Game 148, Mariners at Royals
Dave · September 16, 2006 at 3:30 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Pineiro vs Redman, 4:10 pm.
It’s a Saturday, it’s a terrible pitching matchup, and since Redman’s a lefty, there will be no Doyle today.
Go do something else.
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I dare say that it’d be better to watch the Husky football game on FSN than that putrid matchup. And I’m talking about a Husky football team that won 2 games last year.
Wow. Morse and Bloomquist in the same lineup.
My goal is to see Willie’s OPS below .600 by the end of the year.
I don’t think you can really make a personal goal out of someone else’s performance.
YES! I’m getting colour TV today!
Yes I can. My likelihood for failure is much higher when it’s not in my control, but I still can.
I would say that, in your case, the exact opposite might be true.
I like cute bomb puppies.
Really, they’re letting Pineiro start again? What is the point? I would rather see Cruceta on zero days rest than Pineiro. I would rather see Jimenez. I would love to see Feierabend get a start. Or maybe just have nine guys throw one inning each. That could be interesting, in a first week of spring training kind of way.
I wonder how many times we will hear “All-Star Mark Redman” and “He’s an All-Star so he must be good”
I giggle every time I think about Mark Redman being an all-star
BEST LINE-UP SO FAR
Guess I will get my baseball fix by continuing my owners mode on MVP Baseball 2005 for the Xbox. I designed an outdoor stadium with astroturf and a high right field wall and I named it King County Field. I play with the 1981 retro Mariners road and home jerseys.
Sweet Jesus. Why the fuck do they keep running Bloomquist out there? Does Hargrove have a Willie Bloomquist at-bat bonus written into his contract?
Willie has the same compromising photos of Hargrove that Carl Everett had.
Does this MVP game have the really orange spacesuit Astro uniforms?
#17 I haven’t checked but I think they do.
We’re winning!
I refuse to be cowed from watching this bad game! I will just do other things while I watch it, is all.
I predict that Pineiro might pretty well kick ass tonight, raising the chances someone else will want him.
Aside from this first hit, that is.
DJC, I have found you on the Facebook
I’m studyin’ on that new arm angle like crazy.
Every morning, when Hargrove wakes up and looks in the bathroom mirror, he asks himself, “what stupid thing can I do today?”
Go do something else
I just had this vision of Dave, clad in his robe a la Ferris Buhler, shooing us out of the blog.
Lauren, token chick said: September 16th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
I refuse to be cowed from watching this bad game! I will just do other things while I watch it, is all.
yeah! like feed the cat, and contemplate dinner, and try to figure out what the hell all those buttons on my new bottom-of-the-foodchain cell phone do.
oh, and see Ichiro! get hit no. 200.
fuck you willie
#24 I have to admit that was funny. I could respect Hargrove if he was honest about his own stupidity because I respect humility but for a man to spend his whole life in baseball and to know so little about baseball is truly amazing.
22: Yes, I have a facebook.
I seem to remember that once on this blog, Mike Morse was referred to as guy who would be a raker(paraphrasing)…
How far we’ve come.
I don’t remeber anybody saying he would be a raker…
I’m thinking maybe if I attempt a new arm angle, my copywriting will reach a whole new level. I’ll let you all know on Monday.
What is a raker?
If I knew what a raker was we might be able to answer this.
At least Morse isn’t failing drug tests for residual levels of steroids anymore. He’s got that going for him.
A raker is one who can hit with authority.
Ichiro!
I learned on this message board never to call an asian an oriental.
200!!!
Raker: What Ichiro ain’t. Er. I’d associate a raker more with XBH.
Hurrah for Ichiro!
I can’t believe he swung at that last pitch. Bad bad Beltre.
Glad to hear that because for some reason my mind was thinking that raker had something to do with sexual orientation.
I think maybe you’re thinking of “rake,” which also has nothing to do with orientation. Just someone who’s into sex and seduction.
Morse would go up exponentially in my estimation if he came out! (Note to Morse: way better way to get publicity than taking steroids.)
is there a stat to measure a players raker-ness, or is it one of those intangibles you just can’t measure?
Damn Ichiro and his stubborn pursuit of individual goals ahead of the good of the team.
[/Bob Finnigan]
There’s the record for steals.
Hey! Another interesting reason to watch. Pity the USSM readers who missed out on a new AL record in consecutive stolen bases.
watching Redmond reminds me that Batgirl came up with an entertaining explanation after Redmond had his unlikely CGSO against the Twins a couple of weeks back …
When I was at the Kingdome once I saw Brian Dayette give his room number to some lady in the stands who kept pestering him with her charms.
