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Oakland Athletics at Seattle Mariners, Sep 26, 2008 7:10 PM PDT


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Oakland Athletics @ Seattle Mariners

09/26/08 7:10 PM PDT

Oakland Athletics Seattle Mariners
Travis Buck - LF Ichiro Suzuki - RF
Cliff Pennington - 2B Yuniesky Betancourt - SS
Ryan Sweeney - RF Raul Ibanez - "LF"
Jack Cust - DH Jose Lopez - 1B
Kurt Suzuki - C Jeremy Reed - CF
Carlos Gonzalez - CF Tug Hulett - DH
Bobby Crosby - SS Miguel Cairo - 3B
Daric Barton - 1B Luis Valbuena - 2B
Jeff Baisley - 3B Rob Johnson - C
W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2008 - Brandon Morrow 2-4 44 4 0 0 10 2 59.2 34 20 18 8 29 67 2.72 1.06

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2008 - Sean Gallagher 2-2 10 10 0 0 0 0 52.0 50 34 29 5 35 50 5.02 1.63

They say this is the time of year that tends to separate the wheat from the chaff, the time when the big boys step up and the wee ones go home. Here's to being the chaffiest bunch of chaffs that ever chaffed.

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I was thinking about that.

I wondered whether it was a change or a pitch that didn’t break.

by Slurvey on Sep 26, 2008 7:28 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Semi-related to this,

There’s an awesome article by John Walsh in the 2008 THT annual about which pitches are most effective against righties and lefties. A lot of stories like that tend to go over my head, but this one was pretty clear.

(The THT annual is awesome and always needs a good pimping.)

by Teej on Sep 26, 2008 7:34 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

MORE BALLS

DO YOUR GODDAMN DUTY BRANDON

by Graham on Sep 26, 2008 7:47 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

K K

The road to hell is paved with Mariners.

by Taylor H on Sep 26, 2008 7:51 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Roy Corcoran won the team's Unsung Hero Award

I was singing. They didn’t listen.

by Jeff on Sep 26, 2008 7:52 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

He did?

I would have thought Raul would have. He has such a good clubhouse presence.

The road to hell is paved with Mariners.

by Taylor H on Sep 26, 2008 7:53 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Ok Jose. I know you're amazing.

And I know it will be hard for you not to blast this dude into the left field stands on what JI will call a popup that never comes down, but please take one for the team and ground out

MOTHER FUCKER

55!

by joof on Sep 26, 2008 8:10 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

NEED MORE FUCKING BATISTA!

The road to hell is paved with Mariners.

by Taylor H on Sep 26, 2008 8:12 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

NO! STOP REED! STOP!

The road to hell is paved with Mariners.

by Taylor H on Sep 26, 2008 8:13 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

NO! TUG! STOP! PLEASE!

The road to hell is paved with Mariners.

by Taylor H on Sep 26, 2008 8:14 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

God. Fucking. Dammit.

That’s it, I’m watching Blue Planet on blu-ray.

by BrianL on Sep 26, 2008 8:14 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Ohh! Good point!

Bye bye Betancourt!

The road to hell is paved with Mariners.

by Taylor H on Sep 26, 2008 8:16 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Wohoo or Ackley or Crow woohoo.

Doesn’t quite have that same ring…

by Slurvey on Sep 26, 2008 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

It's not about Strasburg, it was never about Strasburg.

He exemplified the kind of talent available to you when you pick first.

J.K.L.

by acblue on Sep 26, 2008 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

My soul hurts so bad.

The road to hell is paved with Mariners.

by Taylor H on Sep 26, 2008 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

All right! Go Brandon!

The road to hell is paved with Mariners.

by Taylor H on Sep 26, 2008 8:20 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Don;t listen to him Morrow.

Throw balls. Lots of them.

The road to hell is paved with Mariners.

by Taylor H on Sep 26, 2008 8:21 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

YESYESYESYESYES

REDEMPTION FOR BUCK

by BrianL on Sep 26, 2008 8:22 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

FUCKING YES!

The road to hell is paved with Mariners.

by Taylor H on Sep 26, 2008 8:22 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

So, I'm not mad at Jose Lopez anymore.

I’m now just happy that Jose Lopez continues to be awesome.

