Game 5, Mariners at Orioles
Batista v Loewen. 4:05 our time.
This is the first time we see the quite pointless Wilkermorse platoon in action:
CF-L Ichiro
2B-R Lopez
LF-L Ibanez
1B-R “Big Fork” Sexson
3B-R Beltre
RF-R Morse
DH-B Professional Hitter Jose Vidro
C-R Johjima
SS-R Betancourt
I’ll skip repeating my rant about the Wilkerson platoon. This should, if nothing else, be a potentially wince-inducing introduction to how bad outfield corner defense can get. Sorry, Miguel.
versus
2B-B Roberts
3B-R Mora
RF-L Markakis
1B-R Millar
DH-L Huff
LF-L Scott
C-R Hernandez
CF-R Jones
SS-R Fahey
Meanwhile, Loewen’s a heavy ground-baller, so as you’d expect doesn’t give up the home run often, good K rate, bad walk rate. Now generally, I’d say that’s as about as well-suited a pitcher as you could put up against the Mariners, except they have been drawing walks lately, so they might be to take advantage of that if they keep that up. Still, turning Ibanez into a pumpkin in the middle of that order will help them a lot.
What might be even more interesting is to see Sexson against a lefty. Over his career, he hasn’t had much of a platoon split at all (.264/.339/.518 vs .260/.365/.504) but if part of the problem is recognizing pitches and getting his glacial bat around in time to make contact, facing a left-hander might be substantially easier than righties. Last year, for instance, his OBP was fifty points higher against lefties, though his slugging percentage was only up ~twenty points.
Comments
296 Responses to “Game 5, Mariners at Orioles”
Ha. Did you intentionally leave Morse out of the lineup?
Hit publish a little early, is all.
Mac obviously took lessons from the Grover school of repetitive lineup construction. Even with a platoon, his lineup remains infuriatingly predictable.
Richie’s last night must have bought him an extra day in the 4-spot. Why isn’t Adrian there yet? Maybe McLaren just likes that one bright spot in the Sea of Despair that is our 4-8 hitters.
Also, what do you think it would take to dupe Washington into taking some sort of Big Sexy package for Nick Johnson?
or Dmitri Young?
In the silver lining department, Oriole Park’s enough of a bandbox that perhaps a lot of those tough fly balls will just fly away.
Are you saying you’d rather see the O’s blast homeruns than see Morse and Ibanez futilely chase doubles?
I’m saying it could turn out the defense doesn’t look too bad tonight. As the Brits like to say, ‘What you lose on the swings, you gain on the round-abouts.’
Dimitri young sucks, and John McLaren needs a swam of bees.
Is there a stupider buzz word (or phrase) than “Professional Hitter”? It’s worse than “organic food”.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, Ibanez.
Sexy 2 run homer! c’mon!
That wasn’t even close.
takes belt high fastball, swings at curve in the dirt…
Ugh, Sexson. Ugh.
two things that go together …
Richie Sexson and the phrase “badly fooled on that pitch”
It is sad to see the empty seats at the beautiful park in the once proud baseball city of Baltimore
Sexson has no idea what is coming his way… fastball, curve, slider, meatball.
he looks like a confused teenaged girl trying to pick which boy to make out with when he’s trying to pick a ball to hit… always picking the nasty bad ones… always letting the good ones pass by…
Sadly, last night’s luck probably keeps big sexy in the lineup for at least another month.
I don’t know if anybody was paying attention to the game on Fox (where the Tigers’ bullpen managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory again) but I have to say Carlos Quentin was, to these Ibanez-sore eyes, a revelation: watching him throw out Renteria going back to first on a fly ball he’d run down deep in Comerica’s spacious left field left me saying out loud, to no one in particular, “So that’s what a left fielder looks like!” Kid seems to be pretty decent with the bat, too.
