First televised game of 2007 thread of awesomeness
Wooooo! M’s on television! Yayyy! I’m so excited I’m posting hours early!
Rumored M’s lineup, from the Times blog:
CF-L Ichiro
3B-R Adrian Beltre
DH-B Jose Vidro
LF-L Raul Ibanez
1B-R Richie Sexson
RF-R Mike Morse
C-R Jeff Clement
2B-R Jose Lopez
SS-R Yuniesky Betancourt
For the Giants: some guys. Who cares.
Edit: Also, Dave’s at the game, so if you see someone throwing rocks at Jose Vidro in the background, that’s probably me. Will have notes up late tonight. Brandon Morrow looked awesome in Mesa today, by the way.
From the Times blog:
Good thing the Cubs can fold their laundry and have a packed stadium come to watch, otherwise, the M’s would have some explaining to do
Hee hee hee.
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Who is pitching? I can’t seem to find out from MLB.com…
Jeff Clement — oooohh.
Morse in RF — ewwww.
I am super happy to get to see Clement play – I missed him in Tacoma last year.
I just got tickets for the Mar 24 game vs. KC
12 of us are going from Eugene, OR, Driving to Phoenix.
Is anyone planning a Ken Griffey Jr welcome home group? I see Cincy’s coming to Seattle for the first time since interleague play began. Hopefully he’s healthy…
Will we see Leone at 3rd perhaps?
Too much on TV tonight! Zags-Mariners-The Office (will Jim get pummeled?) My DVR is already choking because of Smallville!
Clement playing is exciting news.
Weaver is pitching, #1.
The Office is a rerun tonight, Rick. It’s an hour long (because they’re including deleted scenes), but it’s still a rerun.
I own this Clement card. Not graded though. One of my favorites, although I don’t own many cards these days so the competition isn’t fierce.
Is it in HD? Please, please, pretty please….
#4
hey, im in eugene, i wasnt invited?
j/k
RE 1.
I think its Weaver starting.
The Giants are worth watching if for no other reason than the last-spot-on-the-roster scrap between Central Kitsap grad Todd Linden and South Kitsap grad (and Willie Bloomquist best friend) Jason Ellison.
Which would win a battle to the death, a cougar or a wolf?
The Giants are worth watching if for no other reason than the last-spot-on-the-roster scrap between Central Kitsap grad Todd Linden and South Kitsap grad (and Willie Bloomquist best friend) Jason Ellison.
We should trade Ichiro! for them.
well, he’ll have had the start of April to rest up for the rest of the season…
in an aside, Bowie Kuhn has died
Alas. The last commissioner with a nutsack, excepting the brief tenure of Paul Giamatti’s pop.
The Giants are worth watching if for no other reason than the last-spot-on-the-roster scrap between Central Kitsap grad Todd Linden and South Kitsap grad (and Willie Bloomquist best friend) Jason Ellison.
Damned if there aren’t any Northern Kitsap or Eastern Kitsap grads to really stoke ‘em rivalry flames.
Nah, they probably all became band geeks and got their college degrees at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople…
Los Dos Barrys played this afternoon, so starting for the Giants (to stretch him out, sez Bochy) is Jonathan Sanchez, fronting what sounds like the equivilent of the team the Ms sent to HoHoKom
and Baker is back, & blogging
The game is at 7:00 PM on FSN, for those who didn’t know.
Hey, maybe we’ll get to see our woulda-coulda-shoulda-picked-with-the-fifth-pick-pick Tim Lincecum strike out 5 M’s while Brandon “has a good body” Morrow ices his elbow after his 5th SCORELESS INNING!
CK (Central Kitsap) REPRESENT!!!
And Linden went deep earlier today.
@17:
Wait….is that an actual school or did you listen to that PDQ Bach CD enough to remember that? I thought I was the only person in the world that owned that….although I seem to have misplaced it now.
Actually, they matriculate at Saskatchewan State.
Sure the USNDH is a real university — here are some photos!
