Podcast: The Mariners are Really Upsetting
The last time Jeff and I recorded a podcast, the Mariners had just dropped a series to the Astros, a team we were confident that the Mariners should steamroll. This time is different though because this time the Mariners dropped a series to the Astros in Houston. Also, now we’ve lost most if not all expectations that the Mariners are significantly better than the Astros. The season starting Mariners probably were, but that team is already gone.
So, big time warning here on the explicitness. Really. We are displeased and since we don’t script or rehearse these beforehand our displeasure typically manifests itself in a string of curses. Do not play this over your speakers at work. Do not play this around people with fragile sensitivities. Perhaps just don’t play this. Go outside instead, it’s pretty enjoyable out there. The Mariners are not enjoyable.
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What’s your podcast called so I can search for it? I can’t click the link from work, and if I click it on my phone it takes me to iTunes, but not to the podcast.
If we could somehow steal the SB Nation commenting system, this site would be absolutely perfect. Thank you for another great podcast.
GM candidate: Who was the fat guy in the movie Moneyball? Let’s hire that dude, if that dude exists. If not, let’s just hire the actor.
John W. – he’s VP Player Development for the Mets. The 2nd place Mets.
@kbarnhouse it’s currently listed as StatCorner Podcast
WalterNeff: Just read DePodesta’s wikipedia. I want him, it’s not even a joke anymore.
Awesome boys… Blow em up…
Matthew: “The team is toxically un-entertaining.”
Well said.
Whoa! fcb’s comment on the last podcast really stuck… I didn’t know you guys read these things!
I had to listen to this twice, because I got laughing so hard after 3:50 minutes, and couldn’t find anywhere to recover…
This is classic…
For sheer frustration, I put it right up there with the Troggs Tape…
I can’t listen at work, but however profane it is, I’m quite sure it’s not profane enough.
Re: getting the podcast – on iOS, if you’ve got Apple’s Podcast app installed, you can just click on the “RSS/XML” link and it’ll go right to it.
Thanks, gentlemen, for an entertaining and validating podcast. Jeff — I read your recaps so I didn’t HAVE to watch, so there was part of your audience, anyway.
I am convinced Wedge and Z *want* to get fired at this point, and who can fucking blame them? The idea of being obliged to stir this shit stew 139 more times this summer? No thanks. I mean, not that Thames is the future, but not any less so than Peguero, and — oh yeah — he’s better at pretty much every aspect of baseball and is currently torching AAA. Yes, if Peguero gets a hold of one it can be a moonshot, but that’s the trick isn’t it? Reminds me of what my dad used to say whenever commentators would rave about Omar Moreno’s ability to steal bases back in the day: “That’s great, but you can’t steal first base.”
What about Mike Carp. I know SSS but his slash is .417/.462/.833… Our outfield last year was better and cheaper. Carp and Wells were way better than Ibanez and Bay. End of story.
Tears and a measure of catharsis. I have a feeling I’ll be listening again at later low points of the season just to help me through. I’m really beginning to wonder what is wrong with me. I still do tend to schedule things around the games. I got MLB At Bat so I could actually see the suckfest live. I’ve long said that being a Mariners fan (since 1977) builds character, but I guess I need to figure out what kind.
Actually, I think I’ve figured out the rationale behind signing Ibanez. The two previous times he departed (after 2000 and 2009), the M’s improved the next year by 25 and 24 games, respectively. He’s part of the overall “plan” to compete in 2014!
I hear you, firova2, but if I gain any more character from being an M’s fan, I’m going to be two people.
Thanks, I really needed this today. (In a completely non-sarcastic way)
So, we should just think of Chone Figgins as the gift that keeps on giving?
Thank you very much for this. Best opening to any podcast I’ve heard in a long time.
Jeff,
I know you said you were not fishing for compliments, but I read your recaps because they were brilliant. Your titles alone would make me laugh out loud constantly. I also learned quite a bit from you, so I appreciate that as well. I know so many non-Mariners fans who enjoyed your recaps and other works.
Being a Mariners fan in Texas, ya’ll’s podcast gave some true feelings of commiseration and justification (i.e., “hey, I’m not alone”). Anyway, thank you both, and look forward to the next one.
I actually cancelled my At Bat after yesterday.
Also, “I hope you get Franklin Gutierrez Disease” is my new favorite curse.
One of you guys has voice characteristics really similar to Jeff Goldblum.
Somehow, you two make everything so entertaining, even the Mariners futility. That’s why I keep reading both of your posts all these years, your able to put an entertaining perspective on the Mariners. With that in mind, I could listed you the both of you do podcasts daily, and I would be happy.
Listening to the portion of the podcast where you “cant imagine anybody clearing their schedule to watch one of these games”. I agree for the most part, but every fifth day is something special that we might not get to see forever, so I do my best to catch as many of his starts as humanly possible
PLEASE STOP making suggestions regarding acquiring players based on a small number of at bats – that’s how the team got into this mess!
Mike Carp has exactly 13 plate appearances. Over those 13 plate appearances, he has a BABIP of .556. He is NOT the solution to the Mariners problems, even in the short term – we already HAVE a good first baseman to replace Smoak this year.
Jason Bay had an OPS of over 1.200 after a similar number of at bats – ’nuff said.
I was going to echo what AHKF just posted. As terrible as wringing your necks from your spreadsheets to watch a cruddy baseball team may be, Felix Hernandez is pitching like a god right now. For the sheer love of the game of baseball, he is a must see event every time he goes out there.
This is the best part of the season so far.
It would be very Mariners for this to happen: Ms fire Zduriencik
Phillies fire RAJ, M’s hire RAJ 🙁
Gee guys, tell us how you really feel. 🙂
Don’t blame you a bit. Looking at the schedule to come, after what they could NOT do with the Astros, it doesn’t seem possible that they’ll ever crack the .400 winning percentage. That would mean 65 W’s on the season – ouch. Wedge and JZ don’t look long for this city.
But like the stock market, things can turn around when you least expect them. I’ll watch and attend (now and then) with reduced expectations, and get surprised from time to time.
Well Jeff to answer your question about who you were writing for in July and August it was the Mariners fans who relied on you to relieve us of the suckage of the Mariners.
You know that itch that Louis C.K. can scratch?
This podcast scratched that itch.
Best. Podcast. Ever.