23-39, Chart
by Jeff Sullivan on Jun 12, 2010 8:10 PM PDT
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Biggest Contribution: Ichiro, +9.5%
Biggest Suckfest: Jose Lopez, -17.2% (or Cliff Lee, if you include his hitting)
Most Important AB: Lopez double play, -16.2%
Most Important Pitch: Gonzalez homer, -18.8%
Total Contribution by Pitcher(s): -20.5%
Total Contribution by Lineup: -29.5%
Total Contribution by Opposition: 0.0%
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Maple, ash.
Seriously, not much on the free agent market.
This joke required less than three jumps of logic to understand. You're losing your touch.
by .Taylor on Jun 12, 2010 8:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Sometimes I show my benevolence by slumming it with the commoners.
by Matthew on Jun 12, 2010 8:32 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Nope
What special?
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
by the other side on Jun 12, 2010 8:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm not sure L-shaped cookies would retain their shape well once cooked.
Should we test this out?
Why wouldn't they?
They’d just be a little more rounded and fat.
by Jeff Sullivan on Jun 12, 2010 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions
If you rolled the dough thin, kinda like you did with play-dough as a kid
it would probably work perfectly. I’m making cookies later tonight, so I’m happy to give it a try.
Do you have an L-shaped cookie cutter?
We’re gonna need pictures. And some blue dye.
by Jeff Sullivan on Jun 12, 2010 9:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Exactly. My intuition says it would depend on how thin you made the cookies.
If you kept them thick, I think they would end up just looking like some fat half-crescent shape
Everybody make cookies of varying thickness and let's report back in the morning
by Jeff Sullivan on Jun 12, 2010 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions
One kind per person
No duplicates. Gotta be thorough.
by Jeff Sullivan on Jun 12, 2010 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll take peanut butter.
Peanut butter is Sex. Any questions?
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
by the other side on Jun 12, 2010 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions
If you think peanut butter is sex then I predict you will be disappointed when Jeff gives you frosting
by Aaron Campeau on Jun 12, 2010 9:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm pretty sure you just solved my problem.
Peanut Butter → Cookies
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
by the other side on Jun 12, 2010 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions
This is like one of those word picture things right?
A cookie cutter loss?
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
What? No goddamn frosting?
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
by the other side on Jun 12, 2010 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll give you some frosting you ungrateful son of a bitch
by Jeff Sullivan on Jun 12, 2010 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions 6 recs
Goddamn right.
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
by the other side on Jun 12, 2010 9:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe that person thinks you have a memory problem.
You should look into that. And make sure to write it down if you do, in case you forget because of your memory problem.
I don't remember what you were talking about.
I think I might have a memory problem.
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
by the other side on Jun 12, 2010 8:37 PM PDT up reply actions
In 2008, we ended with 101 losses. The Nat's had 102. Had we been swept by Oakland, we'd have Strasburg now.
I mean, theoretically.
Son of a bitch.
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
by the other side on Jun 12, 2010 8:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I sure hope we can keep talking about this several times every day
by Jeff Sullivan on Jun 12, 2010 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions
*every thread.
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
by the other side on Jun 12, 2010 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions
We've lost five in a row and the Pirates have lost seven.
Fuckers.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
They've been doing it longer.
More experienced.
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
by the other side on Jun 12, 2010 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions
If they win before us, I'm moving to Missouri and becoming a Royals fan.
At least they are consistent…
I'm living your dream.
The Mariners are still #1 but I have tried to throw myself behind my new hometown team. Your beer intake will increase exponentially (not that this is always a bad thing).
No matter where you go, there you are.
Why do you think the LL beer threads are so well-informed?
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Jun 12, 2010 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
By September we might have to have some hard liquor threads.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Is it sad that I want this team to lose as much as possible?
I really, really want that 1st round draft pick. Get better, Baltimore.
I really don't want the first pick.
There are already enough people calling for Wak’s and Z’s heads on a platter. Having the bottom fall out on this season more than it already has will only fuel that fire.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Are you kidding?
I want that first pick so bad that I’m just rooting for individual players at this point. People like Saunders, Ichiro!, FranklinFranklin, Felix, Figgy; people who can contribute in the future. People not named Rob Johnson. I really don’t care about the team anymore. As a matter of fact, I want the team to lose because Anthony Rendon is totally worth having the worst record in the league.
On that note, Jeff/Matthew, I am going to beg for the RendonMeter, a measure of the worst 5 teams in the league. On second thought, that would be kind of detrimental if your blog was actively rooting against the team, but yea. Just throwing the idea out there.
