Rainiers at Beavers Open Game Thread
by Aaron Campeau on Jun 15, 2009 7:04 PM PDT
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Doug Fister (Tacoma) vs. Matt Buschmann (Portland)
Lineups:
Tacoma
1. Jerry Owens CF
2. Michael Saunders LF
3. Jeff Clement DH
4. Chris Shelton 3B
5. Mike Carp 1B
6. Mike Morse 2B
7. Bryan LaHair LF
8.Adam Moore C
9. Chris Woodward SS
Portland
1. Everth Cabrera SS
2. Mike Baxter RF
3. Craig Stansberry 1B
4. Kyle Blanks 1B
5. Vince Sinisi LF
6. Drew Macias CF
7. Jose Lobaton C
8. Peter Ciofrone DH
9. Matt Antonelli 2B
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I saw Saunders get his first home run of the season
A few weeks ago down in Cheney.
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Maybe they're hoping he can take over if Beltre is moved?
I dunno.
by Aaron Campeau on Jun 15, 2009 7:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't actually believe that's the case.
by Aaron Campeau on Jun 15, 2009 7:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I wish Saunders was in CF and Nelson was in LF.
by Aaron Campeau on Jun 15, 2009 7:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Their home jerseys are neat...
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No team from the PNW should ever wear red.
by Aaron Campeau on Jun 15, 2009 7:33 PM PDT up reply actions
How about neon green and glitter?
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I should NOT be allowed to design clothing
The entire world would look like a gay pride parade. :/
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I am not looking forward to carrying a scarf around
This Wednesday.
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Apparently these are alts.
Why do the alts prominently feature a color that isn’t part of the team’s color scheme?
by Aaron Campeau on Jun 15, 2009 7:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't have an answer for that
But their new home duds are pretty sweet – they look JUST like the Ms whites.
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I don't think I've ever seen them.
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Oh yeah!
I dig the stripes!
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I'll have to check it out Thursday
I’m trying to go down there after work, I’m sure they have a photo/painting of it around the stadium somewhere…
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Huh
They play soccer there, too – I wonder if that’s why…
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who is jerry owens?
I wasn’t even aware of him.
He's one of our best guys
For tripping over first base.
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This is just making me want to go down there at the end of August
Must. Budget!
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Ha, it appears AAA broadcasters don't have to pretend they're not checking out a fan.
That was a creepy stalker moment.
...and now I'm here
Few of the MLB announcers say things like:
“normally we see her working out on the bike, or sitting around in the sun.”
Hey, here’s a thing – stop admitting that you’re looking while being broadcast on television.
...and now I'm here
They keep getting older....
But the ladies stay the same age.
I really have no problem with it as I’ll be doing the same thing in another 20 years. Though I wouldn’t do it from a broadcast booth.
"I do not buy numbers defensively. At all," Amaro said. "I look at fielding percentage. But that other business? I don’t buy it a lick."
Just gotta keep on livin'
L-I-V-I-N!
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Hey, our GM pick is playing first base.
...and now I'm here
what are the chances of Portland
ever getting a MLB team?
Portland's a basketball city
Always has been. Even if they got a major league franchise, they don’t really have the population to support it.
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True,
However, having grown up there, I highly doubt it would be able to support an MLB franchise.
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AC's got it
not nearly enough corporate green to get an MLB team here.
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Are you down in PDX, too?
t I found this, and it made me a little sad:
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_061509_news_beavers_lents.844eb720.html
I would think that Nike could provide some good amount of money, if they cared to; along with Columbia Sportswear, McMenamin’s, and whatever facade might be left of the Weinhard corporation…
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I am and I'm a Beavers season ticket holder
and if they move to Lents I will no longer be a season ticket holder. I live in NoPo and prefer to take TriMet to games, and if we were to do that from our house it would be an hour (and at least two buses, until they get the Green Line finished) each way. Not going to happen. I am not a Portland native, so I don’t understand the attachment to Memorial Coliseum – tear that obsolete pile of junk down, build a 9000 seat ballpark there, and you’ve got year-round traffic to the Rose Quarter, just like the Blazers want.
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Which on the other hand frees up my sports and entertainment dollar to buy Timbers MLS tickets so that's not too bad
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I've never heard of Lents - I don't think it was a neighborhood 10 years ago. :/
I was at the Coliseum a few years back for a friend’s comic show, and I can’t believe how terrible it looks now. Depressing. We used to listen to Blazers games on the radio when I was little and they played there, and now it’s just a giant, run-down…thing. :/
Then again, I’m sure there are still a lot of people whining about how “ugly” the Rose Quarter is, too.
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Lents is down on 205 at about Sunnyside Rd I think
82nd and Foster is probably the main intersection, and then it heads east and a bit north from there, kinda along 205.
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Huh
Yeah, I never heard it called that – I grew up in Canby, just south, and lived in the city proper after I got out of college for about 10 years or thereabouts. That area was just called the Foster neighborhood – and 82nd is already sketchy enough without adding more traffic and etc. I hope they figure something out…
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And the main people whining about the dereliction of the Rose Quarter are the Blazers
because it gets no business when it’s not basketball season. Which makes me wonder why they’re opposed to putting a summer-sports venue in there; they want to build an “entertainment village”, which nobody will go to because why leave a cool neighborhood for a bunch of expensive restaurants?
