Game 56, Royals at Mariners
DMZ · June 2, 2006 at 6:31 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
RHP Bob Keppel v LHP Jamie Moyer.
Beltre sticks in the #2 hole for… some reason, making it Ichiro!/Beltre/Lopez/Ibanez/Sexson/Everett/Johjima/Reed/Betancourt.
I’m hoping the M’s can pick up some cheap wins this series, but I fear it’ll be a badly-played batch of contests.
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Cheer up man! We’re going to win tonight!!! Woo Hoo!!!
I like exclamation points!
I’m going to go out on a limb and say KC takes three out of four.
Bob Keppel is the name of the King County detective who tracked the Green River Killer for years. I wonder if this one can stop the Mariners from continue to ritualistically kill off its fan base.
On the pregame Hargrove was asked whether this was a “must win” series.
His answer was “Must win for what? For me to keep my job?”
Boot IndieSnob! He’s a naysayer! We don’t need anymore of those ‘cuz we’re gonna win.
#5:
Heh. I hate to root against the M’s, but anything to get Hargrove canned works for me.
Tacoma up 2-0 on Jeff Heaverlo and Salt Lake in the fourth. Dobbs, Cabrera with RBIs.
Clint Nageotte so far: 3 3 0 0 3 3, 2 groundouts, 2 flyouts.
You’re either with us or you’re against us Indie!!
Great coverage, FOX. Jesus, figure it out.
Christ, how many times have we missed the first at bat this season.
When Mark Grudzielanek is the biggest offensive threat in your lineup, you know you’ve got problems.
#10 That’s not as bad as espn radio was for the mavs-spurs games. I missed like the last 2 minutes of one of the games while they were running ads, then they were like “we’re going to take you back to the game.. oh, it’s over? folks, it’s over, the mavs have won…”
Combined runs scored in this series?
I’m gonna say less than 20.
I think you people need to stop disasterbaiting. It’s about time this team broke out.
I hate it when people say “number one draft choice” instead of “first round draft choice.”
Unless they were actually the very first draft choice, just say “first round” instead of making me wonder which you mean.
Keppel: The Green Field Killer.
14 – it was about time for this team to break out about two months ago… now it’s not “disasterbaiting” so much as it is realistic assesment.
Wheeeeeeee, talking about furniture being moved. Nice tech glitch again boys!
Well, I actually get to watch a live Mariners game on television – the bad news is that it’s the Royals… Then again, that may be the good news, too.
Cross your fingers, moyer is going through the heart of their lineup
More like the pancreas of the lineup.
I’m with Dan! We’re gonna win tonight! Yeah Baby!!!
“Jamie already tonight looking much sharper than he did in Minnesota–” Jamie bounces a pitch in front of the plate, followed by silence.
Valle is hilarious.
9 batters later and the outfielders are bored
I hear Hargrove is going to start using Scrum to come up with the line-up card.
I dont mind beltre in the 2. If he is going to make the #2 hitter bunt all the time, he might as well use the guy who can’t hit.
Oh, boy. We may have a right-handed Rheinecker on our hands.
I’m swoony over Yuni.
I thought Doug Mientkiewicz was out of baseball. Turns out he’s with the Royals.
This will be the first M’s game I’ve seen all year… as soon as the Jays game is over…
#29– yup. Mark Grudzielanek, Ambiorix Burgos & Mientkiewicz are trying to get that exciting new sport, Scrabble Baseball, up and running….
Man – this is exactly as boring as I thought it would be.
Yawn, sorry, was I snorring?
29 — and the difference is ???
Oh good, dw is here. It’s only a matter of time before an inevitable breakdown. That should keep the thread interesting.
Well, I was concerned with getting good sleep tonight. However, I think this game will cure that.
What are you guys talking about !?!?! This is one hell of a pitchers’ duel.
Gotta say, Keppel looks pretty good. Nice change, great location, excellent movement.
M’s have hit the ball out of the infield twice even. This game is crazy!
Sorry Jim, I’m beginning to think my dead grandmother would look good against these guys sometimes.
