tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56942392012-01-22T02:22:47.076-08:00Mariners, Seahawks, Sonics, Canucks, and any other sports tidbits we deem to be worthy. Or other stuff.<br>All this from the minds of two former residents of the humble town of Bremerton, Washington.<br>Cast: David (Bremerton WA), Jeremy (2003-2007).<br>(post times Pacific, like Bremerton)Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comBlogger37451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-12708238323047576082012-01-22T02:16:00.000-08:002012-01-22T02:22:47.094-08:00

Going through referrer logs the past few years, it appears some of the most searched things on this site were the Google Earth screengrabs I did long ago of the 30 ballparks. Obviously, a bunch of them were outdated. Not to mention, some good folks out there have done 3D models of some of the ballparks. Go figure. Note on a couple of the ballparks: apparently there isn’t any updated imagery

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I'm not sure when exactly I decided to do this. After every Canuck game, I have this Excel chart. I use the NHL.com event sheet and toss in all the goals, assists, and points for the players. When I'm going through every couple days and filling in a game at a time, it's not bad. When I dug back and did the 2006-07 season, it was a bit of a chore. I haven't brought myself to do the 2007-08

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Something appeared in the referrer logs that I found different enough to warrant a response. Basically there are Bing and Google searches asking what happened to Steve Sandmeyer at KJR. As someone who has listened to KJR with a pretty good deal of regularity since the Kemp and Payton years -- and who's been listening pretty regularly in the last couple months -- here is what I was able to get

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I won't say I'm going to get back onto the horse with Sports and B's or anything. There's no way it'll be what it was. The most updated page on this blog over the past two years has been the Mariners' uniform number page, which I'll plan to update for as long as I can (the numbers are frozen from the final day of the 2011 season until Opening Day 2012, by the way). That said, I still feel I

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[box]What a weird game. Surely anyone who saw that Jason Vargas and Mark Buehrle were the starting pitchers in this game figured it'd all be over in around 2.5 hours, maybe less. As Mariner fans, we all saw the brilliant game where Jarrod Washburn and Buehrle had it all done in under two hours. That was awesome stuff. In this game, however, Vargas wasn't vintage Vargas and Buehrle wasn't

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[box]What I should really do is just say that Ryan Rowland-Smith pitched, so the Mariners lost. That'd be the shortest way possible in which I could write this game post and completely encompass everything that happened in the game. Really, it's all you need to know. Everything was stacked against the Mariners before this game even started. First off, they don't score runs. The White Sox

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[box]In short, the Mariners were Danktified again and Felix Hernandez couldn't get the low strike. All in all, that's far from a recipe that would result in a Mariner win. It got bad enough to where in the sixth inning, Felix basically put a pitch right down the pipe (and the EQC Tracer loved that pitch) and plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt called it a ball. Rob Johnson started jawing with

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[box]For the third straight day, the Mariner offense appeared to like not doing much, and after 7 1/2 innings of play, they found themselves behind 2-1 and having pounded out all of five hits. Doug Fister was decent, though definitely not the most efficient we've seen him this season, and the bullpen up to that point had held it close. Then the bottom of the eighth inning came, craziness ensued

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[box][posted in full Sun ~2:41p]After nearly being held hitless on Friday night, the Mariners looked for half the game like they were going to do one better as Jon Lester took a perfect game into the sixth inning. Fortunately for the Mariners, David Pauley didn't pick that day to implode, and a bit of a break and an isolated slugging incident helped the Mariners get a win. I saw highlights on

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[box][partial post for now]I thought it was going to happen in Thursday's game, but ultimately the karmic balance within the game prevented it from happening. In this game, however, it happened -- the Mariners were undone by Bill Hall. That just hurts, considering the guy couldn't hit in his short tenure in Seattle, and all he did was strike out. Mariner hitters were completely oblivious to

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[box]This was a night where you'd wonder as a Mariner fan why the Red Sox can hit homers at Safeco Field (two of them by righthanders, one by Bill freakin' Hall) while the Mariners have a complete aversion to it. Well, I guess it's only relative since the Mariners never get to face Ryan Rowland-Smith at Safeco Field. Who would the Mariners have to face at Safeco Field to hit homers? There used

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[box]It was another banner night for the Mariner offense. Felix Hernandez pitched his heart out, yet the Mariner bats couldn't score a single run for him. At least the offsetting factor was that the White Sox didn't score any runs for a very stellar Gavin Floyd, who threw seven scoreless innings. Where did this game end? It ended in extra innings, where the Mariners have had their struggles

