So you’re telling me you think you have what it takes to manage a major league ballclub. Ok, fine. Let’s test your knowledge of in-game strategy. It’s the 15th inning. The game is tied 1-1. You’re at home. Who do you send out to face Detroit’s 4-5-6 hitters in the top of the 15th?:
a) lefty specialist Arthur Rhodes
b) Brendan Morrow and his 0.65 ERA
c) Tuesday’s starter Carlos Silva
d) Cy Young candidate R.A. Dickey, who is a knuckleballer therefore can pretty much throw whenever needed
e) backup catcher Jamie Burke
Don’t worry Jim Riggleman. I went ahead and contacted Kinko’s and canceled the order you placed last week for the new business cards that had the ‘interim’ prefix removed.
Mariners Miscarriage Of A Season Continues
Posted by Harvey Bars · July 7th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Tags: Cy Young Candidate R.A. Dickey · Harvey Bars · Jim Riggleman · Seattle Mariners
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1 Aaron S. // Jul 7, 2008 at 10:51 am
In all fairness, Morrow had pitched 4 of the last five, Arthur Rhodes had a sprained labia majora, and Riggleman wanted to wait for the next game to let Silva fuck t all up.
Kudos to Burke, though… