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Game 84, Blue Jays at Mariners
DMZ · July 2, 2008 at 6:10 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
7:10, in a thunderstorm if this keeps up. That’d be kind of cool.
Dustin McGowan v Jarrod “The Bus” Washburn
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During pregame:
Kenji:Hey, Jarrod! Hold this for me. (Hands Jarrod aluminum bat)
Jarrod: What’s this for???
Oops…
“The Bust”
Cairo batting second. Is Mac phoning in the lineups tonight?
Thunderstorm? It’s sunny and dry in the city. Cairo batting second? Sigh. The Willie watch continues with him on the bench to start the game:
081 - Consecutive games without an XBH
155 - Consecutive at bats without an XBH
177 - Consecutive PAs without an XBH
086 - 2008 season ABs with no XBH
101 - 2008 season PAs with no XBH
Unofficial records:
100 - Consecutive games without an XBH - Greg Gross
223 - Consecutive at bats without an XBH - Jose Valdivielso
266 - Consecutive PAs without an XBH - Larry Lintz
124 - Full season ABs with no XBH - Dwain Anderson
144 - Full season PAs with no XBH - Dwain Anderson
Rays? I thought it was them Jays.
The Rays are losing in Tropicana Field, which seems a little odd.
Ichiro! L RF
Cairo(#S*%!) R 2B(?)
Ibanez L LF
Beltre R 3B
Reed L CF
Sexson R 1B
Clement L DH
Johjima R C
Betancourt R SS
Big giant “ugh” to Cairo in the two hole…
On a side note, am I the only one who finds the picture of Tony LaRussa on ESPN’s baseball page creepy…?
#7 - Totally. He looks like he just had a frontal lobotomy.
Sorry I’m late. I was watching Nicole Zaloumis interview…I have no idea who…
Mule Miles, the Mariners Negro League draft choice this year– he had visits this aft with Nicole, and with Shannon.
This is the same 25 guys but a whole different basketball team, Bill. — That’s what Angie just said.
I guess I know what’s on her mind.
Apparently “good things happen” and we’re going to be, uh, a lot better from now on. With magic.
[flash!]
[crack!]
Thunderstorm?!
I’m going to be out on my bike later.
And tipsy.
I love that Riggleman gives Joh to Washburn every start. “You want a personal catcher, meet your Goddamn personal catcher.”
I bet Jarrod knows what a lightning rod is.
Oh goody. Washborg.
BLOWERS!
Please don’t bring up oklahoma! Please, just not today, of all days! For the love of God!
Miguel Cairo?
Bloomquist Light is making Bloomquist look bad.
On ESPN, Orel Hershiser is crooning about the Rays as they beat Boston. I agree with everything he’s saying, but as he counts off the Rays’ strengths, each category (pitching, defense, hitting, speed, management), is a little stab in my Mariner-supportive heart. Can’t we just have one?
Cairo hit that off the wall just as I mocked his bat speed to a friend via text message. What a spiteful rat.
awww, he can’t help it. “My first memory of baseball– when I was 8, my stepdad brought home an old catcher’s mitt and took me and my brother into the back yard of our house in Lawton, Okla. I loved it right away, but over time I think that love was mingled with the memory of our stepdad, Carlos Ramos. At that time, he was just dating Mom and it was the first real bonding thing we did with him”
Ah this is the Washburn I know and loathe.
Another spiteful performance. These guys just like showing me up. The instant I start to believe they will fold like a circus tent.
Don’t worry, guys, Jarrod Washburn may suck, but so does our lovely Blue Jay offense. This this game should be proof positive of that. (It wasn’t nearly as bad as this one, however, but at least Batista is your problem now.)
I don’t think Derek could stand one more XBH by Willie Lite.
Awww li’l Cairo is really pulling his weight tonight! And those ears make him look like the Latin Boonie. Adorable.
OK, who replaced Cairo with a rejuvenated Edgar?
I’m shocked the server is still up. First, Willie’s GWRBI last night and now two run-scoring doubles by Cairo. What’s next? Yuni walks?
Cairo with two doubles…
Unfreakinbelievable!
I was the one who told Riggleman to bat Cairo second tonight. I knew he’d have a good game.
This thread is pretty quiet tonight. Can’t blame everyone, given the depressing news from earlier.
I don’t think we can refer Cairo as Willie Lite anymore … he’s become a Willie Double-Lite.
I am not a basketball fan at all nor do I live in Seattle but I am sorry to hear about the Sonics moving.
It doesn’t seem fair that a franchise with some actual winning history should leave Seattle.
I would take it as an excellent outcome if every fan sorry to lose the Sonics went at least once to a Storm game. Even just for the principle of the thing.
Back to the M’s for a moment: I just stumbled upon this video. I think it’s a perfect description of the debates we had before this season.
Is Cairo the Amstel Light of Bloomquist Light varieties?
36- Funny stuff! and you’re right..it all sounds familiar..
C’mon Ichiro. Get over .300.
say, didja know there was a game-winning hit by Willie Bloomquist last night?
Benne, that was great. Anyone on this blog in the video?
Way to go Cairo….
3 doubles…
How dare Scott Rolen throw out Cairo.
1 down, runners on 1st and 2nd. A run here could posssibly seal up a victory. Stepping up to the plate, striking fear into the heart of the pitcher is… Miguel Cairo?
Something doesn’t fit
42 times……that’s how many times.
What has happened to Beltre? Perhaps he went for lunch with the Baconator and Silva…
So nice to see Ichiro batting over .300 now, for the first time since April 9.
Turned off the game awhile ago as the lightning is starting to come down rapidly here in Puyallup. Didn’t want to risk my TV as I don’t trust it’s surge protector, but I do trust the one my laptop is on. What Mother Nature doing near the Safe?
Reed!!
Wow! all these doubles…maybe Willie should take a turn at bat….
*grin*
Oh My Gawd..I called it!! LOL
We’re now 1/2 a game better than San Diego.
Waiting for Morrow …. (get it?) has become the highlight of the season for me so far.
The Sonics leaving Seattle makes me appreciate having a baseball team at all. I was part of saving that team in 1995.
What a day.
Come onMOrrow..shut ‘em down..
I heart Ichiro
“Ichiro, a mile to come, and he went all 4,782 feet.” - Dave Niehaus.
56: Those mental signals took care of the other 498 feet.
It feels good to win…
Cheers everyone!
I love regression to the mean. That, and playing other crummy teams.
Shhh…Nicole’s talking.
MLB Trade Rumors speculates that the Yankees might look at Sexson as a “defensive backup first baseman”. Should we ask for Joba or Hughes?
so, what’s on Benne’s video, for those of us with tiny slow laptops?
And A-Rod to even out the salaries.
earnest caller on the post-game: “if we keep this up, maybe we should reconsider breaking this up, we could be the next 1948 Braves”
man, the BIAW must be spending a fortune on those anti-gov ads.
Every time you post something from mlbtraderumors.com, God kills a kitten.
Please, won’t you think of the kittens?
I wish the Mariners could always play last place teams that recently fired their managers.
It levels the playing field, don’t you see.
Uh, guys, did we just win 3 series in a row? What’s going on?!
What’s going on is playing crummy teams.
Let’s see..
Atlanta, losing team, would be in last were it not for the excreble Nationals
NY Mets, losing team, recently dumped their manager
SDP, last place team, in the middle of a huge losing streak, have now lost 14 of their last 16
Toronto, last place team, recently dumped their manager
70 comments on a Mariners winning game thread. Wow.
What’s also going on is regression to the mean, and a little old-fashioned random variation. The M’s were never a .350 team, and even if they were, they would be expected to have SOME good stretches. Nobody goes 3-7 over ten all season long. It’s not like they’ve won ten in a row or anything (the traditional cutoff for streaks that bad teams can’t make); they’re just having a fairly decent stretch against some bad teams.
We could finish at .400, but that doesn’t mean we’ve turned anything around.
What’s happening is a Miracle of God.
One of the more irritating things about last night’s game was how many times Rick, Dave and Co. babbled about Bloomquist “winning” the previous game. I suppose tonight we’ll have to hear repeatedly about Cairo “winning” last night’s game. Superstars, both of them.
The winning is actually drving me crazy…I sit there watching the game and get excited when they play well…but then I realize that the more the guys we want to dump do well (Richie’s homer, Cairo’s three RBIs, WFB’s walk-off, etc.) it just delays the re-build…
I don’t want to root for the team to lose, but if that’s what it takes, so be it…
The only good thing lately has been Washburn…he’s thankfully picthing his way out of town…a NL team HAS to take him now…hopefully we don’t have to eat all the cash and we can get at least a B level prospect or two for him…
Well, if we’re going to win games, it pretty much by definition has to be guys we want to dump doing well. There isn’t anybody else!
73- There are guys we should keep around…not everyone should be dumped…but I get your point…
My question of “what’s going on” was tongue in cheek/rhetorical.
@74 — yeah, but the guys we should keep are already doing well. We suck even when Ichiro’s hitting. It’s the tiny miracles, like Cairo pounding out some doubles, that put us over the edge.