Game 48, Orioles at Mariners
RHP Kris Benson v LHP Jarrod Washburn.
I remember back when Kris Benson looked like he was going to be really good, and then when he looked like he still might break out and be really good even though it hadn’t happened yet… and now here he is, the leader of the Orioles staff.
Baltimore’s been pretty kitten-like (cute, harmless) against left-handers this year: .214/.288/.384 as a team (!). Which is way better than Richie Sexson or Adrian Beltre’s overall line, and a little bit better than Jeremy Reed. That’s really sad.
Seattle, if you’re curious, against righties: a not embarassing .276/.327/.430
Fun fact: Kris Benson will be paid about $1m more than Washburn in 2006.
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So does this mean no WFB tonight??? We’ll hafta sacrifice a lil ignition for outstanding fielding and a (at least recently) better bat!
From Ron Fairly’s Wikipedia entry:
“After retiring, Fairly served as a radio and television baseball commentator. After starting with the San Francisco Giants, he is currently a broadcaster for the Seattle Mariners. Fairly serves primarily as a color commentator, but occasionally steps in to do play-by-play as well. Advocate of “keeping the ball down [in the strike zone]” in his pre-game scouting reports.”
From a Salon article on Vin Scully:
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/10/12/scully/print.html
“In 1965, on the last day of the season, with the Dodgers having clinched the pennant the night before, manager Walter Alston let Scully manage, over the radio, from the booth. A very hung over Ron Fairly drew a walk (“He didn’t trot to first base. He didn’t really walk to first base. He sloshed to first base”), and Scully thought it would be fun to have Fairly, slow-footed in the best of times, steal.
“For those of you in the ballpark with transistor radios listening,” Scully said, “watch Fairly’s face when he looks over to third and gets the steal sign.” After a double take for the ages by Fairly and a foul ball by the hitter, Scully had Fairly go again, and he made it, thanks to the catcher dropping the ball.”
From the book “Baseball Inside and Out”:
“Any prominent general manager worth his membership in this peculiar fraternity developed some creative tricks for holding down player salaries.
Buzzie Bavasi, longtime GM for the Dodgers, was right at the head of the class. “One year,” recalled Bavasi, “I had signed Tommy Davis to a contract for $50,000. Ron Fairly was coming in to negotiate his contract, and I knew he was going to ask for far more than I felt he was worth.
“So I had a dummy contract drawn up. It showed that Tommy Davis would be paid $18,500. I put it on my desk, where it could be seen easily. “When Fairly came into the office, I came up with an excuse to leave for a minute. I knew Fairly would peek at the dummy contract. When he saw that Davis would make only $18,500, he figured he could not ask for more money than a National League batting champion was getting.
“Fairly signed for $18,500.”
Advocate of “keeping the ball down [in the strike zone]†in his pre-game scouting reports.â€Â
The person who added this line is at IP address 66.232.83.221. That maps to Cambridge Telephone Company in Boise.
Hmm. Don’t we have an Idaho resident posting on here quite a bit?
Yes, and he’d be happy to give you detailed directions to anywhere in that state.
I don’t use CTC. I use frontiernet. You can’t get CTC DSL up here in McCall. CTC Telephone, yes, CTC dialup, yes, but CTC DSL, no. I have Frontier. And CTC is based in Cambridge, ID not Boise.
My IP is 70.101.144.14*
Go to ctcweb.net. You’ll see that it’s not available in McCall.
and DMZ can tell you that all my IPs start with either 65, 67, 70, or 170. Unless I’m at school in which it starts with 127.
and look at the other modifications by that IP. What the heck would I know about Cal Poly?
Melvin Mora: Worth his 3-year, $25-million contract extension? Discuss.
Is the Corcoran corner of the internet no more? Clicking on your name gets a Blogger 404…
it exists, I just changed the address. It should be fixed as of this post.
“I, Corcorus” … a new 47-part BBC miniseries, coming soon to a PBS station near you.
Feeling like your comment count is going down Corco?
I have no affiliation with BBC.
I feel a need to defend myself.
And…. Corcoran makes an early break for total comments leadership. “What a scrappy move,” says Rizzs, “To be posting so much so early in a game thread so early in the season. It’s like he wants to get something started, and he doesn’t care about the consequences…. Say friends, wouldn’t a nice Xanax and beer be a great combination while you’re lying out on your Jorve roof…?”
