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Game 135, Mariners at A’s
Snell at Tomko.
Griffey returns, Lopez back to second base.
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Updates from today’s Wall Street Journal
M’s have a 23 % chance of winning today.
Niehaus’ play-by-play clocks in at 84 words per minute, well behind the leader Vin Scully at 144 wpm. They really do have statistics for everything!
It has to be a little annoying for Mike Carp, too.
According to Baker, Lopez is at 2B and Carp is in at 1st… I don’t know who’s information is more recent though.
Too small of a sample size to mean anything though.
“we listened to the first scoreless inning of every team’s home broadcast last Friday”
It’s such a small sample size it’s not even worth mentioning and yet someone at the WSJ thought it made for a good article.
Brad Lefton will be on the pregame shortly, talking Ichiro & milestones
On the radio pre-game show, Niehaus asked Wak if there was anyplace on the field where Bill Hall couldn’t play…to which Wak jokingly replied, “Well, we were thinking maybe he could be the third catcher.”
Actually, I like Wak’s line of thinking…since Hall might actually be better behind the plate defensively than Rob Johnson.
You should check tomorrow’s WSJ piece. I’ve heard some smart guy might have an interesting piece in there.
“Seattle Mariner and baseball analysis from some smart guy and Derek Zumsteg”
I like it when smart guys write.
Oh, look! A hit by Ichiro!
I hope this is the beginning of something. Tired of waiting 8 inning to get two runs and praying that the pitching holds it up.
Dave, is there a link to where I can see all your WSJ pieces?
Nice start to the game, Guti!
Sweet, sweet, sweet.
I love the A’s this year.
Yay, Bill Hall!
He definitely “Halled” that one out!
Dave, is there a link to where I can see all your WSJ pieces?
Yeah, but you have to be a subscriber to see it. I don’t even have access to my own archives.
Nice interview with Jack Cust over at BP.
I was so happy just a half inning ago.
Apparently, the A’s ownership has been meeting with city officials in San Jose about moving the team down there.
This, of course, would mean the absolute colossal cataclysmic end to the San Francisco Giants as a franchise if the A’s were to move to a city which is actually further out from downtown SF than Oakland is…
Oh, the humanity!
Well, damn, Ichiro.
I can sooooorta see it, Scott, from having lived in the Bay Area. The flight patterns for SF were to move down to the Peninsula from SF, or to work in SF while living down there, but no one fled to Hayward from SF.
So theoretically, there’s these Giants fans laying around their houses in Sunnyvale that would rather drive to SJ to watch a game then go all the way up to SF. *shrug*
And at one point, the Giants ownership threatened to go to SJ themselves.
I feel bad for the Oakland fans, because it would be a royal pain in the ass to get from the East Bay to SJ for games. Like, forget it. So yeah, they’d have to steal the Giants fans to have any one coming at all.
My dream was always for Oakland to build their own field on the water, right across the bay from Pac Bell, and the fans could scream abuse at each other, and during the interleague series, they could play one game of a double header on each side.
Plus games for Oakland would be much more pleasant, as the waterfront area’s pretty nice, close to downtown to take in a game after work, not out by the freeway and nothing else like where they are now.
There was a time when the Giants, when trying to replace Candlestick, wanted to move to San Jose, which is how it became part of the Giants’ territory. But given that the Giants have about as much of a chance of moving from their current location as the Yankees do of moving from theirs, I would think it would be pretty petty for them to try to enforce this.
Come on, Snell.
What was on Jack Wilson’s mind there?
Jack Wilson, that was not a good throw.
Hahaha, what the heck was that?
Damn, Jack-Wil, where were you lobbing that one to?
Seriously, that was little-league style.
I don’t think that’s how the Giants got their claim.
Magowan essentially said “it’s ours” because he wanted to extort concessions from the A’s, and Selig backed them. I’d have to go hit the books to cite the references though.
The whole territorial system is broken anyway.
You should check tomorrow’s WSJ piece. I’ve heard some smart guy might have an interesting piece in there.
I’ll miss that funny flip thing that Beltre does when he spins away from hitting a foul.
Yeah, I remember that too, Juneau (and you too, Breadbaker, since you mentioned it as well).
It might’ve been nicer to move the team downtown to the Oakland waterfront…and it would’ve been kind of ironic also, given that the two parks would be facing each other across the Bay much like the Coliseum and Candlestick do. As bitter as the old “Subway Series” rivalries between the Yanks and Brooklyn were back in the 50′s, you still couldn’t actually see Yankee Stadium from Ebbets Field and vice-versa — unlike those two parks from the “Bay Bridge Series”.
