Saturday, November 22, 2003
THE FIRST DOG DAY
Yet another installment of Mariner instant message chat between Jeremy and David, your writers for Sports and B's. Emotions are raw, so if anything seems too wacky, that's why. It wasn't as wacky at the time.
If you need me to set the scene for you, I'll just say it was the day after the trade deadline, the White Sox beat the Mariners 12-1 and Freddy Garcia couldn't get out of the 2nd inning, note the start time of the chat -- the game was STILL GOING ON. Any additions, once again, will be in bracketed italics. To the wayback machine! (Posts and subjects slightly edited in some spots to preserve continuity)
Session Start: Fri Aug 01 19:57:02 2003
Jeremy: WAIVE FREDDY
David: yep. raised his era by 0.40
David: dude, i was wanting a 20-0 game
Jeremy: the m's/white sox game is on wgn tomorrow night, and frankly, i don't give a $h!+
David: well, just be thankful garcia isn't pitching tomorrow so you won't have to see his sorry ass
Jeremy: did freddy get booed very loudly?
David: pretty loud, but half the upper deck in right field is missing. hope the mariner mgmt likes seeing that
Jeremy: on a SUMMER FRIDAY NIGHT...NICEEEEE
Jeremy: i'm not even bothering to open up the radio feed....it's not worth my time
David: great column, by the way
Jeremy: thanks
David: mariners with six batters and six outs...great stuff
Jeremy: yeah, really great
David: mateo should just throw all fastballs
Jeremy: why the hell not. this game is so over
Jeremy: but david, we have REY SANCHEZ to bring us back!!!
David: maybe he could experiment with a knuckleball or something. or hell, have rey pitch...he'll do better than freddy
Jeremy: hey, why not....give Hawk Harrelson some good material, why not. sure
David: i want rey sanchez five days from now
Jeremy: you could even have captain plastic go out there and throw a shutout inning [come on, you all know you've seen Captain Plastic at the Safe]
Jeremy: "Standing Pat has overtaken Seafair as the big summer activity in Seattle." [I forgot what article that was quoting...]
David: where was the b-town connection in that? capt plastic?
Jeremy: cassandra (last name protected) follows him around [Cass was a student at our HS]
David: okay, i thought it was cass (surname)
David: the yanks/a's are tied at 1
Jeremy: hooray...GO YANKEES
Jeremy: the yankees NEED to sweep this series
David: niehaus just brought up the possibility of a white sox/cubs world series...and i vomited and then laughed because that will never happen
Jeremy: i wanna say this: for all of those idiots out there who think that freddy garcia isn't worth aaron boone, they are so wrong
Jeremy: ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? [pertaining to the all-CHI World Series topic]
Jeremy: Niehaus said that? Wow, EVEN HE has mailed in this season.
David: dude, i just found out i had class at central with dick fain's bro-in-law...i had him in my english 101 class [Dick Fain of KJR]
Jeremy: woah...damn
Jeremy: not to toot my own horn, but i love this line in my blog:
Jeremy: "Hell, his best friends are Benjamin, Ulysses, and Andrew"
Jeremy: referring to Howard Lincoln
David: ron: i wonder if freddy is tipping his pitches [Fairly said this]
Jeremy: 100s, 50s, 20s.....they are good to howard lincoln indeed, and he won't share them
Jeremy: freddy garcia is so f---ed up in the head he would pitch poorly for boston too. that is why i am so pissed off that he didn't get traded
Jeremy: the mariners should do the right thing and try to waive him. i'm sure SOMEBODY would pick him up
David: the pirates scored 6 runs in the 9th to beat the rockies...the mariners could score six runs today and they would lose
Jeremy: that is a sobering thought
Jeremy: earth to the casual mariner fan: these aren't the tigers. this is a red hot white sox team....but the mariners should beat them anyway
Jeremy: i dunno, if the red sox were to actually win the world series this year, i could have a week-long vomit party. or the cubs for that matter
David: dude, the braves would make me vomit like hell because i still hate them to death
Jeremy: the braves winning too would be sickening. but the red sox and cubs haven't won since before my grandparents were born
Jeremy: 1918 and 1908. for the record, my oldest grandparent wasn't born til 1924
Jeremy: niehaus bringing up a white sox/cubs world series is just sickening to think about
David: cameron hit the wall hard trying to run after carlos lee's home run. 8-0, by the way
Jeremy: carlos lee hitting a HR in safeco field....shocking
David: perish the thought. but they won't have james baldwin mowing the mariners down though
Jeremy: if i can do anything about human time, i would bring back the 1997 mariner offense and mesh them with the 2000-2003 mariner pitching staff and we have something
Jeremy: bartolo colon >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> james baldwin
David: i wonder how good the 97 offense woud have been at safeco
Jeremy: they probably wouldn't have hit 244 home runs as a team, but they would have over 200
David: i would hate myself if i had tickets for this mariner game, this absolute dog of a mariner game
David: and i just know if the mariners come back, they will lose 7-6, or they will tie it and then blow it
Jeremy: dude, you know my theory of never leaving a game? well, if we were there, we would just leave. yep, i said it, i would leave
David: dude, i would raise hell. this is where hopefully we could scare up some paper and a marker and write some antagonistic signs
Jeremy: i would ask nicely for a pen from a nearby fan. since it's seattle, they would give it to you.
Jeremy: then you buy a scorecard...and then write on the scorecard itself
Jeremy: biono, something like that [to those unprivy to it, "biono" is short for the phrase "but I don't know."
Jeremy: or, you go to a nearby souvenir stand, jack some of the cardboard that's behind the stand, and write on that
Jeremy: or go to the nearest trash can and there will be cardboard stacked up against it
David: mateo's struck out six...wonder who the starter should have been tonight?
Jeremy: hmmmm. aw, but melvin doesnt care. he's on autopilot now
David: if you said REY SANCHEZ, you're RIGHT
Jeremy: geezus, these espn posters are just hysterical: TITLE: I don't care if the M's make....MESSAGE: ....the playoffs. I just want them to be competitive and fill the seats, and selling 7 dollar beers.
Jeremy: you wanna know what the worst thing about this game is? the fact that Darrin Jackson is calling this game for fox sports chicago
Jeremy: 2-1 yankees. wow, what is this? david dellucci is 2-for-2
David: yippee
Jeremy: scored the 2nd run
David: that may be the only good thing about tonight
Jeremy: yeah david, midseason acquisitions are overrated
David: you know, i hate that i have finally noticed that dave and ron move to the radio side in the bottom of the 5th. now i have to hear that dumbass homer rizzs
Jeremy: it's terrible
David: my goodness, the booth guys are friggin fixed on the possibility of freddy tipping his pitches. they're saying mateo is throwing some of the same pitches garcia did, but the only one that got tagged was the lee dong
Jeremy: they are such jackmonkeys
Jeremy: diamond club update? green with envy yet?
David: a couple seats above the "ajinomoto" sign are empty, but i haven't looked back a couple rows yet
Jeremy: good deal
David: bartolo colon has a one-hitter through 5...YEAH!!!! WAIVRE WIRE, BABY!!!
Jeremy: VIVA LA WAIVERS
David: IT'S SO BAD I SPELLED IT THE FRENCH WAY!!!
Jeremy: Midseason acquisitions are overrated: Shannon Stewart was 3-for-5 tonight with a HR, double and 2 runs batted in.....
Jeremy: JAMES BALDWIN got the SAVE for the Twins tonight.....unreal
David: VOMIT!!!!!!! score of that game?
Jeremy: 10-4, baldwin did pitch 3 innings though
David: okay, I figured it would be a long save
Jeremy: 5 hits, 1 run for baldwin.....and it was against the Tigers
Jeremy: midseason acquisitions are overrated: the cubs' aramis ramirez drove in the winning run in the 14th inning, beating the diamondbacks 4-3 at wrigley
Jeremy: WHAT????? Rey Sanchez in the 2 HOLE????
David: yup
Jeremy: Bob Melvin is making his case for a new bike for his daughter...Uncle Howard would be more than happy to give it to her
David: it's obvious that mess board poster is oozing with sarcasm...i love it
Jeremy: howard lincoln is the reason why i won't buy a gamecube...sony, baby
Jeremy: that's the reason why i even read the espn board. sarcasm is a great gift to have in life
David: olivo just missed a foul ball. FLY ball
Jeremy: baseball tonight next....i can't wait for this.
Jeremy: what am i thinking? dibble on the set
David: berthiaume?? dammit [Steve Berthiaume is crap on BBTN...almost as bad as the single catchphrase man Brian Kenny]
David: they must have been burnt out from yesterday...this panel sucks ass
Jeremy: and it's friday night. except for brantley. brantley rules.
David: we don't have harold to kiss angel berroa's ass
David: here's part of my fain letter
David: "You know, I know they're employed by the Mariners and stuff, but I get tired of hearing such home-spun blather on Mariner broadcasts. There's no way anyone can spin me the right way when I'm watching a Mariner game when they're down 8-0."
David: "I love Niehaus, and I'd never get rid of him, but I'd get rid of Rizzs in a second. He couldn't be realistic if he tried. I know it'll never happen, but I wish the Mariners would can Rizzs and bring in a Kevin Calabro-type guy. Why? If the game is crap, Kevin won't let the players get away with it."
Jeremy: agreed 100 percent
David: If the Sonics are turning over the ball a bunch, Kevin will definitely let you know that. You would never hear these out of Rizzs: "All White Sox tonight, as they lead 8-0" or "Garcia is brutal tonight, throwing 66 pitches in 1 2/3 innings."
Jeremy: oh man, if i were calling the games, i wouldn't hold back
David: crap, wonder who the last yankee was to wear 19. oh wait, it was ventura, wasn't it
Jeremy: i think so
David: they probably just made him wear robin's jersey. i still can't believe they got rid of robin ventura, that shocked me
David: me too...but they basically stuck it to drew henson...funny
Jeremy: m's lowlights...rey sanchez got a hit?
David: it's true...for all the press fla has gotten about willis and lowell, nothing is said about how ivan rodriguez is handling and tutoring that young pitching staff
Jeremy: pudge has done well. sad thing is, he won't stay there b/c of jeff loria
Jeremy: so much for that nonsense, still 8-0 bad guys goin into the 8th
Jeremy: damn colon only has 78 pitches thru 7 [that's still amazing here on Nov 22]
Jeremy: franklin is up tomorrow night.....care to guess how many HRs he gives up? one solo HR is all it takes, b/c he doesn't get run support
David: aaron taylor...he should give up at least two runs
Jeremy: yep
David: matt morris is done
Jeremy: melvin has given up: rule 5 at 2nd, mabry in RF [Rule V is Luis Ugueto, in case you haven't caught on to Jeremy's vernacular here at Sports and B's]
Jeremy: the cards could really use garcia, believe it or not. but god forbid, the mariners acquire a scott boras client, we can't have that [JD Drew, Boras client]
David: crap, you see esteban yan on the roster and that's all you need to know
Jeremy: exactly....but i'll speak as a guy who has seen the cards play 5 times a week and say that they REALLY, REALLY need help. Jeff Fassero started tonight for STL
Jeremy: garcia for drew would have been one hell of a deal. drew is a left handed hitter who can rake, and garcia in the NL could be scary
David: you know, this is sick, but if you heard krueger on the groz/gas show, you would have vomited when he said that fassero actually looked good to him and would have been a nice fit in the mariner pen
Jeremy: WHAT?
