Game 52, Rangers at Mariners
DMZ · June 2, 2007 at 6:47 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
Sorry, I just back from DeathRide 2007.
Uh! Loe v Batista! Both have been pretty crappy so far. Wooo!
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I will never love another man the way I love Edgar Martinez.
How about, instead of a game tonight, we just watch highlights of the 1995 Yankees-Mariners ALDS?
#1: And Edgar has the restraining order to prove it.
If Batista sucks tonight…he’s going on my list…
Did anybody else hear that?! I am listening on the radio and when Edgar thanked “Howard Lincoln and Chuck Armstrong for their leadership” there was ten seconds of dead silence until Edgar realized what was happening and moved on with his speech.
Did he thank Dick Balderson and Jim Presley for blocking his path to the Hall of Fame?
They didn’t mention that in the HORRIBLE Fox tribute either.
I keep hearing those two names, how did they block Edgar?
Balderson was the GM who decided to keep Presley, and Presley did his part by consistently swinging and missing sliders pitched low and away.
He thanked great teammates and friends (Davis Buhner and Niehaus) and the great fans etc. but it was really startling the sullen silence that greeted his gratias for Armstrong and Lincoln. What they call in literature “a pregnant pause”
Good to know
I was shocked that the fans booed Bavasi. Not because he doesn’t deserve it, but because it sort of seemed like an inappropriate time.
M’s put Sean White on the DL, bring Huber back up.
All I can say is that it got a bit dusty around my place this evening. Gar was the best.
Anybody notice Bavasi was like the odd man in the group, he truly had no reason to be there, Bavasi should have ran away like Hargrove. I fear to imagine what would have happened if Gar was to play under the dumb and dumber twins Hargrove and Bavasi.
What’s going on with Beltre? Are they going to DL him?
Shoulder Tendinitis?
Why Dave Sims…WHY…do you have to remind me of last night…
Kenny Lofton…i hate you…
Miguel Batista, prove your worth, don’t suck.
I did notice that the only person who was loudly booed was Bavasi.
And we saw that 1995 hit about 6 times. They could have set up some other big hits.
I’m an on base believer, so Edgar is one of a handful of hitters that I admired the most.
I wanted to hear Angie ask Edgar, “so, Papi, do you think Jim Presley continuing to play third even though he sucked and you were owning AAA cost you two years of major league service, or three?” But it was not to be.
I wanted to see a “walk montage”, but that only happens in my dreams.
I wanted to see Buhner do this to Edgar…
Everyone in the Northwest should get there tendinitis shot, apparently its going around.
Lofton’s actually putting together some decent third-tier Hall Of Fame credentials: 2,328 hits, 615 stolen bases (17th all-time), four Gold Gloves, three batting titles.
Most HOF monitors have him below their standards … but not by much.
I wanted to see Edgar’s explosion of anger towards Angels Manager Mike…What Vidro caught the first pitch…Game’s over, they just tainted the legacy of Edgar when they had Vidro near him.
I got a Lofton rookie card, hope he makes it. Also hopes he looks his age tonight in center.
He’s 67th all-time in runs scored.
Wow, Loften looks 60 in the photo they had on Fox.
Kenny Lofton’s Dead to me ya’heard…dead……..that mofo ruined my night last night…I had to kill most a bottle of Purple Haze to forget that stupid catch.
I wish they would show the Edgar commercial where he showed his love towards his bat(s).
Lou was kind enough to pay tribute to Edgar in his own, unique way.
http://tinyurl.com/333eay
hey how come they aren’t retiring edgars number?
The M’s don’t retire the number of anyone not in the Hall of Fame, if I’m not mistaken.
WWWWWWIIIIIILLLLLLLIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
He was loftin’ on that catch.
I just don’t understand why one of the fans didn’t punch Lofton or at least the ball when he went towards the ball. If I was there I would have accidently thrown…spilled my beer on Lofton’s face.
It’s all Willie tonight!
Presley did his part by consistently swinging and missing sliders pitched low and away.
Which, Edgar excepted, seems to be kind of a job requirement to play 3B for the M’s.
Derek: how was the ride of death, or the bust yer ass on the pass, or hillah killah, whatever it was called? I was half-expecting Dave to start the thread late with an apology because you were unable to climb into the chair in front of your computer, or something.
Can Teixiera catch Cal Ripken’s record?
hey how come they aren’t retiring edgars number?
They’re saving that, so they can do this whole thing again to boost ticket sales on one night next year. The M’s may not have a clue how to assemble a team, but they don’t miss a trick when it comes to filling seats.
