Comments on: Game 84, Blue Jays at Mariners

By: Steve T

Steve T — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:49:24 +0000

@74 — yeah, but the guys we should keep are already doing well. We suck even when Ichiro’s hitting. It’s the tiny miracles, like Cairo pounding out some doubles, that put us over the edge.

By: jzalman

jzalman — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:50:20 +0000

My question of “what’s going on” was tongue in cheek/rhetorical.

By: bakomariner

bakomariner — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:53:57 +0000

73- There are guys we should keep around…not everyone should be dumped…but I get your point…

By: Steve T

Steve T — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:36:43 +0000

Well, if we’re going to win games, it pretty much by definition has to be guys we want to dump doing well. There isn’t anybody else!

By: bakomariner

bakomariner — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:34:16 +0000

The winning is actually drving me crazy…I sit there watching the game and get excited when they play well…but then I realize that the more the guys we want to dump do well (Richie’s homer, Cairo’s three RBIs, WFB’s walk-off, etc.) it just delays the re-build…

I don’t want to root for the team to lose, but if that’s what it takes, so be it…

The only good thing lately has been Washburn…he’s thankfully picthing his way out of town…a NL team HAS to take him now…hopefully we don’t have to eat all the cash and we can get at least a B level prospect or two for him…

By: jefffrane

jefffrane — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:07:22 +0000

One of the more irritating things about last night’s game was how many times Rick, Dave and Co. babbled about Bloomquist “winning” the previous game. I suppose tonight we’ll have to hear repeatedly about Cairo “winning” last night’s game. Superstars, both of them.

By: nvn8vbryce

nvn8vbryce — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:59:04 +0000

What’s happening is a Miracle of God.

By: Steve T

Steve T — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:58:52 +0000

70 comments on a Mariners winning game thread. Wow.

What’s also going on is regression to the mean, and a little old-fashioned random variation. The M’s were never a .350 team, and even if they were, they would be expected to have SOME good stretches. Nobody goes 3-7 over ten all season long. It’s not like they’ve won ten in a row or anything (the traditional cutoff for streaks that bad teams can’t make); they’re just having a fairly decent stretch against some bad teams.

We could finish at .400, but that doesn’t mean we’ve turned anything around.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:24:19 +0000

Let’s see..

Atlanta, losing team, would be in last were it not for the excreble Nationals

NY Mets, losing team, recently dumped their manager

SDP, last place team, in the middle of a huge losing streak, have now lost 14 of their last 16

Toronto, last place team, recently dumped their manager

By: The Ancient Mariner

The Ancient Mariner — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:50:37 +0000

What’s going on is playing crummy teams.