But it’s weird seeing Carlos Guillen play first base. Sure a good thing the M’s got rid of him (and got so much in return, too), since there’d be no place for him on this team…
Hi, I’m Richie Sexson. You may remember me from “Hits a Country Mile” and other commercials that violated the Truth in Advertising laws. Today I’m impersonating a major league baseball player at parks all over the country. See me soon, before I embark on my new career as the star character at the Paul Bunyan theme park in Brainerd, Minnesota. I’m just worried I’m going to miss the tree when I swing my axe.
These Orioles announcers aren’t half bad. It’s not every day you have one of the announcers say to the other “You do have big feet.”
TURBO POWER!
…what?
No WAY.
TURBO!!!!
OMFG VIDRO! DH of the YEAR!!!!
wow, I did not see that coming.
(rubbing eyes)
Wowwwwwwwwwwwww
Vidro? What?
Jose Vidro is the team HR leader. Scary.
I love how incredulous Niehaus sounded just now stating that Jose Video ALREADY has 2 home runs this year.
Wow, how long did it take Vidro to get to his 2nd home run last year?
Has Vidro come into contact some extra-terrestrial goo that has bestowed batting power upon him? Oh, wait, no, it’s just veteran know how and professionalism.
Two of the shortest homers you can have, but they count the same…
*cough*vidroroids*cough*
This is just odd. Vidro goes yard, and Ichiro is 0-6.
This Firestone ad is a lot more tolerable if you imagine they’re talking about cock rings, but can’t come out and say it because of decency standards. Seriously.
Over the fence is all I care about. Hey, how about Vidro being on pace for over 60 homeruns this year? I love early season stats. Chris Shelton, anyone?
beastwarking, that’s a horrible accusation. The Mariners have NEVER had an infielder do steroids before. Well, except for Morse, Boone, David Bell, and David Segui… Hmm.
I like that Lopez feels he needs to run all the way out there and give up the body. You’d think that would be the right fielder’s ball.
4-9-6 out? Don’t see that every day. Good effort by Lopez, wide awake play by Morse.
Jose had the #1 web gem and let it slip away…That is a seriously hard catch to make though.
But Vidro isn’t an infielder, he’s a DH, so that makes him safe from accusations right?
shows that Jose knows his right fielder can’t get to a ball so he has to be a shallow-outfielder in addition to second baseman.
#42 – If David Bell did steroids, they definitely didn’t work.
crazyray, only until they put him back out at 2nd sometime this year.
You get a lot more mileage, and better handling, with a radial cock ring.
I don’t know, the studded and all-weather ones are almost necessities in winter.
It would have been sweet if Lopez made that catch. There are times when he looks pretty good out on defence, especially right there, a ball that Morse probably gotten to, and times when I ask my self why is he out there.
I like how the BAL announcers just described the Turbo-blast…”he hits a 340-foot fly ball that just happens to be down the line”
Yeah, but the studded ones are tearing up the, uh, roads. Just use chains when the going is really rough.
Just freakin’ pathetic.
Oh, Sexy.
SexySucks.
You’re right DMZ, Sexson hits lefties about the same as he does righties. Although, I’m not sure if “hit” would be the key word.
Knock me over with a feather , Sexson struck out?
You know, I’m tempted to publicly infer something about Mrs. DMZ but… I don’t want to be banned.
He needs a head doctor. He can’t decide what to swing at.
The answer to the Vidro question is: he hit two HR (his first) on April 15 against Texas. The next one came on May 25, and August 8 after that!
And yes, I did mean infer, not imply. I would never imply
Turbo put a nice swing on that. It was more than a 340 pop fly.
Sexson looks dreadful. I guess last night was his season’s high water mark.
I’m afraid that this always reminds me of “Earring Magic Ken”
oh, in keeping with the … unusual … theme of the day, wasn’t it pretty much decided that Bell was taking his drugs for fertility reasons?
If that is his season high, I really don’t want to know what his season low will be.
If that ball was hit to either power alley it would have been a double. They’re just making excuses…
Thanks Steve. Hard to knock a guy when he’s hitting well, so hopefully he keeps it up.
I like how that Earring Magic Ken article quotes “Don Savage”.
Is molassas(sp) slower than Batista?
wow…looked like he had that stolen!
Oh man, Roberts was pretty clearly safe.