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[box]At least the Mariner pitchers didn't give up a bunch of runs in this game. However, they hit even less. Make it a goose egg for the Mariners one night after scoring only one run. The Mariners were Dankified, and the only thing keeping it from being a complete game for Danks was the fact that he'd crossed the century mark in his pitch count. -- all the pitching will be covered in the

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[box]The Mariners seem to have a handful or so of templates that could be used to describe nearly every one of their losses. Tonight, the hypothetical template had the Mariners staying close in the beginning, only to have the game slip away to the point where the last few innings of the game were completely irrelevant and the Mariners had no real chance of coming back to win. The Mariners this

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[box]There may be a lot more questions in the starting rotation with Cliff Lee no longer in the mix, Doug Fister not back into pre-injury form, and Ryan Rowland-Smith getting the hyphen kicked out of him. Jason Vargas, however, has been providing all the answers he can every five days. He went deep into this ballgame, which the Mariners needed since their Australian contingent was being roasted

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[box][actual post Sun ~9:23p]If nothing else, a Mariner fan can take a little bit of solace in that the team came back to tie the game after being down 6-1. -- the starting pitching will be covered at the end of the post-- Chris Seddon made his Mariner debut, taking over for Ryan Rowland-Smith with one out and runners on first and third in the fourth. He got a fielder's choice and a flyout to

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[box][partial post for now]Truthfully, once the Angels put three runs on the board, it didn't feel like a game, and I just felt resigned to the fact that the Mariners wouldn't be scoring many runs, if any, on this night. The one thing that gave them a glimmer of hope was Justin Smoak's first home run as a Mariner. That nice-looking swing cut the Angels' lead to 3-2, and the Mariners got no

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[box]The roster upheaval has continued for the Mariners as they brought up Chris Seddon from Tacoma and signed Jamey Wright as a free agent. To make room, the Mariners mercifully sent Sean White back to Tacoma and offered Chad Cordero the same fate, but he instead chose free agency. It's really too bad it didn't work out here for him. He'd come a long way to make it back to the Majors, and

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[box][actual post Wed 14 Jul ~11:05p]It was Lose Fly Balls in the Sun Day for the Mariners, which made for quite the Sunday afternoon. Oddly, the Yankees didn't seem to have any problems finding the fly balls in the sun, but part of the reason for that is CC Sabathia kept the amount of fly balls down. The Mariners hit into 14 groundouts and 11 flyouts, whereas the Yankees hit into eight

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[box][actual post Wed 14 Jul ~8:31p]A late-inning clutch hit? Whaaaaa?! A home run, at that? Oh yes. The Yankees, until the bottom of the eighth, had scored the only run of the game and Mariner fans were left wondering if a great outing by Felix Hernandez was going to go to waste. Thankfully, Jose Lopez crawled out from offensive hibernation, if only for one night, and rocked Joba

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[box][actual post Wed 14 Jul ~8:17p; due to extensive traveling, finished this piece the day after the All-Star Game.]Let's be honest. Once the Cliff Lee deal went down in the hours before game time, this game became a complete afterthought. The only not directly involving the trade was who the Mariners were going to send to the mound to start in Cliff Lee's spot. Though they called up Luke

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[box][posted in full Fri ~8:45p]There are three more games left in this series? Crap. That doesn't bode well for the Mariners, except that Cliff Lee and Felix Hernandez will be throwing in the series, so maybe there's a chance at a win somewhere in there. As for the game, the Mariner offense wasn't really doing anything, the bullpen did what it has done lately, and ultimately it's a bad idea

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[box][posted in full ~9:25p...haha]There's your dagger, folks. Now there can be no doubt that Cliff Lee gets traded, because this series drove the final nail into the Mariners' season. Though it didn't feature quite the monumental collapses as the watershed series at Comiskey did, this series has nearly the same impact because it erases all doubt and puts in perspective the week or so stretch

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[box][posted in full ~7:22p, i.e., middle of the first. Guilty as charged, but it's harder to do this from the Monutain Time Zone.]Come on. Did anyone expect a Mariner win out of a game where the Mariners are throwing Ryan Rowland-Smith up against Zack Greinke? Come on. Sure, Greinke hasn't resembled 2010 Greinke this season, but you could say the same for Ryan Rowland-Smith. Then the first

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[box][post will probably be finished before the Wednesday game]Come on. Did anyone expect a Mariner win out of a game where the Mariners are throwing Ryan Rowland-Smith up against Zack Greinke? Come on. Sure, Greinke hasn't resembled 2010 Greinke this season, but you could say the same for Ryan Rowland-Smith. Then the first Mariner out of the bullpen is Sean White? That's not exactly a

