Wow. The only thing more depressing than this season is … no, no, there is nothing more depressing than the Mariners’ season right now. I think even O.J. Simpson is looking at this team and thinking, “Damn, at least I’m not them.”
Seattle lost, yet again, 5-2 to the Rangers, and this game featured everything that has plauged the team.
No hitting.
Poor fielding.
Spiritless pitching.
You couldn’t get a better Mother’s Day gift on Sunday if you were a Mariners fan.
Showing that the team does, in fact, care about its mothers, Seattle snapped a five-game losing streak with a 6-3 win over the White Sox.
The streak is over! OK, so it’s not the losing streak, which everyone wants to end, but the Mariners’ scoreless innings streak ended at 24 during their 4-2 loss to the White Sox.
It’s the equivilent of someone telling the captian of the Titanic that the ship will sink in two hours rather than one. Sure, it’s an improvement, but the end result is still the same.
I guess when the team you cover is as bad as the Mariners, you start to lose your mind. First it’s beat writer Geoff Baker with his doomsday blog headlines. Now it’s columnist Steve Kelley who interviewed Ichiro … well, Ichiro’s bobble head. Yeah.
Commenter Smitty said it best when he wrote, “This is truly the saddest thing I have ever seen in my life.”
He forgot to to add “…besides the Mariners’ offense.”
You go with your friends to the bar, the club is packed, the music is great and a cute little number on the other end of the dance floor notices you. Then, just as your perfect night is coming to an end, the girl you’re taking home throws up in your face and you spend the rest of the night holding her hair back while she’s face deep in a toilet bowl.
That’s kind of like what Erik Bedard is going through in Seattle only much, much worse.
If Miguel Bautista could make an lolcat, it’d probably be like the one above.
Bautista threw 85 pitches last night … in 2-1/3 innings.
Think about that for a moment. That’s an average of 12 pitchers per out. George Bush’s war strategy is more efficient than this.
Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times thinks Wladimir Balentien and Jeff Clement need to step up now. Not in a couple of weeks or in a month. The two rookies need to be contributing members of the Mariners now or risk certain death.
At least, that’s the tone of Mr. Baker’s blog post on Seattle’s newest call ups.
He has a point. Considering how much money this team is being paid, they can’t afford to have a rebuilding year with new talent. The Mariners need the new talent to step up.
On Cinco de Mayo, of all days, the Mariners gave their fans something to celebrate. Seattle has broken their five-game losing streak with a 7-3 win over Texas and they no longer have to share the title of “Worst in the West.”
Carlos Silva won’t hide his pearly whites, even in the face of an awful pithcing performance. No, that’s not him after yesterday’s 8-2 loss, but Silva did have an answer for the Mariner’s current woes.
It’s probably too early to throw up the white flag but that doesn’t mean tthe fans or journalist can’t be extremely negative. Like Geoff Baker from the Seattle Times. In his latest blog post he essentially went off on the Mariners after their pathetic 5-1 loss to the Yankees.
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