55!

by joof on Sep 26, 2008 8:23 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Take that Billy Beane

Don’t you know we’re a 100-loss team?

by ThundaPC on Sep 26, 2008 8:23 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

HEE HEEE!!!!

The road to hell is paved with Mariners.

by Taylor H on Sep 26, 2008 8:26 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Johnson's batting average?

.130.

The road to hell is paved with Mariners.

by Taylor H on Sep 26, 2008 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Hooray for small sample size!

The road to hell is paved with Mariners.

by Taylor H on Sep 26, 2008 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Question!

Is there any way to find what a player’s line would be if they played in another ballpark for their home games?

55!

by joof on Sep 26, 2008 8:38 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

The park factors we have on Statcorner will be helpful.

They’ll allow you to adjust K, BB, HBP, 1B, 2B, 3B, HR.

Say you have a park which is 110 K, 90 BB, 90 HBP, 90 for all batting stats…

You’d divide the pitcher’s Ks by 1.05 (i.e. [kfactor+avg]/2, divide walks by 0.95, etc to get a park neutral line. Then you’d do the same process in reverse to put him in another park.

by Graham on Sep 26, 2008 8:46 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Hmm, alright

Would it be more accurate to use home/away splits when I did this then just halfing the park factors, or would small sample size make this meaningless?

55!

by joof on Sep 26, 2008 8:48 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Halving the park factors is the way to do it due to sample variances

This still isn’t a really concrete way of doing things, but it’s better than home/away splits

by Graham on Sep 26, 2008 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

OK fine, Yuni is bad.

I’ve been trying not to believe.

by Teej on Sep 26, 2008 8:44 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I thought Morrow had just recently been stretched out to start.

Correct me if I’m wrong.

And he’s going past 110 pitches for consecutive starts? Damn. Dusty Baker school of pitcher development?

Now with 100% more Canuck.

by Blicks on Sep 26, 2008 8:48 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Wait a minute.

Lopez hit two homeruns in what, all of the 2nd half a season or two ago?

by ThundaPC on Sep 26, 2008 8:52 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

There's still hope. We still have Putz.

[ducks]

And Tits and everyone else in the bullpen.

by Teej on Sep 26, 2008 8:59 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Almost time for Lasertag!

And I get to stop watching this team!

55!

by joof on Sep 26, 2008 9:00 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Morrow is in line for the win

That should last for about an inning or two.

by ThundaPC on Sep 26, 2008 9:01 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

God damnit.

Where’s Mark Ellis when you need him?

by Happybelly on Sep 26, 2008 9:01 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Whatever.

This lead is easilly blowable.

by ThundaPC on Sep 26, 2008 9:02 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Lowe is coming in.

His last outing was decent 2 IP 1R(teixera HR) 3 SO.C’mon M’s do better send in TITS!

by Slurvey on Sep 26, 2008 9:02 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

....................

………………..

by BrianL on Sep 26, 2008 9:03 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

WHAT

Fuck this entire franchise

by Graham on Sep 26, 2008 9:04 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

It'll be fun to draft a hitter

that one catcher has worked out so well.

by Jeff on Sep 26, 2008 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Ichiro almost skullfucked me right there.

If Rob Johnson and Ichiro hit back to back homeruns, I wouldn’t know what the hell was happening.

55!

by joof on Sep 26, 2008 9:05 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Nats lost, wth is your team doing??

Driven into right-center field, Erstad says he has it...the Angels, world champions!

by teopeht on Sep 26, 2008 9:16 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I'm rooting for you guys and your first round draft pick

GIVE UP SOME RUNS!

Driven into right-center field, Erstad says he has it...the Angels, world champions!

by teopeht on Sep 26, 2008 9:17 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Do you think they'll cut the the Rays clubhouse or anything?

Are they watching at Maddon’s house or something?

by Teej on Sep 26, 2008 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I mostly liked it because it was one of the few times where I thought I was actually funny.

Usually I just type TITS or something, but that joke seemed to click with me.

And when someone (JI?) posted the ESPN the Magazine cover and said that the Upton brothers were too lazy to check their fantasy teams, I lost it.

by Teej on Sep 26, 2008 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Yea that would be a nice match up.

There is no curse the Cubs just suck. =o

by Slurvey on Sep 26, 2008 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Perfect playoff scenario:

ALDS:
Boston over Anaheim in 5
Rays over Twins/White Sox in 3

NLDS:
Dodgers over Cubs in 3
Brewers over Phillies/Mets in 4

ALCS:
Rays over Red Sox in 7

NLCS:
Brewers over Dodgers in 5

WS:
Rays over Brewers in 7

by Goose on Sep 26, 2008 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Three outs away . . .

There are about 45 people still at Fenway.

by Teej on Sep 26, 2008 9:36 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Can't wait until Part IV of the Baker series
Chatted with team president Chuck Armstrong and CEO Howard Lincoln prior to the game. Don’t miss Part IV of our Rebuilding the Mariners series tomorrow, in which I’ll take a closer look at the ownership situation many of you have asked me about. I’ll give you a hint: those Chris Larson rumors you’ve been reading all summer? Don’t go betting the farm on them.

by ThundaPC on Sep 26, 2008 9:40 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Why has Mark Lowe thrown 40+ pitches?

I go to law school. Therefore, I have no life.

by andrewgolfsalot on Sep 26, 2008 9:45 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Tits?

I go to law school. Therefore, I have no life.

by andrewgolfsalot on Sep 26, 2008 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Four more, four more!

I go to law school. Therefore, I have no life.

by andrewgolfsalot on Sep 26, 2008 9:47 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I invested in a hat over the winter.

If I wasn’t driving the bandwagon, I was at least in the front row.

by Teej on Sep 26, 2008 9:56 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I'm only in about my second or third year of actively trying to learn more about baseball.

You guys, USSM, THT and BP (sometimes) have been godsends. Now I have good backup. Trying to tell people late last season that the Rays were poised to make a run was incredibly difficult. Especially when the two guys I talk to most about baseball are a Yanks fan and a Sox fan (my boss). They just laughed at me over the winter and in spring training.

Now I’m laughing Brian Urlacher-style.

by Teej on Sep 26, 2008 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

They're not my bosses anymore now, actually.

I got semi-promoted and now I work on the Web side of things. I just spent a day training with one of our Web software guys (our only guy, honestly), and he spent a good chunk of the shift railing against the save statistic and agreeing with me that this might be K-Rod’s worst year in the majors. So it’s getting better.

by Teej on Sep 26, 2008 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

RAYS, MOTHERFUCKER

Taste it, taste it.

by Teej on Sep 26, 2008 9:53 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

GM search...

Heard Kim Ng is a candidate.

by Slurvey on Sep 26, 2008 10:00 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Hopefully she gets a fair look.

But I wouldn’t bet one dollar on it.

by Teej on Sep 26, 2008 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

ESPN has a fairly interesting interview with Chuck Armstrong up right now.
“It’s time for some fresh thinking,” Armstrong said at the end of his 23rd season with the team — what he called his worst and most “miserable” one.

“We’re color blind, gender blind,” he went on to say. “We just want the best person that we think would be the best person for the Mariners as we move forward,” Armstrong said.

by BrianL on Sep 26, 2008 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Sweet.

Link to AP story.

I’ll take it with a truckload of salt, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

by Teej on Sep 26, 2008 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Good news, everyone.

ESPN has an interesting tidbit on our new GM candidates.

[Chuck Armstrong] and team CEO Howard Lincoln said the replacement for Bill Bavasi, fired June 16, and temporary in-house fill-in Lee Pelekoudas will be an outsider with new ideas to resurrect the franchise.

by BrianL on Sep 26, 2008 10:09 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Sports Illustrated says Kim Ng is being considered.
SEATTLE (AP) — Mariners president Chuck Armstrong said his team is vetting a wide range of general manager candidates, pointedly leaving open the possibility of Seattle hiring the first female general manager in major league history. “It’s time for some fresh thinking,” Armstrong said at the end of his 23rd season with the team — what he called his worst and most “miserable” one.
“We’re color blind, gender blind,” he went on to say. “We just want the best person that we think would be the best person for the Mariners as we move forward,” Armstrong said.

by Slurvey on Sep 26, 2008 10:11 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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