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box]Well, now the season seems to be repeating itself in more of a microcosmic fashion. Other than the Cliff Lee game on Sunday, the other two games in Detroit echoed the Mariners from earlier in the season. You know, the team with either anomalously bad starting pitching or anomalously bad hitting or both, then sometimes the bullpen would chip in and implode. Though there was some unclutch

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[box]Once again, Cliff Lee is good. Once again, Mariner pitching can do wonderful things, especially if the offense is scoring some runs. Unsurprisingly, eight runs is way more than enough for Cliff Lee, who needs to be traded around nowish. I've said this before -- for all the talk in the offseason about the Mariners were going to first-and-third other teams to death, the reason I hated

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[box][actual post ~2:52p]Hey, it's another game where the Mariners played more like they'd been playing for the bulk of the season. This time, it was Jason Vargas who fell victim to the big inning, leading to talk about the Mariners possibly shutting down Doug Fister and Vargas through the All-Star break. Ultimately, that would only be one start apiece, so it wouldn't be too much of a

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[box]Okay, this was much more of a 2010 Mariners-y game where they get behind early, they have barely any offense of which to speak, and Sean White makes an appearance. Those are all ingredients of a sure Mariner loss, and that's what this was. Doug Fister was bitten by the big inning, and the Mariner offense had no answer. Worse yet, the Detroit Tigers put seven runs on the board in this game

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[box][fuller post published ~6:04p]The Mariners already had the series won, so in a way, anything positive from this game would have been an absolute bonus. The Mariners never led in this game. They did score some late runs, but gave them all (or both of them all) back on a home run by Alex Rodriguez off of David Aardsma. You win some, you lose some. Of course, the Mariners have lost more

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[box]In case anyone forgot, Felix Hernandez is still pretty good. I think we're going to lookback at the 2010 season and point to Cliff Lee's spring training injury as one of the big things that helped deflate the season. Lee probably missed four starts in April, and in the grand scheme of things, even with four wins, the Mariners would still only be 37-40. Actually, now that I look at that,

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[box]Umm...Cliff Lee is really good. Not sure if that's a mystery or a revelation to anyone, but he's really good. Other than in the ninth inning, he was really only tripped up on two pitches to Nick Swisher. On most other nights, however, Lee would have been pulled after the eighth or definitely a couple batters into the ninth. Why? On most other nights, the Mariner offense isn't putting

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[box]Russell Branyan had a whirlwind day, apparently getting to Miller Park just in time for the game, and he was in uniform and on deck as the final out was made. Realistically, the only chance Branyan would have had to help the Mariners win this game would have been to hit solo homers all four times he came to the plate. The Mariners scratched out all of five hits and one walk. It wasn't

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[box]I might be starting to come around a bit on the Mariners not being completely suck and instead just being average suck. Why? I thought the Friday night game showed a breaking of their will, at least within the game. On Saturday afternoon, they showed a bit of fight, and it was enough to get them the win. It wasn't just normal adversity the Mariners faced in the game, either. The

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[box]If you were a Mariner fan, you felt pretty good through the first three and a half innings of this game. After the bottom of the fourth was through, it felt as if that six-game winning streak had never happened. It felt like same ol' 2010 Mariners again. Really, though, the Mariners probably had long odds to win this game anyway. Why? It was an unfortunate mix of Ryan Rowland-Smith's

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[box]Well, you certainly can't complain about the starting pitching in this game, that's for sure. However, one of the things that has been masked by how well the starting pitching has been lately -- the lack of quality bullpen depth. What I'm trying to say is that the Mariners still have Sean White on the roster. It wasn't all his fault, though. The Mariners went 3-for-16 in this game with

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[box]My goodness. It's really too bad the team had to be buried so far below .500 before they started putting another streak together like this one. What's helped the Mariners in this stretch of six straight wins, however, is the fact that the three-game series against the Reds was sandwiched between off days. What did that mean? It meant no fifth starter. They haven't had to think about

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[box]The result was great, but you could argue this would have been an interesting game if all you saw was the lineup card. Jack Wilson made his return, playing shortstop and hitting eighth. Josh Wilson stayed in the lineup, however, shifting over to second and batting second. In other words, Chone Figgins was given the night off (upset stomach, it turns out). This five-game winning streak

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[box]Normally when the Mariners score a total of seven runs in a three-game series, there's a great chance the Mariners lose two of those three games if not the entire series. This time, Mariner pitchers held the Cincinnati Reds to one run in three games. The duo of Ryan Rowland-Smith and Ian Snell had a combined record of 0-11 going into this game, and the Mariners had a record of 3-16

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[box]This was more like we'd imagined the season. Mariner fans would pray for train for three out of every five days, then the opposition would get Cliff Lee and Felix Hernandez back-to-back and have to deal with it. The Mariners have now won three straight as a result, something they haven't done since the beginning of June. Though many teams haven't felt the full wrath of this combination

