.
Well, time to make my way out the door at work. Go Mariners!!
Crossin’ my fingers for Ichiro to have a big rebound tonight. I think everyone would agree he is one of the most consistent players in the game, but either I’m illiterate, or there’s been a few extra o-fers in his resume recently.
Is anyone watching this on DirecTV outside of Seattle? I can’t find it.
6-44 ouch.
14: Try channel 650. If it’s not there, then I think you’re going to have to go the MLB.TV route.
Just curious, does anyone know how the whole Gameday program is run by mlb.com? Do they have someone watching the games on tv and using a computer to run gameday?
17: Nope, they actually have someone at the parks charting the games. As I understand it, they aren’t paid that well, but the main perk is that they get free tickets.
18. Thanks for the info.
17: If it’s anything like how the Mariners site’s Gameday used to run before MLB took over all the team sites, it was done one of two ways:
1) When the M’s were in town, an M’s employee sat in the press box and entered the info.
2) When the M’s were out of town, he and I split the games and entered the info at our home PC’s while listening to the game on the radio and/or watching it on TV.
This is pissing me off. The game is supposed to be on three different channels here and instead it is on zero. On a Friday night there is no reason it isn’t showing up.
Glad I’m paying hundreds of dollars to get the games.
Way to walk the leadoff hitter, Gil!
Two walks is a horrible omen.
I’m not sure what makes me want to vomit more: Gil walking the first two hitters or this.
Good god, Meche. You suck as much as DirecTV.
Hargrove should bring in Mateo to induce a ground ball right now.
Wow.
Bad Gil.
I sayhit him. It’s only one run. Besides, you know that Grover is thinking Julio,Julio, Julio can save me.
Thank god that didn’t go out. These broadcasters wreack of homerism.
Well, nevermind. Bases loaded on walks. Showalter can outsmart Hargrove by just saying “don’t move.”
I don’t want to say anything.
Damn
Three walks and an error…awesome.
hell of a throw there.
Well, see you guys tomorrow.
Wow. Uglier and uglier.
And THAT, ladies and gentlemen is going to be typical of today’s first baseman. He really shouldn’t be allowed to play it at all.
this is sad
Crikey…it’s like watching Roseanne Barr sing the national anthem. You just want to turn away and go vomit.
Wow..and this season is officially comical.
Thanks for swinging 3-0 and popping up against a pitcher who had already walked three in the inning, Matt Stairs! Wow that was really the opposite of smart.
Well at least we have a real team starting play tommorow right next to Safeco.
That’s right, folks, my beer relay team starts competition at Sluggers
The USS Seahawk anyone?
Does the “CW” in “CW11″ stand for “Conventional Wisdom”?
40, I don’t get it. little league state championships maybe?
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im all for it!
“Can’t watch”?
The weather report must be calling for hot, gale-like winds in Arlington tonight: because it sure looks like a blow-out to me. The Mariners will not get within 3 games of .500 again this season.
And to think Meche could be some other team’s problem right now….
Gil doesn’t deal well with adversity.
Or Texas.
but the broadcast team just showed us a graphic that Broussard has a fielding percentage of .989 at 1st. Surely that means he is a potential gold glover.
Beer relay? That sounds like it should be an Olympic sport (well, it sounds like more of a sport than trampoline jumping, which is an Olympic sport).
Has this team given up or what?
Ok, now I’m laughing.
“Can’t Win”
Anybody still want to trade Sexson?
“Crap Weekly”
wow, this sure is a fun way to spend my friday evening…
5 runs on one hit! My god!
We suck.
ok, so can Broussard hit a 7 run HR?
I would have gone with “Crap Weasels”
I can’ take full credit – I posted #53 before Ben’s belly flop.
Good night to turn the TV off and go do something fun.
this is as ugly as it can get… what was broussard diong over in lopez’s spot right there? good bye season i held out hope for as long as possible now i have no hope left…
#57– well, Gil & Ben suck.
So how many runs has Broussard now cost the Mariners out there at first base with that throwing error and taking away an easy grounder from Lopez?
That guy in the purple shirt behind home needs to wear looser clothing, because that top is not doing his bulk any favors
OK I am watching Gameday, was that really Yuni’s fault on that throw or should Ben have caught it?
“Cougar Worthy”
I’m guessing Sexson refuses to take any more days off the rest of the season.
