Game 37, Padres at Mariners
DMZ · May 18, 2007 at 6:23 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
7:05. Chris Young v Miguel Batista. Mike Cameron returns to Safeco Field (yayyy!).
Standard lineup for the M’s. Padres field two Giles (Gileses?), and play Branyan at DH.
I wanted to say something about the Padres being our natural rivals, but we’ve made the point about how ridiculous it (and the way interleague play works) for years, and I don’t see much point in repeating it.
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Even better than “Gileses” is this fractured English from Brian Cashman:
“NEW YORK (AP) — The Yankees hope to announce next week whether Carl Pavano will need surgery.
Pavano hasn’t pitched since April 9 and might have a reconstructive elbow operation, which would sideline him for the remainder of this season and most, if not all, of next year.
He has been examined by four doctors — the Yankees’ team physician and three outside specialists.
“We’ve gotten one of three of the diagnosis’s in writing back,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Friday. “He’s waiting for us to tell him what we want him to do based on the diagnosis’s.”
Even KJR were mocking the “hated rivalry” so you know it’s meaningless.
They were wondering where the “Padres suck” shirts are…
My mancrush on Mike Cameron is still in full effect.
I know the Padres aren’t our “natural” rivals, but you know what I say? Screw that! Why not make the ‘Dres our rival? I betchya Tony Gwynn owns a Mac and molests children, all the while convincing Ryan Anderson that the screwball is the pitch of the future. F— the ‘Dres! Ken Caminiti? In addition to admitting to using steroids, he was also instrumental in moving Boeing to Chicago. F— the ‘Dres!
I mean, it just adds to the game, does it not? Angles and Rangers are just way too milquetoast to be rivals. Milwaukee should really be our interleague rival – can someone propose that? We’ve got the A’s, the Yankees, but that’s it. Why not add the Padres?
I get bonus points for spelling milquetoast properly.
Yeah! And let’s forcibly give Khalil Greene a Republican haircut!
“Thom” — are you mocking Cashman, or the way AP punctuated that? Because it seems like they’re screwing up with the apostrophes.”
Both. It’s seems clear that Cashman said “diagnosis-is” … and that AP choked in handling it.
I gotta say that Cameron Wong deal with the Felix bobblehead was hilarious in a surreal kind of way…
Gileseses. There are two of them.
And their chins.
and just like, Chin #1 is in at 2nd.
By the way, Brian Giles is a good case study of Advanced Ibanez Disease.
National League ball–bunt the guy to third with no outs.
That play had the potential to get three people hurt
nice big sexxy!
So far, Batista is looking just as bad as last time.
I miss having Cameron here in New York, where he was inadequately appreciated.
Saved a run.
Dave needs a seeing-eye person to help him call the game.
Redneck to Khalil Greene:
“You got a purty mouth.”
wow…the gods are with batista…so far…
In a sane world, managers would be mocked by broadcasters and sportswriters for bunting a man to third in the first inning against Batista.
That was the worst performance in a scoreless inning by a pitcher in a starting role this year.
good call rick…we should be down at least 3-0…
Ichiro extends his stolen base streak to 1 ….
Now you see why Ichiro is running so aggressively now … if he didn’t Vidro would GIDP him twice a game.
I love trying to explain the whole Padres thing to non-baseball fans. You know, as long as we win the season series against the Pads, it’s a good year.
I’ll bet there talking about Vidro “getting the job done”, right?
Good to see Raul adjusted from the first inning vs the Angels a few games ago when he AGAIN failed to get the guy home from third w/ just one out…sigh
Sexson again looks stellar with a RISP
they’re
Another pathetic performance by Sexson. He was frozen on two very hittable pitches.
wouldn’t want to protect the plate with 2 strikes…just foolish.
my eyes are bleeding, can I sue Sexson for physical damage?
i try to be an optimist, and i know they will improve, but sexson and ibanez suck so bad right now…
I try to be an optometrist, and I don’t think so Mike1997.
btw, during interleague away games, are they gonna sit Vidro?
