Monday, March 22, 2004
BUFFOONERY
Before I start with the Mariner links here, I'd like to congratulate two Seattle sports personalities for some mispronunications within the last 24 hours --
-- Dave "Softy" Mahler, who for the longest time has pronounced Sonic big man Vitaly Potapenko's last name as "poh-TOMP-ick-oh," a pronunciation that omits the letters N and E but adds letters M and I.
-- The asian guy (I can't find his name at the FSNNW website, but he's an absolute hack) that was teamed with Brad Adam on the Northwest Sports Report last night, who pronounced fellow Bremertonian and Pacific guard Miah Davis' name as something sounding more like the first name of Mia Farrow instead of something short for Jeremiah.
Now, your Mariner links.
Finnigan and Andriesen chime in with their articles about Aaron Boone making a visit to camp. Apparently, Aaron is aiming to play this year. I'm kind of on the fence about the thought of the Mariners picking him up. On one hand, it would take them to admit they made a mistake by signing Scott Spiezio. On the other hand, Aaron is on the high side of 30, is a good guy (we'll see how being married to a Playboy playmate takes away from the "good guy" image), and will be a redundant move if you consider Spiezio a third baseman for the time being. It's been argued that getting Crack was redundant because Jamal Strong is the same exact player and less expensive. One of the articles says if Aaron became a Mariner, Spiezio would step into the DH role when Edgar retires. But hey, what if Olerud is gone? Wasn't Spiezio supposed to step in for Olerud? Who the hell's your DH then? In a much nicer world with a much better manager and front office/GM, this is where Richie Sexson would come into play. Instead, the Mariners would probably bring Oddibe McDowell out of retirement and try to convince Mariner fans that he would be a big stick off the bench.
Lastly, Larry LaRue tells us that Ichiro is working on being more patient this spring. I have the feeling he'll follow this for the first two weeks of the season and then will ditch it after a .192 start.
From the notes of both articles, it appears that Mariner fans are going to be stuck with Hiram Bocachica this year. They'll be stuck with Bocachica batting .102 off the bench, and will be stuck with him wearing 44, which is absolute blasphemy toward the number considering what it was attached to for the last four seasons. Joey Cora is third-base coach for the White Sox. Cora had no problem making errors at second base for the Mariners, and will not have to handle grounders and foul balls coming at him in the 3B coaches' box. Evading the ball should be no trouble for him. LaRue says Gil Meche is having some delivery issues between types of windups, which could actually mean something because he has to have that down by his first start. Something else that is somewhat meaningful: Jamie Moyer has stretched out to six innings in a start. Something that doesn't mean anything: the Mariners pounded 21 hits against the White Sox, with nine straight hits in the fourth. Some things mean something in the spring, and some things don't.
To any of you listening to KJR right now, you learn that Softy is a total Husky honk and a total Gonzaga hater. He is just railing against Gonzaga today. The reason he wanted to see Gonzaga lose? So the Huskies can get more of the in-state recruits. Sure, the ending sucked for Gonzaga, but just for a second, stop hating!! I know the West Coast Conference was crap, but you have to be good to run the table in ANY conference. Softy's using the word "fraud." Just being brutal. If Ivy or Kris at FBB are reading this, call or email Softy at KJR and defend your team!
That post felt a lot more disorganized than usual. Being in B-town is getting to me already.
-- Dave "Softy" Mahler, who for the longest time has pronounced Sonic big man Vitaly Potapenko's last name as "poh-TOMP-ick-oh," a pronunciation that omits the letters N and E but adds letters M and I.
-- The asian guy (I can't find his name at the FSNNW website, but he's an absolute hack) that was teamed with Brad Adam on the Northwest Sports Report last night, who pronounced fellow Bremertonian and Pacific guard Miah Davis' name as something sounding more like the first name of Mia Farrow instead of something short for Jeremiah.
Now, your Mariner links.
Finnigan and Andriesen chime in with their articles about Aaron Boone making a visit to camp. Apparently, Aaron is aiming to play this year. I'm kind of on the fence about the thought of the Mariners picking him up. On one hand, it would take them to admit they made a mistake by signing Scott Spiezio. On the other hand, Aaron is on the high side of 30, is a good guy (we'll see how being married to a Playboy playmate takes away from the "good guy" image), and will be a redundant move if you consider Spiezio a third baseman for the time being. It's been argued that getting Crack was redundant because Jamal Strong is the same exact player and less expensive. One of the articles says if Aaron became a Mariner, Spiezio would step into the DH role when Edgar retires. But hey, what if Olerud is gone? Wasn't Spiezio supposed to step in for Olerud? Who the hell's your DH then? In a much nicer world with a much better manager and front office/GM, this is where Richie Sexson would come into play. Instead, the Mariners would probably bring Oddibe McDowell out of retirement and try to convince Mariner fans that he would be a big stick off the bench.
Lastly, Larry LaRue tells us that Ichiro is working on being more patient this spring. I have the feeling he'll follow this for the first two weeks of the season and then will ditch it after a .192 start.
From the notes of both articles, it appears that Mariner fans are going to be stuck with Hiram Bocachica this year. They'll be stuck with Bocachica batting .102 off the bench, and will be stuck with him wearing 44, which is absolute blasphemy toward the number considering what it was attached to for the last four seasons. Joey Cora is third-base coach for the White Sox. Cora had no problem making errors at second base for the Mariners, and will not have to handle grounders and foul balls coming at him in the 3B coaches' box. Evading the ball should be no trouble for him. LaRue says Gil Meche is having some delivery issues between types of windups, which could actually mean something because he has to have that down by his first start. Something else that is somewhat meaningful: Jamie Moyer has stretched out to six innings in a start. Something that doesn't mean anything: the Mariners pounded 21 hits against the White Sox, with nine straight hits in the fourth. Some things mean something in the spring, and some things don't.
To any of you listening to KJR right now, you learn that Softy is a total Husky honk and a total Gonzaga hater. He is just railing against Gonzaga today. The reason he wanted to see Gonzaga lose? So the Huskies can get more of the in-state recruits. Sure, the ending sucked for Gonzaga, but just for a second, stop hating!! I know the West Coast Conference was crap, but you have to be good to run the table in ANY conference. Softy's using the word "fraud." Just being brutal. If Ivy or Kris at FBB are reading this, call or email Softy at KJR and defend your team!
That post felt a lot more disorganized than usual. Being in B-town is getting to me already.
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