My personal favorite is, “Mariners Baseball, 2008: Abort! Abort!”

I like it. I can already see the first commercial of the ad campaign. It opens with a WWII bomber, “The Liberator,” dropping a bomb on a battleship flying the Mariners flag, the billowing orange explosion a stark contrast to the vertical sheets of rain pummeling steel. It ends with the survivors on a life raft, including Richie Sexson, who says, “Whew! That was close . . .” just before a shark leaps out of the water and bites off his head.

Highlights in between include:
- Bavasi, eyes wild with bewilderment, trying to plug a large hole with Jose Vidro and Miguel Cairo;
- Ghost of Doyle chilling in the crow’s nest;
- McLaren posting a seating arrangement for the life raft, and then changing it again and again and again before eventually going down with the ship;
- Lee Elia, a survivor on the life raft, demanding that everyone row like Robin Ventura. (“No, no, no! Finish high! One hand! Up here! Like Ventura!”);
- Bloomquist, hustling for the departing life raft, is spotted by Ichiro who is already on board. Ichiro screams, “Wait!” He runs to the back of the raft, crow-hops, and fires a baseball that drills Blooquist square in the tenders. Bloomquist drops in a fetal ball of pain and Ichiro, clearly pleased, struts back to his seat at the front of the ship;
- Back to Bavasi, tightening the final knot on a life raft he fashioned by tying Washburn, Silva and Bataista tied together. He shoves the raft in the water and tentatively hops aboard. Relief washes over the faces of the four men as it floats perfectly. Bavasi opens his mouth to say something and *bloop* it sinks like a rock.

After the game, Mac said that he replaced Reed with Balientien because of Reed making a boneheaded play…and that we should look for more of that in the future.

nice to know it only took until mid-June for him to actually act on a threat.

“Proof that no matter how hard you try, you can’t loose them all.”

This should be the new Mariner marketing slogan for the rest of the year. It’s perfect for the M’s!

Raul is just plain horrible.. I’m not going to even bother with the numbers.

Yeah. Richie. He’s OK with scoops and sweep tags on Yuni’s bad throws.. but watching him spastically navigate behind first after a pop foul like a drunken snowshoer with an inner ear infection.. well that’s just comical and infuriating all at once.

As for Wlad’s misplay.. maybe he lost it in the lights? Adrian similarly had a problem with a high chop earlier in the game.

And Kenji was having to deal with the knuckler, so I don’t hold anything against him either.

Did anyone see the “highlights” that l.o.l. has posted on their page? What fantastic defense. Richie dropping the ball in the seats, Raul’s dropper, Wlad’s miss, Yuni’s throw off the bag, and Kenji’s passed balls. God I miss Omar. You would think that after fifteen or so years you could get over a relationship like that, but it still hurts.

Morrow hasn’t pitched lately. That’s a danger sign.
Perhaps the FO is about to get fleeced by Cincy as we send Morrow, Clemens, and a pitching prospect to them for Griffey.