Game 63, Mariners at Red Sox
DMZ · June 8, 2008 at 9:35 am · Filed Under Game Threads, Mariners
The Interview vs Masterson. 10:35.
9:35 for a game post? Bleagh.
Sunday lineup:
CF-L Ichiro!
DH-R Lopez (wait, what–)
LF-L Ibanez
3B-R Beltre
RF-L Reed
1B-R Sexson
SS-R Betancourt
C-R Burke
2B-R Bloomquist
I’m not quite sure what the logic is there. Or if there’s logic. But okay, not a huge deal, getting Lopez a day off. But now the team’s batting Reed at #5 ahead of Sexson and Betancourt? Does that mean Reed’s Tacoma stats mean something? If so, shouldn’t Clement be playing? And… I give up.
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Papelbon should try something: See how far over his head he can get Beltre to swing at one
Meh. Cue “Tessie.”
The game was pretty pitiful as well. Hitters looked pretty meek.
0.349 winning percentage! YEAH BABY!
Ah, gotta love those wacky Veeck family ideas. I still don’t know how the Chisox guys back then managed to slide in those rec-league softball unis…would be a little hard on the knees, I’d reckon. 😮
Man, I’m starting to think that trading Bedard this year might be a really good thing….
#42. Trust me. The wave always breaks out at Fenway, these days, if there’s little scoring in the game. The pink hats and the people who got their tickets solely as an expression of status couldn’t possibly try and pay close attention to the game if there wasn’t a conga line going across the plate.
The pressure is building. Art Thiel inthe P-I the other day, calling for Chuckie to be replaced. Larry Stone’s piece from the Times today, saying this years team could be worse than one of the early M’s team with a payroll under 1 mil.
Something’s gotta give. I hope and pray that it’ll be Howie and Chuckie. Those clowns have to go. They’ve turned the M’s into the joke of MLB.
#48. After wins, they play “Dirty Water” by the Standells. They do play the Dropkick Murphys a lot.
17 games out! Woot! Let’s shoot for 40! 50?
#45. They don’t have that but they do have guys walking through the stands selling “Chowdah!” on cool or cold nights.
“Mmm. Good chowdah, Bobby. Now, ah, Mahtin . . . “
Okay, time for a new promotion the next time the Bosox come to town: “Chowder Night!”
Which, of course, will be hosted by none other than the M’s very own Willie Bloomquist! 🙂
As long as it is proper (clear) chowder, not that fake “new england chowder” that no New Englander eats.
After 63 games, M’s elimination number is 84; Angels are currently leading Oakland.
whoo hoo.
Every New Englander I’ve ever met eats gallons of the stuff. I’ve had all the best chowder in Boston (Jake Wirth’s, Legal, Durgin Park, Anthony’s, Union Oyster House, and straight off a Navy ship) and none of it could be described as “clear”. All are made with milk.
What they are lacking is corn starch thickener, which is gross. That’s what gives Northwest chowder it’s special library-paste texture.
I’m sad.
Interesting…corn starch is often used in Asian dishes. Ergo, I wonder if “Northwest” clam chowder is really more closely Pan-Asian than “New England” in style.
I think that Kenji is probably the most underperforming member of this team, but we hardly mention him. I mean, we all talk about Turbo and Richie sucking, but we KNEW that they were going to suck. I think the biggest disappointment on this team (other than maybe Silva) is Kenji. He was a productive .280 hitter last year with some pop. Now, he is hovering around .220 with 3 HRs for the year.
What in the hell is clear chowder
if you listen to the Yankees on radio, you can hear they play the exact same repetitive noise to get the Yankee fans clapping …
Clear chowder doesn’t have any “thickeners” (i.e. milk or tomatoes) to mask the flavors of off seafood; just a delicious broth.
Served best with clam cakes.
Iggy’s
Well, there’s been a Mariners team for 31 years. That’s a long time to be telling people when to cheer.
The other thing about that is that people live down to the level of laziness you allow them. I went to a game at Shea in 2006 and was shocked at all the crowd prompting (“Every-body clap your hands!) About two weeks after that, I went to an interleague game at Fenway against the Mets. All night long, the Mets fans down the right field line (if there’s a crappy ticket in Fenway that you’ll sell to an out of town fan, it’s down the right field line) were trying to start “Let’s Go Mets!” chants. It was amazing. They sat there like docile sheep in their own park waiting to be prompted but in Fenway were just as aggressive as the Sox fans, but totally outnumbered.
It is official: We are in baseball hell.
The next 4 months will be some of the most painful in recent history … only BoMel’s 04 fiasco even compares (considering we won 93 games the year before).
Baseball Hell: 08 Mariners
Blasphemer!!
Give me a break.
What if I said: I bet you Chuck and Howard are McCain supporters. Think about it. He’s an old, overpaid veteran. Just their type.
(And that’s President Obama to you, hairofthedawg)
I vote to keep politics out of this Blog
Well, this game thread has definitively established that discussing the relative merits of clear clam chowder is more interesting than talking about the Mariners.
(Clear) Clam Chowder > Mariners.
At 22-41, the M’s have to play .700 ball the rest of the way to even have a decent shot at the playoffs. They have to play .600 ball just to get to 81 wins.
You know what that means………bring on the Rally Fries!
71: That Iggy’s place in Warwick, RI looks really cool…wish I could afford a cross-country road trip this summer to hit it along the way.
Did anyone else catch the radio postgame show where callers were suggesting which Mariners should be untouchable for trading? Not that this is anything new, but at least one caller said Bloomquist. Yeah, I know this is just par for the course, but I feel like putting my head through a brick wall whenever someone extols the virtues of Bloomie.