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Game 110, Orioles at Mariners
Guthrie v Felix. Felix woooooooo!
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Happy Felix Day!!!
I second that emotion…though the way the “mighty” O’s have played us this year, even
Arlooh, hell, Woody Guthrie could probably shut us down if he showed up in an Orioles uniform.If I’m Felix, I’m not leaving this one to the bullpen.
If I’m Felix, I’m not leaving this one to the bullpen.
Or the offense. I’d demand to hit for the “DH” and point to my grand slam as proof of my mad skills.
Unfortunately, though, he has to leave it to his line up.
[unfortunately this edit thing doesn't let you kill suddenly redundant posts.]
1. Ichiro RF
2. Jeremy Reed CF
3. Raul Ibanez LF
4. Adrian Beltre 3B
5. Jose Lopez 2B
6. Jose Vidro DH
7. Bryan LaHair 1B
8. Jeff Clement C
9. Willie Bloomquist SS
I keep hoping the M’s will lose so they can end up with the number one pick in the draft. I look at the standings every day and see that the Washington Nationals are “ahead.”
This makes me a bad fan, doesn’t it?
Jake Woods replaces Rhodes on the roster.
I had never heard of a team leaving a spot open for the reason they did last night – indecision.
Well, when you have that many great choices you can understand the problem.
It’s beyond description what a debacle this season has turned into. Must be a nightmare down in that dugout.
And what’s worse, they don’t have a clue why (either in the dugout or the front office)
Hey, rob-of-the-many-b’s, that’s the only way I can get through the season. Other than Ichiro hits or Felix pitching a no-no, I can’t see anything else good coming from this season.
I feel horrible for the players left who care AND are paying attention. It’s got to be like the first half of Major League @ this point.
We could probably almost assemble a similar cast of characters.
Also, so much for Ryan Rowland-Smith’s “non-demotional” trip back to Tacoma.
Actually, I think I’d rather see Charlie Sheen on the roster right now than some of the dead weight that’s there.
Also, so much for Ryan Rowland-Smith’s “non-demotional” trip back to Tacoma.
Well, here’s my positive spin on that. In Tacoma RRS gets to work on stuff, without the threat of some idiot in management trading him off due to poor performace. This is different from the Clement situation where, talent-wise, he’s obviously a good option to play everyday.
Damnit Felix, why can’t you throw consistent strikes?
Also, would it kill you to mix pitches? Whose idea is this to throw 99% fb’s, mostly in the 1st inning?
16: At this point, though, this team’s “management” is so illogical in the way they do things that it’s probably pointless to even try to analyze them.
Doesn’t 99% fastballs rather seem like a young man’s pitch selection? A mistake borne out of extraordinary abilities and perhaps a touch of bravado to go with them?
So, the Mariner batters are allowed to run all the way to second base if they hit the ball hard enough ?
Is this a new rule or something ?
Back to back extra base hits?!?!?!?
Can someone explain to me why you don’t hear a single boo when Turbo comes up?
I think that was Dave’s idea.
…..
(I kid, of course.)
Funny enough, Dave has already told the M’s to stop teaching Felix to “establish the fastball.”
But you can’t establish the fastball unless you establish it.
That was nicely done, Felix.
I just tuned into the game and noticed that Felix has thrown over sixty pitches in less than three innings. Would somebody please enlighten me as to how this happened?
Because he’s going to a full count on every single batter.
26, it was a lousy first inning. Check a game log. 33 pitches, IIRC.
That reminds me of Yuni’s mantra: you can’t get a hit if you don’t swing.
He had a hard time throwing strikes in the first inning.
“You can’t walk off the island,” you mean?
Hmmm….the pony seems to be coming up lame when he runs.
I fear Willie’s learning the downside of starting regularly, injuries.
supposedly it is so he can still keep starting.
because, god forbid, any of the current starters come out of the rotation.
I wonder if he’s been hanging out too much with Miggy lately perhaps?
oh, Guthrie has a new ‘hitch’ in his delivery, a la Dan Haren, we are told.
how long before Wash adds that to his repertoire of fixes?
the contagion of crap?
Alliterative and hysterical. A great combination.
how many Felix pitches have been fouled off in this game already?
