Game 12, Mariners at Angels
DMZ · April 20, 2007 at 6:24 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
Batista v Saunders. 7:05, FSN.
M’s field their standard lineup.
CF-B Matthews
SS-R Cabrera
RF-R Guerrero
LF-L Anderson
1B-L Kotchman
DH-R Hillenbrand
3B-B Izturis
C-R Napoli
2B-B Aybar
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Oakland’s padding their run differential against Texas, 10-0, through 5.
What the bloody hell is going on with Comcast-FSN Northwest? They announced HD broadcasts of all Mariner homegames some time ago and actually did broadcast a few, but now it’s gone dark (HD channel 664). I wonder if some of the dead tree media could bestir themselves to investigate this small question since, you know, perhaps a few people were encouraged to purchase digital cable packages based on the announcement/promise to perform?
Not that I’m going to file suit. Tonight, anyway.
Pickin’ Machine just homered off of Tom Gordon to tie Reds-Phillies at one, with 2 outs in the ninth inning.
Uhh, argh, tonight is not a “homegame.”
Drayer was just on saying that, yes, the Ms admit that it was up on mariners.com, a website which is part of mlb.com, but (as was obviously stressed heavily to the media by the Ms) it is NOT the Mariners’ website, and that the writers over there are free to write whatever they want, even if it is wrong wrong wrong
Okay, whoops. But last night was and it wasn’t on HD either (don’t think any of the Minnesota series was).
Over/Under for times hearing that John Mellencamp song during game commercials tonight is 10.5.
I’m praying it’s the under, but betting it’s the over.
Drayer mentioned the same thing on the radio broadcast. I was unaware the the “official” (but not so much so, I suppose) M’s website was less trustworthy than 14 year old’s Myspace page. So can the M’s direct me to their secret official website where I can find factual and official probable pitcher listings? I believe the URL is something along the lines of wedon’tknowhatwe’redoing.com.
I blame Jim Street
so, if the A’s (unusually) get off to a hot start, does that mean they don’t have their usual stormin’ back 2nd half?
Well, mariners.org used to be done in particular by the M’s, I believe. Back in the day when they were the first team to have a website. Then everyone got the “official” site and mariners.org (which I still type) redirects to theirs.
They wouldn’t tell me anything on mariners.gov.
I remember the porn industry wanted to use the .xxx ending for porn sites. Maybe mariners.xxx holds all the secrets.
See the new delicious front page post. I wonder if there wasn’t at least some confusion and back and forth in the M’s org about this.
Mariners.gov asked me to immediately identify myself or be handed over to federal authorities.
I wonder if Hargrove has figured out that Mateo sucks yet.
No.
Let’s spread the rumor that Mateo was the one who listed Morrow as Monday’s starter. That could change Grover’s mind about his favorite portly righthander.
Aggressive baserunning!
Uhh…Beltre was in there, not even close.
Vidro…. nevermind.
Thats one for the over under.
agressive baserunning! Pineiro warming up to pitch to Yankees, maybe to A-Rod, this is too fun!
try watching in cali with hudler (worst ever!) doing color…”he was out…not even close” says the wonder dog…guy’s an idiot…
My prediction for tonights game… Batista pitches decently for 6 2/3 innings and the Mariners lead 4-3 when Batista walks the bases loaded with two outs in the 7th inning. Mateo comes on and gives up a 3 run double on an 0-2 count.
24: even better, it’s Vlad, pitch 1 “fastball” foul ball HR to right. Pitch 2: “change” FB HR to left. Pitch 3: “slider” GS to dead center.
#22 looks like Pineiro will be going against A-rod with a guy on 6-7 boston…
did ichiro just perpetrate the no-look catch?
everyone turn on ESPN, A-Rod, down 1, bottom 9, one on, one out.
I mean top 9, and unfortunately Joel isn’t pitching.
Let’s face it, it was just some guy “writing on the internet”. You know how reliable that is…
Man, that guy is so washed-up.
“Anderson’s been one of the better hitters in the league for a long time now” — Blowers
Really?
Hudler: Anderson’s a “premium run producer”
well if you take into account the span of “a long time” and consider “one of the better” to mean in the better half of hitters, and that his career OPS+ = 105, then yes, Blowers is correct.
oh, just add “against the Mariners” to both those statements…
sigh.
Slumping? Invite the Mariners to your next baseball series!
Was Ibanez being doubled off just lousy luck or more Grover-esque agressive baserunning?
Angel Killer!
Re: 36 Bad luck I think.
total bad luck for ibanez…if only the entire roster hated the angels as much as guillen does…
Bloomquist has intangibles, Vidro has veteran presence, Guillen has hatred. Mariners rock!
Tui 2-2 with a two singles and a walk.
Ouch.
OK, even on the radio, that sounded like Grover-esque agressiveness at play.
oh wow…
We’re just building up a store of Karma that will result in a go-ahead HR by Broussard off of K-Rod.
If only we could have one player with all those qualities? Oh yeah! Carl Evertt! … Whatever happen to that guy?
That was pretty much unlucky as well though he maybe should have gotten back to 2nd.
At least Lopez showed a nice opposite field stroke.
If only we could have one player with all those qualities? Oh yeah! Carl Evertt! … Whatever happen to that guy?
I dunno, Al Martin had plenty of hatred, though he didn’t take it out on players.
Wouldn’t you know it the A’s score 16 runs tonight and I have Piazza on my fantasy team and he is 0 – 5.
Oakland 16, Rangers 3
Sometimes when I’m perusing the baseball scores in the paper, it’ll hit me: “Hey, remember that time we had Carl Everett on our team?” “Whatever happened to Ben Davis?” “What about that Miguel Olivo guy? And then the other guy that was just like Miguel Olivo and shared his number and what was his name…?”
As much as I love baseball, I’m so sick of not being able to know who the hell is on my team anymore—and if they’re any good.
That’s right. Martin took his aggression out on U. of Michigan running backs during his college football heyday.
Of course, the day Vlad comes back is the day we come into town.
Oakland with 11 walks in 47 plate appearances
Martin also had some… er… “domestic violence” incidents. Which wife, I’m not sure.
52 you can basically assume that if they aren’t on the team anymore, they weren’t good.
56
I knew what you meant. I always assumed that Martin and former Wolverine FB Leroy Hoard were “life partners.” Am I mistaken?
Another killer throw wasted.
Man, bleeding to death over 162 games is gonna make for a long season.
how many more years of Batista await?
Chaves: “Hey Miguel, pitch luckier, huh?”
3, I think, at 8 per?
So, does this mean that Bautista isn’t “pitching to win” or that he sucks?
wow, I turn the channel for a second and return to this… Maybe I should just finish reading DMZ’s book “The Cheater’s Guide to Baseball“.
It’s okay to savor it.
how many more years of Batista await?
If we could accelerate to 99% of the speed of light, mere seconds!
Hopefully they won’t fix the volume problem.
I wish “easy play” didn’t come so trippingly to the announcer’s lips when the Mariners were batting.
come on Angel Killer!
Back in ‘04, Honus Wagner hit .349!
@#$@#$@#%@%!!!!
so, this is boring, howabout Sidney Ponson with the 9.31 era, shouldn’t they bring up Garza?
What kind of mother could do that to her baby?
“Easy play, one out here in the top of the 5th.”
Lopez with a nice opposite field stroke.
To bad the name ‘Pirates’ is already taken given the Mariners penchant for stranding people.
I wonder what the record is for strand percentage by an offense for a season.
Doyle with what could be the game winning hit in 14th inning against FLA
At least Vidro is hitting. That’s a good thing.
_David_: with the exception of Rafael Soriano, Carlos Guillen, Freddy Garcia (at least while with the ChiSox), Jamie Moyer….
this game is terrible in every way…
And soon we may be able to add Doyle to the list of Exceptions to the “not-on-the-team-not-any-good” rule….
vidro is the slowest runner ever…ever…
And yet Vidro’s lack of speed seems to be hovering somewhere around number 319 on the list of problems the Mariners will need to address to move up to respectable baseball.
At least we’ve helped snap the Angels out of their terrible offensive slump. The Mariners really are a team full of nice guys.
Well, on that note. I am going to find something else to do.
Call me when Felix gets better.
ok so Batista… why did our beloved team sign him again? and why for 3 years?
Oh, Morrow warming up now? What the hell, Hargrove?
