3/2: Open Game Thread
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 2, 2009 11:29 AM PST
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PrintListen live at 12:05. Or, for the first time this year, watch on MLB.tv! All your favorites will be there, including Bryan LaHair, Prentice Redman, Denny Stark, and Reegie Corona. This is like turning on FOX to watch House, but instead of House they're airing a re-run of Saved By The Bell, and instead of decent Saved By The Bell it's one of those episodes with Tori instead of Kelly, and you try to change the channel but the battery holder falls off of the remote, and your popcorn tastes like goulash because dammit who put paprika in the salt shaker? That's what this is like.
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Paprika on popcorn is fucking amazing. And House sucks now.
Your analogies need work. Frankly, we might have to hold you out of the WBC to work out more with the team.
Free free to replace with FotC/ouzo/anise
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 2, 2009 11:40 AM PST up reply actions
I have to second House sucking
Goodnight sweet prince.
by JI on Mar 2, 2009 12:02 PM PST up reply actions
Better.
But seriously, paprika is amazing on popcorn. Try it some time.
Do you also put butter on it?
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hmmm
I might try this
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I hate that the writers refuse to make any story arc
last more than one episode.
Except the Foreman/Thirteen thing which sucks. I don’t care if it is supposed to be a parallel to House’s life or whatever, it sucks.
You know what? Fuck you Sports Gods, fuck you.
Tonight on House: Wilson is flying back from a conference in Chicago when Air Traffic Control loses contact with his plane.
Everyone assumes the plane has crashed and start mourning Wilson. House shows real emotion at the loss of his friend. With 10 minutes left in the show, the FAA announces that the plane just went through some electrical storms and that toyed with transmissions. House then punches Cuddy in the uterus and drinks an entire bottle of Scotch while taunting 13 with black dildo.
Congratulations, you can be a season 5 House writer!
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The worst part is how most of the stories have looked like they were setting up for a significant development
and then it just evaporates at the end.
Foreman’s fired! No, he’s not.
Thirteen’s dead! No, she’s not.
Wilson quit! No, he didn’t.
House is off vicodin! No, he’s not.
It’s like they’re writing the episodes so they’ll work better in syndication where they’re often seen out of order. It’s a wonder Fox is letting Dollhouse have a story arc at all.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
Well-called
Never watched House, but I know enough to know (at least from .gifs and .jpgs here), that Lupus is never the answer
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 2:38 PM PST up reply actions
Never, ever watch those last 60 seconds
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As always
Gameday, for people who like their action with a 5 to 10 minute delay.
Mariners are the only undefeated MLB team (pardon the redundancy) left in Spring Training. This is apparently their best start since going 5-0 in 1994 (per Bob Condotta).
Almost time for Washburn TV.
I think Wak says it best
"I won’t have a real solid feel for this club until we get everybody back,‘’ Wakamatsu said. "We have a lot of young, energetic guys in here. I think the biggest thing is when you get everybody back, does that continue. It’s our job to make that continue, but then you’ve got different personalities, different quality of players back. That’s going to be the biggest thing the last 10 days or so where we have to step it up again.’’
We certainely don't have a better farm system than Texas
I think our players are simply trying to come out of the gate fast, since very few people are 100% sure they will get a roster spot.
The jokes on you because they probably auto renewed your account.
by JI on Mar 2, 2009 1:02 PM PST up reply actions
How exactly
can you listen/watch for free again?
From Bob Condotta
[Jake] Wild was one of two Mariners farmhands who threw a simulated game to four better-known Seattle players today, including Griffey. The others were Mike Sweeney, Yuniesky Betancourt and Russell Branyan. They were the first live cuts Griffey has taken this spring not from a coach.
I'm buying the commemorative T shirt of the momentous
“first live cuts Griffey has taken this spring not from a coach”
by MartinVanBuren on Mar 2, 2009 12:16 PM PST up reply actions
Crabbe in LF? Weird
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Interesting, I can't imagine he has the bat to stick there.
Maybe he’d work in CF, eventually? I don’t know how that would work for the Mariners but it’s interesting as he’s a former Brewer prospect who was blocked by Rickie Weeks his whole time there.
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He's probably best off at 2nd
This is just a temporary fix because we’re out of OFers though I’d bet.
I’d put Cedeno or Corona out there though because they’re more likely to be on the team and it’s good to see if they can do spot duty out there if necessary
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Well that was positively Mariner-esque
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Well that was strangely similar to 2008
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The non Hawk Harrelson White Sox broadcasters
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Gotta say, I'd rather have Hawk
Then again, I like Hawk
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 12:13 PM PST up reply actions
I'm with you
Hawk is my favorite announcer ever
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Hey now, I loves me some Hawk
But… NIEHAUS??
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 12:14 PM PST up reply actions
I was a White Sox fan first
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Over Niehaus, Sims...hell even Rizzs? Or Fairly? Or Levine?
Raible and Calabro are pretty good as far as local announcers go
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by BrettJMiller on Mar 2, 2009 12:14 PM PST up reply actions
Speaking of which, Calabro got a gig with ESPN basketball.
I thought he was just going to stay local?
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Mar 2, 2009 12:15 PM PST up reply actions
I'm all for it
I finally get to hear him do games again. He makes every NBA game he announces that much better.
You've heard the story
nostalgia and all that jazz. Hawk was who I listened to as a little kid I hadn’t even heard of Dave Niehaus until I was 11 years old
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Bob Uecker
Even if you’re not a Brewer fan, just imagine watching Major League for every single game ever.
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I didn't know Hawk had fans besides Corco
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by BrettJMiller on Mar 2, 2009 12:14 PM PST up reply actions
My girlfriend LOVES him
Big sox fan… loves the homerism
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 12:15 PM PST up reply actions
I tend to think mild homerism is ok.
Hawk has no long-standing reason to be a homer, being that his “career” with the Sox started as a broadcaster, not a player.
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by BrettJMiller on Mar 2, 2009 12:18 PM PST up reply actions
He's been their announcer or GM for like 20 years
How could he not be a homer for them?
by JI on Mar 2, 2009 12:18 PM PST up reply actions
He's always been a homer, though.
It seems a bit fake when his relationship with the team started as a broadcaster. I mean, yeah, Niehaus started with us as a broadcaster but 1. he never played, and 2. he’s not really too much of a homer.
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by BrettJMiller on Mar 2, 2009 12:20 PM PST up reply actions
Meh
I don’t see why having played for the team gives you any more or less reason to be a fan. Hawk’s a White Sock through and through
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There's nothing like a broadcaster calling his team the "Good Guys"
and the other team the “Bad Guys”…
On any fly ball decently deep… “Stretch! Stretch! Stretch!” etc.
Eh. That's the one thing about him that doesn't bug me.
Good Guys/ Bad Guys is funny.
by JI on Mar 2, 2009 12:24 PM PST up reply actions
I've had this argument before
I think “White Sock” is the proper sounding singular, but I think they actually say “He’s been a White Sox”
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 12:23 PM PST up reply actions
Niehaus is a total homer
he has a fucking heart attack every time the Mariners hit a homerun. Not so for the visitors.
by JI on Mar 2, 2009 12:22 PM PST up reply actions
Nah, it's always SWUNG ON AND BELTED unless it was say Guardado blowing it to Ozuna and said "And he did it again...we're tied"
Dave doesn’t call us the good guys or them the bad guys either. Yeah he gets excited when we go deep, but generally he gets excited for ANY good play by either team.
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by BrettJMiller on Mar 2, 2009 12:24 PM PST up reply actions
While that may be true
I reject your premise that Harrelson shouldn’t be a homer for the Sox because he never played for them. It doesn’t make any sense.
The team’s broadcasters are hired to promote the team. By definition they are supposed to be homers.
by JI on Mar 2, 2009 12:26 PM PST up reply actions
All I'm saying is that Harrelson takes it too far, and is ridiculously over the top in his homerism to the point of annoyance.