#37
Agreed. Though I would call it the crap contagion.
this has nothing to do with why Felix is struggling, other than it reminded me …
on the pregame Drayer was talking to JJ, and he said that Eddie reminded him that he was essentially back in spring training these days– that you go 30 days without throwing, and coming of the DL you may feel great on the mound, but your pitches are not there. Shannon then added that his splitter always takes all of spring to come along, which doesn’t help.
Damn, almost a head shot.
Is it wrong for me to wish Chuck had been struck in the head by that foul ball?
aye, Baltimore’s response to Bavasi getting fired before they could weasel Felix out of us for a crate of blue crabs…..
#39
I prefer msb’s rhythm.. breaks up the hard c sounds.. and for some irrational reason it reminds of “the sultan of swat”.. of which we don’t have one, of course.. but we do have the contagion of crap..
aye, Baltimore’s response to Bavasi getting fired before they could weasel Felix out of us for a crate of blue crabs…..
How many crates?
Okay.. that instance of rally fries was pretty cute..
Rally fries for the fans “All the way from Alaska.”
Uh, they do realize Alaska is just up the street, so to speak, from Seattle?
Okay, he’s from Anchorage, still. It ain’t New Zealand.
My mom was visiting a few weeks ago, and I left her in charge of following the game while I was at a meeting. When I got back, she was ranting about “this stupid thing with french fries,” and it was only her first game.
If only she knew the madness this ritual gives me by this point in the season.
Am I the only one that is annoyed by the little rainbow throw by Clement? It reminds me of Mackey Sasser with the Mets back in the 80’s.
47. just up the street from seattle ?
you can drive from seattle to juneau now ?
#47
It wasn’t the Alaska-ness that got me. It was the young boy jumping for joy.
I agree that the “ritual” itself is fundamentally silly.
cavalcade of crap?
If you have an Amphicar…
a plethora of pestilence?
do you mean when he is tossing back to the pitcher?
(Game’s dreary, might as well get into a symantics tussle.)
“So to speak.”
Would they say a kid had come ‘all the way from Oregon’? No, you’d say he’d come all the way from Boston, Florida, England.
It’s the rally fries! It drives us all the madness!
Markakis was safe.
somebody on base had one when we were kids, and my brother has never gotten over his longing for one of his own…
How about a plague of pestilence?
I was right. Guthrie has made us his b**ches this season. Check out his starts against the M’s. 4/6, 4/22 and tonight.
Good news, the Nationals won, but the Padres are down 0-1 in the 8th.
well, with Alaska there is that other country in between …
56: The original Amphicars were a neat idea, albeit a bit unpractical for everyday civilian use (horrible mileage and they don’t have much acceleration).
However, I recently read that a new amphibious sports car was under development. I’ll post a link on it when I find one.
Amphicars are for sissies. What you need is a DUKW.
How close was that Lahair fly to a hr? Watching on gamecast here…
juneau guy,
if you got to take a plane or a boat, it seems pretty reasonable to say “all the way”.
why are you so down on rally fries ?
that kid’s smile was priceless.
lighten up a bit, let others have some fun during this season of doom.
the Aquada?
Hell yeah!
Bloomquist definitely has a sore foot or ankle
Beautiful bunt.
the Aquada?
You mean this, msb? I’ll still take a DUKW, thank you.
They do have DUKWs in Ketchikan for tours, so, technically, one could drive/boat from AK to WA….anyway! I’m sure the kid was adorable.
Just wondering if another Baltimore pitcher’s going to nearly CG the Mariners.
Ah, thank you, Ichiro. I won’t give up if you won’t.
That’s it, MSB. Check it out here:
Oops, my link flopped. Here it is:
http://www.gibbstech.com/aquada.php
It almost resembles a Miata, only with a boat bottom.
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Kids’ll get you every time.
I don’t think there’s a CG here.. we’ll be forced to suffer George Sherrill going for a save..
You beat me to it, Galaxieboi!
Bloomie’s got your back.
not sure I’d want to be on that run up the inside passage in a DUKW…
when did the Pear grow that mustache?!