There’s a difference between a pitchers’ duel and a battle of two incredibly inept offenses. This is the latter.
29  and the difference is ???
Exactly.
Man, this is old school, fast-paced, low-scoring ball right here.
not that I am not enjoying watching Jamie get guys out, but Ichiro! reminds me, former local guy Seth Everett (now at mlb.radio) was opining this aft. that the current Yankees/Sox All Star Roster wasn’t coming just from mass-voting at Fenway & Yankee Stadium, but was prob. also all the team-less adolescents whose only glimpses of baseball come from the Yankee/Sox-centric ESPN & Fox….
I’m not buying what you’re selling Dave. I love watchin Moyer pitch, and the M’s offense is about to bust out. Just you wait and see.
Mariners can make any pitcher look good.
#45 – Weren’t we saying this in 2002 (about the Mariners’ offense). I know I’ve been guilty of my share of hopeless optimism (I’m sure if you look through the archives here, Derek and Dave have chewed me out for it before), but this team is flat-out awful right now.
Oh good, dw is here. It’s only a matter of time before an inevitable breakdown. That should keep the thread interesting.
Nah. I was cranky earlier this week because work was crap. I’m not tonight because I have a cold beverage of my choice and the new Gnarls Barkley album. That album rocks.
I am willing to wait and see. Also, I have nowhere else to be tonight.
But I do love Jamie.
That’s an interesting point — it’s a lot like when the Braves built up a huge decentralized fan base by being the only team on a superstation, except that ESPN/Fox have nearly 100% market penetration
We chewed you out? Really?
Also — now that we’re 50 comments in, any particular article requests for the weekend, when I might have some time to write something substantial?
I’m going to toe dangerously close to an inappropriate comment and ask this question. Did Lauren just say that she’s willing and waiting?
I keep waiting for an article on whether moving the walls in would help or hurt the M’s.
#51 Substantial? Why can’t we get a puff piece on WFB?
Most of the big stars in the American League are on the Yankees and Red Sox. Now, as for the inexplicable votes for scrubs just because they are Yankees or Red Sox – I dunno, I think it’s probably just that there are more Yankees/Red Sox “fans” because their teams are better. Bandwagon effect, you know?
Well… with the the way Keppel and Moyer are pitching (it has nothing to do with the respective offenses… nothing), and the Jays’ 14-PA ninth, I may not get to see any Mariners ball tonight after all.
What game will have a score first – the Sounders/Timbers soccer game or this one?
I kid, of course, but I’ve said some stupidly optimistic things before at my old blog that were, of course, called out by you guys as stupidly optimistic (defending Bavasi’s Mo Vaughn signing comes to mind).
Really, Keppel looks objectively pretty good. See how consistently he works down in the zone?
#50– Seth was envisioning an army of 14-year-olds in Montana, tapping away at their keyboards….
Curto mentioned Dan Wright being called up to the Tacoma bullpen, and for the life of me I can’t remember the guy. I know he pitched against the Ms when he was with Chicago, but darned if I can bring him to mind.
DMZ, I wondered if you thought it was fair for the Seattletimes to publish that article on Beltre today.
Buddy Bell and Mike Hargrove, both trying to make something happen. Like maybe gettig fired.
51 – oh, so many. Let’s start with an obvious one – I would love a revisit to an article on who YOU would like to see manage the team. Has it changed at all since the last time the M’s were hiring?
Also would love to read at what point you think the team should decide on a in-season trade strategy and who you think the Mariners should try to trade away and/or try to acquire.
Those are obvious and large, but certainly things I’d like to read.
#57– hey, now that Preston is with Chivas, of course the Timbers will score.
#61– about the only thing I thought ‘unfair’ was the headline– there aren’t ‘rumors’, only knee-jerk fan speculation that I have heard; speculation that Finnigan addressed in his first paragraph
Hmm, close play at first, Lopez bounced it.
Oh, boy… The defense is imploding now.
This is my welcome to 2006 Mariners ball on TV?