I doubt a non-Mariner fan would be frustrated with Niehaus’ take on the action. The not having played for the Sox thing is just one reason why he shouldn’t be SO homeristic for a team that he had minimal affiliation with before he became their broadcaster.
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I didn't know it was possible to be worse than Hawk Harrelson
by JI on Mar 2, 2009 12:12 PM PST up reply actions
There's a reason many White Sox fans don't think the Hawk is THAT bad
maybe they just have low standards
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Takes a lot of pitches
becomes something of a free swinger.
These things do not go together.
You know what? Fuck you Sports Gods, fuck you.
"That's what LaHair has is a lot of power"
Wow.
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"Was a QB at Michigan
so you know he is a good athlete."
Haven’t most Michigan QBs for the past decade been statuesque pocket passers?
You know what? Fuck you Sports Gods, fuck you.
Yes
Michigan QBs suck
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Greise was solid for the Broncs for a few years
Then he kind of fell off the map into journeyman backup territory.
I kind of miss that
Not really… but kind of
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 12:19 PM PST up reply actions
Hey is is mallio ordoyez
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by BrettJMiller on Mar 2, 2009 12:20 PM PST up reply actions
Sometimes
I loved Baseball Simulator 1.000 which is not that good of a game.
You know what? Fuck you Sports Gods, fuck you.
I'm amazed they don't have him holding a watermelon.
by Aaron Campeau on Mar 2, 2009 1:07 PM PST up reply actions
At least you could change the players names if you knew the rosters.
"Fights begin, finger prints are took, days is lost, bail is made, court dates are ignored, cycle is repeated."
You may notice that the 2B on that team is Howard Lincoln.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Mar 2, 2009 12:54 PM PST up reply actions
When you're the head of a video game company, you get to do awesome video game things.
There are no good individual basketball statistics.
54!
All of the Mariners were Nintendo staffers (save Griffey). Most of the teams had discernable player-name themes.
Although not all of them made sense.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Mar 2, 2009 2:23 PM PST up reply actions
Jim Thome makes everyone in the lineup better.
How many players in MLB have that fucking +1 stats aura?
the other angels fan
Not if a lefty is pitching
he’s long overdue to be platooned.
by JI on Mar 2, 2009 12:25 PM PST up reply actions
We NEED to win games down there?
How many casual fans follow spring training?
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I don't think these guys know a lot of people are out of position
Or they just don’t care.
Look at seattlemariners.com
WATCH BELTRE MAKE HIS DEBUT WITH THE LEATHER is the headline
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What is all this talk about a High Sky?
Unless it’s doin’ weed, the sky in Az. is no higher than anywhere else…
It's just the uniformity and pale shade from the intense sun.
When I went to ST in AZ, I did notice that it was really tough to track flyballs.
the other angels fan
In all fairness
This is gangbusters for a 400k, non-tv production game.
by JI on Mar 2, 2009 12:31 PM PST up reply actions
You could at least pretend to root for the Angels
by JI on Mar 2, 2009 12:36 PM PST up reply actions
By our powers combined...
we are: Production Values!
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 12:38 PM PST up reply actions
Your joke is bad and you should feel bad!
the other angels fan
by Eyebrows on Mar 2, 2009 12:41 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
We can't have a closer by the name of Putz
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"What's going on there?"
White Sox starters getting whooped by Mariners minor leaguers :P
You know how bad the White Sox broadcast team can be?
well, the wacky mid-day crew on their home station is just as bad.
I was hoping they’d be airing the game, but no.
How'd everyone enjoy the streak
10 straight Mariners swinging at the first pitch? It took a pitch 2 feet off the plate to break it, but have no fear, Prentice swung at the next one.
"These games mean something to the Mariners."
What? What the hell do these games mean to the Mariners?
Obviously no one asked the OF if it was ok with the arrangement
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 1:02 PM PST up reply actions
That outfield must have taken more balls to the face than any other outfield in history.
by JI on Mar 2, 2009 1:03 PM PST up reply actions
That many balls to the face would be enough to make any field come out
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 1:05 PM PST up reply actions
If only they had Dashboard confessional then
He could have just turned into an insufferable hipster
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 1:10 PM PST up reply actions
Gameday isn't too bad today - Mark Langston just finished two innings.
