Game 129, Angels at Mariners
Lackey, who is awesome, against Batista, who is Batista.
M’s lineup is standard. Angels:
DH Willits (.400 OBP)
SS Cabrera (.349 OBP)
RF Guerrero (.399 OBP)
LF Anderson (.306 OBP)
3B Izturis (.333 OBP)
CF Matthews (328 OBP)
1B Morales (.305 OBP in ~60 PA)
2B Kendrick (.338 OBP)
C Mathis (.257 OBP)
Dave notes: Angels #9 hitters are hitting .231/.284/.298 this year. Can you imagine if we blogged the Angels? Holy moly.
If you wished McLaren was more creative, well, sometimes that’s not good. Wow.
I’m going to continue to frown at my stupid USB Flash drive until game time in the hopes it stops crapping out on me weirdly, so… play nice while I’m furrowing my brow.
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play nice while I’m furrowing my brow.
Hmmm time to pull out the eye-poking stick I think.
Plus, it will probably come in useful for myself once the game starts.
Good thing we have our trusty standard lineup out tonight. Wouldn’t want to use that Jones kid or that singer/songwriter guy starting in the field in our toughest matchup of the series.
This would probably be a bad time to put Jones in considering he hasn’t had any consistent work for about a month now. It will probably take a week just to get the rust off and see some live pitching again.
Hey guys… I was wondering about the “perfect” lineup for the Mariners. Not the lineup that Mac throws out there everyday with Sexson and Lopez giving away outs… but if the Mariners had Game 7 of the World Series on the line, this would be my ideal lineup. Let me know what you guys think.
1. Ichiro – CF
2. Vidro – 2B
3. Guillen – RF
4. Beltre – 3B
5. Brossaurd – 1B
6. Ibanez – LF
7. Kenji – C
8. Burke – DH
9. Yuni – SS
I know you guys might object to the whole burke/kenji thing.. but I think that Burke is a better hitter than Sexson and Lopez.
It’s a fun night to check out Yankee nation at replacementlevel.com. If its M’s 10-0 in the fifth, what a doubleheader of schadenfreude/buttkicking fun that would be.
Jones will play tonight, likely as a pinch-runner in the 8th inning.
10-0 M’s against Lackey? Maybe you dreamed that or something last night but its not happening
That’s the story of the series, I think–what’s gonna score more runs:
crappy pitching vs. crappy hitting
or
good pitching vs. good hitting…
Something’s gotta give!
Boss, USB flash drives are less reliable than Richie Sexson with runners at 2nd and 3rd. They’re cheap. Buy a bag full.
I paid good money for a 16GB drive, I’m not buying a bag full of them at that price. Stupid piece of junk.
Please give some further thought to that lineup. Thanks.
I had a 8GB drive from Costco that just quite working on me the other day. Had a little flip USB portion (Think VW key fob) that I think a wire got loose.
See, here’s my problem – I work in many locations on many boxes. I need to move files w/o emailing them or relying on file servers/etc. I have a cheap-o tiny stick, but it’s no good for AV stuff, obviously.
The rub: works fine on PCs I used today. I can’t, however, copy some files – and it’s certain files, I don’t know what the deal is – from the MacBook to the flash drive. Stalls out, throws an error, unmounts the drive. Looking at the drive, the files are created but that’s as far as they get. They’re not in use or anything. Restarting the MacBook didn’t help.
Other files, though, works fine. I’m totally baffled, but for business purposes, if I can’t reliably copy some giant XML file and walk it down the hall, the drive is almost worthless to me, even if it will randomly accept other XML files or whatever.
The files aren’t larger than 4GB by any chance, are they? You’re going to have FAT32 on the drive for the Mac, and that filesystem can’t handle files 4GB and larger.
Burke is a better hitter than Sexson or Lopez? Not buying that remotely. Burke is a good contact/situational hitter who works great as a backup catcher (especially compared to Rene Rivera), but his hitting style is little like Lopez without the potential pull power. And I can tell you from a pitcher’s perspective they’d rather face Burke every day rather than Sexson even if he hit .209 for the next three years. I also will object to any lineup featuring Vidro at second base, which seems to me to ask for a loss more than any individual lineup move this year. It just occured to me that with Jones’ former shortstopness that he might be a better option in the lineup at second base than anything, but they’d never do that.
Anyhow, I’m freaking pumped for tonight. I’m gonna go find a bar all alone and cheer like I’m surrounded by Mariners fans.