There are some nice photos of Schickele Auditorium.
@25:
I dunno, I’m skeptical…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USND_at_Hoople
Okay, I’m excited. No poker game for me tonight. I’m actually going to stay home and watch the Ms game, which is something I suppose, nearing some sort of first step in forgiveness after the Carl Everett signing debacle. then again, given the Doyle trade, I’m not sure I should be taking that first step.
But…baseball. I miss it too much to not watch.
And I’ve even ponied up for tix to the Edgar (Mariners) HOF game and yes, the first game Cincy plays in Safeco, on the outside chance Junior is there.
I haven’t forgiven. Or forgotten. I won’t be watching, listening to or attending any games until the cheese puffs in charge are crushed into dust under the couch cushions of competitive imbalance.
JEFFFFFFFFFFFF WEAVER
(wa wa wa wa wa)
He’s just a guy… who doesn’t pitch that wellllllllll
“Bobby Bonds”
“Jake Weaver”
Great to hear you again, Niehaus.
“Bobby Bonds?” Come on Dave, you’re not that old to not remember Barry’s name.
Niehaus is soooooooooooooooooo drunk. This is hilarious
Other Niehaus non de plumes we can expect this season:
— “Tony Batista”
— “Chita Rivera”
— “Rafael Betancourt”
— “Alan Jones”
— “Horacio Sanz”
Man. That ball needed to file a flight plan before it took off.
That was a mighty fat pitch.
okay, so maybe that first step of forgiveness was too large a step to attempt. hmmm, 2 runs in top of 1st….
You wanna see anything fatter, you best go to Walmart on stretch pants dollar day.
Dick Rizzs
Niehaus loves the commercials.
“The M’s annually win awards with their commercials”
Just not pennants or trophies
so, maybe the front office thinks they’re supposed to be competitive about the commercials….not the actual on-field play?
What the heck kind of hats are the Giants wearing? I’ve never seen stylized G’s on their heads.
Who’s doing color?
you know the old saying, you don’t dare fall behind to Pedro Feliz
oh, and I believe it is an annual occurance, and has been for many years to have at least one “Bobby Bonds” out of Dave, and occasionally a shout out to others, such as the yearly “Diego Segui” for David during ‘98-99.
Vidro came from the Montreal/Washington organization, which is the same organization.
hee hee hee
Blowers is doing color.
Blowers is doing color on tv; I haven’t turned on the radio, being afeard of getting a Rizzs OD too early.
That was possibly the worst explanation why a transition from the field to DH is hard I’ve ever heard.
Ahhhhhhhhh, it’s nice to be bitching about this stuff again. Soon I’ll be too annoyed to watch with the sound on.
“Good to see Edgar… actually, I didn’t see him”
42: The Giants have been wearing those “G” caps during spring training and batting practice for a few years now.
Also, their uniforms have been getting progressively darker and uglier. The black-on-black with orange trim that they’re wearing tonight is particularly appalling…
It’s Blowers? He’s made a bunch of comments so far that seem to show that he hasn’t followed any baseball at all this spring.
Neihaus is becoming the new Yogi Berra.
“Soon I’ll be too annoyed to watch with the sound on.”
Yep, then comes the time of just following the game threads for an inning or two.
…bases loaded, one out, how much you bet we don’t score.
Infield fly. Bases loaded two outs…
A TOWERING pop-up.
I’m glad it wasn’t a lazy pop-up, cause those are worse.
there is a natural progression, isn’t there?
Would Willie Bloomquist hit a scrappy pop-up?
Strike out… Here we go again…
Same old mariners…
there it was, the tagline for this years’ season…
‘a threat, but that was all’.
The look on Morse’s face with that strikeout was pure ‘Crap, I’m back in Tacoma again’.
Cripes, I didn’t realize that the Giants’ pitcher was Sanchez. Stupid Mariners, not trading Sexson for him.
Three of those bobble”heads” look exactly the same.
That was Clement, not Morse.
The first ‘can of corn’ for the 2007 season. Warms my heart, just to hear it.