Yeah, they’ve got DUKWs doing tours in Seattle too. It’s actually tons of fun. My wife and I took my mom, my mother-in law and Meg’s aunt right before we moved to Denver. Good times.
Ichiro is like our ‘Jake Taylor’! Now…who’s Dorn? Our Vaughn?
Only suspense left is the Lopez hitting streak.
good job.
do the wave, especially when your team is pitching.
a plethora of pestilence?
A plethora of piñatas?
Would driving onto the Alaska Highway Ferry count?
Actually, if they start tolling the floating bridges in a couple of years, I wonder if we’ll see a spike in Aquada sales around here from cross-lake commuters?
The Pear?
Ain’t that the truth. I was skeered just doing one of the lakes in Seattle.
It’s so awesome that we got rid of a “prospect” like Jones and a journeyman reliever in Sherril for that awesome stud #1 ace pitcher Bedard…. thanks Bill….
Yeah, that Adam Jones really sucks now, doesn’t he? Sure glad we traded away a guy who had no future for that big stud pitcher who was gonna get us past those over-achieving Orange County Angles…
a fond salute bestowed long ago to George’s silhouette
it sure is a shame the way those injuries to the Angels’ pitching staff held them back this year
I thought maybe the Pear was Sherrill but I’d never heard that one, and I thought he had a wicked big mustache before he left.
I had to listen to this endless discussion on the Giants’ radio station about Sherrill–only they didn’t know his name–after the ASG and his flat hat brim. Endless callers with theories as to when the fashion started for flat brims, none of them right, IMO.
Didn’t it start as a hip-hop thing? Which always struck me as odd for this hillbilly seeming dude with that crazy biker ’stache and bulge of chaw would go for that look.
Whoo..he’s totally unrecognizable in his MLB pic. Who the hell did them for the Orioles?
And, man, are the Angles ever lucky to have landed Mark Teixeira! Why, I don’t think they could have possibly held off the rest of this tough division without his bat in the lineup!
Essentially, they got him for the playoffs. Just like the great moves the M’s made at the trade deadline in 2001 that put them over the top in the playoffs to that great and memorable World Series victory. Oh, right.
But.. but.. he was only a prospect!
George had a little goatee that was kind of Burl Ives-ish when here, and then he was clean-shaven at the start of the year in Baltimore– I’ve been fascinated by the fascination the East Coast media has with George’s hat brim.
Shannon just said, “[sigh] make no mistake, the Mariners know what they gave up in Adam, it was a calculated risk”
That goatee was way scarier to me than the mustache. It was like he was trying to be one of original Knickerbockers–baseball, not basketball.
Add the West Coast Media to the fascinated group, or at least, Damon Bruce on KNBR.
I keep remembering the Harlem Little League team of about 5-10 years ago, who had the pitcher, Danny Somebody who had the forged passport/birth certificate and lights outed everyone. They all wore their caps that way.
My god, Barry Zito ‘outpitched’ Jake Peavy.
Is it too late to wish everybody a Happy Adam Jones Day?!
Sherrill himself has explained his hat brim more than once (I’m sure you can find links online). Basically he could never get the curve in the brim that all the other cool kids have, so at some point he said to hell with it and just left it straight, and now it’s his signature. It’s sort of the ultimate in anti-style; it’s not a reference to or commentary on or essence of anything except his own lack of dexterity.
Coming from a crew whose idea of high powered calculation are slide rules and legal pads of paper.
(Or using Newtonian physics in a world of quantum mechanics….)
How can you not get a curve in your hat brim? Mold it with your hands, then hold that curve with rubber bands until it sets.
Then again, I can’t open a carton of milk to save my life, so who am I to throw stones? Particularly when Sherrill could throw them back much harder.
Damn, Felix sucks again. =(
It’s one of the main reasons he was included in the deal for Bedard.
God, yes, it all makes sense! And look at Adam Jones’ photo! He can’t even get his eyes open! Send those two out of town on a short bus!
George Sherril’s hat brim is obviously the cause of all the Mariners’ woes.
