82 Responses to “Game 125, A’s at Mariners”

1. msb on August 24th, 2009 9:18 pm

   Where does he think Lopez keeps his head?

   Well, I know where he seems to keep it at times…

2. Liam on August 24th, 2009 9:19 pm

   It’s fun to hear the on air guys give Lopez a tongue bath. On orders from the front office?

   No, just overly positive, not very objective comments from the people whose job it is to find something to talk about for hours on end.

3. juneau_fan on August 24th, 2009 9:21 pm

   At least it wasn’t a double play, Kenji.

   Just wishful thinking on my part, Liam. If there was intent behind their gushing, Johnson would have been gone at the trading deadline.

4. Liam on August 24th, 2009 9:23 pm

   On TV it looked like Oakland’s 3b player didn’t even flinch on that broken bat that appeared to be only a few feet away.

5. Dirk on August 24th, 2009 9:30 pm

   What the hell is “Auto Strike, null” on game day?

6. Dirk on August 24th, 2009 9:31 pm

   Sorry, that would have been on pitch number 3 to Hairston in the 8th.

7. juneau_fan on August 24th, 2009 9:38 pm

   This ought to be interesting. Over/under on AA putting at least one man on?

8. flashbeak on August 24th, 2009 9:39 pm

   Oh, Branyan. Like Griffey and Sweeney, I hope he was a one year affair.

9. Dirk on August 24th, 2009 9:39 pm

   This ought to be interesting. Over/under on AA putting at least one man on?

   Even money…

10. henryv on August 24th, 2009 9:40 pm

    I will be pleasantly surprised if he simply doesn’t walk in the go-ahead run.

11. juneau_fan on August 24th, 2009 9:41 pm

    Yeah, that was quick. Kind of a variation since it wasn’t his usual walk.

12. Dirk on August 24th, 2009 9:42 pm

    Uggh.

13. juneau_fan on August 24th, 2009 9:43 pm

    The Condor and the Death to Flying Things in the same outfield….ironic.

14. henryv on August 24th, 2009 9:44 pm

    He is used to Ichiro saving his ass on those bp fastballs that go for 380 feet. And Ichiro probably gets that one.

    But fortunately a different Suzuki bails him out.

15. Dirk on August 24th, 2009 9:46 pm

    “Uggh” retracted (results based analysis).

16. henryv on August 24th, 2009 9:46 pm

    “He quieted… Any… Possible… Nonsense(?)… after that!”

    Thank you Dave, for that. I needed a good laugh.

17. Dirk on August 24th, 2009 9:48 pm

    BTW, Gutierrez had an Ichiro! like batting line – 3 for 4 (all singles), one walk and common for this year, no runs scored.

18. henryv on August 24th, 2009 9:51 pm

    I think Dave has a picture of Bob Uecker in the studio, and he tries to channel Harry Doyle at least once a game.

19. Liam on August 24th, 2009 9:59 pm

    Bill Krueger just said that Brian Roberts would look good in the Mariners lineup, in response to their poll on which is the best 2B player. The choices were

    Jose Lopez (WAR 1.5)
    Aaron Hill (WAR 3.2)
    Brian Roberts (WAR 3.2)
    Ian Kinsler (WAR 3.2)
    Dustin Pedroia (WAR 4.3)

    Two outliers here and we’ve got the bad one.

20. henryv on August 24th, 2009 10:03 pm

    Yeah, that poll was pretty nuts.

    Is there any way we can have a poll to get Kruger off the air, a la Andy Kaufman?

    Hey! We’re less than a dozen games down in the AL West.

21. Liam on August 24th, 2009 10:04 pm

    While Brian Roberts has preformed much better, it’s surprising to hear an indirect knock against Jose Lopez.

22. henryv on August 24th, 2009 10:05 pm

    Holy crap! Bill Kruger just used the phrase “statistical anomaly”! And in the proper context, too.

    The end is nigh.

23. henryv on August 24th, 2009 10:10 pm

    Ichiro has been stranded on base 135 times this year. I think he can make it to 200, if he really works on it.

    Of course, he probably can’t get to 210 like he did in 2004, when he basically took his glove out with him when he got to first.

24. cjjpeterson on August 24th, 2009 10:25 pm

    And of course… Lopez wins the poll with a whopping 70% of the vote. While Aaron Hill… receives a ginormous 0%.

25. Breadbaker on August 24th, 2009 10:54 pm

    Back from the game. The Griffey homer, after the Lopez HBP, was just a thing of beauty. If that’s the last Griffey homer I ever see in person, it would be a wonderful swan song.

    Note to Mike Sweeney: the way you make the clubhouse happier is to do things ON THE FIELD that support your teammates, like drive in runs. Hitting a dinger after they plunked someone on purpose: priceless.

26. EagleBonesFalconHawk on August 24th, 2009 11:31 pm

    What is the M’s record w/o Ichiro! this season?

27. msb on August 24th, 2009 11:33 pm

    What is the M’s record w/o Ichiro! this season?

    I don’t know, what is it?

28. pgreyy on August 25th, 2009 12:54 am

    Tonight, when they ran the birthdays on the scoreboard at Safeco…those birthday messages ran underneath a header that read:

    Happy Brithday!!!

    And, after an M’s win…it was a Happy Brithday indeed!

    Question for the group: Before the game, they ran a graphic on the scoreboard that said that Russell became the 11th Mariner to have hit 30 or more home runs in a single season.

    …and at the game, without access to any reference books or databases, we were trying to come up with the other ten.

    Could you come up with all ten?

29. Red Apple on August 25th, 2009 2:19 am

    Griffey
    Buhner
    A-Rod
    Sexson
    Edgar
    Boone
    Ibanez
    Sorrento
    Tino
    Gorman Thomas

    Didn’t have to look it up, I swear.

30. Red Apple on August 25th, 2009 2:22 am

    Mouse pad on my netbook is a little flaky!

31. henryv on August 25th, 2009 7:13 am

    I don’t know, what is it?

    7-2

32. Ralph_Malph on August 25th, 2009 9:04 am

    I was thinking Willie Horton hit 30 HR as a Mariner but he missed it by one.

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