Game 44! King Felix vs Gil Meche, Opening Day Starter
DMZ · May 25, 2007 at 4:41 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
Woooooooooooooooooo!!!!
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Stiff lower back for those with the sound down. No need to panic.
199… he just puts a pinch between his cheek and gum, how bad can it be?
Felix Hernandez also has a injured back according to gameday. Is that the shoulder tendonitis of the future?
I like that they pulled Felix, and I like that he argued. Is scrappiness contagious? Is the Ignitor in fact the contagionator? Or is he simply a RLP with a local connection? So many questions! Where are the answers?…oh, well they all seem to be right here. Never mind…
In other news, Austin Bibens-Dirkx changed his name today to Sean Orange. Unfortunately, the team wasn’t informed before Huber was called up.
(Between White and Green, is the bullpen going to put on a Reservoir Dogs production during some rain delay?)
Just to mention, Meche also had a stiff lower back…gameday has screwed up before…Did the anouncers say this?
The “base knock” thing is starting to grate on me.
R E N T O NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
I assume that Felix’s lower back stiffness is of the same degree and consequence as Meche’s. Both of them are fine, and both of them needed to come out, so their respective clubs made up an injury which will vanish by early next week.
Oh, the possible jokes that come to mind with “Riske”…
DMZ,
I take it you have some connection to Renton?
DMZ, time for a phrase-ban list?
— “Base knock”
— “Walk-off”
— “Funk” anything
— BP terms like LOOGY, TINSTAAPP, Three True Outcomes and “fungible”?
You’re in a mood today, Jim. You know I’m a fan, but… wow.
Any reason you don’t like the term Walk-off?
Turbo!
HUSTLE!
I love that Sims is cracking up admitting that they don’t know anything that’s not in the press guide. It’s one of the endearing qualities that he doesn’t at all take himself seriously.
Can’t double up Turbo when he’s on first.
If we have to have a phrase ban, can we please ban Thom Jimsen from asking that “funk” be banned every time someone says “funk blast” (and sometimes even when they don’t)? Actually, I’d just as soon not ban anything; it all seems pretty harmless, even if someone on occasion gets irritated.
I am just waiting for the day I can say Funk Walk-off…
Actually, by removing Fairly, the M’s did ban, if inadvertantly, the phrase “that’s good hittin'”. I have not heard it once this year.
My cat just let out a funk blast. It’s hard to breathe in here and she’s staring at me like what am I going to do about it.
This is a happy game, but I am sad in the midst of it because I just found out Bat Girl has retired.
Eh. I’m at work and buried under bullshit stuff.
Here’s the Rangers’ second so far:
Walk
Walk
Walk
Sac Fly
Walk
Brandon McCarthy is at 50 pitches on the game already.
Rangers’ pitching that is.
Well, at least it’s not only the Mariners that high profile free agents bolt from:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2883178
In late February, Rashard Lewis rejected a two-year, $25 million contract extension from the Seattle SuperSonics. Months later, Lewis has totally rejected the Sonics.
According to KRIV in Houston, Lewis has officially opted out of the final two years of his contract on Friday so he can become an unrestricted free agent.
Maybe Lewis doesn’t want to move to Oklahoma.
Maybe Bloomquist wants to move to Oklahoma.
Who can blame him?
I would expect that if the Sonics do try to move to OKC, every player will demand to be traded or else they’ll all retire.
Has Sherrill been asking Felix if he “is gonna eat that”?
old news guys, that was decided half way thru the season, KRIV is blowing that up.
I really wish Sherrill would bend his friggin cap. But I guess if he strikes out the side, I’ll allow it for another week. It almost looks like it’s bent UP
Man, the fangraph for this game is a long, slow, unrelenting slide into futility. Fortunately, it was Royals’ futility.
wow. and suddenly it went silent at 8:40? nothing more worth discussing? I guess I have to go hunt up the box score to find out what happened ….
from Geoff Baker:
“Here’s Hernandez’s version of the conversation between him and Chaves on the mound before he was pulled.
FELIX: Chavey, look, I feel a little bit tired. But I can pitch.
CHAVES: No.
FELIX: I can pitch.
CHAVES: No, no. Come on, let’s go.
FELIX: Let me pitch. Let me pitch. I’m fine, let me pitch.
CHAVES: No, no. Come on. You’ve got an eight run lead. Let’s save it for next time.”
My favorite part of the game was after Vidro’s HR, they showed Vidro in the dugout giving high-fives, and the announcer (Sims of course) said, with a hint of reverance:
“Thats a professional hitter right there folks.” Oh, times I wish I was here at the game thread!
From the “Official” Seattle Mariners site:
“Revised lineup: Hargrove moved Jose Guillen to the third slot for only the eighth time this season, batted Ibanez clean up and Reggie Sexson fifth. He said that allowed him to split the two right-handed hitters with the left-handed-swinging Ibanez.”
Oh good lord…
well, as we have been recently recently by the M’s themselves, seattle.mariners.mlb.com is not actually ‘their’ website — I believe the several fine fact-checking errors of late have all come since the loss of Corey Brock
Actually, if you look at the timestamp ahead of my post it went silent at 7:57. I came in 40 minutes later, well after the game had ended, to make my post about the fangraph — which pretty much shows the story for the final few innings: nothing worth commenting on. I figure people were either lighting candles for Felix’s health, or the server crashed.
Dave kind of gets this whole “buy the authors a refreshing beer” thing in the shorts, don’t you think?
Reggie Sexson…
Well, a guy named Reggie owns the record for most career strikeouts. Perhaps they got them confused…
Quick, without looking at the link, who has the most career strikeouts among ex Mariners?
a) Mike Cameron
b) Alex Rodriquez
c) Ken Griffey Jr.
And where would Richie Sexson be among those players?
And where would Richie Sexson be among those players?
Sadly, he’s not an “ex” Mariner yet.