Wow that was safe.
Luckyyyyyy.
yikes, thanks blue.
WOOO crappy umpires
We seem to be getting an awful lot of calls from the umps so far this year.
Niehaus: How big is that call over at third base now?
Captain Obvious: …Probably saved them a run.
Not as safe as Willie Bloomquist in NY. Oh, wait.
That’s a smart move, stealing third. That’s called “putting the game in motion.”
I liked how ‘no question about it’ Blowers had to say that Roberts probably would have scored from third on a double.
What the hell is Sims wearing?
Sims better be a scratch golfer or he has no business wearing that hat.
Care to describe it for those watching MLB.tv instead of FSN? (The hat)
Classic make-up call
…he never even got tagged…
Beltre getting a little personal on the diamond there.
Oh… my… god…
Wow, another bad call. Sheesh.
Hard to explain, like an old time golf hat that has different patches of colors. I think I saw green, yellow, and red.
Think of a beret, only not green adn with a bunch of logos on it.
Oh and Beltre was totally safe and the 2nd baseman never touched him.
I’ll take that trade, though. We lose Beltre at 2nd in exchange for saving a run.
He looks pretty out on the replays.
Time for a Jo-Blast!
So, msb, you’re saying David Bell should’ve just gone with the uh, radial tires instead?
I didn’t realize you could get an exemption for that. Man, between that and Mike Cameron… baseball is going to have an epidemic of borderline-infertile guys with ADHD. Which sounds like the setup to a pretty funny joke (“Doc, I think I’m shooting blanks but I can’t pay attention long enough to be sure!”)
Ocelot, do you play the Metal Gear Solid series?
Uhm, that’s not what I had in mind.
You’re all too distracted by the hat. If you have tivo, go back and look at the tie.
The tie+hat combination is even more horrifying than just the hat.
I laughed so hard that I have tears in my eyes. Beltre beats the play, then comes off the bag all while giving Roberts an awkward hug. Priceless.
What’s the rule there? Does he actually have to be touched with the ball or just be touched in general. If it’s with the ball, it looked like Beltre had his foot touching by the time the glove got back around to touching him. Either way, the M’s probably got the better end of the umpiring screw ups there.
I don’t think Johjima got the memo on taking some pitches.
…holy crap. Ibanez looks like a freaking rusty iron golem out there.
I like how Dave Simms is happy that Batista has only given up 3(now 4) hits. The problem with that logic is that it’s been only 3 innings.
DMZ, I don’t have the game on tivo, but wasn’t he also wearing like a trench coat? I thought the whole thing was just terrible. Made Blowers look like a GQ man of the year.
Baltimore needs to get those doubles out of the park if they want to keep Ibanez from looking slow.
96: Nope, I don’t really do video games. Is it just me or does Ibañiez look really slow?
Attention broadcasting crew:
If you have previously discussed something with a different iteration of your partner, discussing it again is only interesting to one person: the new partner. It bores the audience senseless.
Please stop doing this.
Ok, just wondering.
No, it’s not you, Ibanez is very slow.
THROW IT TO SECOND, OMG.
Typically they only repeat themselves when they switch from radio to TV. Perhaps he thought he switched instead of his partner.
back to little league defense!
oh crap
Ergh.
LOL
oh my god, give me a break, this is like when my little league team would boot the ball around and throw over each other’s heads while the other team would circle the bases.
I couldn’t help but laugh at that… haha
Bad baseball hurts my head.
Looks like it’s about time for the Benny Hill theme.
This team sure makes you want to love it, doesn’t it?
Edgar Martinez would have made that play whilst doing a cartwheel and blindfolded!
At least Ibanez and Morse weren’t implicated in that display of defensive efficiency.
Can Raul do anything right in left field?
That was sad when Betancourt practically whiffed on the ball, and worse when Ibanez hurled it towards the Mason-Dixon Line.
Bad Yuni, no special “token” treats for you!
Aw man, I missed a cock ring discussion?! What have I said about talking about stuff like that without me?
Wow, that pitch was nasty.