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Oh, no;
The people in Portland HATED that thing when it was built. Everyone was bitching about how it “ruined the skyline”. Yeah, the crappy skyline by Lloyd Center. Pffft!
I agree, if they want a park, they might already have a decent foundation for such a thing on the Coliseum grounds….just seems like a waste.
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Now people are bitching because the Memorial Coliseum is architecturally significant
they claim it’s a good example of Modernist design – which it actually is, I suppose, but that’s no reason to keep it standing when it’s functionally obsolete and becoming derelict.
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"Modernist" might indicate "modern"
Haha!
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I used to live on 92nd and Foster!
Kitty-corner from the Copper Penny. One time a drunk guy came in to our living room because I think he knew the people that used to live there. Also people used to steal our empties.
by waldo rojas on Jun 15, 2009 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Ah, the Copper Penny
Where music goes to die.
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When we moved in, the landlord said the washer didn't work
so go ahead and put it on the curb and put a free sign on it and someone will take it. So we hauled it out and went back inside to write up the free sign. When we came back out, the broken dryer was gone.
by waldo rojas on Jun 15, 2009 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I've been to that place a couple times
and it was…interesting.
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Macandjacksmann would have bene a far superior pitcher.
...and now I'm here
SHUT UP CHASE HEADLEY LAHAIR JUST HIT A HOME RUN!!!
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Hey, don't diss on Headley
He is going to be a Mariner once we trade Yuni for him. Because that’s going to happen, right?
...and now I'm here
Haha!
I’m just happy LaHair did something cool…I get annoyed when announcers spend more time talking to guests than they do about the game, but that’s just me…
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He's considerably better,
so yes.
...and now I'm here
I would be ok with trading Yuni for a nice bologna sandwich, at this point.
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Ha!
I prefer bologna and some sort of American cheese product, with mayo and yellow mustard. That’s “nice”, but I grew up in a trailer!
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Huh.
I really thought that was more of flyout off of the bat.
If the Rainiers are anything like the Ms
They should start collapsing right about now….
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Mike Morse looked very cocky there for a bit...
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It's nice to see the Rainiers on FSN for once.
I think I’m having more fun watching the AAA team than the big league team.
It's a basket! Chuh!
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It really shows how weak some of our players in Seattle are.
I want to watch Tacoma for the rest of the season.
I dunno...
I don’t think Portland’s pitching is all that great….
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I agree, Portland isn't that special.
But remembering we’re hitting AAA pitching, Tacoma’s offense looks really good.
But wait, they have a man on
So if we’re destined to be true Mariners, everything’s about to go downhill! :D
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Oh! I mean...
EVERYTHING’S FIIIIIIINE! GO SEATT RAINIERS!
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I've only seen one other Portland broadcast, and Tom Lampkin was sitting in for the color guy
He was good, the play by play guy yammered like he is tonight, and they did the same ’let’s call a Padre’ shtick
The beaver's name is Lucky?
Is that just a generic mascot name, or is there actually an origin for this?
I think it's just generic
Also, there are a ton of jokes to be made, but I’m too tired right now.
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They used to be called the Lucky Beavers in the 1930's
when they changed unis a couple years ago they changed the mascot’s name back to Lucky from, uh, Boomer I think.
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Boomer the Beaver?
hahahaha!
Well, thanks – did that name have anything to do with the beer at all? Or am I making this more difficult than it has to be?
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I don't think so, not that I can tell.
I just see old photos at the Kingston that say “The 1937 Lucky Beavers” and whatnot. It would be cooler if they were named after the beer.
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Hmmm
I’ll see if I can check out any history if I wind up going down there. I know they renovated it, maybe they did something nice on the inside for the timeline of the team. I used to live in two different apartments about 3 blocks and across the street from that place back in the 90s – it sucked so bad trying to find parking after work on game days. Seems like a weird place for a stadium.
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The stadium predated all the apartments and stuff though
That stadium has been around since about 1910 I think. There’s not much to it on the inside, you won’t find much history-wise except a few old snapshots; they did renovate it but it’s there to serve three sports and a bunch of high school games, so it’s not really specific to any one of them. I’m not sure where one would go to find a good history of the stadium or the Beavers team.
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Heh
I’m pretty sure the place I lived across the street was built in like 1856 or something; man, what a shithole – the place upstairs used to be a brothel. Score!
I kid, kind of.
What’s the other sport? Baseball, soccer, …?
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Beavers baseball, Timbers soccer, PSU football
and at least one or two high school football playoff games. And the occasional international soccer match as well.
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I thought PSU had their own field?
Up by OHSU?
Shows what I know.
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They used to but I think they play all their games at PGE now
Post-expensive-renovation, PGE Park has to get all the revenue it can.
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I guess so
Just based on what you know about things now, do you think the MLS team will work in Portland?
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From what I know which is not much I would say yes
The Timbers draw about 6500 people a game at this point, and the Timbers Army supporters group is huge, passionate, and vocal. All this happens with no real advertising or promotion; the MLS marketing push would really make a huge difference and get a ton of people to buy tickets. I don’t think they’d get the 26K a night that the Sounders get, but if they can get into the 15-20K/game range they’ll be a success.
Which is why PGE has to be renovated – there’s almost no way that stadium can handle that many people at this point. I dread going to the AAA All-Star Game in a way because it’ll be a nightmare with that many people – the lines for everything will be hideous.
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That kicks ass!
I saw a news special on a channel up here about the Timbers Army, they aired it before the Sounders season opened up here. It looked like people were pretty crazy about the game, but they never showed wide shots of the stadium, so while they were loud, I wasn’t sure how many of them were actually there.
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They take over at least one entire section during games
there’s probably about 1000 of them all told. It adds an awesome element to the games.
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I don't know if there are a thousand ECS
But the GA is super loud, and the rest of the stadium follows suit, so it turns into this giant wave of chants around the stadium. I look forward to our Portlander overlords. :D
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Do you have your tickets as part of your annual package?
I have tickets to the derby and the all star game, but I’ll probably only be able to make the derby.
I have tickets as part of someone else's annual package
I have friends in the ECS, and if one of them can’t go, I get the ticket. She gets baseball tickets from me, so it sort of works out.
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I do have tix for both as part of my package, yeah
I’m looking forward to it, except for the crowds. Gonna be a fun night. Couple of nights.
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Lookit me!
Reply fail.
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There's not one hitter on the Rainers better than Griffey so I fail to see why I should give two shits.
by Poochie on Jun 15, 2009 8:18 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Then why aren't they DHing with the big dogs?
I thought you guys said this org knew what it was doing.
by Poochie on Jun 15, 2009 8:20 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
You can lead a baseball player, but you can't make him hit.
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Announcers. Get. Creepier.
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For those of you still watching
The announcer just said, during the game recap, “….Lahair Lahammered one to right….”
Not anywhere near as annoying as John Sterling.
…and Mark Teixeira sends them a Tex Message!!!!
….an A-Bomb from A-Rod!!!!!
…A thrilla from Godzilla!!!!
Last week he did this for a Matsui HR by mistake
which would be funny except for, y’know, the whole “a-bomb on Hiroshima” thing.
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Hasn't it been long enough for us to make jokes about this now?
In public? To the Japanese?
bwahahaha genocide is funny
nope, guess not.
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I freakin' THOUGHT I heard that!
Glad to know I wasn’t crazy.
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It's been a while since we've seen it.
And who the hell is Brodie Downs?
And will someone make these announcers quit?
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Brodie Downs is The Beer Leaguer.
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by JY on Jun 15, 2009 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
The? We only have one?
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There can be only one.
No, I mean, he was literally pitching in beer leagues with his buddies, who convinced him to try out for the local community college and see if he could get drafted. And so he did and the rest is history.
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by JY on Jun 15, 2009 9:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Holy shit, really?
That’s actually kinda cool.
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It's true.
He used to work as a surveyor or something, but he decided to put that aside and see if he could make it in baseball. He made his debut when he was 28 or so and they’ve kept pushing him to see what he was capable of. It’s a shame that his fastball’s pretty straight and he has little in the way of other offerings, because it’s an awesome story.
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Sweet!
I’ll be sure and yell extra loud for him if I see him on Thursday. Thanks for the info!
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So Torii Hunter left the Angels - Giants game today with an undisclosed injury
Anyone know the details?
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Something wrong with his rib cage
So says their website….I guess he literally ran into the wall.
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I'm sure this is mean but I really hope he has to have surgery for whatever reason and is out for the rest of the year
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It might be considered mean
But anyone who says they’ve never wished some form of badness on a player from another team is a liar. Or a saint.
Sounds like he might have just given himself a mean bruise, but I guess he ran into the wall and then didn’t get up. Ouch.
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Yeah, I have been guilty of these thoughts as well.
However I just remember every time Felix has stubbed a toe and I take it all back.
Karmic payback is bitch. And baseball is enough of fucked up bitch to make sure everyone gets theirs at some point.
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/7/31/584074/7-31-open-game-thread#7804075
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/7/15/572271/7-15-all-star-game-open-th#7416444
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/7/15/572271/7-15-all-star-game-open-th#7414473
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/7/15/572271/7-15-all-star-game-open-th#7415946
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/7/8/567382/rich-harden-cubs#7252516
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/6/16/553031/series-preview-florida-mar#6797975
Smashed into the wall trying to make a catch
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He's done well tonight. They all have. Sweet to see.
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Huh-huh...
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The Portland mascot had a huge bulge in his pants
I think it was just the top of the costume was too big and it was tucked into the bottom part, but it was unfortunate looking, especially when he was doing the “I’m Too Sexy” dance.
I noticed that.
I think it’s actually supposed to make him look a little pudgy around the middle, but it just looks odd.
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