2010 Seattle Mariners Top Ten Unremarkable Moments: #9
by Jeff Sullivan on Nov 16, 2010 3:08 PM PST
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At the beginning of August, the Mariners and Twins were headed in two very different directions. The M's had lost six games in a row to drop to a season-worst 27 games below .500. The Twins, meanwhile, had won seven in a row to pull to within a half-game of the AL Central division lead. The M's were old toast, and the Twins had new life as they set their sights on a playoff run.
That was the context of the August 1st matinee showdown at Target Field between the two teams, which saw Luke French go up against dominant young lefty Francisco Liriano. Both Justin Morneau and Joe Mauer were absent from the Minnesota lineup, but even so, they had a great advantage.
Liriano, unsurprisingly, was able to keep the M's off the board, striking out the side in both the second and fourth innings. But French, for his part, was also able to pitch well for a while against a depleted lineup, keeping the Twins scoreless into the fourth. It was then that the Mariners had their ninth-most unremarkable moment of the 2010 season.
The score was 0-0, and following a Michael Cuddyer double play, DH Jason Kubel came to the plate with two outs and none on. Behind in the count 0-1, Kubel got a high-inside fastball at 89 miles per hour, swung, and fouled it back off the screen.
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This comment raises a unremarkable question.
Are the top 10 ordered? Should I consider #1 to be nine times less remarkable (or more unremarkable) than this one?
I believe it's like the Richter scale
Number 1 is 10000000000 times more unremarkable than number 10.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Shhhhh!
Don’t let next year’s marketing plan out of the bag too soon!
by doublemazaa on Nov 16, 2010 3:59 PM PST up reply actions 6 recs
This is good
Very good.
"...and Kareem Jackson will fall down..."
Oh man, I can wait for the television broadcast of this countdown on PBS with Garrison Keillor as host.
Introductions by Ben Stein and James Lipton! Interviews with Doug Sisk and Rance Mulliniks.
I remember this - this was the moment when I knew we had a chance
Liriano was great, but a twin killing and then French comes right into Kubel’s kitchen and forces him to foul it off… we were in this thing and could win it with some doily run and win one of those games that frustrates the opponent for weeks/months.
I was arguing with a friend about it – I thought this showed French was pitching tough and could keep the Mauerless Twins off the board. My friend thought this was a FB in a near-perfect location and French STILL couldn’t get a swinging strike. We bet a beer on the game.
The M’s were shut out , they struck out 11 times against Liriano, and I lost a bet, but in this one fleeting, apparently non-predictive moment, I had hope. Thank you, Luke French.
by marc w on Nov 16, 2010 4:13 PM PST reply actions 12 recs
#1's going to be Jason Vargas going #2 in the Mariner's clubhouse toilet
and not flushing, isn’t it?
Going #1 would be less remarkable.
Well, actually, I guess I don’t know much about Jason Vargas’s bathroom habits.
I was at this game and yet I still don't remember this.
Truly unremarkable.
Wait.. no this wasn't the game I was at this one was at Target Field.
Did we have this same matchup at Safeco Field? I remember it was definitely French against the Twins anyway.
What is the pinnacle of unremarkableness?
Will #1 have no comments and no recs? Will it be too unremarkable to make this list?
"The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it." -Banksy
And isn't this inherently contradictory?
Can they really be the top 10 unremarkable moments if Jeff is remarking on them?
by The Ancient Mariner on Nov 17, 2010 6:08 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
In think I've got this figured out. By #6 I will reveal your formula. I just want to make sure.
These first two seemed self-evident, but it might be the next one will give it away completely. I’m still going to wait for #6 because I don’t think anyone else is going to figure out what you are doing.
I love how you are attaching a .gif on these
How many people have watched both of them multiple times now? raises hand
The Seattle Mariners Marketing and Promotions department has announced that it has hired Lookout Landing's Jeff Sullivan to identify the 10 Most Mariners Moments from 2010.
Each moment will be commemorated in a commercial for the 2011 season.
In related news, the promotions for 2011 will be scaled back to generate a more appropriately subdued level of enthusiasm in the stands. These promotions will include replacing the popular Bobble head series with Wobble head dolls that feature less head action to correspond to the action on the field. The Ichiro Silver Slugger bat promotion will be replaced by a Jack Wilson bat night. The balls for Ball Night will be signed by bullpen coach Jaime Navarro and pitching coordinator Rick Waits. The caps for Cap Night will not feature just one player, but will be actual sweat stained caps collected from players throughout the major and minor league system when they need to have their caps replaced. There will also be a David Pauley Garbage Train Car to commemorate garbage from large California cities being hauled to the Northwest for disposal. Welcome to your 2011 Seattle Mariners.
by Droid Rage on Nov 17, 2010 5:21 AM PST reply actions 6 recs
I don't know how it can get more unremarkable than this.
But then I didn’t see how it could get more unremarkable than #10, and this one blows that one out of the water.
I’m on the edge of my seat. Er, squarely in the middle of my seat.
Wow.
I have no idea how you’ll manage to get less remarkable 8 more times.
Dont forget to pace yourself.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
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This one I have to disagree with. The game was still close, and therefore for 2010, remarkable.
by Mariner Optimist on Nov 22, 2010 8:08 PM PST reply actions
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