I have no affiliation with BBC.
Too bad, if you did you might be eligible for a piece of the license fee…
My pre-game scouting report on Corcorus:
 Needs to avoid going too deep in the count too early in the game.
 Needs to mix in a few verbal cutters with his rhetorical fastballs.
 Needs to break balls less.
 Needs to stop shaking off his USS Mariner catchers.
I don’t want nothing started. And I’m oblivious to consequences. So no problems here.
I don’t shake off my catchers. I take what they say and run with it. Really really far.
And 11/24 comments are mine. That’s not sooo bad. Not even half!
as a Pirates fan, yes by golly there was a lot of hope for young, fresh-faced Kris Benson and his innocent charm. I’m sure it is just a coincidence that he got married in 1998, made his MLB debut in 1999, and never achieved the sort of career & numbers his college days had predicted…..
I, Corocus– starring Colin Farrell as the young Roman Corocus, with Tim McInnerny as Consul Maximus, Kelly MacDonald as Plancina and Sir Derek Jacobi as kindly Uncle Cluadius.
I didn’t realize them dang Brits had a licence fee. Where do I get signed up to be affiliated with BBC?
well, duh. why else would you need the TV Detector Van if not to catch the unlicensed viewers?!?
This is a good point. I was always curious as to the purpose of those contraptions.
Dave Niehaus gets cut off every single game at that 7:03 commercial break. You’d think he’d start to figure it out.
that would be an unrealistic expectation.
wow. 1 down already. I can’t get to a TV so I’m watching with my Frontier DSL.
Haha. Mora just struck out.
I love 1-2-3 innings.
Ichiro is overrated.
Lopez is my freaking hero. He’s amazing.
Throw your scouting reports out the window, Corco is on fire.
Isn’t the Corcoran Clan due at Safeco in June?
36: roger that.
37: I will be there for the whole SF series.
Raul…come on.
at least Jose is good. He’s carrying this team.
BIG RICHIE!
JoLo the cholo scores on a ball through the hole-o.
that’s what I like to see. We’re winning!
I can’t compete in volume, so here is some content– in the news today, Jamie swears occasionally, Jason Churchill has a piece about the M’s chances with the draft, Larue talks about the Eddie vs JJ issueand Art Theil has the notion that somebody edgy like Bonds is what the M’s need… or, if not, just cut the big guy some slack when the Giants are in town.
Everett is a bum.
Carl said the “S” word.
Anyone else hear Everett yell “Shit!” when he popped that up?
haha. he’s not family friendly. he should be replaced with Willie Bloomquist. Bloomquist For DH! It’s even better for his versatility!
Willie is SO 2005. I’m all about Michael Garciaparra now.
stupid Washburn. He blew his perfect game already.
Apolo Ohno needs to be forcibly shaved.
I am personally still angry that Scott Youngbauer is getting playing time taken away.
Those brothers of MLB superstars are always successful right? Wilton Guerrero, Matt Sweeney, Jeremy Giambi, I could probably go on.
53. Me too, because I met him… and his name is like Jack Bauer, which is basically awesome. I hear he kills terrorists in between innings.
Wilson Delgado, Jake Blalock,
Mike Maddux, who was a Mariner for about 11 seconds.
And Donell Nixon, the speedier brother of Otis Nixon.
And, of course, the Patron Saint of Baseball Brotherhood … Craig Griffey.
Or was it Mark Leiter?
Billy Ripken!
He does? That’s not so good.
Killing something is like taking a life away, and taking things away is like stealing. And that’s illegal.
Pete Rose Jr!
wait. That’s a son.
Ah, here we go… http://www.baseball-almanac.com/family/fam1.shtml
J-Wash isn’t looking so hot all the sudden.
Alan and Andy were brothers?
60. Not if they’re terrorists! They’re expendable!
Ozzie Canseco. Cross-sports: Dan McGwire.
Jolbert Cabrera was effective. And the Hairstons are almost identical players.
I hear there’s a young Fireovid flaming through the high school ranks.
Please God, someone stop him. And I don’t mean any of the O’s.