Whoops. Kids all look the same to me.
These spring training crowds sure do clap a lot.
It’s been so long since I saw so many truck commercials.
Hey, they’re already trying to get us used to missing the first pitch! It’s spring training for viewers, too!
“My oh my” as a tagline is a sign that they’re not even trying anymore.
iirc, Blowers showed up at the end of last week, so he may well be catching up on everything. I haven’t been paying close attention, as I found Rizzs was talking to Bob Fontaine on the radio side
Can you blame Blowers for not paying attention to this game?
Double, walk, hit, no runs. Only the Mariners can fuck up Moneyball…
Lopez took a walk!!
OHHHHHHH THE OLD WOOD BAT MYTH
No Gameday “follow along”? Screw you spring training!
BETTY!
That looked a *lot* like a home run.
I wonder what we’ll see more of this year – BBs for Lopez or HRs for Betancourt.
Someone is swearing near one of the pickup mikes.
I don’t care what people say. After Felix, there’s no Mariner I’m more excited about this season than Beltre.
Someone is swearing near one of the pickup mikes.
At least it’s not that jerk in Oakland with the air horn.
82 posts on a game thread and it’s only 7:40? Welcome to spring baseball – I love it.
I’m not giving up hope that Yuni develops a little Tejada-like power. He might have a 15-20 HR year in him.
I did post the thread many hours early.
First one of the year: “I love Good Beltre.”
Oh, Rick Kaminski the peanut guy. It’s the little things I miss.
I’m not giving up hope that Yuni develops a little Tejada-like power. He might have a 15-20 HR year in him.
He might need a little Tejada-like aid.
It’s so weird to see our DH get a hit.
are the ‘c/mon’ guys still there? The ones that after a few beers start the call and response of ‘c/mon [fill in name]‘ ‘c’mon [fill in name’?
did you hear the ball come off of yuni’s bad…he CRUSHED it…
God I sincerely hope Vidro performs throughout the year like he has so far in spring…
sorry…yuni’s “bat”
Man…I hate Supertramp so much, that ad makes me want to sell my Acura. They won’t be running it all season, will they?
Scratch that Vidro comment. .345 / .387 / .379 is pretty empty.
They’re going to have to start giving away those big trucks they advertise constantly, to get people to buy 16 game packages. What, they think they can do it with 4 little bobbleheads?
Well, Beltre’s defense is ready for the season…
Anyone see Dave yet???
I have four words for you: “This is oooouuuurrrrrrrr counnnnnnnntry”
Well, I’m happy to see Rauuuuuul’s defense is in mid-season form, too…
Beautiful Raul.
A friend of mine has the Edgar Duck in her office. It’s scary.
http://i14.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/92/04/3155_1.JPG
Blowers’ explanation of why the M’s did well against the NL rivals his explanation of why it’s hard to be a DH in insight.
98: That’s just cruel.
Damn you, DMZ!
Speak of the devil
Jeff Weaver looks like a young Randy Johnson. Not pitching wise, mullet wise. It’s not a positive.
Seems safe to say Jeff’s not turned into a groundball pitcher over the winter.
Another towering fly ball.
Weeeellllp. Dave’s in midseason form, too! Yeah, that was almost out. Almost. Who needs spring training? Let’s just skip to the real thing…
clement looks baaaaaad tonight…
Look at his minor league stats … Clement has looked bad for a while now.
106. He’s walking on a legitimate “Kentucky Waterfall.” Where’s Buhner with the clippers?
Apparently he has “awesome power.”
Oh look! Crappy has-been bands at the Emerald Queen!
I may be going against the common thoughts out there, but I like Blowers. He spouts all the typical ex-player BS, which will certainly get on other people’s nerves, but his voice is more than tollerable, and really, that’s all I’m looking for in tv analysis.
For those who don’t live wherever it is where you can get the game on TV and can’t find the like for Gameday, here it is:
That Double Play M’s commercial is very disturbing!
OK, the double-play twins commercials was decent.