WFB jammed his foot last night in the 9th inning beating out his infield hit. When he stretched for the bag you could tell he jammed it. He walked around a little but nobody looked at it. I saw tonight when he tagged out Jones he pulled up a little lame. At least he is making the most of his starts, how many guys would have sat out because they had a little pain (Bedard)? Not a huge fan, but he went a little higher in my book tonight.
All hail the Gritmaster!
Actually, if nobody looked at it, I think it’s quite stupid. Does he know that playing on it wouldn’t cause further injury?
I have no doubt that the Mariner front office likes “grit” like this. And it’s DUMB. It’s one thing to play through pain and still be effective. But not have an injury looked at? Or have it affect your play? Bleh. No wonder this team is so bad if it values “character” over performance….
Fun stats for the Loser Ladder:
Runs/9 (thru Aug. 1)
M’s 4.0
Fathers 3.7
Nats 3.6
We certainly have our work cut out for us, but we seem to be on the right track (3-7 last 10). However the Nats have taken losing to another level. If the M’s really want to win this, I think they need to look at bumping Vidro back to clean up.
Plus, look at the run differentials:
M’s: -79
Padres: -113
Nats: -119
Our pitching is too good! Trade Felix! Four-man rotation of Silva, Washburn, Batista, and Silva again!
Sheesh…don’t give Lee P. any ideas!
Nah, just go ahead and wish it for tomorrow. The O’s will just kick our a$$ again, anyway.
Nary a word on the real possibility that Ichiro will fail to collect 200 hits in a season for the first time as a major leaguer…….
2001 126 / 116
2002 124 / 84
2003 137 / 75
2004 119 / 143
2005 113 / 93
2006 129 / 95
2007 128 / 110
2008 119 /
Shortened ESPN game wrap:
Anchorage is 1,438 miles from Seattle — and that’s if you’re flying; it’s a lot longer if you’re driving.
Anchorage is further away than Omaha, for example. It’s further away than El Paso.
Even Juneau is 893 miles away. That’s further away than Las Vegas.
In an “average” season (2001-2007 divided by 7) Ichiro gets 227 hits. For the first three months, he’s running about 14 hits behind his “average” rate. So if you assume he continues that, it’s going to be close. However, over half of that “deficit” (vs his usual rate) was the result of a terrible May (when he got 8 fewer hits than he usually would). And his August and September have typically been much better than his April (where he was essentially on his usual rate this year). He was back to hitting .333 in July, which is exactly the same as he has done in July over the past 7 years; if he continues hitting at his historical rates in August (so far so good) and September, he’ll end up with 203 — a little nerve-wracking, but not so different from the 206 in 2005, or 208 in 2002. It should make the last week of the season exciting. In fact, that’s the only thing that will make the last week of the season exciting.
I completely agree about the pitching being too good (to be first place losers), but you don’t have to trade Felix. Just sit him down for the rest of the season to “preserve his arm” for next year. That 4 man rotation would really help get us to #1.
Coming from a crew whose idea of high powered calculation are slide rules and legal pads of paper.
(Or using Newtonian physics in a world of quantum mechanics….)
Actually, you can do high-powered calculations with slide rules and paper (given enough time), and Newtonian physics is a reasonably accurate approximation at normal human scales. It’s more like this team is trying to do medicine using the theory of biles and humors, or doing chemistry using just the elements air/earth/fire/water, or planning long-distance navigation on the assumption the world is flat and the stars and planets are fairies that move around the sky at random, powered by their innate character and grit. It’s not just that their calculations are antiquated and slow, it’s that the fundamental assumptions on which their based, and the theories they are using, are simply wrong.
WFB jammed his foot last night …I saw tonight when he tagged out Jones he pulled up a little lame. At least he is making the most of his starts, how many guys would have sat out because they had a little pain (Bedard)?
Since I am not Willie Bloomquist, nor am I a medical professional who has examined Willie Bloomquist, I would have to be a presumptuous asshat to go around making ignorant pronouncements about much a pain a certain player was in or whether or not he should be sitting out because of it.
coming up on the pre-pregame show– Norm interviews Slaughter Roy Corcoran
FWIW, Pitman just said that Bedard has headed out for his bullpen
ah, not a bullpen– he’s throwing on flat ground, and the plan is to have him do it several days in a row, and see where he is then.