And I thought Tampa’s fielding was horrible in game 3 of the series.
66 – Ben should have caught it… if he was 15 feet tall. Totally Yuni’s fault.
yeah! we got out of the inning!
I think tonight is a good nite to take my wife out to dinner.
#67. ding ding ding ding ding ding!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good news: at least they are not all EARNED runs…
/eyeroll
66, not a chance. I could tell that was going to be high as soon as it left his arm.
Hey, you still can have a good time this Friday night: just take a shot of your favorite spirit whenever someone on the M’s broadcast team says that the game is still early and there is time to catch up. If you really want a buzz, also take a shot for each walk served up by Gil or misplay by Ben. Bottoms up!
this is the point where ron fairly starts in on the “what the mariners need to do now is score some runs” speech
ok, I’m pinning this one on DW.
DMZ, can we have a suspension of the off-topic post prohibition for the rest of the night? Please?
I just got in and…Yikes! I expected 7-0 to be the score eventually, but not right away.
Leadoff walk! WOOT!
C’mon guys, it’s only 7 runs, if we win we can hold our ground in the pennant race!
76:
You gotta chug the whole glass every time 1995 is mentioned.
Tough crowd. Broussad comes up and doesn’t even get any applause.
#82– but it was alumni night tonight– can we drink when 1996 in Texas is mentioned too?
wow….and thats all I have to say about that inning…..
#84–Double shots whenever we hear about Dave Valle’s limited role in that 1996 championship.
This was the fastest I’ve turned a game off since 1986. Congratulations!
ooh, and Rizzs just mentioned 1996 — where’d I put my juice? There might be some vodka in the freezer….
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God no, were you not here two days ago?!?
This game is already infinitely more interesting than 7 innings worth yakking about the traffic problems in Idaho.
I suggest watching Q13Fox at this time; the Simpsons episode dw mentions in #1 is on now….more entertaining, and you get to see McGwire hit at least one dinger.
say, did you know that Adam Jones & Mark MacLemore attended the same high school and that Mac is a mentor to Young Adam?
Did I read my boxscore right?
Seven runs on two hits?
So my new monitor came today — and it turns out it has a Picture-in-picture, so I hooked up the DirecTV output, and now I’ve got a tiny window of the blowout while I work on the book. It’s pretty sweet.
Problem is the thing’s stand doesn’t go up very high, and I’m a tall dude, so looking straight ahead I see the top of the monitor, and I don’t want to just stack books under it.
An off-topic prohibition? what?
If score were kept by number of hits and not runs, this game would be tied. Think about that for a second.
I have a TV card in my computer which offers a similar experence DMZ, its pretty sweet. My monitor predates Windows 95, however.
“If score were kept by number of hits and not runs, “…
official scorers would be under a LOT of pressure to call things errors.
93 – That’s my set-up. TIVO hooked up to the computer. But I don’t have the heighth problem.
#93– there is always the tottering empty paper box option.
did you know that Greg Dobbs and Bobby Kielty are best buds from childhood who went to JC together?
I assume everyone’s made the “UPN loves Willie Bloomquist” jokes already.
That’s how I read that ad at first.
#93, assuming the monitor has a standard mount you can get arms, wall mounts, etc which will put it a bit higher. May be worth looking into.
Also, yes, PiP on a computer monitor is great stuff. I didn’t realize how much i’d like it on my dell until i got it.
What’s worse, it’s the same manufacturer, different model in the same line, and they stand is entirely different. I think it was a reasonable expectation that the two monitors would have similarly usable stands.
Leadoff walk…
I was gripped with drama entering this inning – would it be BB, hits, or shoddy fielding that befalls the weary M’ s this time?
There’s the first walk.
I hadn’t looked into arms/mounts/etc. Where do you find those devices?
Dear Gil,
You suck.
Yours,
Mariner fandom
so is Gil in there because there is no way the Ms are coming back, and Hargrove doesn’t want to burn the bullpen, or did he get sent backout so Hargrove could show his confidence in him?
has anyone seen the box score
Seattle 0 2 2
Texas 7 2 0
I have never seen 7 RUNS ON 2 HITS!! WOW
105 – he was sent back out as a message to us stupid people to find another form of entertainment tonight.
98: Did you know that Boof Bonser, Francisco Liriano and Joe Nathan were traded for A.J. Pierzynski? And that Boof Bonser had his name legally changed to Boof? I bet you didn’t know that.
Good news, folks!
Remember last night, when I demanded five walks and a grand slam from the M’s in the top of the 9th?
Gods are just a leeeetle bit late and a little bit off answering my request. Once we work these kinks out, we’re golden!
Monitor arms are like $100 a piece! I’m unemployed!
For that kind of money, I could get a pitcher of Joel Pineiro’s talents in here to hold it up for me all day.
Ladies and Gents, offseason $24m/3y contract guy, Gil Meche!
LOL! “Confidence”? He walks the first guy in the inning and only *then* does he turn to the bullpen.
I’m surprised he hooks him. I thought he’d make him take one for the team.
Maybe he’ll burn Mateo tonight.
JI (89), I was around for that game. However, I go to McCall now and then, and I’ll be there next month, so that traffic is crucial to me.
[long links, dude]
I’m starting to think that we may not win the pennant.
Ladies and Gents, Major League pitcher, Jake ‘I Can Throw Lefty’ Woods!
When you folks in Seattle have the Mariners on UPN, they still play it on FSNW for us MLB-deprived folk down here in Oregon. The reason I bring this up is that they just ran that FSNW commercial where they boast, “We bring you the teams that you can’t live without.” Immediately following that boast was a Sonics highlight. I found that sort of amusing, just because Seattlites will be living without the Sonics very shortly.
#110, think of all the ticket money you’ll save now that the M’s have boned their season though
Why the heck was he trying to score?
#37…you must be watching the game on Cox Hampton Roads MLB Extra Innings, I’m glad it’s the Mariners broadcast and not those Texas guys, they’re annoying..Josh who does national Fox games, can’t stand them, yeah they are big homers. Take Niehaus over any broadcaster anyday.
I missed the Zooperstars at the Norfolk Tides game tonight for this crappy game…since it’s Texas, the final score will not be 7-0, given their penchant for homers and runs, I predict a final score of 18-0. With Texas having 22 hits and the M’s with 2. I hate four game series, they’ve already lost this one and will get swept.
To the entire team I say: “Homeboy throw in the towel the season got —— by Ricky Powell,”
Why don’t we just start our relievers? LaRussa has done this every so often. While, the long-term effects of over usage may occur, the short-term effects of NOT watching (XYZ starting pitcher) may be worthwhile.
x= Meche
y= Pineiro
z= Washburn?
Right now at 9-0, the Mariners are in the same position as if they forfeited the game. As the Pilot’s Joe Schultz said, “It is time to pound the Budweiser men.”
I’m actually happy that Woods allowed those two runners to score. There’s no way Golden Gil should get away with pitching that crapily only to surrender 2 earned runs.
Add a field goal to that touchdown scored in the 1st.
118, if he has a season package, he’s doomed. It’s not simply that the money is spent, the tickets have no resale value.
Thanks for the links, Dan, I’ll check those out wince this game is so hooorrrible.
Go wonder hamster!
I know! Hargrove just wanted him out there, so he could humiliate him by removing him in the middle of the 2nd…. and god no — you can’t burn Mateo! You might need him tomorrow!
last week someone wondered why they hadn’t jiggered with the rotation so that Felix would pitch against the A’s… in the same vein, why not keep Gil out of Arlington?
#117…it shows Mariners TV in place of the FSN Northwest logo..so it’s not the same broadcast in Seattle?, there’s no UPN logo just FSN Commercials on Extra Innings. Strange.
I wonder if today we get to see the pitching debut of Willie Ballgame
This is getting kind of funny to watch, like watching Guardado pitch.
Man, Hargrove looks like genius for carrying 12 pitchers on the roster.
This game is definitely in the running for worst M’s game ever. Maybe we should have had Wednesday’s thread to cover this one…
129 – actually one lucky fan will get to pitch.
Final score will be Texas 28 Seattle 0.
so what was that Texas-A’s game earlier this week? 14-0?
It’s the same broadcast…they just show it on FSNW here in P-Town.
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I sure hope Willie doesn’t tear his labrum in said pitching appearence. Knock on wood.
It is tough to be the turkey in a turkey shoot.
Can we put Bloomquist in to pitch now?
This game is enough to make one a Yankees fan.
#121 This is the kind of game that makes me regret getting the extra innings package. Luckily I just put a coat of paint on the wall and can now sit back, have a beer, and watch it dry.