So about those “Buy 16-game get 4 bobblehead” plans that they’re advertising. If you buy into the 16 game plan, do you have to get in line 4 hours before the gates open just like everyone else in order to get one — for the four games they give them out — or do they just give you a special gate that you can go through to guarantee the giveaway (like they do in Cheney for the season ticket holders)???
What! where did it go? What a cruel joke! How about this: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/y2006/gd.html?2007_03_15_sfnmlb_seamlb_1
DMZ, would you ban me if I changed my nickname to “Pedro Feliz Navidad”?
as long as they don’t sit in the dug out and act like the two fools in “Mr. 3000″ i’m okay with the “double-play twins”
Weaver! Weaver! Weaver!
115 – I like Blowers too. And not one “good golly” all night, so far.
120,
Thank you sir. Stuck at work without a TV or a radio.
best commercial right here…ICHIRO!
Lopez takes a pitch!…. but only one!
Cuba Libre!
yuni’s going for the cycle…lol
Gameday recorded that as a double on a groundball to CF. How?
it was a line drive to left center…
Hard-hit past the SS into left-center. CF took a poor route to the ball and had to dive just to stop it from going to the wall.
Giese throws 18 pitches, 4 balls. Makes everybody look stupid.
132, thanks.
But now we need to discuss a rule change. With the new powers granted to the scorekeeprs to determine whether a “Mental” error lead to the result of the play, would that be a single and an error or a double because of the CF taking a bad route to the ball, or would you just leave that alone?
I don’t want your stinking trinkets. Give me a division title!
I’d leave it as a double. Even if the CF makes the stop on the run, his momentum is still taking him away from the play and it’s going to be a pretty tough throw to get Yuni out.
morse made that look ugly…
#120: Thanks!
God I’ve missed baseball.
Man, how fast was Ichiro getting to that ball?
Good to see Ichiro understands that Raul is a liability out there and takes a ball that was clearly the LF’s.
RIZZS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Dammit! Now Rizzs I can’t stand. I’d rather listen to Fairly any day of the week.
That salt n’ pepa goat on Rizzs is RIZDICULOUS!
[Rizzs]
Okay, I’m sick of the Double Play Twins commercial already. And it’s only been one day.
119 (Paul): you mean like they DID at Cheney for the season ticket holders. There’s new owners in town boy, and things are gonna be a little bit different.
I love that Rizzs was so distracted by the shot of scantily-clad women he nearly lost his place in his spiel. That’s awesome.
Didn’t Frankie Valli die about 10 years ago?
…like they DID at Cheney for the season ticket holders…
Oooh, that’s right. Damn you Nick Lachey!!!!
re: Blowers – I just had to switch to radio for a while, long enough to have to listen to that god-awful hair commercial by Dave Valle, and omg is it refreshing to have Blowers and not Valle/Hendu. His analysis might not be brilliant, but at least he knows how to speak English.
Well at least Clement didn’t K that time.
I’d say it’s no secret Jeff isn’t ML ready. It’s really a bummer in his development that he missed some of last year with an injury, only to be “aggressively” promoted right after.
Someone stitch up that Golden Sombraro. Morse is about to need a new hat.
Call now and you’ll also get these amazing double-pane replacement windows!
That wasn’t a ground ball Green.
That wasn’t a groundball either Green.
Blowers: Leone started sucking.
Blowers’ monotone delivery is starting to give me hives.
KERBLAMMO
I heart Rob Johnson.
does that johnson pick off make rivera go down? pretty please?
rather have BURKE than johnson, but anybody over rivera…
but, you know, recently Valle has been experiencing hair loss.
Green owes Rob Johnson dinner.
Johnson’s showing off.
Gonzaga only has three minutes to come back from 11 down…sorry east-siders…
There’s some sense of morbid curiosity that makes me interested in seeing Valle’s “new hair” on tv. I can’t decide if it’s more likely he’ll be wearing one of Rizzs’ spare pieces or if he’s just as bald as ever.
