U.S.S. Mariner

That was a crappy way to lose, but here’s the nice part of knowing the season’s already over - looking past the wins and losses isn’t that hard, and there are other things of interest to look for. And tonight, although he gave up the walk off home run and gets the loss, that [...]

5:05, Erik “The Interview” Bedard versus Padilla.
Good times. Lineups when I get my grubby hands on them.

Jarrod Washburn, back to his old tricks, throwing Kenji Johjima under the bus:
Asked about some apparent situations during his start Saturday when he and catcher Kenji Johjima weren’t in concert, Washburn didn’t deny it.
“There’s times when you’re not always on the same page,” he said. “It happens.”
Washburn was asked if there was any more of [...]

Sigh. Did it ever shut down? M’s looking at Griffey.
Reports out of New York say that Duane Shaffer, in his first season as a special assistant to Seattle general manager Bill Bavasi, was in Shea Stadium Sunday to have a look at Griffey.

Even after a deeply relieving win like today’s, it’s hard to look at the standings and have happy thoughts about the fortunes of the team. But as I constantly try to repeat over and over, while I’m not at all optimistic about this season, I have faith in the long-term future. Since so many of [...]

Floyd v Batista.
If you’re reading this, it means that after last night’s loss I slept in this morning, or went biking, or decided to work on the house plumbing or something, and didn’t make it back in time to update this.
But does it matter? Wheee, pink bats.
Dave adds: The Padres have setup a blog for [...]

Remember a few days ago when I mentioned the M’s had five days to salvage their season? Yea, I didn’t mean “lose all games between now and then”.
Forget Mojo Rising - the new motto is “Seattle Mariners - The Bear Stearns of Baseball”.
14-24, the team would have to play .637 baseball [...]

Vazquez v Washburn, 7:10.
I looked at the mini-schedule on the M’s home page today and saw that they were headed to Texas after this series. It gave me a start — I’d forgotten, and being reminded that the team the M’s just went 1-3 against would be their next opponents caused my heart to [...]

Some of this is no doubt due to the M’s colossally annoying fan un-friendly ticket pricing scheme (”Hey, let’s go see a game tonight!” “Sure, I think we’re still above water on our home equity line of credit…”) but even online, home to jerks buying up center field bleacher seats and demanding $20/stub for them, [...]