Game 59, Angels at Mariners
The Interview and his personal catcher v Saunders.
Thank Ichiro, a decent starter.
I don’t know what to write here, and I’ve been starting at the Write Post box for a while, so I’ll offer this — we all know that the Angels and Athletics series are important out of proportion to the rest of the season’s games, and if you’re like me, even in the horrible start of the season you’ve been nursing some hope that the team’s not this bad, that they’re making changes, however slight, that if they can win these games they can climb back into it, and last night’s game was particularly hard to watch for putting them down another game in the divisional race.
So here’s the thing: Bedard’s a good pitcher, and there are still great reasons to watch the Mariners. I’d watch this game even if the M’s had gone into the season looking at a 90-loss year. It’s likely to be some quality baseball, worth seeing. And if giving up on frustration and my attachment to seeing a competitive team in 2008 makes it easier for me to watch and enjoy the team play, maybe that’s a good thing.
Go Bedard.
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115 Responses to “Game 59, Angels at Mariners”
98-I’m guessing you’re not Catholic, or if you are, you practice differently than my family, where saints are personalized and incorporated into our names. My saint is a much lesser one, so the joke is that Jesus is tied in closer to the Big Guy (the one who’s not Putz). Cairo seems to land in strange situations, and I just looked him up in BR and saw his middle name and thought it was funny.
100 – Okay devoid of any humor or wit.
101 – I’m Catholic. And I’ll retract my comment if we stop deconstructing mine.
Aw Christ, that fucking Budweiser ad, with the “trendy microbrew” putdown is just getting under my skin tonight.
I gave up on the game after three innings thinking it was a dead loss, and only tuned in again after the M’s had scored all their runs – in time to listen to the spectacularly spineless, brainless hitting perfomances in the 8th and 9th. F-Rod stikes out the side on about 9 bloody pitches… I’m weeping in my soul… and then I have to listen to some smug, gravelly-voiced git, who wouldn’t know decent beer from sour milk, eulogizing the Jose Vidro of beers. Give me a fucking break!
Seriously, it IS the Jose Vidro of beers – not the worst beer in the world (aka the Miguel Cairo of beers) but if you had a choice you’d never pick it as your designated pint.
104 – So you don’t think its the Great American Lager? Is Coors light the Miguel Cairo of beers?
Bud could be “The Great American Lager” and still be quite mediocre.
Coors Light? I don’t think it’s there yet either. Keystone, or Busch, or Red Dog… but I think we have to look abroad…. it’s probably Tennants.
Or Skol.
102-Can’t argue with that and didn’t mean to pontificate on religion. Just wanted you to know it wasn’t bigoted, which now that I look at it, I can see that the whole thing was clumsy. My sense of humor doesn’t come across in print very well.
I disagree: Have some spine jlc – your comment at 9.50pm wasn’t devoid of wit. It was possessed of a low, unkind wit, and made a generalization about Latin baseball players.
It doesn’t rise to a level that could be considered racism, but making such a generalisation suggests a mindset that often goes along with racism – so it makes some people uncomfortable. Tonight enzario is that person.
The thing is, if you’d left out the generalization, it would still have been slightly funny.
BTW jlc – “pontificate on religion”; that’s a pretty good Catholic pun, there.
Huh. I didn’t read the hay-zeus comment as low or unkind. I don’t think it’s anything one need apologize for. Perhaps if we had a winning team such idle witticisms would scoot past without a fuss being made.
Good lord.
His post wasn’t racism-adjacent. It wasn’t even disrespectful.
Hell, it was the kind of joke any pastor I ever had would have made about members of his own congregation.
Dickey’s “game score” today was 68. Washburn’s season high is 62.
See, this is what losing does to the USSM clubhouse. Last year when we were winning none of this mattered. We need more blogosphere chemistry.
Kumbaya Kumbaya
If you think someone’s comment is inappropriate and needs attention, this isn’t the way to go about it.
Email me or one of the other mods.
That being said, I didn’t think it was the greatest comment in the world, but not particularly offensive, either.
Closing comments to prevent this from snowballing; the game’s long since over anyway.