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Game 122, Mariners at Indians
4:05 PST, French vs. Huff.
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Nice debut by B. Hall.
Bill Hall looks good… he’s like a right handed Mark McLemore with power
Ohka = Batista
Josh Wilson now has 3 HR’s in his last 28 AB’s… he hit one HR in the 355 AB’s before that. Can you say fluke?
Man, waking up from a nap just in time to see Batista come in makes me want to go back to sleep.
Liam:
Oh, I know that. I was just being snarky. But I was wrong anyway: apparently it landed on a walkway.
Maybe Josh Wilson will break Junior’s record for consecutive games with a homer.
Maybe not.
Batista is still alive? Wow.
Ohka + $9 million = Batista
I hate playing the Indians because we have to watch Choo being really good.
The only way it would be cool to see Batista come in from the pen was if he came out of a hole like Saddam Hussein.
Ohka>Batista.
Everyone is really good against Batista.
*snort* Hud. It’s sort of like Batista’s trying to remember what he’s supposed to be doing here.
This small white ball, I’m supposed to throw it? Over that plate? With movement and speed? Uh….okay….
and they have to watch Gutierrez.
and tonight we’ll probably see a highlight of Choo’s run scoring double delivered on ESPN with Eduardo Perez’s commentary on how good Choo has become.
Oh, right, I keep forgetting. I keep thinking that Guti sprung from Zeus’s forehead.
If it makes you feel better, Eduardo Perez picked the Mariners to win the AL West back at the trading deadline.
MMM… nope… only thing that would make me feel better is if he hunted down Bill Bavasi and brought him back to Seattle to stand trial for his crimes.
Gawd, I saw that by some fluke and I think my jaw is still on the living room floor.
Did that just clunk poor Russell in the head?
I love when the crappy play goes our way.
Run Sweeney you slow decrepit old man.
Yeah, Sweeney, did you need the ball to roll into the parking lot?
(getting a bit drunk)
A nice game for a friday night.
Man, I love games where they vault to a lead and keep it.
My ticker can only take so much of those “eke-out-a-1-run-game” situations!
Bill Hall is a bit taller, but he reminds me facially a lot of Mark McLemore. Same value, too…just wish he could switch-hit.
I know I’ve said it several times over the season…but this team IS FUN to watch.
BTW, regarding that Ohka fight…if I remember right it was Sun-Woo Kim. Leave it to a Japanese and Korean player to scrap, though.
These countries do not like each other.
Heck, there are times I think one of the reasons the Mariners gave up on Shin-Soo Choo so readily was because Ichiro didn’t particularly care for the prospect of sharing the outfield with a Korean player.
The comment above is ridiculous and distasteful.
Yeah, why do you think that Ichiro didn’t care for the prospect of sharing the outfield with a Korean player?
Because Choo would go on and on about how much better OB is compared to Kirin and Ichiro! would just derisively shake his head causing him to misread a fly ball.
My humblest apologies, guys.
I would like for that comment to be retracted fully. Strike it, delete it, wipe it out of existence.
While I could agree that there is a strong rivalry between South Korea and Japan- and that there’s evidence of such- the notion that Ichiro would flex on management and in effect say “get this Korean out of here” is patently absurd.
Choo Shin-Soo was traded because Bill Bavasi somewhat underestimated the skill-set Choo possessed, and therefore under-valued it. It was one of several short-sighted assessments that Bavasi has to his name in his time as GM of the Seattle Mariners.
Choo was NOT traded because he was Korean and the resident superstar is Japanese.
I do not believe such an idea, nor do I think any empiric evidence exists supporting it.
To any who saw that comment, and were offended by it, I duly apologize again.
-Jared X. Thomas
If only it was easy to leapfrog over 3 teams for a Wild Card berth. . .
Small sample size warning but Choo’s numbers as a Mariner in the majors:
2005 AVG/OBP/SLG = .056/.190/.056
2006 AVG/OBP/SLG = .091/.167/.182
It was only 14 games but Choo didn’t show much and there was a much superior player in Adam Jones waiting behind him. Balentien was there also.
Among Bavasi’s bad moves, trading Choo for Ben Broussard was hardly the worst and to claim Ichiro had something to do with it (and for such a trumped up claim) is really pretty bad.
He apologized, let’s drop it, okay?