Game 162, Rangers at Mariners
DMZ · October 1, 2006 at 12:22 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
Tejeda v Woods. 1:05.
The farewell lineup is
CF-L Ichiro
3B-R Beltre
C-R Johjima
LF-L Ibanez
DH-R Sexson
1B-L Broussard
2B-R Lopez
RF-L Snelling
SS-R Betancourt
I bet Bloomquist gets into the game
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Who will Bloomquist sub for? Snelling? Lopez? Betancourt?
Snelling, because he won’t be able to hit lefty relievers. Really, it isn’t a platoon though, he just needs some time off, whenever lefties come in, especially in the last game of the year.
Can’t PH for Yuni, in fact, he ought to be hitting third. What was Hargrove thinking?
Lopez should be up in the order too. Unless he’s been having a whiff-tastic series, then just bench him and start Mr. Grit instead.
Ichiro!
October baseball, this is what it’s all about!
Somebody probably makes some sort of joke like that every year.
Oh that’s beautiful.
I somehow knew he’d do that.
Richie Sexson. Mariner for life.
Oh yeah!!! Everybody’s suddenly getting hot, just in time for the off-season.
Sometimes these guys aren’t so bad. Maybe next year they can be consistent. It’ll be great!
#5 – Like Fox says: “You can’t script October”
Man, talk about 1st pitch swining.
By the way is anyone else having trouble getting into LL today?
I keep getting some error when I try going to LL too
Anybody notice that Sexson’s post All-Star OPS is over 1.000, before that homer?
His numbers, killed by the first few months of the season, actually ended up pretty solid.
Our network is down.
I don’t know the year, but I recall Julio Franco said it.
Our network is down.
Seems it’s the entire SB network. Field Gulls is blitzed too.
I think it’s fixed now. Field Gulls should be fine for the game.
Field Gulls doesn’t work for me.
Did Dave really just give a shout-out to Bubba?
Hendu just said that Felix “should stay away from the breaking ball”, while describing how all he needs to do to pitch well is pound the batters with fastballs.
Occasionally Hendu says things that are less than 100% true.
Time for some good Beltre.
Thanks for your input, Hendu. We’ll get back to you.
Bubba Ho-Tep?
we can check ‘use both hands to make a catch’ off the Fairly list today. I missed the first few innings, though– has he had a chance to talk about someone dropping a popup in the infield, to then attempt to get an out at 1st? Has anyone ‘been in trouble here’? I’m hoping that Doyle’s lead-off walk will come in to score, as Ron always tells us it might….
oh, I thought of another positive– for all our (deserved) complaining about Doyle getting pulled for lefties, Hargrove has actually kept playing him, even with the 8-55 slide….
Gil needs to keep the ball down.
The Tigers just missed a chance to clinch the division by failing to score with the bases loaded and 1 out in the 11th inning.
Why the hell isn’t there any baseball on TV today other than the M’s game? There’s all sorts of playoff situations being decided today and I’m stuck watching the scoreboard on the internet.
And they need to get at least 3 runs to win….
Is Jake Woods raising his trade value right this minute? Let’s hope so.
Minnesota’s won, and the Royals plate two in the 12th against the Tigers. Looks like a wild end of the season for Detroit.
Is anybody else having problems with Gameday?
Scrappy ground ball there by Willy.
Yeah, it says ‘Defensive Substitution: Willie Bloomquist replaces right fielder Chris Snelling, batting 8th, playing right field’, which is obviously nonsense.
Sticky “S” key there, DMZ.
Scrappy catch, too.
Strong finish by Detroit…
As in “Oops, I scrapped my pants”.
Tie does not go to the runner! Stop saying that!
“Outstanding attendance of 2.4 million this year.” – Rizzs
2005: 2.7 million
2004: 2.9 million
2003: 3.3 million
2002: 3.5 million
2001: 3.5 million
Can we “break” two mil next year? Signs point to “yes”.
I’m not sure Ichiro wanted that to be his last swing memory of the 2006 season.
have we had this much of a light/dark contrast at home this year? the pitcher coming out of such bright sun into shadow?
Welcome to Fall. Sun’s lower in the sky all around. World Series games here (hah) might be very interesting; if we ever get one, it’ll be the most northerly ever played.
Its time we Putz an end to this season….
I can’t believe we’re might end the last game of the season with under 50 comments on a game thread.
I can’t believe this is the same season that saw us start the season against the Angels. It’s been a long year. It will probably be an even longer offseason.
How do you leave early? If you’re there, the Ms are only up by one run, and you may as well stay to watch the final pitch of the season for the Ms.
My friends left early on Monday, with the game tied….
I can’t begin to understand that….
Well thats it. Another long season with unsatisfactory results. Some small improvements, but overall. BLAH.
Putz!!! Once last thrill for M’s fans.
