Mariners aren't stupid, just have a "different approach"
by Devin on Jul 23, 2008 9:17 AM PDT
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"I'm just kind of using it just to try to have some contact in that spot, and maybe be able to move some runners and hit and run and that kind of stuff, get some at-bats for some guys," interim manager Jim Riggleman said. "It's not a classic DH spot where we're looking for our DH to give us 25 to 30 home runs and 100 RBIs, that's just not what we are. So I'm fine with it the way it is."
Eh...Riggleman is just toeing the line, right? He can't possibly believe that running Vidro out there is effective each day.
But wait...
"It's not a classic DH situation, but I feel good every time he walks up to the plate," Riggleman said. "The numbers may say otherwise, but I think he's going to give us good at-bats."
Kind of akin to saying, "yeah, doctors may say eating five pound bags of refined sugar is bad for you, but I feel good every time I do it."
*sigh*
If you dare...
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Jesus Chirst how can someone be this stupid?
Go Nova
by dbroncos31 on Jul 23, 2008 9:23 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Also I love how he dismisses the numbers.
Sure, he can’t get on base, hit for power or hit for average, but by golly he sure does stand there real purty-like.
Go Nova
by dbroncos31 on Jul 23, 2008 9:26 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Except Vidro has to be the least attractive player on the team, right?
The Jose Lopez Watch - 118H - 13 BB - 62 G Left
by seattlebruin on Jul 23, 2008 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I would vote Silva as being the least hot followed very closely by Jose Lopez.
Did Willie Bloomquist's dad die and make you queen?
by JI on Jul 23, 2008 9:44 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hi!
The Jose Lopez Watch - 118H - 13 BB - 62 G Left
by seattlebruin on Jul 23, 2008 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's just a bad photo.
Did Willie Bloomquist's dad die and make you queen?
by JI on Jul 23, 2008 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
.
The title of this photo is “ears”
The Jose Lopez Watch - 118H - 13 BB - 62 G Left
by seattlebruin on Jul 23, 2008 9:55 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Tape!
Did Willie Bloomquist's dad die and make you queen?
by JI on Jul 23, 2008 9:55 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
So.... GISing "Jose Lopez" gets some interesting results
The Jose Lopez Watch - 118H - 13 BB - 62 G Left
by seattlebruin on Jul 23, 2008 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And people couldn't wait for McLaren to go....
by ThundaPC on Jul 23, 2008 9:33 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
We need to hire someone to build us a goddamn floor
by Last Fan Of Jose Lopez on Jul 23, 2008 9:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think you mean Cris Carpenter.
Did Willie Bloomquist's dad die and make you queen?
by JI on Jul 23, 2008 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think my original joke made more sense.
Did Willie Bloomquist's dad die and make you queen?
by JI on Jul 23, 2008 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nobody will take that job
because two weeks after it’s built it’ll just collapse, leaving a gaping hole where the floor used to be.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on Jul 23, 2008 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'd want the job
get paid for the first one, then immediately get an identical re-do job? Sounds like good work to me
The Jose Lopez Watch - 118H - 13 BB - 62 G Left
by seattlebruin on Jul 23, 2008 9:44 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
But then
you’d have to put “employed by the Seattle Mariners” on your resume, which will not thrill potential new clients…
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on Jul 23, 2008 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well you don't HAVE to put it on your resume
when I applied for my job, I didn’t list my pharmacy delivery work on my resume, but I kept the money I made as HS spending $$
The Jose Lopez Watch - 118H - 13 BB - 62 G Left
by seattlebruin on Jul 23, 2008 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sure.
Pharmacy delivery work.
by NOLAmarinergirl on Jul 23, 2008 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Heh ;)
The Jose Lopez Watch - 118H - 13 BB - 62 G Left
by seattlebruin on Jul 23, 2008 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Two weeks is still a long time
We could have the floor built just for the trade deadline
by Last Fan Of Jose Lopez on Jul 23, 2008 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Melvin=>Hargrove=>McLaren=>Riggleman
It makes me sad.
by Edgar for Pres on Jul 23, 2008 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This is suppose to be shocking?
Someone associated with the Mariners speaks and you think its not going to be the most stupid thing you’ve ever heard?
Midnight Baseball - No Lights - Only in Alaska!
by MfaninAlaska on Jul 23, 2008 9:54 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
What do you expect him to say?
You can’t really expect the guy to admit to the media, let alone the team’s promotional website, that he’s tanking games. So he HAS to act like these team-killing decisions make sense.
by Gomez on Jul 23, 2008 9:55 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Maybe he's hoping for the Doc Rivers treatment.
Doc Rivers tanked games for his team in order to try to get Durant/Oden. Then “coached” a super team to WS win. So that means somehow we get an ARod-type can’t win veteran (KG), trade a young gun for a good but aging veteran… Chipper? (Ray Ray), and get a couple of good fillers that can play defense… and… no Strasburg.
Yes, I realize this plan gives us 3 third basemen…
by LantermanC on Jul 23, 2008 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
We could put A-Rod back at shortstop and Chipper goes to DH.
Oh and coached to a WS win?
by thewyrm on Jul 23, 2008 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'd like it!
Did Willie Bloomquist's dad die and make you queen?
by JI on Jul 23, 2008 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I thought of it myself.
Did Willie Bloomquist's dad die and make you queen?
by JI on Jul 23, 2008 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Porbably just a mix up: he's thinking NBA Finals
by Gomez on Jul 23, 2008 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, mixup, sorry.
NBA Finals series win.
by LantermanC on Jul 23, 2008 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
There are people out there who think Doc Rivers is a good coach
so yeah…
The poster formerly known as Matt.
by bluemax on Jul 23, 2008 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
There are probably people out there who think Maclaren
is a good manager…
by LantermanC on Jul 23, 2008 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's TOEING the line. Dammit.
