Happy Big Series Day
Dave · August 27, 2007 at 9:27 am · Filed Under Mariners
Welcome to the start of playoff baseball. If the M’s are serious about playing in October, then we’ll need to see some good performances the next three days. For the Mariners, now two games behind the Angels, to give themselves a legitimate chance at winning this division, they can’t afford to give up ground. They need to close the gap, not widen it.
This is the most important three game homestand Safeco has seen in years. Here’s to hoping for a packed house and some big hits tonight.
What’s wrong with the Moose?
Wow, as I type that Placido hit a bomb.
7-0
Standard lineup tonight.
Does Placido have something against the Moose?
The Yanks are starting to look less and less like a playoff team.
144 – and for the classic ads, of course.
I hope Moose keeps being in Yankees’ rotation, at least until we play with them.
Kind of a shame for Detroit to waste all these runs on a Justin Verlander start. Should have used them for Bonderman the other day.
Of course 2007 Mussina against Verlander was somewhat predictable.
Mussina is dee ewe enn done. Here’s hoping the Yanks refuse to believe it and run him out to face the M’s next week.
#111–Are you sure about those numbers? My memory is that the M’s got swept in the recent 4 game series, and then won 1 and lost 2 in the last series, hence 1-6. Even if it is 2-5 (not 2-6), that’s still a disgraceful recent record against a last-place team by a team that considers itself a contender.
As for the Yankees, you proved my point. It’s the previous editions of the Yankees that beat up on TB and Baltimore. This one is not nearly as good, and thus doesn’t beat up on the lower teams as consistently.
If the Ms could sweep, they would become almost a lock for the playoffs… They’d lead their division by a game and likely have a 4 game lead over the second place team in the WC chase…
I’ve never been impressed by the Yankees this year. You have to have a good starting rotation to be competitive in the playoffs, and all of their pitchers are either too old or too young, with the exception of Wang. The stars are past their prime and injury-prone. I’ve thought all year that the Red Sox are the class of MLB, and have seen no reason to change my mind.
When referring to the Yankees’ stars being past their prime and injury-prone, I was referring specifically to the pitchers. Some of the regulars fit that description also, but not all of them (A-Rod is the obvious exception). Yes, their offense is amazing, but you still need pitching.
I’d like to think you’re kidding…. Do you know the statistical difference in a couple of games in an eight-game sample? For crying out loud.
No, demonstrating that what you said is untrue does not prove your point.
Your point was meaningless anyway. The Yankees used to be owned by the Devil Rays; it was a joke in the local papers. Did that mean a damned thing about their championshio quality? Of course not. What matters is how you do against everybody. There are a thousand different paths to the playoffs. Everybody can point to a pattern that supports their theory of which games you need to win. The fact is, you need to win all of them, and if the Yankees won sixty percent against the Red Sox and forty percent against the Orioles, or the other way round, their record will be the same.