Don’t forget about the Alomar bros.
probably a sont hough.
One thinks if Corco was getting the occasional O, he might be posting a little less.
My grandma could pitch better than Washburn. with BOTH hands tied behind her back.
I think Lauren was referring to Washburn.
there’s like a flock of Molina’s catching in various places aren’t there?
Conine is up, and since edgar retired he’s my favorite old guy ballplayer.
mostly because he’s such a very very good racquetball player.
I’m trying to set a personal c omment high for one thread.
Y’all are forgetting Tommy Aaron. He and his brother are the all-time leaders in home runs by brothers.
The Angels catcher brothers pop to mind, as does pulling a Tonya Harding on Mr. Corcoran’s typing appendages.
It’s STILL weird to see Washburn in a Mariners uniform.
Does he always look this complacent and low-energy when he pitches?
don’t worry. I am fully capable of typing with my nose. And I will if I have to.
Ugh, big lag for me. Nate snuck in in the meantime.
I’m experiencing lag as well. It is making me grumpy. It may have to do with other people posting comments.
Yeah I had like a five minute lag.
Corco I’m adding you on MySpace, if only to distract you from the Thread for a few seconds.
That won’t distract me. I’m using 2 computers. While one is loading on the USSM, the other is on myspace.
wow, that’s an impressive waste of electricity.
#65. and amazingly, Alan and Andy still ARE brothers.
Shawn Buhner.
I leave 3 computers on at once usually. Plus a 4th that’s not on the internet. You should see my computing area.
raise your mouse if you are suprised that Corco has a dedicated USSM machine…
carry on.
Unless I’m watching games on TV, that’s what the laptop is for. But I’m studying for my finals right now so I don’t have time to watch TV too.
Somewhere, Lenny Randle is weeping with joy.
Is one of your finals on USSM? Because otherwise…
I wonder how Robbie Beckett likes working nights at Taco Bell.
I think Corco single-handledly broke the server for a few minutes.
No. I’m studying for Calculus and Advanced Biology right now.
Well that was pretty sad.
Wow. I think Conine was just possessed by Canseco.
Very nice profile Corco, I’m glad to call you a friend.
I’m a fan of Yubet.
Conine doing his best Eric Byrnes impression.
Thanks, Conine.
I put a lot of effort into it.
They gave Yu Bet a double on that? Looked like an error to me.
Conine is old and better suited to 1st base.
YUBIEEEEE!
They’re calling that a double? Jeeze, I wish they used this scoring in my modified league, I’d be hitting like .900.
Ichiro is underrated.
#95. I am visualizing Corco with strabismus, esotropia, exotropia, amblyopia…
They’ll almost never call an error if the fielder doesn’t touch the ball.
That was the highest ball I’ve ever seen Ichiro hit. Dave really wanted it to get out too.
[spell]
I have slight amblyopia in my left eye but it’s hereditary.
Benson is pitching like his ex.
his ex could pitch better than this.
my 3 legged dog could pitch better than this.
Didn’t they get back together?
I am visualizing Corco with strabismus, esotropia, exotropia, amblyopia…
Don’t forget Wilson’s Disease. Tonight, on House.
server! It died! Come back! It’s back!
Richie Sexon wakes!
116. Yep, and I believe she was shown on the broadcast earlier.
ewwww. I don’t have Wilson’s disease. I’m as healthy as a horse.
What’s with all these balls finding green tonight?
The server died as soon as Anna Benson was mentioned.
Are you killing this server, Corcoran? Calm iddily-down-diddily, mister.
What an inning!
Wow, Beltre didn’t kill the rally. Color me impressed.
I did not kill the server.
They’re having a wake for Richie Sexson? About time.
I was going to play around with myspace while the game was on, inspired by Corco, but I can’t get anything to work. It’s a horrible system. How did it get so popular (don’t point me to Microsoft as a similar example, it’s not the same)
Baltimore defense doesn’t look all that sharp either. It’s like they are all hung over after yesterday’s post-game celebration.
It really is a terrible system until you figure it out.
128. Because little girls and/or child molesters can come together in one place to discuss things and put up neat emo pictures of themselves taken with a camera in a mirror. It’s kind of like how Hanson became popular, they weren’t very good either.