121 – really? Didn’t Ibanez sky the throw to the plate?
I guess that what makes the Mariners special. Sometimes you can feel the FUNK, other times you can smell it.
[Sexson]
At least we aren’t loosing.
Awwwwwwww the positivity it burns!
If I quote the Orioles announcer when he says “Sexton” instead of “exson, will that be considered a spelling mistake around here?
joser, this team makes me want to go into full-on tank mode after 4 games. Anything to be rid of Bavasi and Mac after the year.
Bugger, went back to retype and accidentally deleted the “S” in Sexson. Irony in its finest.
I remember when Yuni was a great field no hit player. Now he is just the opposite.
Wait, what/who are we not loosing? I wouldn’t mind loosing Sexson.
J-LO!
JOSE!!!!!!!!!
Man, the doubleplay twins have departed from the script.
Man! J. Lo is on FIRE! If this is his not-in-mourning level of play, it’ll rock.
I think the M’s should fill there roster with guys named Jose
Yikes. The M’s seem incapable of scoring against the O’s unless it’s a 2-run jack. Oh well, it could be worse
Wow, Lopez is really cranking so far this season.
Lopez and Vidro, the HR leaders!
It must be Jose longball night in Baltimore.
Lopez is terrible and never going to reach that potential that we know he has. He’s lost his bat speed and looks terrible at the plate…
IN BIZARRO WORLD
[that's it, 50% of your comments since joining have had Richie Sexson's name wrong, and I'm tired of it]
aside from the Two Joes, I don’t think the Mariner offense or defence is living up to the pre-season hopes.
Forget the Mitchell Report. This is what’s wrong with baseball.
BTW, Lauren, at this lull in the action we’re all awaiting your cock ring expertise….
I truly miss good Jose Lopez. I got attached in ‘06 and last year was tough to watch. Cheers to Lopez for good plate approach and finding his swing again.
Interesting note of the day: how about the AL East standings! Red Sox and Yankees occupying the two bottom spots.
I think the M’s should fill there roster with guys named Jose
They had three in the starting lineup last year. And they got rid of the one that had more HRs than the other two combined.
Interesting, someone bringing in a reliever to face a washed up 1b with 2K’s on the day.
…BOO THIS MAN!
What? Richie struck out? A shocker.
I wonder what the season record for strikeouts is.
BOO THIS MAN!!
You know, just because you don’t flail at a pitch, it doesn’t mean that the ump won’t call it a strike. I’m talking to you Richie!
Sexson is awful. In all seriousness, unfortunately, have the Mariners had his vision checked recently? Absent some type of vision problem — or other problem that is addressable by some means other than going back five years in time — he is clearly toast.
Sexson is like that kid on your little league team. You know, the one where if he was going up to the plate with two outs you automatically started putting on your hat and glove and retying your shoes. But you didn’t ever say anything because he was bigger than you.
Richie is kinda “damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.” Not one of those pitches were a strike and he still gets called out.
One of the mods can smite my 152 post for bad spelling. I hope my USSM Membership doesn’t get a K on it for disobeying the button. If I miss spell a comment 1236 times I can have more then Sexson.
How long should Sexson get before the M’s declare his cost officially sunk and move on? At the very least, can we move him down in the batting order?
I get an error for “zero sized reply” at times. Seems to have caused my double post earlier. Anyone else get this?
I wonder what the season record for strikeouts is.
Ryan Howard, 199, last year.
The career leaderboard is pretty interesting. So is the one for outs.
“I don’t think there’s any question about it”
At 11 syllables, I believe we now have a new record for longest Mike Blowers “certainty”-related phrase.
These Baltimore commentators really are a nice change from Blowers.
Batista’s been through wars before.
Didn’t he land in Bosnia under sniper fire?
I think he was the one sniping, judging by that aim-for-the-head approach.
This is inning is interminable.
Green should have been up two batters ago.
That was Mel coming out and saying “Throw it at his head, then 3 on the outside corner. Easy K!” I am hoping drinking the Mel Kool-aid Batista can get a K.