Would they really be the Oakland Athletics of San Jose ala the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim?
Then in 30 years when they move again, they’ll be the Oakland Athletics of San Jose at Fremont?
Much like a cat, in his mind everything belongs to Magowan.
Third home run by the Mariners, free Arby’s roast beef sandwich for everyone.
Kenji! That was a good, towering home run. Not one of his line drives, and not yanked straight away.
And now Kenji — with actually a timely piece of hitting for a change!
I just had sangria and tapas… and now a Kenji home run? Embarrassment of riches indeed.
Tomko looks as good as I remember.
Seriously… I was shocked when I saw his name as the starter. I thought he was out of the league… has he been pitching for Oakland all year?
Mmmm, pork bellies.
Full moon… prepare for a 12-9 derby.
“The A’s signed Tomko, 36, to a Minor League contract on Aug. 5. “
I realize this is mostly facetious, but the United States Angels of Anaheim near Los Angeles in California had a contract with the city to keep the name of Anaheim as part of their identity when the municipality agreed to financially back the renovation of Anaheim Stadium/Edison Field/Angels Stadium of Anaheim(their stadium is as ridiculous as its owner!). When they became the Los Angeles Angels, Anaheim sued for breach of contract and lost, but ownership threw the city a bone while flipping them the bird.
No, they said he’s been over in Sacramento most of the year. Has had three starts or three wins for the A’s; wasn’t paying that much attention.
Jeez, Snell, do you want to win or not?
Why is this game still a torment even with a lead against a weak team?
Be careful Belly. I hope you’ve written your last will and testicle.
This story indicates that our impression was pretty much correct: the Giants were given the South Bay territory preparatory to trying to move there, though not expressly saying they would.
Because the Mariners are also a weak team? Better than the A’s, but in al seriousness…
Oh, don’t worry, I’m sure the Angels — at some point within the next decade or so — will also find a way to somehow incorporate not only Orange County but also the cities of Santa Ana, Irvine, Newport Beach and San Juan Capistrano into their “official” title as well.
Did anyone catch the announcers talking about Brett Tomko being released by Yankees, he watched himself in the mirror, changed his delivery back to what he did in little league and credits his new found success to that? The media falls for this way too often.
Great shot of Kenji, with Snell pressed to the bench in the dugout, giving it to him.
Can’t see Johnson doing that; he’s too busy getting hugging lessons from Sweeney.
They’ve told the story twice in the game, Liam, so they seem to like it.
Going by the series preview over at lookoutlanding, Oakland is the better overall team by far.
Seattle beating Oakland in two sports at once by a combined score of 20-10! Now which Josh Wilson is back to catch punts?
Come to think of it, the ‘Hawks played the Chiefs last weekend while the M’s were playing the Royals…crazy!
Does Carp run slower than Branyan?
What’s with the regular George of the Jungle whoops out of the stands tonight? A regular Bay area peculiarity or something special for the Mariners? If anyone knows.
The typical primal chants of cro-mag A’s fans, perhaps?
I haven’t noticed, how sad is that?
There’s that guy with the big horn that sounds for of like an angry yak…is it that guy?
It isn’t George of the jungle, it’s like that old disco noise– ahhoohh ahhhooohhh
No idea, knowing less about angry yak noises even than George of the Jungle noises. It’s clearly one person or noise-maker and comes through quite clearly during the (relatively frequent) quiet moments in the game.
Don’t know if it’s the same guys or not, but there used to be a couple of dudes down there who wore Blues Brothers sunglasses and would stand around blowing those stupid plastic horns the whole game like they were in a Ricola cough drop ad or something.
It’s a like a six foot long horn, so it makes just one long note. Does George of the Jungle sound like Tarzan?
(How exciting is this game?)
Hannahan is running for Carp, so I guess he did look slow on his double.
September far from the madding pennant race. You have to love baseball to watch this. I love baseball.
It wasn’t long ago that someone was lamenting our inability to win 7-4 games.
The squeeze!!! Well it surprised me!
Wouldn’t you know it…the M’s finally get a season where they manage to beat up the A’s on a fairly regular basis — but then wind up finishing about 47 games behind the Angels, anyway.
Aardsma was going to throw a nice 5 pitch inning and then Lopez boots it.
Flashing back to Hall’s fine play at second yesterday….
Oh, and right, they were going to tie their record of errorless games.
Well, thanks again for your oh-so-stellar defense, J-Lo…
Nice comeback for the K and the wrap there, Aardsma!
The same Ian Snell who pitched the USS Mariner game at Safeco comes out today, and yet we still win. Amazin’.