Game 58, Mariners at Rangers
Dave · June 8, 2010 at 3:00 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Hernandez vs Lewis, 5:05 pm.
Happy Felix Day.
The M’s hope that Felix can match Lee’s performance from last night and put them back on a winning streak, but I have to say, as much as I love Felix, he’s no Cliff Lee. Holy crap is that guy good.
Line-up the same as last night.
Ichiro, RF
Bradley, DH
Gutierrez, CF
Lopez, 3B
Carp, 1B
Josh Wilson, SS
Johnson, C
Saunders, LF
Figgins, 2B
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Felix just made Kinsler look more than silly.
Okay, WTF was that?
Jeff Nelson has called 3 pitches strikes that were more than 4″ outside. 2 of them were for strike outs.
Got jobbed there. His foot came off before the ball got there.
DVR says bad call. And the fielder didn’t even sell it.
Well, that’s game.
I’m tired of the human element Bud Selig, give us replay so the umps can get the calls right.
Bud Selig, David Stern and Gary Betteman are actually all the same evil individual, intent on destroying all enjoyment and happiness for the human race.
I lost all respect for Stern when he allowed the Sonics to leave Seattle. The other two have never earned my R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Is anyone else surprised that Johnson didn’t drop the ball that Carp through home?
Dang…just got in, what’s wrong with Felix??!
Felix got paid
Maybe Johnson isn’t “calling a good game”.
Plus he’s been giving up a lot of 0-2 and 1-2 line drives on fastballs right down the middle.
What has happened to both Felix and Zack Greinke this season? Puzzling.
Felix can shake him off
Johnson, Saunders, Figgins. 2 automatic outs. Great.
I’m going to go play Civ4.
I’m going to go play Civ4.
That’s a good idea. That Ghandi’s been strutting around like he owns the place.
felix is bad.
Greinke might just be demoralized. They say you can block it out, but he’s only human. The last few Lincecum starts are an interesting puzzle, though…
I would put money down that the M’s lead the league in men LOB, watching this game makes me want to punch myself in the face…
Bradley and Ichiro have not been hitting well these past two games. Has Figgin’s negativity poisoned the clubhouse?
Milton Bradely is a huge problem … his 206/276/312 is starting to compare with Rob Johnson’s 194/300/312…Maybe RoJo should bat second?!?
The wasteland grows.
Well losing 3 of 4 to Texas isn’t as bad as getting swept in Texas!
How many career HRs does Vlad have off M’s pitching? 107?
The belief system is just a bunch of bull….
I hate to say I called but I just sensed a bad outing out of Felix. With this one here can we finally establish that Johnson isn’t some uber-catching guru and this his presence behind the plate makes pitchers better, thereby expediting his awful catching, awful batting, and awful steal prevention from this team?
I hope Jack doesn’t get into such a bad position that he has to use Lee as leverage just to get one decent prospect in return for both Lee and the assumption of Bradley’s ridiculous contract (if he can even get that much). They owe that pile of crap $25M over 2 seasons. Consistent one pitch at bats; hitting barely over Mendoza with no power. He simply doesn’t have it anymore – regardless of where he hits in the lineup. He has an occasional flash, but he no longer has it. At least not in Seattle. Bats come here to die. It’s a snake bitten team this year … right down to the former 3B coach; a pissed off $9M free agent who just started to get it going before a demotion; a shit-assed bullpen; a catcher who can’t …. catch; Adrian Beltre hitting .330 with some pop and an 8-0 Carlos Silva residing in another City. One-third of an entire season has been a complete bust. Playing .420 baseball from this point forward would be a minor miracle. Here’s to hoping for less than 100 losses. It’s always good to keep hope alive.
Since it is safe to say we can write this season off, can we start getting some posts on what we should expect for next season and beyond? Last season was clearly an abberation, and the quicker we digest that and move on, the better. Sometimes you’ll hit the jackpot on moves, but sometimes you won’t. However, with out budget we should be able to spend a little for a more likely return on investment. Every signing need not be a risk.
So… what should we expect to get for C. Lee? At what point do we all chip in to throw a party for the success realized last season? Am I the only one who thinks Felix would have never signed based on this years crap-tastic team?
With Junior gone and era has ended and this team might actually need to win again to draw fans. As of today, from a fan’s point of few, they don’t five a shit.
For all the Strasburg commenters… I was at the game. Strasburg was just sick. If memory serves, all but one of those Ks were swinging and at one point he struck out 7 in a row, another Nats record. I’m happy for the kid, it had to be tough to live up to the hype. I’m also happy for the Nats (my NL team), who finally put 40k fans in the seats. And, for once, a majority was cheering for the Nats.
Maybe the “Happy” part should be removed from “Felix Day”. Or maybe “Indifferent Felix Day”?
As great as Felix looked last year, I’ve never been fully aboard the “King Felix” bandwagon.
He’s always reminded me of Freddy Garcia … lots of potential but never quite puts it together consistently game after game, year after year.
I hope the M’s don’t come to regret signing him that big contract. I know I’ll get slammed for posting this but when you look at Cliff Lee you see what a real ace pitcher looks like … and I’m afraid that Felix is not in the same class.
I hope I’m wrong, he’s still very young, but Felix looks like more of a “hot and cold” pitcher to me than a dependable ace. When he’s on, he’s awesome. When he’s not, uh-oh.
8 games out of first place. The M’s could be 6 out in two days and the season is not yet half over. There is some hope. To write the season off now and be ready for posts about what to expect from next season is silly. There is still a little more wiggle room for failure.
Yeah, Felix is not in the same class as Lee. At least as of now. I think that is pretty clear.
No, we cannot be 6 games out of first place after this series…if we win out the rest against Texas, they will simply fall behind one of the other teams (who happen to be playing against each other). That is the proglem, 8 games behind one team is doable, 8 games behind three teams is a whooooooole lot harder to overcome, especially the way the angelos are coming on.
Yeah. It’s done. This team doesn’t have the horses to run.
That they’re even mentioned in the same sentence is a testament merely to the fact that they’re part of the same pitching rotation…for the moment.
M’s expect Yanks to make Cliff bid
New York Post
“They want one of the [Yanks’ minor-league] catchers and [Eduardo] Nunez,” a person familiar with Seattle’s thought process said of any potential deal with the Yankees.”
No way…unless you get a stud and a prospect, you hold onto Cliff Lee and try to resign (not going to happen), or get two draft picks for him.
Let me start this off by saying that I didn’t get to watch the game tonight, but before tonight I haven’t missed a Felix start. I refuse to believe that Felix has gotten complacent since signing the contract this offseason.
If you heard any interviews with him after signing the contract, (one of which was conducted by our very own Mike Salk. Salk, “Do you want to ball in the playoffs?” and Felix without missing a beat, “Hell ya”) it shows that Felix doesn’t care about money.
Felix wants to win. I obviously don’t know him personally but I would like someone who knows more about the sabermetric stats than I do to show me a reason for his struggles other than, “he just got the money.”
ANY TAKERS?
Dang, there goes that glimmer of hope.
Well, one things for sure, he had some close calls, like Sounders missed diving catch in the first inning. Who knows what the outcome of the game would have been if Sounders had made that catch.