David: i kid you not
Jeremy: that's terrible
David: i about barfed everywhere...frankly, i don't even know how fassero even had a career after the mariners released him
Jeremy: the only thing i remember him for after he left seattle was the fact that he gave up the HR to cameron in the 19th inning in 2000
David: well, looks like the red sox rolled snake eyes and got the hentgen from 5 years ago
Jeremy: you know, the m's oughta just go 6 up 6 down the rest of the way so the people left there can catch the 9:55 ferry
Jeremy: not good times for boston. 3-0 on cameron....he'll ground out here
Jeremy: I was half right: he flied out to right
David: man, must hurt to be a dodger fan...11 runs in 9 games
Jeremy: oh yeah, Randy Winn is 0-for-3...nice to know that he's on a roll
Jeremy: dammit wilson....why do you have to have a base hit during an 8-0 asskicking
Jeremy: bloomquist single....dammit
David: i love when the bbtn guys look to the wrong camera; both dibble and brantley did it to end the show
Jeremy: haha
Jeremy: WAY TO GO, NEW GUY.........sanchez grounds out, inning over
Jeremy: oh, what's this? MABRY DROVE IN A RUN??? damn you john mabry
Jeremy: colon with 98 pitches thru 8.....go out there and finish the game
David: well, it's garbage time...scheffler scored 7 pts in 2 minutes of play as the sonics lost to the rockets 94-78 [had to throw some early '90s Sonic references in]
Jeremy: shove it up the m's ass, colon
David: bloomquist in left...good god, you know it's the 9th when that happens...rule v with a 4-3 putout of carlos lee. lee finishes a triple short of the cycle
Jeremy: dammit. carlos lee, my fav non-mariner doing the job tonight
David: mondesi muffed the fly ball and the cubs won...comical because it's arizona
Jeremy: HAHA...Jeremy: Raul Mondesi is a punk, plain and simple.
Jeremy: PAT BORDERS AT THIRD
David: lest brantley forgets that the middle infield of the twins sucks ass...it ain't just the pitching [Brantley must have been railing the Twins pitching staff on BBTN]
David: graeme lloyd blew the royals game
Jeremy: he's still good though
David: hey!! taylor's given up two runs!! i'll be damned!
Jeremy: HEY!!!!!!!!!
David: OH MAN!! pat borders just had the easiest foul ball to catch and he overran it
David: first thing rizzs says "don't get on borders, he's just trying to help out..."
David: gimme a friggin break, that's inexcusable
Jeremy: VERY INEXCUSABLE
David: oops, gave taylor too much credit...taylor's given up three
David: sorry to everyone in mariner nation who thinks otherwise, but aaron taylor is not that good
Jeremy: he has a long way to go to become the "future mariners closer"
Jeremy: get sick, it's 2-2 in oakland. crede singles... IT'S 4 RUNS
David: how bout an aaron boone bomb to put the yanks up
Jeremy: boone singles to lead off the 9th. LOVE IT
David: oh man, rizzs waxing nostalgic about the senior/junior father/son game...(i'm vomiting)
Jeremy: oh my f----ing god
David: i think they somehow related that to sandy and rob alomar
Jeremy: intentional walk to nick johnson here....keith foulke is pitching
David: i wish the mariners had balls this year...they've owned keith foulke every year except for this one
Jeremy: oh nevermind, it was a pitchout.....and Boone stole 2nd
Jeremy: this is sick. after johnson, Alfonso Soriano is up. He's the 8TH HITTER, Soriano is.
David: that is so wrong. that lineup is absolutely wrong
Jeremy: johnson flies out to left
Jeremy: CHARLIE STEINER ON THE CALL
Jeremy: I have the Yankees radio feed on, thanks to my real one superpass. yeah baby
David: employed by who? the yanks?
Jeremy: I think so....
David: yikes. koch is in
Jeremy: it's a 3 man booth....sterling the play by play guy
David: probably will be his only 1-2-3 inning this year [as in Koch]
Jeremy: steiner and, i wanna say michael kay
Jeremy: soriano HBP
David: luis ugueto is 0-for-3 this year
David: sterling and kay...if they weren't yankee guys, i'ld like them a lot more
David: it's hilarious how sterling sounds like an entirely different guy when he isn't in the home run call voice
David: a much younger guy
Jeremy: it is...he sounds like my psychology prof at OC
Jeremy: Rule 5 grounds out
David: dellucci in the hole still? wanna know the delay betw sportsline and superpass
David: gametime for seattle
Jeremy: yep. now dellucci gets on base....
David: jeter hitting leadoff...that seems so incredibly wrong
Jeremy: soriano out at 2nd, dellucci safe at 1st
David: they just need a deep fly ball
Jeremy: boone at 3rd. 2 outs here, jeter up
Jeremy: oh man, manuel has no confidence whatsoever in billy koch. Koch is pitching for Chicago.
Jeremy: sportsline is about 10 secs faster than real one. 3-0
David: you know, the only thing i've liked about the white sox in the past 10 years is that their uniforms have been extremely tasteful
Jeremy: this is very true
Jeremy: nice job jeter [he got out somehow]
David: it's great and i like it that way...besides, they don't have a color scheme which renders itself well to anything that they could make crappy uniforms out of
David: dammit
Jeremy: punkass. yankee game off
David: game!
Jeremy: baseball's best coming up [the ol' KJR Mariner postgame show...big fun that kicks the crap out of the corporate KOMO/Mariner radio network postgame]
David: postgame show time
Jeremy: borders ended the game with a groundout...fitting
David: on a related note, the offense sucked again...freddy gave up the first run and it was over
Jeremy: SO OVER
David: but it didn't matter...like they were gonna score 7 runs on bartolo colon anyway. when does that ever happen?