We will be only 2 games out after tonight!!!! And that bunt by reed was crazy!!!!!
I hate when I get text messages when I’m already doing 4 things at once. It collapses the whole system. Sorry about the comment lapse.
SEXSON-EVERETT-BELTRE back to back to back basehits…first time this year?
Griffey-Edgar-Buhner had nothin on these guys.
That’s OK, Corco. Somehow we managed.
132: That’s bad karma. Knock it off.
It’s totally unacceptable. I hate girls who text me when I’m clearly multitasking. Theyre such inconveniences.
Unrelated baseball question: My girlfriend is going to the Sox game tomorrow, who’s t-shirt jershey should I hint at her to buy me. I’m leaning towards papplebon I think.
white or red?
138: Youkilis.
wait…red of course. Um. Hmm… I’d go with Nixon.
Almost every week in my paper, we run a story about adult men picking up teen (or pre-teen) girls (and boys) on MySpace.
Or wait! No! Wily Mo!
I’d prefer the Red. White stains easily.
138 – Wily Mo
X-MEN 3 PITCH BY PITCH! YES!
Bloomquist would have caught that.
Washburn, regressing to his mean.
I believe La Belle Dame Sans Habillement dismissed her divorce petition about a week after she filed….
#68– speaking of the Hairstons, there is a tiny bit of footage of Sam Hairston (their grandfather) in a short called “Negro Leagues baseball” collected by the National Film Preservation Foundation, and you’d swear it was either Jerry or Scott. Genes are an amazing thing.
Haha, Wily Mo might be tough, because she was a huge Bronson Arroyo fan, she’d probably have a hard time purchasing it.
#138: Go with Bob Zupcic. or Dana Kiecker.
Buckner.
SNL ran a pretty funny sketch about myspace.com a couple of Saturdays ago. Basically it was a bunch of perverted adults trying to pick up teenagers.
Griffey would have caught that.
I wish I had a girlfriend who was a Red Sox fan.
153. Yes saw it, even though I hate him Horacio Sanz was hilarious in that.
Mr. Corcoran, that attitude toward inconveniences explains why you weren’t at the USSM Sponsored DJC Day, right?
oh. But wily mo is the shiznit.
Myspace is good if you set your age to 14 so your profile is private as I did a couple days ago.
Geez, there is absolutely no excuse for walking anyone with a 7 run lead.
and you only add people you know
156: It was the second time in several years SNL has been funny (the other time of course being “Lazy Sunday”).
I have a Varitek one. Here’s a hint, Get the jersey of the guy who has a long term contract, that’s untradeable or get one without a name on the back. My Seattle Rainiers Jersey is nameless and I prefer that.
USSM Sponsored DJC day? when?
Hopefully Washburn doesn’t let this thing turn into something similar to the Padres game last Sunday.
and I imagine it wasn’t an inconvenience unless you texted me to tell me to go.
I remember DMZ setting up something cool for you at a game that you couldn’t make.
I kind of collect them, I think I have about 16 or so, and I’ve been doing a pretty good job. My friend had a job interview in Seattle this year so I got 5 M’s tees. Add that to the Ichiro, Sexson, and Bucky ones and I could wear one every day of the week and have one left over.
Every day is DJC day at USSM
161 – I actually think the show is better now than it has been in a long time. I love the “Two A-Holes” sketches… oh, and the ADD girl.
I’m willing to be alone in this, but I find Kris Benson to be shockingly unattractive, repulisve even. That may be in part due to having heard her speak.
Hey that rule Dave just read about hitting streaks and how sac bunts are differentiated from sac flies is consistent with the rule on OBP that was so meaningfully discussed here about a month ago. Whaddya know.
166: It’s hard to make it to Seattle on about 10 hours notice when you have no money and obligations the next day.
169 kris? or anna?
’cause I’d have to agree.
You mean Anna Benson. Chris isn’t a looker by any stretch but HE’s a guy.
Just imagine when DJC moves to Tacoma.
Never fear though, starting september 1st I’m going to be at every imaginable USSM shindig.
Kris has always looked a little like Glavine
huh. Orlando Hernandez to the Mets for Jorge Julio
Every day is DJC day at USSM
Witnessed by the DJC special “Ask me about the traffic in McCall, Idaho” t-shirts…
Nate – oops. Sorry, I meant Anna. Both will do.
