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Game 118, Yankees at Mariners
Chamberlain v Fister.
1 o’clock.
Nice day for a win.
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As long as Bucknor and his shin-low strike zone isn’t behind home plate again, that is.
Lets hope and then more.we need a MIRACLE after the last three games.(for that matter after how our season has gone).
Russell back in the number 2 slot after dropping off a cliff.
Whoever this New York Vinnie person is, I’m channeling the channel on the pregame show. Something tells me I’m going to not like what he has to say.
God, I miss the edit function.
‘changing the channel’
Juneau –
Just an FYI, in case you haven’t heard him before on the post-game show…though Vinnie is from NY, he grew up in Queens and was/is a Mets fan.
Thus, he absolutely loathes the Yankees — much to his credit.
Ah, well, I just imagined that Vinnie was going to give us all sorts of insights about being gritty and needing to man-up and get those uniforms dirty.
I did enjoy Jeter’s interview; much nicer to hear him giving Ichiro a tonguebath instead of others giving him one.
Also interesting to hear how he’s so impressed at how well Ichiro speaks English. Really? Hmmmm…
Nice, Mister Fister, nice.
Sorry, j_f…didn’t mean to sound like I was being “that guy” just then.
And I don’t always agree with NYV on everything, either…though he is occasionally entertaining.
As for Fister…a great start! Let’s hope he can stay in this groove.
I didn’t take it that way at all–besides, we can’t get into a flamewar; it appears we’re the only people here!
And yes, very nice Fister! Too bad about that first hit by Jeter.
I did laugh cynically when one of the keys to the game was to drive Joba the Hutt out early.
I’m not sure what the weather’s like there today…but I think the sun and warm is actually enticing a lot of folks outside here today after what was a rather-gloomy-for-the-middle-of-August week we just had.
The Joba the Hutt ref is too funny as well!
That was closer at the plate than I expected! Go, Ichiro!
Odd that Jeter stopped at second.
Uh oh…Jeter just passed Luis Aparicio for the most hits ever by a shortstop.
I expect Rizzs to be in tears at any moment over that reality.
No distractions here; it’s pouring rain. Sorry cruise ship tourists! Your track suits and white tennis shoes will get soaked!
Funny, Dave mentioned when Jeter tied the record, but thankfully no tonguebath on breaking it.
Ooo…interesting story on why Wak doesn’t want to get thrown out of the game. No Lou for him!
Interesting – Niehaus just said Wak told him he doesn’t want to get thrown out of a game because he’s trying to teach discipline; that’s why he didn’t become the first tossee himself by arguing the strike=three call on Langerhans last night.
Oops, you said that already.
Sorry that I interrupted the private convo that you two are having here.
See, A-rod is EVIL.
No, please stay! This was getting all weird, like were on one of my sister’s knitting blogs.
Actually, we were wondering where everybody else was at.
Oh, and…J-LO!!
Heh, my wife knits – she’s going to Stich and Pitch night with gf’s on the 27th.
I was just going to yell, stop swinging at the first pitch, and then decided to shut up. Interesting to hear it’s on purpose though, Lopez doesn’t want the pitchers to get ahead of him. Okay.
Nice. Perfect time for a test of our emergency broadcast system. Back just in time to see that Griffey somehow got out.
What happened to the days of ‘Two outs, no problem’?
I haven’t looked at Fister’s pitch count, but he’s had some quick AB’s; it can’t be too bad.
I wonder why they never seem to run those things at, like, three in the morning when there’s nothing on but the ghost of Billy Mays doing an info-mercial or something.
Also, thank you very little, Nick Swisher.
Damn. I want the other Wilson back.
Stitch and Pitch sounds like fun! Too bad the sis in in CA. She goes to Rivercats game occasionally, but I can’t imagine she would want to knit in that heat, though.
My favorite wife moment at a game was this couple sitting behind me once at Safeco. She read a paperback book the entire game, never looking up, until it was the bottom of the ninth. Then she very carefully dog-eared her page, put the book aside, stood up and cheered wildly, and sure enough, they came back to win. That’s what I call a successful marriage.
Well, shit. Is it me, or do the boys seem to be having trouble holding a lead lately?
Angels beat the Red Sox again today, they take over the Wild Card lead.
I have the TV running in the background all the time, and they ONLY come on during the game. Never on “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” and certainly never during a commercial.
I think the Rangers took over the WC, G-Man.
Wife and I met in ’95, when she was not a sports fan. The Amazing Marines got he interested, but she still used to knit at games for a year or two. Now she’s into it.
Damn, I meant the Rangers. Brain fart.
You know, though, Baltimore has played the hell out of the Angels this weekend.
Too bad the M’s couldn’t capitalize on a little of that.
Joh!
I love Kenji. I like to feel that every hit he gets is a pin in the Rob Johnson voodoo doll.
Damon’s going to be exhausted running around in that corner.
And uh, bad slide there, Joh. Good thing that Noodle Arm was throwing the ball back in.
Call me crazy, but it seems like Kenji has actually been starting to hit the ball a little again lately — in the rare opportunities he’s gotten to play, that is.
What a big hot mess.
2nd and 3rd, 1 out. Anyone else thinking we won’t score?
Nice by Swisher, poor by Jeter.
What a surprise! We don’t score with 2 RISP and less than 2 outs!
Well, as the saying goes: Two On…So What?
Oh, wait.
Joba’s panting like a big ol’ dog in the heat. Knock him around!
Could you imagine watching him start a game against the Rangers down in Arlington on a typical evening?
That would not be pretty.
Two outs…two on. I feel that I’ve seen this show before.
Not a re-run!
Nice to see Guti get that hit.
Now come on, let’s do it again!
GUTI!!!
Also, a bit of heads-up baserunning by Branyan there as well…
Focus groups didn’t like the other ending.
Yesssss!
Focus groups didn’t like the other ending.
Ha! I knew it was all about marketing!
Also, a nice piece of hitting by “Hands” there!
Another baby with no hat! The humanity! Perhaps Sims will send his hat over since he mentioned the need for one too.
What’s the USSM wisdom on Fister? I haven’t, um, been paying as much attention since we started sucking more.
He seems pretty damn impressive today, at least.
Heh. And less grinchy, one presumes.
Wow, Damon cannot throw. It’s like a catapult is tossing the ball in.
I dunno, Lauren, his MLB picture is sort of scary in a different way. A bit, I’m so sexy.
There’s something odd going on with the lighting on his left cheek, no? Makes it look like maybe he has piercings with chains connecting his nose and ear.
You’re right, Lauren. And I call manscaping on those brows. I’m trying to think of any good MLB photo I’ve seen, though.
Come on, random Yankee’s pitcher. Like Ichiro’s ever going to steal again, just to show up.
Is this the definition of a contact hitter? These Lopez at-bats are always amusing, if nothing else.
Zrally Zdurienciks!
Yeah, welcome to our nightmare, Mr. Z’s family.
Who mentioned Jeter’s man tights yesterday? He is the last player wearing the scary tight long pants, right?
Shouldn’t Jack Zduriencik be off signing Ackley and not hanging with the family about now?
Couldn’t we just hope he’s our Kevin Slowey? That would be nice.
Oh, shit, Griff! Your Scootaround surely had a higher gear!
I seriously don’t understand the Rob Johnson hate here. Group-think, maybe?
Is anyone else getting annoyed by the “Everybody clap your hands” beat that they keep playing?
I don’t think it’s hate at all. Just continued amazement at the disparity between his actual performance and what the team apparently sees.
In other words, if a guy can’t hit and can’t catch, can his ‘leadership’ really be a help?
Aceves!
Can anybody explain Gaudin’s Gameday picture to me?
Ichiro’s hit makes up for Jeter’s 3 cheap hits today.
Would one of the moderators please post on the need to at least consider re-signing Erik Bedard this coming off-season?
I know, I know: [ot]
A couple more runs sand Bautista could finish this game.
Well, I go out and run for an hour and what happens?…WOWEEEEE!!!
AAEIII!! Don’t do that again!
These Devil’s pubs thing that pitchers have going these days is extremely disturbing and needs to stop.
Maybe he’s trying to impress whichever young starlet/pop star/model he’s dating this week.
Hey Liam,
The “Everybody Clap Your Hands” thing actually makes me laugh–as a former nightclub dj. It’s from “The Cha Cha Slide” which is basically a modern line dance with square dance-style calls…and everybody jumps in and does the same dance, like sheep.
