Game 99, Tigers at Mariners
DMZ · July 26, 2005 at 6:42 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
RHP Jason Johnson v RHP Joel Pineiro. 7:05.
As noted in other threads today, Snelling turned up in Tacoma today, though there’s no evidence yet of a transaction. On the other hand, since there’s really no public resource for transactions that is also timely, he could well have been optioned. Or traded to the Cubs, who assigned him to Iowa, for all anyone knows officially. Generally we’ll a broadcaster will say something during the game, but they might not, so… we wait for Doyle.
Bloomquist starts at short again, his fourth straight start.
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Richie Sexson in the paper yesterday: “I’ll take a whole team of Bloomquists. Gimme heart!”
Gimme a break, more like. Positively spoiled my crumpet and tea.
We’re never going to be rid of the guy. He’s going to start every game at short from now until mid-2008, while Jones and Betancourt slowly twist in the wind.
Yeah, Bloomquist could be our updated version of Darnell Coles and Jim Presley. AUGH! And on the pitching side, we could have Aaron Sele holding back The King. AUGH!
If either of the above happens, I will officially become an A’s fan.
Is that the time, or Joel’s ERA?
From MLB.com
[edited link and snipped a little of the excerpt -mgmt]
Roster move goes through: A little more than a week after changing their minds about activating backup infielder Dave Hansen from the 15-day disabled list and sending outfielder Chris Snelling back to Triple-A Tacoma, the Mariners made the roster move official on Tuesday.
Hansen, fully recovered from tendinitis in his left elbow, was available for Tuesday night’s game against the Tigers, giving manager Mike Hargrove an experienced left-handed pinch-hitter.
As for Snelling, he must spend at least 10 days with the Rainiers. That means even if left fielder Randy Winn is traded before Sunday’s non-waiver deadline at 1 p.m. PT, Snelling couldn’t be recalled unless there was an injury to one of the 24 other players on the team.
Hansen has been ready to be activated the last two or three days, but the organization decided to keep him on the DL and use Snelling sparingly.
“[Snelling] did a good job — he really did,” Hargrove said. “He worked hard on the side to keep himself ready, and I was very pleased with the way he went about his business. He just needs to play and wait for his chance.”
Two strikeouts for Pineiro already. Wow.
What’s the strategy if they need to take an OFer out — pull Ibanez out of the DH slot, forcing the pitchers to bat? Move Bloomquist?
And, if you believe the gun, he was hitting 93 regularly.
I’m not sure I believe the gun though.
If we need to injure someone to make room on the 25-man roster for Doyle after Winn is traded, I nominate Spiezio.
Bloomquist to the OF (left or center), Morse in at SS, if you have to.
Pineiro’s back! Yayyy! He’s returned to the form of old, and all our pitching problems are solved! Yayy!
Still got a lotta holes in the rotation there DMZ.
Wow, a ticket-scalping (I mean, uh exchange) place is advertising on the radio. I’m surprised the M’s are okay with that, since they want everyone to go through the Ticket Exchange.
Willie Bloomquist just made an ordinary play. (He caught a pop-up.) It’s the first ordinary play I’ve heard him make all year. It’s usually “great,” “outstanding,” “sensational,” whatever.
The Rizzer must have been in a hurry to break for commercials. He’ll make it up though: “and Bloomquist tags him out, and that’s our Magnolia moment.”
I think they don’t (or can’t) care anymore, since that “ticket exchange” site of theirs has essentially legalized ticket scalping. They probably didn’t want to turn down the revenue.
Anyone think that the FO guys at the game asked them to jack up the radar guns a few miles and hour to try and entice yankee scouts in the stands? granted, they will have their own guns as well, but i have heard of stranger things happening
They probably didn’t want to turn down the revenue.
Ah, but KOMO gets the ad revenues. The M’s get their money either way. I’d think they’d be twisting arms.
The next time a scout looks at the stadium gun for anything other than a chuckle will be the first.
Why such a wide disparity between gun readings? What are the variable factors?
Angle they’re at, how well calibrated they are (which could be intentional or unintentional), etc.
Oh, and where in the flight it’s reading (how close to the plate).
Also, manufacturer. Only a few teams still use JUGGS guns (I know the Astros still do, but they’re the only ones I consistently see with them), but JUGGS are notoriously fast, probably 2-3 MPH over the STALKER, which has become the industry standard.
I’ve heard people have clocked trees doing 80 mph with radar guns, but that might be urban legend.
Also, they are jimmied a little, especially stadium/TV guns, because higher velocities = excitement.
