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by Graham on May 10, 2008 9:05 PM PDT in Game Recaps Comment 70 comments

Holy crap we are bad.

Please allow me to introduce RHP Stephen Strasburg, a sophomore starter at San Diego State University. So far this season he has struck out 40.4% of total batters faced, walked 3.7%, and allowed 0 home runs and 48 hits in 84.3 innings pitched. His FIP stands at 0.76.

Other interesting numbers:

101 (maximum fastball velocity)
1.13 (time to home plate)
0.76 (2008's FIP)
23 (number of batters struck out in start against Utah )
1 (where he will go in next year's draft)

While the Mariners enthusiastic pursuit of this young man suggests that they're doing their jobs in terms of scouting amateur talent, to be honest I'd rather we just win some games.

Edit: Incidentally, he looks like an elf . I move he be granted the nickname 'Keebler' post-haste.

Second Edit: He's not eligible for the 2008 draft, because he's a sophomore and doesn't turn 21 until July 20th, 2009 (the rules state that a player drafted out of a 4-year program must either have completed their junior year or be 21 at the time of the draft).

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Define bad

Really bad or historically, off the charts, bad?

<.))))>< I'm not dead ye........

by fishiam on May 10, 2008 7:46 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Not counting today

If you used Pythag to (foolishly) predict the rest of the Mariner’s season, then from April 30th we went from an 86-76 team to a 69-93 team.

Nine games is all it took.

Fans are typically idiots.

by The Typical Idiot Fan on May 10, 2008 11:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Move the m's to OKC, keep the sonics.

by hcoguy on May 10, 2008 7:46 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

To quote a line from the movie "Wall Street"

“Boy, we sure went the toilet on that ugly bitch!”.

by lowrig on May 10, 2008 7:47 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Foe a fake WEC

that’s quite optimistic.

by JI on May 10, 2008 7:53 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I think the problem might be

that our WE starts at 10%.

by greymstreet on May 10, 2008 8:04 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Sounds about right to me

by Graham on May 10, 2008 8:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

BOOO WILLIE

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on May 10, 2008 8:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Hooray Beltre!

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on May 10, 2008 8:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Extension.

-aaron c.

by acblue on May 10, 2008 8:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

But he's producing...

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on May 10, 2008 8:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

We've gotta' convince him to tank it for a month.

-aaron c.

by acblue on May 10, 2008 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I know Jeff, and sir, you are no Jeff.

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on May 10, 2008 8:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Correct

My accent is sexier

by Graham on May 10, 2008 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

But Jeff is closer to Strasburg

by Robert on May 10, 2008 8:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Apologies, master.

by Garces on May 10, 2008 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Alright we may as well go for this guy, he'd make a great guy to pitch the 7th before Morrow

by Fett42 on May 10, 2008 8:18 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Look, at strikeout! I must be drunk.

by chinn on May 10, 2008 8:21 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

nah

we see those a lot when sexson bats

by Fireball309 on May 10, 2008 8:29 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

We're coming for you, Strasburg!

1/2 game behind the Padres for the best draft spot in the 2009 draft!!!

by Jordan of Boise on May 10, 2008 10:47 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

IN BAVASI WE TRUST!!

by MarinerBlue on May 10, 2008 10:59 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Who Wants to be a Millionare

and a Bloomquist joke

Fresh.

by JI on May 10, 2008 11:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Is that your final answer?

by Robert on May 11, 2008 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I propose that on the LL sidebar

We keep track of who’s “winning” the Strasburg chase between ourselves, SF, KC, Pittsburgh, and the Nationals.

The artist formerly known as Katal

by Katal LM on May 10, 2008 11:27 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I agree with this

Yesterday's Pants
A blog-thingy about the Mariners and stuff.

by BrettJMiller on May 10, 2008 11:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I also approve of this idea.

Felix Hernandez may be The King, but Justin Upton is a GOD.

"I eagerly await the day when I can shit in the living room"
~Robert

by Goose on May 11, 2008 4:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Corconcurred

Determined, Jonesing Commentor

by I'm NOT Corco on May 11, 2008 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Goddamn it Mariners

I wish I could love anyone but you, but you’re my damn team you stupid motherfuckers and I will be like so many Red Sox fans’ skelletons rooting int he earth never having seent he team I so hopelessly loved be anything more than inept!!!!!!!!!!!

by John Morgan on May 10, 2008 11:42 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs