Tonight’s Cactus League Report
DMZ · March 5, 2008 at 12:07 pm · Filed Under Mariners
As msb writes:
Tonight—listen with awe as Rizzs and Sims try to ask Mat Olkin what he does….
Yes! KOMO has your evening entertainment covered!
Cactus League Report
every Wednesday from 7-9pmHosts Rick Rizzs and Dave Sims keep you updated on all the Spring Training news LIVE from McDuffy’s Sports Bar in Peoria, AZ.
This Weeks Guests
Jarrod Washburn
Norm Charlton
Greg Norton
Ryan Rowland-Smith
Mike Morse
Brant Ust
Matt Olkin (Player Personnel Management Consultant)
Art Theil
Come on, you can’t spell Mat (one T) or Art Thiel’s name correctly? Or make “week” possessive?
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And on the XM broadcast, Dave pronounces “Olkin” as “Oklin” anyway, so, it shows you how much influence he has on the team…
he’s still giddy from those two Sexson ribbies.
Is Olkin on tonight? That’d be bitchin’.
As a regular listener of KOMO’s AM morning news… they’re not the brightest tools in the shed.
And on the XM broadcast, Dave pronounces “Olkin†as “Oklin†anyway, so, it shows you how much influence he has on the team…
He was also the only one that Dave didn’t provide a title/position for. I don’t think Dave knows what he does. But that seems to reflect the M’s in general.
Dave’s talking to Lee Pelekoudas at the momenet and he said (paraphrasing) “There might be another spot on the bench if we go with just 11 pitchers, but that’s hard to do and there aren’t many teams that only go with 11 pitchers anymore.”
sigh.
Niehaus just used the “they’re unproven prospects” comment. Times like these that I’m glad for the movie The Prince of Egypt:
I send a pestilence and plague
Into your house, into your bed
Into your streams, into your streets
Into your drink, into your bread
Upon your cattle, on your sheep
Upon your oxen in your field
Into your dreams, into your sleep
Until you break, until you yield
I send the swarm, I send the horde
Thus saith the Lord
Off topic, but [deleted, off-topic]
Re: # 6 –
Dave’s talking to Lee Pelekoudas at the momenet and he said (paraphrasing) “There might be another spot on the bench if we go with just 11 pitchers, but that’s hard to do and there aren’t many teams that only go with 11 pitchers anymore.â€
sigh.
Can’t remember exactly, but I think it’s 28 or 29.
This is related to the cactus league, so… Did everyone see that we beat the Angels’ scrubs? We rule!
I think it would be much more entertaining if Rizzs and Sims really started drinking hard at McDuffy’s Sports Bar during the show and at the end had to pick their favorite and leat favorite Mariner’s players.
*least favorite*
Well, hopefully the bees will give Niehaus a break.
I would advise him not to tempt fate too many times, though, since the bees have already made a point of flexing their muscles in their encounter with Ibanez and Balentien.
#10:
Sigh…why do we always have to have the self-deluding managers obsessed with irrelevancies?
I think they’re waiting to spell those things correctly until Dave spells “dependent” correctly. (Love the content, Dave – just noting the irony of your co-author’s comments.)
That’s not ironic.
It’s too bad Chuck the Peanut guy’s no longer with us, he’d be a better interview. At least Sims and Rizz are running the interviews now.
Does anybody else remember the game last year where Niehaus said that Milton Bradley was having a great season for the M’s?
No doubt about that Dave, no doubt about that.
do you mean Rick Kaminski, the peanut guy?
“That’s not ironic.”
I wouldn’t say it’s ironic either. It’s pretty much the standard response whenever someone tries to obnoxiously correct another person’s spelling mistakes.
is it too much to hope that a page written by KOMO and put online by KOMO might check first that they have listed their guests correctly?
I find it ironic that you’re a spelling freak when Dave can’t spell various things correctly. That, to me, is unexpected, reflective of incongruous behavior (albeit among two different people), and otherwise is consistent with accepted, if not classical, use of the term. If you don’t like my use of the term, that’s fine. You can be the victor in your spelling and definitional battles with the radio station AND with me. Way to go.
Prolonged discussions over proper usage of the word ‘irony’ make moderators sad.
um, cactus league. Staying on-topic.
yay, Tui!
Whatever. If you want to abuse the term all you want, feel free to go listen to “Ironic” over and over and think about how two authors who spell differently is like rain on your wedding day.
Or a freeeeee riiiiiiiiiiiide when you already paid.
(that’s intended to be humorous, if that’s not clear from the singing part)
Oh god, now I have that song stuck in my head.
Make it stop. 🙁
On a side note, Reed is hitting very well. Rumor has it he went 3-3 yesterday in the minor league game with an HR and then got another hit in the big league game. Why are the M’s keeping him if they are not going to play him. He is a perfect fit for a national league team. He is the 2nd best outfielder in the organization and they are not sure if he will make the team. C’mon now. Trade him and let him have a career.
For a song titled “Ironic” to contain little or no irony is actually somewhat ironic.
little early in the spring for that …
From todays game:
Will Carroll:
“Hernandez is using the slider and yes, the reaction from today is “f**king nasty.” Not sure what it means if anything for his durability. I’m hoping to see video.”
I wouldn’t mind seeing some video either…
And now we have Alanis Morrisette. Anybody have an Ice Pick I can use to carve that damn song from my skull?
We beat the Brewers today, WOOOO!
Felix went four, struck out five, and walked zero.
He did give up two solo shots though.
At least mstaples didn’t use “ironic” to refer to a mere coincidence, like 80% of sports broadcasters do (including nearly every highlights jockey at ESPN). “Ironically, they were teammates in college, and are now reunited in the bigs!” No, no, NO.
And tonight I shall have a nightmare about being stuck in a car, surrounded by four singing Alanises. Ugh.
Boy, that’d be ironic.
It would be somewhat ironic if he misspelled the word misspell which happens to be one of the most commonly misspelled words. Misspell being one of the most misspelled words is not ironic, however.
It’s the gooooooooooood adviiiiiiiiiiiiice that you just can’t take…
True and potentially ironic fact: the first time I heard “Ironic” I liked it.
Uhoh, Derek’s lost his mind. We’re going to have to put him down.
*gets out dart gun*
Derek has demonstrated
questionableeccentric tastes in music in the past.To be fair, the song was played for me by the future Mrs. DMZ, who owned the album, so you can see where I’d be favorably inclined.
Isn’t that ironic.
“…sometime the ballpark has an affect on you”
Mike Cameron on moving to the “fair” ballpark in Milwaukee after playing in more spacious parks.