M’s in Vegas
DMZ · March 30, 2007 at 6:53 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
Against the Cubbies! 7:15! On broadcast TV! I’m excited!
I’d also like to saw that so far, I find Dave Sims to be so far superior to the former alternate television broadcaster that it’s ridiculous. You can try and talk me out of it, tell me that he’ll wear on me eventually, but I’m loving it so far.
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I’ve got it on WGN… I’m sad to miss Niehaus & Sims, but it’ll be nice to see the M’s on TV for a bit tonight.
He’s definitely smarter than the toupeed one, but personally he seems kinda bland. I’m sure that will change as the season goes on, but right now he seems a little tentative and like he’s trying to feel this job out.
He’ll be OK if he just remembers to mention 1995 and 2001 at least 50 times a game.
In the name of God, someone either buy Lou Piniella a cup or teach him to keep his knees together. Is this what digital television will bring us in the future? At least focus on the ball girls, for cryin’ out loud.
looks like the Ms are trotting out their full complement of regulars… yah
Is this gonna be a long nite? BTW I bet the M’s as a slight underdog. +105
Josh Hamilton would’ve gunned Soriano down at the plate….
I’m thinking the ball is gonna sail tonite. Usually nice weather in Vegas means runs will be scored.
I really wanted that to be a play at the plate.
Announcers are in midseason form for fawning over the Cubbies.
nothing like 5-pitch inning, eh?
what was that 4 pitches 3 outs?
5 pitches and the top of the Mariner order goes down. I’m very, very glad we’re still in the meaningless part of the season.
Lou is such a homer…
Odd thing is Ichiro should have hit the first pitch. Right over the plate.
No, Ichiro took two pitches before grounding out….
I for one will be glad to see the end of those white side-wall caps.
That’s such an E Sexson.
Juuuuuuuuuuuust a little bit outside.
150K people attending a Nascar race, and they’re all cousins.
It makes me happy to watch the M’s on TV.
This is why the M’s suck. No situational hitting. We need to bring in more gritty veterans that can hit in the clutch.
I think you’re only dealing with one-dimensional suckage. Think bigger.
The M’s TV feed is burning my retina. How could they not notice how incredibly bright it is?!?
Even sitting in Tacoma with rabbit ears and poor KSTW reception, I’m a happy camper right now.
Neihaus got married when the Dodgers won a pennant? Wow, he really is old.
I’m getting positively giddy about Opening Day.
Even if Batista is…not so good.
I see Batista is already in midseason form.
He’s getting rocked like a …well…something that’s really getting rocked.
Like a hurricane?
like a horse?
29: That was my thought, but the song is Rock YOU like a hurricane, so it’s whatever is being rocked like a hurricane.
Well, as Chris Moltisanti says: “Rock out with your cock out.”
Wow, Vidro. I thought you didn’t strike out.
Sims needs a little work, he’s a mite choppy. He never really ended that sentence about Sherrill.
Mr. Corcoran it is Friday night your first year of college. Where are the beer bongs and vodka handles?
They’re coming later. Right now, it’s Mariners baseball. I’ll catch up when the games over. But I don’t get to see them on TV very often, and I’m taking advantage of the situation.
Corco’s getting wasted on Vidro Light.
not quite.
You don’t need no stinkin’ degree — you know how to set priorities.
And after the sixth inning, he’ll switch to Mateo Pale.
my grades are good. College is easier than high school so far. That said, alcohol comes before school. Always.
Is Batista going to be this bad most of the year? Or all of it?
well, this looks like a team that Lou could love — until he needs another bat or two, of course.
And that is why George Sherrill should not face many righties in the regular season.
A broken bat home run. I guess we’re gonna be seeing Lou’s package all season.
Batista is really better suited in the NL, or in the bullpen.
Sherrill needs to get with the program.
seems to be a few Cub fans in the house.
and the Cubs are feeling hitterish.
I’d rather have Gookie on the opening day roster than Rey Ordonez.
At least we’re pitching to contact.
Morrow has the flu? Maybe he won’t make the roster after all.
I’m giving up. I have tickets for Monday and Tuesday, so I’ll get 18 innings of this live.
I only have tickets on Monday. And you won’t see Juan Sandoval next week.
Mateo and Washburn have the flew … and they’re making the team.
Batista is really better suited salting fries at Jack in the Box
Fixed.
Quick best of all to Jason starting on his career on April Fools Day. Great area to begin for real. Hope you still have abit of time to post. Good luck.
Ugh. I seriously hope George has all the bugs out now. I really hope he doesn’t get sent down after yet another horrid spring outing…
Jose!
I’d like Guillen to do a lot of that this year, yep.
Wow. Jose, can you see!
Yep. He can.
and the blind kid outpitches the other fellas.
aaaaaaannnnd …. the ball seems to carry well here.
This is a long game. Does anyone know if there’s anything tasty on sale at Safeway?
Yep, there’s a sudden sale on Batista Bock in the six-run-pack.