Jeremy: Never
David: let's hear fox sports nw try to spin this
Jeremy: we can't go on, and living this way....NEVER...woah woah, NEVER. Heart reference there
David: fsnw headline: "freddy's dead"
Jeremy: yep, couldn't say it better
David: callan says sellout crowd...i think there were a ton of no-shows
Jeremy: woohoo, finally. puckett at the plate tonight [Jason Puckett helmed the postgame show that night]
Jeremy: $h!+, chavez reaches on an infield single...ON RIVERA
David: krueger: three of freddy's 5 wins in june were against NL teams...guys who don't know him
Jeremy: that's a GREAT FACT
Jeremy: HAHAHHAHAAAAAAAA [responding to KJR caller...explanation forthcoming]
David: ?
David: HAA!!!!!!!
David: no dump button there
Jeremy: "billy koch's hair on his chin looks the hair above my girl's [hoo-hah]" [NOTE: they weren't quick enough to bleep the guy out on the air]
David: i didn't think they'd let that slide. what a way to start the postgame
Jeremy: fitting
Jeremy: ramon hernandez pops out....t-long up. 1-2 on t-long
Jeremy: garcia was 4-6 in april and may
Jeremy: t-long singles to center...chavez to 3rd. chris singleton up
David: crap. yeah, good point, boston would have gone nuts if they got freddy and he did this in his first outing there
Jeremy: damn straight
David: starts off 2-0 on singleton...yikes
Jeremy: 2-2
Jeremy: come on rivera
David: progress
Jeremy: tonight was freddy's shortest outing ever i think
David: all right, puckett thinks johnson tanked it in 98 too [Randy Johnson, that is]
Jeremy: i've gone all the way back to 2001....and he never had this short of an outing
Jeremy: it's a tough call.....i think he did, but at the same time i don't think he did. but it is very suspicious [Freddy to Randy transition there]
David: sd could get giles on waivers...unless detroit blocked it or something
Jeremy: EMOTIONAL BOOST...singleton k's
David: whew
Jeremy: oh, it's on to extra innings yay
David: hoping for a giambi smash
Jeremy: man these people are morons [some of the callers]
David: wtf??this guy is on crack
Jeremy: the only people in the world who bring up this crap are seattle fans
Jeremy: If you can hit, you can hit, doesnt matter what league you hit in
David: i think that guy was trying to call komo or something
Jeremy: probably
David: jabba the hutt checking in to kjr
Jeremy: "the mariners are going to be alright"
David: nutless ownership
Jeremy: coaches always told us to improve. hell, i always tell myself to improve as a journalist
Jeremy: the day you become complacent, you are doomed to all hell
Jeremy: DAMMMIT.........1-2-3 inning for the Yanks....bottom of the 10th here
David: puckett needs a second guy...i feel sorry for him right now [the KJR clubhouse guy was flying solo]
Jeremy: ellis, hatteberg, and tejada up
Jeremy: damn straight.......if kjr paid my airfare, i'd be there, no doubt
Jeremy: airfare and a little spending money and i'd be great
Jeremy: man this is so eerie...the m's were 66-42 at the deadline last year also [this proved to be a little TOO prophetic]
Jeremy: antonio osuna on the hill for new york. this game should be over soon
Jeremy: Ellis walks on five pitches
David: yup. 3-gm lead
Jeremy: TRES ROCKIN. TRES LIBRAS [reference to the song "3 Libras" by A Perfect Circle]
David: 1 out
Jeremy: oh my bad. f---ing sportsline
Jeremy: it said four balls...oh well i guess
David: like garcia had the control to knock everett on his ass the next time he came up [caller suggested to knock down carl everett after he homered]
David: if he tried to do that, it would probably go over the plate
Jeremy: melvin is not aggressive at all.
David: then and only then
Jeremy: 2-2 on hatteberg
Jeremy: hatteberg strikes out
David: as long as rivera doesn't groove one...
David: osuna, excuse me...
Jeremy: 0-2 on tejada
David: don't give me this mabry bullcrap
Jeremy: john mabry sucks
Jeremy: yeah, WHEN THE SCORE IS 10-1
Jeremy: biono. NO MABRY AT THIRD, PLEASE NO
Jeremy: BALL F---ING GAME. TEJADA HOMERS. TRES LIBRAS
David: F---!!!!!! dammit dammit dammit
Jeremy: how fitting
David: AAARRRGHHHH!!!!
David: yup, it's official...nothing went right tonight. at ALL!
Jeremy: to steal a line from karen carpenter: IT'S ONLY JUST BEGUN
Jeremy: DOO....DOO....SHARING THE LAUGHTER BETWEEN THE TWO OF US (howard and pat). DAMMMIT
David: there's no one in tacoma...is this guy on crack? [caller probably suggested there were a bunch of talented guys or arms in Tacoma, which just wasn't the case]
Jeremy: nobody
David: what the hell has bloomquist done lately? dumbass
Jeremy: nothing
David: damn straight...for all the guys ripping nelson, he's got his three rings...he can bitch whenever he wants
Jeremy: four. great, here's melvin
David: dammit...friggin yanks
Jeremy: GOOD STUFF?????????? [Melvin referring to Freddy]
David: tell me he didn't say that [he did]
Jeremy: HOT TEAM??????????
David: SAME OLD CRAP!!!
