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hey but the future forty page is just about ready!!!
Thanks USSM!
It is almost enough to wash away the foul taste of suck
By percentage points the worst team in baseball.
We’re #1!
“If Winning Doesn’t Matter, Why Do They Keep Score?”
Vince Lombardi
And we’re working on the other criteria. When it comes to getting better at getting worse. this team’s got no quit in it.
Housekeeping! Housekeeping!
I clean?
I clean now?
Wasn’t our early schedule considered weak by many observers? And yet the M’s are on pace for around 100 losses. What will happen when we hit the “difficult” stretch on the schedule? This season is beginning to look like a complete and utter disaster.
Well at least the team is family friendly, and Chuck Armstrong is “growing the brand”, so its not all bad.
Well, even Geoff Baker seems to be seeing the light…
Not a great night for Ibanez in left. He’s costing the team some improtant runs tonight.
Chuck Armstrong:
‘Bill Bavasi is doing an outstanding job’
‘This is the best coaching staff we’ve ever had’
Brian Griffen: Do you even listen to yourself when you talk?
Chuck Armstrong: I drift in and out
Lurch was saying something about how “the future is now,” or maybe “now is the future.” Something like that.
According to Bill Krueger:
“Yeah, and part of that [the errors], is the pitchers need to give up less walks.”
So, Bill, where did you get the data that the number of errors a team makes is directly related to their number of errors?
Bavasi was at the game watching batting practice. What’s that about? Do most GM’s go on the road with the team?
OOPS!
Should be number of walks related to errors! D’oh!!!!
Hoi-ohhh. Aayayayaaagnnnnnswarrthhhh. The previous phrase has about as much in common with the english language as the M’s have with winning right now.
12 – Actually, in the old days not only did the GM’s travel with the team but the media also traveled very closely with the team.
Meaning: they drank, smoked, womanized – everything – together.
When a ballplayer would get in a slump, the GM would arrange escorts for that player, get em hammered and finish with a happy ending. This would usually get the player out of a slump. In fact, Buzzy Bavasi was a king of doing this.
Ahh the good old days.
Time for drastic measures there McLaren… like um… a new catcher. Oh wait…there’s one sitting at DH. Hmm… maybe we can try him at the dish?
With the hard part of our schedule out of the way we can make up ground in the next month with this schedule from May 20 to June 8:
3 @ Detroit
3 @ New York
3 vs Boston
3 vs Detroit
3 vs California (I will always call them this)
3 @ Boston
Maybe Dave can run a page where we all guess:
A. What their record will be in that 18 game stretch
B. How many total runs they score
B. The total run differential
Closest to the pin gets an autographed copy of “Cheaters.” I say 4-14 and Mac is fired after the first California series.
So, Bill, where did you get the data that the number of errors a team makes is directly related to their number of errors?
That’s interesting. I wonder if there’s some kind of correlation we’re not aware of that Bill figured out hanging out in his mom’s basement.
My father-in-law called the other day from Denver and said he ‘understands how I feel’ because the Rockies are playing really poorly too. I told him, ‘You have no idea about my pain. YOU went to a World Series last year. Only Nats/Expos and Ranger fans know my pain’. My father-in-law grew up a Royals fan.
“Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffin’ glue.”
“Another day, Another Goat”
18 – My father grew up a cubs fan, then moved to seattle to be an M’s fan.
So I think he’s got the ultimate trump card.
Cubs then M’s. Whoaaa Nelly.
Time for drastic measures there McLaren… like um… a new catcher. Oh wait…there’s one sitting at DH. Hmm… maybe we can try him at the dish?
Turbo catching? I dunno…
This is good. Really. Last year, when they went tits up, I had a bad feeling (even though as an M’s fan I’m sort of used to feeling you get from seeing how many different ways they can lose games) about Mac. He couldn’t do jack to stop that slide and he doesn’t seem to be able to do jack to stop this one.
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a team so unprepared to play ball. I don’t particularly blame the players. Every team has their weak points, a slow outfielder etc etc. I’ve always said it’s a fundamental/philosophical thing with this club, and the closest we got to countering it was the Gillick/Piniella era.
So this is good. If they were to pull out of this, I’m sure the FO would spin it somehow and the needed changes would not come.
Bavasi was at the game watching batting practice. What’s that about? Do most GM’s go on the road with the team?
Enjoying a roadtrip for the last time since he anticipates “spending more time with his family” very soon?
So… this weekend vs the Padres. The worst teams in each league face off in… what? The Battle to be Least Worst? The AllStar-less Games? The Series of Suck?
Yeah…”Doin’ a heck of a job,
BrownieBilly!”14: Hey, it might work as a shaman chant to produce some runs for us! 🙂
As an aside (?)… in an article in the Herald, Lincoln credits the slight bump in attendance last year with saving Bavasi and McLaren from the chemical shed.
Well, duh. Win more, draw more, and in any non-Steinbrennerian universe, that usually saves your job.
This is pretty ridiculous, if you think about it. In a real business, you’d look at performance rationally, see that the M’s were basically lucky last year, and treat the “slight bump” as having nothing to do with either Bavasi’s or McLaren’s performance, and bring in someone capable of getting the team younger, faster and cheaper. The M’s fell apart in 2004, the same year the Diamondbacks did, and the Diamondbacks looked at their problems rationally and built a real contender. Last year, they were about as lucky as the M’s but they knew they had gobs of young talent coming up, cashed some of it in for Haren, and put the rest on the field. We traded for Bedard and signed the highest-paid free agent pitcher of the year, but left ourselves with a gaping hole in right and a team that was a year older and slower.
it appears to say that it was “a winning season” that did it.