I love it when Ichiro has a good hitting streak going. Adds a touch of spice to every game waiting for the hit. Lately, of course, he hasn’t made me wait long.
it appears that pensive and i had the same thoughts.
Can we do a USSM goes East for Philly people like Deanna and me? haha
I hate to join Corco in making useless comments but… if you liked Lazy Sunday, go check out http://thelonelyisland.com right now. Don’t pass go, collect money, yada yada. In fact, the Mariners haven’t played a single game this year that’s better than anything on that site.
My parents couldn’t even pronounce Albert Pujols’ name correctly, but they managed to pick me up a #5 Cards jersey tee while in St. Louis last month, without me even suggesting it.
#176– well, actually more like the lovechild of Glavine & Cone.
Red and Rick can’t even pronounce Pujols’ name correctly.
Puljols.
Pool-holes.
For the good of middle America, he should begin spelling it Poo-holes immediately. That’s how I always think of it anyway!
So how many does Pujols jack this year? I vote for 59.
62
Valle describing a Mariners commercial is possibly less exciting than having him read Garfield cartoons to me.
“Garfield there, saying “I want that lasagna…”"
Nice to meet you last night, Marbledog. How did your team do?
I blew it. Lost on ingenue, which I can spell in my sleep but I listened to bad advice. I can also spell isobronton in my sleep.
Of course that doesn’t help much, does it? Nice meeting you too – Spelling geeks unite!
Same thoughts as DJC. That’s what Red Bull and Jagermeister will do.
Jim Thomsen in #3: that is just _sooo_ priceless. That’s the way the game used to be played before the money got $$$$ big, and the players started to spend their time on the bench checking their stock portfolios between ABs.
Did you hear the pronouncers say certain words differently? My teammates and I sometimes didn’t hear an “n” in “isobronton.” We got jacked, man.
Having an official pronouncer with a British accent is almost worse than starting WFB in CF every day.
so, when the Cards played KC during interleague, think the KC announcers mentioned that the braintrust passed on drafting hometown boy Albert? Several times?
(sorry USSM readers for the digression, but Jim Thomsen and I, who have never met obviously, found ourselves in the same spelling bee last night – cool, eh?)
(Now back to the discussion of Corcoran taking 3 computers to the prom)
Speaking of Griffey, sounds like he’s healthy again.
oh man I wish I would’ve taken 3 computers to prom.
Actually, can you imagine having Ron Fairly as an official spelling bee pronouncer? Everybody would lose in the first round.
Synchronicity. Syn-chron-i-city. Synchronicity.
Corco, did you catch your prom date a delicious bass?
Or Valle:
exspecially
exsential
exsence
i couldn’t catch a fish to save my life. I drive to Boise to eat at Long John Silvers in these kinds of emergencies.
204. If Long John Silvers fist is actually fish, I think it’s Haddock.
sorry, typo = fish not fist, haha
81 pitches for Washburn through 4, a little more than half for strikes (44).
[chuckle] why I remember the first time I had to spell ingenue, why Don Drysdale said the me (Don loved to spell, you remember, Ricky) why Don said to me [heartier chuckle]…..
Oooh… The Man Would Be King Felix vs. Liriano on Friday.
Almost makes me want to skip on Folklife Friday afternoon just to watch.
It qualifies as fish for me.
You mean, Splifflife?
208 lol
Sounds like Corco has a love-hake relationship with fish.
Speaking of fish, that was a real breaded flounder Washburn served up just now ….
ahhhh. SCTV. The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes, starring Peter O’Tule as the King, Cathryn Hepbern, Richard Berton as the Pope, and Richard Hariss as the King of the Popes… the gripping epic of the king who wanted to be pope, the pope who wanted to be king, and the man who would betray them both.
I have no relationship with fish. to me fish are Filet-O-Fishes from McDonald’s. I’m still a big city kid at heart.
Well, all the Ms starters pitched pretty well in April, just about as well as they could. That couldn’t last, by definition. It’s over. Moyer’s been hit; Joel’s regressed to last year’s hollow man; Washburn’s mysteriously good control has collided with the simple solution of good wood on a good swing plane; Felix isn’t better, which is bad, but isn’t worse, which is good; Gil had a good game, but the mean regression of the rest may whipsaw him, too, perhaps. Oh well. . . . We’ve got Mateo to go long now, so there’s hope.
