Pregame wake and festivities
DMZ · August 15, 2005 at 9:53 am · Filed Under Mariners
If you want to meet up with fellow USSMers, check out today’s unofficial USSM pre-game. We’re going to meet up tonight about 5:30ish, maybe a little earlier at the King Street Bar and Oven.
You get two USSM authors and a BP guy:
- I’ll be there, trying to compose drinking songs about how depressed I am about Doyle.
- Jeff will be there, helping with rhymes and meter. He’s the handsome one.
- Jonah will be there, smiling, happy, and generally sociable, since it’s unlikely he’ll have another really bad day. Unless Jeff and I drag him into our Doyle-related despair.
Jonah’s trying to negotiate for a reserved table, so RSVPs if you’re going or will attempt to go would be helpful.
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Ever so slightly off topic..
Are there any other Vancouver (BC) based fans who are going to try and find a bar that has Fox Sportsnet? I think this will be an exercise in futility, but it is worth a shot.
I’m in. Sheez, I have to make up for last week’s feebleness.
I’ll be the one in the Bloomquist jersey
I’ll be there as well. I’ll be the one spouting gallows humor about Ryan Franklin and WFB staying disgustingly healthy over the course of the season, while Madritsch and our favorite Aussie outfielder get stricken down. Oh, and if SpIEzIO is pencilled in at DH after going 0-for-the-series, I’ll be descanting on the intelligence quotient of our current manager.
Sorry mates,but it’s all too far away from me!
Too bad,it looks like a truly fun night..
Me? I’ll try to wake up at 4AM(!)to witness King Felix’s 3rd start
All hail the King. Long live the King
Mariners Schmariners,
Outfielder Snelling has
Torn up his knee again,
Done for the year.
Grieving for Doyle and his
cruciate ligament?
My best suggestion is:
Drink lots of beer.
Okay, a double dactyl might not really work as a drinking song, but oh well. I’ll stop by at the “King” and say hi again. Will probably have to leave early once more. Don’t hurt me.
Why have a wake? The King is pitching tonight, this is one of the bright spots of a dismal season.
I think a wake is the appropriate metaphor for Mariner fan gatherings nowadays. After watching our illustrious manager DH Scott “.044″ Spiezio 2 games in a row while leaving Mike Morse on the bench, what other proof do you need that our situation is hopeless?
If I were a Seattle traffic cop on Royal Brougham for Mariners duty this week, I’d just be telling people “Move along folks! Nothing to see here”. Just like cops do at the scene of any other kind of wreck.
I’ll probably be there for a quick beer before heading to the field to get some pictures of King Felix warming up in the pen. I’ll probably have a Gonzaga shirt or hat on. Lookin’ forward to meeting everyone.
Wow, like three, four people… man. We’re in trouble when we can’t rustle up interest in a King Felix start.
maybe everyone’s out to lunch.
I’d be there, but I’m vacationing in Minnesota for the week. Another time, perhaps.
All hail King Felix!
Barking Pumpkin-I will be joining you at waking up at 4AM to watch King Felix.
I’m torn. King Felix is starting, but Skerik is playing at a club on Capitol Hill. Also I just spent $500 on emergency car repairs this weekend, so really I should just stay home.
If Felix starts against the White Sox on Aug. 26, I’ll be there. It’ll be interesting and fun to see him pitch against the team with the best record in baseball, even better if the counterpart is Buehrle or Garland.
Enjoy tonight guys and here’s to the end of a four game losing streak.
I bought my tickets to the 26th too. I’ll be there for drinks then if there’s going to be a meet-up.
Enjoy yourselves tonight guys.
#14: Tonight’s one of those BECU nights where you can get a View Reserved seat for $10, if that helps any.
#10: Everyone’s depressed that it’s Hernandez vs. Hernandez, instead of Zack “Saved by the Ball” Greinke. Either that, or they haven’t gotten time to make “At least Dave Hansen’s initials are ‘DH’” signs yet.
#13
That’s very cool..
It means,of course,There’s more than one deluded crazy mariners fan li9ving in Europe
I’ll get the coffee-and lots of it!
All hail the king. Long live the King
re 15, cooler still would be a start against Freddy Garcia…
19. I always forget about Freddy, arrgh!!! Perhaps the Mariners can complete the hat trick against him, with two wins in Chicago already. Then again, he’s 9-1 on the road this year and may have just a tad to prove in front of the Safeco faithful  not to mention the front office and ownership.
