2009 bullpen appreciation thread
by section331 on Sep 16, 2009 2:33 PM PDT
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MSB suggested this in this thread, I'm just following through. I was hoping to get more footage last night, but the pre-game stuff was actually pretty tame for whatever reason. I'm planning on going to all the White Sox series this week, and will be at the Yankees game on Sunday (sort of a last ditch effort to enjoy what is left of my summer before I start school next Monday), so hopefully I can get some more shots. If you have video, photos, or just want to give the boys in the back a little love, here's the place to do it (with thanks in advance to the LL guys for putting up with my irrational affection for relief pitchers).
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"but the pre-game stuff was actually pretty tame for whatever reason."
and I blame the poor pitching that followed on that very thing.
by msb on Sep 16, 2009 3:20 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I would appreciate our bullpen a lot more if they weren't bad.
by acblue on Sep 16, 2009 4:16 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I don't think it's necessarily madness, but I'm fairly sure it's something.
If only I knew what it were…
by acblue on Sep 16, 2009 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I wish you had your helmets still...
Lowe has easily been my favorite reliever on the M’s. He’s goofy and funny and provides some worry free innings.
You got slurved!
by Slurvey on Sep 16, 2009 4:55 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Which is quite a contrast to 2008 and 2007.
by redwolf75 on Sep 16, 2009 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I wonder if higher level relievers take more time to mature?
Thornton sucked but now he’s good.
Putz was also no special stuff (yes, I know he learned the splitter from Eddie but anyway) but then he was great (and became not so good now).
Lowe seems to have settled down and as you said, recently he’s been more stress free.
Maybe Kelley will be better next year. (Of course in his case it was an injury which derailed him.)
by Sam Regens on Sep 16, 2009 10:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It is often the "getting better" that makes them higher level, though.
Usually pitchers who pitch really well are good pitchers.
As a more serious answer, relievers are also prone to random fluctuations. When you pitch so infrequently, if you are destroyed in like… 3 or 4 games, all of your numbers for the year suffer. If you were a good pitcher to begin with, chances are the next year your numbers will be just fine.
...and now I'm here
by Librocrat on Sep 17, 2009 2:49 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Thanks Librocrat
It is often the “getting better” that makes them higher level, though.
You’re right, I wasn’t thinking too straight. Brain cells in a slump..
by Sam Regens on Sep 17, 2009 4:30 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
My favorite member of the Mariner's bullpen
by appleshampoo on Sep 16, 2009 11:59 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Were you at the game tonight?
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
by section331 on Sep 17, 2009 12:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeppers
I had a CF bleacher seat, but wandered around most of the game, watched the last few innings from one of the seats above the normal seats in RF/CF.
by appleshampoo on Sep 17, 2009 1:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think we may have been sitting directly above you
I heard someone yell “Come on, Hyphen!”, and looked down, and there was a guy who looked a little like your avatar with a beer, and a baseball hat on . I was in the corner, front row section 195.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
by section331 on Sep 17, 2009 8:58 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Watching
My favorite player slap one of my least favorite this evening pretty much made the game for me.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
by section331 on Sep 17, 2009 12:30 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Heh.
I find it interesting that Silva has immediately joined in the Bullpen hijinks, but Batista still walks out there right before the top of the 1st.
by appleshampoo on Sep 17, 2009 1:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
Not sure what that’s all about. I don’t think I’ve seen Batista in the huddle once.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
by section331 on Sep 17, 2009 8:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He's clearly not one of the cool kids.
♥
by royalcurve on Sep 17, 2009 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nope.
Hey, did you get that thing I sent ya?
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
by section331 on Sep 17, 2009 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It is sort of a bow/slap blessing.
For a while it looked like they were introducing Silva to the rest of the bullpen.
by msb on Sep 17, 2009 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hmm.
In the rest of the footage it looks like those who failed the night before had to get into the middle of the circle.. perhaps for a ritual cleansing.
by msb on Sep 17, 2009 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
But Lowe always has to get in the circle....
I’m thinking perhaps we’re overanalyzing; I don’t think they know what they’re doing, either.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
by section331 on Sep 17, 2009 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That is the cleansing factor-- the power of Lowe.
by msb on Sep 17, 2009 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It didn't cleanse much on Tuesday!
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
by section331 on Sep 17, 2009 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Last one eats the cracker?
What are we talking about again?
by d0nkey on Sep 17, 2009 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
That was an awesome video, thanks for sharing.
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
by EnglishMariner on Sep 17, 2009 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like when Jak notices the camera.
Fuck Anaheim.
by Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth on Sep 17, 2009 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I always feel like I'm taking
Pictures of animals at the zoo…
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
by section331 on Sep 17, 2009 8:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I love the Mariners bullpen.
They remind me that my heart still works.
...and now I'm here
by Librocrat on Sep 17, 2009 2:50 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Uh.....
What are they doing? Was that today?
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
by section331 on Sep 17, 2009 9:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yup.
Apparently, sitting on each other to will the game forward.
It didn’t work— dunno if they kept it up as the bullpen was decimated.
by msb on Sep 17, 2009 9:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That is some hardcore man-snuggling.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
by section331 on Sep 17, 2009 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
its very cold there
Buster Posey shot my dog.
I thanked him.
by Bballpitcher2 on Sep 19, 2009 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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