The only radar guns I’m familiar with had to be calibrated with tuning forks. Maybe that’s changed. I’m only familiar with JUGGS as the esteemable monthly magazine of female pulchritude.
There have been a lot of strange radar gun readings, the new speed cameras have been proving that. Police officers know not to cite someone for going 200 MPH, but there have been quite a few cases in Great Britain of insane tickets for speeds that fast, or faster, going out from the new automatic speed cameras. Sometimes in stadiums you’ll get an obviously wrong reading from the ball coming off the bat, the pitcher’s delivery, or other interferences.
Reminds me of the time I rode my bike downhill at 684 MPH, or so my freaking-out computer claimed….
Didn’t JUGGS measure the speed right out of the pitcher’s hand, inflating the reading? What matters is of course how fast it’s going when it reaches the plate.
I think they should add 25 MPH to all the M’s pitchers’ readings on the stadium gun, just for the excitement of it.
This Guillen guy looks familiar, didn’t we used to have a guy named that? Played shortstop, too. What ever happened to him?
I think they should have the readings in kilometers per hour, like in that M’s commercial with Jamie Moyer a couple years ago. (Before started that totally lame “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” format.)
Yeah, we did used to have a shortstop named Guillen. Apparently, he encouraged a young pitcher and fellow countryman to go out drinking too much. Thus, he was traded because he was a bad influence.
hmm, speaking of Guillen.. whoops
Ahhh, Beltre.
Really? And we traded him? Who’d we get for him, I wonder?
Hmm, I encourage all sorts of people to go out drinking too much. I’m out guzzling vinho verde right this minute. I guess that means I’m not Mariner Material, then. I guess my dream of being the first 46-year-old rookie are over. Not only am I a bad influence, but Willie Blooomquist could totally kick my ass.
Sweet, Beltre. I can’t tell you why exactly, but my excitement for him being on the team has never waned. It’s not like I’m prescient or insightful… just in-my-gut glad he’s a Mariner.
Can you imagine how difficult it must be to have a conversation with Valle?
“I was driving to Bellingham yesterday night…”
“Derek, heading to Bellingham late yesterday, taking his car…”
“Would you please shut up?”
“Derek getting annoyed here tonight by my constant repetition of what he has just said…”
“That’s right, Derek, you ARE annoyed, and you know why?”
You guys are killing me….
How did Richie get on? MLB GameDay has an error or something.
I’ll be here all week, two shows nightly. Unfortunately so will Wee Willie and his Wicked gWoundouts.
“MLB Gameday, letting bp down tonight, not showing him the information he or she wants to see in a timely manner.”
RR – “Well it’s a brand new ballgame as we go to the fourth… The Mariners lead 2-1.”
I don’t understand. What am I missing?
It’s timely, I just dont know what the hell “Richie Sexson reaches on force attempt, missed catch error by Unknown (0), assist to first baseman Chris Shelton” means
Killing me….just killing me…
(And, yes, I AM a pro….or at least, I can coerce people to pay to see my stuff)(say, I have a spot open on my writing staff….)
You missed the exit to Fairlyland.
“Roger Tang there, alluding to some kind of writing gig, but no question that he’s making an offer of some kind. One of the things we’ll see is that fans have to wonder what he’s talking about, or why.”
Thank you Joel. I was starting to get annoyed that the game was going well enough I didn’t want to start packing. I knew you would come through.
I’m also amazed at how flat-out incoherent Valle can be sometimes. He’ll go into some sentence and totally fall apart, even though if you’re not paying attention it sounds okay.
“Joel Pineiro last week had a great game where everything game together, moving the ball in and out over the plate, bullpen work, timely hitting, and Richie Sexson with that curve ball in the seventh, outstanding work all around and that’s what you like to see from this young right-hander…”
“You hit the nail on the head, there, Derek. But that’s what makes the fans so great”.
Damn, I think I’m actually channeling Rick Rizzs.
Valle
Ahem. Let’s try again.
Valle
Shick Shadel’s commercials are way suspicious. There’s no way any alcoholism treatment can have a 100% success rate unless you’re using the broadest possible definition of success, or unless you’re killing the patients so they can’t drink again.
So, is the alcohol detox commercial on the radio right now appropriate, or is it like advertising for water wings on the Titanic?
Goddamn HTML.
Valle (LT) Henderson, which I didn’t think was possible.
“Steve Thornton there, got off to a great start early in this tread, but stumbling lately, can’t seem to get his comments down consistently, exspecially now when he has to move the thread along.”
