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“Speaking of pitchers, the guy below doesn’t have any issues with back stiffness. Too bad you can’t rewind to two months ago, huh? By the way, Cha-Seung Baek (the uniformed guy in the picture below) told me the team’s explanation to him the night he was designated for assignment was that he’d gone back-to-back nights and a fresh arm was needed. Kind of what we’d figured all along, but that’s a tough pill to swallow. You groom a guy, see him have some success in the majors, then lose him because you need a long reliever every second night. Oh well. Baek starts tomorrow against his former team.” –Geoff Baker, The Mariner Blog
Hear that? That’s the sound of Mariner fans hitting their heads against walls, tables, pretty much anything within reach. Could we at least get a GM who isn’t so bad at roster construction that he has to cut a prospect to add another releaver? Sheesh.
“I’m beyond those kind of motions. I’ve surpassed those emotions,” he said. “I don’t even know if I’m to a point where I can tell if that’s how I feel.” -Ichiro on if he feels disapointed by the play of his teammates.
If only the Mariners were as good at playing baseball as Ichiro is at giving mind blowing quotes after games:
“”Playing on this team and seeing what’s happening around me, I feel that something is beginning to fall apart,” Suzuki said through a translator. “But, if I was not in the situation and I was objectively watching what had happened to this team in the past week, I would probably be drinking a lot of beers and brewing it.”
What kind of beer?”Usually I enjoy Japanese beer, but given the situation, if I was objectively watching the game, I wouldn’t care if it was Japanese beer, American beer or beer from Papua New Guinea,” he said.”
Awesome.
Through all of the steroid controversies in baseball right now, Griffey remains one of the classiest, funniest guys in baseball.
George Sherrill 3.18era, 6 saves, 4k
Adam Jones .278, 1hr, 3 rbi
vs.
Erik Bedard 3.10, 1-0, 10k, 15 day DL
Brad Wilkerson .152, 0hr, 4rbi
Mike Morse .222, 0hr, 0rbi, 15 day DL
Obviously this is a trade that is going to be judged over the next 5 years or so, but to this point, the Mariners traded away depth they are now sorely missing for a sore hip and two trips to theDL. If I’m Bavasi, I’m praying for Bedard’s hip because he’s pinned his Mariner future on this trade.
I keep forgetting to post a link to this blog post by Geoff Baker. It’s basically his debate with the Mariners’ fan base about why they seem so pessimistic about the team. My favorite part is where they conclude it is because the Seattle fans are the smartest in baseball. 
I might post more thoughts about it later, but its an interesting read either way. It explains a lot about the fan frustration with a team that has on paper been getting better and better the last two years.
Sounds like someone’s been updating Wikipedia after reading the USS Mariner blog. . .
“Bavasi views the trade [for Eric Bedard] as beneficial, due to his oversight of the prospects’ potential and his misunderstanding that Bedard will likel seek a contract elsewhere after the minimum 2 years of being bound to the team. Ironically, should this trade go down, Bavasi will be heralded by uninformed fans, including Howard Lincoln. This will buy him at most two more years as GM, in which the Mariners will be in fringe contention, until he will be placed in the “hot seat” again, quite likely along with Howard Lincoln.”
Among all the names that are being thrown around in the wake of the Mitchel Report, there is one that continues to draw no second guesses as to being or not being on the list, Ken Griffey, Jr. If ever it seemed like there was a player who could justify his use of HGH or steroids to hasten his return from multiple devastating injuries, it’s Griffey. Yet he, seemingly alone, has the respect for himself, the fans, and the game to play the hand he is dealt. Come 7 or 8 years when his name is finally on the ballot, it would be fitting for Griffey to be the first unanimously elected player to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