Beltre!
Beltre’s a half decent player.
I’m looking for cookies. Or those delicious yogurt covered pretzels
easter candy.
someone else said ‘food poisoning’ for Morrow– whatever it was appears to have resulted in a lot of bodily fluids. nasty.
I hear pet food is heavily discounted this week.
Hey! Hey! My brother owns a pet supply store so I can get far better foods than the ones they sell in the store at cost.
the store = Safeway
Heh. “Flu-like symptoms,” probably. Yeah, he’s supposed to be a quiet kid. I bet that Richie and a few of the other guys ‘toasted’ his arrival in the bigs.
Man, it’s nice to see guys like Beltre and Guillen do some damage vs. lefty pitching.
well, he spent thursday with his parents, got on the plane at midnight after the game and into Vegas late, knowing he had to pitch tonight. I suppose there could have been liquid refreshment on the plane, but wouldn’t there be watchful eyes there?
In all the Cubs’ signings, I forgot they picked up Floyd.
Last year’s team would’ve rolled over and died after falling behind early. At least they’re fighting back.
As an aside, I took delivery today on my share of a shared season ticket package of some primo seats (section 131). This is new territory for me and I’m good for the next six months.
Okay, I miss Ichiro in right. Somebody had to say it.
131? Thems is some good seats
So do I. He just seems out of position in center.
But he BELONGS out there in center. There was a TV game about a wek ago where he roamed way far into left center and called off Ibanez. That’s a good thing.
No, he’s in the right place. It just seems weird.
Well, he couldn’t stay in McCall forever … um … I mean … uh … what?
So, there was a comment earlier about the new announcer. What do you think? I’m of the opinion that anything is better than Ron Fairly, Dave Henderson or Dave Valle. They were kind of irritating to listen to.
JJ. What’s he got this year? Is he a flash in the pan?
Johjilicious!
I don’t really listen to what they say; I just listen to the timbre of their voice. Fairly had a fantastic baseballese timbre. Sims, I won’t be able to tell for twenty games. But he’s better than I was expecting.
If there’s one thing I care about concerning Hargrove (besides his hopeful imminent firing after this season), it’s that ridiculously awesome two-toned goatee he’s got going. I hope he keeps it into the season.
That was some nice stretch by Mr. Cub there. Am I the only one still watching?
Those sidewall caps are a disgrace. They make everybody look like Cal Ripken, grey at the temples. Until you get close; then it looks like bra fabric. Yuck.
I’d like to see Hargrove grow it out, six inches long. Real 19th century president style.
unless you look at the Cubs who have a little red streak over their ears.
man, is Lou wearing his jammies out there?
83: There is absolutely no reason to grow a goatee of that epicness in hot Arizona, only to shave it in cold Seattle. I’d fire him on the spot if he did that, because it’s totally illogical.
The thing about this game that depresses me is that I feel like I’m going to see a lot of similar games this year.
I could use a rally around now….
I like post All-Star Beltre.
Thanks, Vidro.
“Vidro popped up on the first pitch”. Will I hear that again this year?
Hey, bases loaded with less than 2 outs, and no one scores.
Did we not leave 2006?
433 to dead center? Damn.
Cubs walk the bases loaded, so what do the next two hitters do?
Swing at the first pitch and help the cubs get out of the inning.
ah, the magic touch of Larry Rothschild (”son, if you don’t throw a strike here, the manager will kill you”)
Amen, DMZ (re: 88)
Bases loaded is a GOOD sign, even if we don’t score. Bad teams don’t load the bases at all. Stop thinking “clutch” and start thinking “baserunners”.
this team loaded the bases last year. and left them there.
“A marriage license! A little more than half a hundred” is going to make me miss Ron Fairly pretty quick.
I got married in Vegas 10-1/2 years ago….
Stranding baserunners is evidence of randomness, not un-clutchness.
whatever it is, it is damned frustrating.
if Reitsma needs a theme song, The Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet had a fine, fine song called “Friendly town Calgary”
1-2-3 Finally!
Got the game on WGN and Fox, the latter of which is unfortunately staticky.
Bases loaded, heart of the lineup coming up. The pitcher’s just walked two in a row. What’s the best thing to do–swing at the first pitch and pop up barely past the pitcher? Natch.
Gotta love that 2007 M’s Magic!
this team loaded the bases last year. and left them there.
They really didn’t load the bases very often. And they had a decent, if unspectacular, OPS when the bases were loaded, too.
There were lots of things wrong with the Mariners in 2006, but I’m not buying bases loaded hitting as a big problem from last year.
The new Dave is already starting to annoy me.
well, if you are going to bring reality into my whining…
Don’t tell me there are Shadowy Men fans on USSM. That’s too weird. Next you’ll be going on about the BMX Bandits.
I’m a little drunk. So forgive me. But if your eyeballs could use a break from Vegas baseball, check out http://www.scribd.com/doc/5107/They-didnt-study. Especially if you’ve ever been out of your league on a math test in high school.
