Game 38, Mariners at A’s
Dave · May 17, 2010 at 5:04 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Rowland-Smith vs Gonzalez, 7:05 pm.
The line-ups are getting more ridiculous by the day. The A’s are starting a lefty, so instead of either of the actual useful left fielders, we get Tui in left, playing behind an extreme fly-ball southpaw who badly needs to have a good game. I’ll do a post on this tomorrow, but Wak’s lack of understanding that Tui sucks is a problem. Oh, and the kicker – Junior is at DH, hitting 5th. Against a lefty. Sure is a good thing we’re carrying two old guys who can’t play the field and 12 pitchers. That never comes back to haunt us.
This roster is a joke.
Ichiro, RF
Figgins, 2B
Gutierrez, CF
Lopez, 3B
Griffey, DH
Tuiasosopo, LF
Kotchman, 1B
Josh Wilson, SS
Bard, C
God even our good players are getting brain cramps now….
Winning baseball. It’s easier on the wallet in these times of economic difficulty. A strip of World Series tickets is less expensive than all the booze and broken stuff around the house a team like we have now requires.
And now Wak brings out the white flag in Colome.
Sucking is contagious.
Better to use Colome now, when he has nothing to lose. 😐
Have we scored more than 8 runs all year?
Suckopalyse
With that out by Bard, six of the nine Mariners in the lineup are batting under .200.
The current Mariner nine now sports six players below the Mendoza line. Has that ever happened this late in the season in major league history? And Lopez got two hits to move up to .222.
Well that’s it– starting tomorrow, it’s Get Serious Time! Or at least sometime this week. Or by the end of the month at the latest.
I can’t stand to listen to the Mariners announcers in a time like this. Optimism is fine, but when your team looks as horrific as the Mariners do, you’ve got to draw the line at some point.
Can someone shoot all be A’s fans that won’t stop whistling. It so fucking annoying I am watching the game on mute.
The “get serious time” is the trade deadline.
Hey guys, comin’ in late on this one. So, anyone “regressing to the mean” yet? Any hitting close to career averages among the regulars goin’ on?
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Hm, hey, look at that.
Interesting trivia: Mario Mendoza (he of “Mendoza Line” fame) was actually a Seattle Mariner for one season, in 1978. He had a .198 average in 148 games as the shortstop. He also had more home runs in 1978 than Junior does so far in 2010 (1, an inside-the-park HR).
No idea why I thought of Mendoza just now. No idea.
Faggins didn’t hit a 643, that’s it, I am pissed!
Some Mariner averages for May:
.250 Langerhans
.250 Gutierrez
.235 Moore (DL)
.217 Lopez
.189 Josh Wilson
.148 Figgins
.115 Johnson
.111 Griffey
.111 Tui
.071 Kotchman
Oh, and Ichiro!: .361
Predicted winner: OAKLAND 96%
This seems low to me?
It was 98, that seemed low to me.
Regression to the mean isn’t a 24hour phenomenon.
Al least Junior can’t hit into a double play.
I’m taking bets on this. Who thinks Wak is actually stupid enough to let Junior hit here.
3:1 odds. Against common sense.
Wow about to fall 10 games below .500….. My boy hyphen is sucking big time.
This season smells like 2008 with better pitching.
2010 Mariners
A new day, A new low.
“Junior still looking for that first homerun of 2010”
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
HA! HA!
No pinch-hit? Rad.
Doesn’t seem to be a 5 or 6 week phenomenon either.
Junior is about to become a punch-line. Why won’t he just walk away? *sniff sniff 🙁
You lose the DH when you pinch hit and Sweeney is injured. I know, the DH isn’t hitting anyway, etc. etc.
Well at least Wak finally chose a proper situation to bring in White and Jesus.
Chris_From_Bothell, what’s your point?
How bout Langerhans? I don’t even care that he’s a lefty. Maybe that will piss Griffey off enough to retire.
Langerhans: bad elbow. You’re thinking Saunders. You still lose the DH.
firova2- I keep hearing how these hitters can’t possibly keep hitting so badly… and I keep seeing them hit badly…
I can’t imagine our pitchers hitting much worse.
Lost, a few weeks back.
As someone already pointed out, statistically speaking we’d be doing better if our pitchers hit anyway.
Time for some patented Mendoza Magic
Chris– what do you expect people to say? Chone Figgins isn’t a career .185 hitter.
Can we rename the team “The Mendozas?”
Suckernova.
I would be all for renaming them if most of them could actually get to .200.
They didn’t let us down this time, boys!
Keep them the Mariners, rename the line.
firova – I don’t know anymore, man. I don’t know.
The Seattle
MarinersRight TurnersThat would be a waste of a good stat…
Here are the season averages of our 5th thru 9th batters:
.182, .156, .185, .189, .167. Tonight they collectively went 1/17.
Going in, I thought we had a better team but there is no fix in the world that can help this team. Even if we had the best farm system in baseball which is far far from true, it wouldn’t help. Even if it’s “only” mid-May, this team will not be playing in October. The sooner Z & Co. accept that, the sooner they can start making moves which will help next year.
Under .200, that is called the Figgins line, or the Kotchman line, or the Griffey line, or….
He thinks EVERYBODY struggling on the roster is doomed to hit around the mendoza line
for the rest of their careers. Instead of understanding that it would be wholly unprecendented for a collapse of this magnitude to occur in the majors. If Ichiro was hitting .200 alongside everyone else would you believe he would turn it around? Or just damn him to hell, all for a month and a half?
The Kotchman line, that is under .100, scuse me.
Can you imagine how obnoxious that place would be if they ever sold out? It’d be like, I don’t now, a Raiders home game or something.
Raiders fans haven’t evolved enough to learn how to whistle. Me being a lifetime Chiefs fan should explain my disdain for the Raiders.
Ok, time to stop putting Prozac in the M’s broadcasters’ water cooler.