Orioles 5, Mariners 3. It was poetry, people. Poetry.
by duck on Jul 8, 2009 9:47 PM EDT
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PrintThe Orioles tried to lose this game,
But the Mariners bullpen proved too lame.
Nope, that's not it. Let me try again.
Orioles bats wait
until the absolute last
moment, then they strike!
Nope. Not gonna do. One more try.
There once was a team in Seattle,
Beating the O's 3-0 in battle,
But then their ‘pen sucked,
And the M's were.....out of luck,
And with a win the O's did skedaddle.
Hey, you guys started it.
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Gotta go with Wiggington...
He hit the tying AND go-ahead run in. Then he kept the inning alive with a Birdland slide that took out the guy at 2nd base…which allowed us to get the insurance run. Hernandez was very good also, but Wigs won the game IMO.
Wiggy?
What about the two double plays earlier in the game, including an inning-ending one with the bases loaded?
So?
He did the closest equivalent to hitting a walk-off HR. All sins are forgiven when you knock in the winning run.
by John Stephens on Jul 8, 2009 10:06 PM EDT up reply actions
I disagree
He had 8 baserunners on for him in the the game and he drove in 2.
He did OK, but he wasn’t birdland.
So if we were at home
And in the game he left 12 base runners on…then in the 9th they were down by 2, 2 on, he cranks a HR. That’s not birdland? If Wiggs did not hit in those runs we might have lost.
by John Stephens on Jul 8, 2009 10:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Sometimes, a moment of Birdland
overcomes a gameful of suck.
"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail
Please no more poetry. It's really bad. And very annoying.
Not you Duck, but the people doing it in the thread for the entire game.
C'mon, you KNEW the recap was gonna have it
But I can see where 250+ comments of attempts at poetry could get bothersome. But it was just one game, a game at the end of a work day, and a game that looked like another phone-it-in loss. Sometimes, you just gotta go with the silly.
"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail
Chill, dude
You don’t have to read the comments in the thread. A lot of us were having fun and certainly weren’t gonna stop for one person.
I really wanted to see him rhyme
What the fuck was that shit?
That would have made me laugh out loud.
"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail
I just read the game thread
I thought it was a hoot. Good job guys!
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
You must be kidding.
It’s hilarious! I missed the game and when I reread the gamethread, I couldn’t stop cracking up! Again!
be serious here
does osfan21 look like the kidding type?
by twistedlogic on Jul 9, 2009 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions
This is the first time I've even been tempted to list No One as MBP in a win.
But reading just how bad Seattle’s defense was in the 9th, I had to make it an option. I voted for Wiggy, but 3 votes were already cast before I could pull the trigger on it.
"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail
I mean as bad as their defense was...
Melmo still had a double, Zaun took a good walk, Salazar had a nice single, Jones had a nice single (not ruled an error), Wiggs had a single, and Luke had a single. So it was not all horrible, I don’t like the “no one” vote.
If the 9th had never happened, you still have to vote for Hernandez at least.
by John Stephens on Jul 8, 2009 10:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Ok take away the adjective
Its still a hit
by John Stephens on Jul 8, 2009 10:15 PM EDT up reply actions
I listed it as an option
but didn’t choose it myself. But I could see where others could. As I read the recap on Th Sun’s website, I couldn’t believe how bad Seattle’s defense must have been in the 9th.
"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail
It was dismal...
reminded me of our base running. Yeah, that bad.
by John Stephens on Jul 8, 2009 10:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Duck when I got here there was no recap
And I just wrote an entire mother fucking thing.
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
I don't want to get rid of it because I took all this time
But I guess I will. Dammit.
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
It's my own fault
I take a long time to write.
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
I didn't post until I got home from the carnival and saw there was still nothing.
How the hell long DID you spend on it?
Post it as a comment, at least!
"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail
I posted it as a fanshot.
I don’t know what time I started it. I think like one minute before yours posted.
I like to proofread and check numbers and edit myself. So sue me, duck!
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
btw...
anyone else notice how fun it is to say “don wakamatsu”?
i’m actually going w/ memlo for MBP.