Well the Sounders are at the half so the Royals have a chance here.
it’s a lot like when the Braves built up a huge decentralized fan base by being the only team on a superstation, except that ESPN/Fox have nearly 100% market penetration
20 years ago, the Braves were often the only game on cable TV in the evening. The regional sports channels were just getting going, and many of them didn’t have the 140-150 game deals with teams that FSN has with teams now. So, most summer nights, if you wanted baseball, it was the Braves or a Cubs-Dodgers/Giants/Padres game.
Our regional sports channel was HSE, and they didn’t get a decent Rangers package until Nolan Ryan came to Arlington.
msb I agree, but I also thought the mere notion of a traditional media outlet acknowledging the rumors gave those kneejerk fans too much credibility.
Young players, they’ll learn.
Being in Omaha, I have to often suffer through Royals games – thank God for MLB.TV.
Redemption
gosh, the last time Jamie had a no hitter was about 75 years ago in high school, when IIRC, he had back-to-backers in his senior year…
And. . . Doyle GIDPs.
I hope they don’t send him down to the Mariners.
DMZ, I don’t know if you could write anything “substantial” on this subject, but I would love to hear your advice on how to get a career in baseball. Even as a bright, young man working in aerospace with a nice career already forming, I would dump EVERYTHING to get the chance to use my technical skills and apply them to my number one passion — baseball. I was wondering how a) you made it, and b) what sort of things will help you make it to the top, and c) things you would do differently. Either that or write about Willie!
DMZ – I would also love a good look at aggressive baserunning, both conceptually and with this team.
I wish I’d kept track all season, but even without all that tracking, it would cool to look at the percentages and run expectancies for stolen bases and stretching singles, etc. in the context of these very special baserunners.
It’s the single biggest irritant to me so far this season… and it’s got a lot of competition, it’s just so uneccesary.
#70 – That’s nothing new, though. Freddy Garcia was trade bait for a good two and a half years before he was finally traded. Randy Winn was almost as long. And Ken Griffey Jr. is constantly rumored to come to the Mariners. Often the “source” is nothing more than fan speculation. Finnegan is one of the worst at that.
#69– I know an older gent who was raised in Boston, but is an Atlanta fan these days because of those Turner broadcasts….
The Regence Blue Shield commercial with the stop-action figurines reminds me too much of Robot Chicken.
This game is going so quickly, it left Rizzs in the second inning.
I’ve made it? Really?
75, I understand that Doyle may be called up to prevent any injuries. The feeling is that under Grovers control, there is now way he could get hurt.
Once I’d like to see the booth shot after the 5th inning broadcaster swap with Rizzs’ piece on Valle’s head.
Are you comcasters having massive trouble with the signal too?
unless he got splinters in his butt?
“…no way…” sheesh
DMZ — Well, at the very least, you write books that people read. That’s pretty admirable in my mind. Of course I’d prefer to be a GM as opposed to a writer, but you must have found some doors and knocked them down for sure.
#83 – I know you’re kidding, but don’t say that! Knock on wood, do something. Now!
83 – you hear that? From where? When? Soon? I need to know so that i can schedule some excitement.
Who was the Mariner that pulled his hamstring crossing his legs watching TV in the ’80′s?
The previous tread on the M’s possibly not drafting Linecum because of his body type has me wishing you guys would do an article on the best pitchers with the worst mechanics or best pitchers in the modern era under 6 feet. Something to play with the idea that I thought the NFL had cornered, the NBA is approaching and thought MLB would be able to throw away, base your draft on information that has litle to nothing to do with the game you’re trying to field a team for.
Teams have actual performance numbers in front of them, ways to normalize them and they still decide that they’d rather focus on body type instead of performance.
Dave S knock knock knock
Yeah, do a Career Win Shares vs Marginal Inch of Height scatterplot for starters!
I’m kind of scatterplot-deprived these days.
Once I’d like to see the booth shot after the 5th inning broadcaster swap with Rizzs’ piece on Valle’s head.
or on Dave’s, because it stuck to the radio earphones….
