Game 80, Mariners at Tigers
Dave · July 3, 2010 at 2:44 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Vargas vs Verlander, 4:05 pm.
Cliff Lee’s still here and will start tomorrow. I imagine that game will be more fun than this one.
Ichiro, RF
Figgins, 2B
Bradley, DH
Lopez, 3B
Gutierrez, CF
Kotchman, 1B
Bard, C
Saunders, LF (guess he’s finally a better hitter than the SS)
Jack Wilson, SS
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What the fuck is up with this lineup? Why is Kotchman playing, and furthermore, why is he batting sixth? I don’t get it.
Apparently Branyan (and Cleveland) was at/near the end of a long road trip when he was traded to Seattle – so they probably feel he needs a day off.
Even if Branyan is tired, this still seems like an inopportune time to sit him. Not starting your best hitter when Verlander is pitching kind of seems like giving up.
Oh well, at least Saunders isn’t hitting 9th anymore.
Branyan is NOT the Mariners’ best hitter…
I don’t watch games that Casey Kotchman starts.
Because Kotchman is the only one hitting bad on the team right? Not so much
Looking at Verlanders stuff combined with how crappy the Mariner hitters are, I see a shutout looming.
This is a pretty dead thread…poor M’s
This would constitute terrible abuse of SSS stats if it were the reason, but Kotchman is 4 for 15 vs Verlander (with a double and HR) whereas Branyan is 1 for 6. A hundred points higher!
Vargas doing a good job supporting Dave’s side of the argument regarding balls finding gloves and BABIP.
Has anybody noticed that Franklin Gutierrez kind of has that sloe-eyed, somber Michael Stipe look?
I mean, I know all the women have noticed he’s attractive, but I wonder about the Stipe comp.
Rizzs on the radio once again saying “Nippon Ham Fighters” as if “Ham Fighters” is the team name.
joser, I have to admit for years I thought it was the name- and only found out otherwise somewhere around 2000.
Stipe? I don’t know, wasn’t the standard for sloe-eyed 80s hunks the young Nicolas Cage? But I lack womanly expertise in these matters. Where’s Lauren when we need her?
Ya, get it right Rizz, everybody knows that, duh. Who cares!
Oh, I did too — I’m not sure I knew until Ichiro’s arrival in 2001 got me far more interested in Japanese baseball. But the point is that even if Rizzs didn’t know until then either, he should know by now.
He should know his hair piece looks fake too but he doesnt
Ichiro!
The M’s are down by six runs in the 6th inning of a game on the 4th of July weekend in a season when a game on the 4th of July weekend is already meaningless, and the comment count has just barely broken into double-digits. If you can come up with something better to talk about, I encourage you to post it. Because otherwise we’re going to be talking about which celebrity various players resemble.
Besides complaining about Rizzs is kind of a tradition around here. Cheers for giving his “hair system” some love.
Never mind, false alarm.
Come to think of it, I don’t remember the last time she was on here!
Dave Sims sounded so disgusted about the bases juiced and no production. I can kind of hear him thinking “Halfway point…ONLY a tick over 80 to go of this…”
I, for one, will dance in jubilant fashion when I know that I’ve seen my last Jose Lopez Mariner at-bat.
Please,Jack…lots of teams need an infielder.
I grew tired of defending Lopey somewhere around last year….
And I recommend that we name a weak dribbler to the pitcher a “Kotchman Special” from now on.
Sheesh, the guy has had a decent game for once.
Ham Fighters would be the best name for a team ever. I don’t think most Americans really understand the way Japanese teams are named. I mean, it would be the equivalent of having the Nintendo Mariners playing the General Motors Tigers here.
Branyan could be a great DH, but we need a 1st base, and a catcher with power, I think the first base could be Jorge Cantu or Brandon Inge, and the catcher Miguel Olivo or V-Mart, the LF is of Michael Saunders, day to day, and Milton… Could be traded or a bench player if we contract a 1st base or DH, Branyan is best than Bradley, and Saunders has a lot of potential, I love the idea of trade, Cliff Lee for Justin Smoak, and Smoak will probably save money in the 1st base place, allowing hire a catcher if not arrive in the trade, and another power guy, or starting pitcher, the M´s of 2011 to 2014 depends in great measure of the success in the trade of Cliff Lee.
GOOD LUCK M´S
GOOD LUCK CLIFF LEE
AND GOOD LUCK JACK, WE NEED YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THIS TRADE
They should pretend it’s actually a place. Like Birmingham, but Nipponham.
There used to be industrial leagues in the US, but they mostly disappeared sometime after WWII. There still are industrial softball leagues of course (though “industrial” is a bit of a stretch: there’s one here in Seattle made up of bars and taverns, and NY famously has one where the teams are entirely Broadway casts and crew). I wonder if Eric Byrnes sponsors the team he plays on? Are they “the Byrnes”? After all, the Cleveland Indians once changed their team name to reflect their star player (though they were the “Bluebirds” before that and the “Molly Miguires” after it).
But when it comes to corporate names for teams we’re sort of getting there with soccer: the NY Red Bulls are the obvious case but I know a guy who calls the Sounders the “XBoxes” and is already calling the Portland team “The Burgers”. Which is getting into the same territory as Ham Fighting. Which should be a game on the Xbox, at least. Oooh, bonus round with bacon!
One positive to giving the Tigers a win is that the more desperate the Twins get, the more they might be willing to give up for Cliff Lee.
One positive to Cliff Lee being traded is that we won’t be subjected to that “2 first names” ad anymore.
Technically, the Nintendo Mariners against the Little Caesars Tigers.
the point is that even if Rizzs didn’t know until [ICHIRO came], he should know by now.
Agreed.
(To beat a dead horse.)
Didn’t the “Ham Fighters” thing originate with Bob Costas (during a NYY-Seattle Mariner playoff series), when he said of SASAKI, “He’s not facing the Nippon HAM FIGHTERS now; these are the NEW YORK YANKEES.”
BTW, SASAKI had already faced the NEW YORK YANKEES many times.