Saturday Spring Training haps
DMZ · March 4, 2006 at 8:38 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Blackley looked good.
M’s lose to the Padres, their hated rivals.
Choo wants to stick with the team (Times)
Pineiro had a couple good innings ahead of his participation in the WBC (Times)
Larry Stone admits he’s having trouble being enthusiastic about the WBC (Times)
The PI’s got a bunch of boring stuff on the WBC. Bleah.
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Pokey Reese went AWOL^H^H^H^Hhome.
Man, I know it’s fluff, but how am I supposed to get through an article that a subhead referring to Travis Blackley as a right-hander? Research? Fact-checking? How about actually showing up to the game instead of writing articles from the hotel room or who knows where else?
The bar. They always write from the bar.
What about Scott Spiezio slaying the ball like never before?
Choo has to trust that everything will work out, just as he trusts that the Mariners made the right move when they made him an outfielder instead of a pitcher. Choo was a star left-handed pitcher in Korea and has been reported to throw a fastball 95 mph.
“When I was in high school, 99 percent of the work I did was on pitching,” said Choo, who was named the most valuable player and best pitcher in the 1999 and 2000 President’s Cup, Korea’s most prestigious high-school tournament. “All of my dreams were to be a pitcher. Hitting was just for fun. I didn’t even care when I struck out, because I was a pitcher.”
Hmmm. Wonder if it’s too late too make Choo into a pitcher. He might have had a higher ceiling as a pitcher than as an outfielder. A left-hander that throws in the mid-nineties. Not bad.
Pokey Reese has been released – http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11684341/
part of the Times WBC coverage is an article catching up with Sasaki who is beginning work as a baseball analyst
Larry Stone looks at the Marlin’s newest re-build, and also comments on Boone’s retirement, Pokey’s absence, and checks in with Nellie, who is in one of his pissy moods re: the Mariners 🙂
oh, and Bob Sherwin talks with Ichiro …. probably not in Japanese, as was Brad Lefton’s interview with Sasaki, though
ESPN is reporting that Gil Meche is out indefinitely with a strained oblique.
I just saw on the ticker at ESPN that Gil Meche strained his oblique and is out indefinitely.
Go Foppert!
With Reese’s departure, the front-runner for the second base job becomes rookie Dan Uggla, who hit .297 with 21 home runs last year for Double-A Tennessee  but also committed 25 errors. A trade for a veteran is a possibility, Beinfest said.
Hmm, I wonder…if a certain Hustling, Gritty and Versatile Veteran Who Thinks He Should Start from the Seattle Mariners wasn’t going to be starting here- d’ya think he might like to play every day in Florida?
Also, on a sadder note, Kirby Puckett has suffered a stroke and is in surgery in Arizona.
Kirby’s had some problems since his retirement, but what a joy he was to watch play the game. Get well, Kirby.
on the broadcast, they hoped to have Gil back by next saturdays game… re, Puckett, Lawton in the in-game interview said he got off the parctice fields this morning and had a bunch of messages on his phone from former Twins, and that at this point ‘it doesn’t sound good’
mln, don’t forget the last time we took a left hander with a mid 90’s fastball who hadn’t pitched competitively in years, and tried to get him back into pitching.
That said, I do agree that it’s an option if Choo doesn’t pan out as a power hitting outfielder. He can be a reverse Korean Babe Ruth. Or Rick Ankiel, depending on how things went.