Comments on: Game 133, Mariners at Blue Jays

By: msb

msb — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:27:18 +0000

from the Toronto Star:

“Smart base running, smarter defence, adequate pitching and ruthless hitting drove Toronto to a 7-5 victory over Seattle.”

yup. it takes ruthless hitting to golf meatballs out of the park….

By: scott19

scott19 — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:34:17 +0000

246: Thanks for passing that along. Though I missed McLaren’s post-game interview tonight (actually, I can’t stomach sitting through Huttyler & Valle — especially after a loss when the team is playing brutal), that pretty much further confirms to me his chilling ineptitude as a “manager”.

But, I guess on the bright side, at least Felix might have accidentally lucked into the gift win that Mac screwed him out of against Johan Santana a couple of weeks ago when he brought in Parrish to stink up the joint.

By: pgreyy

pgreyy — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:30:23 +0000

237–Actually, in the post game interview, Mac said that if the M’s either tied or took the lead that Felix was going to come into the game as the next available arm…and that Eric O would have been called on if Felix couldn’t close it out.

At this rate, it’s only a matter of time before the murmurs about “if Ichiro really cared about this team, he’d agree to the move from center to the mound” start up.

By: heph

heph — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:08:36 +0000

When you take away the times they suck, they don’t suck!

By: kentroyals5

kentroyals5 — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:27:02 +0000

243- HAHAHA, Vidro actually said “when you take away those 26…” I thought it was a joke! OMG, Johnny Mac has really f’d with this team’s mindset.

By: jlc

jlc — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 08:27:20 +0000

OMG, the math is contagious:

The Mariners are in the fourth major slump of the season. This is the second streak of seven consecutive losses. They also lost six in succession two other times. That’s a total of 26 losses.

Seattle is 73-34 when it isn’t in a major losing streak, making for a .682 winning percentage in those other games.

“When you take away those 26, we’ve really put it all together in the rest of our games,” Jose Vidro said after taking another turn at second base for Jose Lopez. “And yet the only way to look at it is after all those losses, we’re still in pretty good shape. This club will come back, there’s no doubt about it.”

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/baseball/330003_mari01.html?source=rss

By: gwangung

gwangung — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:27:54 +0000

Seems to me that this game, unlike the last few, was lost on the field rather than in the dugout.
The DP that ended the game was remarkable.. all you can do is shake your head and come back tomorrow.

Yuppers. Not that many late game brain-lock decisions. A few inches to the left, the ball skips off the glove and at least one run scores (and this is the sort of luck that happened earlier this year).

By: WardP

WardP — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:22:19 +0000

Seems to me that this game, unlike the last few, was lost on the field rather than in the dugout.

The DP that ended the game was remarkable.. all you can do is shake your head and come back tomorrow.

By: Lauren, token chick

Lauren, token chick — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:20:24 +0000

ThomJim: What if “playing the kids” is the best way to not pull the plug at all?

By: scott19

scott19 — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:58:13 +0000

235 & 237: Actually, I heard Neihaus mention during the radio broadcast that it was, in fact, his throw day. Post #234 was merely me being a smart arse.