So can we make him run to his car without waiting for any ceremony?
That Os lineup is depressing. Nobody really worth getting excited about except Jones maybe.
Joser: That is interesting. The hit king is also the out king.
Oh man.
Double play would be nice.
Ibanez as a “rusty iron golem” made me laugh.
171- Markakis says Hi.
Mclaren really wishes he had a pitcher in the bullpen he could use. I wonder if Ayala would come out of retirement…
Hey, while we’re in the losing an ugly one that hurts to watch anyways, did the Future Forty ever get posted? I wanted to get a look at that.
I don’t think that’s where that pitch was supposed to go.
I hate this team.
I want Adam to hit one out of the park, as a reminder on who to trade and who not to.
Omar Vizquel is #2 on the active-player outs list. Wow, that’s surprising. Remember a few years ago when most Cleveland fans were convinced he was the greatest player of all time?
181:
There you go. I guess we got the better deal.
171 – that’s funny, because I was just thinking, “this isn’t a bad lineup: Markakis, Roberts and Jones are pretty good bats, and Millar and Huff are ok.” Then I realized I was saying that because I was comparing them to the Mariners lineup. I never really think about how bad the Ms lineup is, but then I realize I’m thinking every team in the AL has a decent offense, and then I realize why, and I get depressed.
A few eleven-plus syllable suggestions for Blowers:
“I wouldn’t hesitate to say that there’s no question about it.”
“There isn’t a hint of a suggestion of an inkling of a question about it.”
“No one could seriously think there’s any question about it.”
“Considering the matter in all its ramifications, there is no question — whatsofricking ever — about it.”
Two straight 100-pitch, 5 inning starts, that’s awesome.
185 – don’t forget “Yippee ki yi fucking eh”
Are the Mariners the only team that refuses to skip their 5th starter when the have off days? I know GOOD teams will get their No. 1 starter out there every 5 days regardless.
“I don’t think there’s any way you can look at that, Dave, and see that there’s any question over whether or not that’s true.”
Is it too late to make Batista our closer for the next couple weeks?
Or, Mike Blowers for Dr. Bronner’s soap: “Questions about it? Absolutely none!”
scraps: you need more capitals and punctuation there.
Well that inning was filled with unfulfilled potential.
Is it sad that I would rather have Sexson up than Johjima?
Erik, I’d rather have Bloomie up than either of them.
No, Joh is still preferable to Sexson. Joh has made a lot of outs, but he has not looked absolutely incapable of hitting major league pitching.
Why worry about Johjima? He certainly doesn’t look as lost as Sexson.
These guys going only five innings is likely to lead to a 12 man bull pen when Morrow or Putz gets healthy.
At this point Scott Thorman would be a better alternative than Richie.
Joh isn’t buying into the be patient theme, I feel. That 2-0 pitch inside might have been a ball, and either way Joh wasn’t getting solid wood on it and he takes a swing. And that inning was prime for a Johjima DP.
Glad we have Ibanez out there.
I guess that would be the poor left field defense you have been talking about.
Yay for a stumble and bad 3rd base coaching!
That’s the second heads-up play from Morse tonight.
Why does he STILL call Morse “Morris”?
Morse has 2 assists tonight!
It’s Morse, NOT Morris!!!
So are we cured of the 11-man bullpen yet?
I think he’s just pronouncing it as if it has two syllables. Funky pronunciation, not wrong name.
I shudder to think what reliever Mac would use to patch this thing together should we take the lead.
I wonder why the camera followed Ichiro back to his position after that throw, if it was Morse who made the play. Was Ichiro wearing a Mike Morse mask or something?
Can we trade for the O’s broadcast team? The O’s can have Sexson and Cairo.
Why can’t the M’s beat teams that they are better than? The first few series are against the AL’s worst teams. Cmon guys…we need to take advantage of the Angel injuries.
214: Seriously. These guys are actually fun to listen to…
Throw in Willie for the sideline reporter.
Lauren, you’re right. Type joke in haste, repent flaws at leisure.
