Game 85, Tigers at Mariners
DMZ · July 3, 2008 at 6:51 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Verlander v Silva, 7:10.
Surprisingly, Cairo is not rewarded with additional playing time.
Vidro bats 4th despite being one the worst hitters in baseball. Anyone who can offer a cogent and reasonable explanation of why will receive one of my PNG beers.
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I keep expecting to see Shawn Chacon on a UFC commercial.
I hear Shawn Chacon is available.
82: How about we wait for the team that hires Bavasi?
huh. so the Ms are on at 1 tomorrow, and then the Rainiers are on at 7, visiting those pesky Beavers.
Not advocating at all, but actually, Shawn Choke-on might be a marginal improvement to this rotation
99: I don’t think Vidro would appreciate being traded to the Boys’ & Girls’ Club.
Or, on the card at the next WWE Smackdown.
If a team is ever credited with Offensive Indifference, it will be the 2008 Mariners.
so, what is it, 5-6 LOB?
Congrats on #1700, Ichi!
I think the M’s need a warcry and I nominate something I just heard from somewhere: “Let’s Vent!” (intertextual reference to “A Mighty Wind.”)
That was Ichiro’s 2,978th career hit, counting his totals in Japan.
I’ve always been partial to ‘Spoooon’
82, that is exactly what I think their thinking must be.
You know things are rough when Ibanez pulls an Ibanez in right, then hits a double the next inning only to get doubled up, and it doesn’t even get a mention here.
111: I think everyone’s gone home.
An absolutely amazing career!
113 – It ain’t over yet.
114: True! 🙂
With all these PH appearance for WFB, I think it’s clear that The Riggler must want him to reach the consecutive games record.
Chasing history!
Baseball, cell phones, and domestic violence. What else could you ask for?
Ichiro, Lopez, and Ibanez have been getting on base all game, and we have our worst hitter due up when it happens.
There’s our reliable cleanup hitter!
Walk-off Willie!
Is there a worse 4-6 trio in baseball than the one the M’s just sent up? I mean, it really doesn’t get worse than that, even in NL 7-9 slots. And that’s the heart of our lineup.
Well, I guess not 4-6, but 4, 6-7 (Vidro, Bloomquist, Sexson), but does it really matter when you leave Beltre on an island, surrounded by oceans of suckitude?
113 – not in the face! Not in the face!
Ummm…did anyone else just catch Blowers say “He can really run shit up there” also? I hit rewind on the DVD to confirm. No doubt about it.
Maybe they’ll give him the day off for his error and have Cairo play color commentator.
Uh oh…someone needs to remind him that’s one of the seven you can’t say on TV (RIP, Mr. Carlin).
Man, they should have Cairo take over as DH. It’d be an upgrade.
Does this fall under the category of “appealing to more women and children?”
Gah, could you imagine Ozzie Guillen in the White Sox broadcast booth for a day?!
Actually, here’s a better idea…give Ozzie his own segment during a Fox or ESPN game of the week in which to rant — ala Don Cherry’s Coach’s Corner. 🙂
I was really looking forward to that PNG beer, and with the argument I had meticulously constructed in support of Vidro batting cleanup, I could almost taste it. And then I remembered the cogency prerequisite… I hate these contests where the odds of success are so remote as to be non-existent.
I think you’d have a better chance of winning the Seven Cedars Casino Seven in the 7th Contest and placing your own order with a Papua New Guinean distributor.
106: IMHO, I don’t even think that the Boys’ and Girls’ club would ever be that desperate.
134: At least it would be more unpredictiable than a M’s game.
Arthur is my hero.
only if he wears Coach’s jackets.
You know I was look at MLB.com’s “Milestone tracker” thingie, and it did NOT include any mention of Willie Bloomquist’s XBH streak.
It is unconscienable that MLB would ignore The Streak and slight M’s fans like this.
Belated Vidro explanation: he was batting cleanup because that’s what DH’s do.
I could just see Ozzie wearing loud plaid…or, since the Sox’ colors are black and white, maybe that jacket with the funky prints that looked like compact discs that ole’ Don was wearing during the SC Finals a couple of years back.
Beauty! 🙂
one of my all-time favorite ads?
the late Mrs Coach doing an ad for a headache remedy.
DMZ–no explanation of Vidro’s clean-up status. However, I did hear a description that would apply. One of the TBS announcers talking about a player who’s name I didn’t catch, said, “That’s like having Oscar Madison hit clean-up.”