Game FELIX DAY I mean 11, Tigers at Mariners
DMZ · April 17, 2009 at 5:51 pm · Filed Under Mariners
I can’t wait for lineups to be posted, it’s Felix Day! Felix v Verlander. I have a bold and doomed prediction: Felix will throw 100% fastballs.
Two questions: how many pitches before I’m proved wrong, and how far off will I end up — 20%? 10%?
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Haha! On Silva checking Griffey’s heart rate…
Because Silva is an expert on what a healthy heart sounds like 😛
…and the throw to the plate will be LATE!
In all seriousness, I’ve never seen Jr this happy. He’s more animated and engaged with his teammates than this year than he ever was (at least outwardly) last time he was here.
I know all about the statistical issues wrt Jr, but it does seem like his presence is having an affect on the atmosphere of the team.
You guess? Winning is the only thing that breeds chemistry. Even best friends get pissed at each other when you lose 100 games.
Anyone wanna venture a guess if our DH last year could’ve scored from 1st on that one?
@b2 Jinx!
I bet its having an effect too!
theraven: The weeble wobbled but it didn’t fall down! (Or make it to home on a long single.)
Oh no. It’s*
Please… Vidro never saw 1st base.
Here’s to hoping tonight is Morrow’s official end to spring training.
I even looked up affect v effect, then still got it wrong.
@#$!
Huh, sure looked like that Morrow pitch was a little lower than the tracker showed…but, we’ll take it.
100mph. nuff said.
What, in all that is holy, is Sims talking about?
“You know, the face game you played as kids!” while we’re seeing Joh with his neck muff pulled up over his mouth and nose. Wha?
Hey. 6 strikes before a ball. Cool.
hittin 100 tonigh on gameday
Dave N. just said “another fastball, if it’s working, why throw something else?”
And Rick replies “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?”
sigh…
Woah.
Wow, it is fun to watch Morrow when he is like tonight
100!
good win, M’s.
12 pitches 11 for strikes. yes sir
Tied for the second best team in baseball!
evil angry Morrow showed up
oh I’m lovin this team so far
Disregard anything the broadcasters say, they’re paid to pump fans up, not criticize the coaching staff. I’m sure (at least in Rizzs and Blowers’ case) that they know better.
Personally, I’m a fan of the fastball. No, I will not bring out my Moyer shirts if next year the FO decides to go further down nostalgia lane.
This team has a different air about. It’s the first time I’ve been excited watching them in years.
And holy crap, Twins helpin’ us out scoring 7 in the 8th to beat the Angels.
Great win! Still not sure how they’re scoring all these runs without a “legitimate” power threat in the lineup…
Tied with San Diego nonetheless. Who would have thunk it?
That’s because we’re actually getting the lucky breaks this year, rather than getting all the unlucky breaks like last year. I think part of what was so painful last year was because even when we thought things couldn’t get worse, they did. It’s nice to see Murphy kicked to the curb, at least for the time being.
One of the most improbable games I have seen in a long long while. Kudos. Kudos.
Never give up, never surrender
so happy! Dr. Z jersey in the mail!
Me: “Is that Kenji”
Guy next to me at the bar: “That’s Ninji”
Even when he was standing on it. He couldn’t see his shoes for the same reason.
It’s still early. Once summer has arrived and he’s back east in the humidity, it’ll be frizz-city. You know the season has changed when the balls start carrying and Mags starts looking like the swamp thing.
I went to Friday night’s Rainier’s home opener, and Clement had a “why am I HERE?”-night with the stick. Crushed a homer to right in the first. Hit one to the left-centerfield wall in his next at bat for a double, then KILLED a ball that the CF caught right next to the 425 sign in dead center. And he singled to finish it off.
Carp hit a dinger, too. R’s won 6-2. Any thoughts form USSM on Chris Seddon, who started for Tacoma? Looked like a big, rangy lefty and he got up to 91-92 a couple times. Denny Stark looked really sharp in relief.
What on earth happened to the quality of the game threads…?
8-3 🙂
‘Nuff said.
Go M’s.
It’s always this way, early in the season.
A new season always attracts a bunch of new posters, some of them who take some time and learn to contribute positively, and some who never do.
We’re keeping an eye out.
This place is still heaven compared to everywhere else I’ve seen (~10 teams MLB). Japan thread (NPB) are as generally good spirited, but there’s no depth.
I expect a broadcaster to give me the tone and sense of the game, but not to tell me what the right strategy is (“that’s exactly right!”). I wonder if it’s McCarver and Morgan who made it the norm for broadcasters to speculate on whether a bunt or guarding the lines or pulling in the infield was the right strategy. You don’t hear Niehaus doing that much; instead, he’ll just describe the action. I don’t remember Ernie Harwell or Ned Martin doing it either. “They’re pulling the infield in” is all I want to hear. I don’t need to hear “great move” from Rick Rizzs. I will say that Sims, when I tuned in the game in the third inning just as the Tigers scored, gave me an almost immediate sense that Felix was in trouble from his tone of voice.
Mariner OPS by position
2008 and 2009
1B .680 .762
CF .699 .722
DH .608 .838
Atmosphere and chemistry make people feel better. Talent wins games.
And we’re not even mentioning the “D” word yet….