39: No.
So which player on the bench is the backup infielder tonight? Has Ellison ever played 3rd?
My money’s on no, but wouldn’t that be something if the kid from Baltimore heads back to Baltimore and comes close to the record.
I just don’t understand why one of the fans didn’t punch Lofton or at least the ball when he went towards the ball. If I was there I would have accidently thrown…spilled my beer on Lofton’s face.
This is Seattle. Nobody’s going to have a face-to-face confrontation. They’ll just go away and write nasty things on a website later.
Seriously, punching is completely out of bounds. A certain book on cheating mentions a fan who threw a bottle that hit a visiting player, and the other fans (quite justifiably) turned on him and beat the crap out of him.
But it occurred to me at the time that had I found myself in the position of those fans I’d be doing my best to try to grab his glove, rather than the ball.
Vidro…you…suck
Just a thought, if Vidro was on the bench tonight, he could have been the reserve infielder. Now if something were to happen to Bloomquist, Betancourt, or Lopez, the M’s would probably lose the DH.
But it occurred to me at the time that had I found myself in the position of those fans I’d be doing my best to try to grab his glove, rather than the ball.
It’s a sport, remember? It was a very pretty play and interfering with a player is just wrong.
I don’t understand the Lofton hate. He made an awesome play. There was nothing bush-league about it.
44-It was a joke, of course punching someone is completely out of bounds.The comment was suppose to relay a sense of anger towards Lofton for making a remarkable catch last night regardless of the team he was playing for. If I still had the ability to go to the games on regular basis like I did in the past, and was in a position to alter help out the M’s, I would.
And that was another very pretty play.
interfering with a player is just wrong
…waiting for Derek to weigh in on that one.
Breaking news: Edwin Jackson still sucks.
48-The Lofton hate, isn’t one of hatred similar to wishing death or ill upon that person, it’s a hatred similar to that of rooting against the opponents of the team your a fan of. I’m not going to cheer for Gary Mattews Jr when he hits a 3-run hr off of Felix, and I’s sure as hell not going to root for Lofton making that great defensive catch to rob the potential game changing homerun that could have lead to a win for the already painfully-to-root for 2007 M’s team.
Edgar must have rubbed off on Ibanez.
You don’t have to root for him. You simply need to acknowledge and appreciate a good play, express exasperation or sorrow that the M’s didn’t benefit from it, and move on.
Beltre and Broussard are on the bench, so in theory if someone on the infield gets hurt you have 2 infielders in the wings.
If you go to the Mariners’ games, you accept the fact (however reluctantly) that a lot of the time you are going for the sake of the game itself, that the game has to be its own justification, because they are not playing for anything. It’s a kind of categorical imperative. It was great when they were competitive, but I watched them for nearly 20 years before that occurred (Dear Lord, let me not die without seeing them competitive again?) In fact as a kid, I watched the Pilots. So when there is a great play like Lofton’s, that’s a good thing, aesthetically. And that is why it is just wrong to interfere with a player. Although I’d have been screaming abuse at him to try to distract him.
haven’t you guys watched the 18 replays of the lofton catch, the fans were trying to interfere, they just could not reach it over that 3 foot gap between the beer garden and the CF fence.
47,50 & 51
I would have interfered with that play in a second, to get the ground rule double.
M’s fans continue to disappoint me.
Of course it being Seattle, after interfering with the play, I would have politely escorted myself out of Safeco.
14 games, atta boy Yuni!
57: Although I’d have been screaming abuse at him to try to distract him.
Who are you, A-Rod???
#61
I did not say I was consistent
55 – Wouldn’t one say that hatred towards that player because of that one play is a sense of acknowledgment of how great the play was, I’m sorry, I can’t be someone who sighs and the goes on, I went through that crap for too many years, when I swear the motto for Seattle teams was “There’s always next year”. Last, not trying to be a dick but, last time I checked, I have a right to be a fan the way I want to be, at what point is their a prototypical way a fan should conduct themselves in terms of the way they themselves enjoy the game.
61-What A-Rod said was so perfect too…Mine!
Well, isn’t everything, Alex?
skipj Says:
47,50 & 51
I would have interfered with that play in a second, to get the ground rule double.
Who are you really? Steve Bartman?
Just wanted to mention that I saw Edgar in Z-Tejas grill in Bellevue the other day. I wonder if he noticed that I turned around and looked at him about 50 times during his dinner.
Why do I always feel uneasy when ever I watch Batista pitch?
I can’t believe Edgar would be eating at Z-Tejas. The food sucks.
65-angel in the outfield! The yes to instant replay kid!
And every now and then you get an Act of God, like Willie leading off with a hit.
Oh he was there. I don’t think it’s too bad, but then again, I don’t get out much.
wow, I did not see that happening…
How’s that for irony? Announcers talk about how important the DH is “for many teams” as the Mariners’ DH personifies “but not for us”, with a trademark GIDP.
Lovely.
such pain. oooooooh
Attention, Mr. Sims: Griffey has played in Safeco before. Stop saying it’s his first time in Safeco. Thank you.
What was that woman doing to her child?
kwk, now if you had seen Piniella getting drunk at a bar, that would have been a unique experience.
Beltre and Broussard are on the bench, so in theory if someone on the infield gets hurt you have 2 infielders in the wings.
The first has a bad wrist and can’t play (during the ceremony tonight, he was “clapping” by tapping his good hand against his arm above the bad wrist.
The second… can you imagine him playing 3rd, short, or second?
OK, random question…
Is it just me, or does Blowers always sound like he’s bored?
If Beltre lands on the DL who comes up from Tacoma?
The second… can you imagine him playing 3rd, short, or second?
Of course. But you would only understand if I could explain the unimaginable horror of my dreams last night.
Blowers is really Tom Bodett in disguise http://www.bodett.com/
What happened?! Can’t tell from the radio.
I N E-P-T
Inept! Inept!
That’s the way you spell inept!
Woooooooooooooo!
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Seattle Mariners!
Thanks Richie, that felt good inside.
What happened?! Can’t tell from the radio.
We learned why it’s a team sport. You can decide when to run and keep going, but if you’re out of sync with everyone else…perhaps you made a mistake.
82… at least he’ll keep the lights on for me.
Trader Joes Night! I’m going to wear my Hawaiian shirt.
Nice job Batista.
That felt weird…
Willieeeee
Willie ball game is probably the third best hit and run guy on the team…maybe 4th
Has anything been said about how long Beltre might be out?
Willie “Ascension to the Mean” Bloomquist. Time for him to settle in at his usual .245.
2-3 days for beltre
83: Sexson was running hard, Guillen was waiting to see if the ball would be caught; it wasn’t, and they were both on the basepath between second and third. Brief rundown on Richie between second and third, Guillen goes home, out at the plate (Sexson to third).
Uh, Sims, you don’t give an RBI on a double play.
Thanks planB. I could not tell a thing from Niehaus’ play by play.
Jose “Least Exciting Player Ever” Vidro with another routine groundball to short.
[Y]ou guys sound like [you're] [D]etroit [P]istons fans right now. [You're] up 2-0 and [B]atista is not pulling a [W]eaver
Having spent 4 years in college in Cleveland and 13 here in Seattle, I’ve known (and been one of) many long-suffering sports fans. Maybe one drought will end soon.
Cavs advance to NBA finals!
Batista is doing a good job tonight, that’s true.
Ya Miggy! It is weird to see him act like a #3 starter.
…So regression to the mean can be a good thing too.
That’ll do Guillen!
[Y]ou guys sound like [you’re] [D]etroit [P]istons fans right now. [You’re] up 2-0 and [B]atista is not pulling a [W]eaver
I think the better analogy would be the guy forced to play Russian Roulette. “Hey, you’ve won three times in a row! How can you feel morose? Now pull the trigger again…”
WOOOOO!!!! That was what I like to see.
Someone told Guillen that Texas roots for the Angels. Nice.
OT, the Huskies beat Harvard and Stanford to win the National Crew Title.
Joh railed that thing. Ya, I said railed it.
If Hargrove loses his shirt, what are the odds of Bench-Coach-Whathisname taking over the club? Or will the org go external?
103: Yeah. See Sexson, Richie.
Way to go WFB.
Nice one, Willie. Ignition.
Sputter. Sputter.
Miguel Batista. K.
I couldn’t find a place to put the K in his name…
Fan Graphs has Boom Boom at the top of the Ms batters at .110 WPA. No runs or RBI. Anyone know why that might be?
Fan Graphs accounts for Grit
So, other than Lisa Bloomquist, who are the hot Mariner wives … anybody know?
Good outing Batista, I think you stayed off everyones shit list for another start.
He got some at bats that improved the Mariner probability of winning. Those at bats don’t have to result in a run directly.
Was that the dumbest fan of all time? Did someone really throw their own pager (or similar sized device) onto the field?
110… they’ll go find some other washed up manager. Bob Boone, for instance.
118-
I have to agree…the bullpen has been overworked recently, a great outing tonight to give those guys a bit of a break.