“Fans, great comments are still available tonight in the despair, mockingly happy, and sar…sar… sarcasmic categories. Log on to U.S.S. Mariner now for your chance to win valuable prizes.”
DMZ said:”Shick Shadel’s commercials are way suspicious. There’s no way any alcoholism treatment can have a 100% success rate unless you’re using the broadest possible definition of success, or unless you’re killing the patients so they can’t drink again.”
not to mention the bizarre comments old Pat makes about getting rid of the ‘bad’ gene that causes addiction, or that the treatment isn’t drugs or hypnosis but a ‘medical procedure’…. um, lobotomy?
I doubt it’s some kind of advanced retrovirus, since they’ve been around for a long time. I may have to poke into this.
Holy Clockwork Orange, folks, it’s “aversion therapy”. See this Regency Medical page
“Thornton can’t find the zone. Happens to the best of them. The Schick Shadel treatment was helping him, but he’s slipped back into his old patterns, chasing the easy joke long after the opportuntiy has passed. He’ll be OK.”
Wait, that was Fairly.
damn
I’d rather listen to Shick Shadel call a ballgame than Rick Rizzs.
I still think my, um, ‘favorite’ Valle-ism is how he can move from an earth-shattering event on the field (whether positive or negative) into his prepared copy…
“Holy Smokes! the ground just opened and swallowed gritty little gamer Willie Bloomquist as he went for that impossible grab of that hard-hit ball up the middle, Valle!!!”
“Friends, make sure you’re at the ballpark on Friday for Workout T-shirt day”
It’s aversion therapy – they give you some drug that makes you violently ill at the consumption of alcohol, and then force you to drink.
I meant the guy who does the Shick Shadel commercials. Or is the guy’s name really Shick Shadel? No, I’m not all the way there right now. That’s what happens when you follow Mariner baseball.
Aversion therapy?
That Regency page also has some information on studies that show a pretty crappy success rate — certainly not 100%. I wonder how they get away with claiming that.
I thought they showed you home movies of Ed McMahon.
Ooops, a minute too late ther.
Edgarfan beat me to it.
Yeah, those Shick Shadel commercials remind of “Smoke Enders” from that movie “Cat’s Eye” back in the late 1980s or early 1990s. “If you smoke again, we cut off your wife’s little finger.” “Ha, ha, you kill me.” “No, that comes later, much later.”
I love the Shick Shadel commercials. Pat O day, chronic drunk, is so convincing in that role. He’s got to be tanked during those spots.
You get a 100% success rate by not doing any followup. They probably mean “none of them ever showed up here again”.
Good god, everybody beat me to it. I’m going to be quiet now.
I’ll just be watching those Seattle Mariners if anyone needs me.
It’s aversion therapy – they give you some drug that makes you violently ill at the consumption of alcohol, and then force you to drink.
That’s part of. It also appears they drug the “patient” and then do interrogations where they try to figure out how much you still want the drug while you’re on pentothal.
#67 Steve Thornton,
I’d love to hear Ed McMahon’s opinion on this team.
Me: “Ed, does this team suck?”
Ed: “You are corrrrrrrrrrrrrrect, sir!”
Remember, folks, this is what a GOOD Pineiro game looks like.
Shick Shadel, $5 beers, lousy baseball — a recipe for success.
Giving alcoholics antabuse is hardly revolutionary therapy.
Worked for Keith Moon. Oh wait, it killed Keith Moon.
It’s interesting that Regency (at that link) considers this an “investigational” course of treatment.. this kind of thing’s been around for years, if they really had such a high rate of success, wouldn’t there be huge amounts of clinical evidence?
gee, I wonder if Pat talks about his pentathol interviews & aversion drugs in his rollicking autobiography “It Was All Just Rock ‘n’ Roll”
$5? I was paying close to $8 the last time I went. You don’t get Shick Shadel at the ballpark, but come to think of it, though, watching the Mariners is a kind of aversion therapy.
“Valle, I think Joel’s velocity as he shoots himself in the foot has been getting better and better”
This NIH paper has a pretty wacky description of what actually goes on there (search for “Shick-Shadel” and you’ll go right to the weird part)
The description doesn’t talk about antabuse or chemicals in their treatment.
