Game 162, A’s at Mariners
Dave · October 3, 2010 at 10:00 am · Filed Under Mariners
Braden vs Rowland-Smith, 1:10 pm.
Oh thank God, it’s over.
The season in a sentence: Josh Bard is hitting 5th today.
Ichiro, RF
Figgins, 2B
Gutierrez, DH
Smoak, 1B
Bard, C
Saunders, LF
Halman, CF
Mangini, 3B
Josh Wilson, SS
How about a drunk accountant?
I’d expect the attendance to be less. What is that, a bit more than 1,300 a game? The stands sure have looked very empty at times.
Or he could vulture a win!
Felix got recognized with a nice standing O at the park. I’m happy.
Also, the hydros were exciting and crowd pleasing as usual…!
Yeah, now that we’re behind it would be fun to see him for an inning…
Sims is apologizing for some obscenity now? There are so many jokes about this team that could be made…
But I don’t remember anyone apologizing when RRS launched an F-bomb after giving up a homer earlier this season. That came across loud and clear, too.
It happens. I recall Sims doing it a couple weeks ago.
Rough day for the PA team.
They gave away a “Justin” Vargas jersey and started Louie Louie prematurely.
Who DOESN’T want this season to end?
I dunno, Sims made some blasphemous exclamation in yesterday’s game when that ball boy got whacked. I was surprised he didn’t apologize. I’m a godless heathen, but I’m sure his Grandmother wouldn’t be thrilled to hear that on the air.
There’s a Vargas jersey? Who buys it beside his family?
This team is pathetic.
Shot of fear at seeing Tejada in the SD highlight. Will he be available next year? Our new SS?
The last thing I need is to see the Snapping Turtle for the half a season before he’d be released.
So, uh, Josh Wilson is using some techno remix of the “I Dream of Jeannie” theme as his walkup. This really is a screwed up dream, right?
I love hearing that non one can hit HRs at Safeco.
A’s don’t seem to be having any trouble. *sigh*
God, they are desperate.
And goodbye Lopez!
I just got the evil eye dim about a hundred people for booing Lopez.
I honestly don’t get these fans. But, to each their own. Cheer the guy I guess.
Playing for a tie in the 9th. That pretty much says it, eh?
And a DP to end it?
Whhhaaa? Maybe not! Hope springs eternal!
And Brown’s wife is expecting their first tomorrow in Texas!
Turn it loose, Ichi.
*sigh*
And Krueger puts the cherry on the cake by suggesting that the M’s go get Grady Sizemore – “he’s a local product.”
WE DON’T NEED AN OF, MUCH LESS A CF!
HE HAS ONE YEAR LEFT ON HIS CONTRACT!
Well Ichiro tried. And God knows he played a big part in all our runs scored today.
Thank you for being you. And see you in 2011!
Brown must be younger than he looks, if he and his wife are just now having their first kid. I thought he was pretty old…
Oh well, we don’t need to listen to The Count for another six months – that’s one positive I’m taking away from this game.
Always a relief when the boring game-playing portion of the calendar is over and we can return to the much more enjoyable season of irrational-dreaming-while-number-crunching.
Oh, good grief. I like a lot of Drayer’s stuff, but she just wrote a blog post that blamed “chemistry”, at least in part, for this year’s problems.
So the team needs veteran leadership and chemistry – that’ll fix it. Ri-ight…
Krueger is an idiot. I’m glad nobody takes him seriously (I hope). But I wish he was off the air, he’s bad for baseball.
The problem isn’t chemistry. The problem is a roster that’s waaaaaay too much Large Item Pickup Day. Bradley, Kotchman, Griffey, Snell and so on.
WE DON’T NEED AN OF, MUCH LESS A CF!
HE HAS ONE YEAR LEFT ON HIS CONTRACT!
Krueger annoys me too, but this isn’t as dumb a suggestion as you think it is.
If Zduriencik figured out a way to get Sizemore on the 2011 roster without breaking the bank or giving away the farm, and he goes back to being a 4-6 WAR player, hell yes, we can figure out a way to use him. I seriously doubt that Saunders will ever get to Sizemore’s level of play, and realistically, we’d have a great OF defense.
Granted, he’d be a risk, but a guy coming off injury at Sizemore’s age would be an acceptable risk to take for a year rental, as long as the price was right. There aren’t going to be a lot of options available to add 4-6 WAR players to the M’s roster, and rejecting this out of hand would be foolish.
Of course, the same could be said for Matt Pitman — who just came right out and told the listeners not to call in to the post-game show if they were pissed off about the season.
Believe Big, indeed!
So is there a #2 pick out there that can help the team almost immediately?
In a year when we’re almost certainly not contending, going out and taking a risk on a possibly problematic guy like Sizemore makes little sense.
I rejected it because Krueger harped on about “local product” (“hometown boy”) crap which has burnt us before. In contrast, you gave a more balanced outlook on potential benefits. Although personally, I feel the Mariners have already made too many bad bets on “damaged” goods resurrecting themselves to high level of productivity. (It rarely happens).
I’m also irritated that Krueger claims we need a “Centerpiece Player” and then advocates for an outfielder (a local guy we can root for) when we already have Ichiro (and Guti). I sense this is yet another slam against Ichiro. Fuck Krueger.
And Saunders, who is in fact a local guy we can root for.
I’m to the sad point now that I feel that if we got Sizemore he would come and hit .238/.289/.387 if we got PUJOLS he would come and hit .279/.324/.428…
No matter who we go out and get, unless they come from Japan or AAA they will not hit for us.
And here I thought it was – “Batting clean-up: Jose Lopez”.