Looking for the silver lining in this cloudy-walkathon:
So if it looks as if the team quit on Hargrove, do you suppose that if they get shellacked again tomorrow, after last night and tonight, that mayyyyyybe Grover will get his walking papers?
ooops…meant #120
Good news guys: I have been called up from zero-A Salem, a little known Mariners farm team, to come pitch for the Mariners in this game.
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Hahaha!!!
We’re on pace for a 4 and a half hour game. What’s interesting is that this could have been much worse had Texas managed to get a big/another hit in the first inning.
For Chrisake Grover, is Sean Green available?
Rangers 2579 – Mariners 0
this umpire is not helping our cause.
#117– interestingly, the topic on local sportsradio today was the growing belief among writers & radio hosts that the Sonics might not be going to OK next year…
What’s the M’s record for walks given up in a game? Anyone have a media guide handy?
129…where’s RC Gonzales when you need him? The new battery will be WFB pitching to Raul Ibanez at catcher. Hargrove will no doubt make a bonehead move by putting Sexson in LF and then the pitcher will have to bat. Countless teams have been down in a big way to the M’s (ie: Indians in 2001)and always come back and win, in my 21 years as Mariners fan I’ve never seen them come back from a 6-0 lead and win.
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Why? They can suck as easily with Grover as they can without him.
We could sure use one of those massive Texas rain storms right about now… wouldn’t it be something to have this mess ‘never happen’?
109. Laureen, keep working on it.
#144–Geez, at this point is Seth Green available?
148- I saw the M’s have a great comeback in person against the Angels in the Kingdome a while back. I think it was 9-2…
I’d pay to see Seth Green pitch.
Forget Seth, is Tom Green available?
You have to tip your hat to Grover… switching Broussard and Sexton in the midst of a desperate run… is simply genius.
Tonight’s Rainiers-Beavers game: guaranteed to be more competetive.
I remember this one from the 1996 highlight video. Don’t lose hope.
They should just switch to the Sonics Dance Team show.
#155 — leading to tonight’s AFLAC trivia question — What do Tom Green, Mike Lowell and John Kruk have in common?
#153–You’re right. I was at the Kingdome that night–I think it was April 15, 1996–and the Mariners came back and, I believe, won on a Russ Davis hit.
#142…gotcha at a time like this makes me wish Cox carried MASN so the Nationals games were available, doesn’t help they blacked them out on Extra Innings. Extra Innings is worth it sometimes, I first bought it in 2003, a good run for the team, but the last two years were hard to watch, low expectations, and I didn’t have much hope for this year. It’s funny you go into the season not expecting to compete and you loathe the team for it, yet the teams starts competing and again we loathe the time for not getting it done..the team has way too many flaw. Adam Jones is not ready. WFB belongs on a utility pole where he can bust his ass and get lots of work time that he desires, he is not needed for a utility role. Dude, last hit a homer when..that grandslam against the D-Ray 80 years ago.
Weird that A-Rod was batting 8th.
#155: 2-1=1
Also weird that Beltre is the only one hitting. Remember when it was the other way?
#163 he was hitting 9th, and it makes sense since it was the start of his first full season
166 – Oh I know why, it’s just weird looking.
Did the scoreboard guy get bored or did we really just score?
#165 NL pitcher has the M’s all messed up. If only we still had Jeff Cirillo and Rich Aurilia, we’d be winning.
A-Rod, for all intensive purposes was a rookie that year, he started the years as the #9 hitter.
A-Rod, Edgar, Griffey, Buhner.
Any of those guys would hit 3rd on this them. If only they had our present bullpen.
160: goatees. It probably wasn’t the answer you were looking for, but it’s the answer I’m giving.
Holy wow, 3 hits in a row off Kip. Someone get the rally moose out!
Here comes the comeback. Get a homerun here and then three walk and another homer and we’re right back in it!
Hey, stop making fun of goatees.
#144….maybe he needs work since Four Kings was canx…but he’s too short.
#153…very savvy of you, I was wrong, just the ones I’ve seen though, ESPN stopped showing billions of Mariners games around 1996 like they used to when they started showing MLB, M’s games are hard to come by on the East Coast…my favorite was Edgar hitting a walk-off homer over the plexiglass in LF in 1991 or 1990 against the Tigers, after the Knute Rockne speech played on Diamondvision. Best ESPN game broadcast before 1995. That was the Kingdome though, so a Texas sized comeback is insourmountable. I was enamored with the Kingdome first time I went there when I was 8 in 1985.
Here comes the comeback. Get a homerun here and then three walk and another homer and we’re right back in it!
Could we do an in-game trade and send Mateo to the Rangers? Then, this could happen.
Just flipped the television on and feel like I tuned into 9/11 about 3 hours after the fact. Who hit Meche with a Ryan Franklin stick, anyway?
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ESPN doesn’t show west coast games period anymore. All their games start at 4 or 5. It must not be very profitable to broadcast a game when 2/3 of your potential audience is asleep.
Run Fairy!
At least I didn’t miss all the fun by showing up late.
177: Because 9/11/baseball game analogies are always appropriate.
I like the Texas Rangers hit ticker. Nice feature.
Good thing the rangers have Lee – that clutch piece of hitting will win this game for them.
just get settled in, Jake, because you are going to be there a while.
I still think that Cleveland game in ‘01 is the worst in living memory, just because they were winning so handily ’til it all went to hell.
you know, someone lent me some old X-Files … I could just go watch The Unnatural again
My softball league has a ten-run rule…
Has someone ever been this close to the cycle in the third inning?
Could that the entity that is possessing Mark DeRosa’s body possibly body-jump to Bloomquist? That would be swell.
I just wish I had the beer franchise in Texas tonight. They’re going to be haulin’ fans out of Ameriquest in ambulances by the time this is over.
For those of you who watched Mystery Science Theater 3000, the Ms performance is beginning to look like the epilogue of “Attack of the the Eye People.”
“They just didn’t care.”
Scratch the first “that.”
DeRosa only has 6 innings left to complete the cycle.
178…yeah I noticed that, this was way back when they did doubleheaders on Tuesdays or Mondays or something. I loved my 2 week vacation to Seattle in 2002, all the east coast games were over by 7pm and the M’s game done by 10pm or so. With MLB Extra Innings, I used to stay up till 1AM EDT most nights when the M’s are at home, but it didn’t help to be at work at 0730. Now, I go to sleep around the 5th if the game looks winnable and TiVo the rest, just view it in the morning. If it’s a blowout I’ll just sleep, there’s been a few times where I counted the team out, fell asleep and then woke up to a Richie Sexson or Everett walk-off in the B9th.
My softball league has a ten-run rule…
We go with 20 after 3, 15 after 4, and 10 after 5. That’s not park-adjusted, though.
#185….I think it’s time to invoke the World Baseball Classic rules on this game regarding blowouts.
Well with this game sucking and since I just uploaded every Bob Dylan album ever made to my iPod I can start with the first one now and listen in chronological order and turn the game off, sounds like a plan.
so, Derek– what cheaterific chapter are you revising tonight?
“Anything worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”–WC Fields.
Betancourt missed third base on his way to the plate.
Jones is giving us a little peek at a better future perhaps last night and tonight. Good for the youngster.
#196– it was a mercy base.
oh joy, turns out that we can also look forward to years of ‘did you know that Adam Jones and Reggie Bush….’ from Rizzs, too….
Only three more field goals to go.
my plan sounds better and he’s also doing some shows at minor league baseball stadiums:
“Modern Times, Dylan’s first new album in five years, will be available on 8/29. Order the CD, Vinyl, or deluxe CD + DVD edition today and get the following as an added bonus: Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan, Baseball Sampler– A CD of Dylan’s historic performance on XM satellite radio.”
My updated game prediction is that the Ms go on a streak, get to 11-12, and then Hargrove puts Mateo in.
And with that XBH, Jones now has 1 more than Willhemina Ballgame for the year.
Niehaus just said Kinsler lost a grounball IN THE LIGHTS! My oh my!
Okay, we’re into their bullpen in 4th inning. Let’s go.
Ok I was wrong the outcome will 35-6.
Am I watching the Houston Texans vs. the 1992 Seahawks??
Wow, how about that Gameday picture of Rupe!
Who’s hurt?
dang. why couldn’t that have been Gil with the ankle.
actually, this is classic. It fells as though a number of times this year that when the Ms threatened to maybe finally get on a little run in an inning, something happens– the HP ump gets hit by a ball, the manager changes pitchers — and nada. nothing. zip.
#206 – Looks like someone got crazy with a black Sharpie mini.
#207– Wells.
Hey. I’m all down with the dissing of Bloomquist (heh. almost typoed “Gloomquist”) but there’s no need to give him a girl’s name. I’d wager there are many women who could outplay him.
Angie Mentick, for one.
208….I notice this alot, other teams punish the M’s when this happen.
Spike Owen could outhit WFB. I’d rather have Rafael Bournigal on the team again than WFB.
Willie likes to seem important, noticed how he didn’ answer the phone call during Softy’s show..his only fans were calling: his family.
WOO!
Just think, if it had stayed at 7-0 we’d be tied!
Holy smokes!
Ok… I just got back from the store… this game is absurd.
We goddamn deserve revenge for that Cleveland Indians game.
Gameday is really weird. I was watching a movie and checked in on the game and they’re pretending that the Rangers got a seven run first inning and are up 12-4. Obviously, someone hacked the site and is doing this just to torture me. Right?
Right?
I mean, Meche is the ace. Right?
No, damnit. I am not crying. Crying is for babies.
Rauuuul!
Has anyone else become very interested in this game?
This is getting silly, isn’t it?
so, where is Halama these days?
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LOL
Now that it’s a 5 run game, how long do we get The Snake “pitching” for us?
Lauren, I forgot to mention…I’d rather die than be a Yankees fan. When the M’s are sucking I try to stick with him, but hey I can root for an NL team sometimes.
ouch. that did not look pleasant at all.
Due to the fact that I am not really paying attention to this game on my compu, the M’s have some how managed to make this game somewhat interesting. I will come back in 20 minutes.
Oh crap.
Man, that is not what we needed now.
Say it with me:
“Purpose pitch.”
ben broussard is a badass
Well thank goodness we have 5 more first basemen!
man, Rupe, that’s no way to treat the benefactor of your team.
Man, the side-angle view of that hit by pitch was crazy. It knocked his legs back and up in the air.
221… according to Sportsline, Halama was DFA’ed by Baltimore on 6/19.
The bad thing is that it’s the 4th inning, and Hargrove might be tempted to put Mateo in for more long “relief”.
217…yeah I thought that game was in the bag that night.
Can we trade WFB for Jennie Finch??? We could include a Pepsi since Willie can’t Pitch, Hit, but can Run.
daveblev: shhhyeah. that’s why they call it exaggeration!
#211 – Wilhelmina is the name of my 98 year old great grandmother. Forgot to add that into my last post. Too much Hamms, the beer refreshing.
We’re good!
#234– I remembered that; I was just wondering where he was … back in Brooklyn, sitting on the stoop, spitting?
226…huh, is it real or are the Geto Boys making my mind play tricks on me? 5 runs down..no hope though.
Johjima just swung on a pitch that was closer to hitting him in the face than it was the strike zone.
Dude! I can’t believe you dissed your great-grandma by pairing her name with Willie’s.
OK, I really am just jumping on the bandwagon now. Bad me.
Joel and Felix would make a really adorable couple. Why can’t we hear more about gayness in baseball, dammit.
I love these “Pin__ro hits Felix with peanuts” shots.
Lauren, all the ass grabbing isn’t enough for you?
I left the room with Kenji batting, I came back with Kenji batting. I, too, recalled that Indians game, thinking it might be our turn.
When I take my wife to dinner soon, who knows what happens?
238….hmm, I have some Blue Moon in my fridge, good wheat ale, after I had it at Red Star Tavern I bought a six pack. Time to hit the fridge.
I remember seeing John Halama walking around the Harbor Center in Baltimore after a day game when the M’s were there in 1999…btw, how much would a signed A-Rod and Freddy Garcia ball go for?? I have one in my house….ok, so Shane Monahan signed it too
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3 1/2 innings and over 100 minutes already. Must be awfully fun in that heat!
249, yep at this rate I’ve already listened to 20 of Dylan’s 32 or so albums during this game.
#243 – Yeah, next time I go visit her at her retirement community in Florida (Del Boca Vista Phase II), she’ll probably run me down with her white caddy or hit me with her Willard tip calculator.
Danger….Seinfeld references above.
Well, we sort of came back. Too bad we didn’t have some of this offense last night.
ANOTHER Ranger homerun.
