Game 44, Padres at Mariners
DMZ · May 17, 2008 at 6:10 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Bedard vs Wolf. 7:10. Nice night to go see a game, too.
Deep breath annnnd… exhale.
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my, but it’s wahm.
i’ll be there … at least for a few innings. Let’s hope Bedard bring that good ol’ uncle charlie …
The yellow face, it burns us!
I kind of feel like the little retarded boy that doesn’t know he’s retarded…but I’m gonna watch the gme tonight anyways…
*sigh*
Go M’s….
I am going to go to some games in August. Should be fairly easy to get a few batting practice balls.
I’m actually surprised not to see Turbo in the lineup…he is hitting .444 against Wolf lifetime…must be those ‘back spasms’
hey, I saw that very special episode of Quantum Leap!
anyone seen a lineup? oh, and is it just me, or does Baker seem to be feeling really pissy of late?
Lineups are posted finally…mlb.com
As for Baker, if you think his comments were bad earlier, what he’s getting now makes some of his earlier commenters look like Pulitzer prize winners. I dropped in the last couple of days after ignoring them for a while. Never again. As far as I can tell, the Times has just decided to go for high numbers, and not care what’s in them. I’d be pissy too if I had to read and respond to that sewer every day.
Ichiro!
Beltre
Lopez
Ibanez
Johjima (our new DH?)
Sexson
Balentien
Burke
Betancourt
I want to abolish the ‘Funk Blast’
Actual conversation between my wife and I, just now:
“So, I’m gonna go see how badly the Mariners are doing.”
“Oh, are they doing badly already?”
“Actually, I think they’re going to start doing badly in five minutes.”
Can’t abolish the Funk Blast!!
That’s my band’s bread and butter!!!
82 delicious degrees?
Who says “youngsters” anymore besides old farts?
Hey, you youngsters keep it down, I’m trying to listen to the game!
Who ever did besides old farts?
Hey, you youngsters keep it down, I’m trying to listen to the game!
Shall I get off your lawn as well?
WTF was that?
Here we go again.
Slick fielding by Jose there.
Hmmmm. Double play?
A funky double play!
Old “5 for 1″ doesn’t look very good. Again.
Nice steal!
When was the last time we had a lead in the first inning??
WOO HOO!!
Umm I think that would be the last time Bedard started. Didn’t actually workout so well though.
Oops..oh yeah
*sigh*
Go M’s!!
Akin to the “M-V-P” chants Kobe gets at Staples, I’d like to hear some “D-F-A” when Richie is up to bat. Not so much to make him feel like an ass, but more to make Bavasi do SOMETHING worthwhile.
(Now watch him crank a couple out of the park tonight)
Gee Dave, thanks for reminding us how insufferable Red Sox fans are.
I want to know just who the leather-lungs was shouting at during the last Pad at-bat, hollaring something about ‘get your head in the game’. Bedard? the batter? the ump?
Dave Simms thinks he’s the greatest.
Sorry. I forgot to read the button.
32… just call him The Forehead.
USSM autocorrect function, eh? Slippery slope…
btw, I think Lincecum needs to be added to the autocorrect function.
so, any takers the Ms manage to score another runs off Randy (”my brother is an umpire and all I got was this lousy t-shirt”) Wolf? Even though he came into the game sporting a four-game streak of 0-3 with a 8.55 ERA?
No.
Randy Wolf of the 1.43 WHIP and mickey mouse curve looks like a Cy Young out there.
It’s sad that I have nothing better to do than to watch this. And I don’t even have any beer in the house to dull the senses.
What if I wanted to discuss Dave Sim, author of “Cerebus”?
I’m pretty sure that the “auto-correct” is context sensitive.
That’s nearly, or merely, idiotic, not having beer to watch a Mariners’ game.
For the love of God. I can’t take it anymore! Its one run. One lousy run!
At least the game’s going quickly.
I found some Captain’s spiced up in the cupboard. Yeeee.
I believe this may be the second game thread this year to not reach 100 comments.
Boy, as if Baker couldn’t have beaten the dead horse known as interviewing to death, Sims & Blowers are going to keep that sucker on life support.
Soooo happy this is not a Washburn start.
I’m deciding between the game and Guitar Hero III, any suggestions?
It is hard to imagine us finding 50 more things to comment on.
Rumblin’.. Stumblin’.. Bumblin’..
How did Ichiro not end up at third?
Glad I was wrong about the first bet: M’s score!
I think he may have thought is was gone at first. He didn’t exactly bust out of the box.
And Burke is lucky that ball wasn’t caught. Would have been a REAL bad way to end the inning.
We could talk about how we are glad that Dusty Baker isn’t the manager. He had Adam Dunn try and bunt, then Dunn won the game with a HR.
BELTRE’D!
Ichiro, Burke, Beltre’. That’s why I can’t stop watching.
Hey now!
Might make a hundred after all, that shot is worth commenting on.
So how long is Buddy Black going to wait?
Got a little captain in you?! WOO!!! FUNK!
I bet the SD pitcher is upset. It must be so depressing to be beaten* by the Mariners these days.
*Assuming they win.
Beltre has a very quick bat with one giant hole in his swing down and away. One wonders why anyone pitches him anything other than down and away.
ZOMG! Beltre!
BELTRE!! WOOHOO!!!