Anyone have a good picture of Tasty Utility Player Wife?
Ichiro’s likely last at bat coming up bottom of this inning. Quick poll: extends the hitting streak or not? I think he does.
I’m uncomfortable rating other men’s wives on attractiveness.
If he doesn’t I say we give up 5 runs and keep it tied until he does.
Eric O’Crapperty.
If I was not, though, I might suggest that Yumiko Fukushima, Ichiro’s wife, Ben Broussard’s wife Brenda is cute, Richie Sexson’s wife is quite attractive…
If Batista has 10 wins by mid-July can we sell high?
124-127 Posts of the night
I was laughing at the pager.
I had to relate the whole cell phone incident to my girlfriend. She agreed that my plan to call a random 1-900 number and leave it against the wall was much better than throwing it into the fans as hard as possible. If nothing else, security can trace the moron with the pager or phone after the game and ban him.
What’s the difference between “cute” and “attractive”?
cute is a subset of attractive.
Self destruct in 3…2…
Is it just me or do Mariner pitchers really seem to be hitting a lot of people lately?
I think there were two or three last night…now this one that walks in a run….
I would say cute is a girl with a good personality that makes her more attractive then she actually is. Attractive is all looks.
They called it a pager, but I only saw it edge on, and it looked something like a video ipod.
If it was a pager or phone, though, it should be easy to find the owner which is why I was suggesting a “dumbest fan of all time” nomination.
Jim – go look her up, you’ll see.
Time to earn your keep, Morrow.
Maybe the guy was yakking and yakking on his cell phone all game long, until someone next to him grabbed it and through it onto the field.
Now, that would be funny.
…1 kaboom.
But 139, nobody ever talks on their cell phone during games at Safeco, especially Mariners fans.
Schweiger!!!?
Who?
Wow. She IS cute. Totally my type. Much more than the Sandfrog-stripper type.
OK, that’s enough walks now.
I can’t fucking watch this. Time for a movie.
The first Google hit on Brenda Broussard is a breastfeeding manual.
I got it by keywording “ben+broussard” wife.
Need some focus here, Morrow. As and California already both won today
145-
Couldn’t agree more…there is absolutely no excuse for walking in THREE damn runs.
To Morrow, To Morrow, I love you, To Morrow ….
149. how about rookie pitcher with small amounts of pro experience, coming in without being warmed up, a situation he has struggled in all season long (starting slow, finishing strong), and the guy has thrown nearly 50 pitches in the past 3 days
I wonder what we can get from the Yankees with both Giambi and Minky on the DL.
To Morrow, To Morrow, I love you, To Morrow ….
Now I have Me First and the Gimme Gimmes stuck in my head. Thanks. They aren’t even a good punk band (which is telling).
LETS GO ICH!
O-VER!
Doesn’t it seem like Batista was left in the game just a tiny bit too long?
151-
Doesn’t matter, he needs to suck it up and throw strikes…no excuses.
So do the M’s feel obliged to allow two runs so Ichiro MIGHT have another chance?
156… absolutely. He was left in the game 6 1/3 innings too long.
157. i doubt that morrow has issues with “sucking it up”
heh Batista was the best pitcher the M’s have used so far tonight…how much worse could he have done compared to what O’Flaherty and Morrow do?
159: What? His line was pretty great.
160-
Not usually, as he’s been excellent, but tonight he was worthless out there.
Easy Street!
Ichiro could also get back up if the Mariners can get a few hits.
Oh wait, I guess they do need to give up a few runs…
if morrow was worthless, sean green would be pitching right now and the rangers would still be batting in the 7th with a 2-run lead
Where’s Bearman:
Uh, yeah. You had to know that wildness was going to bite him eventually. The trouble with “gaining experience” in games that count is that your failures show up in the W-L column. (And yeah, you can argue with success when it’s obviously not sustainable).
That was a SCIK, SICK, SICK, Absolut Vodka commercial. How the hell can they make a commercial like that … trivializing, minimizing the history of student and activist uprising against the police states of the world (or even Kent State). I will nevber ever buy a bottle of such vodka!
I hear Judd Apatow’s working on a comedy about Kent State. It’s called “Knocked Down.”
169: Are you sure it isn’t called “Shot Up”?
166-
You can spin it however you want, but 2 walks and only getting one out doesn’t exactly make me jump up and cheer.
The new Stoli commercial is pretty good, though, in a weird way.
Day before yesterday, joser commented “Why hasn’t ‘Putz out the lights’ caught on as a catch phrase?” Yesterday and today, “Putz out the lights” is the headline on Putz’s profile before the inning he starts. Someone at FSN NW reading USS Mariner?
