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Contrarian with the format, that is.  You'll get a lot more out of the Shout Box poaches, themselves, than you will out of Dr. D's hip-slams against them.  But, hey, any port in a quota-storm.

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Mojician

How did we miss this: http://m.mlb.com/video/v32230653/laadet-three-errors-lead-to-a-run-for-k... Conger over throws second base, on a steal by Kinsler. The ball goes to the outfield, Calhoun again overthrows the 2b cutoff man (this time coming back in) the ball is fielded poorly by pitcher Richards who throws it past Conger. Kinsler scores. Moral of the story: We should not get too busy worrying about the M's that we don't take some time to stop and mock the Angels.

Heh!

Especially let's take the time to mock the fact that they're -4 games below their 18-10 Pythag expectation!  Mwahaha!  ... wait, that came out wrong...

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Mojician again

Who would have predicted the M's to have a Kuma, Paxton and Walkerless April and still be close to .500? Mad props to Elias and Young for keeping this thing on the rails for the duration of a Mariner baseball calamity. Now, it is necessary for His Nastiness and the Kuma to strike out twenty Lastros each and restore order to the ALWesterverse.

As Spectator has also had the cheek to point out (the unpossible number of things that have gone wrong, that is).  

No Cheering In the Press Box, you feebs.  Pessimism = Objectivity = Acceptance.  Take two pages of Arsenal Mania Transfer Rumours and call Dr. D in the morning.

I believe that Jim has listed the M's misfortunes more comprehensively on his killer website, than Mojo did in a shout box cell.  But my personal fave:  The Logo (TM) doing a Samurai Delicatessen suicide on the infield, while the M's cobble through a .500 April despite the Shogun's orders.

It's not a given that Almonte will survive, but it is that Miller will.  In the latter case, we're talking growing pains.

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Daddy-O

I know there are a lot of Baker detractors here, but I gotta say he provided a lot more content than Ryan Divish has. Divish seems to go several days in a row, sometimes even a week at the time with nothing more than game stories and a few odds and ends. Myself, I always liked Baker. He was like the anti-Finnegan.

Gently trying to soften the complaint a tad, Daddy-O being one of my faves ... for me, Divish is fairly good.  But Geoff Baker is great, and I mean great with a capital G.

It was a minor flat note in the cacophony of Big Blog's propaganda, that (the) Seattle (hardcore blog-o-sphere) was somehow convinced that Baker is anything other than a Hall of Fame sports journalist.  And there was no reason for that to happen.

Maybe they can find some way for Geoffy to do a monthly video blog or something.  I can think of platforms that would host 'em.

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