M's fan in the Bay, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Jun 12, 2010 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions
No, I'm not kidding.
I’ve been a Mariners fan long enough that I’m sick of competing for the #1 pick. I’m so tired of having the bottom fall out on a season and then looking towards next year in June. I want to see improvement so people know Z’s vision and plan for the team is on the right track. I know it, most of the fans on this site know it, but the vast masses of people who “clap, clap, clap, clap” whenever they are told don’t and if ownership has shown us anything it’s those people that matter most to them.
I want to see regular playing time for some of the few young guys on the roster we have that could possibly have a role in 2011 and beyond, but seeing them fail to the point that we limp to the worst record in the league after we had some hope going into this season is not a blueprint for future success for this franchise. A 1st pick next year means Jack’s neck is on the block and if the team doesn’t pull a 2007/2009 out of their ass next year he’s done. I don’t want to see him go into panic mode with so little money (presumably) to spend this off season and so many holes. He’s got a plan, most of us here buy into it, but a complete collapse in 2010 will do nothing to help that plan or prove Z is the guy to get the job done in the minds of most paying fans.
No matter where you go, there you are.
by KC Mariner on Jun 12, 2010 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
The biggest difference between this season and most preceding it, at least for me.
The big money contracts. The majority of these guys are being paid market value for projected production, and the rest are team control players. For Felix’ and Guti’s projections, the contracts favor the team. Nearly all the rest of these jokers can take a hike and we’re still right here, certainly not much worse. Big, big difference between now and ’08, at least in my estimation.
I think we're in a much better position too.
While having the worst record in the league would come with the silver lining of getting Rendon I think it would be case of winning the battle (Yay! #1 pick for us!) but losing the war (front office and fanbase support for Z). The ownership has shown repeatedly that they are very sensitive to the casual fanbase and those fans aren’t going to grasp the finer points of building a team, only that they were told we’d be good this year and we sucked and someone should be blamed.
No matter where you go, there you are.
I sure hope we can keep talking about this several times every day
by Jeff Sullivan on Jun 12, 2010 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions
We're nothing if not good at killing memes and beating dead horses.
Because we’re rebels. Accurate, intelligent, introspective rebels. And damn proud of it my friend. - CapSea
A Work in Progress
Worked with Strasburg.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Jun 13, 2010 2:00 AM PDT up reply actions
Strasburg was Strasburg.
It’s not cute with Rendon.
by Aaron Campeau on Jun 13, 2010 2:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Right.
Strasburg is a once in a generation pitcher, so it’s not the same.
also we had a chance of catching the Nats, whereas at this point I’d expect us to probably land the #3 pick.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
I went through my whole day with the game barely registering in my mind.
Life is beautiful down here on the tropic.
Is that the light at the end of the tunnel, or the headlights of an oncoming train?
See: Every Non Cliff/Felix start.
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
by the other side on Jun 12, 2010 8:46 PM PDT up reply actions
The odd couple?
M’s hold 30-minute players-only, closed-door meeting after fifth straight loss. Cliff Lee and Milton Bradley called the meeting.
I liked this at first.
Cliff Lee is awesome. He’s a joy to watch pitch and now he’s stepping up to take a visible leadership role on the team. That made me happy. Then I remembered he’s probably going to leave us soon and it made me sad. This season is seriously testing my love for this team.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Or a cookie.
Jeff is making cookies for everyone.
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
by the other side on Jun 12, 2010 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions
No I'm not
Everyone is making cookies for science.
by Jeff Sullivan on Jun 12, 2010 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, like I'm giving any of mine away.
Stay the hell back.
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
by the other side on Jun 12, 2010 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
You have no idea what's going on in the clubhouse.
You have no idea what they’re talking about in those meetings. If there are people on the team that thinks they might help, why wouldn’t you want them to try? It seems like a really bizarre thing to get upset about.
by Aaron Campeau on Jun 12, 2010 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I think you need a cookie too.
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
by the other side on Jun 12, 2010 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Jeff is being a bitch about frosting anyway.
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
by the other side on Jun 12, 2010 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions
"Most of us are out of here at the end of this year. Up high!"
...and now I'm here
I must be an idiot,
cause I keep thinking maybe the M’s could talk Cliff into staying. God this team sucks!
Not encumbered by the thought process.
by Bart's Evil Twin on Jun 12, 2010 9:33 PM PDT reply actions
Given the supposed depth of the draft next year
as well as teams’ increasing reluctance to give up prospects for rentals, it might behoove us to hold on to Cliff.
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