Jeremy: LOCATION PROBLEM?????? DISCUSS THINGS TOMORROW. TOO GOOD A STARTER [quoting Melvin]
Jeremy: DO IT TONIGHT, BOB [as in discussing things]
Jeremy: hey bob, TRES LIBRAS BABY
Jeremy: and he's 9-11 [Freddy's record]
Jeremy: JOSE HERNANDEZ was an All Star last year
Jeremy: don't give me that "oh, freddy was an all star last year" crap
David: he's with al-qaeda...maybe he can get apprehended by the fbi so the mariners don't have to keep him [Garcia]. that was terrible, i know
Jeremy: no apology needed
Jeremy: (posts link to picture of another Freddy Garcia)
David: they should put that guy on the mound
Jeremy: oh man, Tejada homered on a 1-2 pitch [RUBBING IT IN]
David: he did. i was surprised puckett waited so long to unveil that score. that would have set some people off
Session Close: Fri Aug 01 22:47:57 2003
If you need me to set the scene for you, I'll just say it was the day after the trade deadline, the White Sox beat the Mariners 12-1 and Freddy Garcia couldn't get out of the 2nd inning, note the start time of the chat -- the game was STILL GOING ON. Any additions, once again, will be in bracketed italics. To the wayback machine! (Posts and subjects slightly edited in some spots to preserve continuity)
Session Start: Fri Aug 01 19:57:02 2003
Jeremy: WAIVE FREDDY
David: yep. raised his era by 0.40
David: dude, i was wanting a 20-0 game
Jeremy: the m's/white sox game is on wgn tomorrow night, and frankly, i don't give a $h!+
David: well, just be thankful garcia isn't pitching tomorrow so you won't have to see his sorry ass
Jeremy: did freddy get booed very loudly?
David: pretty loud, but half the upper deck in right field is missing. hope the mariner mgmt likes seeing that
Jeremy: on a SUMMER FRIDAY NIGHT...NICEEEEE
Jeremy: i'm not even bothering to open up the radio feed....it's not worth my time
David: great column, by the way
Jeremy: thanks
David: mariners with six batters and six outs...great stuff
Jeremy: yeah, really great
David: mateo should just throw all fastballs
Jeremy: why the hell not. this game is so over
Jeremy: but david, we have REY SANCHEZ to bring us back!!!
David: maybe he could experiment with a knuckleball or something. or hell, have rey pitch...he'll do better than freddy
Jeremy: hey, why not....give Hawk Harrelson some good material, why not. sure
David: i want rey sanchez five days from now
Jeremy: you could even have captain plastic go out there and throw a shutout inning [come on, you all know you've seen Captain Plastic at the Safe]
Jeremy: "Standing Pat has overtaken Seafair as the big summer activity in Seattle." [I forgot what article that was quoting...]
David: where was the b-town connection in that? capt plastic?
Jeremy: cassandra (last name protected) follows him around [Cass was a student at our HS]
David: okay, i thought it was cass (surname)
David: the yanks/a's are tied at 1
Jeremy: hooray...GO YANKEES
Jeremy: the yankees NEED to sweep this series
David: niehaus just brought up the possibility of a white sox/cubs world series...and i vomited and then laughed because that will never happen
Jeremy: i wanna say this: for all of those idiots out there who think that freddy garcia isn't worth aaron boone, they are so wrong
Jeremy: ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? [pertaining to the all-CHI World Series topic]
Jeremy: Niehaus said that? Wow, EVEN HE has mailed in this season.
David: dude, i just found out i had class at central with dick fain's bro-in-law...i had him in my english 101 class [Dick Fain of KJR]
Jeremy: woah...damn
Jeremy: not to toot my own horn, but i love this line in my blog:
Jeremy: "Hell, his best friends are Benjamin, Ulysses, and Andrew"
Jeremy: referring to Howard Lincoln
David: ron: i wonder if freddy is tipping his pitches [Fairly said this]
Jeremy: 100s, 50s, 20s.....they are good to howard lincoln indeed, and he won't share them
Jeremy: freddy garcia is so f---ed up in the head he would pitch poorly for boston too. that is why i am so pissed off that he didn't get traded
Jeremy: the mariners should do the right thing and try to waive him. i'm sure SOMEBODY would pick him up
David: the pirates scored 6 runs in the 9th to beat the rockies...the mariners could score six runs today and they would lose
Jeremy: that is a sobering thought
Jeremy: earth to the casual mariner fan: these aren't the tigers. this is a red hot white sox team....but the mariners should beat them anyway
Jeremy: i dunno, if the red sox were to actually win the world series this year, i could have a week-long vomit party. or the cubs for that matter
David: dude, the braves would make me vomit like hell because i still hate them to death
Jeremy: the braves winning too would be sickening. but the red sox and cubs haven't won since before my grandparents were born
Jeremy: 1918 and 1908. for the record, my oldest grandparent wasn't born til 1924
Jeremy: niehaus bringing up a white sox/cubs world series is just sickening to think about
David: cameron hit the wall hard trying to run after carlos lee's home run. 8-0, by the way
Jeremy: carlos lee hitting a HR in safeco field....shocking
David: perish the thought. but they won't have james baldwin mowing the mariners down though
Jeremy: if i can do anything about human time, i would bring back the 1997 mariner offense and mesh them with the 2000-2003 mariner pitching staff and we have something
Jeremy: bartolo colon >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> james baldwin
David: i wonder how good the 97 offense woud have been at safeco
Jeremy: they probably wouldn't have hit 244 home runs as a team, but they would have over 200
David: i would hate myself if i had tickets for this mariner game, this absolute dog of a mariner game
David: and i just know if the mariners come back, they will lose 7-6, or they will tie it and then blow it
Jeremy: dude, you know my theory of never leaving a game? well, if we were there, we would just leave. yep, i said it, i would leave
David: dude, i would raise hell. this is where hopefully we could scare up some paper and a marker and write some antagonistic signs
Jeremy: i would ask nicely for a pen from a nearby fan. since it's seattle, they would give it to you.
Jeremy: then you buy a scorecard...and then write on the scorecard itself
Jeremy: biono, something like that [to those unprivy to it, "biono" is short for the phrase "but I don't know."
Jeremy: or, you go to a nearby souvenir stand, jack some of the cardboard that's behind the stand, and write on that
Jeremy: or go to the nearest trash can and there will be cardboard stacked up against it
David: mateo's struck out six...wonder who the starter should have been tonight?
Jeremy: hmmmm. aw, but melvin doesnt care. he's on autopilot now
David: if you said REY SANCHEZ, you're RIGHT
Jeremy: geezus, these espn posters are just hysterical: TITLE: I don't care if the M's make....MESSAGE: ....the playoffs. I just want them to be competitive and fill the seats, and selling 7 dollar beers.
