Mariner Moves Today...7/18/07...

by ppl4life on Jul 18, 2007 3:40 PM PDT

and yesterday.

Jake Woods has been optioned to AAA Tacoma, which still means that he could be picked up and/or outrighted.

Yesterday's news was that Jason Davis cleared waivers and was outrighted to AAA Tacoma.

For those of you who don't believe me, I can't give you a link. I get the info in the press release, which can't be copied and pasted, nor linked to.

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We knew about Woods already.

Not surprised Davis didn't get picked up.

HAHAHA THE INDIANS GOT A STEAL IN THAT TRADE!
/Jay

These pretzels....are making me thirsty!

by Goose on Jul 18, 2007 3:43 PM PDT reply actions

Ja-Son Da-Vis

Clap Clap
ClapClapClap

Baseball is 90% Mental. The other half is statistics...

by PositivePaul on Jul 18, 2007 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions

I knew...

about the DFA, didn't know he was optioned to Tacoma, officially. He is the first player I know of to actually be optioned while on the DFA list.

That is pretty bad you know. "We have now optioned you to Tacoma, and if you do happen to make it through waivers, you get to stay -- just with less salary."

by ppl4life on Jul 18, 2007 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions

I think Woods passes through waivers as well.

He'll be back floating around in Tacoma soon enough.

Mac had an interesting quote (I can't remember where I read it though). He said he hopes Woods stays in the organization, because he'd like to figure out "why he pitches better in the majors than the minors".

"I'm not familiar with this type of... thing I'm seeing"

by Thingray on Jul 18, 2007 3:44 PM PDT reply actions

He was optioned

Not DFA'd. No waiver wires for players who are optioned. Straight to the minors he goes

Every time Turbo bats in the 2 hole, God kills a kitten

by Brian Floyd on Jul 18, 2007 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions

From the Seattle PI today:

"NOTES: When the Mariners took lefty reliever Jake Woods off the roster Sunday, they put him on the designated-for-assignment list rather than just sending him back to Triple-A Tacoma. The reason for that is that because of his accumulated service time, he could be sent down only via option waivers instead of outright waivers. The Mariners still hope to keep him in the organization. And McLaren would like to find out why "he seems to pitch so much better in the big leagues than he does at Triple-A." ..."

link: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/baseball/324106_mbok18.html

"I'm not familiar with this type of... thing I'm seeing"

by Thingray on Jul 18, 2007 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions

And by the way,

you really got my hopes up with the title to this diary.

I was really hoping one or two people from Tacoma had been called up.

"I'm not familiar with this type of... thing I'm seeing"

by Thingray on Jul 18, 2007 3:45 PM PDT reply actions

I get the feeling

if Jones or Wlad were called up it would be a little more recognized than only in a side diary. Jeff would be sure to snag that one up on the main page.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?

by Brick on Jul 18, 2007 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions

You're probably right, but Jeff was saying he

was coming down with a cold, so he could be a little slow on the draw for a few days.

"I'm not familiar with this type of... thing I'm seeing"

by Thingray on Jul 18, 2007 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions

First Dave Simms

now Jeff?

Was there some game of ookie mouth going on here during Simms sick leave?

by Trent on Jul 18, 2007 6:57 PM PDT up reply actions

If Jeff has to take a week off

can we get Ken Levine to come over and post in his place?

by Matthew on Jul 18, 2007 7:23 PM PDT up reply actions

Dear God I hope so

by Jeff Sullivan on Jul 18, 2007 7:29 PM PDT up reply actions

he wrote a comment on USSM

a couple days ago.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING JOHNNY MAC?!?!

by MFAN on Jul 18, 2007 11:41 PM PDT up reply actions

also

his name is Sims

by Matthew on Jul 18, 2007 11:35 PM PDT up reply actions

Remember a life without the internet?

I dont either! ;)

by apalach007 on Jul 18, 2007 4:30 PM PDT reply actions

You mean "the before time"?

I thought that was just an old wives tale.

These pretzels....are making me thirsty!

by Goose on Jul 18, 2007 4:32 PM PDT up reply actions

Please tell me you guys aren't serious.

"I'm not familiar with this type of... thing I'm seeing"

by Thingray on Jul 18, 2007 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions

I spent the first 10 years of my life out in the

country, where I didn't even have tv, let alone a computer. Yes, I remember life without the internets.

These pretzels....are making me thirsty!

by Goose on Jul 18, 2007 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions

We had TV, we even had a computer,

but I remember when there was no internet (or cell phones), and I'm not that old..

"I'm not familiar with this type of... thing I'm seeing"

by Thingray on Jul 18, 2007 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions

Heh cell phones

I remember thinking how cool the bag with the phone was that my grandpa had in his car.

These pretzels....are making me thirsty!

by Goose on Jul 18, 2007 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions

My friends dad had one of those, and it was like

$20.00 a minute to use, and weighed about 85 pounds! LOL!

"I'm not familiar with this type of... thing I'm seeing"

by Thingray on Jul 18, 2007 5:32 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah

I remember we got a brand new 1993 Ford Taurus with a mobile phone built into the center console.