61/755: KGJ's homer totals, or Rosie O'Donnell's age/weight in 2019?
A lot of names seem unique
to someone who eats paint chips and has nostrils the size of quarters.
the other angels fan
Haha, what?
Carlos Quentin deserved the MVP? What are these guys smoking?
If he didn't get hurt, he would have warranted a decent amount of votes
At least according to what the voters usually go for.
Before he got hurt doesn't matter though
He got hurt, he didn’t deserve the MVP.
Well that was their argument.
IF he didn’t get hurt, he would have deserved it. That’s what they were saying.
the other angels fan
Yay DJ is in the booth
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What is this concept
“decent Saved by the Bell</em”? I am not familiar with it.
by The Ancient Mariner on Mar 2, 2009 1:12 PM PST reply actions
Let me further elaborate
That thought Hendrix and SRV have influence some of my favorite musicians, their songs are unremarkable.
by JI on Mar 2, 2009 1:16 PM PST up reply actions
I would tend to agree but I like Hendrix well enough. SRV is torture.
by Aaron Campeau on Mar 2, 2009 1:17 PM PST up reply actions
Oh yeah, I'd take Hendrix for sure
He has some decent songs
by JI on Mar 2, 2009 1:18 PM PST up reply actions
Suck it Robert
Right but Sizemore was more valuable last season.
Even though their WAR was practically the same, I think Sizemore was more valuable based on his other numbers.
by Aaron Campeau on Mar 2, 2009 1:20 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah we got 6 inches of snow here in DC today
Goddamn groundhog
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 1:20 PM PST up reply actions
The weather is dreary in LA today
after a gorgeous weekend.
I went to the beach.
You know what? Fuck you Sports Gods, fuck you.
These booth guys are making all sorts of really unpleasant noises.
The color guy sounds like he’s rubbing one out and the play-by-play guy keeps bruping.
It's amazing how the games speed up when there are no commercials.
Look Bud, we solved it! Just like the Good Ol’ Days!
Holy Shit
Earl Weaver baseball is being ported to the iPhone.
You know what? Fuck you Sports Gods, fuck you.
I was going to tell a story
But I’ll just say that it ended with this guy Wayne had a CD that had “WAYNE’s CREED” written on it in black magic marker. He listened to it when he was in the mood for rock.
by JI on Mar 2, 2009 1:43 PM PST up reply actions
Hahaha Baseball Prospectus baiting
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They haven't even read it
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You have mentioned Mike Carp three times now.
We get it. Mike Carp is at first base.
In Salmon chanted future
We will be rid of these puns
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 1:52 PM PST up reply actions
I've haddock up to here with these jokes
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 1:57 PM PST up reply actions
Well, quit floundering about
Especially at work, or you’ll never get that rays
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 2:02 PM PST up reply actions
...
Goin’ down to Muscle Shoals where the swamp water rhythm flows
Live the only way I know I’m just a common man
Headed down to Texas way where the honky tonk heroes play
Gonna find that lost highway that’s where I’ll make a stand
Takin’ the country back it’s high time we face the facts
Heart and soul slippin’ through the cracks we’re takin’ the country back
Takin’ the country back we’re not sure just where it’s at
We’ve got to get it back on track we’re takin’ the country back
[ guitar ]
Bright lights and limousines fame and fortune I have seen
Still searchin’ for that dream it’s callin’ me back home
Down to earth where the music’s real singin’ bout what the people feel
Timeless truth now that’s the deal we got to pass in on y’all
Yeah takin’ the country back…
[ steel ]
Yeah takin’ the country back…
Takin’ the country on back
by Aaron Campeau on Mar 2, 2009 1:55 PM PST up reply actions
Especially considering how I was watching it for free.
by Aaron Campeau on Mar 2, 2009 1:58 PM PST up reply actions
I had to renew my mlb.tv subscription to watch
And this is the bullshit I have to put up with? Outrageous, I demand satisfaction
One of the few phrases in baseball lingo that I've yet to figure out is "he throws a heavy ball"
Every time I hear that I flash on Professor Brown in Back to the Future giving Marty shit about saying heavy all the time. Anybody care to explain it to me while mlb fixes their shit?
