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Hello good sir, have you considered us me for your ninth inning endeavors? Of course not, because you're a huge fucking asswagon.

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Especally since the unearned run came on a E by Felix...

By the way how does that not count as an ER? Shouldn't pitcher E's still count for ER?

by SethGrandpa on Apr 6, 2008 1:17 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

It's stupid, but

I think the reasoning is that an unearned run is one that the offense doesn't earn, not one that a pitcher doesn't immediately allow. I have thought about that before though, and it does make more sense that a pitcher's error should be an earned run.

by Mbad on Apr 6, 2008 1:24 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Gah!

15IP, 0 earned runs and nothing to show for it.

You know, games like this would be so much easier if we had a great left handed setu.... (aaaaaargh!)

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by MarkE on Apr 6, 2008 1:11 PM PDT   0 recs

Have I mentioned

FUCK SQUINTY IN THE ASS WITH A 100LB SWORD UNTIL HE DIES FROM THE ASS FUCKERY.

by Graham on Apr 6, 2008 1:11 PM PDT   0 recs

Baltimore's a pretty good team

so you have to expect them to come up big in the ninth inning.

Tampa Bay?? Now, they're better than the Orioles. May be tough for the Mariners in TB.

"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer

by One won lost won on Apr 6, 2008 1:12 PM PDT   0 recs

And Toronto, and Boston, and New York?

All better than this team that owned us today.

by vkut79 on Apr 6, 2008 1:20 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh, I was simply considering 0-7 for the road trip

A trend will continue until something causes it to change.

Something about these last few games could presage a final, 0-7 record for this trip.

"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer

by One won lost won on Apr 6, 2008 1:25 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

fuck.

kill me please.

I want to become a Nationals fan. At least then I can expect a loss rather than being amazed when my team finds new and creative ways to FUCK IT ALL UP BEYOND BELIEF.

GOD DAMN YOU JOHNNY MAC

by pmc47 on Apr 6, 2008 1:14 PM PDT   0 recs

Not to disagree with you

But the Mariners players are the ones that failed on the field, not the manager. The manager just helped them fail a little bit. Its not ALL Maclaren's fault here.

by vkut79 on Apr 6, 2008 1:17 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Fair point

McLaren didn't make Lowe throw the wild pitch. But I'm not as good at rage as some of the rest of you and can only focus it on one person at a time.

by pmc47 on Apr 6, 2008 1:19 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

pinch-runner Jones scores

against his old team, to tie it up.

Let's see...Bedard can't pitch against his ex-team, but Jones scores the tying run against his ex-team.

Pretty good symmetry!

"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer

by One won lost won on Apr 6, 2008 1:22 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Don't forget

the insurance RBI on the SF last night

by pmc47 on Apr 6, 2008 1:24 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

True symmetry

would be Jones getting the winning run and giving Sherrill a W. Too bad George was so wiped out from his last two saves against us.

I'm more like I am now than I've ever been.

by ralphie81 on Apr 6, 2008 3:40 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

No

It's all McLaren's fault. 100% of it.

No sane individual takes Felix out in a relatively dominant shutout performance with 97 pitches thrown in a close game to go to a questionable 'pen. He deserves to be fired for this and this alone.

If I'm that bad at my job, I'm not lasting a week. He has NO excuses.

by cwel87 on Apr 6, 2008 1:31 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

It's not just that he took Felix out

It's that we know he would have let Washburn go back out there. It is purely infuriating and I totally agree that this alone should be sufficient justification for handing him his pink slip.

by seattlesundevil on Apr 6, 2008 1:46 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Too bad our organization is run by

people who are idiots as well.

Curse you, Detroit Lions!

by Coach Owens on Apr 6, 2008 1:47 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

If it's ANY consolation

Perlozzo did the same thing with the O's on Mother's Day last year. He was gone within 2 months.

"I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves." - Major Leauge

by duck on Apr 6, 2008 5:18 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Hilarious

The amazing, new and improved, going-for-it-all-this-year, 2008 Mariners just got swept by the WORST TEAM IN THE LEAGUE. NOT AN EXXAGERATION.

I present to you the ribbon of suck.

by vkut79 on Apr 6, 2008 1:15 PM PDT   0 recs

and, voila! A four-game sweep!

vkut79 was early...but, accurate!

"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer

by One won lost won on Apr 7, 2008 9:03 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

TWSS

:(.

...and now I'm here

by Librocrat on Apr 8, 2008 12:13 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Nope.

4 game series.

by eponymous_coward on Apr 6, 2008 1:16 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Hmm.

So I left at the middle of the 8th to take my wife to work - just got back in.

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK

by Jordan of Boise on Apr 6, 2008 1:16 PM PDT   0 recs

Let's restate this.

We've played Baltimore and Texas for a week... and scored 23 runs, less than 4 a game.