I’m ironically pleased at how it works just as well at the stadium.
I’m also ironically amused enough to enthusiastically sing the “slick pick-up trucks, big timin’ in a small town” line from Branyan’s at bat music (“Hillbilly Deluxe” by Brooks & Dunn (RIP))
And Diderot is spot on about it not being “hate” for Rob Johnson here…but no needless and unreasonable “love” either.
Yes!
Though, unfortunately, they seem to be doing it all around the sports world at the moment.
Shoot, they pointed out the Flavor of the Month at one of the previous games. Kate Hudson? Or is she here with A-rod?
I remember being surprised that he hadn’t gotten married yet. Isn’t it about time to marry some Tifani from the marketing department and start squeezing out little Jeters?
Sweet, Joh.
Good job, Kenji!
Are we going to see Washburn in Detroit? The probable pitchers page has a ‘to be announced’ line for the starters of the final Tiger’s game. Does anyone know where they are in their rotation?
Actually, yeah, A-Rod and Kate are an item these days…though I remember a few years back when it seemed like Jeter was doing the whole “Flavor of the Month” thing with a series of celebrity hotties as well — Mariah Carey being amongst them.
Congrats on your first MLB win, Mister Fister!
And against the rotten Yanks, no less!
yeah, I remember her being a brunette, whoever the flavor was for Jeter. Damn. I hate getting old.
Sims said something about Washburn being up during the Detroit series, not sure which game, jld.
And WHOO! HOO! for Mister Fister! He gave it to the Yankees, if you know what I mean, and I think you do!
Well, Wash went eight shutout innings on Friday night against the Royals…so I’m guessing we’ll probably get him in one game of this upcoming series against the Tigers.
Washburn should be scheduled to pitch against the Mariners and RRS on Thursday.
Jeter has been dating Minka Kelly from Friday Night Lights for awhile now. Lucky bastard.
Oh, sheesh, no kidding!
Man, it’s nice being on the right side of a blowout.
And for anyone who likes sports, good writing and good acting, I highly recommend this show. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth going back and watching from the start.
Aw, I was hoping Fister would get a chance to pitch against Detroit. Apparently, its been his childhood dream to pitch against his longtime buddy Dusty Ryan in the majors (Detroit catcher), and they’ve both been called up this year from triple-A. Although, it looks like Dusty hasn’t been playing much lately anywho.
Oops, sorry, messed up the block quotes.
Johnson’s OPS for July was .810 and for August it’s .774. Seems to me that lately he’s been hitting just fine.
Heeeere we go again.
I mentioned man tights. Jeter dated Halle Berry years ago. I vaguely remember Berry politely saying he was a jerk. The man tights and the starlets make me think ‘cough, Rock Hudson, cough’. Now I have to check out Fister’s brows.
I don’t know about moving into Rock territory–he’d have to do the mirror kiss like A-rod before I went there–but it’s sort of sad and pathetic when the women stay the same age but the dude keeps getting older. I mean, everyone wore man tights…15 years ago.
Then again, she was married to David Justice for awhile as well…and, if I remember correctly, that wasn’t exactly a match made in heaven, either.
Yes, the metaphorical matthew mcconaughey, and so the celeb pop-tart TMZ circle is complete.
So…now the Mariners have won the last four (maybe five) games I’ve attended. This after they’d won around 15% of the games I’d attended up until this little streak.
On a side note, I was surrounded by Yankee fans today, just as I was surrounded by Red Sox fans at the game I went to in May. Red Sox fans are worse.
BTW, I was watching a channel that was running a sports ticker, where they were listing players and injuries, and for a moment it looked exactly like this:
Adrian Beltre (testicle)
David Wright (head)
And suddenly I realized our gay porn meme had escaped USSM….
Oh yeah-her comment was about how horrible her taste in men was. I suppose my dislike of Jeter makes me suspect he does the mirror kissing. It is good man tights have become passé.
Somehow that doesn’t surprise me…give them a couple of WS trophies to beat everybody over the head with and all of a sudden they think they’re the masters of the freaking universe.
Though I suspect the most obnoxious chowderheads at Bosox games are probably the ones who have so little connection to New England that they wouldn’t know a fresh Maine lobster if it reached up and snapped them on the nose.