Are you comcasters having massive trouble with the signal too?
it is coming from the Fox feed, per the broadcasters
#92 – I found that as the best part of “Moneyball,” really. The description of how the A’s did their draft was very interesting.
Ah well I can’t handle following just one thing. The game is muted so I can listen to soccer. Soccer on a webcast, now that’s entertainment.
Thanks
#92– would that be real height, or baseball height? Because you know there are very few pitchers who are officially under “6 foot” … look at Pineiro (he’s 6′ 1″, you know)
I’ve made it? Really?
You’re the one with the book deal.
It’s hard to believe people I interacted with back on rec.sport.baseball — Huckabay, Kahrl, Dayn Perry — are making money pretty much doing what they were doing in 1993-94 on the Usenet.
DMZ, didn’t you write the book: “Doyle: From Walkabout to Walking Doubt”?
I’m not saying Linecum is the 2nd coming of Clemens or even that the M’s should draft him. I’m just hearing the same thinking about him that I heard about Vince Young and Reggie Bush. These teams take a top pick, over analyze the crap out of it and end up drafting somebody who looks better on paper instead of a guy who performs on the field.
That why Mike Mamula ended up being a high draft choice, why Moyer was lucky to get a career going at all and why Texas ended up with a defensive end at the #1 pick in the NFL.
Real height…not Jack Bauer height
Scouts and baseball types wax poetic about changing speeds and control then draft anyone who can throw 90+ or is left handed.
#97– have the Portland fans set fire to anything yet?
This spelling bee thing is riveting stuff.
Of course – I don’t think many would argue that Mario Williams looks better than Reggie Bush on paper, but I do see your point. Front offices tend to overanalyze their decisions and think themselves out of making logical choices.
104 – dunno, but seeing how the last time I attended a Timbers/Sounders game I ended up having to file a police report, I’ve lost interest in attending these games even though I like them.
Hey! A hit!
I know it doesn’t get said enough, but, man … Ichiro is, like, pretty good.
FWIW, while looking for a reminder of the high school no-hitters, I came across this entertaining piece about the unlikeliness of Moyer’s career, on the eve of his first (and only) All Star Game
what a nailbiter
Way to earn your contract money, Beltre.
Hoo boy.
So what’s the shortest game in the history of the Safe? Anyone have a media guide handy?
6 innings in 1 hour, 15 minutes. We are zipping along.
#69– I know an older gent who was raised in Boston, but is an Atlanta fan these days because of those Turner broadcasts….
Well, my grandfather grew up near Boston, and he was a Braves fan – the Boston Braves, that is. Used to listen to their games and watch the Sox on TV at the same time.
Probably a stupid question, but is there a chance we’ll see a complete game from the Old Man?
how many pitches are we at?
I have been a fan since I watched Diego Seigei (sp?) throw the first pitch and Davy Collins step to the plate. Bobby Gritch was a favorite of mine and he killed me by killing the new M’s. I caught a homerun in RF that Rick Honeycutt threw to Kenny Landrieau, me, my brother and 5 of our closest friends were there. Every year since. Honest to Pete, this is the worst yet, yeah, after all those bad years, this is worse.
here it comes
The BIG INNING!
Can you feel it?
Gameday has it at 75 pitches.
According to the Mariners media guide, the shortest game in Mariners home history is a 1980 game against Toronto that went 1:40. The shortest game in Mariners history is a 2005 game against the White Sox that ran 1:39.
last year was worse, because it felt like they would never crawl out of things. This year the kids look good, the defense looks good, the pitching is acceptable…. the offense is still offensive, however.
119 — I was there too, but this isn’t the worst. You forget the Pat Putman era.
Hey!!! Lopez!!!
Lopez!
Oh, SCREW YOU, FOX.
#114. You are assuming the game will actually end in the ninth. The way both teams are playing the record for the longest game in innings and time might be in jeopardy
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You got to be kidding me. We miss the first run?
This game may well outpace the Rainiers game that started a full hour earlier.
