WBC sensation Snelling signs with Padres
DMZ · March 14, 2009 at 2:52 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Hated rival Padres sign former Mariner! Snelling vows “great vengeance, furious justice” during June games.
Move comes as tickets for the June 23-25th series at Safeco Field become available! USSM event frantically planned!
Seriously, good for Chris, good for the Padres, may this be the season he goes nuts on the league.
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Ceiling?
Yeah, ceiling? Did you phone this one in?
and on the meat of the article. Yaay Doyle. Keep on keepin’ on. He’ll be a nice hitter if he can only stay healthy. (If we were a soccer player he’d make Darren ‘Sicknote’ Anderton look like Billy Bremner; I can’t think of the appropriate baseball analogy).
Oh, okay, after giving it a moment’s thought, he makes Pokey Reese look like Cal Ripken.
But they’re both shortstops. Can anyone improve on this?
Everyone on this site knows that there is no way that Doyle is healthy for the June 23-25 series.
But we wish he could be!
Nice Spurs reference Colm!
etowncoug: fuck you!
That sounds more hostile and less chipper than I meant it.
I’ve never understood why every Snelling post seems to get people who want to crap on it, though. We’ve admitted we’re relentless, irrational fans. It’s part of the USSM package.
I particularly find it frustrating that we get so much criticism and mockery for being robots but whenever we do stuff that’s clearly fun, emotional, and especially when it reflects our appreciation of a player or the game, people come out of the woodwork to be jerks about it.
Curse you, Padres!
Sorry for being a Debbie Downer. I just think “Sicknote” is one of the funnier nicknames I’ve heard in sport. I hope Snelling can stay healthy long enough to show more fans the value in his hitting.
How would he profile as DH?
I take it you invented the “great vengeance, furious justice†quote, no?
It would be pretty darn funny if it were verbatim.
yeah. Unfortunately there don’t seem to be quotes available. I’m sure if someone asked him about it he’d say something twice as cool (though whether they’d quote him or just put “I’m excited to have a chance to contribute…” or whatever is never certain).
Im very happy for him! Maybe the Mariners will deal for him if an injury bug hits. Always seems like the padres and mariners make good partners in the world of trades haha.
CRAP anyone but the Padres. I like many other M’s fans have a deeded hatred for the Padres that has been handed down father to son over many generations. Cursed Padres and their darn stuff that I don’t like about them which I can’t recall but I know I hate them. I just can’t wait to see the M’s stomp them back into the stone age.
You forgot your fist shake.
Congrats to Chris Snelling and best wishes for 2009 in San Diego. May there be Excellent health and resounding success with 600+ plate appearances waiting there for you. Hopefully, when I look at the National League batting leaders I will see – Snelling, S.D. among them all season.
It might do Snelling some good to lose about 20 pounds. He looks awfully big…
I’m sure most of that will come off with some playing time and exercise during practice.
I do love Doyle. Is there any indication that he has an idea of just how adored he is by the USSM faithful? We lustily screamed “DOYYYYYLE” at a Beavers-Rainiers game a couple seasons back, but I never had a chance to tell him that there were legions of blog-followers rooting him to Cooperstown.
He’s pretty much the perfect National League DH. The archtype. The acme. The ne plus ultra.
Trust the Padres not to know which league they’re in.
But hey, when they play in Seattle as part of the hated rivals week, he’ll be in his natural position. (And those of you who immediately thought: “Yeah, his natural position: on the DL”… shame on you)
Since I heard about this I, like many others, been trying to reconcile the emotions that come with our beloved Doyle now being a Hated Rival. I want to wish him all success, but the passion of the rivalry runs so deep…
At least it wasn’t the Royals. Adding Doyle could be enough for them to conclusively win the battle of grass creek…for this season anyway.
From the official release on The Padres site…
Nice. 🙂
Doyle may be like the 1940s Dodger outfielder, Pete Reiser, who repeatedly injured himself crashing into walls. Leo Durocher said, “Willie Mays had everything. Pete Reiser had everything but luck.”
And we were just wondering the other day why he hadn’t gotten a look from the Hated Friars yet…
Sounds like there’s a USSM aficionado somewhere in SD’s front office. 🙂
the much-missed Corey Brock
Though, hopefully, not the same “Acme” as those horrid products which Wile E. Coyote kept getting jinxed by in the old WB cartoons.
Mar 19 vs SD
7:05 PM
FSN / MLB.TV
Well that Acme got sued, though I’m not sure if they’re still tied up in court or not.
If they’re still in business, and Doyle has been using their products (“Acmeâ„¢ EverStop Cleats”; “Acmeâ„¢ Rocket-Assisted Bat”), it certainly might explain his injury history.
Thanks, Joser…those were freaking hilarious!
As Artie Lange once remarked of Acme, they were “the sh**tiest products ever”. 🙂
I’m glad to see Doyle sign with the Padres, at least that way we’ll get a chance to see him every year.
Hopefully in about 15 years at the end of his career he can come back to the Mariners for his final season so he can feel the love.
It’s padding, to protect his fragile frame.
I’m not sure which post(s) you are refering to, but this, and certainly DMZ’s preceding post, seemed to have been directed at etowncoug’s post, which I did not find to be jerky at all. In fact I think it was written in the spirit of being “clearly fun” and “emotional”. Bemoaning Snelling’s injury prone-ness is an ongoing activity/joke at this site, right down to the “Doyle” business. Calling him “Doyle” isn’t being a jerk, and neither IMO was etowncoug’s post.
The date to circle on your calendar then is April 17, Padres at Phillies, when presumably Doyle will be presented with his World Series ring. And the happiest guy will be the clubhouse attendant who won’t have to figure out how to get it through Australian customs.
Yeah, I noticed that after the fact. He’s got another good article up now.
He called Ussmariner “perspicacious.” I had to look it up.