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[box]Where's the fire? The Mariners have won back-to-back games, giving the Mariners their first set of consecutive wins in just over two weeks, when they fashioned a three-game winning streak. They started the current winning streak improbably by merely winning a game on the road, something with which they've had immense trouble tihs season. After an off day, the Mariners had their chances to

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[boxHoly crap, it's a Mariner win! These have become rare lately. This win was even more rare because it was a road win. The Mariners only needed 66 total games and 34 road games for it to happen, but they finally got their 10th road win of the season. Yes, the Mariners are 25-41 on the season and 10-24 on the road. The Mariners are one game better than the 2008 pace and three games worse

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[box]At least it was a close game this time. The Mariners lost, but they didn't get clobbered. Really, though, the day was a winner because the Mariners finally cut bait with Ian Snell, designating him for reassignment. The call-up in his place was former Mariner Brian Sweeney, who threw for the team in 2003 and went away in the trade where the Mariners cut bait with Jeff Cirillo, trading him

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[box]when the most notable occurrence during the game was Albert Pujols getting earholed on a throw to the plate by Jose Lopez, you know it was a bad game. At long last, the Mariners, thanks to this nationally televised game, are now known far and wide as an embarrassingly bad team. The only way this could have been worse would be if that series in Arlington was nationally televised. Though

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[box]Cliff Lee was slightly less than superhuman on Saturday night and the Mariners lost their fifth straight. On Sunday afternoon, Felix Hernandez was superhuman and threw long enough for the Mariner bullpen not to be a factor. The Mariners also scored four runs, which was more than enough for Felix to win and end the team's losing streak. The Mariners have had losing streaks of four, two,

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[box]Well, this one was a game for seven and a half innings, but the end result is simple. The difference between the Mariners winning and losing was the difference between Cliff Lee being unstoppable and Cliff Lee being really good. On a team actually worth something, Lee should win in either scenario. In this game, he gave up three runs over seven innings, and that's just not good enough for

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-88057661808393581162010-06-12T07:28:00.000-07:002010-06-13T10:38:13.280-07:00

[box]What was it going to be this time? Well, after getting pummeled mercilessly in the last three games in Arlington, the Mariners got a visit from an old friend, the walk-off loss. This one was their ninth such loss of the season as well as David Aardsma's fourth blown save of the season, matching his total for all of the 2009 season. Up to that point, though, it seemed like the game was

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[box]I had a lawn to mow on Thursday afternoon, so I got to the house and did that, missing the game entirely. I mowed the whole time thinking it'd be quite the riot if I got back to the computer only to see the Mariners had been clobbered again. Hey, wouldn't you know it, they got blasted again. They gave up another dozen runs. While Ryan Rowland-Smith was bad, some defensive gaffes helped

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[box]This team is unwatchable. Anyone who's still watching these games is probably delusional in some way. Sure, one can say that the "true fans" are still watching these games, thinking that in time the baseball gods will reward them with a championship or something. However, if there are die-hard fans out there that aren't watching these games every night nowadays, how could I not blame them

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[box]This game was number 58 of 162 on the Mariners' season, and it was another stinker. To me, anyone can tell me that the Mariners might still mathematically be in the hunt for the AL West lead, but that hasn't been a realistic thought for me since early May. I don't care that the Mariners aren't behind by a margin of double-digit games yet, they're not going to go anywhere until they carve

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[box]Coming off a dreadful sweep at home at the hands of the hated Angels, things didn't look good for the Mariners. In order to keep baseball meaningful past mid-June, the Mariners have to put some pedal to the metal in the very near future. Going to Arlington isn't exactly something that would seem to help the Mariners much other than helping tiny middle infielders hit home runs that wouldn't

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[box]I think what hurts most about me from this game is that Joel Pineiro got the win. Ever since the tail end of his Seattle tenure, he sucked. With how high we were on Pineiro at the tail end of the Lou Piniella era of Mariner baseball, it hurt me to see him go to Saint Louis and succeed as one of Dave Duncan's reclamation projects. So, I was hoping for Pineiro to do nothing but suck this

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[box]No doubt about it -- this one's on the bullpen. Doug Fister missed the start to rest his fatigued shoulder, and I dreaded this game because I didn't have a lot of confidence in Ryan Rowland-Smith making his first start in three weeks. After this game was over, Mariner fans wouldn't be lamenting an awful start by Rowland-Smith. That's because the bullpen (sans Brandon League and Chad

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[box]There are many words for what you'd call this game. Stinker. Laugher. Drubbing. Clunker. Clinker. This time, it seems almost like the blame goes toward the starting pitching and the offense equally. The Mariners won't win many games with substandard starting pitching, and they're not going to win many games where they only score one run. By the same token, burying your own offense

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[box]The calendar has turned over to June, and wouldn't you know it, Felix Hernandez dominated. You could argue that he started feeling the calendar turning in his final start of may, but now it feels right. Good to have you officially back, Felix. Though we can't really say anyone's warming up with the weather since the weather still sucks, Hernandez and Jose Lopez are getting warm.