Thanks again FSN!
Good job timing the commercials, guys.
Lopez for All-Star game, please.
Ha.
I spell Raul with 7 u’s!
Raul!
Hahahaha. This is unreal.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUL!!!!
I want to give a big “fuck you” to FSN for again clipping an important pitch in favor of bullshit commercials we’ve all seen 1,000,000 times.
Hey!!! Raul!!!
2-0. Just like that.
Bout time.
yesssss!
Wow. We may actually set the shortest game record now.
Oh yeah, Pat. I got a new bottle of Makers Mark, maybe should have left it alone. Back to back!!!! How easily I am satisfied!!!!
Good to know it was Fox’s fault and not Sportsnet’s. Still friggin’ annoying.
Click it or ticket!
Still 0-0 for the Sounders btw, so the M’s win.
Jim, doubtful. We’re about 10-15 minutes away, right?
Oh for the love of god, richie. Jesus.
Geez. Almost got the third.
Hey, what was a good inning be without some bad base running?
Our old pal, aggressive baserunning.
Er, what would. Wow, such grammar.
More time to play the new Half-life 2 episode. Mmm.. zombies.
I predict “aggressive baserunning” jokes, but nobody doesn’t go for two on that ball.
He could have run a little faster, though.
I just got HL2 for the xbox. Haven’t played it yet.
should we be encouraged that he hit it so hard that it carommed right back to the fielder and enabled the out at 2nd?
Is Richie’s out the fault of Goff, the first base coach, Riche, or (my guess) – both of them.
Kenji! Nice hitting this inning…
Does the game time count commercial/inning breaks?
Ok this change makes the record impossible.
Another out due to aggressive baserunning. Do the Mariners lead the outs on base paths stat?
We could ask them to make the change really quick, to help the record along.
“Screw warmup pitches! You could be part of history.”
Jeremy Affeldt, a mystery to end all mysteries. How could somebody his stuff struggle so much?
I’m thinking that third strike was a tad low.
Ooh! You know what I want? A dependable, long-lasting… oh nevermind. Yeah, I know the joke is getting old. BUT THE COMMERCIAL IS GETTING OLDER.
161 – going for the record here, don’t complain
(OT) I hope it’s ok if I post this..
I have two tix to a SIIF film I can’t attend tomorrow at The Egyptian. The movie is Half Nelson. Anyone in the area want them for free?
My wife would never invite me into the bedroom in that scenario for at least two reasons.
-unshaven
-game on
The Egyptian is a cool little theatre.
Alas, I’ll be going to a show at Neumo’s just a few blocks from there.
#166.
Would that be the Mono/Eluvium show?
BELTRE!
Has “Rico” ever *not* said “holy smokes” after a great play?
Aw. No new personal best for Moyer.
Anyone here use any particular site they like for ingame stats?
It’s almost Eddie time!!!
#171: In game stats at Newsvine (end gratuitous self-plug).
Technically not linked in yet from the game page, but you can hack the URL.
Ichiro didn’t get the time memo.
LOPEZ, BUNT!???
Lopez is just insane this year.
Should have bunted…
Lopez should have layed down the bunt.
Lopez really progressing… on schedule, eh?
See Grover, you should have had him bunt
I heart Jose.
Let this be the end of Lopez’ bunting career. For. Ever.
Wow, Beltre hitting… more RBI for Lopez… we should play the Royals more.
(of course, every team in baseball is saying that… except for the ones wishing to play us.)
175: Lopez doesn’t bunt now that he is in the three spot. Hargrove’s logic: #2 hitter bunts, #3 doesn’t. It doesn’t matter that he is the same player in the same situation.
This is one case where Hargrove’s stupidity is a good thing.
Wow. Rizzs and Valle are making Ibanez sound like a sugar daddy.
(For those who missed it, Raul likes to hang out with the young players, take them to lunch, take them shopping. Mmm hmmm.)
Poor Lopez, only makes $350large, needs Ibanez to take him shopping… Grover should take him, only reason he still has a job.
