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7/10: Open Game Thread

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Seattle @ Oakland


 

Lineup

Seattle Mariners @ Oakland Athletics

07/10/08 12:35 PM PDT

Seattle Mariners Oakland Athletics
Willie Ballgame - RF Mark Ellis - 2B
Jose Lopez - 2B Ryan Sweeney - RF
Raul Ibanez - "LF" Wes Bankston - 1B
Adrian Beltre - 3B Jack Cust - DH
Jose Vidro - "DH" Emil Brown - LF
Kenji Johjima - C Carlos Gonzalez - CF
Miguel Cairo - 1B YES YES YES AHAHAHAHAH
 Rob Bowen - C
Jeremy Reed - CF Donnie Murphy - SS
Yuniesky Betancourt - SS Jack Hannahan - 3B


W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2008 - R.A. Dickey 2-4 14 6 0 0 0 0 53.2 58 26 26 5 22 35 4.36 1.49

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2008 - Greg Smith 5-7 17 17 2 0 0 0 104.1 87 45 42 10 46 72 3.62 1.27

File this one under "Bad For Baseball":

The Jays will be without young power pitcher Dustin McGowan for at least a month after an MRI scan taken yesterday revealed a tear in his rotator cuff.

"The severity of it we won't really know until (the pain) calms down," GM J.P. Ricciardi said after last night's win over the Orioles.

McGowan is scheduled for a consultation with renowned surgeon Dr. Timothy Kremchek, the same physician who performed closer B.J. Ryan's Tommy John surgery last year. McGowan was pulled early from Tuesday's start after experiencing a recurrence of shoulder soreness.

Ricciardi said the prognosis is still unknown, but that the club is anticipating that McGowan will be out "probably longer than four weeks."

It's not fair that talents like McGowan get themselves hurt while a giant pile of crap like Livan Hernandez is blessed with unfathomable durability. That isn't in the best interests of anyone. Not even Livan Hernandez. The more often Livan Hernandez pitches, the more often Livan Hernandez totally sucks. Livan Hernandez probably doesn't enjoy it when he totally sucks. But he can't stop, because he never gets injured, and the Twins are paying him to pitch, and he has an obligation to the team and ahhhhh curse you, Scrappy. Please just leave the Rays the hell alone.

By the way, Tuglett's up, along with the worthless Jared Wells, as Erik Bedard's predictably going on the DL. He'll be back for the first game of the Boston series after the break, leaving the team about a week and a half to trade him if they so desire (which I don't really encourage, but whatever). In the meantime, enjoy your rest, dude. You need it.

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You don't even have to click on him..

to know Smith’s a lefty. Holy shit, Clement can’t hit against lefties!!!!! We should never play him against them…

by Faux on Jul 10, 2008 11:58 AM PDT   0 recs

Maybe they don't trust him to catch the knuckleball

In which case you could just….Oh I dunno…..PLAY HIM AT DH INSTEAD OF VIDRO?!

by OlSalty on Jul 10, 2008 12:01 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Willie leading off?

Cairo and Vidro playing? Kenji at catcher?

THIS IS THE WORST LINEUP ALL SEASON BWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

by BrianL on Jul 10, 2008 12:01 PM PDT   0 recs

Maybe worst lineup of all time

1/3 of this lineup is OPSing under .600. 5/9 of it is OPSing under .700.

Jesus Christ.

by OlSalty on Jul 10, 2008 12:07 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Sweet Mary

but that lineup… someone want to put those guys into a full season run simulator? I would but for lab shit.

by Bearskin Rugburn on Jul 10, 2008 12:17 PM PDT   0 recs

oh wait, I did fix something.

Unintentional win? Like all the M’s wins this season?

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 10, 2008 12:24 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I hope we get no hit

:(

The poster formerly known as Matt.

by bluemax on Jul 10, 2008 12:17 PM PDT   0 recs

I kinda hope so too

I like history, regardless of which end of it I’m on

by seattlebruin on Jul 10, 2008 12:42 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Dickey must be so pissed

he’s being given no chance to succeed. They may as well make him start every game with a rubber band around his nutsack.

by Bearskin Rugburn on Jul 10, 2008 12:20 PM PDT   0 recs

Shame on all of you for thinking Richie was DFA'd for his poor performance.
But when I spoke to manager Jim Riggleman moments ago, he told me that the “body language” Sexson displayed yesterday when kept out of the lineup was what ultimately led him not to oppose the release.

“If I felt that he could handle the next couple of weeks with less playing time, I would not have agreed with the move,’’ Riggleman told me. “But yesterday, his body language was such that he looked like he wasn’t going to handle it at all.’ ~Per Baker’

It was his body language, dammit!

by BrianL on Jul 10, 2008 12:24 PM PDT   0 recs

Well, Riggleman kind of redeems himself.
“The manager’s got to be able to make a lineup out without feeling somebody’s going to be unhappy,’’ he said, “If we sat Willie Bloomquist and he was unhappy, we could handle it. But if one of your big boys is down in the dumps, that can take others down.’‘

by BrianL on Jul 10, 2008 12:26 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Bahahah..Willie

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on Jul 10, 2008 12:27 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

What he was thinking:

If we sat Willie Bloomquist and he was unhappy, we’d all have a good laugh at him…

by Bearskin Rugburn on Jul 10, 2008 12:33 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Just goes to show you that a manager can take something and make anything out of it.

People get credited all the time for they passion, and the fact that they never take days off and always want to play. If Sexson was hitting 280/400/550 right now and he had bad body language due to him being sat out for a day, they’d say look at that drive, he just loves the game of baseball.

by LantermanC on Jul 10, 2008 1:43 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh Shit.

Ichiro isn’t getting the day off because he hasn’t had a day off in 126 games, he’s out because of a tight hammy.

by BrianL on Jul 10, 2008 12:32 PM PDT   0 recs

Basically, contrary to popular stupid belief,

Ichiro is awesome and loves the game, so the manager made up a non-serious injury to get him the day off.

by seattlebruin on Jul 10, 2008 12:44 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

A Huge check from my boss as a wedding gift

Sexson released, Getting off at 3pm. This is going to be a good day

Coach Owens = No Fun Zone

by Scruffy Lefty on Jul 10, 2008 12:34 PM PDT   0 recs