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[box]On the day number 24 retired, the Mariners got win number 21 of the 2010 season. Ken Griffey Jr. donned a uniform on June 1st for the final time and didn't show up for work on Wednesday, calling it a career. The tears have flown and the highlight packages and career retrospectives have been put together, with many more on the way. With Griffey gone, the last vestige of 1995 who's a part

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-66824104199093281702010-06-02T08:00:00.000-07:002010-06-02T08:01:16.065-07:00

[box]Twenty wins! Dancing surely erupted in the streets of Seattle as the Mariners came away with their 20th win in 51 tries, beating a pretty good team in the Minnesota Twins. I'd have to say it qualifies as another offensive explosion as the Mariners put seven runs on the board. That said, the pitching also allowed only one run. Any time this team puts more than three runs on the board,

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[box]I'll note that until I get a means to see the games where I currently am, these will totally be scourings of the boxscores and the play-by-plays. As for the game, the Mariners scored four times and got ten hits, but Doug Fister gave up three homers. I suppose there isn't really any shame into losing to a team with a record nearly the exact opposite of yours. This is why the Mariners had

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[box]Make it eight walkoff losses for the Mariners. This was the Mariners' 30th loss out of 49 games. So, for every day you've sat down and watch the Mariners, thus far you've seen them lose by a walkoff loss 16.3% of the time. The walkoffs account for 26.7% of their losses. The Mariners usually have games where the offense is just awful and the pitching is wonderful. For the remainder of

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[box]A graphic showed during the game saying the Angels hadn't lost a series to the Mariners since 2003. Also, this was the Angels' first win this season when trailing after six innings. That's disturbing. Still, there were other things in this game that were more disturbing. For instance, losing another game in the final opposition at-bat was disturbing. Seattle being winless in six

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-84790146106116786202010-05-29T00:01:00.000-07:002010-05-29T20:17:58.830-07:00

[box]This one's posted late due to logistics, and I totally didn't see this game, so it's all on how well I read the play-by-play and the boxscores. One week earlier, I saw Cliff Lee have his worst start as a Mariner and still win since the Mariners had themselves an offensive explosion. This time, the Mariners put eight runs on the board, which is more than modest, though not the 15-run

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-55150816249146839602010-05-27T00:01:00.000-07:002010-05-29T12:08:05.088-07:00

[box][actual post 29 May 2010 at ~12:08p]Late, due to logistical reasons. Less than 24 hours after a fun and resounding eighth-inning win, this day game looked like a nine-inning dud. Instead, the Mariners pulled another rabbit from the hat, this time coming back from three runs down in the eighth inning (the first time they'd surmounted a lead of more than two runs all season to win) to come

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-45816693786270029532010-05-26T00:01:00.000-07:002010-05-29T12:07:04.065-07:00

[box][actual post 29 May 2010 at 12:07p]Late, due to logistical reasons. Somehow I think this game was more along the lines of what we expected out of the Mariners. Sure, it helped that Miguel Cabrera wasn't in the lineup for the Tigers, but you take all the breaks you can get. You'd have to presume Cabrera would automatically hit a two-run homer for him to be a difference in this game, and

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-72988614790469235232010-05-24T08:53:00.000-07:002010-05-24T08:56:22.882-07:00

[box]I'm not sure what team I saw at Safeco Field on Friday night. What I do know is that the Hopeless Mariners have returned. This was far from a one-run loss. This one had Felix Hernandez pitching fairly well, the offense managing next to nothing, and the bullpen making sure the offense would have no chance to come back after the seventh-inning stretch. Also, a passed ball and a wild pitch,

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-83613739484958072372010-05-23T11:01:00.001-07:002010-05-23T11:01:54.774-07:00

[box]Friday was almost like a day off. Saturday was a return to business as usual. The Mariners scored only once in the game and went 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position. They had runners on the corners and one out in the ninth and moved neither of the runners. They lost by one run. Welcome back, Mariners. I knew you hadn't gone away. -- Ian Snell had enough rest for a regular start

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[box]What a weird night. I sat in the centerfield bleachers for this game, and it was just an incredibly weird game. The Mariners needed a laugher to go their way at some point, and they got it. Still, it's just odd that Cliff Lee can have his worst start as a Mariner and he gets the win, whereas he lost or got no-decisions in two of his other brilliant starts. All told, it was a grand night

