The Mariner Monitor

The Mariners lost yet another heartbreaker, this time a 3-2 loss to the A’s in the 11^th inning. But are the Mariners losing news anymore? I’ve gotten to the point where I am disappointed when I don’t see an item involving a fired coach or a complaining player. The results of the games have just become background noise.

So you can imagine how thrilled I was when I saw the news item that Ritchie Sexon, the guy that was supposed to make us forget that Ken Griffey, Jr. and Alex Rodriquez once played in Seattle, was released by the team Thursday morning.

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The Mariners’ season has turned into a Dr. Seuss book.

They can lose when they score a lot or when they can’t score enough.

They lose when a pitcher’s on fire and they lose when his outing is rough.

They even lose when a backup catcher closes the game.

Man oh man, these Mariners are lame.

OK, but really, they do suck. Thankfully last night’s 2-0 loss to the A’s lasted just 1 hour and 45 minutes. Unless you’ve been trying to drink away the season. Then that sucked for you since 1 hr and 45 min isn’t enough time to drink until you forget the game.

Carlos Silva was money, going nine innings and allowing two runs while scattering seven hits. His counterpart, Justin Duchscherer, also went nine innings, allowing zero runs and just two hits. The sad part is that he struck out just four guys, which means his stuff wasn’t exactly Nolan Ryan-esque.

Then again I think I could throw three scoreless innings against this offense.

 Jim Bryant/AP 

The sight of backup catcher Jaime Burke taking the mound in the 15th (it was the 15th, right? I lost count after 12) was incredible not because a position player was forced to pitch in a tie game. What was incredible is that Burke taking the mound isn’t even the saddest part of what has been an abysmal season. If anything, it gave us fans a reason to smile while we continue to die a little bit inside every day.

Detroit got the best of the Mariners, 2-1, and by “got the best of” I mean they finally decided to win the game after 14 innings of complacency. I mean someone has to do it and Detroit had no excuses once they saw a backup catcher take the mound.

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