Vlad vs Batista scares the crap out of me. 1.600 OPS? Just pitch around him, please? (Here’s hoping if they do pitch to him Safeco saves us… this would be a good time to have maximum outfield defense, sigh). Willits is 4 for 5 against him too, but that means nothing (yet). Though I imagine that’s what has him batting leadoff.
They’re not over 4GB.
Well regardless… I do not think Sexson should be in the M’s starting lineup ever.
Even if everything is the same but with Brossaurd instead of Sexson, I think the Mariners would be better.
BTW, speaking of Richie Sexson’s reliability: 2007 batting average when…
2 outs, RISP: .197
it’s tie game: .242
Go figure.
(Also, amazingly, the M’s don’t lead the league in Ks from the 1B position. Texas does.)
If the flash chip in the USB is partially going, then parts of the disk will be bad (e.g. a few bytes at particular locations), while parts will be okay, that’s probably whats causing your problems. If all of the bytes in a file get stored in the okay parts (e.g. the good neighborhood) then it is fine. If some of the file’s bytes get written to bad parts, then the operating system tends to do as you describe, because reads of bytes in the bad section of the disk will time out and fail.
Detroit up 11-0 over the Yankees. OK, now if the M’s can just win their game and the Angels lose theirs… oh, wait.
If the M’s win tonight, I’m buying a ticket to the Wednesday game. Even if I end up in the nosebleeds with the bandwagoners. Which sucks, because I’ve usually been able to buy a ticket behind the plate for Felix’s starts so I can get the maximum effect from the Royal Curve. That’s one downside to having a winning team again — hard to get tickets you want for whichever game you care to see.
By the Way, it is now 15 – 0 Detroit
Diagnostics came up with nothing, though, and I’m baffled why files A and E won’t copy while files C-D will… I don’t know, it’s probably bad. I’m going to copy some drive images on and off it to vent my anger.
Derek is doing wonders for our images as nerds by warming up for the biggest game at Safeco in years by troubleshooting a flash drive. Thanks a million, D.
16 – 0 Detroit
No problem. If the skies remain clear, I believe there’s a lunar eclipse tonight I’ll be watching, thus cementing my nerd title.
Go M’s!! Lets kick some Halo ass all the way back to Los Angeles of Anaheim of Orange County of the State of California of The Western Costal States of The United States of America Governed by Arnold Schwarzenegger (R). Or the LAAOCSCWCSUSAGTerminator for short.
Dave Pinto at Baseball Musings has a reasonable breakdown of this series. He doesn’t give Batista much of a chance against Lackey (neither do I). He thinks the Weaver game is the M’s best chance; while he acknowledges Weaver’s potential to be godawful, he points out that Ervin Santana’s road ERA is over 8. He rates the (other) Weaver-Felix matchup a tossup, adding that “injuries have prevented both from reaching their potential” (something like that, anyway). He’s downplaying the significance of the series: he thinks the Angels will be in good shape to win the division and the M’s the wild card, regardless of what happens this week.
Derek:
Best viewing at 3:37 am on the West Coast. Not sure if I’m up to it.
I’ve been waiting for this game alllllll day. Only 15 more minutes.
Derek:
Best viewing at 3:37 am on the West Coast. Not sure if I’m up to it.
Darn. I’d love to break out the camera, but that would be brutal if I’m waking up at a quarter to five. I suppose I could just wake up early…
How much do I dislike John Sterling…I can’t even stand him when the Yanks are down 16-0.
Dave Niehaus, I have never been so happy to hear your voice. Time to don the Ichiro! jersey, crack a cold one and watch the M’s start the journey to the playoffs!
hey, I finally got my Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator installed, so I can watch my Collector’s Edition Serenity DVD on my 30-year-old tv, if the games tanks …
The nerd rep and overall quality of the comments section seem to show a positive correlation. I say Derek should troubleshoot a different piece of hardware to warm up for every game. (After all, if you’re logged on to USS Mariner, you’re using some kind of computer.)
Game ON, guys.
GAME
ON.
well, almost.
[Chaves]
ugh i think this game is going to make me so nervouse that i might just throw up!
38- I’m with ya. haha
Seems to be an all right amount of blue. For Mariner fans anyway..
Amazing what a meaningful game can do to you, huh? It’s about time.
I love how Anaheim paid $803 million for Gary Matthews and he’s hitting behind Maicer Izturis.
*crosses fingers* lets have a good first inning batista!
Anyone else having problems with MLB.tv?