…sorry no jagerbombs today…
63 – Down and away or over his shoulders..
You know.. I don’t think I really want to see Putz in the 9th. Bedard is OK on his pitches.
Please no Putz meltdown tonight.
Ritchie has really lost it. He can’t catch up with heat over the plate.
Well. Here he comes. Hang on to your butts..
I think he needs the work to get back to what he was, but I understand the reluctance to risk the game if he’s not on.
Hey now, how come I was dinged for Sim(m)s.. but it’s not auto-correcting Ri(t)chie?
It could be his last chance to save a game all year long, might as well give him a shot.
Good point HamNasty. Nice glove work there, but I can’t blame him for trying.
That looked scarier than it really was.
Nice split finger.
C’mon JJ, don’t make me hate you.
Damn, I wanted Maddux to pinch run for Tony Clark again.
I don’t think he’ll make you hate him, just dislike him for teasing.
Dave Sims sounds like we just clinched the pennant.
Go team.
Thank you Adrian! And Bedard, he looked good today.
That save was Guardado-esque.
We won the World Series!!!
M’s WIN!!!Woo HOO!!
..okay I’m doin’ a shot…
We just destroyed our hated rivals, I can forgive them for getting a little excited.
Tomorrow I get to see Felix. Ah.
I does Krueger know that JJ never beats himself?
That was a nice Saturday night surprise. woo hoo! Raise your glasses to 6 in 23!
I’m going to go listen to MacGowan sing about Irish suffering for bit now to get me ready for tomorrow.
Oh, that’s right. God I hate the Padres. I hate them so much, just the word “Padres” makes my blood boil. I’m not the type to wish death upon anyone, but I wish death upon the whole Padres team, and I will dance on every single one of their graves.
Go M’s! What a great rivalry.
sheesh. can we have just one nice and easy game? swiftly pitched, a little offense, and juuuuuust a little too much drama in the 9th. let’s see, going to the game tomorrow, so with Estes making his 2nd start back from TJ surgery, I’m guessing shut-out? no-hitter? too much to expect them to win back-to-back games, after all.
ok, whining over. bring on the Happy Ponies!
The Mariners win a game! Better still, if they win tommorrow, the M’s can (drum roll) win a series!
And this thread just might break 100 yet!
Happy Dancing Ponies.
Did you know that “Padres” means “Fathers”. Who do they think they are!
Actually, in this context, Padres means priests. Or the weird little brown monk they have as their logo.
Bedard dominates, Beltre homers and Putz gets the save. Yet I feel very little joy.
I’ll be in section 239, row 6 if anyone wants to come by and say hey. I’ll be the middle aged woman with a Kenji shirt sitting next to a very red-headed guy.
@94
I swear my little sister had that exact My Little Pony (R). In a signature gesture, I sheared the mane. She cried. Then last week she totaled her car, and i gave her one of mine. Now I understand the cosmic power of ponies.
That’s good to know! I didn’t know that is what it meant.
Did you know that “Mariner” does not mean “Moose”? Who do they think they are?!
Does anyone think,
the more and more we play the Padres,
they more that actually BECOME the hated rival?
Some track game attendance. Others track merchandise sales.
My leading indicator is the number of quality game-related comments on a Saturday evening game thread.
As long as we keep beating them, they’re fine as the hated rival.
Nice game despite not much offense, Bedard’s scary 4th inning wobble and JJ’s increasingly familiar hesitancy while trying to close. But oh my lord does Sexson look horrible from up close — uncertain, weak, slow, you name a bad thing for a big league hitter and he’s got it. If he was a combat soldier in that condition even George Patton on his meanest day would send him home to sell war bonds.
Putz’ save tonight was not confidence-inspiring. Ironically the first baserunner came on one of his better pitches, and the first two outs came on very well hit balls. Putz was all over the place. You just have to hate the “closer gets the ninth” attitude that pushed Bedard off the mound after only 101 pitches for a very shaky Putz.
Dave mentioned right after the injury that it could be a nagging injury. I’m sure we all suspect there is some element of injury still affecting his performance. I wonder if it wouldn’t be better for him to just get healthy if that’s the case. Still, it was good to see him hit 98 tonight. Cool hemp necklace, too–is that new?
Beautiful night to be out at the game, though the Mariners’ pre-game schedulers gave us a bit of a heart attack right before the game started. Someone needs to tell them that when the team is doing as well *ahem* as the M’s have been doing this year, it’s probably best not to schedule a very large female opera singer to do the national anthem…
It ain’t over till the fat lady sings…
That is hilarious!! I will have to share that will a few people for sure.
very likely now-Seattleite Jane Eaglen, internationally famous Wagnerian soprano and rabid, if resigned (”…cheering for the Seattle Mariners, which is often a futile exercise”….) Mariners fan.
When they had the refit of the Opera House, she tried to talk them into running a video feed from Safeco to the dressing rooms
Heh, that’s cool. I look forward to seeing her sing every at home game of the World Series when the M’s get there (assuming both she and I are alive by then).
Meanwhile:
Despite not being the fleetest of runners, Burke was waved home. He plowed across home plate just ahead of the relay throw and got a wet towel tossed on his head in the dugout after pulling Seattle even at 2-all.
”I’m always surprised to see myself go around third to score,” Burke cracked.