Is Kouzmanoff a complete wipeout, or what?
they should sit vidro permanately…and every team in the west is winning right now but us…
finally getting to see the M’s on tv down here in San Diego… as for the ‘natural rival’ argument, i don’t agree that it is such a bad setup. considering who both teams share their divisions with, who else could it be? SF has to play the Bay Bridge series with Oakland, and the Dodgers the Freeway Series with the Angels. i could be a hell of a lot worse, as in, annual home/home series with the Rockies or D-backs. also:
- the Padres/M’s was the first interleague matchup for both teams
- Padres were Seattle’s opponent in the inaugural Safeco Field series
- they share the Peoria spring training complex
- both home parks are accessed via I-5, + other geographical similarities
so get over it. the Pads are consistently a competitive team and it’s been a good rivalry. when Portland or Vancouver get a team, then complain.
Mike Cameron is still Mike Cameron.
cammy is a free agent this year…any chance we re-sign him after ichiro walks or is traded?
Blowers is wrong. The score is 1-0, Angels on top.
Why do you have to ruin an okay post by getting rude?
Everyone understands why the Mariners and the Padres play each other. It’s the pretense that there’s anything special about it, that anyone in Seattle or San Diego cares about playing the other — the driving force behind interleague play most other places — is what’s mockable. There isn’t much that USS Mariner and KJR agree on, but that’s one.
The only reason not to mock is that the joke has become repetitive, so some new twists on it would be welcome.
It’s just gotten dull. All those similarities add up to boredom, not excitement. I’m with what Chipper said: these rivalry series suck. Let’s just have division vs division in interleague and be done with it.
rude? just saying it doesn’t make sense to complain “how ridiculous” it is when there is no alternative, short of a new NL team in the PNW.
What makes it funny for me is that neither town really has the jets to muster any type of rivalry…after you..no after you..no really you.
Ichiro!
ichiro has to be sick of being the whole offense…he’s leaving kids…
go home!!!!
Ichiro strikes again!!
Go ahead and steal home, Ichiro. No one’s going to knock you in.
Ichiro seriously disrespecting the catcher. He’s either pissed about last night, or he’s decided this guy is a ramen-arm.
turbo!
Well, that’s one way to rally.
before that hit, San Diego tv heads claimed Ichiro stealing 3rd was ‘meaningless’ because he would score from 2nd on a base hit anyway.
hehe.
Wheel! Of! Khalil!
45: You’re still missing the point. It’s ridiculous not because it’s happening at all, but because of the pretense that there was something special about it that fans should care about. Everyone knows perfectly well there’s no alternative to them playing each other, i’s just silly for anyone to pretend it’s anything other than a dull side-effect of the excitement baseball is trying to produce elsewhere with interleague play.
“in the gap” indeed.
after all the bullshit broken-bat hits the angels had the last two nights, it’s our turn…
See, I said that to do a reverse curse on Vidro.
Now our unclean thoughts about Raul have given him a hit.
Great, Dave hasn’t gotten the memo. He’s cursed Richie to another strike out.
perhaps there is something to this san diego vs. seattle thing after all.
Seattle-San Diego is the all-laid back polite series.
I wonder if people in San Diego can’t drive worth a damn, or merge onto highways. Then we’d have a rivalry…
cripes, Sexson is brutal.
52: probably both + pissed at the Ms offense in general
i like the rivarly, because i’m from washington and live in cali…one of my best friends is from SD…so we have a great time with it…it’s not “special” in any way, but fun for us…
See!?
Is the crowd booing Sexson? It’s so hard to tell.
They’re both Navy towns, sort of.
Diegans can’t drive worth a damn but they at least do it fast. Seattleites can’t get out of their own way.
62 – we’d never get to the game though as we’d still be at the 4 way stop waiting for the other person to go first.
Can Ritchie maybe try shortening his swing with two strikes? Hes not hitting .300 or .200. I mean I’m just saying.
Watching Richie is like watch Francoeur from the Braves…. except he’s not in his second season. Can this dude please learn how to sit on a pitch?
ick. Boot-re.
Bootre!
whoa, lemon, you stealing my thoughts?
Both cities complain about drivers from LA.
Sandy Eggo is full of illegal guys from over the border on their way to pick crops; Seattle is full of illegal crops picked by guys over the border.
The Safeco crowd is having multiple Cam-gasms.
What makes it funny for me is that neither town really has the jets to muster any type of rivalry…after you..no after you..no really you
You think it’s bad now, just wait and see what it’ll be like if there’s ever a rivalry with a team in Vancouver.
Was it Yuni or Raul who couldn’t throw the ball 15 feet to Beltre without a bounce from shallow left? Something tells me it’s Ibanez.
