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I’m glad TBogg noticed this. Lou also showed up the young reliever who gave up some groundball singles before that, screaming at him in the dugout. (And let us not forget walking a washed-up Jason Giambi to load the bases.) If you’re going to embarrass your young players on the field, it would help if you weren’t screwing up the game 11 ways from Sunday.

The 2001 Mariners are my second-favorite single season team of all time, after the ’94 Expos. But one thing about that fluke season is that it managed to get Pinella off the hook for failing to win nearly as much as he should with the Johnson/Griffey/A Rod/Edgar/Buhner core of the late 90s (you know, three mortal lock Hall of Famers, one marginal Hall of Famer, and an excellent outfielder.) Obviously, the management is a big part of it, but having a manager whose idea of developing pitching talent is to call a kid up after 20 innings of AA, scream at him to throw strikes, and go ballistic when he inevitably gets hammered certainly would have helped.

a delightful coda, however. Even the drama in the ninth was good in that it allowed Derek Jeter to make the last out of the game on a 3-2 pitch below his ankles. That’s more like it! I’m surprised Lou didn’t throw Harper out there in the ninth just to spite him…

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