Jeremy: you wanna know what the worst thing about this game is? the fact that Darrin Jackson is calling this game for fox sports chicago
Jeremy: 2-1 yankees. wow, what is this? david dellucci is 2-for-2
David: yippee
Jeremy: scored the 2nd run
David: that may be the only good thing about tonight
Jeremy: yeah david, midseason acquisitions are overrated
David: you know, i hate that i have finally noticed that dave and ron move to the radio side in the bottom of the 5th. now i have to hear that dumbass homer rizzs
Jeremy: it's terrible
David: my goodness, the booth guys are friggin fixed on the possibility of freddy tipping his pitches. they're saying mateo is throwing some of the same pitches garcia did, but the only one that got tagged was the lee dong
Jeremy: they are such jackmonkeys
Jeremy: diamond club update? green with envy yet?
David: a couple seats above the "ajinomoto" sign are empty, but i haven't looked back a couple rows yet
Jeremy: good deal
David: bartolo colon has a one-hitter through 5...YEAH!!!! WAIVRE WIRE, BABY!!!
Jeremy: VIVA LA WAIVERS
David: IT'S SO BAD I SPELLED IT THE FRENCH WAY!!!
Jeremy: Midseason acquisitions are overrated: Shannon Stewart was 3-for-5 tonight with a HR, double and 2 runs batted in.....
Jeremy: JAMES BALDWIN got the SAVE for the Twins tonight.....unreal
David: VOMIT!!!!!!! score of that game?
Jeremy: 10-4, baldwin did pitch 3 innings though
David: okay, I figured it would be a long save
Jeremy: 5 hits, 1 run for baldwin.....and it was against the Tigers
Jeremy: midseason acquisitions are overrated: the cubs' aramis ramirez drove in the winning run in the 14th inning, beating the diamondbacks 4-3 at wrigley
Jeremy: WHAT????? Rey Sanchez in the 2 HOLE????
David: yup
Jeremy: Bob Melvin is making his case for a new bike for his daughter...Uncle Howard would be more than happy to give it to her
David: it's obvious that mess board poster is oozing with sarcasm...i love it
Jeremy: howard lincoln is the reason why i won't buy a gamecube...sony, baby
Jeremy: that's the reason why i even read the espn board. sarcasm is a great gift to have in life
David: olivo just missed a foul ball. FLY ball
Jeremy: baseball tonight next....i can't wait for this.
Jeremy: what am i thinking? dibble on the set
David: berthiaume?? dammit [Steve Berthiaume is crap on BBTN...almost as bad as the single catchphrase man Brian Kenny]
David: they must have been burnt out from yesterday...this panel sucks ass
Jeremy: and it's friday night. except for brantley. brantley rules.
David: we don't have harold to kiss angel berroa's ass
David: here's part of my fain letter
David: "You know, I know they're employed by the Mariners and stuff, but I get tired of hearing such home-spun blather on Mariner broadcasts. There's no way anyone can spin me the right way when I'm watching a Mariner game when they're down 8-0."
David: "I love Niehaus, and I'd never get rid of him, but I'd get rid of Rizzs in a second. He couldn't be realistic if he tried. I know it'll never happen, but I wish the Mariners would can Rizzs and bring in a Kevin Calabro-type guy. Why? If the game is crap, Kevin won't let the players get away with it."
Jeremy: agreed 100 percent
David: If the Sonics are turning over the ball a bunch, Kevin will definitely let you know that. You would never hear these out of Rizzs: "All White Sox tonight, as they lead 8-0" or "Garcia is brutal tonight, throwing 66 pitches in 1 2/3 innings."
Jeremy: oh man, if i were calling the games, i wouldn't hold back
David: crap, wonder who the last yankee was to wear 19. oh wait, it was ventura, wasn't it
Jeremy: i think so
David: they probably just made him wear robin's jersey. i still can't believe they got rid of robin ventura, that shocked me
David: me too...but they basically stuck it to drew henson...funny
Jeremy: m's lowlights...rey sanchez got a hit?
David: it's true...for all the press fla has gotten about willis and lowell, nothing is said about how ivan rodriguez is handling and tutoring that young pitching staff
Jeremy: pudge has done well. sad thing is, he won't stay there b/c of jeff loria
Jeremy: so much for that nonsense, still 8-0 bad guys goin into the 8th
Jeremy: damn colon only has 78 pitches thru 7 [that's still amazing here on Nov 22]
Jeremy: franklin is up tomorrow night.....care to guess how many HRs he gives up? one solo HR is all it takes, b/c he doesn't get run support
David: aaron taylor...he should give up at least two runs
Jeremy: yep
David: matt morris is done
Jeremy: melvin has given up: rule 5 at 2nd, mabry in RF [Rule V is Luis Ugueto, in case you haven't caught on to Jeremy's vernacular here at Sports and B's]
Jeremy: the cards could really use garcia, believe it or not. but god forbid, the mariners acquire a scott boras client, we can't have that [JD Drew, Boras client]
David: crap, you see esteban yan on the roster and that's all you need to know
Jeremy: exactly....but i'll speak as a guy who has seen the cards play 5 times a week and say that they REALLY, REALLY need help. Jeff Fassero started tonight for STL
Jeremy: garcia for drew would have been one hell of a deal. drew is a left handed hitter who can rake, and garcia in the NL could be scary
David: you know, this is sick, but if you heard krueger on the groz/gas show, you would have vomited when he said that fassero actually looked good to him and would have been a nice fit in the mariner pen
Jeremy: WHAT?
David: i kid you not
Jeremy: that's terrible
David: i about barfed everywhere...frankly, i don't even know how fassero even had a career after the mariners released him
Jeremy: the only thing i remember him for after he left seattle was the fact that he gave up the HR to cameron in the 19th inning in 2000
David: well, looks like the red sox rolled snake eyes and got the hentgen from 5 years ago
Jeremy: you know, the m's oughta just go 6 up 6 down the rest of the way so the people left there can catch the 9:55 ferry
Jeremy: not good times for boston. 3-0 on cameron....he'll ground out here
Jeremy: I was half right: he flied out to right
David: man, must hurt to be a dodger fan...11 runs in 9 games
Jeremy: oh yeah, Randy Winn is 0-for-3...nice to know that he's on a roll
Jeremy: dammit wilson....why do you have to have a base hit during an 8-0 asskicking
Jeremy: bloomquist single....dammit
David: i love when the bbtn guys look to the wrong camera; both dibble and brantley did it to end the show
Jeremy: haha
Jeremy: WAY TO GO, NEW GUY.........sanchez grounds out, inning over
Jeremy: oh, what's this? MABRY DROVE IN A RUN??? damn you john mabry
Jeremy: colon with 98 pitches thru 8.....go out there and finish the game
David: well, it's garbage time...scheffler scored 7 pts in 2 minutes of play as the sonics lost to the rockets 94-78 [had to throw some early '90s Sonic references in]
Jeremy: shove it up the m's ass, colon
David: bloomquist in left...good god, you know it's the 9th when that happens...rule v with a 4-3 putout of carlos lee. lee finishes a triple short of the cycle
Jeremy: dammit. carlos lee, my fav non-mariner doing the job tonight
David: mondesi muffed the fly ball and the cubs won...comical because it's arizona
Jeremy: HAHA...Jeremy: Raul Mondesi is a punk, plain and simple.
Jeremy: PAT BORDERS AT THIRD
David: lest brantley forgets that the middle infield of the twins sucks ass...it ain't just the pitching [Brantley must have been railing the Twins pitching staff on BBTN]
David: graeme lloyd blew the royals game
Jeremy: he's still good though
David: hey!! taylor's given up two runs!! i'll be damned!
Jeremy: HEY!!!!!!!!!
David: OH MAN!! pat borders just had the easiest foul ball to catch and he overran it
David: first thing rizzs says "don't get on borders, he's just trying to help out..."
David: gimme a friggin break, that's inexcusable
Jeremy: VERY INEXCUSABLE
David: oops, gave taylor too much credit...taylor's given up three
David: sorry to everyone in mariner nation who thinks otherwise, but aaron taylor is not that good
Jeremy: he has a long way to go to become the "future mariners closer"
Jeremy: get sick, it's 2-2 in oakland. crede singles... IT'S 4 RUNS
David: how bout an aaron boone bomb to put the yanks up
Jeremy: boone singles to lead off the 9th. LOVE IT
David: oh man, rizzs waxing nostalgic about the senior/junior father/son game...(i'm vomiting)
Jeremy: oh my f----ing god
David: i think they somehow related that to sandy and rob alomar
Jeremy: intentional walk to nick johnson here....keith foulke is pitching
David: i wish the mariners had balls this year...they've owned keith foulke every year except for this one
Jeremy: oh nevermind, it was a pitchout.....and Boone stole 2nd
Jeremy: this is sick. after johnson, Alfonso Soriano is up. He's the 8TH HITTER, Soriano is.
David: that is so wrong. that lineup is absolutely wrong
Jeremy: johnson flies out to left
Jeremy: CHARLIE STEINER ON THE CALL
Jeremy: I have the Yankees radio feed on, thanks to my real one superpass. yeah baby
David: employed by who? the yanks?
Jeremy: I think so....
David: yikes. koch is in
Jeremy: it's a 3 man booth....sterling the play by play guy
David: probably will be his only 1-2-3 inning this year [as in Koch]
Jeremy: steiner and, i wanna say michael kay
Jeremy: soriano HBP
David: luis ugueto is 0-for-3 this year
David: sterling and kay...if they weren't yankee guys, i'ld like them a lot more
David: it's hilarious how sterling sounds like an entirely different guy when he isn't in the home run call voice
David: a much younger guy
Jeremy: it is...he sounds like my psychology prof at OC
Jeremy: Rule 5 grounds out
David: dellucci in the hole still? wanna know the delay betw sportsline and superpass
David: gametime for seattle
Jeremy: yep. now dellucci gets on base....
David: jeter hitting leadoff...that seems so incredibly wrong
Jeremy: soriano out at 2nd, dellucci safe at 1st
David: they just need a deep fly ball
Jeremy: boone at 3rd. 2 outs here, jeter up
Jeremy: oh man, manuel has no confidence whatsoever in billy koch. Koch is pitching for Chicago.
Jeremy: sportsline is about 10 secs faster than real one. 3-0
David: you know, the only thing i've liked about the white sox in the past 10 years is that their uniforms have been extremely tasteful
Jeremy: this is very true
Jeremy: nice job jeter [he got out somehow]
David: it's great and i like it that way...besides, they don't have a color scheme which renders itself well to anything that they could make crappy uniforms out of
David: dammit
Jeremy: punkass. yankee game off
David: game!
Jeremy: baseball's best coming up [the ol' KJR Mariner postgame show...big fun that kicks the crap out of the corporate KOMO/Mariner radio network postgame]
David: postgame show time
Jeremy: borders ended the game with a groundout...fitting
David: on a related note, the offense sucked again...freddy gave up the first run and it was over
Jeremy: SO OVER
David: but it didn't matter...like they were gonna score 7 runs on bartolo colon anyway. when does that ever happen?
Jeremy: Never
David: let's hear fox sports nw try to spin this
Jeremy: we can't go on, and living this way....NEVER...woah woah, NEVER. Heart reference there
David: fsnw headline: "freddy's dead"
Jeremy: yep, couldn't say it better
David: callan says sellout crowd...i think there were a ton of no-shows
Jeremy: woohoo, finally. puckett at the plate tonight [Jason Puckett helmed the postgame show that night]
Jeremy: $h!+, chavez reaches on an infield single...ON RIVERA
David: krueger: three of freddy's 5 wins in june were against NL teams...guys who don't know him
Jeremy: that's a GREAT FACT
Jeremy: HAHAHHAHAAAAAAAA [responding to KJR caller...explanation forthcoming]
David: ?
