Game 92, Mariners at Athletics
Dave · July 10, 2008 at 11:00 am · Filed Under Mariners
12:35, Dickey v Smith.
Cairo plays first base today, but Vidro will take over as the 1B vs RHP and play most of the time. Rejoice!
For what its worth, though, Riggleman’s comments about releasing Sexson because he wasn’t interested in having a player complain about not being in the line-up are nice to hear. We had to deal with a year of John McLaren coddling the veteran egos rather than putting the best team on the field, so it’s nice to see the organization finally telling the entitled group of suck to shut up.
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so now morrowis going to scrrew this up?
Uh Oh! Morrow is a bit wild today.
151: why not? isn’t it his turn?
Morrow is a couple days away from breaking Hasegawa’s record for best era before the AS break for a bullpen guy in Mariner history.
Now you know what being the guy who mentions a no-hitter only to see a hit immediately after feels like.
Things come in threes;
-Sexson is released.
_Willie XBHs.
-Morrow gives up run.
Since when is 1 for 24 an average of .152?
i can´t believe it
That Cust HR increased Morrow’s ERA by nearly 50 percent. The Suzuki HR increased it another 33%. Depressing game all around.
Clearly not Morrow’s afternoon.
Now was not the time to give up 2 goffer balls. RA would have been the winning pitcher. Do it with Silva or Washburn or Batista.
I’m going to cry
Fucking hell
Is Morrow gonna cry?
it had to happen some time, then again, we are 20 games out and this game matter not so much… still I liked seeing morrow so dominant
There are days I hate being right..
And this is one of them..
Well, Riggleman, way to use Ichiro wisely in this game. Now he can’t come in to pitch.
I hope putz can come back soon good enough so we can experiment with morrow in the rotation
Wont happen until next season, unfortunately
Why isn’t Bloomquist’s double* in the list of clips I can watch on Gameday?
Doesn’t MLB recognize the significance?
Man, if both teams revert to form, we could well have another 15-inning marathon here.
Neyer: “But there is no excuse on earth for any team, let alone a team as bad as these Mariners, to waste so much playing time on so many players who aren’t a part of the franchise’s future. Dumping Sexson makes sense. You have to wonder, though, about an organization that employs a manager who actually believes that Jose Vidro represents “protection”. I mean, that’s so laughable that you wonder if Jim Riggleman is some sort of Bizzaro Manager who says exactly the opposite of what we know is true.”
well, hopefully BBTN realizes the importance.
dammit
Nice quote there, killer ewok.
Re: Bizarro Manager Riggleman:
Is anyone else getting really bad McLaren flashbacks? If nothing else, it’s easy to see how Riggleman got his gig..
Argh. The M’s need to make Street throw a lot of pitches. The A’s have burned up most of their pen. It would be dumb to let their best reliever get extra innings if he only has to use a few pitches to get through an inning.
Finally.
Bleh.
P.S. I propose “Bizarro Manager” as Riggles’ new nickname.
well, that was anticlimatic.
Anticlimatic? Or anticlimactic? The former being the act of refusing to aknowledge or preserve the climate?
Dangit. I thought we might get another shot at seeing Jamie toe the rubber and show off that 84mph heater.
Every loss today is a win for the future. Sort of.
From the Times Blog, comment of the day:
“I don’t see what’s so bad with this lineup.Willie will provide plenty of pop and speed at the top of the order.”
Well, apparently Willie showed some pop today with that double*!
The only pop that Willy could provide would be some Diet Coke at a family barbecue.
In the race to last place we have.
1) San Diego Padres 36 56 .391
2) Seattle Mariners 36 56 .391
3) Cleveland Indians 37 53 .411
I was working on an Atmospheric Sciences thesis– it must have slid over from that 🙂
A loss is really a win for Mariners fans. As acknowledged above, we are in a heated race for the #1 pick.
Each win, at this point, pains me.
Drayer on the post-game points out the team has a terrible reputation over the last few years in making trades.
Also saying that Pelekoudas is talking like it’s a long-term rebuilding process, and not in the “sign a vet to put us over the top.” And seems less inclined to follow the vet-fetish. Learning from mistakes finally?
Also mentioned someone from Oakland asking if anyone ever tried Sexson as an outfielder…
If the organization didn’t grasp this concept at this point, there would be no hope.
That being said, I will remain skeptical until we see hard evidence.
Hmmm, further thoughts from the post game suggested that either Wells or Hulett would be send down tomorrow to make room for Felix to come off the DL. The bullpen wasn’t really blown out (at least by any normal standards), so the didn’t need Wells.
That would be idiotic. Why bring two guys up today and send another one back down tomorrow instead of just waiting a day to retroactively put Bedard on the DL? Well, I wouldn’t but idiocy past the M’s, but I think it’s more likely they’re doing move someone else off the roster tomorrow.
I was all ready to say Vidro might be DFA’d, but that would leave them with 13 pitchers, so, probably not going to happen. Maybe Batista goes on the DL, or else Corco or Jimenez goes back down.
188
Sexton played some leftfield and a few in right in Cleavland when he was blocked by Thome.
112 games in the OF, 0 errors. Wow!
Probably a good indication of the relevance of fielding percentage in evaluating outfield defense.
I don’t care what this Sexton guy did, I’m askin’ if Richie Sexson ever played any OF? Okay, okay, sorry, just kiddin’. One last jab at the mis-spelled name.
Well, makes sense. The weakest part of Sexson’s defensive game was diving for sharply hit grounders. Not much need to do that in the OF.
MarinerDan:
Well, given the Wilson deal, can you scoot over and make some room on the skepics bandwagon?
What a weird day.
Sexson is released… Apparently for sulking not sucking.
Ichiro doesn’t start.
Betancourt gets a walk.
Bloomquist gets an extra base hit… and also leads off.
Morrow looks terrible and blows a save.
The Mariners were actually in a position for Morrow to get a save in the first place.
Vidro gets two hits.
Am I missing anything?
It has been upgraded from a bandwagon to an aircraft carrier. Plenty of room.