Nevermind, finally came on. Took about 3 minutes to log in for some reason.
Is the lunar eclispe really at 3:30 am?
I like Batista.. I think he is our second most reliable starter (year round I mean)
Dave,42- Comment of the night, going to be tough to top that one.
but he seems to hurt us somehow every game.
Regardless of all other factors, I haven’t been this excited about a baseball game in a LONG time. I don’t want to miss a minute. It feels great, this former Seattlite in Anchorage, Alaska has Mariners fever.
46- I heard it starts around 2 and takes about 90 minutes.
42 I know he sucks compared to the contract they gave him but he’s hitting okay for a CF this year.
Figgins and Kotchman out for the whole series?
Ok, DP time.
I find it hilarious that whenever I look at the accuscore preview for M’s games on ESPN, Sexson is always at 15% to hit a home run. Yet it projects him hitting 0.8 hits that game.
Reggie Willits’ offensive approach is the baseball version of the kid who repeats everything you say. It’s annoying, it’s useless, and you just want to punch him in the face.
Nowhere near Ichiro though.. ;0
The M’s have the best CF in the game for the next 5 years.. ;o
Angels announcer: Reggie Willits the best “plate discipline guy” in the American League.
4-6-3 baby!
Nice DP
I called it (DP)!
Wow what a DP
lol “Swung on and missed, easy stolen base. Oh, foul tipped I guess.” Gotta love Niehaus.
He is second only to Richie Sexson.
rick called that DP the play of the game. I hope there aren’t any more exciting plays today.
Wow, Neihaus…clearly hit foul up the first base line. “Swung on and…missed. And an EASY stolen base…no, wait, foul tip I guess.”
That was one of the best DP turns I’ve seen in a long time. Defense matters.
That is a good sign of things rolling our way! Jose Lopez get his playing time cause he does things like that even if his hitting is less then desirable lately.
So, did anyone think to take out fire insurance on the server for tonight? I think it may need it…
#67, it was a nice DP, except for the fact that Yuni wasn’t anywhere near 2nd when he caught it. Gotta love phantom tags as well!
That DP was a beautiful piece of music, although it looked like Betancourt was 8 inches away from the base
it looked like a flip that’s done in practice alot but hardly used. Good job Yuni and lopez.
terrible call…
For the love of God please don’t get tossed
Ichiro arguing, you know he must have fouled it. Ich never argues.
What the fuck did they throw him out for already?
What the? Mac looks like a bobblehead.
Mac get thrown out before he argued?
The blue with his call said he fouled it but Mathis caught it! The 3rd base coach should have seen it NOT get caught!!!!
well, that is an odd way to start the game.
Wow.
Mac thrown out in the first inning? Can someone calculate the WPA added?
Just when i thought things were going our way.
I love the excitement of Mclaren. One of the best arguments I’ve seen.
Lala-Blue-blew-the-call-palooza.
#79– not to mention the ball prob. has a big old dirt mark on it, not a bat mark.
If nothing else that fired up the team/fans… should be a good thing.
The umpire should’ve asked for help from 3rd though. He called a foul tip, he should’ve checked to see if it hit the dirt or not. I think McLaren getting thrown out well set a good tone for the game (as stupid as that sounds), and fire up the team.
Turbo! Happy B-day!!
Home plate umpire seemingly refused to check down to third, which is ridiculous.
Ichiro is out either way – foul tip caught, swinging strike on a pitch in the dirt. I think the umpire mistook the sound of the ball hitting the dirt for a foul tip. The only way it’s NOT out is if he fouled it into the dirt, which he did not.
I’d like to know what they threw McLaren out for though. It doesn’t seem like he had much to say before coming back out the 2nd time.
Hey, let’s look at the bright side. We’ve kvetched about McLaren’s in-game management enough. The guy who’s replacing him can hardly be worse.
90- that would make it seem like hes unsure of his call.
Holy cow, Dave N just said Lackey has a 15 game scoreless streak against us. Someone slip him a Valium.
3rd Base Ump threw him out
Guys.. the umps did this to make up for the DP call that they blew at second base.
Now they made one bad call for and against us.
#91, The umpire signaled a foul-tip, which means if the ball hit dirt that he shouldn’t have been out.
The manager still makes all the calls on in game decisions after he gets thrown out. They just have someone go from the clubhouse to the bench to relay messages.
93 – Regardless of whether or not he is the clubhouse, Mac is still gonna be managing the game.
Guys.. the umps did this to make up for the DP call that they blew at second base.
