2010 Seattle Mariners Top Ten Unremarkable Moments: #10
by Jeff Sullivan on Nov 15, 2010 10:40 PM PST
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On Wednesday, July 7th, the 34-49 Seattle Mariners took on the 38-46 Kansas City Royals. It was an evening showdown before nearly 17,000 fans at Safeco Field, with a recently activated Doug Fister taking on Kyle Davies, who at the time had a 5.64 ERA.
The Royals scored in the top of the first on a walk, a single, and a sac fly. The Mariners came back to even things up an inning later on a solo homer by Casey Kotchman. The score remained 1-1 entering the bottom of the third, when the Mariners had their tenth-most unremarkable moment of the 2010 season.
Leading off the third against Davies, shortstop Josh Wilson got ahead 2-0 when he took two balls low. He then got a high fastball, swung, and lifted a lazy fly ball into right-center field, where it was tracked down by David DeJesus for an easy catch. Wilson was retired, and he returned to the dugout.
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It’s like it was yesterday
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Nov 15, 2010 10:43 PM PST reply actions
Subject line please.
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Nov 16, 2010 10:23 AM PST up reply actions
This is a fucking brilliant idea.
...and now I'm here
by CapSea on Nov 15, 2010 10:48 PM PST reply actions 4 recs
Just about everything Josh Wilson did was an unremarkable moment
Y’know, if these unremarkable moments get progressively more unremarkable as we continue in the series, it’s hard to see what could top this one.
I'm guessing
- is something like boarding a plane after getting swept in August.
by spencer peaty on Nov 15, 2010 11:12 PM PST up reply actions
Perhaps you have forgotten about one Jose Lopez.
...and now I'm here
Everything about Jose Lopez is remarkable.
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
By default that would make him unremarkable.
...and now I'm here
Remarkability doesn't work that way.
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
by joof on Nov 16, 2010 9:23 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Perhaps you have forgotten about stranding one Ichiro Suzuki.
...and now I'm here
I think that goes without saying.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, he's like Aubrey Huff, but can't hit as well or field his position.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s ---
Bochy: WHO GIVES A SHIT? IT'S WHATEVER I SAY IT IS BECAUSE I WON A WORLD SERIES.
Is it possible for Jeff to stop being awesome? I don't think it is.
-Brett G.
-Daily Evergreen Staff Sports Writer
by Brett the 49er on Nov 15, 2010 10:52 PM PST reply actions
That kind of enthusiasm does not fit the subject matter.
...and now I'm here
by CapSea on Nov 15, 2010 10:58 PM PST up reply actions 4 recs
I don't remember that moment like it was yesterday
I was somewhere when that happened, and had to keep doing what I was doing because it was so unremarkable. I wasn’t reminded of that time when something much the same happened, and all the rest of that day, I didn’t reflect on what an unremarkable play that was.
by nathaniel dawson on Nov 15, 2010 11:33 PM PST reply actions 6 recs
Wow.
I’m not sure there is anything remarkable about this moment at all. You’re saying that there are 9 moments that are more unremarkable than this?
Look at my website. Look at it. || I had some other text here but then the San Francisco Giants won the World Series
Amazing that we've gotten nineteen remarks on something which was supposedly unremarkable.
I guess that’s part of why this was #10?
If I was a hungry man with a gun in my hand and some promises to keep...
I can't imagine
9 more cliffhangers like this!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Nov 16, 2010 6:29 AM PST up reply actions
I'm looking forward to a Brian Sweeney 1-1 sinker
that starts off the plate outside to a lefty and continues drifting toward the righty batter’s box. This pitch will rank just ahead of a Jason Vargas changeup that does the same but mirrored.
d'oh
I meant David Pauley. They’re both just so unremarkable my hands went numb while I was typing this.
by tsunamijesus on Nov 16, 2010 8:21 AM PST up reply actions
SWUNG ON AND BELTED.
This is the funniest thing I’ve read on how much this team sucked.
I can’t wait to see what comes next. I nominate any one of Casey Kotchman’s second-pitch groundouts with RISP.
I am completely whelmed with indifference over the ranking of this play.
I believe the ranking is too equal to what I would have rated it.
Too soon
I might be able to laugh at this next spring, but right now I feel like I’m sinking back into the 2010 offenseless daily grind… I can’t breathe, help…
Just relax
Become one with the mediocrity. That’s right, just relax, it’s not going to hurt you. I promise. Yeah…that’s right. There you go. See?
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
This is why I love baseball
A boring game, two teams that were already out of the race, a crap pitcher facing a replacement-level hitter….and still you get moments like these. THIS is why we keep following the team. No one would have predicted that this random 2-0 pitch would lead to one of the defining moments of the season, but here we are.
I saw a kid down the street a few weeks ago who did a quick, jerky, twist motion JUST LIKE Wilson’s swing on this play. It’s possible he was trying to get away from a bee, but I think he, like thousands of kids in the area, was reliving this moment. I remember aping a Mike Moore throw-to-first-after-fielding-a-comebacker-in-1986, pretending I could hear Dave Niehaus’ voice as I did it.
by marc w on Nov 16, 2010 9:54 AM PST reply actions 11 recs
They always say that when you go to a game you'll see something that you've never seen before
and this is a shining example. Thank you for firing up the nostalginator.
You are remarkably unremarkable Jeff.
You’re a writing paradox in this series.
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
If I don't make it through this, tell my wife I said "hello".
"Simply put, Dave Niehaus was why Marconi invented radio."
by Thingray on Nov 16, 2010 11:32 AM PST reply actions 9 recs
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