The bullpen being shaky isn't worrying me so much at this point,

by eponymous_coward on Apr 6, 2008 1:23 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

on the bright side

I thought that was the best Felix start since his first Boston start last year. He was effectively mixing his pitches and doing stuff like getting first pitch curveball strikes. It was amazing.

by batura on Apr 6, 2008 1:20 PM PDT   0 recs

Yeah he's the reason why I enjoyed this game

Even though the rest of the team sucked.

by vkut79 on Apr 6, 2008 1:21 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I went to the game yesterday at Camden

and thought about going tomorrow since I could do it by only skipping one class. But now that it's not Felix day and the way things are heading we could get swept by Luis Hernandez and his merry band of incompetents...I don't think I could handle it.

by pmc47 on Apr 6, 2008 1:21 PM PDT   0 recs

Aww.

Squinty looked like he was going to cry in the post-game interview.

Fuck him.

by BrianL on Apr 6, 2008 1:22 PM PDT   0 recs

Waaaa

Yeah i really thought for a second he was going to burst into tears... but he deserves to cry!

by virrval on Apr 6, 2008 1:27 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I'm trying to find that screenshot

Of John McLaren on the verge of crying when Hargrove announced his resignation, but I can't find it. It would be very fitting right now.

Previously NoNameX -- Go M's!

by JLC on Apr 6, 2008 1:38 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

And might I add:

by okdan on Apr 6, 2008 2:29 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

A fitting memorial

Oh, you're dead? Well in your memory here's an ugly ass tree and some crab grass asshole.

by OlSalty on Apr 6, 2008 2:45 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Don't tell us what happened in the game, you sagging piece of fail

Tell us why you made the moronic decision to not put Felix out there. The matchups? Fuck those. How about the fact that Felix has been cruising the entire game?

Jesus.

Previously NoNameX -- Go M's!

by JLC on Apr 6, 2008 1:22 PM PDT   0 recs

Anyway

I think the most egregious error was not going to RRS in the 9th if he was going to pull Felix in favour of a leftie. Seriously? EOF after two days of pitching?

by Graham on Apr 6, 2008 1:25 PM PDT   0 recs

But EOF has more

experience than RRS. Therefore, he's obviously the logical choice![/Johnny Mac]

Curse you, Detroit Lions!

by Coach Owens on Apr 6, 2008 1:29 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Potatoes is the Established Lefty Setuy Guy

going to anyone else in that situation is simply unpossible

by Nick S on Apr 6, 2008 1:30 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Lots of anger

But did anyone laugh like I did? It's pretty comical really. I'm not even mad.

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on Apr 6, 2008 1:28 PM PDT   0 recs

Normally I would

any day but a Felix day when he puts together the game that he did. I feel nothing but anger and hate inside right now.

by thenatural on Apr 6, 2008 1:30 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Not really, no.

Rage consumed me. Looking back at some of the comments though, the GTE is pretty hilarious.

Previously NoNameX -- Go M's!

by JLC on Apr 6, 2008 1:31 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

yep I laughed

I go into each game expecting these guys to blow it and lose...... and they're following thru more often then not...

Midnight Baseball - No Lights - Only in Alaska!

by MfaninAlaska on Apr 6, 2008 1:32 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I laughed

It really didn't bother me, my faith in this team is so low, it's easy to shake off.

by MFAN on Apr 6, 2008 1:32 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

If it were a month or two later, I would have been rolling.

But I didn't see an ounce of humor today. I envision Felix carrying this team and at least keeping it competitive, so it's infuriating to see him dominate and do everything we could possibly ask of him so early in the season, only to have his manager fuck it all up.

by Teej on Apr 6, 2008 1:46 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Someone on the phone lines in the postgame show

changing the subject to Mike Morse and why he isn't starting over Wilkerson after the spring that he had... As if this day could get any worse.

by thenatural on Apr 6, 2008 1:32 PM PDT   0 recs

Free WLAD!!

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on Apr 6, 2008 1:33 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

NO!

Curse you, Detroit Lions!

by Coach Owens on Apr 6, 2008 1:34 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Brad Wilkerson is pretty bad.

The problem is, so is Mike Morse.

by eponymous_coward on Apr 6, 2008 1:37 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

It's that I wouldn't love to see Wlad come up

But he's safer in Tacoma, safe from Johnny Mac's clusterfuck baserunning strategrey. Seriously, a hit and run with Wilkerson and Vidro? This is Mariners Baseball, not Celebrity Fit Club.

by Jordan of Boise on Apr 6, 2008 1:39 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Let's put it this way.

The less ABs given to over-the-hill veterans or Morse, the less likely Johnny Mac is to "manufacture" runs. 3 run homers are great for that.

by eponymous_coward on Apr 6, 2008 1:42 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

No no no

Aggressive baserunning puts pressure on the pitchers!

We could have nine Zombie Babe Ruths in the lineup and Johnny Mac would be dicking around with hit and runs. This is because he has a good sense of the "fundamentals." The fundamentals specifically state that your middle-order men should get thrown out by eight feet at least twice a game.

by Jordan of Boise on Apr 6, 2008 1:53 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Sexson

Hey, there is some validity in mixing Morse in with Raul, Sexson and Vidro.

by batura on Apr 6, 2008 1:34 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Theres validity

in mixing someone in there... But its not Morse

by thenatural on Apr 6, 2008 1:35 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs