Wednesday, October 27, 2004
BUNDLE UP
There are articles today on all three of the Seattle pro teams (even the Mariners), as well as my endless pursuit of hockey to tide me over for about six years until the NHL comes back.
MARINERS
Bryan Price is staying on as pitching coach for the Mariners after having been formally added to the coaching staff of new manager Mike Hargrove. Rene Lachemann is formally gone, and has taken the bench coach position with the Oakland A's as one of Ken Macha's henchmen. Bob Finnigan's article speculates (imagine that) on Charlie Kerfeld's name as a possibility for the Marlins' pitching coach vacancy. I know I wouldn't have been distraught over Price leaving, if he did, but I guess I wouldn
t have been confident in the brass picking another guy to handle the pitching staff. Playing the devil's advocate, I wonder if any of the Mariner pitchers are ticked off that Price wasn't shown the door...
I forgot to link the P-I article yesterday about this, but Edgar Martinez finally got to go to the World Series...for winning the Roberto Clemente Award. He's the third Mariner to win the award (Harold Reynolds, Jamie Moyer), and the first Puerto Rican to win. Cheers, Edgar. You've done made us proud once again.
SEAHAWKS
David Locke's got some numbers that have to do with the Seahawk offense, and he calls the team "average." No, I'm not arguing with that. Calling them average at this point might actually be cutting them too much slack. Some have openly wondered why the Seahawks abandoned the run in the Arizona game, and Locke picks on Shaun Alexander's running style at the end of the article. Sure, Shaun should have gotten more touches last Sunday, but the trend really wasn't leaning toward him getting five yards on first down or anything like that. But what Locke rips on the most is the offense on third down. It's gross. Locke probably could squeeze another article out of the defensive play on third down, too, but that's probably for another time.
Ten solo tackles in your first NFL start will get you some press, as it has with Tracy White.
SONICS
Right now, they're crap. They are 1-6 in the preseason, and opponents have broken 100 points five times. In last night's 103-93 loss to Phoenix, they turned the ball over a paltry 18 times. Antonio Daniels has the best quote in the Percy Allen article: "If we're waiting on Ray and Rashard to save us, then we'll be waiting a very long time. We should be better than that." Allen the writer also suggests that the Sonics' excuses in the press after games seem to be "ready-made."
The Danny O'Neil article has some more stuff about how crappy the team is. Last night's game was the sixth straight time they've trailed throughout the second half. Coach McMillan's message on the markerboard in the locker room before the game: "True greatness consists of being great at the small things -- Effort. Execution. Unselfish basketball." Read the article to see how these turned out in the game; O'Neil picks the points off one by one.
HOCKEY
Saint John's beat Manitoba, 4-2. The Moose scored first for the third straight game, but they couldn't sweep the back-to-back with the Baby Leafs. Harold Druken, a name familiar to NHL fans, scored twice for Saint John's. The Leafs got a goal with just inside one minute remaining in the first period to take a 2-1 lead after 20 minutes of play. Two more goals across the next two periods staked them out to a 4-1 lead in the third, which was cut in half by Tomas Mojzis of the Moose. Jason King scored the Moose's first goal of the game, his tenth goal of the year, giving him the league scoring lead once again over teammate Peter Sarno. Alex Auld stopped 22 of 26.
Upcoming
Wednesday: Kamloops at Everett
Friday: Seattle at Spokane, Vancouver at Brandon, Everett at Tri-City, Manitoba at Rochester, Puget Sound at River City (Beaverton)
Saturday: Kamloops at Seattle, Portland at Everett, Manitoba at Binghamton, Puget Sound at River City (Beaverton)
Sunday: Manitoba at Hamilton
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I know that series like this year's Red Sox/Yankees series aren't ones that will be duplicated too much during the course of time, but in a way, wouldn't a Boston sweep over the Cardinals be severely anticlimactic? The Cardinals won a ton of games this year, and I wish they would have at least forced a Game 5 by now. They won a ton of games during the season, yet they have not managed to crack the Red Sox for one win in the first three games of this World Series. Of course, I can tell you about a team from the not-too-distant past that won something like 116 games and didn't even get to the World Series, let alone play in it.
Have a nice Wednesday, readers, and just thank goodness that you didn't have to wake up this morning and realize you were Jeff Suppan. And yes, remove money from the equation when you're thinking about that.
The field was wet at Saint Louis yesterday, which raises the question, have you ever played baseball in wet conditions? It can be quite treacherous, and there's nothing quite like slipping in the outfield grass, and then having a good stiff breeze interact nicely with your wet uniform. You're not warm at all until you get the chance to change out of those duds, so hopefully your slip happened in the later innings. Yes, it's almost enough to give you the flu. In a somewhat related note, I've never had a flu shot in my life.
And yes, I hate the moving-batter graphics that Fox is using before the commercial breaks to show the hitters that are due up in the next half-inning. I think I watched Game 1 and those graphics were being used as the hitters came to the plate, something which made me quite sick. Nauseous, even.
I'm really ending the post this time.
