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First Half in Review: Mariners Go Camping

After taking a weekend camping trip deep in the forest, the team got lost trying to find its way out and had to radio for help, arranging to meet with a group of park rangers in a nearby clearing. Unable to find the area, the team has been wandering around the forest for days, surviving on meager rations and hoping to stumble across the clearing before the rangers give up and leave them for dead.

Ibanez: "...maybe it's just over this hill right here..."
Sexson: "God, do you know how often you've said that?"
Ibanez: "Do you know how often you've bitched?"
Sexson: "Kiss my ass, I'm sick of you."
Ibanez: "Maybe if you tried helping a little bit we might not be in this situation."
Putz: "Guys, guys, we don't need this. Save your energy for the walking."
Sexson: "Whatever. I'm gonna go take a piss."
Everett: "Hey, I think I know where we're supposed to go."
Petagine: "You know, I have a map here in my pocket-"
Hargrove: "What's that, Carl?"
Everett: "I said I think I f-cking know where we're supposed to go, grampa."
Meche: "This again..." :rolls eyes:
Hargrove: "Which way?"
Petagine: "...it's a detailed map...creeks, rocks, it's got everything in it..."
Everett: "We gotta go over there. See that moss? Moss always grows in the shape of an arrow."
Woods: "What?"
Hernandez: "That's not true. In the Boy Scouts we learned that moss always grows on the...on the..."
Hargrove: "Sounds good. Guys. GUYS! Follow Carl, he knows where we're going."
Johjima: "You know, we followed him on the wrong path out of the campsite, we followed him when he dropped the radio into the lake, we followed him into the den with all those bears-"
Sherrill: "-God rest Emiliano's soul."
Johjima: "...I just think maybe it's time to follow someone else for a change."
Betancourt: "Someone who doesn't get us lost or dead."
Petagine: "...I think it actually shows exactly where we are right now..."
Everett: "F-ck you guys."
Hargrove: "Fair enough, we'll give someone else a chance. Anyone got any ideas?"
Soriano: "Ooh! Ooh!"
Mateo: :coughs:
Hargrove: "Julio?"
Mateo: "Do we know how to get back to the bears? The bears probably know their way around the forest."
Hargrove: "That's a good point, they definitely know the area."
Putz: "Uh-"
Guardado: "Hey guys, I don't think I can take much more of this..."
Washburn: "Would you shut up already?"
Guardado: "My stomach is killing me..."
Lopez: "Maybe you shouldn't have eaten everything out of our coolers back at the campsite."
Ibanez: "Did you really have to eat Joel's special brown bag lunch? You knew he needed what was in there and you took it anyway. Poor guy's wasting away back there."
Pineiro: :whimper:
Hargrove: "So are we going back to the bears or what?"
Petagine: "...the map says the clearing isn't very far away...I think it's right over there, on the other side of that hill..."
Ichiro: :panting:
Hargrove: "Where've you been?"
Ichiro: "I just checked out those three mountains over there. Around the lake and that collection of boulders, too. No sign of anyone."
Guardado: "Seriously guys..."
Hargrove: "That's good, now how about you stay with the rest of the group. Stop getting separated from everyone else."
Ibanez: "He's just trying to help."
Ichiro: "I'm going to go climb that huge tree right there and shout if I see anything."
Guardado: "Everything's getting grayer..."
Ibanez: "Can somebody go over there and wake up Adrian? Guy's been on that rock napping for hours. He's the one who's supposed to be navigating."
Lopez: "ADRIAN!"
Beltre: :yawn:
Lopez: "ADRIAN!"
Beltre: "What up?"
Guardado: :collapses:
Betancourt: "Do you have that GPS thing with you?"
Beltre: "Yeah?"
Washburn: "...are you ever going to take it out of your bag?"
Beltre: "I don't know how to use it."
Lopez: "So you brought the whole handheld GPS system without knowing anything about how it works."
Beltre: "I know it needs batteries."
Washburn: "Do you have batteries?"
Beltre: "What am I, Radio Shack?"
Washburn: "...go back to sleep."
Hargrove: "Look guys, it's starting to get dark. Maybe we should stay here for the night and go searching again in the morning. Anyone know how to start a fire?"
Sherrill: "Ooh! Ooh!"
Mateo: :burps:
Hargrove: "Julio?"
Mateo: If you take off your shirt and your pants and rub them together real quick, it should get hot enough to burn."
Hargrove: "Good point. Everyone, rub your clothes together really fast."
Hernandez: "Then we're not going to have any clothes."
Pineiro: :whimper:
Hargrove: "I didn't hear you suggest anything."
Hernandez: "You didn't give me a chance. In the Boy Scouts we always started fires with...with..."
