The team most like the 2008 Seattle Mariners
is...
apparently the 1990 Seattle Mariners.
Steven Goldman's article at BP today finds teams from history that are more like some teams from this season, through the first 30 games.
It's a BP Premium article.
The 1991 Seattle Mariners turn out to be the best comp for the 2008 Blue Jays, which strikes me as an indication of how valuable this comparison isn't, since the '91 M's were poised to improve around a solid core of young players, while the Jays... aren't.
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Battle of the Rotations!
Randy Johnson, Rich Delucia, Brian Holman, Erik Hanson and Bill Krueger
or
Roy Halladay, Dustin McGowan, A.J. Burnett, Jesse Litsch and Shaun Marcum
Fight!
Coldly devouring reason as if it were a delectable snack
by Frosty Raptor on May 7, 2008 9:03 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Krueger's Keys to the 1990 Season
- Skip his turn in the rotation whenever possible.
- Hit home runs, Griffey
- Get a lead at home and pray for rain- wait
by Gomez on May 7, 2008 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hmmm
by seattlebruin on May 7, 2008 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions 4 recs
Awesome.
Rec’d
Ill Ligitamus Non Carberendum
by PositivePaul on May 7, 2008 9:38 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
awesome
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on May 7, 2008 9:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Google Fight has the 1991 M's rotation winning 23 to 5.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phildopip on May 7, 2008 9:37 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Oh, link.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phildopip on May 7, 2008 9:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Only because no one has any idea who Shaun Marcum, Jesse Litsch, and Dustin McGowan are yet.
Check out their pitch selection data over at Fangraphs, though. Toronto’s pitching coach is doing something odd.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
by Llewdor on May 7, 2008 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I would have guessed the 2008 Seattle Mariners
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by I'm NOT Corco on May 7, 2008 10:51 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I would have guessed the Washington Generals
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on May 7, 2008 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well played
I had an anthropology professor who would disagree with you, but he was an idiot.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
by Llewdor on May 7, 2008 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Scary - that was my exact thought when I saw the link.
Next thing I’ll be thinking about our highways and the wonderfulness that is small town America.
by Jed MC on May 7, 2008 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And you'll be driving those highways in an American car that burns diesel.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
by Llewdor on May 7, 2008 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I sort of got your argument (despite vehemently disagreeing with it) until you mentioned diesel
diesel is indisputably better than gasoline
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by I'm NOT Corco on May 7, 2008 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not if it's Vin
Because Vin Diesel sucks
In the name of the Bedard, the Felix, and the Ichiro, amen.
by rlintott on May 7, 2008 1:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm going to have to go with the new guy on this one.
by BrianL on May 7, 2008 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Seconded.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on May 7, 2008 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Vin Diesel is to acting
what I am to neurosurgery.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on May 7, 2008 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Outstanding?
I’ll be sure to call if I ever need a good neurosurgeon
by seattlebruin on May 7, 2008 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Excellent. I'll get my needles and dental floss ready.
And I’ll have this guy look after the kids next door:
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on May 7, 2008 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm going to have to wait until I get home so I can look at that picture
and come up with an appropriate snarky response
by seattlebruin on May 7, 2008 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
publicity still from The Pacifier
complete with a buffed-out Mr. Diesel sporting an ammo belt with formula bottles in it. Oh, the hilarity. Link.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on May 7, 2008 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, see I'd agree usually
but the sheer awesomeness of “I live my life a quarter mile at a time,” “Doesn’t matter if you win by an INCH or a MILE! Winning is winning!” and “I NEVER SNITCHED ON NO ONE” as well as the entire Chronicles of Riddick tend to override my good judgment on Vin Diesel.
by seattlebruin on May 7, 2008 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That movie had to be as good
as the Governator’s man-pregnancy movie.
by Jed MC on May 7, 2008 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Who would have thought
a Governator movie with Danny DeVito could go so wrong.
Oh, wait. Everyone.
by BrianL on May 7, 2008 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Thirded
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by I'm NOT Corco on May 7, 2008 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I have no idea how Corco manages to be right about this sort of thing
by Graham on May 7, 2008 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Blind squirrels and nuts
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on May 7, 2008 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
acorns
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
by I'm NOT Corco on May 7, 2008 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
just enough alcohol to not be drunk but have insightful thoughts
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by I'm NOT Corco on May 7, 2008 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

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