David: HAA!!!!!!!
David: no dump button there
Jeremy: "billy koch's hair on his chin looks the hair above my girl's [hoo-hah]" [NOTE: they weren't quick enough to bleep the guy out on the air]
David: i didn't think they'd let that slide. what a way to start the postgame
Jeremy: fitting
Jeremy: ramon hernandez pops out....t-long up. 1-2 on t-long
Jeremy: garcia was 4-6 in april and may
Jeremy: t-long singles to center...chavez to 3rd. chris singleton up
David: crap. yeah, good point, boston would have gone nuts if they got freddy and he did this in his first outing there
Jeremy: damn straight
David: starts off 2-0 on singleton...yikes
Jeremy: 2-2
Jeremy: come on rivera
David: progress
Jeremy: tonight was freddy's shortest outing ever i think
David: all right, puckett thinks johnson tanked it in 98 too [Randy Johnson, that is]
Jeremy: i've gone all the way back to 2001....and he never had this short of an outing
Jeremy: it's a tough call.....i think he did, but at the same time i don't think he did. but it is very suspicious [Freddy to Randy transition there]
David: sd could get giles on waivers...unless detroit blocked it or something
Jeremy: EMOTIONAL BOOST...singleton k's
David: whew
Jeremy: oh, it's on to extra innings yay
David: hoping for a giambi smash
Jeremy: man these people are morons [some of the callers]
David: wtf??this guy is on crack
Jeremy: the only people in the world who bring up this crap are seattle fans
Jeremy: If you can hit, you can hit, doesnt matter what league you hit in
David: i think that guy was trying to call komo or something
Jeremy: probably
David: jabba the hutt checking in to kjr
Jeremy: "the mariners are going to be alright"
David: nutless ownership
Jeremy: coaches always told us to improve. hell, i always tell myself to improve as a journalist
Jeremy: the day you become complacent, you are doomed to all hell
Jeremy: DAMMMIT.........1-2-3 inning for the Yanks....bottom of the 10th here
David: puckett needs a second guy...i feel sorry for him right now [the KJR clubhouse guy was flying solo]
Jeremy: ellis, hatteberg, and tejada up
Jeremy: damn straight.......if kjr paid my airfare, i'd be there, no doubt
Jeremy: airfare and a little spending money and i'd be great
Jeremy: man this is so eerie...the m's were 66-42 at the deadline last year also [this proved to be a little TOO prophetic]
Jeremy: antonio osuna on the hill for new york. this game should be over soon
Jeremy: Ellis walks on five pitches
David: yup. 3-gm lead
Jeremy: TRES ROCKIN. TRES LIBRAS [reference to the song "3 Libras" by A Perfect Circle]
David: 1 out
Jeremy: oh my bad. f---ing sportsline
Jeremy: it said four balls...oh well i guess
David: like garcia had the control to knock everett on his ass the next time he came up [caller suggested to knock down carl everett after he homered]
David: if he tried to do that, it would probably go over the plate
Jeremy: melvin is not aggressive at all.
David: then and only then
Jeremy: 2-2 on hatteberg
Jeremy: hatteberg strikes out
David: as long as rivera doesn't groove one...
David: osuna, excuse me...
Jeremy: 0-2 on tejada
David: don't give me this mabry bullcrap
Jeremy: john mabry sucks
Jeremy: yeah, WHEN THE SCORE IS 10-1
Jeremy: biono. NO MABRY AT THIRD, PLEASE NO
Jeremy: BALL F---ING GAME. TEJADA HOMERS. TRES LIBRAS
David: F---!!!!!! dammit dammit dammit
Jeremy: how fitting
David: AAARRRGHHHH!!!!
David: yup, it's official...nothing went right tonight. at ALL!
Jeremy: to steal a line from karen carpenter: IT'S ONLY JUST BEGUN
Jeremy: DOO....DOO....SHARING THE LAUGHTER BETWEEN THE TWO OF US (howard and pat). DAMMMIT
David: there's no one in tacoma...is this guy on crack? [caller probably suggested there were a bunch of talented guys or arms in Tacoma, which just wasn't the case]
Jeremy: nobody
David: what the hell has bloomquist done lately? dumbass
Jeremy: nothing
David: damn straight...for all the guys ripping nelson, he's got his three rings...he can bitch whenever he wants
Jeremy: four. great, here's melvin
David: dammit...friggin yanks
Jeremy: GOOD STUFF?????????? [Melvin referring to Freddy]
David: tell me he didn't say that [he did]
Jeremy: HOT TEAM??????????
David: SAME OLD CRAP!!!
Jeremy: LOCATION PROBLEM?????? DISCUSS THINGS TOMORROW. TOO GOOD A STARTER [quoting Melvin]
Jeremy: DO IT TONIGHT, BOB [as in discussing things]
Jeremy: hey bob, TRES LIBRAS BABY
Jeremy: and he's 9-11 [Freddy's record]
Jeremy: JOSE HERNANDEZ was an All Star last year
Jeremy: don't give me that "oh, freddy was an all star last year" crap
David: he's with al-qaeda...maybe he can get apprehended by the fbi so the mariners don't have to keep him [Garcia]. that was terrible, i know
Jeremy: no apology needed
Jeremy: (posts link to picture of another Freddy Garcia)
David: they should put that guy on the mound
Jeremy: oh man, Tejada homered on a 1-2 pitch [RUBBING IT IN]
David: he did. i was surprised puckett waited so long to unveil that score. that would have set some people off
Session Close: Fri Aug 01 22:47:57 2003
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