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Game 122, Mariners at Indians
4:05 PST, French vs. Huff.
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A little surprised to see Hall get his first start in LF. I figured he’d be at 3B splitting time with Hannahan for the time being.
Interesting thought experiment: Would you trade tonight’s 3-4 hitters?
Lopez-Sweeney for Cabrera-Choo.
apparently that’s tomorrow…
Sweeney and Johnson are in.
WILL YOU RUN SWEENEY!!
Nice start Bill.
What a train wreck for Sweeney, good lord.
What are you slowing down for Sweeney! At least he made it. Congratulations Mr. Hall.
Welcome to the M’s, Mr. Hall! We’ll take more of those, please.
Lopez-Sweeney… no.
Eduardo Perez and Ben Broussard. Hell yeah!
Are we sure the server can handle all these comments?
It’ll be OK if we type in shorthand. Won’t use as much ink either.
Worked yesterday, so I’m calling a Bran Slam here…
Bill Hall, RBI machine.
Mike says “hi!”
A thought on Jose Lopez batting third:
Could the M’s be batting him in the three hole to sort of “show case” him in that spot in the order for future trade possibilities…
“Well Seattle has this Lopez guy, good second baseman, ~20 Hr’s, leads team in RBI’s, and bats 3rd… he’s solid!”
No.
Eh… ok.
So our lineup is just that bad. Fun.
What’s in the band of Sims’ hat? Old-school press pass? Feather?
Well that was surprising.
Josh Wilson, dinger machine.
Josh Wilson, home run machine.
Yeah, turquoise pimp feather.
M’s logo?
Wilson may be fighting Rob Johnson for the WFB Memorial roster spot soon with this crazy stretch.
It’s so nice to see the M’s get out ahead early — I spent much of today trying to figure out if there was a way to get decent DSL service at my house, which is just not a pleasant task, and I was looking ahead to the game all day long. As a bonus, we may get to see them rough up Tomo Ohka, which is always fun.
Bonus question: who was the other Red Sox pitcher Ohka got into a fight with in spring training over who was the better prospect?
Joltin’ Josh, I say.
Which is the quietest?
Library
Hoh Valley in the rain
a shopping mall during a recession
Mariner threads in August
Yeah, I was thinking something like that too. Though, as I remarked yesterday while watching the game at a bar, the M’s now have so many interchangable white guys that I can no longer tell at a glance who’s at the plate. So it’s possible they’ll be able to swap in Jack for Josh and nobody will notice. Can’t really do that with Jo and Joh. (You can with hans and Hann, though. Hmmm, I’m starting to see a pattern here…)
BRB, while I go bump the Lopez thread.
Lopez HR down down the LF line again. haha.
Lopez #17 baby!
Lopez home run, guess where it landed?
Ichiro chases the starter in the 4th, Guti singles him in. I like the way this is working out.
Wow. 7-1. Dang.
And here’s the crazy part: the M’s aren’t the team with the “1″
See? I told you Ohka would be fun.
You guys want a laugh? I’ve gotten the “You must buy your playoff tickets by Sept. 8″ email today. What ripoff by MLB.
M’s connection theater: in 1999, Ohka played on the same Sox team as Bob Wolcott and in 2000, with Jeff Fassero.
Also, I think Ohka’s fight was with Sun-Woo Kim, but it might have been Jin Ho Cho.
Google’s scary, btw — I just searched “tomo ohka fight spring training” and this post was #1 already
speaking of interchangeable white guys.
Even Sims’ comments show boredom. Must be catching.
He never in a million years had that triple. Actually kind of close, but still. Despite that lapse in judgment there, Wilson looking good tonight.
Nice set-up by the ump so that his view of the base and runner was blocked by the third baseman.
Except for being safe, and all.
Yah, on the downside it was the first out of the inning at third.
On the other hand, it was a bad call and he actually slid in under a tag that was too high.
I get home just in time to see Johnson drop that ball at the play at the plate. Nothing says time for a rum and coke than that.
How’s Adrian’s testicle doing, Sims?
Ah, still has swelling. Thanks for the update. *cringe*
The way our bullpen has been performing this lead does not feel safe.
I still love Branyan.
Only 398 feet.
