Delving Into the Rich History of Atlanta
The next time you want to get out and do something with your loved one, consider exploring some of
The next time you want to get out and do something with your loved one, consider exploring some of
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The M's are a tick over .500 and 0.5 games out of the Wild Card. That rates a good solid A-/B+ considering the April rotation, Brad Miller, and Almonte scenarios.
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Yordano Ventura looks unfair, as Jeff Sullivan warned us in this Fox article. He throws every inch as hard as Taijuan and K-Pax, and then add some to that.
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Mojo Sez
Doc, In view of the record, and other obvious signs, a pronouncement of the season is necessary.
Here’s the form. Choose only one box then sign.
Its:
□ Dead.
□ Mostly dead.
□ Almost dead.
□ Not dead.
□ ALLLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!!!
Tritely,
Dr. Detecto
No, Let's Win 8 of 10 and Then Shut Down the Power Grid
Mojo's implication is clear enough, that as of 6 May 2014 our pulse is as strong as a jackhammer. It ain't like you score 3 TD's on 3 straight drives and then walk off the field in resignation.
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The Orcs mighta been lucky to lose by only two runs. We out-hit them 9 to 4, or something, and in one of those innings had runners killed at 3B and HP. The game kinda reminded me that first Angels series, to tell you the truth.
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Stefen Romero
Rick sez,
Cherry picking season! Look at Stefen Romero's last 8 games: .290/.313./.452 for a .764 OPS.
No cherry pickin' about it, homie. You're just right. No need to hedge. Stefen has wayyyyyy shrilled down, not that he was a spooked fawn before. Whoop, that metaphor won't fly. Stefen looks a little more like "The Shot-Caller On Cellblock D" than a gentle forest creature.
As well, since "Section Z" canceled Almonte like a postage stamp, Romero is apparently the #2 outfielder in the mix (behind Michael Saunders). So apparently he'll get his chance to continue the roll.
If you can't remember what Dr. D originally said about Romero, here is Part 1 of the summer 2012 scouting report. Part 1 has handy-dandy clickthru buttons so that you can wallow in all 8 chapters, which includes a fervent thanksgiving to St. Grifol.
The gliding problem is a distant memory ... a college hoops coach once told Dr. D, that if you fix your shooting motion correctly, you won't be able to remember the way you shot previously. This seems to be the case with Mr. Romero. All that remains are the Franklin-like "stretch" and the Edgar-like wrists. Okay, the Jose Lopez-like wrists.
Could be pretty fun to watch him. Starting now. Okay, starting last week.
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This is about 10 degrees off line, but ... when was the last time the Mariners had a position player contend for ROY? Of course Ichiro doesn't count.
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Scott KKKKazmir
The hitters are a weird group, and I don't like the college bats for our selection AT ALL. The arms, OTOH, are good from both the prep and college ranks - and nobody knows how they slot out. They're all of a piece, and many of them have TOR potential. That's good for us, and more likely a selection to boot. They are laid out in order of my current preference (as the previous hitters were).
Pitchers:
In the old Samurai Bushido code, you would die with dishonor for catastrophic failure and betrayal of the code. You would be allowed an honorable suicide if the failure was yours but you upheld the code while doing so. Is Jack Zduriencik coming due for an Old Yeller moment? The shout box is venting a bit about this roster today, so why not go into some of the washouts of the last half-decade? This is what Zduriencik’s watch looks like so far.
News item: Sonny Gray stifles the Mariners for the A’s.
News item: George Springer just called up by the Astros after 37 homers in AA/AAA in 2013.
News item: Anthony Rendon has 1.008 OPS in 14 games for Washington.
What do they have in common?
To piggy-back my irritation at Smoak's ABs last night onto Doc’s great post of collected thoughts here…
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PROPS to the M's 7-and-5 start. Granted, Oakland proved to everyone's satisfaction that we are not yet the Pride of MLB(TM). The Mariners are good, or at least they have been. Oakland, by contrast, is championship-worth. Or at least they have been.
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Prologue
In 1996, Greg Maddux lost the sixth and final game of the World Series. Jeter, and Boggs, and Bernie Williams had taken his best pitches the other way, had stacked up a double handful of singles, and they beat him 3-2.
He said something very odd. "It's hard to get people out," said Mad Dog, "If all they want is a single."