Willie Ballgame: Still 25% Too White

by Jeff Sullivan on Apr 12, 2009 12:39 PM PDT in Seattle Mariners News, Great

Be you warned, for here there be .gifs.

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Swing and a miss

You can't hide from the omnipresent eye.

by Goose on Apr 12, 2009 12:43 PM PDT reply actions

I laugh at his misfortune

by Fuzz on Apr 12, 2009 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions

Who's the Boss is not a food.

I will smash your face into a jelly.

by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Apr 13, 2009 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions

Indeed

by Susheel Ramasahayam on Apr 12, 2009 12:44 PM PDT reply actions

In a somewhat unrelated note, I noticed that HoRam's SBN picture still has him in a Mariners uniform.

You can't hide from the omnipresent eye.

by Goose on Apr 12, 2009 12:45 PM PDT reply actions

We just found somebody worse than Griffey in the OF

by Heydude on Apr 12, 2009 12:46 PM PDT reply actions

The announcers were giving him shit for this too

they said he should have just played it on a hop to keep the runner to a single, instead of the triple that ensued.

by marinerdan on Apr 12, 2009 12:47 PM PDT reply actions

He was nowhere near that ball and yet he decided it would be best to dive after it. But hey, he got his uniform dirty and that shows he cares. Not like selfish Ichiro who dare not get dirt on his jersey because it would sully his image.

"I call the big one Bitey."-Homer J. Simpson

by Willie Mays Haze on Apr 12, 2009 1:05 PM PDT reply actions

I like how "Kansas City, MO" just CRAWLS by while he's still sliding

It sends the message “this, Kansas City, is how slowly time will pass as you suffer the agonies of two years of Willie Ballgame!”

by Decatur on Apr 12, 2009 1:10 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

He missed it by "Just THAT much!"

by mark sobba on Apr 12, 2009 1:11 PM PDT reply actions

Wasn't he suppose to be a second baseman there?

So you could say he was playing “out of position”, I guess.

by mark sobba on Apr 12, 2009 1:14 PM PDT reply actions

just made the geico play of the game

he is now only 10%

by mikekim21 on Apr 12, 2009 1:29 PM PDT reply actions

I saw that live yersterday, the announcers where not very pleased and blamed it on him being an utility man

and not very experienced with the outfield

by Schuxu on Apr 12, 2009 3:11 PM PDT reply actions

Willie is yours

And we’re thrilled that you have him.

by ThundaPC on Apr 12, 2009 3:56 PM PDT reply actions

This is a giggle maker.

by royalcurve on Apr 12, 2009 4:11 PM PDT reply actions

He did make a pretty great grab today however

by Woodinville_12thMan on Apr 12, 2009 5:23 PM PDT reply actions

It would be better if you could pause it right as the ball is hitting the ground and quantify the distance between his glove and the ball

by OlSalty on Apr 12, 2009 9:33 PM PDT reply actions

Hit ESC.

by Aaron Campeau on Apr 12, 2009 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions

Yuck

"The dark secret of LL is that it only exists so I can one day moderate Graham" ---Robert

by .Taylor on Apr 12, 2009 10:03 PM PDT reply actions

at least show the catch that he did make.

by arniegrape2k on Apr 13, 2009 9:25 AM PDT reply actions

lacks comedy value

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Apr 13, 2009 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions

We don't celebrate routine achievements around here

by Jeff Sullivan on Apr 13, 2009 10:01 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

Holy shit Yuni took a pitch!

by Jeff Sullivan on Apr 13, 2009 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions

GIF! GIF! GIF!

by JI on Apr 13, 2009 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions

You joined Lookout Landing just to make this comment?

I will smash your face into a jelly.

by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Apr 13, 2009 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions

stalker

St. Louis Cardinals... defying win expectancy since 2008

by vivaelpujols on Apr 13, 2009 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions

I'd like to see the ball Swisher dropped that day, and the one that went through his wickets the next.

MLB streaming archives sounds like a nice feature, if there weren’t so many complaints about the service or the blackouts I’d think about it.

The blackout rules don’t apply to same day game replay do they? Maybe a silly question, but then it’s MLB.

by Kermit. on Apr 13, 2009 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions

Typically games that are blacked out are available on mlb.tv an hour or so after they complete

at least that’s the way it worked last year.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Apr 14, 2009 7:40 AM PDT up reply actions

They're still way behind that so far this year.

by Aaron Campeau on Apr 14, 2009 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions

To be fair

it was raining badly that game, and the field condition was awful, everyone was looking bad that game. including the ball going under both Swisher and Cano (Swisher fell after that), Jacob sliding into position and missing a hard bounce. and Jeter falling 1 step to his right and letting the ball through (yes i realize the pasta diving Jeter jokes, but it’s not like he ever dives and miss the ball by 6 feet) late in the game Brett Gardner made a sliding stop on a Bryan Pena double and it looked like a freaking water slide out there.

And Willie did dive and get one ball that game.

by RollingWave on Apr 15, 2009 3:00 AM PDT reply actions