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9/27: Open Game Thread

By Jeff Sullivan

Lineup

Oakland Athletics @ Seattle Mariners

09/27/08 1:10 PM PDT

Oakland Athletics Seattle Mariners
Travis Buck - RF Ichiro Suzuki - RF
Aaron Cunningham - LF Yuniesky Betancourt - SS
Kurt Suzuki - C Raul Ibanez - "LF"
Jack Cust - DH Jose Lopez - 2B
Chris Denorfia - CF Miguel Cairo - 1B
Daric Barton - 1B Wladimir Balentien - CF
Bobby Crosby - SS Kenji Johjima - C
Jeff Baisley - 3B Matt Tuiasosopo - 3B
Cliff Pennington - 2B Rob Johnson - DH
W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2008 - Ryan Rowland-Smith 4-3 46 11 0 0 2 1 111.2 105 46 42 13 46 72 3.39 1.35

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2008 - Greg Smith 7-15 31 31 2 0 0 0 183.1 164 86 83 20 85 108 4.07 1.36

Not to bring a negative attitude into an RRS appearance, but - could someone please explain the whole Jose Lopez/first base thing that's going on? I'm trying not to get too upset on account of we don't know what the new GM is going to do, but on what planet does this make even the slightest lick of sense? They're aware that Lopez doesn't even like playing the position, right? Why am I hearing talk of this being a more permanent sort of switch? Why? Why?

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