Monday, September 01, 2003
CALM BEFORE THE STORM
So I sit on the night before the Mariners' 6-game east coast swing, wondering about the possible events of the next week. If there's one advantage the Mariners have here over a torrid Oakland team (11-2 since the Mulder injury), it's that the Mariners are a good road team (37-28) and the A's are a subpar (32-34) road team. Here's to hoping the Mariner rotation can keep it up from what they did the last time through and here's to hoping the M's bats can get some clutch hits here and there. If they can gain one or two games on the A's on this trip, it'll be great to have heading into the divisional play free-for-all. I'm hoping for a 5-1 trip out of the Mariners. If they run the table, great. If they go 4-2, I'll be hoping for a little more, especially if Oakland does the same. I'm not conceding to the friggin Wild Card until the Mariners are mathematically eliminated from the West title.
As I say ouch on that Seahawk note that Jeremy posted before me (Chris Terry just lost $250k on Labor Day...that's gotta make his wife happy), KJR (hey, they get me through work every day) is STILL lamenting about the Husky loss on Saturday. Everything's getting questioned; playcalling, substitutions, Neuheisel's crappy recruiting on the way out, etc. The aforementioned David Locke dug up a stat: in the Huskies' last 10 games, they are averaging a scant 2.3 yds/carry. OUCH!!
Tomorrow at 4:15 PT, Pineiro against Vic Zambrano (the guy who walks people like crazy). If I had my way, every Mariner batter would take the first pitch (and possibly the first strike) the first time through the lineup. Make him throw a strike.
And I have just heard that Drew Henson has apparently seen the light and will ditch baseball for the NFL? I'm glad he finally came to this realization after the Yankees gave him a big huge middle finger with the Aaron Boone trade.
Locke and Elise Woodward are loaded with facts tonight. They're going over Eric Gagne's sick stats. Gagne is making $550k this year. Elise comes up and says "[multiply] that by 16 and you get Kazuhiro (Sasaki)." Locke says "a little more and you get Benitez." Life just isn't fair.
As I say ouch on that Seahawk note that Jeremy posted before me (Chris Terry just lost $250k on Labor Day...that's gotta make his wife happy), KJR (hey, they get me through work every day) is STILL lamenting about the Husky loss on Saturday. Everything's getting questioned; playcalling, substitutions, Neuheisel's crappy recruiting on the way out, etc. The aforementioned David Locke dug up a stat: in the Huskies' last 10 games, they are averaging a scant 2.3 yds/carry. OUCH!!
Tomorrow at 4:15 PT, Pineiro against Vic Zambrano (the guy who walks people like crazy). If I had my way, every Mariner batter would take the first pitch (and possibly the first strike) the first time through the lineup. Make him throw a strike.
And I have just heard that Drew Henson has apparently seen the light and will ditch baseball for the NFL? I'm glad he finally came to this realization after the Yankees gave him a big huge middle finger with the Aaron Boone trade.
Locke and Elise Woodward are loaded with facts tonight. They're going over Eric Gagne's sick stats. Gagne is making $550k this year. Elise comes up and says "[multiply] that by 16 and you get Kazuhiro (Sasaki)." Locke says "a little more and you get Benitez." Life just isn't fair.
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