A rake is a man or frequently a stock character, who wastes his (usually inherited) fortune on “wine, women, and song,” incurring lavish debts in the process. The rake is also frequently a cad: a man who seduces a young woman and impregnates her before leaving, often to her social or financial ruin. To call the character a rake calls attention to his promiscuity and wild spending of money; to call the character a cad implies a callous seducer who coldly breaks his victim’s heart.
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#49 You must mean Shawn Kemp. Nah just kidding.
You know you scuk if you give up a HR to Gathright
Joey effing Gathright.
Bavasi should have walked right out to the mound to tell Joel he’s been released.
#49– a classic usage is in Hogarth’s A Rake’s progress
as Joel tries to help kill the final two weeks…. this from the Dead Horse Flagellation Department.
It hasn’t yet appeared on the Times site, but Larry Stone has an article online about how safe Bavasi & Hargrove might be … this from the San Jose Mercury News of all places:
“With no pennant race to occupy our time – again – the only intrigue remaining in the Mariners’ season is to mull over the employment future of their architects of mediocrity.”
Has Gathright hit a HR before? At any level? Does the Baseball Cube track little league stats?
54-one career homerun
In AAA. He makes Willie look like the big hurt.
Lopez walks! Like, no really!
Perez strikeout. Lopez walk. Now Morse has to hit a homerun to complete the 3 Pitcher Controlled Outcomes Trifecta.
53-The Architects of Mediocrity would be a great band name.
#58 That would be pretty cool if the current Mariners front office would lead to the revival of Grunge in Seattle.
Joel’s home run angles and HBP angles don’t look any different to me, but I’m not expert at this game.
Or at least the revival of long sleeve flannel shirts worn with shorts and doc martens.
Triple angle looks familiar too.
Pineiro “earned” a spot back in the rotation why and how?
so is it really that wrong to hope that Joel gets his shorts handed to him?
I guess this is another game that won’t make it into the Portland Oregonian as “game of the day.” Up until recently, the only game covered in detail (kind of) has been the M’s game. Now they’re relegated to the capsule coverage from the AP and the paper isn’t even pretending that the M’s mean more than, oh, the Pirates.
With Joel starting, a battle of the titans in KC means even less than zero.
Is it too late for the M’s to rein on their promise of leaving Pineiro in the rotation for the duration?
No. When you take the angle of the Triple (S) divided by the arc of the triple (U) and multiply it by the Joel factor (C) + Hargrove factors (K) you can see Joel is a different pitcher.
Equation: S/U*C+K=Joel
nah, Joel didn’t ‘earn’ it– they just wanted to confirm that he really was a crap starter, and Joel is kindly obliging.
66: I think it was too late back in April.
Has the thought occurred to Hargrove to pull Piniero?
64
No. I for one
hope that Joel will be wearing his ass for a hat once the night is through.UPDATE: Joel got whooped. It’s official.
Its ugly, but it is for the greater good.
so is it really that wrong to hope that Joel gets his shorts handed to him?
Whaddyamean “hope”? Shouldn’t “expect” have been your choice of word?
“So, Joel. Exactly what *are* your plans after baseball?”
67
Good Lord, that’s funny!
so Cruceta gets pulled after 1, yet Joel will go all 8 tonight because he’s “the vet”.
How I have missed you Joel.
70: You could well have stopped after ‘Hargrove’ in that post.
When you take the angle of the Triple (S) divided by the arc of the triple (U) and multiply it by the Joel factor (C) + Hargrove factors (K) you can see Joel is a different pitcher.
Equation: S/U*C+K=Joel
this may also have to be added to the potential t-shirt list, for when DMZ gets back.
Has the thought occurred to Hargrove to pull Piniero?
nope, he’s too busy planning next season’s redo of the manager’s office. That teal color scheme is getting so old.
Has the thought occurred to Hargrove to pull Piniero?
His name isn’t Francisco, so no.
You know, we drop 2 out of 3 to KC and I’m starting to really like our chances for another 90 loss year.
Yay DeJesus!
willie is down to a .611 OPS
Ugh.
#61 LMAO
where the heck is Derek, anyway? he doing the Grand Tour, or something?
oops, gotta go switch the radio/tv volumes.
FEIERABEND SIGHTING!
It’s really not appropriate for Feierabend to pitch on a weekend.
I think Hargrove should start Joel on 3 days rest the rest of the season so he can get to 30 starts and make a run at Jose Lima’s record for highest AL ERA for a starter with 30 or more starts. Lima also holds the NL record for that stat.
It’s really not appropriate for Feierabend to pitch on a weekend.
I see what you did there.
