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Game 137, Mariners at Rangers
DMZ · September 1, 2008 at 4:05 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
Carlos Silva is back! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
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Justin Thomas, Luis Valbuena and 2 others called up, per the pregame show.
And 4 more tomorrow, including Lowe, Morrow, and Rob Johnson.
4:29, Blowers: “no question about it.”
you know how “Carlos Silva” says “quality performance”? In keeping with that, KOMO gives us Matt Pitman, who has spent much of the last few days just appalled at the lack of run support and (apparently) the lack of care & love that Jarrod Washburn has received all year (he was particularly upset with Putz’ blown save saturday)
In the KOMO sports update Pitman followed up the audio clip of [Niehaus]‘ calling Ichiro’s sliding catch yesterday with the remark: “Ichiro doesn’t usually make that sort of effort, sacrificing his body…”
I think only the two today; Silva off the DL, Morse to the 60-day DL, Thomas & Valbuena in uniform tonight. I believe the others come up tomorrow– supposedly Tuiasosopo, Johnson, Lowe, Morrow and Wells.
4:32, msb offering his hourly media analysis.
Riggles in the pregame show saying he hates to take at bats away from his regulars in September. So don’t count on seeing much of the callups, unless they are left handed pitchers.
I don’t know, that leaves center field, first base, designated hitter, and catcher as positions without regulars he could spot them in, plus you’ve got almost all the rotation and all of the bullpen.
I got the impression that he thinks the guys that have been getting most of the playing time recently are the guys he was talking about.
We’ll see, but it didn’t leave me with much hope. After all, Cairo has been out there day after day grinding it out with his veteran presence. Wouldn’t want to punish him by putting him on the bench, would we?
Tonight Kenji is the DH and Cairo is at First.
Yippee.
Welcome to September.
Man, when you consider that, it’s pretty amazing. The 2008 Mariners are showing the world what a replacement-level team is really like.
Wouldn’t want to punish him by putting him on the bench, would we?
(hand up)
[Niehaus]
Do you think anyone has ever bought insurance from Vern Fonk because of his commercials?
Silva did OK in the first, although he gave up two fly balls. Which is always worrisome in Texas.
Beltre!
That HR doesn’t count though because the M’s have been eliminated from the playoff chase.
Was that Bavasi in the Ford model year-end clearance ad?
Raul, that thing you have is called a glove. You are supposed to use it to catch balls.
Don’t sass AL Player of the Month Raul Ibanez
I wish Raul was our DH. Is that non-sassy enough?
That was some throw by Wlad. I wonder if it slipped, he certainly didn’t mean to almost throw it to the backstop?
Baserunning error by the Rangers; throwing mistake by Mariners.
Ha ha ha. I love how annoyed Niehaus sounds when plays like that happen.
The “majority of countries” don’t celebrate Labor Day at all.
Hey the Angels are not playing today -the Mariners can pick up a 1/2 game on them!
Ah. They just copied the wikipedia entry:
“The majority of countries celebrate Labour Day on May 1″
Laaaaaaaaaame researchers, laaaaaaaaaaaaame.
Ugh. Mariner fielding. Or lack thereof.
Yes bunting!
WLAD is 2-2…maybe we can trade him to Texas…
DMZ, Good point of the wording of the question. But don’t you find it a bit ironic that you used the same exact website when wondering about the exact same topic.
Maybe Texas would take Silva.
That Ichiro guy never sacrifices his body. He just gets to the ball quickly and catches it while running. Tsk… Tsk… not a team leader.
Why is that ironic? I went to go look up the countries that do celebrate Labor Day, and viola!
Riggleman said in the Times today ‘we are all auditioning for a job next year’ or something like that…
So I guess that means him, Cairo et al. Geeeeeezzzzzzz!
31. Your criticism in post #24 seems very reasonable, and i found it ironic that you also used wikipedia even though you took exception with others using it for a simlar purpose.
Frank Viola?
I took exception with them using a sentence on countries that celebrate the holiday to form a question that posits that most countries celebrate the holiday.
Not irony.
Wow! I’m still rooting for the M’s, but man it’s fun to watch a jack (aka Funk Blast) like that.
…although clearly, if Balentin were trying like Silva was, he would have caught that ball.
A meatball right down the middle. I guess that injury flared up again.
Silva..the gift that keeps on giving..
Thanks Bavasi…
*sigh*
Well, since Washburn failed to take the sole lead in losses among AL pitchers last time out, Silva was not to be denied. Heck, Riggleman kept him in to insure that Silva could get his league leading 15th loss.
Silva once again shows that, through his immense generosity in allowing opposition batters to hit the ball hard, that he is the least selfish teammate amongst the M’s.
hee hee hee. That’s horrible.