Now they made one bad call for and against us.
#91: The umpire made the hand signal of a foul tip…then rung Ichiro up, indicating that he foul tipped it into the catcher’s glove. That simply wasn’t the case. From the replay, I do think it’s possible that Ichi swung and missed completely, but if the umpire calls it a foul tip, his call was BS.
Mike Goff ftw
I think McLaren getting thrown out well set a good tone for the game (as stupid as that sounds), and fire up the team.
It made me miss Lou. I do think that a manager getting thrown out occasionally can be a good thing, if they don’t antagonize the umps too much.
Plus, what can compare to memories such as the manager burying home plate with dirt?
Out of curiosity, does anyone know the record for most managers/coaches thrown out a game on the same team? I mean, if McLaren’s replacement started jarring with an umpire who would fill in for him? It’d be interesting to see.
93: Too bad he didn’t get tossed before filling out the lineup card.
82- I’ll figure it out right after I get back from the ATM machine.
105- I was just wondering the same thing. 3rd base coach?
Dave N “The crowd is giving him a standing ovation for getting thrown out” Camera cuts to section of people sitting down and barely clapping… Great job FSN!
Damnit.
Why do corpses always seem to haunt us so?
NOO!
Well no one expected Batista to throw a shut out anyways, hope that is one of the very few they get.
1-0 angels
It’s safe to say that you don’t need to tell us the score…
it is ok.. he will have another quality start
He is certainly not as good as felix, but he is pretty dependable. He will give up like 3 runs in 6 innings and keep the team in the game.. he is good like that.
Atleast it was just a solo shot.
huh. didja know that Gary Darling sued Piniella for libel in ‘91? they settled out of court….
“The Reds have been involved in several arguments this season with Darling, a fourth-year umpire. Piniella accused him yesterday of deliberately making calls against the Reds.
“I honestly feel that Darling has bias against us and won’t give us a call all year,” Piniella said. “It’s time he gets his act together now. We have more complaints against him than against any other umpire. As far as I’m concerned he’s not a good umpire. He’s biased against us – it’s obvious.”"
all right Ritchie, prove us all wrong
Apparently Richie is swinging well according to Blowers. He has 21 homers!
Boy.. there is a shocker.
or ground out after getting ahead 3-0, that’s fine too, thanks.
yeah… and he is better than brossaurd.
i think brossaurd is under-rated.
118: I’m not sure why you’d settle on that though. First defense is basically that it’s not lies, it’s simply an opinion on his performance. Second would be showing every bad call he made against the team…that forces them to show every bad call they made for the team as some sort of defense. They can’t show the good calls they made for the team because that just shows a minimum of competence. Really, I would hope Darling couldn’t win that lawsuit.
Plus, why would it be libel? It would be slander, since Lou didn’t print the words…he said them.
that hit him?
Ichy- Broussard.
Didn’t look like it hit to me, something tells me we might have problems with that home plate ump tonight.
gulp.
Well, I’m glad I brought out the eye-poking stick. It seems like a faster acting option than the bourbon, at the moment.
God I hate seeing Vlad up with runners on.
come on batista, make a beleiver out of us tonight, let us know were going to be ok /pray
Is the FSN gun fast today, or is Batista really throwing 96?
I can’t watch.
Very big stop by Yuni…if Batista can take of Garret, anyway.
Helluva play by Yuni though
The Home-plate Ump really has it in for us tonight
hmm how far was that ball from AJs range?
[exhale] ahhh [/exhale]
That was foul by about an inch.
I just about died. Holy Crap that was close.
Bugger.
and the russian roulette gun finally finds a bullet…
Well, at least it wasn’t a fan screwing up our scoring by interfering…like we usually have.
Batista…stop the bleeding. NOW.
Get it together Batista.
crud
Dave Niehaus was very confused on that play.
I think we should thank that guy, 3 could have scored. But that guy is a moron!!
Fans who interfere with balls in play should be sent to jail.
The Mariners have the best fans for a reason…
Dave N. thought it was a fly ball into the corner, it was a straight line drive.
Would they have scored another run without fan interference? It didn’t look like it to me.
Yea, I don’t think it was higher than 3 feet off the ground
The trouble is, M’s fans would interfere with that ball no matter who hit it — the visitors or the home team — as they’ve demonstrated repeatedly. It’s probably worse on packed nights like this; in the sparsely-attended games it’s only the hardcore in those seats, and they may have more of a clue.