They do talk about hypnosis. I think we may be jumping the gun thinking it’s antabuse/similar drugs. In fact, that page states “Agonist substitution therapy (methadone or LAAM) and medications to decrease the reinforcing effects of abused substances, also known as withdrawal drugs (eg, naltrexone, clonidine/naltrexone, buprenorphine), may also be included as a component of standard therapy.” That’s after the comment that “aversion therapy” hadn’t been compared to “standard therapy”…
I think DMZ may have been right in the first place…it’s probably closer to A Clockwork Orange than a tranditional antabuse prescription.
Found this on another site, about Schick Shadel’s heroin program:
(http://www.detox911.com/facts-other_heroin_treatments.html)
“Schick Shadel, however, which specializes in the treatment of addicts, places more emphasis on aversion therapy to treat its patients. Recovering addicts are subjected to mild electric shocks which, while not painful, make them distinctly uncomfortable in the presence of substances that simulate drugs. The patient develops unpleasant mental associations, a behavior therapy largely proved successful.”
That’s assuming you find electric shocks unpleasant, of course.
Or Nurse Week has this description of Shick-Shadel’s techniques and also mentions
“After completing the 10-day program, patients returned for reinforcement sessions to maintain the aversion, which had a fairly rapid drop-off rate. “
Wow. This is a lot of content for a short commercial.
Also, if the Nurse Week article and the others are to be believed, I can’t imagine what the job listings must be like.
“Wanted: vomit cleaner. No experience required. After we dose a patient with a drug and serve them a drink, you will clean up the amazing amount of vomit… Flexible hours required.”
Pineiro’s thrown 93 pitches already, btw. That’s a lot. I wonder when they pull him.
Also, I’m the only person left on the thread. I guess this whole diversion into the land of Shick-Shadel has performed an aversion therapy of its own.
“Wanted: vomit cleaner. No experience required. After we dose a patient with a drug and serve them a drink, you will clean up the amazing amount of vomit… Flexible hours required.â€Â
If they added “you get the drink afterwards, if it’s clean enough for your tastes” they probably wouldn’t have trouble staffing the position. And it would help them target potential customers.
Ah, Duffy’s Bar sounds like a must on any vistor’s list.
I hope you get a chance to tell your friends that you enjoy reading Nurse Week magazine. There may be questions.
I don’t think I’ll be laughing that much the next time I hear a Schick Shadel ad. That’s some scary stuff, heh.
Now if only they could give Olivo and Beltre that drug and throw them breaking ball after breaking ball…
Oh yes, an electric shock every time he swings at the low and away….
Any guesses as to what Hargrove was saying to Pineiro? “Well Joel, that wasn’t too awful tonight.”
dragging this back to the field, do you think just going out and throttling Pineiro when he starts to pick and nibble and walk batters would work?
89: I predict after six more pitches.
Please ignore the time stamp on this post.
Pudge could have at least made a half-hearted attempt to avoid the tag.
I’m just upset they don’t run those ads on tv too. I am getting Valle now though.
Maybe Guillen will hit Duffy’s after the game.
Someone needs to buy Price a cattle prod, then use it on him. Have we traded anyone to NY yet?
Ernie
Nice hit by Blomquist. Now if only Lopez doesn’t hit into a double play.
If Detroit reliever Darensbourg’s name was any longer he’d have to wear a long sleeved jersey. The letters stick out past the shoulder seams.
Two hit and run plays in a row. Result, a run scored.
Why aren’t we pinch-hitting Hansen right here?
Nice hitting, Ichiro.
Randy won today. Flaherty was catching, he will again tomorrow. Was Posada at the bus depot buying a ticket to Seattle?
Ernie
Is Pat O Day grinning now cause the Mariners are coming back or because his aversion therapy is working? Or not working?
Great hit by Ichiro along with a little hometown scoring!
Man…I want Olivo to get right so bad. He’s like a young Pudge with a head case. If he could just let it all click and hit to right field a couple of times and get back on track he could really REALLY help our club. Damnit.
Ordonez looked like he was 41 on that play, not 31. What happened to him? He’s still a “stealth” leader on a lot of cumulative categories, because he started racking up decent numbers at a young age, but he fields like a DH now for sure.
Well, Ichiro made the Hansen point mute now, didn’t he? I still think Olivo had no business batting in that situation. Why have Hansen on the roster if not for situations like that?
When I saw Maggs’ numbers, I was thinking 4 for Ichi.
#111,
He’s hung over with Carlos. Sorry Carlos, I like you.
# 112….Just to shine the bench.
Ernie
“moot” not “mute”. Just for future reference.
Hello, hello, did you all go to sleep or something?
Ernie
As in, “I try to hit the moot button every time I hear Dave Valle’s voice”.