#45– well, we are Corco-less….
and my final ‘what if’ of the year– what if Fruto had either not come in or had actually thrown strikes on friday night.
Nice JJ! You just gave me 3 more Ks and a save in my down-to-the-wire Fantasy matchup!!!
Kreuger gets to play GM?
I am tingling in anticipation.
And the season is over. J.J. ended it in style.
Bye bye. Time to stoke up the Hot Stove soon.
Uncle Fester is talking about using organizational fodder for the fifth starter.
Even if it is just for 7th place….
56
Better than than say… Adam Eaton.
How many days till spring training?
Soriano yay! Kreuger isn’t a bum.
#53– IIRC, Krueger spent a long timetouting Meche as a new Mussina, so his player evaluation should be interesting…
Man, Hargrove is, like, totally articulate and stuff.
Beltre is best defensive 3B in baseball? Wow. Hargrove’s talent evaluation skills do suck.
By the way, barring last minute changes I finish 66th in Hacking Mass. Not bad considering Tony Womack only played a month, and Scott Hatteberg decided he was Todd Helton for most of the season. My best choice was little-known Abraham Nunez at 3B (one of only ten to choose him), and super-stud Angel Berroa at short, who got beat out at the wire for best Hacking Mass score by only Ronnie Cedeno and Clint Barmes.
I made one really bad mistake, which was switching out Joel Pineiro at the last possible minute and putting in Scott Elarton instead. I think I was actually past the deadline, but the change stood. Elarton was reliably bad, with 32 ESPN, but Pineiro was the worst Mass pitcher in baseball, with a fourth-highest at any position 103. That would have got me almost into the top ten.
That’s about where I finished last year. Out of 1,342 entries, I’m not ashamed. If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s recognizing lack of talent.
See you next year.
How did Bill Bavasi do with his Hacking Mass team?
Beltre is best defensive 3B in baseball? Wow. Hargrove’s talent evaluation skills do suck.
Am I missing some sarcasm here? Beltre is one of the top defensive 3B, no?
I finished a paltry 166th in hacking mass. Moyer really screwed me over, and I was really hoping Casey kotchman would hold on to the Angels first base job.
#66
That was in the middle of Hargrove’s “No Spin, NO B.S.” speech (his words not mine). While Beltre is very good, there are probably 3-4 guys that are better.
Man, dang. You know what? I hate closing day. No matter how bad the hometown team may suck, I just flat out hate closing day.
No more appropriate time, I guess, to quote the late, great Bart Giamatti:
A DMZ, Corco, and Mr. Thomsen banter would have been entertaining. The Post game show is entertaining. Krueger does speak his mind.
Hope not more Henderson next year.
To USSM and those who post many thanks as I discovered this season the games were unwatchable without being able to follow USSM’s game thread. A thanks to Marbledog for pitch hitting in a game that mattered at the time.
ah, BusinessGuy just called the post-game. He’s called before to explain how, in the real world (something that he, a former CEO can speak to) in the real world the Peter Principle would have kicked in, and Lincoln would have been out on his ear by now, especially as Lincoln is arrogant and never talks to the media or the fans (this was usually just about the time that Lincoln in fact was scheduled to come on KOMO for a Q&A).
Today he added that the only reason Lincoln is still here is that his boss is in Japan and knows nothing about baseball except how to give money to Japanese players, and that new Japanese pitcher might be all they say he is, but Johjima, you can talk about his 147 hits, but those in the know know he cost them 14-15 games with his game-calling…
uh-hmm.
Doyle on the postgame– talking about having learned this last stretch how pitchers adjust to hitters, and that he has to work on making his own adjustments to them, and just thrilled to have met his sring training goal of finishing the year on a roster, any roster. He’s not sure what to do with his off-season, as for once he doesn’t have to rehab anything. oh, well, get married in November, but, other than that…
I’ve read #68 in Toastmasters before… it makes a terrific speech.
Dave: How about putting Huber on the future 40? I know 18 plus innings is a small sample, but I like all these zeros he puts on the board.
Huber’s pitched very well since coming up, and has certainly put his hat in the ring for a bullpen spot next spring, but really, he’s walking evidence of what we’ve been preaching for years. The minor leagues are absolutely littered with guys who are capable of coming up, throw strikes, and pitching well for an inning at a time a couple of days a week. Relievers are so easy to find, and so easy to replace, that besides the elite relief-ace types, they just aren’t that valuable.
The moral of Jon Huber’s story isn’t that Jon Huber is better than anyone thought, but instead, it’s that relief pitchers are lying around, waiting for an opportunity.
51: Corco decided that his presence at the game was more valuable than Corco here. Probably a bad decision, but we won.
That said, Farewell 2006! You will be missed. Hard to believe I’ve been a diehard fan for 4 full seasons now.
*And have been reading USSM for 3 full seasons now.
Rule 7.08(e) clearly states that a tie goes to the fielder.