Game 7, Indians At Mariners
Vargas vs Carrasco, 7:05 pm.
The M’s get home field advantage for the first time all year, and they also get an Indians team that has some problems, so this could be a pretty good weekend. Expect to see a bit more offense against a pitching staff that is, err, not great.
In roster news, Chris Gimenez came up to replace Adam Moore as the reserve catcher – Moore went on the 60 day DL to free up the necessary 40 man roster spot.
In roster drama, Eric Wedge said before tonight’s game that Jack Wilson took himself out of the game in Texas after his back-to-back errors, and Wedge called his actions “unspeakable”. Adam Kennedy starts at second base tonight, and it’s pretty obvious that this is going to lead to Jack Wilson being traded, probably sooner than later. Wilson was annoyed with the move to second base, knows he doesn’t have a future in Seattle, and I’d imagine he’d welcome a trade to a contender who would let him play shortstop occasionally. I’m not saying Wilson asked out of the game to force the organization’s hands, but I doubt he really cares what the M’s think about him right now. If his actions get him shipped out, that’s probably an upgrade in his eyes.
Either way, I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ve seen the last of Jack Wilson on the field for the M’s. With Adam Kennedy and Luis Rodriguez around, the M’s have other stop-gap options at second base until Ackley is deemed ready. They can live without what Jack Wilson was going to give them for the next few months.
Ichiro, RF
Figgins, 3B
Bradley, LF
Cust, DH
Smoak, 1B
Olivo, C
Kennedy, 2B
Ryan, SS
Langerhans, CF
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“Seattle Baby Seals” gets my vote
Maybe if we had this name teams would feel sad if they beat us badly lol.
Think smaller. Think Seattle Microbes.
Oh, man…as if this bloody game wasn’t miserable enough already, you just had to go back down memory lane and remind us all of how Jose Mesa ruined the 1999 Safeco Field opening game, didn’t you, Rizzy?!
Also, Dave: Don’t waste your time writing a follow-up to this turdpie of a game. I hope you could enjoy some time with Mrs. Cameron instead of watching this painfest.
Hey, I like that one, Bryce. They could get Amgen as a corporate sponsor…lol!
The Seattle down quarks.
Seattle Nanites!
“Many of the 45-plus-thousand have left the ballpark…”
Gee, Rizzy, you don’t say?!
I’m tired of Figgins. It’s no longer a small sample size.
Comeback begins here… What have I been drinking… Needa visit Shick Shadel…. 🙂
Does Figgins have any trade value? I haven’t been one to jump on the “I hate Figgy” wagon but it’s obvious he don’t work for this team. Time for the dual leadoff hitter experiment to go away.
Wow that’s an apropos nick for this team, O.C.
In all my years of watching this team, I don’t think I’ve ever gone into the season thinking about who we could move at July to get prospects…just saying.
Yeah unfortunately.
Also these teal uniforms look terrible.
Another bad idea.
Hopefully their aversion therapy works on certain Mariners that forgot how to hit. They need to have a session on “suckaholism.”
At least you didn’t hear “eye-CHAI-row” like I did recently…
Good thing about the game were Langerhans 4 walks and Laffey and Lueke not pitching like Chris Ray or Pauley.
Man, I sure hope that wasn’t some professional broadcaster who uttered that. It absolutely irks me to no end when I hear stuff like that about established stars from folks you’d think would know better!
Even Ken Levine couldn’t come up with a Mariner whom he thought had a good night…and he was a professional sitcom writer at one time!
It wasn’t. Someone who had never seen a Mariners game.
What I want to know is what Figgins ever did to earn an endearment nickname like “Figgy” except be an even worse free agent signing than Silva (at least he stayed off the field and only indirectly affected the on-field catastrophe via his bananas contract) and go 0-for-ever.
When I listen to Rizzs or any of the other KIRO guys talk about “Figgy” coming up to the plate or doing this or that like he’s “our guy” or something it makes me throw up a little.
As far as I’m concerned the man should be jeered loudly by home fans at every opportunity until he becomes so sick of Seattle that he buys out his own awful contract and can go ruin some other fanbase’s hopes and dreams.
Boohooo. The M’s are 6 games into the season. Have some hope.
That’s because he’s not a soap opera writer. I wonder if Ichiro has “borrowed” some language from an all star speech or some language from this, in order to motivate some people…
Bryce — Yeah, my bad on that…if any broadcaster is doing that after ten years, they most certainly have some problem.
Like I said, what can we get for him at the deadline? I seriously think July 31 might be the most exciting day of this season, to be sure!
