8/13: Open Game Thread
by Jeff Sullivan on Aug 13, 2010 3:45 PM PDT
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PrintSeattle Mariners at Cleveland Indians, Aug 13, 2010 4:05 PM PDT
Look for light content this weekend, as we've got a guest in town. And it just breaks my heart that I'll be missing most of this series.
Hopefully Michael Saunders gets a chance to barrel into Chris Gimenez at some point.
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I can't wait till the end of September when FSN just starts showing this instead of games.
by Robert on Aug 13, 2010 3:55 PM PDT reply actions 5 recs
He was advocating that because the third baseman was playing back with a rather large shift.
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ms could use a dp rite here
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by joof on Aug 13, 2010 4:20 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I bet you feel smart about that.
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by JY on Aug 13, 2010 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions
I like this nick name.
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by appleshampoo on Aug 13, 2010 5:09 PM PDT up reply actions
What is Tampa Bay wearing?
I feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football. Ugh
Jerseys.
I hope.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 4:58 PM PDT up reply actions
No one wants to see Joe Maddon with nothing.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 4:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm cool with it then.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:01 PM PDT up reply actions
He is the slowest person on the planet.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Goddamnit.
We don’t know that yet.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions
My life has new purpose.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, no one wanted to see how far we could drive the train thing into the ground.,
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Those are some....interesting new uni designs.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah!!
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by Griffin Cooper on Aug 13, 2010 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Samesies.
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by JY on Aug 13, 2010 5:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I liked Tuesdays.
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by JY on Aug 13, 2010 5:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I hate Tuesdays more than Mondays.
But just a little.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Wednesdays are the worrrrst
Monday and Tuesday you’re rested, Thursday and Friday you can smell the end of the week. Wednesdays have nothing going for them.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 13, 2010 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Thursdays are great.
I hate mornings and for some reason Tuesday is always my worst.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:18 PM PDT up reply actions
And I never come out of a weekend rested.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Mondays are the problem child you've learned to deal with and even find a bit endearing.
Tuesdays really serve no purpose
Everyone else we gave up sucked, so Valbuena was the obvious one to be upset about.
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So the lineup widget has Ja Wilson
I believe it’s Jo Wilson for the rest of the year.
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You think people could actually watch this game without drugs?
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Were you talking about the players?
I would imagine at least half of them are hammered.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:17 PM PDT up reply actions
They're in Cleveland, it's just water
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by Griffin Cooper on Aug 13, 2010 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions 4 recs
I remember when some people thought he had actually gotten good.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Turkey jerky?
Cause that stuff is fantastic.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:19 PM PDT up reply actions
How are you not mobbed by birds every time you go out?
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by JY on Aug 13, 2010 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions
At least you were made aware of the possible risks.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:28 PM PDT up reply actions
This is an interesting idea, however,
we’re doing pretty well despite the low number of base runners. According to baseball reference, we have 45 Outs on Base, which is basically any way of getting out on base besides caught stealing, picked off, or forced out as a runner, which puts us in a 4 way tie for second place in raw OOB.
Just to twist the knife, I calculated out OOB%. It is 3.6%, and leads all of major league baseball. MLB average is 2.8%
More fun with this fact.
Assume a base running out is worth -.36 runs, the approximate value of CS in the M’s run scoring environment (based on Tango’s markov calculator), the M’s have cost themselves 16.2 runs this season with base running outs, but that’s only about 4 more runs than an average team manages to botch away.
David Pauley is our starting pitcher.
No matter how many times it happens I can never believe its really true. Its like the exact opposite of how I felt when Cliff Lee would start for us.
That didn't look like a goddamn walk Loafie.
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He is so sexy in the field though.
Never get tired of it.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:35 PM PDT up reply actions
True dat.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Why the hell did you send him?
I fucking hate you Mariners
Damnit.
R.A. is one of my favorites.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:38 PM PDT up reply actions
To the pitcher of all people
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by Griffin Cooper on Aug 13, 2010 5:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Can we please just let Tui or Langerhans or anybody else play 1st.
I don’t even care about the defense anymore, I can’t handle watching Kotchman bat anymore.
I see no reason for Kotchman and Lopez to be around.
We have options that would probably hit better now and might actually be around in the future.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 13, 2010 5:40 PM PDT up reply actions
$$$$
We save money on Smoak and Ackley leaving them in AAA for a bit. Also, I’m pretty sure that both will do well to get some continued time in AAA.
It doesn't have to be Smackley, is the thing.
Mangini, Tui, Nelson, Carp.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 13, 2010 5:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Fair enough...
You think club house support for the management could be a reason? I mean, I think Lopez’s teammates like him.
I would imagine the reason is something like this.
Being nice to Kotch and Lopez by not DFAing them, not instilling fear in a bunch of players that they’re going to get cut, letting Tacoma’s players stay for their postseason, etc.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 13, 2010 5:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I sort of agree with the last one.
Their season matters more than ours.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 13, 2010 5:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Hmm, am I being an idiot? Someone explain this play to me
B.J. Upton walked, B.J. Upton to second on pitcher J. Guthrie’s throwing error
Walk and a passed ball, which he hustled down to first and then took second?
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Unless Guthrie picked up the ball and very clearly should have thrown him out but missed, I suppose.
Or it could just be a screwup by the Gameday thingy.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 13, 2010 5:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I would say Gameday screwup is far more likely
than any strange combination of baseball events that would conflate the two events together into one play.
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by appleshampoo on Aug 13, 2010 5:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Takes first on the walk, and notices the pitcher isn't paying attention and runs to second. Pitcher throughs it into the outfield because he has to hurry?
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Well they changed it on gameday
It was an error on a pickoff throw.
Yeah, makes more sense now.
And this discussion was more interesting than the game at hand.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 13, 2010 5:48 PM PDT up reply actions
He's basically Don.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Except for the asian thing.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 5:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Mariners baseball!
At least what it was supposed to be at seasons start.
That is more like we are used to.
Leadoff double from the no. 9 hitter and he doesn’t score.
Is David Pauley earning himself a paycheck?
Great line today… Good ERA, for what that’s worth. If he keeps this up he may get an MLB deal going into next spring. Hopefully with another team. But still, good for him.
Perhaps we need some variation on the Putz cockpunch.
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by JY on Aug 13, 2010 6:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Rinse, repeat
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by appleshampoo on Aug 13, 2010 6:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Josh Wilson could have more misleading hot streaks at the plate.
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by JY on Aug 13, 2010 6:31 PM PDT up reply actions
He's not incompetent, he's hurt.
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by JY on Aug 13, 2010 6:44 PM PDT up reply actions
He's one of the better shortstops in the league, defensively.
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Wait, no, that's not true.
Josh Wilson is replacement level, and so is Jack. Josh just costs $5m more.
Seriously, how can the Mariners win when he is on the team?
by seattle_since_81 on Aug 13, 2010 6:36 PM PDT up reply actions
JINX!
JINX!
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by JY on Aug 13, 2010 6:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I only said that he disagreed not that your comment was wrong
at that moment ;-)
That was such an exciting game.
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by the other side on Aug 13, 2010 6:38 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I think we've finally reached the point where a win feels exactly the same as a loss.
The only emotion I feel is relief that we are one game closer to the season ending.
I really don't want us to lose 100 games
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by Griffin Cooper on Aug 13, 2010 6:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey it's a Shelley Duncan!
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First major league win for Pauley
Yay, way to go M’s. Without your suck he would never have had this opportunity to fulfill a dream
by Kermit. on Aug 13, 2010 6:38 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I'm going to watch Huston vs. Pit now.
But the reason has to do with banned topics.
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