I’d be there if I wasn’t, you know, 1500 miles away.
I’d show up just to heckle Art Thiel for his article comparing Felix to Meche. I mean, sure phenoms can fade. But Meche was never Felix, Art. Not at his very most promising.
And I share your depression about Doyle. I’m even surprising myself with how much it bummed me out.
Chris (1), you had me until (BC).
Euro-based fans: You have my awe and sympathy. I was limited to weekend day games while I was there, but then that was pre-Felix.
I, alas, will not be in Seattle tonight, but my KKKKKKING signs will be making a repeat appearance, so everyone is welcome to stop by and say hello to my friends.
any idea which game Felix will be pitching this weekend in Minnesota. I had assumed Friday, but apparently i’m wrong?
He’s going to pitch every 5th game. After tonight, his next start is Saturday, August 20th.
The Tacoma News Tribune reports this morning that Morse will DH tonight.
Dave’s comment makes me wonder: How do we feel about Felix pitching every fifth game? He was on the dl not so long ago. Skipping his starts when off-days allow might not be a bad idea.
Would love to make it, but taking my three-year-old daughter to the game. I’m afraid that discussions of OBP and VORP might be above her head. We usually sit in the cheap seats, but I scored 11th row behind the dugout for this one.
She is VERY excited to see Ichiro. Having sat through that abomination of a game on Saturday, I’m excited to see a real pitcher. Maybe we’ll get lucky and the team will actually TRY tonight, unlike Saturday when they played like they didn’t feel like working on a weekend. (Man, I was pissed off about their performance on Saturday — a huge waste of time and cash.)
Have fun at King Street.
So since turnout looks to be low, I’m thinking we’ll just show up at 5:15-5:30 and grab available tables rather than bothering with reservations. See y’all there.
I should be there around 5:30.
at least Speez will be out of the line-up, per Larry Larue. There are also some choice Bavasi quotes– my favorite is when he was asked about the fans booing the Spiezio pop-up: “I was more bleeped off than they were,” Bavasi said. “You can clean up my language, but bleeped off is accurate.”
I may try to make it down myself. If I do, I’ll give you a call Jon.
What, the game’s not on here? Gah! Stupid Blue Jays going to Anaheim!
The liquor laws governing televisions in bars were only lifted a couple of years ago – we don’t really have a lot of good sports bars yet. Joints in Kitsilano (where I live) usually only have digital cable channels or obscure satellite feeds (good for watching rugby, but not much else).
That’s it – I’m opening a sports bar. I’ll call it The Ferret & Mangonel.
I was supposed to quote that in the above post. I don’t know what happened.
I’m opening a sports bar. I’ll call it The Ferret & Mangonel.
I would make a point of patronizing such a sports bar in my trips to Vancouver.
Hmmmmm… Unlike us, i thiiink BB could do something to avoid the situation. Then again, maybe not.
OOPS! Small i for I. Sorrry!
I’ll be heading in once I get off work.
From that Larue piece:
“I don’t know what to say, there’s no strength in my shoulder,†said Meche. “There’s no pain, no pressure, just no strength.
That’s a GREAT sign. Meche has dead arm.
#30
I hope you’re right,and OUR favourite D non H is truly out of the game,otherwise i might be tempted to start the day at 4 AM with a double shot of Mescal!
I rarely post here but will likely come out of hiding to make it to the B & O.
#6 Deanna, if you remove the ” … again, done for the year”, you could sing it to the melody of “God save the Queen” (or “King”). Which would tie in nicely with both the tradition of English soccer fans turning their national anthem into drinking songs, and with tonight’s royalty theme.
#41– man, that scans really well
Kitsilano Beach is one of my favorite places on Earth. Site of one of my best ever afternoons of pickup hoops. Good times.
38. Shouldn’t somebody relay the message to Gil that velocity and strength to throw pitches is generated from the legs and torso, not from the arm and shoulder?
Geez, is THIS why the guy’s been such a disappointment? That’s a BASIC principle of good mechanics, and he doesn’t know it.
Aha.. found it, at Stamps Landing in False Creek!