Yes, Dave was really lost on that one.
Niehaus misses a lot of calls these days. I don’t think he sees the ball well anymore.
Here’s the thing about that, too: you let that go, Guillen’s there, he’s got an arm, maybe two runs don’t score or there’s a play. There’s a time to reach out and screw things up for the home team, and that wasn’t it.
Ok, we all know Dave is blind as a bat. Do we really need to go over every call he makes? The guy is in his 70s and still working, and still easily the best option currently available.
I think the charter seats run all the way down the line.
IC-HI-RO!
Atleast he stayed in the rundown long enough for the runners to advance.
holy AAA baseball!
High drama at bat here.
what kind of BS base running was that???? C’Mon, Boom Boom can give us a better return than that.
118:
I find that ironic because Gary Darling is the home plate umpire for this game.
That base running was fine, either he doesn’t go and Morales just steps on first and we have the same result. Only difference is we have a different Jose on base.
Nothing like busted drama.
#166– thats what brought the subject up …
apparently it was Richie Phillips of the Umpires Union who decided “not to wait for the league president or the commissioner to deal with the matter as in the past, [but] went straight to court, filing its first suit against a player or manager for remarks he has made”
Awwww… Guess what guys..
Another wasted inning by the Mariners. Except this is Lackey, not Padilla or Wright. You can’t waste too many innings if you wanna win.
painful to miss chances like that…
I had a feeling before that last at bat…If he got a hit there, we’d win, if he didn’t, we’d lose…
BTW, I’m increasingly convinced the drive’s just not right. I know you were all waiting on further news.
wow, its another last night all over gain,
Hey Derek,
Maybe I overlooked it but which USB drive are you using?
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE UMPS
Did Ichiro dive???????????????????????? zomg!
3rd base calls him safe???? WTF???
I wanna see Goff tossed, too, that’d be awesome.
WHAT THE HELL!?
DMZ if you don’t need anything portable the USB hard drives (based upon laptop drives) are amazing tools. They don’t slip into a pocket as easily as a thumb drive, but they aren’t terribly expensive and have tons of space for caring files around the office.
THIS IS BS!!!
Wait, we went along with Selig’s slot bonuses.
Lopez missed the tag on replay.
It’s an A-Data PD-16, and I’m going to start drinking
I’m guessing a sweep is not in the cards.
Wait, we went along with Selig’s slot bonuses.
Thaaaaaaaaaat is frickin’ hilarious
184: So? Since when did tagging mean anything?
Second base isn’t always tagged on double plays.
Jose Guillen dodged one the other night and was called out…
Hey, Derek, can you please un-moderate me so I can add to the chorus of justifiable outrage at this umpiring crew?
If Goff gets tossed I think Willie Bloomquist should manage the rest of the game.
Thank you.
Shame you didn’t buy the Western Digital versions when they were on sale buy.com for around $24 for the 6 gig versions.
Awhile back I bought a ton of external firewire/usb A-Data drives and watched them die within a few months.
With the single, Ichiro passed Joe Randa and Tom Brunansky and is now tied for 520th place on the all time list with Cecil Travis.
What I find interesting is that if Ichiro goes hitless in his next 1650 at bats he would still have a higher BA than Brunansky.
Glad to know that TIM DONAGHY is the crew chief tonight…
Can someone explain what happened to us Gamedayers?
190- I’d rather Raul manage and Jones take over left.
sadly, I think more outrage should be aimed toward the pitching and hitting of the home team.
That wasn’t a bad call at second base everyone, it was a bad play by the second baseman.
The suicide squeeze! I’d swoon with appreciation if it wasn’t the Angels at it.
w/r/t Buy:
Buy.com’s screwed me a couple times, I don’t shop there any more.
So…who wants to borrow the eye-poking stick?
No reasonable person should be speculating that these umpires are under the influence of performance enhancers. Recreational drugs, perhaps, but…
Tom Brunansky… I have fond memories of Brunansky anchoring the “bottom” of batting categories in Baseball Weekly back when I read it every week in Fisheries class. Then I looked into his career and found he was once a pretty great hitter before his shoulder (if I remember) fell apart on him.
Besides Anderson the Angels have a bunch or bloop hits and a HBP.
The hitting could improve but it is Lackey.
This was the one game we should probably lose considering the starters.
could they at least break Lackey’s season-long scoreless streak?
Costco: 160 gig USB self-powered HD = $110 + tax. Works wonderfully w/my PowerBook G4…
184 – he missed the tag in real life too.