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-63901765825410670212010-05-20T22:25:00.000-07:002010-05-20T22:27:15.264-07:00

[box]I'm not sure we'll know the significance of this win until much later in the season. Regardless, this was a much-needed win for the Mariners. Sure, it snapped a five-game losing streak, but they needed something -- anything -- positive out of Ken Griffey Jr., and they finally got it. That might have been Griffey's hardest-hit ball of the season. It was definitely the hardest-hit fair

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[box]I was having a phone conversation going during most of the game and therefore was paying slightly less attention to the game than usual. In very basic terms, Doug Fister went eight innings and lost. Milton Bradley returned from the restricted list and Sean White was sent down to Tacoma. That move has the Mariners going with an 11-man pitching staff (six-man bullpen) for the first time

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-27481757828491278202010-05-19T08:34:00.000-07:002010-05-20T07:30:00.173-07:00

[box]Know what I miss? I miss when ballplayers either showed sock or wore stirrups as part of the uniform. One of the best things about the uniform of the Oakland Athletics was the sock/stirrup combination (or the paintlined sock) with the green stirrup/line and the yellow sock. That was a really distinctive look, and I wish the players hadn't gotten away from that. Really, the socks nowadays

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-69213786715722433962010-05-18T00:13:00.000-07:002010-05-18T00:14:48.198-07:00

[box]Did anybody see the pitching matchups for today and think the Mariners had a chance? Ryan Rowland-Smith has had maybe one good start this year out of his eight starts. In context of the starting rotation, I began the season worrying about Ian Snell in the rotation and wanting him to get sent down or bumped to the bullpen while thinking Ryan Rowland-Smith was going to get it turned around.

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-14609295431867736742010-05-17T00:35:00.000-07:002010-05-17T00:36:02.796-07:00

[box]Hey, it's another one-run loss and another loss in the final opposing at-bat! Hooray! This time it definitely isn't an indictment on the bullpen since the bullpen wasn't summoned at all in this game. No, this was a clear indictment on the offense. Surprise. Only on this team could Cliff Lee give up seven earned runs over 30 1/3 innings (four starts, ERA of 2.08) and come out with a

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-23177223681643696612010-05-16T08:17:00.000-07:002010-05-16T08:20:41.210-07:00

[box]Ah, new and exciting ways to lose. Oh wait, maybe it wasn't new and exciting at all. A loss on the road in the opponents' final at-bat isn't really a rare thing for the Mariners. Of course, while this can be blamed on the bullpen (their 2009 probably raised our expectations to unrealistic levels for 2010), one can't help but think the bullpen wouldn't have as many problems if, say, the

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-68865398678364395132010-05-15T09:46:00.000-07:002010-05-15T09:48:31.213-07:00

[box]Well, this win was definitely out of the ordinary for the Mariners. Sure, there isn't that large of a sample size for Mariner wins this season, but bear with me. The starting pitching wasn't top notch, but the hitting picked up the starting pitching. Yes, the hitting! The Mariner offense has somehow managed to homer three times in each of the last two games. Incredible. Even more

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-38804648351944484042010-05-13T23:30:00.000-07:002010-05-13T23:33:51.809-07:00

[box]In a way, this loss comes off as more refreshing than most of the Mariners' losses. They put some runs on the board and got good starting pitching. It all went to crap with Brandon League on the mound, however, but I'll get to that later. -- first off, three cheers for Mike Sweeney, who got the start at DH against a righthanded pitcher and, lo and behold, went 1-for-3 with a walk, and the

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-37071548006821246912010-05-13T07:15:00.000-07:002010-05-13T09:10:00.277-07:00

[box]I went with this tagline after Ryan Rowland-Smith's last start, and I'll go with it again: Ryan Rowland-Smith is the new Ian Snell. This is too bad since the Aussie was good for seven innings every five days once he got back onto the roster. As a matter of fact, I was at the game where Rowland-Smith came back against Cleveland, and he pitched great, but the Mariners ended up getting

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[box]Well, the Mariners start a road trip, but the off day was eventful, what with all the talk about Ken Griffey Jr. possibly being asked to retire or being released by the end of the month and possibly having been asleep when Don Wakamatsu could have summoned him to pinch hit for Rob Johnson. Ian Furness of KJR seemed to think that since Larry LaRue absolutely hates the concept of blogging, he

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[box]On the eighth day, the Mariner bats still rested, but on the ninth day, they came alive. The Mariners staved off the possibility of a nine-game losing streak, though hitting coach Alan Cockrell wasn't so lucky, getting his walking papers on Sunday morning. It's bunk to fire a guy on Mother's Day, but the Mariners made Cockrell the fall guy and promoting AAA hitting coach and ex-Mariner

