Woof

I obviously wasn’t there and I don’t know what happened, but I’ve had that feeling where I thought that I was clearly not the right person to do a given job on a given day, and I wasn’t going to learn what I needed to learn within in the next 10 minutes.

But for me, I was entertained and fascinated by the epic 4th inning meltdown. Although, I did not pay attention to the rest of the game until the final inning. According to Kirby Arnold, this team hasn’t given up 10 runs in an inning since May 8, 2003, or 10 hits in an inning since May 28, 2000. So yeah, ironically, the last time we’ve experience a meltdown of this magnitude the team was actually good (+90 wins).

0 ABs!

lemon ricotta or otherwise.

I miss Dave. He could even make games like this tolerable.

If any fans have ever deserved a refund, it was tonight at Safeco. That fuckin sucked.

The only people left at the ballpark were drunks and insane fans like me. There was chanting (without scoreboard prompting), screaming, rally caps and all manner of good fandom and energy happening. Aside from the tribute, that was the best part of it by a long shot and one of the better Seattle fan moments I’ve been around recently.

After the pre-game hoopla, I turned to the guy sitting next to me and said “I could leave right now and be happy.”

Then of course the final of that game was like 16-2, but I still felt that way when I left.

Hopefully at least a few people left this game feeling that same way.

after the first half of that game I’d have settled for something out of the infield.

Decided to tune in about an hour so later on, and when I saw the score I reactively said, “Holy shit.” I wasn’t even thinking about it, it just…happened. Never did that before.

I’ve always been aware of my fandom for a franchise that’s sucked for a while now, but this game is the first time I felt legitimate embarrassment in being an M’s fan. A win today would be fantastic.

and the fucking team goes tits up. Also, I think its time the Mariners finally addressed the clubhouse chemistry situation by getting some good players and winning some fucking ball games.

is, until that inning, Wilson looked absolutely fantastic at second base.

from MLB.com "Wilson found himself on the 15-day disabled list after feeling a strain behind his right knee on May 5 against the Rays, and he pulled his right hamstring during an at-bat with Double-A West Tennessee on a rehab assignment May 15, leaving his return further in doubt.

“There’s nothing I can do to stay positive right now, absolutely nothing,” he said. “I have my family here, and that’s nice, but there’s nothing you can do. You can’t help your team. Being here is tough because you want to cheer them on, but at the same time you can’t really do anything … This is when you actually look at your career and if it’s going to last too much longer,” he said. "

Do it!

I guess it was sort of lucky that we couldn’t go to the game. Even if my rational mind tells me we’re probably not this bad (last five games, obviously no major league team is as bad as that 4th inning), it’s pretty fucking demoralizing to see.

Perfect game, probably.

First time I’d ever wished I’d stayed home and skipped a home opener. I thought last year’s opener was jaw-droppingly not fun to watch, but then this game came along to just shit on everyone’s sandwich.

Vargas’ outing was perhaps what surprised me the most. I already know the offense is garbage, but man what a bad time for Vargas to have an off night. I mean, it was one game, but wow things already look far too similar to last year. I hope I’m wrong.

Also, last time I’ll say this, but I think it’s really lame that the team isn’t wearing the teal hats with their stupid teal uniforms, like this Either do it right or don’t it at all. The navy alternates are 100x better.

…here it is!