I realize this is evidence I haven’t read or understood the comment guidelines, but it’s worth it.
Mateo. And I’m out. Cya guys.
no BMX (either the band or the movie) but a whole lotta love for Reid, Brian and Don.
I also hate it when they say “top nine, comin’ up” instead of “top of the ninth, coming up”. I may be too old for this game.
Nice catch by the fan there on the ball off the ledge.
If Guillen’s leg is really hurt, is that a bad thing or a good thing?
Bad I’d say. Since either Jeremy Reed or Willie Bloomquist is likely to ‘replace’ him.
Broussard would certainly replace him, which is bad, but not that bad.
Bad. We’ll be losing by 5 instead of 3.
But Broussard would have hit a three-run homer.
Putz looks good, I’m happy. Even though the cap makes him look 50.
So what exactly happened to Guillen?
Is anyone really surprised that after a pitcher walks the bases loaded, our genius hitters swing at the very first pitch?
He took a funky step or two after he caught a fly ball. I doubt it’s an injury. Just a sore ankle.
Hargrove said he had a sore ankle earlier in the game.
Well I hope Grover’s ankle gets better
Seriously though, I think Mateo can POSSIBLY help us this year if he’s healthy. He did pitch a little better in the few weeks before his season ended last year. But I have full confidence that no matter how much he bounces back that Hargrove will still find a way to use him too much in the wrong situations. (I guess that’s hardly a bold prediction…sigh)
What happened to the Spring Training Master Plan that called for losing all the early games and winning all the late games to enter the season on a rush? Did the memo get lost?
122 – It’s all part of the Mariners’ MASTER-master plan to lose all their remaining games, thereby lulling the competition into complacency just before the regular season starts. It’s all very sophisticated game theory that Bavasi and Hargrove derived over the offseason.
Funny thing. The A’s signed Todd Walker (the man discussed here a few days ago as ‘most like Jose Vidro’) to a minor league deal for peanuts.
Versus what WE paid for a man that IS Jose Vidro…
Three innings down on the last game of the spring and no game post of any kind. The word on Guillen is that he’s going to be fine, but he gets the day off and Broussard gets the start in RF. The M’s go meekly in the first. Soriano leads off the bottom half with a LD to CF that I think Ichiro could have dove for and caught, but it’s the spring and he’s Ichiro. Instead he blocked it to keep Soriano to a single. After a steal, a sacrifice and an RBI Hit up the middle by Lee, Ramirez hit into a DP to get the M’s out of it with only 1 run given up. The second inning went the same for the M’s and again in the bottom half they got out of it with a Double Play to end the inning, only this time without giving up a run. All the starters who’ve gotten an AB (except Ibanez and Broussard) have been removed for Bench players already, with Broussard moving to first, Jones in CF, Morse in RF and Dawkins at 3B. Johjima Leads off the Third with the first hit for the M’s, a double in the LF Corner. Johjima Advances to third on a 1-2 WP that didn’t get far away from Blanco. Betancourt strikes out on a 2-2 pitch in the dirt and Lopez grounds out to the Pitcher. That puts Adam Jones up with 2 outs and the tying run at third. His solid single tyes the game at 1. Jones then steals second on an 0-1 pitch. Dawkins then strikes out looking at a ball. So what if it was called a strike, it was way outside. Substitutions at this point see only Johjima left at C and Broussard still in at first of the starters, with Bloomquist in at 2B, Ordonez at short and Saunders at LF. Bot-3rd Walker got a single with a drag bunt down to first (throw might have gotten him but went over pitchers head) then was thrown out by Johjima trying to steal second and the rest is easy outs. So it’s tied 1-1 after 3.
In a bid to split the gritty vote, with two out Ordonez steals 2nd in the 5th and comes up covered in dirt. Unfortunately that’s as far as he gets.
Top of the fourth the M’s went 1-2-3 for the 3rd time. Weaver came on in the fourth and pitched the first 1-2-3 inning for the M’s.
Top of the Fifth with 2 down Cedeno dives at a hit by Ordonez and can’t get a throw off in-time as Ordonez starts to dive headfirst at 1B then changes his mind and stumbles over the bag falling to his face 10 feet after first. On a 0-2 pitch Ordonez steals second as the throw goes into CF only for Saunders to SO on the next pitch. Burke comes in at Catcher and Ward gets a hit to RF on a 1-1 pitch leading off. Ordonez comes in hard on a grounder off Blanco’s bat, throws to second and Bloomquist drops the ball, fumbling a possible DP. Walker sacrifices Ward to Third and Blanco to Second, now 1 out. Weaver Strikes out Matt Camp. Theriot Flies out to RF for the 3rd out. Five played, tied 1-1. The way Weaver pitched to the last 2 hitters here was actually impressive, more so than the 1-2-3 forth inning.
Weaver and the umpire are seeing eye-to-eye on that outside corner of the plate this afternoon.