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[box]Well, it's another loss. The Mariners got a couple more bounces than they usually do, and they even managed to fight back from a 3-0 deficit to tie it at 3-3, but ultimately their luck fizzled. While I'm not glad to see the Mariners lose their eighth straight, if there's any positive to come from this game, it's that the game presentation crew will be less inclined to try again in their

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[box]I didn't watch this game, and once I had found out Felix Hernandez had his second straight bad outing, I didn't exactly do everything I could to watch the replay. I watched the Vancouver Canucks try to tie a second-round playoff series at 2-2, but I was disappointed there as well. It was another all-lose night of sports, replicating the one from two nights earlier which also involved both

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[box]We're to the point now where it's more fun to keep track of the Milton Bradley situation than it is to watch the product that's actually on the field. Bradley is now on the "restricted list" while he gets professional help, keeping him away from the team for five days. You have to figure it'll be less than 15 days or they might as well have put him on the disabled list. Anyway, Michael

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-21349070254997853372010-05-06T07:35:00.000-07:002010-05-06T07:38:12.006-07:00

[box]Due to my watching a much more important game (i.e., watching the Canucks fritter away their home-ice advantage in the playoffs), this will pretty much be a boxscore analysis. It hurts to miss watching a Cliff Lee start, and though I likes me some hockey too, I was still hoping the replay of the Mariner game on FSNNW would start right after the postgame show. Instead, it was WHL playoffs.

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-85499655127752150762010-05-05T07:30:00.000-07:002010-05-05T07:32:25.644-07:00

[box]If you didn't look at the standings, you would swear this team we're seeing right now is as bad as the 2008 team. They're almost unwatchable. If the Mariners fall behind 2-0 in a game, I don't have a lot of hope for them to pull out the win. I've made the observation that a number of Mariner losses are the result of not just one player, but an entire phase of the team's game that betrayed

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-35056790184154574452010-05-03T06:21:00.000-07:002010-05-03T06:27:53.169-07:00

[box]I'm not sure if the three straight bullpen meltdowns in Chicago were more demoralizing than this Texas series to open the homestand. Two great starting pitching outings were wasted and the ace wasn't totally on his game, though the supposedly dependable defense let him down. This game was a lot like the Cliff Lee game from Friday night except the Mariners actually scored one run and

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-60020391901039532052010-05-02T11:42:00.000-07:002010-05-02T11:43:26.461-07:00

[box]Felix Hernandez is a dependable pitcher. This much we know. Unfortunately, he is human and not a machine. Thus, the presence of the human element opens the possibility for human error. In other words, Hernandez cannot be perfect. This loss would have been a lot less painful if the Mariners could have scored a run for Cliff Lee on Friday night. Instead, the Mariners failed miserably in

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-33393311329456142952010-05-01T09:29:00.001-07:002010-05-01T09:29:59.060-07:00

[box]Well, this game saw the Mariner debut of Cliff Lee. The way it ended was more like a light version of the inaugural game at Safeco Field. It kinda felt like it. There definitely was buzzkill, that's for sure. The Mariner offense has been horribly inconsistent this year, sure, but the complete lack of clutch in this game was absolutely frustrating. After Lee left the game, the Mariner

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-37461542964699964912010-04-29T07:06:00.000-07:002010-04-29T07:07:17.980-07:00

[box]The Mariners' six-game road trip started awfully as they dropped the first four games, but they took the final two games to win a three-game series in Kansas City. A couple of good things included the Mariners putting up six runs (and hitting four doubles) and the bullpen giving up only one hit through 3 1/3 innings. The bad things include the Mariners blowing a 5-1 lead and Ryan

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-42497470500763859142010-04-27T23:08:00.000-07:002010-04-27T23:10:29.846-07:00

[box]The odds were long for the Mariners to pick up a win in this game. After all, they were sending Ian Snell to the mound and the Kansas City Royals were sending the reigning Cy Young Award winner Zack Greinke to the mound. While the Mariners didn't beat Greinke, they did rush up his pitch count and get into some of the meaty soft reaches of the Royal bullpen. The Mariner bats didn't awaken

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-69331191744498117692010-04-27T07:09:00.000-07:002010-04-27T23:11:37.775-07:00

[box]Congratulations, Mariners. By throwing away a Felix start, you've pinned your hopes of salvaging a win on this road trip onto the shoulders of Ian Snell (to beat Zack Greinke) and Ryan Rowland-Smith, the two most inconsistent starting pitchers thus far in your rotation. That's right -- the Mariners, thanks to the offense not showing up in Kansas City, blew a chance to halt a three-game