A couple years ago, there were a few of us who thought Lopez’s ceiling was Miguel Tejada. That may still be too optimistic for him, but at 22 he’s starting to become a good young hitter.
HA! Awesome. Sorry for the multiposts here (just call me corco) but they CUT OFF the truck commercial to come back for the first pitch of the half-inning! VICTORY!!
And the game is over. Some more soccer excitement as the game ends with a 0-0 tie. I’m sure bummed I didn’t pay $10 to see that.
If they give Derek Jeter another Gold Glove, I’m going to be sick.
So if Deanna’s around, I was thinking Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Blunders would be a good choice for her bookclub some month. Apparently he makes a case for M’s manager Maury Wills as among the worst of all time:
Perhaps Grover has him in his sights…
rd (184), I was thinking that very thing. I wish there had been only one out when Jose came up, just to see what he called for.
So, are we that good or are they….that…bad…?
rd, ready yourself for the inevitable. I gave up caring about what the media thinks – in baseball or otherwise – it hurts my head.
GAME!
mariners win. mariners win. mariners win.
Moyer gets a CG SHO. Nice!
Wow. I know the Royals can’t hit, but still. Wow.
Jeter hit another “clutch” game-winning single tonight (after Damon got caught stealing but Roberts dropped the ball). He’s doing nothing to kill off his cult, and his halo extends to areas like fielding where his unclutchness is invisible to his acolytes.
#199. yeah. So is this really a two-hit shutout? Does it have credibility?
Yeah I told ya’ll this is what would happen. See post #1
This AAAA baseball ain’t bad.
193: There were two outs? I thought there were none. That shows how well I was paying attention. Don’t make me manager.
193 – there was only 1 out. betancourt flied out, ichiro and beltre singled, then lopez came up.
Moyer: 93 pitches, 1 BB, 2 hits.
Nothing against the old man, who has won the people’s acclimation and fame forever, but the Royals are Cleveland Spiders bad.
204 – I meant to say if there had been NO outs. There was actually one out, IIRC.
Love the post-game:
Q: I counted 19 ground-ball outs. What is he doing that’s so effective?
What Krueger said:
“blah blah pitching down blah blah working quick”
What Krueger should have said:
“He’s pitching to the Royals”
#169– no. personally, I think he practiced it until it became 2nd nature, to keep himself from saying bad words on the radio.
Do you think that Felix is pissed that he doesn’t get to pad his stats against the Royals?
#206– of course, these Spiders-Bad Royals did beat Oakland twice before heading up here– does that make Oakland even worse than the Ms?
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Starting Second Baseman, Robinson Cano.
Great game from Moyer, Lopez shows why he, and not cano or loretta (most fans who did the all star game voting should not be allowed to leave the house) should be the 2B in the ASG. I think that we deserve about another 100 games against the royals this year.
Even against the hapless Royals the Ms can’t seem to score until late in the game. But sufficient unto the day.
well, stats haven’t been updated yet, but as of earlier today, Lopez & Ty Wigginton were your leading 2nd basemen in the AL, Lopez likely to be the leader after tonight, unless Ty had a good day as well.
Lopez 42 RBI, .794 OPS, .482 SLG, 10 2B, 5 3B, 9 HR
Wiggs 41 RBI, .795 OPS, .495 SLG, 9 2B, 0 3B, 12 HR
Cano 8th in OPS, 8th in RBI, 6th in SLG, 12th in HR
Loretta 6th in OPS, 3rd in RBI (but about 20 behind the leaders), 5th in SLG, 11th in HR
Iguchi (Guillen’s sure pick) 4th in OPS, 8th in RBI, 4th in SLG, 3rd in HRs
completely unrelated, but Chad Kreuter just was named the new baseball coach at USC…..
192 — Deanna was at the game tonight, so she wasn’t around until now. And what a game it was. Yeah, I know it was the Royals, but seeing Jamie get a complete game shutout is pretty damn awesome. Lopez and Raul’s back-to-back home runs ruled, and Yuniesky Betancourt pretty much had a hand in 15 out of 27 outs. The man’s a machine. Anyway.