I didn’t see it, but I’m guessing in the stands.
http://ussmariner.com/2009/08/20/lopezs-power/
Nice debut by B. Hall.
Bill Hall looks good… he’s like a right handed Mark McLemore with power
Ohka = Batista
Josh Wilson now has 3 HR’s in his last 28 AB’s… he hit one HR in the 355 AB’s before that. Can you say fluke?
Man, waking up from a nap just in time to see Batista come in makes me want to go back to sleep.
Liam:
Oh, I know that. I was just being snarky. But I was wrong anyway: apparently it landed on a walkway.
Maybe Josh Wilson will break Junior’s record for consecutive games with a homer.
Maybe not.
Batista is still alive? Wow.
Ohka + $9 million = Batista
I hate playing the Indians because we have to watch Choo being really good.
The only way it would be cool to see Batista come in from the pen was if he came out of a hole like Saddam Hussein.
Ohka>Batista.
Everyone is really good against Batista.
*snort* Hud. It’s sort of like Batista’s trying to remember what he’s supposed to be doing here.
This small white ball, I’m supposed to throw it? Over that plate? With movement and speed? Uh….okay….
and they have to watch Gutierrez.
and tonight we’ll probably see a highlight of Choo’s run scoring double delivered on ESPN with Eduardo Perez’s commentary on how good Choo has become.
Oh, right, I keep forgetting. I keep thinking that Guti sprung from Zeus’s forehead.
If it makes you feel better, Eduardo Perez picked the Mariners to win the AL West back at the trading deadline.
MMM… nope… only thing that would make me feel better is if he hunted down Bill Bavasi and brought him back to Seattle to stand trial for his crimes.
Gawd, I saw that by some fluke and I think my jaw is still on the living room floor.
Did that just clunk poor Russell in the head?
I love when the crappy play goes our way.
Run Sweeney you slow decrepit old man.
Yeah, Sweeney, did you need the ball to roll into the parking lot?
(getting a bit drunk)
A nice game for a friday night.
Man, I love games where they vault to a lead and keep it.
My ticker can only take so much of those “eke-out-a-1-run-game” situations!
Bill Hall is a bit taller, but he reminds me facially a lot of Mark McLemore. Same value, too…just wish he could switch-hit.
I know I’ve said it several times over the season…but this team IS FUN to watch.
BTW, regarding that Ohka fight…if I remember right it was Sun-Woo Kim. Leave it to a Japanese and Korean player to scrap, though.
These countries do not like each other.
Heck, there are times I think one of the reasons the Mariners gave up on Shin-Soo Choo so readily was because Ichiro didn’t particularly care for the prospect of sharing the outfield with a Korean player.
The comment above is ridiculous and distasteful.
Yeah, why do you think that Ichiro didn’t care for the prospect of sharing the outfield with a Korean player?
Because Choo would go on and on about how much better OB is compared to Kirin and Ichiro! would just derisively shake his head causing him to misread a fly ball.
My humblest apologies, guys.
I would like for that comment to be retracted fully. Strike it, delete it, wipe it out of existence.
While I could agree that there is a strong rivalry between South Korea and Japan- and that there’s evidence of such- the notion that Ichiro would flex on management and in effect say “get this Korean out of here” is patently absurd.
Choo Shin-Soo was traded because Bill Bavasi somewhat underestimated the skill-set Choo possessed, and therefore under-valued it. It was one of several short-sighted assessments that Bavasi has to his name in his time as GM of the Seattle Mariners.
Choo was NOT traded because he was Korean and the resident superstar is Japanese.
I do not believe such an idea, nor do I think any empiric evidence exists supporting it.
To any who saw that comment, and were offended by it, I duly apologize again.
-Jared X. Thomas
If only it was easy to leapfrog over 3 teams for a Wild Card berth. . .
Small sample size warning but Choo’s numbers as a Mariner in the majors:
2005 AVG/OBP/SLG = .056/.190/.056
2006 AVG/OBP/SLG = .091/.167/.182
It was only 14 games but Choo didn’t show much and there was a much superior player in Adam Jones waiting behind him. Balentien was there also.
Among Bavasi’s bad moves, trading Choo for Ben Broussard was hardly the worst and to claim Ichiro had something to do with it (and for such a trumped up claim) is really pretty bad.
He apologized, let’s drop it, okay?