Comments on: Bavasi Agrees: This Team Sucks

By: joser

joser — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:05:14 +0000

Yes, it was the the latter. I was sure I was looking at today’s paper, but maybe I was wrong (or maybe the PI is out of synch?)

By: BigJared

BigJared — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:49:42 +0000

4.) Ibanez to center. You think he’s gritty now, watch him try to cover 50% more ground.

I may have just laughed myself a hernia.

By: Arkinese

Arkinese — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:15:34 +0000

Can anyone speculate on what, if anything, it will take get Bavasi to resign? Is he so absolutely delusional that he will go down rearranging deck chairs on the Hindenburg (™Mr. Colbert)? And I’m not asking for realistic possibilities based on this club’s attitude/owners/etc. Literally, just anything that people think would get him to resign. I cannot come up with something drastic enough but thought others might be able to.

By: pgreyy

pgreyy — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:06:21 +0000

Yesterday's was more appropriate, I think. ...definitely something Richie Sexson would agree with.

By: pgreyy

pgreyy — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:05:03 +0000

This one, Jose?

By: joser

joser — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:37:29 +0000

Does anybody have a scan of the Dennis the Menace cartoon from today’s (June 5) PI? It’s the most hilariously appopriate non-editorial editorial cartoon I’ve seen.

By: PADJ

PADJ — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:51:52 +0000

But what do you think the FO is actually going to do?

In the short term I would guess that Mac would go and we may see a few player moves…DFA’s or trades if anyone is interested. They pretty much have to do something. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. If they think the heat is bad now, try it in a couple of months if they don’t do anything!

I think the recent rash of temper tantrums, finger pointing and tossing people under the bus is motivated partly because their lousy performances have been noticed and they’re being called out for it. As I said, they’re pretty much committed to having to do something…and we can only hope it isn’t a terrible thing.

I don’t think that this is all that should be done, but your question was directed at what the FO would actually do…

By: crazyray7391

crazyray7391 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:04:04 +0000

So, it sounds like most of us want the same things to happen: Fire Bavasi and McLaren, DFA or move Sexson, Vidro, Cairo, Ibanez, Putz, ect…

But what do you think the FO is actually going to do? Are they going to just let McLaren go and call it good until the end of the season? Would they really eat somebody’s contract so that they could DFA them?

I’m actually very curious to see what is going to happen next. Until something does happen however, I guess I’m going to go out and buy some Coors Light so I can “vent” during the game tommorow.

By: Steve T

Steve T — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:21:12 +0000

More goodness from Andriesen’s article, quoting Bavasi: ” ‘ It’s a completely demoralizing position we’re in right now, based on the completely legitimate (preseason) expectations,’ Bavasi said.”

No possible way anyone could have known we’d suck. Not with superstars like Sexson and Cairo and Vidro on this team.

By: Steve T

Steve T — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:17:46 +0000

Speaking of taking responsibility, Carlos Silva in the P-I today is saying that “some teammates play for themselves, not team” and that the “Mariners lack desire”. So says the guy with the 6 ERA. The article includes this gem: “Like baseball observers have reiterated for weeks, Silva said the Mariners are a talented group that inexplicably doesn’t win.”

Yeah, imagine that. There’s NO WAY anybody could have foreseen that these superstars wouldn’t perform. Who woulda thunk it?