I guess Sean Green is the likely reliever.
218 posts and no Steve Kelley sighting?
I keep getting friend requests from Mariners fans right and left at a record rate.
Steve took the day off; we had to settle for Theil back in #45
New Corco headline: “USSM readers love Corco”
With our recent play and a better offense the sentiment in game threads covers spelling bees and fish.
I like losing baseball better.
I just realized that since I’m DMZs only friend, he can read all my bulletins really easily.
I have a feeling we’re going to need more runs.
um… only friend *on myspace*. Let’s make that distinction clear.
ahhhh, Dave takes over for Rizzs: “Washburn is at 97 pitches and the bullpen is as thin as a tapeworm on a diet”
oh…right! DMZ’s only friend on MYSPACE.
The last time there was a Corcoran marathon posting (Prom) Mariners won that game. DJC lucky charm?
DMZ, there must be some fourteen year old girls you can befriend on myspace.
I tend to blend the two together. If somebody asks me how many friends I have, I’ll answer 238 or how ever many myspace friends I have at the time.
#226: Echoes of Roy Scheider in “Jaws”:
“We need a bigger boat.”
DMZ I’ll add you, so you have more than one friend.
I have WAY more posts this game. I’m striving for a new personal record.
Did Washburn’s ‘dead arm’ just disappear that quickly? How many more pitches is he going to throw?
Hargrove looks like he is in pain.
how often do you get asked how many friends you have?
I have never been asked how many friends I have. But If I ever were, that would be the answer.
Is there an easy way to filter results for our W-L record and avg. runs scored with Reed starting at center vs. WFB??
Corcoran has more posts in this thread than Washburn had pitches.
No, but v. LHP/RHP would be a close proxy
Our last hit was in the second inning…we need the Ignitor to spark the offense!
240. I think you just need to look at the record against right handers vs. left handers.
#240– WFB’s gamelog
(polishing my resume) doot doo doo… good job there, Green.
Green comes through under pressure!
I can’t believe you have time to count this stuff.
Yah, that would be the simple solution. Fuller’s didn’t allow me to see the obvious.
ok Corco,
I take back nearly everything I ever said about you.
the tomato is indeed, um… yukky.
Wow. I’ve never seen Ichiro look that bad on a strikeout.
Re: BoSox jersey: Wakefield. You can wear it ten years from now, and he’ll still be there.
why does the server die whenever I’m about to post an insightful comment?
what have you said about me? and how do you know about me and tomatoes?
wait. duh. my blog.
Oh boy. A milk carton demonstration. Gather round the kids.
Now THIS is the most interesting thing I’ve ever seen Valle and Rick do, ever.
Annnnnd…. we’re back.
explain how Aaron Sele has a 6 inning 2 hit shutout…again?
I wanna try it!!
But, as this game so sorely demonstrates, the M’s in general do better against right handers, so maybe it isn’t a good way of comparing Bloomquist to Reed.
They should montage that commercial with Johjima’s play at the plate. It could end with him staring down Barfield and then fade to black.
The most painful spot has got to be the one where everyone is talking behind their gloves, especially Reed and Pineiro in the drive-thru.
259 – ask Aurelia and Spezio. There’s a top-secret ex-Mariner conspiracy.
apparently.
First 1-2-3 inning for the O’s since the first.
Nicely done, Val. Hey, Rico forgot to say the part about how he bets that the wax from the carton gets on the ball and the ball must do some wacky things with all of that wax on it…
Thanks goodness Birkins is out of there!
263. and Cirillo
The wife will not leave me alone about the whole American Idol thing. She’s in the other room and keeps running in every 5 min. to give me updates. It can’t be that cool, there’s no stats…not yet at least.
so how did the whole ‘milk carton as glove’ come up in the first place? Tejada? or from Valle’s years in the Dominican?
Uh oh. Jeff Conine has a local connection.
Green is lowering his .675 ERA here.
#271– yah, but they’ve resisted him for years already, even though he has the cool nickname of ‘nine’
Green is ‘throwing a lot of ground balls.’