Oh, NO! I hate when others make that mistake. LOL at myself — must’ve been reading jc too much lately …
M’s 5, Detroit 4. You all must have fallen off your stools or something huh.
Ernie
JC’s probably at the Tacoma game. And, to his credit, it does seem like he’s really been trying to write more coherently lately.
I can’t believe I just wrote that.
Sorry, I was hanging out at Duffy’s Bar. Man, do they have a good selection of alcohol. And it’s all free.
Gotta love the M’s T-shirt promo for some upcoming game. Rizzs continues to allude to the shirt being “perfect for the gym”. Does that mean the shirt is a cheap piece of crap and is worthy of sweating out?
That or it’s got BOONE printed on the back.
“Perfect for painting the house!”
Though apparently some folks get styled to go to the gym so they can impress the hotties. The hotties at my gym are mostly in their seventies and past impressing much.
Dmitri Young — Nooo….
You realy know a team sucks when you can’t be bothered to make witty comments about their suckitude anymore.
Ok, Dmitri Young needs to remember that he’s Dimitri Young. He doesn’t need to mug for the camera like he’s in a P. Diddy video or something. Sheesh.
Villone’s doing wonders for his last-minute trade value there.
Villone noooooooooooooooooooooo.
I’m waiting for the DUFFY’S BAR — SEATTLE T-shirt promotion.
By the way, I’m not standing between Dmitri Young and the post-grame spread. Uh uh.
I don’t know what’s worse: Giving up the lead in the 8th, or seeing that (after giving up the lead) your next 3 batters coming up are Reed, Bloomquist and Lopez?
#131 – Looks like you’re not the only one who hasn’t stood between Dmitri Young and a post-game spread.
How do you get a name like “Nook”? Come to think of it, how do you get a name like “Exavier Prente Logan”? Exavier?
Who is the Tigers closer, in light of the fact that Troy Percival is injured?
Exavier is actually a (somewhat) common name. I think it just fell out of favor with names like Prudence, Felicity, Chester, etc.
Xavier is a common name. Catholic, saint, you know. Not Exavier.
The excitement over the “guess how many balls” promotion is now reaching a fever pitch.
You know, WHY can’t the first guy since Andre with my last name, and the first ever to play for us, be even halfway decent so I can get a jersey? If I wore a Thornton M’s jersey I’d get attacked in the street.
You’re right, I thought I had seen it spelled that way also, but the musician Exavier Rivas seems to be the only other guy with that spelling.
Guess it’s another one of those…creative spellings that seem to be cropping up in the last 20 years.
I’m calling a double here.
Apathy setting in on the field. Even Hargrove sees that. Or does he? Why are Olivo and Thorton still playing in July?
I’m calling the bartender for a double here. This is nasty.
8-5. Wheeeeee…
PS- you want extra emetic with that, Mr. Thornton?
Is Duffy’s still serving? (Isn’t the beer in the Simpson’s called “Duff’s”? I wonder if that’s a reference, or just coincidence.)
When I looked at ESPN’s page for Matt Thornton, which says “Matt Thornton RP” I thought it said “RIP”. One can hope.
Farnsworth is Detroit’s closer now that Troy is down.
Isn’t the beer in the Simpson’s called “Duff’s�
OOOOOHHHH yeah! Duffman pounds the Duff Beer.
*pelvic thrust*
145 – no, I think I need to keep this one down, Mr. Shadel.
Anybody think that the M’s will pull out at least 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th to keep it going?
Only one run from bases loaded nobody out — at least somebody here can pitch.
Yeah, I was just weighing snowballs and measuring hades for that one…
I think they’ll pull it out. But I’m sleep deprived and not thinking clearly.
151
If this were 2-4 years ago then yes.
But with this team? Nope!
#111–Steve Thornton said: “Ordonez looked like he was 41 on that play, not 31. What happened to him? He’s still a “stealth†leader on a lot of cumulative categories, because he started racking up decent numbers at a young age, but he fields like a DH now for sure.”
what happened? knee surgery (meniscus tear) followed by bone marrow edema that took him out of the end of last season, intestinal disorder all through ST, followed by hernia surgery in April. He just got off the DL at the start of July
Hope fading. Enthusiasm dying.
Farnsworth pretty much humiliated Hansen.
156 – I knew he was hurt and his knees were bad, but not that bad. That explains why there was so little interest over the winter. I’ve always liked him, I hope he does well. At one point he looked like he was going to turn the corner and be a Hall of Famer. He’s still going to surprise a few people with his career numbers, I think.