I have a couple positive words to say about our third base situation:
Anthony Rendon.
Rendon-Franklin-Ackley-Smoak looks good to me…
…in 2013.
Left after the fifth inning but just got home. The fifth was sort of the last straw for us, when, after they had scratched out a run by making Carrasco work the count to four straight hitters, Figgins, with his at the time .107 average, got up and hit the first ball, and then Bradley swung at the first pitch (which looked low from where we were sitting) on his way to striking out.
What that tells me is that we’re back to “no one is going to tell the veterans what to do” style of managing. See McLaren, John. Figgins should have had a take sign until he had two strikes. Indeed, Figgins should have a take sign until he has two strikes until he remembers how he led the freaking league in OBP in 2009.
They won the first two games by making the other team’s starter work hard and then beating up middle relievers. At this rate, they’re never going to see another middle reliever.
Wow- so that was a 10 year “hard time” prison sentence crammed into 3 hours at a beautiful ball park.
The 4th inning might have been the most painful moment of M’s baseball I’ve ever witnessed in person. Couldn’t see the pitch locations from my vantage point but Vargas was giving up just bullet after bullet, after rope after rope. EVERYTHING was crushed.
We started off joking “if the M’s don’t score a couple runs next inning, we’ll leave…” Which soon became “If Cleveland is still batting at 8:30 (making it a half hour, half inning) we’ll leave…”
Then just a sort of general funeral procession sort of feeling. Kinda wanted to whisper, so as not to disturb anybody.
I know I’m exaggerating, but I don’t think Vargas threw a single first pitch strike tonight. Had to be some in there, but it didn’t feel like it (and the fans cheered sarcastically when Wilhemsen got a first pitch strike– it was rather humorous).
Sorry, Mr. Niehaus, that we screwed up your evening. We still miss you, really, we do.
Yeah, it’s amazing how (and, yes, I know he’s a righthander, but still…) a reclamation project like Wilhelmsen winds up with a spot on the roster after so many people bitched about a guy like Hyphen being washed-up last year.
Im surprised about all the hate Macklemore got on here. The guy is his own style of rapper. More of a story teller. I really enjoyed his tribute. Who better to do it than a guy born and raised in Seattle listening to Dave?
I really didn’t like the Macklemore thing at all but whatever. One advantage to the 10 run 4th is that it got out of the way early. Without any concerns about, y’know, winning, it because an old school Seattle, “Let’s tell mocking jokes about our team,” experience. And then in the 8th, I pulled a Kingdome and took the free upgrade to 10 rows behind home plate and had fun watching baseball from that vantage point. And for a few moments in the 9th there, the stragglers had some hope, not of winning, mind you, but at least of some excitement. I was miserable in the 4th but by the time it was over, I was glad I went.
Wow. We came for the opening day ceremony and the tribute to Dave. Then the baseball game started and things went downhill pretty rapidly.
This game was even worse than last year’s “Fan Depreciation” day. During the 4th inning we started talking about leaving and by the 6th people were streaming out, so we joined them. The streets were filled with people, just like at the end of a normal game.
Dave would have had some choice words for what went on tonite, I’m sure. We miss you.
Jordan,
I’m with you. My sixteen-year old daughter asked me to take her to the game because Macklemore was doing his song about Dave in the tribute. I thought that was cool — I’ve been taking her to M’s games since before she turned one, and she gets the whole Dave thing. Every time I hear that song I literally get goosebumps, and last night was no exception. Macklemore is real popular with my daughter and her friends. Many of his songs are Seattle-centric and tell stories. I listen to a lot of music, a lot of different kinds, and you haters here are the first people I’ve run into who don’t like what he does.
Other than Macklemore, the best thing about the game was that we went to get hot dogs at the end of the 3rd inning and missed the entire beatdown. We heard it, though.
And, the line of the night: “Remember the team slogan a few years ago, ‘You gotta love these guys?’ Maybe the new slogan ought to be, ‘Who ARE these guys?’
. And then in the 8th, I pulled a Kingdome and took the free upgrade to 10 rows behind home plate and had fun watching baseball from that vantage point. And for a few moments in the 9th there, the stragglers had some hope, not of winning, mind you, but at least of some excitement.
I will do you better. By the 5th inning my friends and I were able to get people leaving their suite to give us our tickets and we spent the rest of the night watching the game from there. The Strawberry Shortcake is delicious…
Not a great sign when suites are empty by the 5th inning on opening night.
I’ve got nothing against the guy, but the team doesn’t really need a Macklemore, it needs a McLemore.