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Strasburg's Third Start

Don't have a link to this yet since the box score hasn't been posted, but his line from today:

8IP, 5H, 2ER, 1BB, 18K, 1HR, 29BF

Totals for the year include:

78 batters faced, 45 strikeouts (58%), 4 walks (5%).

As part of THT, each March we do a staff roundtable of predictions on the standings. Part of that article is offering a prediction on who will win the MVP, Cy Young and Rookie for each league. I detest that part since I am loathe to attempt predicting what the generally moronic BBWAA will do. However, if asked this Spring, I am going to predict that Stephen Strasburg will be the Rookie of the Year.

I am only going to be half-kidding.

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If he wanted me to teabag him in return for choosing Seattle.

I would probably say “yea”.

I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.

by EnglishMariner on Mar 5, 2009 5:22 PM PST reply actions  

Graham?

Yesterday's Pants
A blog-thingy about the Mariners and stuff.

by BrettJMiller on Mar 5, 2009 7:00 PM PST up reply actions  

Wait... Wouldn't that phrasing mean you're the one giving?

There are no good individual basketball statistics.
54!

by joof on Mar 5, 2009 6:30 PM PST up reply actions   1 recs

Probably?

Free Stephen "Awesome" Strasburg!

by seattlecougar on Mar 6, 2009 10:03 AM PST up reply actions  

Oh yeah,

the game today was against University of San Diego, ranked 11th in the nation by BA, 16th by USA/ESPN.

by Matthew on Mar 5, 2009 5:27 PM PST reply actions  

WHY! Why do you keep showing me pretty things I can't have!

The Nationals are not going to be that stupid, cheap and poor.

by mark sobba on Mar 5, 2009 5:40 PM PST reply actions  

Strasburg says he'll skip draft this year

if Washington, or Seattle, are the two possible teams.
He says okay to San Diego. Bud Black, all that.

There are no good individual basketball statistics.
54!

by joof on Mar 5, 2009 6:34 PM PST up reply actions  

Andrew Miller tried the same thing. He still signed.

Throw enough money at anyone, and they’ll go anywhere.

Yesterday's Pants
A blog-thingy about the Mariners and stuff.

by BrettJMiller on Mar 5, 2009 7:03 PM PST up reply actions  

You're missing the joke.

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Mar 5, 2009 8:59 PM PST up reply actions  

If only we'd been just a little better at losing!

Damn you 2008 M’s to hell.

"We are a bad defensive team." -B. Cashman

by Big Jared on Mar 5, 2009 5:56 PM PST up reply actions  

We tried.

Oakland screwed us over by being worse somehow (Morrow gives up 5 runs…and wins? Huh?).

by ThundaPC on Mar 5, 2009 6:16 PM PST up reply actions  

They did it on purpose!

OAKLAND tanked so that we wouldn’t get the first overall pick.

There’s the conspiracy!

This signature space for rent.

by PositivePaul on Mar 6, 2009 9:08 AM PST up reply actions  

We should mod him!

Why would I watch Transformers when I can play with them at my house?

by .Taylor on Mar 6, 2009 7:34 PM PST up reply actions  

Sorry...G/M/J

Why would I watch Transformers when I can play with them at my house?

by .Taylor on Mar 7, 2009 10:53 PM PST up reply actions  

This is perhaps the best 'shop in LL history.

Bravo!

I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.

by EnglishMariner on Mar 6, 2009 3:10 AM PST up reply actions  

The best part of it -- that I missed the first time through -- is the follow-up to the punchline:

“Strasburg’s hot stuff creates some interesting dilemmas.”

That’s fucking AWESOME as a counterpoint to the headline. All the better because it’s a real headline.

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Mar 6, 2009 8:34 AM PST up reply actions  

You deserve every one of the 31 recs

Never leave LL, please

Why would I watch Transformers when I can play with them at my house?

by .Taylor on Mar 6, 2009 7:33 PM PST up reply actions  

Also, I kind of want to read that article now

Why would I watch Transformers when I can play with them at my house?

by .Taylor on Mar 6, 2009 7:52 PM PST up reply actions  

The only real solution here is for us to hijack the Nationals scouting operation

With a GM opening this is the perfect opportunity for one of us to sneak in under a pseudonym and be named the new GM or scouting director, draft somebody else, and then quit

Determined, Jonesing Commentor | Proud proprietor of Wyomingroutes.org & Washingtonhighways.org

by Corco on Mar 5, 2009 7:49 PM PST reply actions  

Draft yourself

I’m sure there’s a high school player named David Corcoran somewhere you could announce as the pick

by seattlebruin on Mar 5, 2009 7:51 PM PST up reply actions  

Do you have to be an active player? Aumont wasn't.

There’s a former high school player sitting in Wyoming I could announce as the pick

Determined, Jonesing Commentor | Proud proprietor of Wyomingroutes.org & Washingtonhighways.org

by Corco on Mar 5, 2009 7:52 PM PST up reply actions  

Well aren't you also three years removed from HS?

I don’t see why you couldn’t announce yourself.

You know, you shouldn’t quit – you should sign yourself first

by seattlebruin on Mar 5, 2009 7:53 PM PST up reply actions  

I probably wouldn't draft myself because that would increase the odds like 400000000000000x that I get caught

And if I signed myself I’d have to play, which would prompt a large investigation as to why I was drafted with the #1 overall pick. Fraud would be suspected.

I’d draft Grant Green

Determined, Jonesing Commentor | Proud proprietor of Wyomingroutes.org & Washingtonhighways.org

by Corco on Mar 5, 2009 7:55 PM PST up reply actions  

You could draft me.

I was the best pitcher in my little league 15 years ago.

by Vatinius on Mar 5, 2009 7:59 PM PST up reply actions  

You know, I don't care what uniform he wears.

I only hope his success continues in the big leagues. Because that kind of ownage would be glorious to witness every five days.

by Wilder. on Mar 5, 2009 10:34 PM PST up reply actions  

The M's have Felix, so I want the Nats to have Strasburg.

Although yeah, if for some reason the Nats go insane it’s a pretty sweet consolation prize for the M’s to have both Felix AND Strasburg.

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Mar 5, 2009 10:56 PM PST up reply actions  

With all due respect to the pitching

It was Mike Cameron + Bret Boone + Olerud + Ichiro! + everyone else on defense that caused that totally ridiculous year.

Plus, Edgar.

by cwel87 on Mar 7, 2009 8:24 PM PST up reply actions  

Hmm.

Aumont will probably not be ready next year. I’d guess 2012.

So — keep Bedard!

Felix, Bedard, Strasburg, Morrow, RRS.

Runs allowed <500

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by PositivePaul on Mar 6, 2009 9:07 AM PST up reply actions  

I just have to point that, despite how much we all wanted to believe

and despite the fact that I did believe, scouts were not convinced by Blackley and Pineiro. At all. Nags, sure, but Johnson had some question marks back then, and Blackley and Pineiro just didn’t have a ton of stuff.
The 2010 thing would be different, and would thus probably blow up in our faces in a totally different way.

by marc w on Mar 6, 2009 1:09 PM PST up reply actions  

I remember being a big Pineiro believer because I loved his curveball.

That and in 2003 he led the league in ERA from the 3rd inning to the 7th (if I recall correctly). I thought that if he could just buckle down in the first two innings that he’d be an ace next year.

2004 was a drag.

by Double06 on Mar 6, 2009 1:36 PM PST up reply actions  

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