Today’s red hot spring training action
DMZ · March 28, 2009 at 10:03 am · Filed Under Mariners
Newer Slimmer Carlos Silva pitches against the Angels at 1:05. We’ll see if Ichiro accidentally brains him on a throw to third, or if he’s a better man. If you remember last year they made a huge deal about spring games against their divisional rivals. This year they’re not coming out and saying “we don’t care and it was silly to build that up” but they’re certainly not making it into a playoff game come early.
There’s also some college basketball of some kind, I’ve heard.
And the Sounders FC plays at 7:30.
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We will be having a huge party on all Mariners days where the Sounders are also playing. The bleachers should be a little more exciting those days. I have posted those days on our FB page.
BASEBAUUUUUUUUHL! and BASKETBAUUUUUUUUHL! and then FUTBAUUUUUUUUHL! This is great! It’s like, like, like October in March! I know it’s just a spring training game (albeit closer to the season opener) but it would be great to see the Mariners dominate today the same way that Sounders FC did last Saturday.
Awww…
No more sending messages?
I don’t think anything can make the remainder of the long Spring Training anything but tedium. Silva vs. Ichiro won’t do it. The most boring NCAAs in years won’t do it. Nor will Paul Allen’s new toy won’t do it. (At least not for those of us south of the border, where Paul pulled a fast one, pretending to be in support of and MLS team in Portland, and then “changing his mind” at the last minute.)
It’s a good thing we’ve got the rain to keep things exciting!
yeeeeowwww.
The game today is on FSN, but it is the Angels’ broadcast crew.
The game is in Tempe.
Hmmm…according to Rotoworld, sourced from the Times, Morrow could start the season either a) in the pen, or b) starting in AAA.
Rotoworld link.
Those would be the two options, since Morrow wasn’t healthy and isn’t ready to pitch more than about 2 innings.
Meanwhile, Chavez stole second. I like the way he plays.
Who are these guys wearing blue who are working the count?
Yuni hasn’t come up to bat yet.
Silva looks hungry.
I’m imagining that Ichiro’s revenge will occur far more subtly and in a far more important contest. A line drive leading off the 2013 WBC final. A foul ball hit into the bullpen (after Silva is finally out of the M’s rotation for good) in 2011 during the pennant race in a ballpark where the bullpen is down the foul lines and not well protected, when Silva isn’t looking.
Dammit Silva…..
Silva is not missing many bats. His pitches don’t look like they are up, but the Angels are hitting them pretty well.
The mighty Willie Bloomquist….hahahahaha
REEEEEEEGIE!! It’s Corona time!
Angels’ home opener isn’t sold out? Who would have thought the Angels’ fans would turn into Braves’ fans so quickly?
Dammit Silva. Just act like the ball is a cookie.
Well, the Angels are a hit-to-contact team and Chef is a hit-to-contact pitcher. It’s not really suprising a lot of balls are getting put in play.
Agreed. He may never misplay a ball again.
What does it say about me that I was overjoyed to find out I could switch over from the NCAA tournament to spring training baseball?
It’d be awesome if Hatcher said “well any time we face Silva we skip batting practice that day…”
Carlos “batting practice pitcher” Silva.
That promo with the “here we go. here we go” song sounds like a promo for the Puyallup Fair.
Zaloumis sighting!!
I’m really starting to like Endy Chavez.
Peoria was always a nice place to watch a game. I was sad when the M’s had to leave there, although the Mariner-Padre complex is very nice.
F’ing Silva…..seriously.
I guess it’s nice that instead of eating meatballs, Silva is throwing them over the plate. It’s good for his health rather than every pitching stat known to man.
I might have to skip watching games when Silva starts this year.
Dude, you got your team anyway, what’s the problem? I thought Portlanders weren’t quite the moping complainaholics Seattlites are, if only because they have so many more strip clubs, but I guess I was wrong. Maybe you should riot.
Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver — now there’s a regional rivalry.
Back to the current game:
3 1/3 IP, 11 hits, nine runs…. yeah, it’s Ichiro that is the problem on this team.
Hey, Silva: when you can get your ERA (yes, we’ll use ERA, just to keep it simple) when you can get your ERA under, say, 4, then — and only then — can you bitch about any other player on the team. Until that happens, sit your enormous, useless, hopelessly overpaid ass down and shut. the. fuck. up.
Silva first then Batista. Wow, what a wonderful Saturday baseball game.
