82 Responses to “Game 45, Tigers at Mariners”

1. CarpCarter on May 25th, 2010 9:12 pm

   I Believe in Milton Bradley.

2. kimalanus on May 25th, 2010 9:14 pm

   MILTON!

3. Paul L on May 25th, 2010 9:14 pm

   I’m really rooting for Milton.

4. juneau_fan on May 25th, 2010 9:15 pm

   I am SO glad Bradley’s back. Can the Huggermint Twins stay on the bench?

5. fiftyone on May 25th, 2010 9:16 pm

   Attaboy MB! Way to start heating up. And he even got the benefit of the doubt on the previous pitch.

6. Paul L on May 25th, 2010 9:16 pm

   Tonight the lineup seems to be functioning largely the way we thought it would going into the season. And it’s amazing how even though we’ve been in and out of the lead, I’ve been relatively calm the entire evening.

   Putting your best product out there goes a long way toward creating patience in the fan base.

7. Westside guy on May 25th, 2010 9:17 pm

   For what it’s worth, Larry Stone confirmed with Wak that Figgins isn’t moving any time soon, and Ichiro isn’t moving ever. So the lineup fantasies of putting Figgins anywhere useful, are just that.

   Another quote from that article kind of bugged me, in apparent response to a comment about Saunders being back in the lineup…

   “We’re going to do that every day – look at our best option,” Wakamatsu said. “What we’re looking at now, whether it’s Mike Sweeney or (Josh) Bard, or whoever it is, we’re going to try to stay with who’s playing well.

   Shouldn’t Stone have asked him why, if that was the case, was Saunders on the bench for the past five games? Was he somehow not playing well enough? What does he have to do – hit 1.000 before Wak considers him to be “playing well”?

8. Paul L on May 25th, 2010 9:17 pm

   He got the benefit of the doubt, but based on the pitch track, if he would have been rung up it would have been robbery.

9. King.Dome on May 25th, 2010 9:17 pm

   MB in the 4 hole comes up big! Pleeease keep him in that spot! Great running there Chone!

10. MsofEnchantment on May 25th, 2010 9:17 pm

    Seeing Milton succeed gives me the absolute opposite feeling of Sweeney and Junior. Nice piece of hitting Milton!

11. Paul L on May 25th, 2010 9:18 pm

    And of course, Lopie first pitch swinging…

12. UncleCharlie on May 25th, 2010 9:18 pm

    cha-ching!

13. Paul L on May 25th, 2010 9:20 pm

    Drayer:

    Bradley ran into the dugout to high five teammates during the pitching change after the go ahead single.

14. Koala on May 25th, 2010 9:20 pm

    Bradley game MVP – keep him in DH please

15. CarpCarter on May 25th, 2010 9:22 pm

    Belief system rewarded.

16. spankystout on May 25th, 2010 9:22 pm

    Bradley’s hit was very nice adjustment to the change. Hopefully Aardsma throws strikes.

17. fiftyone on May 25th, 2010 9:23 pm

    Strikes Aardsma. Strikes.

18. scott19 on May 25th, 2010 9:24 pm

    MB coming thru big time…NICE!!!

19. CarpCarter on May 25th, 2010 9:26 pm

    A handful of runs from a lineup topped by Ichiro-Figgins-Guti-Bradley, seven innings of solid starting pitching, and Kelley/Aardsma to close it out.

    Ah, the season that could’ve should’ve been.

20. fiftyone on May 25th, 2010 9:26 pm

    Hm, a Raburn sighting.

21. spankystout on May 25th, 2010 9:26 pm

    Uno mas.

22. nvn8vbryce on May 25th, 2010 9:29 pm

    Game! Wow, a W in the books and a DH that can actually H!

23. Koala on May 25th, 2010 9:30 pm

    MARINERS WIN!

24. tdubs206 on May 25th, 2010 9:30 pm

    God I suck! 5 runs and a win and I’m already getting some ridiculous feeling that there is still a glimmer of hope.

25. pgreyy on May 25th, 2010 9:31 pm

    This is the exact game that I thought, before the season began, we’d be used to by now…rather than be relieved to see for a change.

    I don’t think any of us would be as panicked or fatalistic if we could muster this kind of effort (win or lose) on a more regular basis.

26. Jake N. on May 25th, 2010 9:32 pm

    Aardsma has his Velocity back. Nice win considering the fielding gaffs in the second and third. Also it was great to have a catcher catch the ball.

27. fiftyone on May 25th, 2010 9:33 pm

    CarpCarter-
    +1.
    I hesitate to abandon all hope, because the chance always exists that like in August ’94, the AL West leader is 10 games under .500. I grant you that a repeat of that season is unlikely. But I don’t want to watch meaningless June baseball, so faint hope it is.

28. nvn8vbryce on May 25th, 2010 9:33 pm

    God I suck! 5 runs and a win and I’m already getting some ridiculous feeling that there is still a glimmer of hope.

    The light at the end of the tunnel may not be a train after all… boys, don’t make me eat my words though.
    Also, atta boys to Milton and Guti! If all the lineup (including Ichiro!) could hit a few as well, we would be in good shape.

29. Westside guy on May 25th, 2010 9:36 pm

    I thought after that first AB Figgins looked pretty good at the plate. Maybe after the first someone reminded him that the strike zone doesn’t extend up to his eyes?

30. EthanN on May 25th, 2010 9:36 pm

    So who else is willing to see a few more errors this season if it means getting a first baseman that can actually get on base?

31. pgreyy on May 25th, 2010 9:57 pm

    I think I just saw something horrible.

    I think I just saw a promo on FSN where they had a graphic showing the Ichiro/Griffey double bobblehead. The text of the graphic called it the “Cooperstown Bown Bobblehead”…

    Bown. B-O-W-N Bown.

    As one of those people who complains about bad spelling on the internet and/or via text messages…I died a little inside, to realize that these people who are used to their poor spelling not mattering are getting jobs where they are given the responsibility of communicating with other people.

    I guess, in the grand scheme of things, I can’t get too worked up about Casey Kotchman. Sorry, EthanN.

32. SODOMOJO360 on May 26th, 2010 12:29 pm

    I Believe in Milton Bradley.

    Keep him in the 4 spot

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