That was the awesomest new car ever. My Dad worked for McDonald's at the time, and his company cars were always Oldsmobile Cutlass Cieras, and when we got that Taurus...wow. Nicest car we had ever had.

Craziest feature ever that phone was t hough. It took up like the whole console but my Dad could check his voicemail in Chicago traffic.

by Corco on Jul 18, 2007 5:34 PM PDT up reply actions

And you were totally in awe of it I bet.

Now you'd look at that and crack up laughing, while you pull your V-cast mobile/I-pod/Dick Tracy come true cell phone out of your pocket.

"I'm not familiar with this type of... thing I'm seeing"

by Thingray on Jul 18, 2007 5:38 PM PDT up reply actions

out of my pocket? pffffffffft

you are soooo old technology.

I had my bluetooth iPhone surgically implanted into my own body. Granted, it makes it hard to watch those YouTube videos, but if I contort myself into a certain position and use 3 mirrors, it all works out.

by Matthew on Jul 18, 2007 5:42 PM PDT up reply actions

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!

"I'm not familiar with this type of... thing I'm seeing"

by Thingray on Jul 18, 2007 5:42 PM PDT up reply actions

Dick Tracy? No dude, these were the inspriations

for today's cell phones.

These pretzels....are making me thirsty!

by Goose on Jul 18, 2007 6:18 PM PDT up reply actions

You're right.

I just wanted to use a Dick Tracy reference to refer to all the amazing features packed into a small space.

Star Trek would have worked as well.

"I'm not familiar with this type of... thing I'm seeing"

by Thingray on Jul 19, 2007 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions

I remember stringing the phone line

across the room to plug into the 14.4K modem in order to dial up into CompuServe, Prodigy and AoL (version 1!!!!).

I don't recall doing anything on the internet for the first 5-8 years though except playing text-based role playing games and later learning that AoL chatrooms were a horror show of people who are now old enough to vote (dear god!!)

by Matthew on Jul 18, 2007 5:40 PM PDT up reply actions

Heh

My Mother was a computer programmer back in the 80's.

So my earliest memories involve a large modem, a gigantic Toshiba "laptop" and mother doing a lot of work on it.

I forgot about that Toshiba. That thing was a monster. It was a DOS machine with Lotus 1-2-3 and a football game where the X's and O's moved about the screen. The screen was not even in color.

Man, that thing was a big ass computer.

In fact, here's young Corco using it

by Corco on Jul 18, 2007 5:48 PM PDT up reply actions

I think I played that football game

by Matthew on Jul 18, 2007 5:53 PM PDT up reply actions

I definitely played that football game too.

When the little X made an interception and broke away was pretty awesome.

by jtopps on Jul 19, 2007 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions

My first computer...

Apple IIe. The most awesomest computer ever. As long as you didn't care about graphics. Or speed. Or memory capacity.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Jul 18, 2007 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions

14.4? Fast!

The first modem I used was a 110 baud thingy in a teletype with no screen and just a paper display. You plugged the phone into the back. I think that was about 3 years before you were born.

When I first started calling BBSes in the late 80's, I had a whopping fast 2400 baud modem. It was a really big deal when a few years later we got some crazy thing called Usenet on one of the local systems, I swear.

Funny, I guess some things never change. I used to help organize meetups at Phillies games for a BBS back in the early-mid 90's too :)

by Deanna on Jul 18, 2007 11:23 PM PDT up reply actions

Yes!

Just like in War Games!

I remember those days pretty well myself...

Timex Sinclair, WOOO! The first 'palmtop', although you still had to hook it up to a b/w tv, which, of course, wouldn't fit on your lap or your palm. IIRC, my dad bought ours at K-Mart.

Wasn't the first computer we had at home, but IIRC it was the first one my parents actually bought.

Baseball is 90% Mental. The other half is statistics...

by PositivePaul on Jul 19, 2007 9:55 AM PDT up reply actions

That was the life

Of course, I also considered TV news legit sources, so I guess there was good and bad.

by Gomez on Jul 18, 2007 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions

Olden Times

By god, when I was a kid, we made do with a crystal set that would only run if we attached a 12-volt battery to our scrotum and plugged it into our penis and the only station we could get was the 24-hours-of-cow-farts-a-day station.

Which, admittedly, did feature the birth of Colin Cowherd. You could hear his squalls as he jetted from Bossy's womb and whizzed across the cow patties into a fence, damaging his brain.

Those were the days.

We are the holler men, we are the glove men, mouthpiece filled with plug: ptoo!

by Celadus on Jul 18, 2007 5:28 PM PDT reply actions

Um,

what?

by Dylan @ Lookout Landing on Jul 18, 2007 11:28 PM PDT up reply actions

Luxury

When did this diary turn into the Four Yorkshiremen?

by PetRock on Jul 18, 2007 11:34 PM PDT reply actions

we're all too poor to get our Ritalin scripts

by Matthew on Jul 18, 2007 11:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Luxury.

We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Jul 19, 2007 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions