Saturday, September 13, 2003
SHORTS
Two great KJR numbers here before I get to Friday's local high school action (assisted by the BREMERTON, not "West Sound," Sun).
Dick Fain had a bumper playing the other day about how the Mariners brass doesn't care what happens as long as they get this ratio: 90-90-3. That's 90 wins, a $90M payroll, and 3 million fans. The rest is money in the bank and is all that they're willing to do.
Mitch Levy did a little research (and I'm checking it right now). He thought it seemed like Rhodes never gets out the first batter he faces in every appearance anymore. Since the break, Arthur Rhodes has had his first batter on base in 10 of his 19 appearances. Here's the scoring, I may be off: 1B (Jul 18), 9 (Jul 20), 4 (Jul 21), K (Jul 24), HR (Jul 28), looking K (Jul 31), 6 (Aug 3), E4 (Aug 7), BB (Aug 10), BB (Aug 12), 7 (Aug 14), 1B (Aug 20), 6 (Aug 23), 3 (Aug 25), 1-3 (Aug 26), 4-3 (Aug 28), HR (Sept 2), 1B (Sept 5), 1B (Sept 9). I counted 9 of 19 appearances. Eight were strictly his fault. So the opposition's first batter against Rhodes has a .421 on-base average (.353 batting average) against Rhodes with four singles, two walks, and two homers. That's not quite as bad as myself or Mitch thought, but it's still putrid. One of those homers is the Huff homer in Tampa Bay. The July 28 homer was a Palmeiro bomb.
Now, last night's local high school football scores...
Skyview 42, B-town 0. Sez McKnight: "I still thought we did a lot better offensively than we did last week, but we spent a lot of time playing defense." It should be noted that the Knights scored 13 points last week against Foss and played BETTER on offense this week by scoring zero. Such is how it usually goes in Knightville, when the story starts off with, "[t]railing just 14-0 at halftime..." By the way, Skyview had over 500 passing yards, and Bremerton had 120 TOTAL yards.
O'Dea 21, Central Kitsap 13. I have to say whoever is the AD at CK pulled a coup by somehow getting O'Dea on the non-league schedule. They lost an a late interception, but hey, they didn't get whooped.
Foster 12, Klahowya 7. Klahowya has put up some decent seasons the last few years since finally getting put into 4A-free (2A/3A) play. They lose a close low-scoring one here.
Bainbridge 21, Squalicum 18. After getting pasted by North Kitsap last week, the Island crew beats Squalicum, a high school of whose location I have no idea.
Steilacoom 60, Chimacum 0. Now we B-towners don't know a lot about Chimacum, but we really don't have a need to. SO all I'll say about this game is "OUCH."
Port Townsend 75, North Mason 9. Well, this puts a damper on the North Mason season, eh? Holy crap. This is a 2A team pounding the lights out of a 3A team here. PT racked up over 400 yards of offense. That's 100 short of Skyview against Bremerton though. Try again, PT.
North Kitsap 40, Kelso 14. Vikes QB Jared Prince threw for 200 yards and three TDs and Nic Stearns ran 19 times for 119 yards. They're sitting pretty and coach Jerry Parrish is on win #199.
And saving the best for last...
Snohomish 28, South Kitsap 26. South eats it. With a minute left in the 3rd, South was up 26-14. Jeff Rodland went nailed 6 of 10 passes for 170 yards and two tuochdowns IN THE FOURTH QUARTER. THAT is clutch by Snohomish (who had a HUGE fight in the lunchroom the other day, much bigger than any fight that I saw at Bremerton) and THAT is (dare I say it) a CHOKE JOB by South. And they needed one because they're probably going to pound the innards out of Bremerton next week on B-town turf. Again, such is the life of a B-towner...root for the other guys to lose because you're doubtful that your guys can win. Result: celebrating a South loss.
Garcia against North Kitsap choke artist Aaron Sele and his 0-for-career-in-the-postseason arm. Here's to the Mariners taking Sele to the shed out back. Cheers.
Dick Fain had a bumper playing the other day about how the Mariners brass doesn't care what happens as long as they get this ratio: 90-90-3. That's 90 wins, a $90M payroll, and 3 million fans. The rest is money in the bank and is all that they're willing to do.
Mitch Levy did a little research (and I'm checking it right now). He thought it seemed like Rhodes never gets out the first batter he faces in every appearance anymore. Since the break, Arthur Rhodes has had his first batter on base in 10 of his 19 appearances. Here's the scoring, I may be off: 1B (Jul 18), 9 (Jul 20), 4 (Jul 21), K (Jul 24), HR (Jul 28), looking K (Jul 31), 6 (Aug 3), E4 (Aug 7), BB (Aug 10), BB (Aug 12), 7 (Aug 14), 1B (Aug 20), 6 (Aug 23), 3 (Aug 25), 1-3 (Aug 26), 4-3 (Aug 28), HR (Sept 2), 1B (Sept 5), 1B (Sept 9). I counted 9 of 19 appearances. Eight were strictly his fault. So the opposition's first batter against Rhodes has a .421 on-base average (.353 batting average) against Rhodes with four singles, two walks, and two homers. That's not quite as bad as myself or Mitch thought, but it's still putrid. One of those homers is the Huff homer in Tampa Bay. The July 28 homer was a Palmeiro bomb.
Now, last night's local high school football scores...
Skyview 42, B-town 0. Sez McKnight: "I still thought we did a lot better offensively than we did last week, but we spent a lot of time playing defense." It should be noted that the Knights scored 13 points last week against Foss and played BETTER on offense this week by scoring zero. Such is how it usually goes in Knightville, when the story starts off with, "[t]railing just 14-0 at halftime..." By the way, Skyview had over 500 passing yards, and Bremerton had 120 TOTAL yards.
O'Dea 21, Central Kitsap 13. I have to say whoever is the AD at CK pulled a coup by somehow getting O'Dea on the non-league schedule. They lost an a late interception, but hey, they didn't get whooped.
Foster 12, Klahowya 7. Klahowya has put up some decent seasons the last few years since finally getting put into 4A-free (2A/3A) play. They lose a close low-scoring one here.
Bainbridge 21, Squalicum 18. After getting pasted by North Kitsap last week, the Island crew beats Squalicum, a high school of whose location I have no idea.
Steilacoom 60, Chimacum 0. Now we B-towners don't know a lot about Chimacum, but we really don't have a need to. SO all I'll say about this game is "OUCH."
Port Townsend 75, North Mason 9. Well, this puts a damper on the North Mason season, eh? Holy crap. This is a 2A team pounding the lights out of a 3A team here. PT racked up over 400 yards of offense. That's 100 short of Skyview against Bremerton though. Try again, PT.
North Kitsap 40, Kelso 14. Vikes QB Jared Prince threw for 200 yards and three TDs and Nic Stearns ran 19 times for 119 yards. They're sitting pretty and coach Jerry Parrish is on win #199.
And saving the best for last...
Snohomish 28, South Kitsap 26. South eats it. With a minute left in the 3rd, South was up 26-14. Jeff Rodland went nailed 6 of 10 passes for 170 yards and two tuochdowns IN THE FOURTH QUARTER. THAT is clutch by Snohomish (who had a HUGE fight in the lunchroom the other day, much bigger than any fight that I saw at Bremerton) and THAT is (dare I say it) a CHOKE JOB by South. And they needed one because they're probably going to pound the innards out of Bremerton next week on B-town turf. Again, such is the life of a B-towner...root for the other guys to lose because you're doubtful that your guys can win. Result: celebrating a South loss.
Garcia against North Kitsap choke artist Aaron Sele and his 0-for-career-in-the-postseason arm. Here's to the Mariners taking Sele to the shed out back. Cheers.
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