If you want to have input into book club, you can come to Elliott Bay Book Company TOMORROW (saturday) at 5pm, because that’s when the next meeting of book club is, and that’s where people decide what’s going to get done next. We’ll be going to the game afterwards as usual as well, if anyone particularly just wants to tag along for that.
Yeah, I didn’t bug DMZ or anyone to plug it here again, but it mostly slipped my mind because I spent most of May moving and was in Philly last week. I have no idea how far in advance to remind people about meetings. First Saturday of each month where there’s a Mariners home game, or there’s always the book group page thingy with the dates/books.
Deanna, I would absolutely be in if I didn’t have to work. Sigh. This night-shfiting is killing me.
Another ex-Mariner note: Allan “Suitcase” Simpson is back up, this time with Milwaukee.
From the AP story on the game:
“A fan seated behind the Mariners dugout yelled “Sit down, Hargrove!” when manager Mike Hargrove came out to talk to Moyer after 83 pitches with one out in the eighth, after Moyer had allowed a single to Mientkiewicz. ”
Was that you, Deanna?
Re: Yelling at Hargrove… It could have been anyone. I think the entire crowd was on cruise control the whole game and then when Hargrove came out everyone woke up and started yelling at him. I wasn’t the only one on the second deck booing.
I do want to make a point. I still find it cool going to games, although I have attended far less games this year than any year in recent memory. And following Lopez, Johjima (nice smoking line drive), and Betancourt is great. Larry Stone says he hasn’t seen this much anger in the fanbase in 10 years. That may be. But as a diehard statistics minded fan, I see more reason to go to a game than I did 2 years ago.
Maybe in terms of the old DABDA grieving scheme I’m way past the Denial, Anger, Bargaining and Depression phases and am heading toward Acceptance. Meanwhile, the bulk of the fanbase is still stuck on Anger. I don’t know. But I’m oddly optimistic. New management will come sooner or later, and perhaps even new ownership. Who knows. It’s kind of fun hanging out with smaller crowds. It has that 1993/1994 feel where you went to the game just for the heck of it to watch the players. I remember sitting in the third row of right field in 1993 waiting for Junior to hit his 9th home run in 9 games (the streak came to an end that night). Not sure of the connection between now and then except sitting in a smallish crowd (on a free t-shirt night no less) and having fun with friends sort of felt the same.
Nope, I was sitting in the upper deck, bouncing up and down and singing “M-I-E-N-T-K-I-E-W-I-C-Z” for most of the game, actually.
To the “Mickey Mouse Club” song?
Presumably, except it has one too many letters and that “w” gives it way too many syllables.
No, more like that “You can sing a rainbow” song, except it becomes “you can spell Mientkiewicz”.
two game win streak!!!!!!! Now where are all of you Hargrove haters????????????????
Sorry just couldn’t resist….i’ve been around Reds fans way too long….
Woo hoo! We finally released Kevin Appier. (there was nowhere else to post it).
Maybe if the rangers just loss against the Sox and we Sweep the Royals we wont be that far back(typicall Mariner Fan)
Yep, and I’d be a multi-millionaire if that incompetent jerk at the circle K wouldn’t keep giving me defective lottery tickets…
We’re going to chip away at this thing, which should make the series against Oakland mid-month really interesting!! Y’all need to be less pessimistic and enjoy the games. Things are getting better all the time.
Yeah, Hargrove was the one who pitched that shutout against, essentially, an independent-league team.
He guys, if anything, this at least proves the M’s can beat up their best friend’s little brother….that counts for something doesnt it (even if it took a sweat to do it)?
Excuse me, but I can fully enjoy the games and still be pessimistic (or rather, realistic) about the team. I’m sure there are KC fans who enjoy their games as well, despite also not having any delusions about their team’s chances in the AL Central.
But hey, you want to be optimistic? The Angels got beat down by Cleveland already today, so if the M’s win they can climb out of the bottom of the AL West.