Game 146, White Sox at Mariners
Floyd vs Rowland-Smith, 7:10 pm.
So, yeah, about Saunders playing again? Not happening. Jose Romero reports Wak’s comments that they’ve basically shut him down for the year, as they didn’t like the lack of improvement they were seeing at the plate. Not a fan of this, honestly. Players struggle, and they learn from it. He’s not going to learn anything on the bench, and this eliminates the chance that he plays well enough to give them confidence to head into the off-season knowing that they don’t have to go out and get a left fielder. Now, it’s a question mark, and the team already has enough of those.
Line-up:
Ichiro, RF
Gutierrez, CF
Lopez, 2B
Griffey, DH
Beltre, 3B
Johjima, C
Carp, 1B
Langerhans, LF
Josh, SS
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But, but, they’ve got Langerhans and Hall! That’s two more than they need!
Ah, who knows, maybe Saunders will start scorching in the winter league and it’ll all be sorted by March. Whatever the case, the Zdubraintrust can think about and solve more than one problem per offseason, fortunately. The catching and starting pitching situations bother me more, not to mention the looming hole at Beltre.
Or, for a game that actually matters: Rancho Cucamonga at High Desert, 7:05.
So anybody know any secrets for getting decent sort-of-last-minute seats for “premium” games such as the Yankees on Sunday? Normally I wouldn’t care, but my elderly mother is in town and she’s always been a Yankees fan (I know, sigh) despite never being to NY or having seen them play in person. (Yeah, kind of like all those Red Sox fans you find around Seattle these days.)
Not necessarily, joser. My elderly mother–she’d kill me to hear me describe her thusly–has been a lifelong Yankees fan too, only having seen them play live once, with me and Safeco. (And we whipped their ass, whoo-hoo!)
But she grew up in CA, listening to their games on the radio before CA had teams. *shrug* The Yankees must have dominated broadcasting in the ’40’s – ’50’s too.
Well, hello there Mr. Langerhans.
And I love in the very next at-bat we see just how un-athletic Lopez is for a nice contrast.
I’ve gotten great seats on Craigslist in the past:
Link
It’s nice having Johjima out there.
Carp(e)Diem!
Are those fans being asked to leave the game because they won’t give up Carp’s first major league home run?
@joser: Stubhub still has a lot of yankee/mariner tickets available (though I hate them so very very much)
Nah, they get to trek down to the clubhouse and meet Mike Carp.
Excitement will ensue.
I just tuned in. What happened? If I caught a players first MLB homerun I wouldn’t even wait. I’d run down to the dugout and give it to him. Maybe ask for a jersey or a bat, but at the end of the day I’d give the player the ball
I guess it pays to play hardball.
I’m sure the Mariners staffer had an introductory offer of items from the team store in exchange for the ball.
Hrmph. Ichi fall down go boom.
I’d settle for meeting the player and getting a handshake.
When I was about 10 or 12 and at a O’s V A’s game John Lowenstein came over to the sidelines and gave me a bat. It was such an awesome feeling. I did have an in though. My dad played college ball with Lowenstein. I still have the bat. I use it to beat away intruders in Ballard
I’m not a fan of the move to ice Saunders for the rest of the year. At all.
Jack Zduriencik. Buddy. Pal. You got to let your young talent play when the games don’t count for anything but standings….except maybe as a tool to expand budget to ownership.
Morrow was mishandled and now so is Saunders.
And you’re counting on both- at this point- to be major contributors to the team in 2010.
Nice.
I wonder what they did 100 years ago to get the only ball back so play could resume.
when i was a kid and my dad coached the local American Legion team, they had to wait for me to go get the ball back. If it was a foul ball, easy. If it was a home run I had to go down in a weed, burr, bug, rattlesnake infested field and find the damn ball. Our team was the “rich” one in the league. Meaning we had about 6 new baseballs.
for the sake of argument — if Cockrell, Wakamatsu & Zduriencik felt Saunders was trying to do too much and not making the adjustments they hoped, and he is already scheduled for Winter League … is it so wrong to let a 22-year old clear his brain and rest his body for a bit after his AAA leap year? They have said they’ll likely get him back in before the end of the year.
I’m hoping the thinking is that Saunders has the left field job next season, and they’re willing to accept whatever struggles he has early in the season while the adjustment continues.
And in the meantime they need to understand how well Hall can do at as many different positions as possible. And despite the problems with contact, he may be able to solve several backup positions and give them luxury of one more DH-type on the roster?
Why is Batista warming up? David Aardsma has only pitched 1 inning in the last two weeks.
RRS might not have the stuff to be a 1 or 2, but I think he has a place on this team.
I’m a fan 🙂
Joser
I have to agree with bilbo27. If you’re going to look for last minute tickets to the Yankees game, Stubhub is probably your best bet because you can actually pick which section you want to sit in on an interactive seating chart.
Well, a hundred years ago most of the people in the stands were betting and fighting, from the sounds of it; so depending on which team was winning you’d either get the ball back right away so play could continue and they could win their bets… or you’d have to wade in and fight for it, I guess.
Anyway, thanks for the suggestions, all.
Yeah, my mother remembers her father listening to games just after WWII, and they were in the middle of nowhere, Saskatchewan. I don’t know if they were getting crazy AM skip-bounces or the CBC was rebroadcasting or something, and i think most of the time they just followed via the box scores, but yeah I think her Yankee fandom dates to that period.
RRS has pitched a heckuva game. Trusting his fielders (and with this version of the Mariners, a good idea).
That Gutierrez kid aint such a bad center fielder.
Anybody know why Dave Sims was broadcasting on the radio in the 9th when normally Dave Niehaus would be behind the mike?
Woah, Mike Sweeney with the “How are you going to handle this!” and an ice cream (?) pie to the face.
He had a day off.
T’anks.
Wow, I had relatives in the same place at the same time listening to baseball. Small world.
Sweeney seems to favor softserve over the shaving cream pie.
Shaving cream stings the eyes, softserve is delicious. Yet another way Sweeney is nicer than everyone else.