Putz: "...sticks. We could use sticks instead of our shirts and pants."
Hargrove: "And give yourself splinters? How is that better?"
Putz: "...why don't you just sit here, and Raul, Jose and I will go get some wood."
Hargrove: "You do that while Julio does his thing and we'll see whose idea is better."
Reed: "Guys! GUYS! GUYS!!"
Meche: "Huh?"
Reed: "Over there! Over there I don't see any trees! Maybe it's the clearing, I'm gonna go check it out!" :runs off:
Meche: "Be quick, it's almost dark. Let us know."
Mateo: "...I don't know why this isn't working. I just seem to be tearing the fabric..."
Washburn: "Try rubbing it harder."
Ichiro: :panting:
Betancourt: " You're back? Were you able to see anything from up there?"
Ichiro: "Not really, we're surrounded by hills on three sides. I saw a gap in the trees just over there, but I think it's just a really steep cliff."
Meche: "Uh..."
Reed: :distant scream:
Bloomquist: "Hey, anyone need me to tie any knots?"
Soriano: "The ground here is pretty tough. George, you wanna go try and find some leaves to sleep on?"
Meche: "Jeremy?"
Bloomquist: "I can do an albright knot, angler's knot, arbor knot, bachmann knot..."
Sherrrill: "Yeah, I'll help."
Betancourt: "Now it's dark and I'm starting to get really hungry."
Johjima: "I saw a few berries on that bush we passed a few hours ago but some of the younger guys ate them and I don't think they're doing too good."
Morse, Choo, Harris, Quiroz, Nageotte, Livingston, Green, Lowe, Rivera: :groan:
Washburn: "If you wanted to go all Donner Party I think Matt and Joe should still be just where we left them a little ways back over there."
Betancourt: "...maybe later."
Bloomquist: ...bag knot, barrel knot, beer knot, blood knot, boa knot..."
Mateo: "Okay, yeah, this officially doesn't work."
Hargrove: "Wait a second, anyone seen Jamie?"
Pineiro: :whimper:
Meche: "I saw him leave the campsite this morning with a divining rod and a sextant."
Hargrove: "He went by himself?"
Meche: "He said he was in a rush, something about 'running out of time' or whatever. I dunno, I was half-asleep."
Lopez: "We're back."
Ibanez: "And we come bearing firewood."
Hargrove: "So how'll we get it to burn?"
Putz: "Ooh! Ooh!"
Mateo: :grunts:
Hargrove: "Julio?"
Mateo: "If you take your glasses and aim them just right the sunlight should heat up the wood and start a fire."
Hargrove: "Okay, here, why don't you give that a try."
Mateo: "..."
Hargrove: "..."
Mateo: "...why isn't this working?"
Hargrove: "..."
Mateo: "..."
Putz: "Because that's the moon."
Hernandez: "I remember in the Boy Scouts we learned that to start a fire you have to...have to...um..."
Lopez: "Wait, doesn't Carl carry a lighter?"
Ibanez: "Does he?"
Lopez: "Hey! Hey Carl!"
Everett: "F-ck you."
Ibanez: "Can we borrow your lighter?"
Everett: "You can take my f-cking lighter. Jesus H, leave me the f-ck alone."
Lopez: "Thanks." :uses lighter on kindling:
Putz: "Man, that got it burning real good."
Lopez: "Good thing too, just used up the last of the fluid."
Soriano: "Hey guys, we've got a ton of leaves."
Bloomquist: "I like pressing leaves. Anyone want me to press them a leaf?"
Sherrill: "Should be enough for everyone to sleep on as long as you don't take up too much space."
Meche: "That's quite a haul. I'll get everything set up, you guys come get warm by the fire."
Sherrill: "Thanks."
Putz: "Hey, who's that?"
Macha: :approaching: "You guys look thirsty."
Washburn: "Are we ever!"
Hargrove: "We ran out of rations this morning."
Macha: "Well I've got this jug of water with me, it's the least I can do."
Ibanez: "Oh my goodness, we can't thank you enough!"
Macha: "...well, wait, hold on, you guys know you aren't supposed to have open fires in the forest. How are you going to keep that thing under control and put it out?"
Hernandez: "I remember in Boy Scouts we learned to put a fire out by...you put it out by..."
Lopez: "It'll burn itself out. There's not very much wood there, and it's surrounded by dirt..."
Macha: "I'm sorry, but rules are rules."
Putz: "Wait, don't-!"
Macha: :pours jug of water onto fire:
Ibanez: "..."
Lopez: "But...but we don't..."
Macha: "Catch you assholes later." :walks away:
Petagine: :follows:
Johjima: "Uh."
Washburn: "What a dick."
Hargrove: "Keep close to each other and stay warm. We'll get back on our feet when the sun's up. I know we're close to the clearing. We have to be. Right, Ichiro?"
Ichiro: "I don't know. Maybe. Like I said earlier, we're practically surrounded by mountains so I couldn't really see much from the tree."
Hargrove: "So we'll explore in the morning. A little uphill walking never hurt anyone."
Pineiro: :whimper:

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wow
That may have been the most brilliant thing i've ever read. no joke. Jeff, you truly are on of the best writers i've ever seen.

by sactown257 on Jul 11, 2006 11:45 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Hahaha...that's wonderful...
And totally captures the entire season up to this point...great job, Jeff!
We'll Always Have the Kingdome: Because I'll actually update it now, and I promise it's not that bad.

by BrettJMiller on Jul 12, 2006 12:23 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Freaking Awesome
Fire Mike Hargrove!

by Goose on Jul 12, 2006 12:59 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

What happened to Reed!!!!
Oh, and the best part:

Mateo: "...why isn't this working?"
Hargrove: "..."
Mateo: "..."
Putz: "Because that's the moon."

by chrisisasavage on Jul 12, 2006 7:57 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Absolutely Brilliant, Jeff
You know guys, our duty now is to spread the word. To link far and wide, high and low, so that those less fortunate may partake in what Jeff has created. Go, ye minions!

by kva15 on Jul 12, 2006 8:46 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I Feel Sorry for Eddie
While in his delusional state, he heard the Angels sing, and awoke in a far away, mystical land where the rivers meet.

And I can only hope that Brother Rohn can find the flock during the night. Culling Hargrove and Everett from the heard, Rohn can lead the rest to safety (if not prosperity).

by kva15 on Jul 12, 2006 8:49 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I hear the Commies took his away
and left behind some kid in a sling.
SWUNG ON AND BELTED! DEEP TO... shortstop....

by Gomez on Jul 12, 2006 9:12 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

That was hilarious
and totally meta.  Five star (***) work, Jeff.  Well done.
SWUNG ON AND BELTED! DEEP TO... shortstop....

by Gomez on Jul 12, 2006 9:13 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I also love
how Ibanez gets the first line and it's about something being "over the hill".

Seriously, this is some of the most clever, funny shit I've ever read.  I am in awe.

SWUNG ON AND BELTED! DEEP TO... shortstop....

by Gomez on Jul 12, 2006 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Man, You're Awesome
Brilliant stuff.

Although, I think Ken Macha should have pissed on the fire.

by PLU Tim on Jul 12, 2006 9:28 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Nah
It should have been a drunk and lost Joe Blanton, passing out and snuffing the flames.

by AnotherAaron on Jul 12, 2006 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I'm pretty sure...
...Jeff had thoughts of a cameo involving Scruffy Lefty munching on J-I-T-B tacos, and peeing on said fire.

