The Mariner Monitor

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.