Hargrove THIS IS MATEO’s TIME! Not when the team is leading 2-1.
so, any speculation now on who starts monday now that morrow is in?
Guess they’re getting him prepped for Monday…?
shouldn’t Morrow just pitch the last few innings?
Bets on if Sims or Blowers mentions the PR snafu during Morrow’s pitching time?
thanks to the idiot fan…
Maybe the organization will suddenly become aware of how disastrous the Texas start would have been as they’re seeing this…?
wow…can we get a single break tonight?
This is turning into the Boston rout the day before the Fabulous Felix game.
98- too bad we don’t have felix tomorrow…
i’m going to the next two games in anaheim…i swear, if the next two days are this bad, i might not make it home…
If we ever capture terrorists who are M’s fans, just have the Feds strap them to a chair and watch the last four games. They’ll spill all their secrets!
I have to say, the Good Vidro – the pitch-watching, hitting-in-the-air guy – is so much better than the pound-into-the-ground one it’s ridiculous.
#101 I know I would confess to something if it only meant our guys could start getting some runs.
Normally I would wait until the end of the game to say “well, that game certainly sucked.” But why wait?
nice picture of ichiro in the dugout…you he’s just counting the days to get the hell out of dodge…
#102 yeah the Vidro that doesn’t try to run out grounders is so much better.
vidro scores from first? wholy shit…
so the real question is, is Ichiro going to get traded by mid-season or not!?
real answer… yes
he’s gone…either way…hope we get something for him…
Ichiro for Livan Hernandez. Bookmark this.
Maybe we can geet Creek, Martin and Offerman?
Oh, never mind, Gillick is in Philly
I thought Guillen was going to use the Dark Side of the force, to feel his hatred, to make his at bats better. Maybe some little girl gave him a flower on the way into the ballpark and he lost the hate. Maybe he will use his emotions better tomorrow.
Theeeeeeere’s the towel.
102: Yeah, surprisingly, there are some things that guy can still do
well, guillen did have two hits…
Batista’s ERA went from 8.00+ prior to tonight to a slightly high 8.00+. At least dude is consistent.
can anyone confirm or deny that Batista’s three years are all guaranteed?
#116 oh sorry, I missed that. Maybe it is me, and I should just never watch Guillen’s AB again.
i’m just praying to god that they broke their slump and it’s out of their system…or else ramirez and weaver are meat…
Maybe the next commercial should go something like this:
“Swinging at the first pitch, hitting into dp’s, running ourselves out of innings, putting in fat relievers…C’mon out to the Safe. You never know what fun lies ahead!”
so three late rallies in a row…how about we score off a starter for a change…
no kidding
scouting report on willy-
throw fastballs down the middle
this is ridiculous…
RALLY TIME
looks like it will work out for guillen to hit a slam to take the lead.
was taking out Ibanez and Sexson a good idea?
couldnt write a better story than that… i guess im a bit of an optimist
i’d say at least this is some momentum for tomorrow, but that hasn’t been the case after the last two rallies came up short…plus colon throws tomorrow…ugh…
Counting F-Rod thumbing his cap… that’s two…
i might seem crazy, but did vidro have that beaten out even with a clean catch?
yeah it looked like he was there anyways
so if grover makes no subs, do we win tonight?
well, i’ll talk to you all on monday…maybe i can bring some “funk” to the big A…later…
theres a good chance… but the world will never know, it seems like ichiro and ibanez would have been more effective than bloomquist and ellison… give it to Grover to finally make some moves, at the worst possible time
how many loses would it take for Hargrove to get fired?
I feel like a kid in the backseat kicking father Bavasi in the back of the seat and asking when are we going to get there?
sorry, I am probably missing some vital information about the 9th inning situation, but why was Ichiro replaced? (taking out Sexson / Ibanez made sense given the circumstances but…)
We now officially lead the league in one offensive category (besides non-power hitters making outs on 3-0 counts)
“RISP when the tying run isn’t even on deck yet”
Every morning I wake up and hope today is the day the entire front office and coaching staff get fired. Day to day they keep doing their best to make it happen, but the descision never comes.
Hey, look on the bright side! High Desert just came back in extra innings to beat Lake Elsinore in 10, 3-2, when Travis Scott made his first plate appearance of the year and knocked home the walk-off 2 run single.