Comments on: Game 162, Rangers at Mariners

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:32:28 +0000

Tie does not go to the runner! Stop saying that!

Rule 7.08(e) clearly states that a tie goes to the fielder.

By: David J. Corcoran I

David J. Corcoran I — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:35:01 +0000

*And have been reading USSM for 3 full seasons now.

By: David J. Corcoran I

David J. Corcoran I — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:34:42 +0000

That said, Farewell 2006! You will be missed. Hard to believe I’ve been a diehard fan for 4 full seasons now.

By: David J. Corcoran I

David J. Corcoran I — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:11:08 +0000

51: Corco decided that his presence at the game was more valuable than Corco here. Probably a bad decision, but we won.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:03:33 +0000

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.

By: Rick L

Rick L — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:51:56 +0000

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.

By: Bobby Valentine's Porn Mustache

Bobby Valentine's Porn Mustache — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:41:11 +0000

I’ve read #68 in Toastmasters before… it makes a terrific speech.

Rice is up. Rice whom Aaron had said was the only one he’d seen with the ability to break his records. Rice the best clutch hitter on the club, with the best slugging percentage in the league. Rice, so quick and strong he once checked his swing halfway through and snapped the bat in two. Rice the Hammer of God sent to scourge the Yankees, the sound was overwhelming, fathers pounded their sons on the back, cars pulled off the road, households froze, New England exulted in its blessedness, and roared its thanks for all good things, for Rice and for a summer stretching halfway through October.

By: msb

msb — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:28:30 +0000

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…

By: msb

msb — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:16:09 +0000

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.

By: pensive

pensive — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:00:52 +0000

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.