Have a jolly Wednesday, and if you're in the Northwest, make sure to bring an extra coat outside or something, because I seem to remember it being freakin' cold in the warehouse yesterday.
MARINERS
Bryan Price is staying on as pitching coach for the Mariners after having been formally added to the coaching staff of new manager Mike Hargrove. Rene Lachemann is formally gone, and has taken the bench coach position with the Oakland A's as one of Ken Macha's henchmen. Bob Finnigan's article speculates (imagine that) on Charlie Kerfeld's name as a possibility for the Marlins' pitching coach vacancy. I know I wouldn't have been distraught over Price leaving, if he did, but I guess I wouldn
t have been confident in the brass picking another guy to handle the pitching staff. Playing the devil's advocate, I wonder if any of the Mariner pitchers are ticked off that Price wasn't shown the door...
I forgot to link the P-I article yesterday about this, but Edgar Martinez finally got to go to the World Series...for winning the Roberto Clemente Award. He's the third Mariner to win the award (Harold Reynolds, Jamie Moyer), and the first Puerto Rican to win. Cheers, Edgar. You've done made us proud once again.
SEAHAWKS
David Locke's got some numbers that have to do with the Seahawk offense, and he calls the team "average." No, I'm not arguing with that. Calling them average at this point might actually be cutting them too much slack. Some have openly wondered why the Seahawks abandoned the run in the Arizona game, and Locke picks on Shaun Alexander's running style at the end of the article. Sure, Shaun should have gotten more touches last Sunday, but the trend really wasn't leaning toward him getting five yards on first down or anything like that. But what Locke rips on the most is the offense on third down. It's gross. Locke probably could squeeze another article out of the defensive play on third down, too, but that's probably for another time.
Ten solo tackles in your first NFL start will get you some press, as it has with Tracy White.
SONICS
Right now, they're crap. They are 1-6 in the preseason, and opponents have broken 100 points five times. In last night's 103-93 loss to Phoenix, they turned the ball over a paltry 18 times. Antonio Daniels has the best quote in the Percy Allen article: "If we're waiting on Ray and Rashard to save us, then we'll be waiting a very long time. We should be better than that." Allen the writer also suggests that the Sonics' excuses in the press after games seem to be "ready-made."
The Danny O'Neil article has some more stuff about how crappy the team is. Last night's game was the sixth straight time they've trailed throughout the second half. Coach McMillan's message on the markerboard in the locker room before the game: "True greatness consists of being great at the small things -- Effort. Execution. Unselfish basketball." Read the article to see how these turned out in the game; O'Neil picks the points off one by one.
HOCKEY
Saint John's beat Manitoba, 4-2. The Moose scored first for the third straight game, but they couldn't sweep the back-to-back with the Baby Leafs. Harold Druken, a name familiar to NHL fans, scored twice for Saint John's. The Leafs got a goal with just inside one minute remaining in the first period to take a 2-1 lead after 20 minutes of play. Two more goals across the next two periods staked them out to a 4-1 lead in the third, which was cut in half by Tomas Mojzis of the Moose. Jason King scored the Moose's first goal of the game, his tenth goal of the year, giving him the league scoring lead once again over teammate Peter Sarno. Alex Auld stopped 22 of 26.
Upcoming
Wednesday: Kamloops at Everett
Friday: Seattle at Spokane, Vancouver at Brandon, Everett at Tri-City, Manitoba at Rochester, Puget Sound at River City (Beaverton)
Saturday: Kamloops at Seattle, Portland at Everett, Manitoba at Binghamton, Puget Sound at River City (Beaverton)
Sunday: Manitoba at Hamilton
---
I know that series like this year's Red Sox/Yankees series aren't ones that will be duplicated too much during the course of time, but in a way, wouldn't a Boston sweep over the Cardinals be severely anticlimactic? The Cardinals won a ton of games this year, and I wish they would have at least forced a Game 5 by now. They won a ton of games during the season, yet they have not managed to crack the Red Sox for one win in the first three games of this World Series. Of course, I can tell you about a team from the not-too-distant past that won something like 116 games and didn't even get to the World Series, let alone play in it.
Have a nice Wednesday, readers, and just thank goodness that you didn't have to wake up this morning and realize you were Jeff Suppan. And yes, remove money from the equation when you're thinking about that.
The field was wet at Saint Louis yesterday, which raises the question, have you ever played baseball in wet conditions? It can be quite treacherous, and there's nothing quite like slipping in the outfield grass, and then having a good stiff breeze interact nicely with your wet uniform. You're not warm at all until you get the chance to change out of those duds, so hopefully your slip happened in the later innings. Yes, it's almost enough to give you the flu. In a somewhat related note, I've never had a flu shot in my life.
And yes, I hate the moving-batter graphics that Fox is using before the commercial breaks to show the hitters that are due up in the next half-inning. I think I watched Game 1 and those graphics were being used as the hitters came to the plate, something which made me quite sick. Nauseous, even.
I'm really ending the post this time.
Have a jolly Wednesday, and if you're in the Northwest, make sure to bring an extra coat outside or something, because I seem to remember it being freakin' cold in the warehouse yesterday.
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