As for the discussions about Raul “franchise face” Ibanez and Richie “ofer” Sexson, how long a leash do they have? Surely we don’t have to watch this kind of defensive or offensive futility all season long? Surely (which is only one letter more than “surly”)?
Man, the ump has a wide strike zone.
Why does he pronounce Felix Fill-icks?
“Professional hitter” is the new “player with a tremendous upside”.
who says the M’s are better? their payroll is higher due to the fact they will pay any idiot over 30 as much money as possible.
Unless a big overhaul is made, Ibanez is the leftfielder. The M’s simply don’t value OF defense all that much. I will guess that Sexson has a shorter leash with regard to his hitting. It still isn’t short enough for me.
Here’s the problem with Sexson: let’s say, as Baker would have us believe, that they’ve got him on a short leash.
What does that mean? What would their solution be if their criteria is “If he sucks after a month, we’ll pull him”?
I’d walk Lopez here to get to Raul. It’s 2 free outs.
Wlad?
Bloomquist?
Cairo?
Pretty much anyone with a pulse is an upgrade.
#223 – A trade for Jason Bay? Wilkermorse to 1B? Who knows. It is a problem though.
McLaren is bad at his job.
Make her get naked ya damn Oriole!!
That Oriole was fondling her a bit, but she didn’t mind.
Man, why does a 1 run ball game feel out of reach? That’s just not right.
Why does Mac not want 2R-S to pitch. Does he honestly believe that Green would be more effective against Huff. You have Huff and Scott back to back. This is some awfully poor managerin’
Soooooooooooo you have to wonder if Sexson’s adding missing signs to his defensive arsenal.
Well, if you are going to lose a game, lose it in the “2004 Melvin death march” style.
Alright, just skip the Benny Hill music and just play the sound of a train wreck through the loudspeakers.
Was it Sexson or Green? I assume that Green got the sign from Joh who got the sign from the bench, which would make it Sexson’s fault. Yeah, let’s go with that.
too bad we have no lefties in the pen
Unless proven incontrovertibly otherwise, I think that a “blame Sexson” attitude is probably appropriate.
Beltre had to run twice as far behind him and still beat Ibanez to that spot.
Later on in the season we’re going to look back at this game and laugh…that’s probably the best outcome at this point.
McClaren’s on a multi-inning tape delay. He’s probably walking out to the mound thinking “well, it’s early to pull Batista, but he clearly doesn’t have his stuff any more…”
Spot? They just had a pitching change?!?
Why change Green now? He is as likely to get a GIDP from Hernandez as anyone. I suppose that Green is at fault for the walks, but he was put in a position where he was likely to fail. EO or 2RS should have pitched to the last two batters. Mac is doing the worst thing possible, saving his relievers for later, but not realizing that later will be too late. It is April 5, and I am in full managerial hate mode.
Free Jim Riggelman!
He did a pretty good job of getting out of that jam. Only 1 run allowed after the bases were loaded with 0 outs and all 3 fly balls were hit to our “bad” outfielders.
No we can loo forward to a Sexson at bat. Will he:
A. strike out swinging at ball four
B. strike out swinging through a hittable fastball in the zone
C. Look at the ump after called strike three
Contact!
Damn Richie, you got’s to let that hit you!
The wonders of Richie Sexson continue. Golden Sombrero plus opposite field hitting attempt.
Life is full of surprises.
Golden Sombrero is 4 K’s. Sexson “only” has 3 k’s. hahahah
This team can’t go much longer without moving Beltre up in the lineup, can it?
I predict that McClaren will blame this loss on the injury to JJ first and foremost.
Good at bat for Morse.
Chad Bradford breaks PitchF/X’s pitch recognition.
248:
Well, it is Sexson. He is a walking, talking, golden sombrero.
Morse v. Bradford with Wilk on the bench…
WHHEEEEE!
Here’s the thing… Bradford traditionally has had a really bad time with lefties. If the platoon in right is to maximize offense, you should swap Wilkerson back in there. But… I don’t know. Why bother.
Pretty good at bat overall. Not a great result, but he was a couple feet from getting a double and had a few good swings.