Sheesh.
Home run derby! Dudley must like this.
Roch Kubato in the Baltimore Sun last week– “Does it surprise anyone that, at last check, left-hander John Halama still hasn’t hooked up with another team?”
I bet there is an intern scrambling to find the backup supply of fireworks.
What did I say at the start of this thread??
I never understood how a Moyer clone like Halama made any MLB team. I hated whenever I had tix to a game and he was the M’s starter.
I salute you, dw, for excellent foresight.
Woods is just lucky that all three Rangers homeruns have been solo shots.
If we get a touchdown, I really thing we need to go for two, the way Woods is throwing.
Sadly, we’re getting both the awful truth AND dingers tonight.
We need to bring in Putz to make sure the Rangers don’t score in every inning. Well, at least they aren’t going to score in the ninth, although I’d prefer they need to.
Is it me or does that picture of Gil Meche on the M’s homepage announcing todays game make him look like Mark Teixeira??
When Mike Hargrove tried to put Julio Mateo into a tied game, One Senator Said No.
Oh. My. God. I turn on the radio and find it’s a football game tonight. . . . Well, it’s High Summer in Texas, so that’s understandable.
I had to work late and missed the first 3 innings. I noticed the box says we’ve left seven men on base already. I guess we’ve had even more chances to score. Maybe we can keep it up and get a few dingers ourselves and make this close.
Well time for an East Coaster like myself to leave the finished room over the garage and head to the bedroom to watch the game on the tv there, or I can just play tomorrow’s game on MLB06 TheShow on PS2.
266…fat chance of that ever happening.
This game could have been real good if it wasn’t so bad.
Yay Ichiro.
both teams with 13 LOB..at least TEX capitalizes on theirs.
both teams with 13 LOB..at least TEX capitalizes on theirs.
delete one of those above from me please..ooops.
Beltin’ Beltre
#244. Lauren, there’s a pretty adorable interview with the ‘Two Twins’ — roomies Mauer & Morneau — over at Fox
Ok, offense back to normal. Rupe (whoever he even is) throws up a zero…sigh
Looks like this might become an Arena Football League game instead, the Mariners have posted a field goal and Texas will win by a score of 70-7.
The Texas mascot is a giant Ralph.
I think Yosemite Sam would be the perfect Rangers mascot.
Nice Jose!
Fairly just said that Jake Woods had done a good job, going 3.2, giving up 4 runs (which I calculate to be a 9.81 ERA)and three home runs. I guess relative to Meche . . .
Good old Mark McLemore.
Oh, and Woods threw 75 pitches in 3.2 innings. Again, compared to Meche (54 in 1+) . . .
McLemore would STILL lead this team in walks
But those were a really solid 54 pitches…ugh
It seems impossible that you could throw that many pitches and have three outs to show for it. What a disaster. There will be no retractions, though, from Kelley, Thiel, and everyone else who filed their annual “Meche has turned it around” pieces.
Richie should never DH again.
Looks like another wonderful inning.
So that’s why Richie plays first every day. Maybe a point for Dudley Michael Hargrove?
Ryan Franklin just got pinch-hit for by Eric Milton.
I miss Mac.
so, conventional wisdom has it that Hargrove (having survived being fired in May) will stick the rest of the season. Would a sweep by Texas and Oakland and a precipitous drop to 10 games out change that?
Rizzs announced that Bob Finnegan will retire this year.
Who will take over writing the annual “Junior is coming back” article? Steve Kelley?
Oh Finny’s impending retirement is old news. The new news will be when he finally decides to do actually DO it, instead of just talking about it.
Typical M’s…even in an offensive “explosion” (for us) we STILL only can muster ONE walk and ONE hr.
Extra point. 14-7. I’m out.
Refuse to Lose
296
Especially with the phrase sure to make even the most strong stomachs dry heave:
Bloomquist replaces Ichiro in RF!
so, does Willie play there tomorrow, when Ichiro DHs?
well. um.
at least the Ms got 7 on the Rangers, unlike Oakland.
I seem to remember suggesting trading Meche before the deadline…
Just got home from work… SO glad I didn’t watch this one. U-G-L-Y.
“I get paid to look like an idiot,” Hargrove said. “I don’t have to do it for free.” From the Trib. regarding playing the alumni exhibition game on Friday. Well the truth is as he said a paid idiot.