BRING BACK JOHJIMA PLEASE

The ball was just about perfect. A bit of a short hop, but it went straight over the plate and was two feet off the ground by the time it crossed the plate. Johnson had his fingertips pointing down, like he was blocking a breaking ball in the dirt. If he had held the glove like he was catching normally, he would’ve caught the ball easily. Absolutely inexcusable beacuse he essentially gave up on catching the ball cleanly even though a catcher will never see a truer throw than the one Ichiro made. I consider his performance legitimate grounds for demotion tomorrow, even with Wak’s catching philosophies.

His defense is as miserable as Mr. Jeff Clement. But Mr. Jeff Clement is not going to be sharing catching duties with Mr. Joh anytime soon. The Ms need his bat, no doubt about it (thank you, everyone and Mike Blowers), but apparently the two guys who woutld bring Jeffe a cup of java this season (Mister Z and Mister W are not going to). Clement is not going to make this club as a backup catcher. He needs to come to grip with 1b, or he needs to be signed with someone who needs a catcher of questionable quality. We may never have as good a defensive catcher as we had with Dan “The Man” Wilson, but we sure can want that again, we sure can come much closer than we have to date.

Sitting in section 105, when the wind is blowing during a rainstorm. Because you still get rained on, even with the roof on. GOD. That almost sucked as much as this game. Fuck Rob Johnson. After that play, I was just sitting in my seat with an unbelievable look of disgust/desperation on my face.

Also, the Ms offense kind of sucked. Washburn did not in fact suck, neither did Ichiro who made a few good plays in the gap.