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
It Was So Painful
I was so tired of the false hope, that all I could muster was a faint smile when we took the lead. We did not deserve to escape SafeCo with a win. Without the defensive errors in the 9th, we still don’t get out with a win. Woodward cuts down the run at the plate, and Markakis grounds into a double play to end it. Jose Lopez for MBP, but I voted nobody. Nobody was clutch, nobody played well, they just played barely well enough to outlast the defense. Wigginton with two double plays? Oscar Salazar throwing the ball into the runner to give up that 3rd run? Jones hitting a tapper that Woodward would normally field, possibly turn two on? The only one who deserves consideration is David Hernandez, and even he was bad. His pitches were all over the place, but he was, as they say, effectively wild. All-in-all, this is a win to be neither proud nor happy about. It’s just a sign of all the holes that we still have in our lineup.
On the first day, Chuck Norris created God. But the day before that, Matt Wieters created Chuck Norris and the calendar.
Possibly turn two on Jones' tapper???? no way. He MIGHT have gotten the out at first if he played it perfectly.
It was a really hard play.
no he really should have turned 2
on the Lopez ball in the 9th.
They ain't tough enough, smart enough or fast enough.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jul 9, 2009 1:38 AM EDT up reply actions
yeah
any ball to woodward shouldnt have been a double play. i guess i agree with you then
They ain't tough enough, smart enough or fast enough.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jul 9, 2009 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions
didn't see it...
but on the radio, they made it sound like a competent 1st baseman would have made a pretty easy play in salazar’s throw. i mean, maybe it would have taken an extra effort to get the out, but they made it sound like the ball going into the camera well was all on huff.
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
It was
A bad throw of course, but Huff still could have had it. It looked like he blindly whiffed at it.
by John Stephens on Jul 9, 2009 8:38 AM EDT up reply actions
we win between 65-75 games a year
every win is a win to be happy about.
Matt Wieters can get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop in under one lick.
I'm sorry I missed the poetry shindig
Ok… So I’m not. Sue me!
Jioe Flaacco, Hon!!! "He’s like a live JUGS machine."
who voted for Wiggy
he hit into 2 double plays already. But anyway this was a fun game to be at.
They ain't tough enough, smart enough or fast enough.
No one has pictures of Huff or B-Rob's moustaches? Really? I'm quite curious.
I don’t like West Coast trips at all. :( Have yet to see a game. But wasn’t this the last WC trip of the year? Or something like that? Hooray!
As for this game, which, I missed, I voted Seattle imploding on themselves because of all the errors. Not that I’m complaining about those errors or anything. Errors are a beautiful thing, unless, of course, WE are committing them.
P.S. Brian can’t possibly look very pleasing to the eye with a stache. But I’ll give it to him because he’s sick. Then again, Aubrey probably looks pretty freaky with a porn stache.
Roberts is more of a shadow
Hopefully he’s just getting ready to be scruffy over the all star break.
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
i had to go mora here
i mean, when do we get a chance to vote for him? plus i have a hard time giving MBP to a pitcher who was losing the game when he left even tho i think his start was fantastic. losing is not birdland
M's gamethreads are birdland lol.
and man they loooove some Garret Olson
“OK OLSON HOVER YOUR FUCKING BALLS OVER MY GOB YOU ARE ABOUT TO GET A FUCKING TEABAGGING” – that was worth 5 recs :)
Word is they’re about to sign cintron too and rumored to be looking at ryan.
Ha!
This was my favorite from the LL gamethread:
GOOD THING WE GET TO FACE GEORGE SHERRILL SO THE ERIK BEDARD TRADE CAN REPEATEDLY SHIT ON OUr FACE
by Fuckmikereilly on Jul 8, 2009 4:30 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
"The United States is the New York Yankees of countries...powerful and respected until the year 2000." - Homer J. Simpson
teabagging and hot lunches?
man, those westcoasters. crazy bunch.
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Jul 10, 2009 7:54 AM EDT up reply actions
Not to pick this comment apart
But in the scenario above, wouldn’t Olson be the teabagger, not the teabaggee? Unless I misunderstand my teabagging terminology.
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
Maybe it's different in england.
The coment was from “EnglishMariner”. As evidenced by the use of the word Gob.
Even having spent a few years over there I couldn’t confirm or deny that. I find maintaining a plausible deniability in such matters to be the soundest course of action.
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