But he didn't want to leave the rest of us out ;-)

Again -- great job Jeff!  You sure you really want to become a chemist?

Free George Sherrill. And Dan Rohn.

by PositivePaul on Jul 12, 2006 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Every up and coming writer
needs a day job ;)
SWUNG ON AND BELTED! DEEP TO... shortstop....

by Gomez on Jul 12, 2006 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

The money's in chemistry.
I just do the whole writing thing for the ladies.

by Jeff on Jul 13, 2006 12:18 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Money in Chemistry?
I can still remember when I was 12, my Dad sat me down and wrote a number on a piece of paper and said, "This is what a chemist makes in a year." Then he took the paper back and wrote a larger number. "This, is what a chemical engineer makes." That set my major right then and there. Of course, I had to contemporize the story a little because my Dad didn't actually use a pencil and paper -- it was a hammer and a chisel....

Then again, I would have been a garden variety chemist. Jeff, after you win that Nobel Prize you'll be raking in the bucks.

True story: I went to Cal, and one of our lab lectures was how to distill pure mescaline from peyote buttons.

by kva15 on Jul 13, 2006 12:32 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I should clarify.
The respect's in a chemistry degree. The money's in the chemical engineering job that follows.

by Jeff on Jul 13, 2006 12:36 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Priorities
Just remember Jeff: You only need so much money to live. You can never have too many women (or something like that).

by kva15 on Jul 13, 2006 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I smell a dis'!
Like, really, how many women hang out around these parts.  No offense to those that do -- I happen to know one or two of 'em and they're GREAT people.  

But, yeah, I'd say the Chick:Dude ratio is probably right up there with Sexson's walkoff-grand-slam:K ratio.

Unless, of course, you're calling US all girls ;-)

Oh, and about that chemistry thing.  I'm not sure how far it is from where you are to Stanford, but I know a dude (who used to read this joint frequently, and probably stops in every now and then) who happens to have his PhD in physics/chemistry (IIRC) and holds a very decent position at Stanford.  Last I spoke with him, he's having a hard time finding people smart enough to come work for him.  You might qualify, and perhaps may be interested...

Free George Sherrill. And Dan Rohn.

by PositivePaul on Jul 13, 2006 9:55 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Actually, uh
What other regular posters here are female besides me?  I have to admit that I never read game threads on any blogs anymore, but...

"Chemistry" is the name of an awesome Japanese R&B band.  I bet they get plenty of chicks.

Marinerds - a different daily dose of baseblog.

by Deanna on Jul 13, 2006 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

During the middle of the night...
Johjima: uh... Ichiro, what are you doing?
Ichiro: Shh be quiet, I don't want to wake anyone up.
Johjima: What's with the sharpened stick?
Ichiro: I'm taking care of our root problem.

by TyranT on Jul 12, 2006 9:28 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Top Notch
Funniest Shit I've Ever Read.

by I'm NOT Corco on Jul 12, 2006 10:34 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Wow, Jeff
That was absolutely brilliant.

by Slurms McKenzie on Jul 12, 2006 11:06 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Wow, that sucked...
JUST KIDDING!! Just wanted to keep Jeff's ego in check. Excellent job, once again.

by basebliman on Jul 12, 2006 11:28 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Happy Ron Fairly's Birthday, Jeff!
...er, I mean, great stuff.

Actually, the best part about this one was that I read it last night, thought it was cute, didn't think about it too much, re-read it in the morning, and then realized that pretty much every line has some subtle connotation or joke in it.

Marinerds - a different daily dose of baseblog.

by Deanna on Jul 12, 2006 1:06 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Brilliant
Hi-fargin'-larious.

by scareduck on Jul 12, 2006 4:28 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

A++++++++
that was one of the funniest things I have ever read, seriously symbolism X48522

i'm not gay or anything, but marry me?

by mariners124m on Jul 12, 2006 7:22 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Amazing
I'm visiting from Athletics Nation, but I just gotta say... that was pretty hilarious. Keep up the good work!

by JLaff on Jul 13, 2006 11:14 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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