255:
I think you pretty much summed up McLaren’s coaching strategy: Why Bother?!?!
Oh, suuuuuuuuuuuure, now we see O’Flaherty
Is Sexson out of options? Seems to me that he could use some low Class A ball seasoning.
On the positive side, if Sherrill shuts down the M’s in the 9th, he will save the M’s pen from having to pitch an extra inning. Silver lining.
Why do we have Jimerson and Cairo who we never ever use? You think a LH PH bat would be much more valuable. But what do I know.
I think McLaren is doing this just to piss me off.
Cairo’s on the bench to allow Bloomquist to get into games.
#260 – Because Jimerson is just fun to say. And having Cairo? It makes us sound elegant.
Weren’t we going to work on reducing walks allowed by our pitchers this year? In fact, I think I’ve heard that every year since, well, I know Piniella was still here (and Russ Davis!).
Someone should give 2R-S and Jimerson Roberto Petagine’s phone number. They can chat when they have free time, like during M’s games.
Good. I was wondering why we could never use Willie when the moment called. I think, compared to what they have, that either of them would make a fine upgrade at firstbase.
Mariners need throwing practice, this is getting stupid.
Willie more that Cairo. But Dave and I talked about this the other night, and he’s right — the team’s not going to make incremental upgrades. They’ll get Raffy to come out of retirement or something similarly crazy, and that’ll be their solution.
They could call up Wlad and move Wilkerson to first. But, yeah I agree. I would prefer this.
As random as this seems to this game thread, I can’t help be think about how Morse “got his chance” to make it. Who missed that chance because they didn’t recover from a leg injury as quickly? Time for baseball’s “clean era”, right?
Anyway, Morse had a good at bat and had a great spring. And there’s also this:
#269 There’s no way I’d want Bonds on my team. Unless, of course, he got drilled every time he came up to the plate.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2154494
Let’s pile up the losses and force ownership to clean house. That is the the only way they will ever be regularly competitive.
Why Not? He’d instantly be the best hitter on the team (+/- Ichiro)
Can we get Tom Selleck from Mr. Baseball to replace Sexson? Selleck had a hole in his swing, but could still hit.
273- But we won 88 games! We got a 1-2 punch!
That is the last thing this ownership is going to do.
Well they will do whatever it is they call this nonsense without dollar one from me. Not that it matters, but it is all I can do.
#272 At least Morse came clean and didn’t pretend that it was some bad B12 that he took. I can respect that.
At least we’re in the heart of our order here. 9-1-2, the only team in the majors that can say that’s our heart of the order…
Disaster.
#277 Hate to break it to you, but if you’re watching the FSN games or MLB.tv, then I’m pretty sure you’re helping to contribute a dollar or two.
Well, if you think Morse came clean there, sure.
There’s tons worse people in MLB than Bonds. Some have even played for the Mariners. To say Bonds is your breaking point is silly
#282 I’m not saying he’s my breaking point, but I’m not a fan of him. I used to be a fan of his, and even cheered for him during his 73 homer season, but no more.
#281 You can’t deny that he was more honest about the situation than just about any other player that has been caught.
Yes I can.
I don’t think there’s been an honest admission about steroids from any current active player. It’s always the ‘I did it once or twice and I regret it’ (a la Petite) or the Giambi ‘I’m sorry but I can’t specify why’.
America’s a really forgiving country…why are these players so afraid to admit they cheated like the rest of baseball did?
Oh great. Here comes the injury train.
Bedard out with hip inflammation per KOMO. Felix to start tomorrow. Not known if Bedard will pitch in Tampa Bay.
On a completely different note, I can understand now why Sherrill had facial hair. Not much intimidation clean-shaven. I still don’t understand why lack of facial hair (or short head hair) makes you a better athlete.
Is there a single Bonds-hater here who didn’t get his/her facts/opinions entirely from the sports media industry?
I dunno. Let’s ask Marion Jones.
291-
Illogical analogy. She swore up and down for YEARS that she didn’t take any performance enhancers, and repeated that same story up until the day she got sent to prison.