Find five mistakes in this sentence:
“D Hansen hit for M Olivo.”
MLB-TV just quit on me. But I can hardly complain.
“bone marrow edema” — man, that’s excruciating just to read.
Ballgame.
I’m beginning to think they’re not gonna pull this one out after all.
A 95 mil team like us can’t really expect to compete against a powerhouse like the Tigers.
I need treatment.
look at the bright side! bloomers went 2 for 4 and thus will undoubtedly start again!
In terms of relief pitching, Thorton is kind of like the dream prom date — no matter what happens, you know he’ll show all the guys a good time.
bleagh
I don’t remember dreaming of a prom date who would show ALL the guys a good time.
167 – I’m waaaay past the point where I consider Bloomquist to be a significant problem. He’s fine right now. Bloomy can start every day as far as I’m concerned. We need a catcher, some starting pitching… okay, a lot of starting pitching, relievers, a manager and a minimum of two relief broadcasters. Got plenty enough to worry about.
The 2005 M’s are kind of like an emetic…
Does it look like Hargrove has put on about twenty pounds since the first of the year? He doesn’t look like a happy camper. He looks like his sleeping bag is wet.
I think you’d be a little verklempft if your first big league job started out winning bigtIme in Cleveland (without QUITE getting the brass ring), and then you went to awful teams in Baltimore and Seattle.
This game thread should be preserved in the archives as one of the funniest ever!
Verklempt? I thought he was just fat.
Dmitri Young: “Hey, Big Dog, you look like a man who could recommend a good restaurant here in Sea-Wash”.
I’ll give him credit for nailing that suicide squeeze/caught stealing home in the sixth. That was a thing of beauty, and a rare case where the manager really did make a difference on the field with strategy. I wonder if he caught a sign?
Grover’s had plenty of time to get over being verklempt, now he needs to be a mensch and quit being so farmisht. Otherwise we’re farfalen.
Thank you, thank you. I owe it all to Willie Bloomquist, who showed me Heart, and Derek here, who showed me his copy of Nurse Week magazine in the woods behind his house back in sixth grade.
Not really, but that’s the way I’m telling it.
Over on LL it was noted that the team is pathetic except for Sexson, Beltre, and Ichiro. Which got me to thinking – what if those guys expressed their disappointment a bit more clearly in the locker room? Sure, Ichi is small, but incredibly fast and probably has some bitchin martial arts moves. Sexson and Beltre need no explanation….
Beltre’s been picking it up as of late, sort of, but he’s still the 25th-best 3B in baseball. Who exactly is he going to express these moves on? He’s only the sixth-best position player on the club, according to VORP, which is nothing to brag about.
BTW, according to VORP Miguel Olivo is the second-worst player in baseball, after the amazin’ Cristian Guzman, who has had twice as many PA to be lousy in. How can this be possible?
On the plus side, Richie is now the best 1B in the American League, and is inching into MVP-candidate territory. He’s on the leaderboard in VORP and RARP, and is starting to look like the free agent of the season. I was a skeptic, and still am when it comes to the length of the contract, but Richie has made himself very welcome as virtually the only real bright spot on a bad and boring team.
Did Evil Rick make an appearance on the thread tonight and I missed it? Damn!
Then again, maybe he really did make an appearance in the booth. In the top of the 9th prior to Hasegawa being brought in, Rizzs and Valle were discussing how baseball has become more of a global game. After mentioning South Korea has Chan Ho Park, the camera switched to some guys with silver and blue afros in the field level, prompting Evil Rick to say on cue, “Some of them come from Mars.” Personally, I thought the timing was great and brought some levity to an otherwise drab night.
177: Oy vay.
182 – Does that mean I have your hekhsher? Oh, genug shoyn!
183: LOL. And I agree with the last part. Not sure we want to start a whole discussion on the Yiddish language. I don’t know too much more anyway. Then again, Pineiro’s pitching last Thursday in Toronto prompted the Spanish conversation.
Hargrove is zaftig. Get it right.
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No.
And if a month and a half off is going to be a problem for Clement turning pro, consider that the college baseball season is much shorter, so he likely had whole stretches of months off.
Ya’ know, maybe it’s just the time I put in at the People’s Pub before reading (Hoegaarden on tap, btw,) but this is one of the most entertaining game threads ever.
Re: (# 41) THE BRAND NEW BALLGAME – What are you missing? The same thing you’re missing when the Mariners hit a solo homer, closing the score to 10-1, and an announcer says, “And just like that, the Mariners are right back in it.”