How about a Mariner spelling bee?
Puchy Delgado, Jim Maler, Bill Nahorodny, Joe Lis, Stan Clarke, Shawn Boskie, Bob Ayrault, Arquimedez Pozo, Rob Ramsay … that would be challenging.
273 – still scary. We might be needing some veteran leadership in the clubhouse on trading deadline day after no other trades have been made.
Curto was happily anticipating the eventual arrival in Tacoma of Mumba Rivera this afternoon….
Do you put Soriano in to close, or do you leave Green in the game. He already has thrown a lot of pitches for him.
gotta be eddie.
nope, JJ.
good.
Looks like Corco’s getting tired. Must be up to around 100 posts. Better bring in a lefty.
If rizz is the pronouncer, I’d have no shot at “Jorvee” Torrealba.
Putz is gettin’ back up on that horse.
Mark Huismann
Rey Quinones
Salome Barojas
John Christensen
Brian Raabe
Tom Niedenfuer
Mike Parrott
Donell Nixon
Zak Shinall
Tim Harikkala
Brett Hinchliffe
Corco’s likely got two sophomore girls ready to step in and lend a hand at any moment.
Maybe JJ is pissed about how badly he looked yesterday.
day game tomorrow, what’s our day game record this year?
feeling a little juiced that we move to only 2 games out of (ok, the worst league in baseball) the west lead.
KK for JJ!
Wow.. well, that was quite a rebound for JJ, thank goodness, one more bad outing paired with Grovers man crush on Guardado could have equaled bad things. Two games out, whoda thunkd that one
phew.
#286, according to ESPN.com we are 6-9 in day games this year
2 games out is still only 2 games out. Will they deal if close in July?
Putz wasn’t happy about last night.
And we’re up to .500 at home! Woo. Plus check it, the interviewer got an actual smile out of Everett.
290, thanks
I did finally figure out where to look that stuff up.
(I shouldn’t ask questions I can look up myself.)
ok, looking harder now.
why is it harder to hit the ball in a day game? setting sun & shadows? batters eye? um, still hungover??
numbers across the board suggest it’s harder to get hits in day games.
I’ve never thought about it…
Nothing from Corco in almost an hour… I wonder if he fell asleep at the keyboard exhausted or something. Is anyone else near McCall willing to go check on him, make sure he’s okay?
Someone grab a tree branch and hit some of Val’s bottle caps at his window…
Sure … but I need complete directions from Corco first.
Well, well: Tuesday’s Fright Night notwithstanding, the Ms take two of three from the BaltOs.
Dynawasher just ate my access to ESPN here. : ( While I loathe their cluttered and voracious site, it was still a quick, easy way to check the scoreboard, and the Gamecast had it’s uses. I can put on my laptop, and dialout on a sideline, but the bother cancels the convenience. Oh well.
I’m sure he’s posted them on his blog at some point
Also, I need a thorough rundown on alternate routes, in case of Idaho mountain hurricanes.
#283, Jim don’t _do_ that. A blast from the past like that is like reliving in a dream being peppered with birdshot; you wake up pawing at yer ass expecting a bloody hand, then sweat for a half hour before you can lie back down again.
So, all in all, I’d say Washburn’s pitching exactly at the level he was expected to … thoroughly league-average.
Those ‘mountain hurricanes’ are called chinooks in this corner o’ the country. I mean, you could get caught in a flash flood and never heard from again; just a press card and a tennis shoe washed up on a bend in the river twenty leagues downstream.
Also, I need Corco to exhaustively describe all the flora and fauna along each route … I’m allergic to poison sumac, marmots and white supremacists.
The single most astonishing thing about this game thread is that nobody even mentioned Everett’s steal attempt. Have you all gone text-messaging blind?
#306: He already successfully stole $3.5 million.
[pah dum pah!]
huh. The McCall Chamber of Commerce doesn’t list Corco as a Civic Highlight….
I think he’s more of a national monument. Check under the Department of the Interior or the National Park Service. He comes with his own interpretive signage and restroom facilities.
Aaron Sele tonight:
7 3 0 0 1 5
It truly is a world gone mad.