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-16248563690602282612010-04-25T17:47:00.000-07:002010-04-25T17:48:12.299-07:00

[box]I think the only way this sweep in Chicago could have been more demoralizing would be if the Sunday afternoon game also ended via the walk-off blast. It was almost similar, though the go-ahead home run came in the eighth inning, so it was a bit different. Still, all three games were well within reach. Pretty much. Two losses on the final pitch of the game, and this loss on a game-winning

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[box]Ah, there's nothing like two gut-punching losses in a row to knock you back to .500. Sad thing is that this game was a lot more within the Mariners' style of play and their recipe of winning (low-scoring and close) than Friday's game, which was a slugfest that really didn't suit the Mariners at all. This time, however, instead of blowing the lead in the seventh and losing the game in the

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[box]If there's a recipe on how to beat the Chicago White Sox on the road, I'm thinking "give up four home runs" is not one of the ingredients. It's been said for a while now that this version of Comiskey Park has been homer-friendly ever since some of the outfield fences were drawn closer to the plate. Taking that into consideration, Ryan Rowland-Smith is a pitcher hasn't struck out that many

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-83927775254625987582010-04-22T06:27:00.000-07:002010-04-22T06:32:02.300-07:00

[box]It appears that Felix Hernandez is sort of good or something. Though we know the Baltimore Orioles are awful and it seems they frequently have pretty bad starts to their seasons, Kevin Millwood isn't yet a chop-liver pitcher. Millwood just hasn't been able to catch onto any solid teams since coming to the American League. Though Felix more than did his job, baseball rules dictate that a

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-37064699328475854072010-04-21T05:27:00.000-07:002010-04-21T05:29:25.878-07:00

[box]What a difference good starting pitching makes. Though the Mariner offense wasn't hitting much during the team's 2-6 start, the starting pitching (sans Felix Hernandez) wasn't exactly holding up their end of the bargain. In this game, the Mariners scored early and Jason Vargas made the lead stand through seven innings before giving way to the bullpen. In this last turn through the

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[box]This one will be straight from the boxscore due to Canucks/Kings Game 3 and the fact that I have to make a lengthy drive in the morning. -- the big inning strikes again! I actually did see the Franklin Gutierrez single before I flipped back to the hockey, so I knew Gutierrez staked the Mariners out to a 1-0 lead. A few minutes later, I flipped back to see the start of the fourth inning

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-79212330316364378092010-04-18T22:46:00.000-07:002010-04-18T23:30:05.699-07:00

[box]After a topsy-turvy week or so (including a death in the family and a bout with the flu), Ian Snell made his first home start. Unfortunately for the 30419 in attendance, the Tigers had all the runs they needed pretty early in the game. Right now, I'd have to say if you go through the Mariners' rotation and try to pick one pitcher whose game has the biggest chance of ending up in a Mariner

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[box]When the Mariners dropped the home opener and found themselves with a 2-6 record and no semblance of an offense or consistent starting pitching, I figured a realistic goal for the Mariners would be to get within sniffing distance of .500 by the end of April. What I didn't see happening was an immediate four-game winning streak. Pretty much everything the Mariners didn't have during the

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[box]It seems as the Mariners regress up to the mean in the early going, more things end up happening that remind us the 2-6 start was the result of an inopportune planetary alignment. After 10 games without scoring more than three runs in an inning, the Mariners put up a six-run fifth inning along with a three-run third and a two-run fourth. The big inning had finally come up in the Mariners'

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[box]It took ten games, but the Seattle Mariners finally have their first winning streak of the season. The theatre was a little bit different this time. In the second inning, Jason Vargas left the first pitch a bit too high to Jake Fox, and Fox absolutely demolished the pitch, sending it past the wall in front of the batter's eye in centerfield. For four innings, the Mariner offense didn't

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[box]Okay, that felt great. The Mariners didn't have an offensive explosion by any means. They didn't even get to 10 hits. They did manage to get some great starting pitching, some timely hitting, and some breaks. Thank goodness for that. For the last time the Mariners won, I borrowed something usually reserved for watching football -- a record of 2-4 looked a hell of a lot better than 1-5.

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516182218141896608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694239.post-9716491828128633892010-04-12T20:40:00.000-07:002010-04-12T23:30:47.814-07:00

[box]Okay, so it was the home opener. Death Cab for Cutie, Randy Johnson throwing out the first pitch...great. What followed? Rubbish. Having an awful offense when the pitching is crap is one thing, but when the pitching starts getting a little better and the offense still isn't picking up the slack, it's something else entirely. I have to tell myself we're only eight games into the Mariners

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