And, just to show you Americans what evan was talking about with liquor licences in bars, apparently there used to be about 41 classes of liquor licence. In some you were allowed two tvs of not more than 24 inches, and on in the ridiculousness from there. Now thank god they are down to two different types. Holy overregulation batman!
#44 he seems to know it’s the whole package; from the PI today: “Meche isn’t feeling great physically, and he’s not at the top of his game mentally since he watched old video of himself from 2003 when he won 15 games. “I watch the tapes from a couple of years ago, and I look fluid and smooth,” Meche said. “I watch the tapes now, and I look a lot more tense. I’m not being real smooth at all.”
22: Aw, shame you can’t be there, but here’s hoping the group runs out of K’s!
41/42: Doh, serves me right for invoking semi-obscure poetry forms. Good call on the tune, though I’d remove the first line instead. A good drinking song requires a rhyme with “beer”, doesn’t it?
I’m guessing 30k for tonight’s game attendance.
#39-no chance to catch the KING reign without having beer till 4AM. Tomorrow I am taking a day off. Not many as crazy as we are in Mariners world. GO FELIX. Enjoy the show folks!
Agh! BEHOLD THIS BLASPHEMY FROM A NON BELIEVER ON THE SEATTLE MARINERS MAIN SITE FORUM!:
Not that he doesn’t raise a decent point here and there but…
BLASPHEMY! HERESEY! OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
What’s this “hommage” we’re paying Felix? Is it anything like frommage?
No, frommage is what we pay Cheezio.
Meche with a dead arm? Wow, we’ve never heard that one before.
Hey Evan, you gonna need a chef at your new-fangled sports bar of yours? Might as well do it right, after all.
jason
What’s the deal you sellouts. Too classy for Larry’s now? Too seedy for the suburbanites?
Only if you can make poutine.
Ooh, I’ll try to be there in an hour. I’ve cheapie bleacher seats for tonight, but right now I’m trying to recover from my first bike ride in six months. I’ll be the beetroot red Irish one retching in the corner.
Bugger. It is a BECU night. I’d have paid the full tenner for 300 level seats behind the plate but the guy in the team store told me there were no specials.
I like the idea – Sports bar food as interpreted by the Culinary Institute of America! I will be a regular at the Ferret I think
#49– “and the rumors continue to fly that Ichiro is perhaps the next to take a walk…”
in 2008, maybe….
M’s roster moves is like watching an episode of the Prisoner.
Today they bring up Ojeda and send down Wiki.
Jonah & DMZ, I forgot to follow up on something at the pre-game wake which I wanted your opinion on about Baseball Prospectus, but in particular Joe Sheehan…
If you guys read it, what did you think of Joe’s piece a couple of weeks ago which was basically a eulogy to his father-in-law? No disrespect meant to Joe, but it seemed a little out of place in a baseball forum. It would have gone by without notice except then a day or two later in one of Will’s UTK columns, he spent a paragraph expressing thanks and appreciation for his father. Now this is a little more relevant since his father is a sports physician which relates directly to what Will writes about. But still, I can’t help think that I’m missing something about the BP philosophy or something. I admit that I was only reading the freebies for the last 3 years, but this year I subscribed and am reading more of the content. Perhaps I don’t fully understand the personalized views at BP. Anyway, Jonah, I anxiously await the tribute to your 3rd grade teacher. Hee hee.
Good time at the King Sreet Oven thingie. Good beers, good conversation. And no apologies for lionizing the King!
Rusty, BP publishes about 1,000 articles a year. You can argue the merits of a tribute article plus one paragraph if you like, but if 998.9 articles of baseball content aren’t enough, I’ll be happy to write 1.1 supplementary articles to bridge the gap.
Okay, thanks Jonah. I was just curious.
nice meeting the few of you that I was able to yesterday afternoon, on the end of the table closest to the door.
No problem Rusty–I was being sincere btw…I really am hyper enough to bang out an extra article to make a customer happy.
Hopefully we can all reconvene Friday Aug. 26, vs. White Sox, Felix’s likely next home start.
Jonah – after you wore the Fighters jersey yesterday, I have no doubt that you’re hyper enough to do anything for entertainment value
(also – you should totally read Cromartie’s book if you haven’t. It’s awesome, and I bet it’d be even awesomer to an Expos fan.)