We had better start playing a little better, as the chorus of “that’s Angel baseball” and “the Angels make their own breaks” coming from Physioc and Hudler will become deafening.
@195
Just as the baserunner was coming into second and a sure out, he stopped short, Lopez missed the initial tage (clearly in replay) then the snuck in his foot and was safe.
Replays showed that he got the shirt BEFORE the leg hit the base.
Lopez missed the tag and the Ichiro foul tip was questionable. I’ve seen worse umpiring.
Replays showed that he got the shirt BEFORE the leg hit the base.
Wow, How did that happen? My post showed up on on 208 and 210
Guh. Ok, things aren’t going so well so far. But… there’s still time. Right? Right?
Doesn’t Vlad’s hair usually look better than that? He looks like there’s a tarantula on his head.
wow, what a horrible night, how are we supposed to win when we are batting the way we are, and then with the calls we are getting? the guys better not give up.
I just have to say that I typed caring, instead of carrying. The rally bourbon may not be the best decision tonight.
How many times can he swing at pitches like that?
I guess it is time for another one of this team’s 7-game swoons.
Another Gameday viewer request: the Matthews double. There seemed to be some excitement there; what happened?
[Sims]
Well said by Dave Simms, “Lackey continues to stick it to the M’s”. Pretty much sums it up.
Really, he isn’t shutting us down. The M’s, and other factors, have shut us down.
so, Mac and Bob Melvin have both been tossed more than Lou this season. IIRC, BoMel has lead Lou in ejections every year he has managed in the big leagues.
Gameday made that strikeout even more painful. 4 straight down and away pitches. Lackey sees how overeager our hitters are and taking great advantage of it. Sadly I think the odds of us getting a BB this game is scary low.
Since Garret Anderson has historically annihilated the M’s, and he’s been with the Angels forever, shouldn’t the advance scouts have figured out a better way to approach him by now?
217: Ichiro just missed a sliding catch in CF then gunned the ball to second. The ball beat Matthews to the base by a mile but Lopez missed the tag.
Its gettin harder and harder to watch this game, even on gamecast. I really hope we can somehow get something together and not end it with the usual GIDP
so, Mac and Bob Melvin have both been tossed more than Lou this season. IIRC, BoMel has lead Lou in ejections every year he has managed in the big leagues.
That’s because Lou was tossed with flair, not just willy-nilly. He may have been tossed for just looking at an ump wrong, but he usually went out there for the right reason.
#217: Matthews was stretching a single into a double…Ichiro’s throw to second beat him by a mile. Lopez was waiting at second with the tag, never actually tagged Matthews’ foot as his slide came up short. Matthews got up and slipped his foot to the bag…slo-mo replay showed that Lopez’s second tag attempt did get him right before his foot got the bag, but it was amazingly close. Ump obviously ruled him safe.
I think the only “highlight” of this game is Lauren’s tarantula comment about Vlad
Lackey came into this one off of a pretty bad (for him at least) August so far.
I am off to Rally Brush my teeth and get ready for Rally Sleep the way this is going.
well, he was facing the Yankee & Red Sox offences earlier, and not the Ms
212. Vlad’s hair is reminding me of a style that Lola Falana would have had in a guest appearance for ‘Love Boat.’
223, 226: thanks.
the espn.com’s main page picture at the current time is of jose vidro with the caption: Jose Vidro has been a hit at Safeco and with the Puget Sound Faithful
Dammit.
I am going to go … argh.
I don’t know. Something.
Me too, msb. Me too.
Nice ground-pounding footage there, though.
The Angels look like the know what’s at stake. The M’s look…tired.
jeebus
I’m not letting this game ruin my day. I’m not letting this game ruin my day. I’m not letting this game ruin my day.
I’m not letting this game ruin my day. I finally showed some photos I’ve taken to someone I really respect. Her response was “You took this?” and, when I said yes, “You’re shitting me!” That makes up for even the worst that could happen tonight.
What a buzz kill, I feel like the cops just busted my high school party.
OMG you fucking knuckleheads. Don’t do The Wave.
Brunansky also made an incredibly awkward diving catch on the warning track near the foul poul in the final series of the 1990 season at Boston against the White Sox in a game which clinched the division for the Red Sox over the BlueJays. It was a cold rainy night and there was some speculation on whether or not he caught the ball. Fans started coming onto the field to celebrate the win and the umps didn’t stick around long to deliberate if it was a catch or not.
I bet during warmups Ichiro punches Raul in the stomach if he tries to take a questionable ball.
lol Did anyone see how fast Ichiro ran to get over there? He knows Raul can’t throw worth crap.
I think the mariners are telling me i need to go to bed so i make it to my 8 am class… and I’m on the east coast.
Lol ” BAD RAUL THATS A BAD RAUL!!!”
I just dont want to get shutout.
243.
yep. no need to stay up late tonite… I’ll be doing that at the park tomorrow…
Weaver vs. Santana!! 7:05 Safeco Field, who else is excited?!?!?
Isn’t it weird that Monday’s game was canceled?? Who would have thought that the Moose would be gunned down by a deranged CoCo Crisp during BP! Guess we will never know if Lackey would have beaten Batista.
And I am done… Night USSM.
lets go turbo!
You should stay up late for the eclipse! That might be really cool.
I’ve gone from excitement to anger to depression to intoxication.
You should stay up late for the eclipse! That might be really cool.
You mean wake up slightly early. I hope JMB doesn’t fall into the trap of the insanely early cook hours. Or the insanely late cook hours. Oh wait, he’s screwed either way.
I too — I’ve been working my way through a bottle of wine, myself, as this has gone from bad to worse.
Looks like a replay of every game the Mariners have faced Lackey when they really needed a win against the Angels.
Izturis is really goofy looking. Just though id throw that out there.
Ichiro also tied Phil Rizzuto on the all time singles list tonight.
for the love of god…
Maybe the Mariners can still back in to the wildcard.
So is there anything positive comeing out of this so far that we can talk about, so that we dont have to be pissed off all night about losing?
We could still get to the bullpen. The sun could still explode. Clowns could pop out of the bats and start devouring fans. It’s not over, people!
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The only positive I can come up with is that even Adam Jones probably wouldn’t have made much difference in this one.
So, DMZ, Shiraz/Syrah, Merlot, Cab-Sav, Zin?
I had an organic “toaster pastry” (read: hippie Pop Tart) that was really good.
I guess that’s only positive for me, though. Although making my junk food healthier may prolong the years I’m able to dork around here making useless comments on opponent coiffures.
RRS looks great all the times I have seen him…I think he’s going to be really good as either an 8th inning guy or a SP if they can stretch him out. I don’t think Dave was ever high on him though…
Well, this sucks.
FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (Thats the sound of the Mariners crapping on themselves AGAIN in a big series
Apparently the Lions beat the Jets in pre-season football 16-0…oh wait, that was a baseball game.
ya i guess thats a positive point to all this lameness, At least we didnt get our butts handed to us like the yankees did today.
’s a Zin I had kicking around.
Now, what’ll be worse to watch? Three up, three down, or a comeback that falls painfully short?
I’m torn myself.
Of course, winning would be much better….
*clinging to hope by fraying fingernails*
Our bullpen looks really good tonight also, to bad cant say much for anything else. But tomorrow is another day. Hope you all have a good night, wear your blue, snicker and glare at angel fans. See you all tomorrow
Wow. Way to work it in the ninth there, guys. Really. You’re doing yeoman’s work.
quick and painless
The M’s couldn’t even do me the courtesy of keeping it close enough for F. Rod to earn me a fantasy save.
[Sims]
hope we can beat up the Halos for the next 2 games
I’m tellin’ ya — the Columbia River Gorge area (Hood River area, etc…) is comin’ out with some mighty fine Zins…
Still have a ways to go with their Cabs.
But, wow, we tasted Pheasant Valley Zin last weekend — just released this past weekend, and we’re definitely going back over Labor Day weekend…
Man, what a waste of the last 2.5 hours. And the previous 24 I spent looking forward to the game.
Damn, what a ball game. John Lackey just won me 30 dollars in my fantasy league by locking up first place for me, and I’m still pissed off.
Anyone want a hippie Pop Tart?
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I quit looking forward to this series after those last two losses to Texas.
Um, yes.
Does it have Weaver’s family brownie recipe as the filling???
I had one of those hippie pop tarts once and I stayed awake for 7 straight days.
So, when do I get on the RRS bandwagon? Should I, or is this just a sample size? Because the few pitches I saw was low 80s keeping the hitters off balance. Just wondering if he has repeatable quality skills, or is just another unknown lefty with first time around surprise?
I like Ryan, but I still think he’d be cuffed around if he was starting.
Where’s my Pop Tart?
We all knew that tonight’s game would be the toughest. They had probably their best pitcher (maybe Kelvim) out there who is possibly a cy young candidate and we had our 3rd or 4th. Batista has been solid all year (except last two) in keeping us in ball games. But 90% of the time you match him up vs. Lackey and Lackey wins.
Lets all be honest with ourselves, if we were planning on winning this series 2-1 then this was the game we were going to lose (3-0 was wishful thinking, although I was hoping too). The next two Santana vs. Weaver and Weaver vs. Felix are much much much more in our favor.
I’ll bring it to the next USSM event I attend. I can’t guarantee that its condition will be good, though, since hippies disdain preservatives.
If you like non-predictive stats, here’s an interesting one. The M’s have had only one other 3 game losing streak, but they have not had a 4 game nor a 5 game losing streak. So here’s hoping they win tomorrow, otherwise I’ll fear the 6 or 7 game variety considering the schedule ahead.
I never thought I’d say this at the beginning of the year let alone in May, but here’s to Jeff Weaver “losing streak stopper.”
Well that game was a pooch screw..
well, much like the Mariners, Rally baking has regressed to the mean.
I got some chocolate chip cookies out of it, though.
oh, and gosh, I sure am looking forward to Sept 20th-23rd now.
Get ‘em tomorrow.
Just got home from the game.
Bad, bad, bad night for me to decide to not drink.
I’m not sure I’ll survive tomorrow and Wednesday with that pact in tact.
BEST GAME EVAH!!
Because my good pal got me Diamond Club seats (sparkle sparkle). I was in sitting on the back, homeplate corner of the dugout. The best possible seats from which to tell McLaren exactly what I thought of his lineup…and he goes and gets tossed in the first inning. And I can report that he was mumbling something like “So…f’ing mad..” as he stomped down the steps to the dugout after his tirade.
Please, if you have to watch a six-nothing stinker like tonight I urge you to pay $400 and get all-you-can-eat-and-drink service and sit nine feet from the backstop net. It makes it a much more tolerable night.
Oh, and the mayor sat near me so I let him know that I wore my M’s jersey just for him.
I was at the game, my fifth Safeco visit of the season. Some quick thoughts:
-Best crowd I’ve seen since the 01 season. Everyone stood up anytime a Mariners pitcher was working with 2 outs. “LET’S GO MARINERS” chants throughout the game. Heckling fans that actually know baseball and are familiar with the team. I haven’t seen that stuff in AGES.
-Nobody wore blue. MAYBE 20% of the fans. Very disappointing.
-The playoff atmosphere was there. Absolutely electric. Even the walk down Occidental from the Qwest Field parking lot was exciting. These fans (and vendors) are ready for the playoffs.
-McLaren getting tossed was appalling. I’ve never seen anything like it. I was sitting right behind 3rd base, and Mac was two steps into the dugout when the douchebag 3rd base umpire tossed him. I don’t care what you guys saw on TV, McLaren giving BOTH the HP and 3B umps a piece of his mind was exactly what the city and fans needed, and I’m really pretty shocked this ballclub didn’t rally behind him after that. Say what you want about the guy as a tactical manager (and I have and will), but at least we all know he believes this is a ballclub that is going to the playoffs. That was the loudest moment of the night. Safeco Field was absolutely rocking.
-Lackey’s stuff is nasty. Plain and simple. Even eager batters will foul stuff off; we couldn’t touch him tonight when he turned it on, even to put it out of play.
-Yuniesky Betancourt and Adrian Beltre are a pleasure to watch in person. There are so many things that the camera doesn’t catch in a ballgame where players show their passion and competitive spirit, and these two really deserve recognition for the moxie they show out on the diamond.
295, I was sitting above the manual scoreboard in left field, and the crowd was pretty terrible in my section. There were about 5 or 6 of us clapping w/2 strikes, everyone else was the typical, ’sit on their hands’, Safeco Field types. It was the best crowd of the season for me, too, but it’s not saying much. And you’re right, hardly anyone wore M’s gear still.
As far as the game is concerned, it was one of the most non-descript, unentertaining games I’ve ever seen. Blah.
295 – A manager getting fired up and tossed doesn’t magically make a bad lineup good.
Also, I agree with what you said about the crowd being very good, except I did not see much standing during 2 out situations until the scoreboard told people to do so. Other than that, the Anderson home run ball getting thrown back (the entire stadium demanded it), the random chants, etc were electric.
I go to several games a year, and this has definitely been the best crowd since 2001-2003 before attendance dipped.