Teal armpits wtf
I hope the little pieces of ‘flare’ on the side of these spring training hats isn’t permanent. Between these and the “cool flow!” helmets, equipment is looking like little league.
did morse shave his hair to look/hit like rauuuuuuuuuuul? now they have the said “do” and fielding skills…lol
That was ball 4
Aggressive base running!!!!!
Mr. Rally at the plate!
I spell Jose Vidro with 000000000000-for-15.
vidro “did his job” because he’s a “professional hitter”
Jose Vidro=Professional hitter
Does that count as keeping a rally going?
He had a “better plan”. What in the bloody hell does that mean?
I believe the ‘flair’ is just to sell yet another spring cap. They’ll be back to normal come the season.
Is Gameday staggering, or does it just take Vidro that long to tromp back to the dugout?
It’s the return of the Phillistines. Quick get your sling and stones.
so, Stanford stomped, Zags out, UCLA & Cougs advance, is that right?
181. Yes, that’s right.
that’s right…and green sucks tonight…
Sean Green sucks.
not that Green’s pitching isn’t holding me rapt.
can we stop the bleading? i’m begging for aaron small to come in…can’t believe i just typed that…
If this game mattered, I’d be pissed that Green is still in there.
I get the feeling that we’re going to see plenty of innings like this during the season. Lots of ground balls finding their way into the outfield.
186… and your wish is granted!
Green’s pitching makes Gameday a’splode.
I just have to say it’s great to have Mariners on TV and a gamethread to bitch on. Go Mariners and thank god for “professional-hitters”. Seriously…
I’ve actually been wanting to see Aaron Small. Will he make me wish I hadn’t typed that?
Who is Mike Wilson?
193.
193. Let’s try again
wonder if vidro will get or keep the rally going…he is a “professional hitter”
193. third time’s a charm
http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=444125
How about an update for us Gameday viewers! I’m assuming it’s not still 3-3.
Too bad we don’t have Aaron Sele and Aaron Taylor anymore…
Why, I could make a whole crappy team of Aarons!
#193 — the large young man who hit the enormous home run off Sandoval in the pre-exhibition exhibition game.
5-3. Clement is up at the plate waiting to strike out looking.
there is an optimist at the game, looking at Morse at the plate and shouting ‘tie it up, here!’
you know, what the Moose ad really needs is Matty Sinatro putting the flags on the map.
P Aaron Sele
P Aaron Small
P Aaron Harang
P Aaron Cook
R Aaron Looper
R Aaron Fultz
R Aaron Heilman
2B Aaron Hill
SS Aaron Miles
3B Aaron Boone
OF Aaron Roward
OF Aaron Guiel
Well, almost a whole team…
blah blah blah blah blah
Old School Trident Logo!
Was that called strike as high as Gameday showed it was?
Invocation of 1995: 9:35 pm
Rizzs and that double down the left field line.
sigh. where’s that Haitian with the memory erase when you need him.
GMTA, msb
So with the addition of Blowers this year, does this mean we no longer have to listen to Hendu?
from Larry Stone:
“The Mariners’ 2007 plan is for Niehaus to begin each game in the TV
booth for the first few innings with Blowers, and then move to the radio booth with Rizzs. For most games, Rizzs will work on the radio side only. Sims and Blowers will team up when Niehaus goes to the radio booth. Blowers, 41, replaces former analysts Henderson and Valle, who may appear in more limited roles. Adamack said the team was looking for a full-time analyst, rather than splitting the duties as in the past. “We’ve told both of them [Henderson and Valle] there will probably be some times over the course of the season where we’d want to use them in a game here or there,” Adamack said.”"
So on radio-only games (and games where we’re in the car or otherwise unable to use a TV) we’re going to have to listen to Rizzs for the entire game? Aaaargh! I guess the upside is that if you stick to TV only, you’ll never hear him. And you get a full helping of Blowers rather than Henderson or Valle. Man, they must really want to drive people towards TV. KIRO can’t be happy.