Semi-serious question: when does Silva start regressing to the mean? Dave (or perhaps it was DMZ) noted in a post that Silva could be our #5 starter next year and he should regress to the mean. Obviously he isn’t the #3 starter that Bill Bavasi thinks he is, but he also isn’t a guy who consistently gives us 5 runs in 5 innings unless facing the worst offenses in baseball, is he?
He can’t “fix” the first five months of the season by throwing 40 shutout innings, but shouldn’t be pitch effectively some of the time? Does he need a 5 month break to fix his game? Is it possible he’s simply done — when would you eat the remainder of his contract?
Funny, Silva’s last start feels so recent that I didn’t even notice Silva was gone. Then I leave for 45 minutes and he’s out of the game. Yay Silva.
It depends I think on how much of this you attribute to his injury/ies. If you can reasonably say that Silva’s been having nagging problems that keep him from throwing well, and the time off will help him get back to reasonable form with something approaching a repeatable delivery, yeah, you can hope for the future.
That’s where I am. Hoping.
They just mentioned on the telecast that Rangers manager Ron Washington is going to be using a lot of youngsters the last couple of months of the season because the GM needs to see what they have for next season. Huh, what a novel idea. Thanks goodness WE’RE not doing that (re: comment 5 above).
Our 2008 MUP - Most Used Pitcher - Sean Green. 65th game played, every 2.1 games this season.
Huge congrats to Adrian
What an awesome way to complete a cycle! Yay, Adrian!
Way to go, Beltre. Thanks for giving us something worth watching.
Wow. What a game, Adrian.
Not a bad night for King Awesome…
Wahoooo!!! Nice, very nice.
YO, ADRIAN!!!
Well done, Adrian! Congratulations! It has to be said:
BELTRE’D!
YES!
Wow, Go Beltre go!
Two guys hit for the cycle on the same day (Stephen Drew), both with five hits. Interesting.
41: It is not necessary that Silva will regress to the mean in the sense you suggest. Regression to the mean when you play over your head is natural. When you play below your prior level, however, the effects of aging and the effects (particularly the case here) on your mental makeup can counteract any improvement just based on having some bad luck.
The real question tonight: will Silva complain about how the hitters wouldn’t score enough for the starter to win? Obviously, they were just waiting for him to not get the decision to start blasting the bejesus out of the Rangers pitching.
Will Beltre get another at bat?
boy, nothing like a game in Texas to make you feel hitterish.
did Joh get spiked, is that what I saw? and it looks as though he must still be back with Griffith, as Nodine just came out to look at Cairo …
If I was a manager, and my pitcher hit Cairo in consecutive plate appearances, I would have some unpleasant words with that pitcher.
This is really a Mariner hit parade, isn’t it?
55: Well, considering that the Burger Chef managed to somehow get off the hook in this one, I guess he could probably chalk it up as a “successful” (albeit not a QUALITY) start.
7 runs over two innings and Ichiro’s contribution has been making 3 of the 6 outs.
I liked the fact that Adrian had to be told why the Ranger fans were applauding the fact that he’d hit a RBI triple
56, yes.
wasn’t it two separate pitchers?
and don’t we usually hear about how Ichiro! likes to hit in Arlington?
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Thats Excellent.
Beltre just needs a Grand Slam to go from Totally Awesome to EPIC!.
63 - I suppose. With the Rangers, how can you tell?
If it was two different pitchers, I’d lock them both in their lockers.
OK, Beltre, get a 6th hit!
AB!
Postgame: Beltre said he didn’t know he had the cycle until the 3rd base umpire congratulated him asked if he wanted the ball. Beltre said something like “Thanks…for what?”
HA!
5 for 6, 5 runs, 3 RBI, and the cycle. Congrats Adrian!
Also good to see Sean Green pitch well (3 IP, 0 R) after some tough outings.
Finally, I hope for Johjima’s sake his hand is ok…but it wouldn’t be the worst thing if he had to go on the 15 day DL…
useless factoid: apparently San Diego, Tampa Bay & Florida have had no player hit for the cycle.
“If I was a manager, and my pitcher hit Cairo in consecutive plate appearances, I would have some unpleasant words with that pitcher.”
If I was a manager and the opposing pitcher hit Cairo in consecutive plate appearances, I would give him $20 and ask him to do it again.
Useful factoid:
The Mariners have been mathematically eliminated from the 2008 playoffs.
ATTENTION!!! Im here in fort worth and just spent the last 2 hour sitting by the bull pen chatting with JJ and Roy about the season….got a ball outta of it…. if the admin wants i can write up what was said from the perspective of the bull pen.
can you write it with Slaughter Roy’s accent?