Well, if you buy Absolut you’re a marketing victim anyway.
Though the world would be an interesting place if the arms of the state were armed with nothing but pillows.
Meanwhile, don’t look now but a certain gritty utility player is topping WPA.
New Stoli ad:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=foOI162Lock
If you’re buying vodka you’re basically buying filtered alcohol anyway…so why bother. Just get some everclear/190 proof and filter it a bit. Then combine it with cranberry juice or whatever you want to hide things.
Personaly, I’ll stick with things with actual flavor…like good beer and bourbon.
Not everyone mixes Vodka. Try Luksusowa!
A case of Natty Light for 8 bucks works too…
And now our closer has thrown 17 pitches before the ninth, a few insurance runs would be nice.
Personaly, I’ll stick with things with actual flavor…like good beer and bourbon.
Amen.
Although the model(s) in the Chopin vodka ads make me very thirsty.
I get the one on the left.
I get the one on the left
If you’re talking about the gal on the left in the last fan camera shot, you’re going to need help.
Damn. Lofton rules.
I actually taught in Poland for six months. Chopin (real expensive) and Luksasowa (affordable) are good stuff, but the best buy of Polish vodkas, in my opinion, is Sobieski. It’s a rye vodka, rather than a potato vodka, but very good.
Uh oh. Lofton hate again.
182- You wanna be the wingman and get the two on the right?
I’m uncomfortable rating other men’s wives on attractiveness.
I have no problem with it so long as we rate male USSM posters on attractiveness at the same time.
BTW, having come home from the game, I’ve moved to Shiner Bock, which was on sale at Whole Paycheck.
PUTZ WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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184… is a picture of Leelee on the bottle?
188: You better not have jinxed this game.
Drilled.
Crushed.
oh oh …
well, a part of me wants the Rangers to tie it so Ichiro would have a chance to extend the streak!
190-
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
Putz points to dugout: “That was for YOU, Ichiro! You can do this!”
jk!
#189
Uh, no. It’s named after Jan Sobieski, the king of Poland who defeated the Turks in front of Vienna in 1683 and saved Europe. The Hussars, his cavalry, pounded the Turks about as hard as apparently that baseball was just hit by Texas.
I concede that Teixeira is a great baseball player, but he looks like every guy who ever beat me up in high school. So fuggim.
Wasn’t Sobieski the crocodile god of Egyptian mythology?
Whew! Go Ms!
There you go.
I am in now way excited after that win… hope its just cause its Texas.
You wanna be the wingman and get the two on the right?
Yeah. Like a possum being wingman for a Kenworth on the freeway.
I thought Sobieski was a poor man’s Helen Hunt.
That didn’t come out right.
#204 – zazinnnnnnnnng
How true.
I thought Helen Hunt was a poor man’s Helen Hunt.
Batista drops his ERA to 5.43
Sexson raises his average well above the Mendoza line to .210
M’s win. Things are better.
[This is not a board]
JJ always makes me a little nervous, in spite of his record. It seems like it always take him a lot of pitches to get the job done. Of course, he always gets the job done so I should learn to relax.
But still. Phew.
Theeeee Sun will come out tomorrow/ Bet your bottom dollar!
I thought Helen Hunt was a poor man’s Helen Hunt.
Isn’t Paul Reiser the poor man’s Helen Hunt? He’s the one from that awful show who wasn’t worth hiring for a movie. Plus, she’s more masculine than he ever was.
So Putz won’t be available for tomorrow, what about Monday? This nonstop schedule of games and no off days is just brutal.
Isn’t Paul Reiser the poor man’s Helen Hunt? He’s the one from that awful show who wasn’t worth hiring for a movie. Plus, she’s more masculine than he ever was.
?? This is a guy? http://tinyurl.com/2z9uv8
Sigh.
The poor man’s Helen Hunt.
wow – these game threads have really gone to shit.
Yes, your contributions are sorely missed, clearly.
as we were sitting there during the long, slow, agonizing 7th inning, the thought crossed my mind– just because we are honoring Edgar and years past, there is no reason to play as though we were in years past.
fwiw, re: ThomJim’s query, during the family intros Holli got a wolf whistle from some guy in the crowd …
[cricket chirp] [cricket chirp] [cricket chirp]
no game thread?
Maybe they are so happy Vidro isn’t starting they can’t start one.
i know i am…maybe this hargrove being gone thing is going to be an eye-opener…
not only Vidro out, but the line-up shook out a bit. wacky.