Plus as a bonus you get to see a beautiful Arizona day while it’s normal Seattle craptabulous weather here.
The Angels just did this to Silva; I’d like to get in line behind them to be next.
How many starts will it be this season before someone in Safeco yells “Silva you suck!” really loud and everyone in the place can hear it.
No, it won’t be me, and I’m not encouraging it, but I can see it coming. I sort of expect Silva to get the Ayala or Sexson treatment this year.
New wrinkly in the Pat O’Day “Schick-Shadel” commercials: he’s now calling it a “high tech” Seattle miracle. Isn’t aversion therapy pretty much the oldest, most lowest tech trick in the book?
Hey, maybe Clement’s bat is coming around? Maybe this extra long spring training has a silver lining for at least one player? Maybe, I don’t know, we’ll have to keep an eye on the skies for pig poop?
You know, it’s supposed to be easy to put together a cheap bullpen. Have the M’s been lucky the past few years, or is this just the karmic circle coming back around? Is there anybody in the bullpen you’d trust right now in a high-leverage situation? They’re pitching to the Angel’s second string at this point…
If you’re really interested, you can play do your best Owen Wilson impression this September.
almost as good as the one where he describes the treatment as “fun”.
so, maybe the Ms are trying to lull the Angels into complacency ….
BTW, even though it looks like I’m talking to myself at this point, I’ll throw this out for anybody coming by later: LaRue has some good stuff today — the 1B situation (”Mike Sweeney will be the ‘other’ first baseman on the roster…”), a great summary of RRS by Wakamatsu, bunting practice…
Well, if you’re an alcoholic, it might at least feel familiar….
(Grrr, typos, what happened to the 2 minute edit window we used to have?)
Spring Training does matter. My dislike for Silva can ramp up a month early.
Am I the only person who thinks it odd that the M’s are currently running commercials where people call and leave a message expressing their love for Safeco field? I mean, as great as it is and all — are we saying the team is so anonymous that the only thing people can relate to is the stadium? That’s the only lovable thing about the M’s? Or that the break from last year is so complete that this is the only constant left? Or perhaps the roster is still so up-in-the-air it was all the ad folks had to work with?
You’re not the only person.
joser,
Please. So Seattle even thinks it whines better than Portland? Man.
Allen’s shenanigans have worn thin down here (the bizarre declaration of bankruptcy on the Rose Garden that was later bought back, the demand for city funds with the threat of leaving, and now this — of course, after a decade of Jail Blazer crap), despite the fact that he finally backed into hiring good management a few years ago, and the product on and off the court has vastly improved.
OK. I’m done whining. I’ll try to whine as well as my friends in Seattle next time.
Also, after the Villanova game, I will hedge my previous comment on the NCAAs.
Based on the presented evidence, I’d conclude nobody whines better than Portland.
I remember when Carlos Silva’s sucking was the only reason to moan the Mariners this offseason.
And then today happened.
Today happened indeed. What horrific morning.
What?
I was just going to compare Bill Krueger to Joe Morgan in that neither of them has any idea as regards what wins baseball games.
Oh, I see that Morrow is going to be the closer.
Ugh.
Dave and DMZ, still on the Jack Z bandwagon? Sweeney over Shelton, Clement to AAA, and Morrow officially a closer, not to mention signing Fields rather than taking the pick. In hindsoght that looks like a huge mistake not that we have a closer in Morrow. Jack Z is starting to be very Bavasiesque, minus the terrible free agent signings. Why couldn’t LaCava have been chosen, looks like Jack Z is in over his head, making decisions based on chemistry and way too focused on winning this year, when the focus should be 2010 at the soonest.
On the Border in Peoria has all you can eat enchiladas right now. They put up the current record for most in a seating on their chalk board.
So far someone with the name of Carlos is winning.
Today sucks.
Clement to AAA is painful but realistically he wouldn’t had gotten any AB here in the ML or catching time with Kenji/Griffey here…
Morrow’s decision to close was his own… Only Morrow can fully understand how bad his diabetic condition is right now if he feels he can’t start then so be it but a part of me is hoping that he’s just pulling the trigger a little too quickly…
Slurve, what about the Fields signing, completely useless. Why do you have Fields and Morrow as coser options, this org is a joke and Z is continuing the long line of GM mistakes. What about Sweeney over Shelton, when one obviously has more upside and is on the right side of 30.