Jose Lima’s record for highest AL ERA for a starter with 30 or more starts. Lima also holds the NL record for that stat.
That’s one of the most impressive records in sports history.
88-It really is incredible. Lima should be Exhibit A in any argument against the “proven veteran” mentality.
say, has anyone gotten to Feierabend since it opened?
Is Feierabend the same ownership as Die Bier Stube on Roosevelt?
This is the first time I’ve ever seen Feierabend pitch. I really like that breaking ball of his. It’s got a Felix-esque break to it, but not nearly as polished. I like this kid.
#91– yup, and Prost
93-I love Die Bierstube. Haven’t had a chance to go to Prost yet, a bit of an odd location, in my opinion.
On a superficially related matter, how is Feierabend’s stuff? Could I get a mini-scouting report, I don’t have TV.
I went to Feierabend last week, as I explained when I defined it I think. The fries with curry ketchup and soft pretzel are excellent. Potato pancakes and deep-fried pickles are ok, but not overwhelming. Large beer selection, although they were out of several things. Highly understaffed that particular happy hour. Haven’t had any entrees there yet.
I like the Feierabend with knee socks better.
Me and my brother grew up playing Avalon Hill’s Statis Pro Baseball and I will never forget the day he told me when I was just a kid that we could probably manage a baseball team just as good or better than some of the major league managers. I am not saying this is true but I thought it was funny.
I want my Snelling.
That San Jose Mercury News story by Larry Stone (which will probably be seen in tomorrow’s Seattle Times)
is DEPRESSING!
so I guess all we can do is chant LOSE! LOSE! LOSE! LOSE! LOSE!
Shit this KC team looks horrible. how are we losing to them.
The fries with curry ketchup and soft pretzel are excellent. Potato pancakes and deep-fried pickles are ok, but not overwhelming. Large beer selection…
You’re on a some kind of special diet, eh?
Joel’s value cannot be measure in numbers and stats.
so any chance Feierabend gets a start?
How about Mike Morse? I think it is sad there is nowhere for him to play everyday. His defense is suspect but the guy can hit.
Yes, I like to eat high-fat foods while not shaving my legs.
It was a farewell to a coworker, so a big group of us ordered various happy-hour appetizers.
8.2 IP, 10 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 4 SO, 126 pitches (76 strikes, 50 balls) and he induced a hack-tastic team to ground into a bunch of double plays.
Look, Kansas City, I know you have had jack to cheer for over the last decade, but he didn’t pitch that well.
Although we Mariner fans would kill for one that mediocre.
Although we Mariner fans would kill for one that mediocre.
We would? We got two right now and had a third.
#104. always a fine way to go.
Well, the only Mariners game I have been able to attend this year and I get the return of Joel, no Snelling, no Felix for the entire series, WFB starting at SS, and a 4-7 lose to he worset team in baseball.
It’s hard being an M’s fan, but trying being one in Kansas City.
Really, all I can take away from this game is:
Snelling > Redman (otherwise Hargrove would have started him)
Ichiro > Pineiro (it doesn’t have to be related, but could apply to pitching if I wanted it to)
It’s hard being an M’s fan, but trying being one in Kansas City.
If they value your presence in town as much as your team’s, you’d think they’d be treating you like “royalty” just to get you to stay.
“my team” is in seattle.
So much reason for hope. So much reason for despair. RE:111, My team is in Seattle too. Interesting to see the youngsters, painfull to watch Joel…what must that feel like? ‘I Can’t pitch Major League hitters anymore, how did that happen?’
Very few of us face that, I am a contractor and I don’t expect I’ll lose the ability to build houses all of a sudden.
GO ICHIRO! 200 hits, steal,steal,score. How’s that for a statement!
“my team” is in seattle.
Which is exactly what I was referring to.
Don’t know if anyone is still interested in a review, but I’ve been to Feireabend several times now and the entrees are great. Their sausages are terrific, they come with a huge ton of fries, and the curry ketchup is tasty. I’ve also had their spaetzle, their stuffed portobello mushroom, and their schnitzel sandwich, which was awesome. The only critique I would have of their sandwiches is they come on baguette style bread, which means the crust is kind of tough (artisan-like) and so the sandwich innards have a tendency to get squished out the back end when you take a bite. Big beer list, and if it weren’t for the fact that after eating lunch there I have to walk back to work and actually get someting done, I’d know their selection a lot better than I do.
hmmm, an off-season Feierabend-y Feed at the Feierabend?
Corco will be at all feeds offered this offseason and he loves German food.
113: Oooh I get it…..
sorry bout that.
Jolbert managed to take over the Hacking Mass lead from Josh Towers. Nice.