95 games into the season, the deep and wide flaws of the organization known as the Seattle Mariners baseball club have been cruelly exposed to the world. At 37-58, they are the worst team in the American League by a fair margin. (On the senior...
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I was at Shea yesterday, which was great except for Pedro leaving the game early (although he was pitching 1-hit shutout ball with no stuff.) Between that and Alou unsurprisingly.
....um, so my effort to embed video evidently failed. Just watch it hereEr, it's fake apparently, and I'm behind the curve. Never mind.
This March, I spent $4 on Milton Bradley in our fantasy baseball auction. He has rewarded my faith with a .439 OBP, .605 SLG, 17 home runs, 52 runs scored and 54 RBIs. Congrats, man, on reaching the All Star Game.
I don't mind the defending World Series manager favoring his own players in marginal cases, but seriously, Jason Varitek? What a disgrace. I mean, he was a fine player for.
Interesting discussion about Omar Vizquel here. Some thoughts on the two questions:On the Hall of Fame issue, the conclusion of the more analytical observers seems right to me. I hate.
I saw my first ever Mets/Yankees game yesterday, and it certainly sucked although my section didn't have the fights that apparently happened in other sections. Especially with the effect of the rain delay, the striking thing is that after Reyes getting picked of second with...
Apparently all the Mariners needed was a trip to Shea Stadium, which suddenly turned R.A. Dickey into Phil Niekro. (And it's hard to even bring up Wright being out of.
Calling all toasters claims that the Mets are grossly underachieving and that "the personnel is better this year than in 2006." Kaufman and Sheehan disagree. It seems pretty clear to.
This is about right. I can certainly understand firing Randolph last month; the team (after a historic choke) has underachieved on balance this year, although this is at least as much on the GM (I'm not sure what a manager can do when presented with...
Bill Bavasi mercifully fired. It makes sense; charitably assuming that the Mariners may try to find a major league manager at some point this season, you want a new GM.
If 2004 comes back, I'm sure he'll be very effective. And between him and Moises the Mets should have at least 20% of their remaining LF games covered.Actually, all snark.