Batters find the pitch difficult to lift
by Graham MacAree on Mar 2, 2009 2:01 PM PST up reply actions
then they start using back braces and weightlifting gloves
performance enhancing is a slippery slope.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on Mar 2, 2009 2:06 PM PST up reply actions
I always thought it was any pitch that had a late drop on it, but I'm not sure about that. Like a Freddie Garcia 2-seamer at the knees
Some of those old phrases get misused a lot, lose their original meaning. Or make any relevant sense at all, it makes my eye twitch now and then.
So is there still a baseball game going on?
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There are crowd noises, but the announcers have stopped watching
by shinallsrevenge on Mar 2, 2009 2:14 PM PST up reply actions
so they're in midseason form then.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on Mar 2, 2009 2:19 PM PST up reply actions
Apparently, they really aren't
According to this
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 2:22 PM PST up reply actions
Gameday is still updating
Not much happening though. Triunfel is in and hit an infield single.
I wish I could get paid to do a job
And then just stop doing it like halfway through and go eat a hamburger or something
you've obviously never worked for the government
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on Mar 2, 2009 2:26 PM PST up reply actions
I meant directly for the government not the quasi-government-military-industrial-complex
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on Mar 2, 2009 2:51 PM PST up reply actions
Shadow governments don't make politics they subvert them
you’ll have to speak up because I can’t hear you over the crinkling of this tinfoil hat.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on Mar 2, 2009 2:59 PM PST up reply actions
DJ does better on the TV where you can watch the game while he talks about something else
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"Right now an extra base hit would help."
As opposed to all those times when it’s a serious detriment.
Pretend this is meaningful and the regular season is meaningless
That’s my coping mechanism
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if only these things actually mattered
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on Mar 2, 2009 2:54 PM PST up reply actions
Preseason titles don't matter?
Well crap…
by Robert Lintott on Mar 2, 2009 2:56 PM PST up reply actions
I remember the 1995 preseason
that was the Spring Training That Saved Baseball.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on Mar 2, 2009 2:59 PM PST up reply actions
I'm starting to think the M's are taking this "winning attitude" thing really seriously
and trying to run the Cactus League undefeated.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Mar 2, 2009 3:16 PM PST up reply actions
Spring Training Championship!
We should all pretend that the team with the highest Spring Training record wins the spring training championship, and then pretend that it matters. Then at least maybe Seattle will be able to win a championship in somehting :)
Team is looking good, but its probably meaningless. I remember that that 2001 team sucked in spring training.
I look forward to the banner raising that will commemorate the 2008 Spring Training World Championship
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on Mar 2, 2009 3:48 PM PST up reply actions
Good thing....
Its a good thing that that first charity game against San Diego didnt count toward the not-counting spring training records. Otherwise we’d be 4-1 instead of 4-0 in irrelevant baseball games!
Years from now you'll all be telling your grandkids of the epic adventures of Reegie Corona
and how they brought life to a moribund city by parading their Spring Training World Domination Championship Trophy down Bell Road in Peoria. And your grandkids will gaze in wide-eyed wonder at pictures of the Heroes Of March.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on Mar 2, 2009 3:54 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I'll also tearfully tell them about how in 2024 the Mariners brought back Mr. March himself, Mike Morse
for one more spring training with the Mariners as a NRI in hopes that he could re-kindle the old magic and lead them to the Perfect Dream II ©
by seattlebruin on Mar 2, 2009 3:56 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Some day it will come true / Spring training still belongs to folks like me and you /
So let the voice of Neihaus ring out through the landdddd / This is Springgggg Trainingggggg
Sweet, Truinfel got a hit!
Why would I watch Transformers when I can play with them at my house?
by .Taylor on Mar 2, 2009 5:41 PM PST reply actions
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