74: the Padre announcers were busy giving Beltre a gold glove, so that was inevitable.
Did Beltre pick up Betancourt’s butter glove by accident?
77 – at least we could make fun of them for being Canadian.
What a cannon. Not!
Yeah, that Sonics-Grizzlies rivalry was hot.
Batista has such grit. Only rivaled by Willie
Does Batista have some sort of “out pitch” that he’s keeping a big secret right now?
Branyan clearly swings at ball four (thank goodness)
I’m not sure anybody in Vancouver noticed they had a basketball team when it was there, or knows where it went.
yikes… Kouz is roping the ball lately.
nice K, cosmanaut is coming up to bat, SD version of Richie…. we’re safe
TJ – You mean Memphis-Oklahoma?
The funniest thing will be trying to figire out why (Super)Sonics goes with Oklahoma.
Like Jazz and Utah.
whoa 94 with movement. Id say thats an out pitch
Tomorrow’s headline in my paper:
“KOUZ AND EFFECT”
And the effin’ beat goes on
88: Nice jinx.
how much they pay this Batista fellow to throw BP?
93: yeah, can’t help it when our pitchers serve up more meat than Omaha steaks
88: True that. That steak had all the trimmings.
Is anyone else worried that three runs may already be enough vs our punchless line up?
Speaking of which: Les Schwab died tonight.
Headline: “LES SCHWAB DIES; FREE BEEF GIVEAWAY”
my future prediction: Miggie is going to take his writing skills and craft an autobiography for Jeff Weaver: “How to win a World Series, Make 8.25 mil, and be the best beer man for the Wisconsin Timberattlers”.
I understand the market was slim this past off season, and this horse has been beaten to death, but geez, cut us a break with this second rate starting pitching.
I would never have believed Mike Cameron was capable of that.
Les Schwab was still alive? I thought he was a long-departed mascot, like Dave Thomas or Orville Redenbacher or Ronald McDonald.
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Nice job by Beltre taking the Padre’s generosity and trying to create SOMETHING
Heaven forbid we get a runner in from third and less than two outs.
This team is unbelievable inept.
if you got a run for stealing third, we’d be tied right now. but you don’t.
UnbelievabLY that is.
Maybe YuBet can pick him up
Or not.
not.
did the Ms somehow get a shipment of assbats intended for the Twins?
You know the Yankees are in serious trouble when they’re beaten by an Endy Chavez home run.
I would never have believed Mike Cameron was capable of that.
Maybe there’s been a little creative groundskeeping? Paging Doctor Zumsteg….
103: What we need is some no-tap baseball.
What we need are double-taps for Sexson, Ibanez, Ramirez and Weaver.
What we need is someone in the line up who is willing to take more than one pitch before flailing away aimlessly
flailing is what most “mariners” look like jumping from a sinking ship, except for the skipper who’s pounding shots and locked at the helm. hmmmm….. I don’t see a connection here…
Coming soon to a theater near you: Elijah Wood in “The Khalil Greene Story.”
Fellowship of the Swing
idiot Padres color guy looks up at 2001 ‘116 wins’ banner, says they got knocked out by the Yankees “in the first round”. neither play-by-play guy nor the producer correct him.
frickin local yokels.
What we need are the retro uniforms. I don’t know if anybody caught it, but last week the Padres were wearing the 1970 uniforms that make them look like car-hops at Colonel Mustard’s Cheezeteria (”in the parking lot, with a corndog”). I can’t find a pic from that game, but they were accurate to the originals. Oh, here.
The M’s could wear any of the teal trident getups. People tuning in would be diving for their remotes, trying to find some color adjustment that doesn’t melt their eyeballs.
To me, the worst unis of that era were the Astros’ “Rocket Pop” tops and the White Sox’s pajama-factory-seconds tops.
117: M’s wore Rainiers throwbacks against the Pads at a game I was at down here, 2 years ago IIRC. VERY cool gear. i think they called it ‘PCL day’.
Russell Branyan, pretty much reduced these days to One True Outcome.
Les Schwab death story takes twice as long to read as M’s at bat.
Jeff Cirillo hit his first triple in six years tonight.
wow. Kenji cannon!
nifty play, Raul. good f-ing god.
Wow, what it must take to “earn” an error, lol
As the M’s sink further into the abyss
hit a rainbird?
