Game 160, Rangers at Mariners
Jay Yencich · October 2, 2009 at 6:46 pm · Filed Under Game Threads, Mariners
With a sweep we could pull into a tie for second, which we wouldn’t technically get losing the season series, but hey, who knew we’d have that to look forward to going into the final series? Of course, we’d also likely leave the realm of protected draft picks in the process, which doesn’t excite me. I’d take it, if it means an opportunity to see Snell build on what he did last week.
T-~42 hours until the final Felix Day of the season.
Lineup:
RF Ichiro!
CF Gutierrez
2B Lopez
DH Griffey
3B Beltre
1B Carp
C Moore
LF Saunders
SS Wilson
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In regards to all the gay porn stuff…
You know there’s actually a pretty good game going on here, right guys?
Let’s not turn gay porn threads into the next incarnation of the ‘rally fries’ where even good games are allowed to go unnoticed.
Speaking of Towers being gone, did anyone hear that there is a ‘mutiny’ going on in Toronto over the players’ dislike of Cito Gaston?
Hmmm…methinks Lowe does not like Snell very much — this is second start of his in a week he’s tried to blow.
Sorry Snell, thanks for playing!
Where have your insightful comments been, egreelaw, before this moment?
CRAP!
There’s my insightful comment.
Well, Vargas is in now…
Guess Wak’s throwing up the white flag for this one.
Then “Mission Accomplished” for Lowe.
There, I fixed it myself.
I think any time a member of the bullpen blows a lead, that guys has to wear the crippled guy’s helmet from 300 (because he ended up a traitor).
Hadn’t heard that…though I’m thinking — last weekend against the M’s aside — the morale can’t be very good on that team based on their record over the past several months.
It’s a good thing the Leafs are looking somewhat interesting at the start of their season for a change — at least the fans in Toronto might have something to cheer about at the moment.
ARGH! Beltre’s effort wasted!
That’s what I was thinking, too.
OK, Beltre broke my brain with that slide. Just brilliant. (All for naught.)
Stay.
I hope not. Leafs fans are about as unbearable as Yankees fans when their team is winning.
I’m with ya there, bro. I remember being at the Shark Club one time after a ‘Nucks game (forget who they were playing, but it wasn’t TOR) and some dude came in wearing a Leafs jersey. Got the dirtiest looks I’ve ever seen, I might add.
Meanwhile, thanks a lot, DA!
Well, thanks for crapping all over Fan Depreciation Night, Messy!
Guess this one’s pretty much over.
Nice to see they finally mixed in another out there in the ninth. Sheesh.
the bull pen has been bull shit as of late
Lucky, we’re bringing up the pride of Tacoma to face Francisco.
I think the M’s could use a matador in their bullpen about now.
Third place!
Actually, we should be able to rename the bullpen the steer pen for just such occasions.
sweeney,moore, and saunders all K’d looking. In a Row. I’d rather see a player swing at a ball in the dirt than watch strike three go by
According to gamecast on espn, the M’s still have a 1% chance of winning this game, even though it’s over.
There’s almost no way the M’s could get into the protected draft picks. To be in the range they’d have to have the 16th-or-worse winning percentage. Or put differently, there needs to be 15 teams with equal or more wins than Seattle at the end of the season. I say equal, because, tie-breakers is determined by the teams’ 2008 win%, and unless you’re WAS, Seattle wins the tie-breaker.
There are already 11 teams in the category. I listed their current number of wins: NYY (102 wins), BOS (93 wins), LAA (94 wins), TEX (86 wins), PHI (92 wins), ATL (86 wins), FLO (86 wins), STL (91 wins), LAD (93 wins), COL (91 wins), SF (87 wins).
That means 4 other teams need to win enough games to beat Seattle, or/and Seattle has to lose enough games. There are only 4 teams that are within reaching chance of doing this:
TB (83 wins), DET (85 wins), MIN (84 wins), CHIC (82 wins).
If Seattle wins 2 of 3 against the Rangers, then they’ll finish in the top 15 win% because even if CHIC sweeps ARI, they’ll still have a worse win%.
If Seattle wins 1 of 3 against the Rangers, then: TB must win at least 1 of 2 VS NYY, and CHIC must win both games against ARI.
If Seattle is swept by the Rangers, then only CHIC needs to win 1 of the 2 games remaining against ARI.
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With Felix taking the hill in the last game, (granted Feldman vs. M’s lineup is probably better than Felix vs. TEX lineup), I give the M’s the nod, which means we win 1/3. Which means CHIC must win 2/2 against ARI, which I think is unlikely.
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Hope that all made sense to someone.
Scott19, which Shark Club? Are you in Vancouver?
Ah, Scottdids, I was referring to the one “kitty-corner” (though actually across the viaduct) from GM Place…since I know there’s a “Shark Club” in Kirkland as well.
Actually, no, I don’t live in VAN…though I do try to get up a few times a winter to watch the ‘Nucks play when I can (which, unfortunately, I haven’t been able to recently due to economics).
Gotcha. I know the one, been there a few times. There are a few Shark Clubs in the Vancouver area though, or at least there’s one other I know of.
I live in Vancouver but was born in Edmonton during the Gretzky days, thus an Oilers fan.
Actually, I’m not sure if all those different “Sharks” are owned by the same group or not, but I know there’s several around.
At least we can both have fun razzing the Flames — though Iginla’s awesome to watch if you don’t have to play against him, that is.
My friends laugh when the Canucks play the Flames and i’m forced to be a Canucks fan for the night. I call it my Satan vs Hitler matchup. I choose Hitler only because I’ve hated him for less time (plus Flames = Satan, makes sense to me right?). After the game I still need to take a shower and clean off.
The funny thing is, I’m usually one of those people who won’t root for anyone else in my division, either (which is one reason I absolutely loathe the Angels…besides their stupid we-had-box-seats-and-made-it-to-three-innings-of-the-game half-assed fans down in OC). However, I so wanted Oil to win the Finals a few years back when they were playing the Hurricanes — since it’s nice to see the Cup actually in Canada once in a while.
Oh yeah, and I almost forgot…remember those third jerseys they had a few years back? Too funny…but then, the D’Backs eventually wound up with new jerseys which almost looked like they came from the same designer as well, ’cause I swear the snake’s head on Arizona’s uni’s looked just a little too much like that Flame monster to be coincidental.