Science says the moon is made of rocks, but I’m going to mine the cheese and solve world hunger.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
by Llewdor on Jul 23, 2008 10:19 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I'm going to build my own amusement park there with blackjack and hookers.
by Jed MC on Jul 23, 2008 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Come to think of it,
forget the blackjack!
AKA "BRO-RAY" according to drunk Graham...
by Thingray on Jul 23, 2008 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It does.
Did Willie Bloomquist's dad die and make you queen?
by JI on Jul 23, 2008 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Here, via the Lookout Landing Hall of Fame.
Did Willie Bloomquist's dad die and make you queen?
by JI on Jul 23, 2008 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Also I think you should put
this comment into the LL hall of fame for being the single comment rec leader (it burns, doesn’t it?)
by Last Fan Of Jose Lopez on Jul 23, 2008 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't know, I got a lot out of posting this:
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 23, 2008 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That'll do too, I'm just trying to show JI that he's not LL's Roger Maris
by Last Fan Of Jose Lopez on Jul 23, 2008 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The problem is, I only very rarely get to bust that one out.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 23, 2008 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Damn, I thought it hit 30...
The whole post got 40, though, right?
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 23, 2008 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It got more, but you can't add like that
by Last Fan Of Jose Lopez on Jul 23, 2008 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, not for the record, of course.
But those were like my first recs; it’s like the business with the framed dollar-bill on the wall.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 23, 2008 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Someone broke my record. :(
Did Willie Bloomquist's dad die and make you queen?
by JI on Jul 23, 2008 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You never had a record
That was from May 4th
by Last Fan Of Jose Lopez on Jul 23, 2008 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Someone added extra recs.
Did Willie Bloomquist's dad die and make you queen?
by JI on Jul 23, 2008 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Mariner different approach:
Sure, the wins and losses may not be what we like, but our thinking is that we’ll get good results from ignoring reality.
by eponymous_coward on Jul 23, 2008 11:01 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah pretty much.
http://ussmariner.com/2007/12/20/a-paradox/
Did Willie Bloomquist's dad die and make you queen?
by JI on Jul 23, 2008 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Maybe we are all Mariners fans
because following this team makes us feel like geniuses.
by Edgar for Pres on Jul 23, 2008 11:44 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
For those of us born Mariner fans,
I maintain that the Seattle baseball fandom is so far the best argument against free will that I have met.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 23, 2008 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Is our organization REALLY plagued with stupidity from top to bottom (to this degree)?
I thought we got rid of a problem with Mclaren but Riggleman is returning where Mclaren left off.
What is this feeling of hopelessness I’ve had for the past 4 years?
wlad for president '08
by wongguy on Jul 23, 2008 3:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
*continuing, not returning
wlad for president '08
by wongguy on Jul 23, 2008 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You're fooling yourself..
...if you think we could solve our problems by getting rid of Bavasi and the manager.
This kind of thinking permeates the entire organization, from top to bottom, from execs to scouts.
You need to fire 50-60% of the personnel, or wait it out until they retire….
by rtang on Jul 23, 2008 7:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Execs? Sure.
Scouts? No way. The Mariners’ scouting department is great. Engle and Fontaine can’t do anything about talented players being thrown away in ill-advised trades or having the growth of prospects stunted by overly aggressive promotion. This organization has plenty of problems, but few (if any) of them involve scouting.
by acblue on Jul 23, 2008 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hey...
I said 50-60%. Gotta assume Engle and Fontaine are in the retained fraction….
But ya gotta figure the rest of the department can’t be too hot if they’re consistently coming up with crap in deals (major leaguers and minor leaguers, HoRam, Vidro et al)...
by rtang on Jul 24, 2008 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I have few complaints with the amateur scouting department.
Every other aspect of the organization has major problems.
by acblue on Jul 24, 2008 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And FJM is on the job
by Nadingo on Jul 23, 2008 3:19 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, it's starting to get a little too obvious when FJM points out your absurdity
by Gomez on Jul 23, 2008 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
LOL sad...
And Jesse Baumgartner of MLB.com must be his sidekick.
Jesse happens to be a friend of mine from HS who is covering the M’s as a summer internship
The Jose Lopez Watch - 120H - 13 BB - 61 G Left
by seattlebruin on Jul 24, 2008 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
WHich makes him...
...the poor student trying to keep the image burnished and get a rec’ for a future job….
by rtang on Jul 24, 2008 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Basically, yeah
he was amused the FJM post, and to be fair, it’s not like he did a whole lot of Vidro supporting – he basically just let Riggleman say all the stupid things and then he quoted them
The Jose Lopez Watch - 120H - 13 BB - 61 G Left
by seattlebruin on Jul 24, 2008 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
I can’t get on the kid’s case for simply quoting the manager, who himself is just trying to play PR Mouthpiece.
by Gomez on Jul 24, 2008 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The manager's idiocy is news - quoting him is a good thing.
The public has a right to know the team is being run by deranged lemmings.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
by Llewdor on Jul 24, 2008 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Which means he's the same Jesse Baumgartner I know from HS
and occasionally played touch football with at lunch.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jul 25, 2008 11:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes, that would be the one
The Jose Lopez Watch - 124H - 14 BB - 58 G Left
by seattlebruin on Jul 28, 2008 9:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I just figured out why - sort the M's by HR totals for the year.
Beltre
Raul
Jose/Jose
Yes, Jose Lopez and Jose Vidro are tied for 3rd on the team – 6 each.
by Jed MC on Jul 24, 2008 7:03 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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