Game 36, Rangers at Mariners
DMZ · May 8, 2008 at 6:23 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Gabbard v Felix. 7:10. Chance to make up a game, with the A’s and Angels off.
On mariners.mlb.com, one of the rotating top stories is “Vote to send Beltre, Mariners to the Bronx.”
I started laughing when I saw the pictures. Yes! Let me go vote for Jose Vidro as the all-star DH.
Here’s your lineup of inexplicableness:
CF-L Ichiro!
DH-R Lopez
LF-L Ibanez
3B-R Beltre
1B-R Sexson
SS-R Betancourt
RF-R Balentien
C-R Johima
2B-R Bloomquist
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So how big of a suspension are we looking at for Sexy? 10 games?
I noticed that Paul Silvi took a shot at the M’s on his sportscast today. He showed Norton’s game-winning RBI and mentioned his 2 hits in 2 AB for the Braves, and said the M’s could have used him last night.
That is a another sign of how this community views this team. It is not good publicity. The heat is being turned up on the front office.
Yeah, well Tom Grieve’s son Ben couldn’t hit over .200 with any power his last couple years. I would say Richie is gutless if he didn’t charge.
What does Ben Grieve have to do with that? That seems like an irrelevant remark.
10 game suspension for sure. He took the helmet with him.
Seriously. It’s like, “Your son was bad at a thing, so what you said about that thing is wrong.”
Totally seriously, I wonder if something’s up in Richie’s world–besides his professional issues–first, taking the personal day yesterday. I assume that has to be something serious, not ‘My daughter has a dentist appointment,’ to miss a game. Then deciding Texas is head-hunting you when it wasn’t that close.
Damn, I actually watch the post-game show, and no one’s talking?
Tom Grieve’s other comment:
“If he doesn’t get suspended for a week for that gutless move, I’ll be completely shocked. Number one; for charging the mound on a pitch that wasn’t even close, and then getting twenty feet away and throwing a helmet at him like a girl. What a joke.”
Y’all know how awesome it is to be an exemplar of things that are worthless, cowardly and weak? It’s pretty sweet, let me tell you.
Hey guys I was just kidding. It was a joke.
Devine and Channel 13 are ripping the Mariners right now.
I thought so.
Trying to look at an upside, at least we are gonna get another good draft pick!
Its starting to look like time for a fire sale, but unfortunatly, what do we have that we can get some value for? We are buried in this way over paid lineup. Is there such a thing as roster bankruptcy? Its gonna take 7 years to recover from this nightmare anyway.
Yeah, you know, this thread went downhill pretty quickly and I wasn’t paying much attention to it until it was too late, but there’s a lot in here that appalls me as I review it.
I will attempt to me more vigilant in the future. We should be classy, not base, in defeat.
Leave here at once.
Devine: “10 of the 15 worst games in terms of attendance have happened this season, folks. It doesn’t get any worse than this.”
M’s PR spokesman:
“the kids are in school.”
“We look forward to better weather.”
Bonds and Griffey mentioned. Fans love Griffey. Bonds – no.
This thread did sort of feel like a bench-clearing brawl of its own, ironically. Lots of flaying arms, an undulating pile, and pointless yelling.
Then they show lots of fans at the soccer game and the News Guy compares the two teams. OUCH.
It is amazing looking over the AL BABIP numbers how far low the Mariners are. Besides being number 13 out of 14 teams, they are .062 (or a difference of 82.816 hits) behind number 1 Boston. Just to return to the median the Mariners are behind .025 (or a difference of 32.350 hits) behind the .289 average or the .290 median.
The Mariners have higher GB% (46%) than AL average (9 out of 14) and a lower LD% (18%) than AL Average (9 out of 14) which is most likely the main cause for this.
There are sub-issues that cause those numbers which all come back to patience at the plate and plate discipline, which the Mariners are at the bottom of the league as well.
Although their BABIP with come back up a bit, the Mariners can help their own cause by being more patient at the plate and swinging at pitches that they can actually do something with and not pitches down and outside which will ONLY cause the slow roller to SS.
I’m a fan. I think Bonds is better than 10 Griffeys. Adding Griffey with his bloated salary would be about the stupidest thing I’ve seen from the organization this year.
International Violence Against Women Act –
sign the petition @ http://www.womenthrive.org/
A man sharing his thoughts on women and invites you to join the discussion.
http://hugoschwyzer.net/
Watching the fight replay on BBT, it looks like Gabbard’s shins weren’t hurt by Richie’s plunk, but by his teammates piles on top of the two of them to ‘save’ him. That had to be a combined weight of about 2,000 pounds. He was folded up to protect his head with his knees under him. That had to hurt.
…and the usual claptrap about how this will light a fire under the Mariners.
Huh. That Hugo Schwyzer article/response was indeed interesting. I’d missed out on that article on the Times site.
I’m glad you found it interesting. I plan to buy this Sunday’s edition to learn more about women in sports.
Schwyzer is an interesting guy.
That’s a little like the so-called “Bertuzzi incident” a few years back between the Canucks and Avalanche…where Steve Moore’s teammates who were supposedly trying to help him after he got blind-slided by Bert actually wound up doing more damage by falling on top of both of them.
Yep…gotta love those bench-clearing brawls where everybody gets involved…not!
In my limited athletic coaching experience, buttressed by my years in youth work, I’ve noticed that highly athletic girls are actually less likely than male counterparts to complain about injury or to “push back†against the demands of coaches and parents.
To connect to your post, scott. Men and women seem to have in common an unwillingness to push back – women against coaches and parents and men against the masculine attitudes of their sports. And both suffer injuries as a consequence.
The woman abuse post fits so well.
To show their support, the Mariners have committed to hit nothing.
Re: NORTON
He pinch-hit again today; had a two-run single.
(He’s driven in more runs in the last two days (3) than the Mariners have scored in…)
I decided not to bother watching the game today…
Other than Richie charging the mound looks like I didn’t miss a thing…
One can only hope the White Sox can get Vidro to charge the mound so he’ll get a suspension too…
Can any of our pitchers hit?
*sigh*
Not sure if anybody has mentioned this yet, but [somebody mentioned it]
I think if I was pitching and Richie started after me I would just turn and run….
….or maybe toss him a bat, god knows he can’t hit anything with that in his hand.
apparently he spent wed night at Childrens Hospital with his son.
The junior hockey WHL Champions (Spokane Chiefs) are probably laughing their butts off at a MLB “fight”.
I am with #211. My guess is that most of us wouldn’t feel very comfortable with a head level pitch, regardless of where it was thrown.