#309– ooh, and cool graffitti, too, I bet.
on the postgame they brought in Matt Pittman to give them his knowledge of the M’s minor leagues, which as far as I can tell consisted of a cursory reading of the stat sheets, and asking Pat Rice a few superficial questions (and forgetting to ask him others, such as how Foppert is doing, and then confusing himself as to whether Foppert is playing right now or not. He thinks not.).
When asked, his summary of Doyle thus far is that he has no home runs, a couple of doubles, and is only hitting .276 … apparently the numbers at the other end of the stat line (OBP, etc etc) don’t mean anything. He did remember that ‘Dobber’ has a sweet left-handed swing, though.
Doyle hit his first XBH yesterday but went 1-5 to drop down to:
.267 / .436 / .300, 8 BB, 10 SO, 1 2B.
correction– it was Mark Ockett (sp.?) who was dispensing the fruits of his knowledge, not Pittman. He also mentioned that Adam Jones wasn’t hitting very well, but (when prodded by Blowers) said that Pat Rice thought he was handling the outfield, and then Mark helpfully pointed out that Jones is still relatively young, as he was a 2003 draft pick. uh-huh.
If I’m not mistaken, the all-time leader in interleague wins? Aaron Sele.
I like his insight on Bryan Lahair, who is allegedly very young for AA.
23 seems a little old for AA to me.
I always read the game thread after games I miss to see if I can get a feel for the tone of the game and find out anything interesting that doesn’t show up in the box (like everyone raving about Beltre’s throw yesterday).
But after about 80 comments and 55ish of them Corco’s, I just couldn’t keep going today.
Seriously dude, could you tone it down, just a bit?
FSN post-game player interview instruction manual::
1. “Take me through _______ .” (Insert ‘that inning’ or ‘that at bat’)*, **
2. “How important was ________?” (Insert ‘this game’ or ‘your performance’)*, **
3. “What has changed?” (Be ‘creative’.. ex. between last night and tonight?.. Between last week and this week?.. etc..)*, **
*When finished asking question, immediately wear proud grinning expression on face that exemplifies your investigative genius, you reporter you!
**Do not listen to subject’s answers. It will only throw you off track. Quickly move on to next generic recycled question on list despite response.
Please strictly adhere to this forula. If you do not follow this script verbatim, we will find another uninformed former TV weather personality to replace you.
Good luck Cara and Cameron!
corco needed his beauty sleep due to the fact that he is going to be rigourously tested today.
Academically or sophomorically?
#317, I cut Cara some slack, because I have seen her actually ask questions and demonstrate the ability the think extemporaneously; Cameron’s hiring I do not understand.
Clearly, Cameron Wong is a scrappy sideline reporter.
It’s interesting that the baseball definition of “scrappy” — a tenacious player who makes the most out of few skills — isn’t exactly what’s in the OED.
The OED definition: “Inclined to scrap or fight; aggressive, pugnacious, quarrelsome.”
What’s implied is that “scrappy” is a term you give to a boxer. A scrappy boxer in the OED’s mind is a guy who is pungacious and always ready to fight, to the point that he may pick a fight.
I just don’t see WFB fitting that definition. C-Rex? Absolutely. But not WFB.
ah, it is Mark Aucutt:
“A 20-year radio veteran, KOMO 1000 News sports anchor Mark Aucutt is a graduate of Tyee High School in SeaTac as well as Washington State University with degrees in Communications (Broadcast News Journalism) and Business Administration. He spent 15 Years in minor league baseball including nine as a minor league baseball play-by-play announcer for the Everett Giants/AquaSox (San Francisco Giants/Seattle Mariners), Kinston Indians (Carolina League – Cleveland Indians) and Salem (Virginia) Avalanche (Colorado Rockies)”
#322– hmm, a cursory look around the papers shows that according to the Seattle Times in 2003 the “scrappy rookie from Port Orchard could give Mariners’ lineup a lift.” I see that he isn’t ‘gritty’ like Spiezio and Aurelia, but he is a ‘sparkplug’ like Podsednik & Doyle…
Bloomquist and Podsednik are about the same player. Especially in that they both are overrated.
Furthur, Podsednik doesn’t belong in the same sentence as Doyle.
326 — Unless that sentence is similar to the one you just used.