Time for Ichiro to go yard. No one else is going to do it for us.
this is bidding fair to be a painful weekend.
oh, July 29th– Turn back the clock night at Safeco vs the Angels
“Be on hand as the Mariners roll back the hands of time 30 years to the 1977 Inaugural Season. The Mariners and A’s will wear retro ‘77 uniforms and the ballpark will be filled with the sights and sounds of the 70’s. “
sorry– vs the A’s
c’mon ichi…
hell.
Glug.
Somehow, when Ichiro went after that pitch that bounced before getting to the plate, I sensed the AB was going to end that way.
Ibanez is KILLING this team. Geez.
“The Mariners and A’s will wear retro ‘77 uniforms and the ballpark will be filled with the sights and sounds of the 70’s.“
sights: seams in the astroturf
sounds: seats clacking after another loss
Batista’s body language…we hear about Weaver’s being bad, but something about Batista makes him look like a wimp. It somehow suggests that in a brawl, harsh language is enough to make him bawl.
For the first time this season I lost my temper and began screaming incoherent nonsense at the tv. What are our hitting coaches teaching these guy? Even if Yuni had connected on that ball above his head what did he expect would happen? Whay is Guillen trying to play golf out there? For the sweet love of merciful Christ can’t we go one game without swinging at every single last pitch?
(low whistle of appreciation)
Halfway to Calgary off Reitsma. Nice.
now i remember why i didn’t get Extra Innings. this is painful.
I feel bad for saying this right now, but I’ve always been a big fan of Russ Branyan. If he could figure out a way to not strike out as much he could really be great. In fact, I wouldn’t mind if he was on the M’s, at least it’d give us some legitamite power.
“What are our hitting coaches teaching these guy?”
hitting coaches don’t ‘teach’ players at the major league level.
now, if these were the M’s hitting, they’d gett all their hits out this game, and not score worth a damn the next two games ….
I think the Pads remember Reitsma from last year.
“For the first time this season I lost my temper and began screaming incoherent nonsense at the tv. What are our hitting coaches teaching these guy?”
Yeah. I listen to a lot of Giants games, a team that hits about the same as the Mariners–free swinging, light hitting (with that notable exception)–and they routinely slap Young around. He’s not that good.
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Yet the papers, no doubt, will report on Young’s low ERA and absolve our putrid hitting with no intelligent approach, merely saying it was great pitching.
Sights and sounds of the 70s
rally funky!
oh, Sexson. never mind.
Don’t hold your breath, here comes RKR
yup right on cue
I’m so glad he’s working his way out of this slump in the clean up slot.
At least he’s predictable.
I swear Sexson started to walk back to the dugout before the ball was even in the catcher’s mitt.
Pads announcers after Sexson K: “He’s struggling.”
yeah.
Is it really possible Sexson had a lower OPS in May last year than this year?
That was a “nails” play by Bell.
We need a real-time chart showing Sexson’s BA drop.
Does Guillen’s out really count as a groundout? Seems odd.
should be a ‘knocked-down-by-pitcher’ throwout abbreviation… KDbPTO for those you scoring at home
EBP could mean “Eaten By Pitcher”, especially common when Ray King is pitching.
Just look at Fangraphs. Sexson is at -.110 WPA, which makes his “contribution” in this game almost twice as bad as Batista. The graph has also been bumping along at ~100% win for the Padres for about an inning now.
nice change. please demote him for learning sake.
#161:
http://www.fangraphs.com/graphs.aspx?playerid=709&position=1B&page=0&type=full
“Well, there’s your problem!”
obligatory fish-throwing B roll from “Pike’s Market”.
fools.
we… will…
we… will… rock you!
yeah right. can we double switch for Sextant?
monday is the first Cleveland make-up game, right?
#160: Ever read “Ate Men Out,” Terry Forster’s history of fat men in baseball?
Yeah, Monday in Cleveland, Baek vs Sabbathia (ugh)
Seattle ticket holders: drive home safely.
Seattle television viewers: my condolences.
I suppose it’s too early to light the fuse.. but I can’t see anyone with a warm brain pan thinking this season will amount to anything more than total mediocrity.
I feel we will be very very bad.. for a very very long time. And that bites weenie.
Points for Dave Sims: he says “express written consent”.
Sexson is down to a mighty .162 batting average.
some guys drop their batting average after going 1-3
some guys raise their batting average after going 1-5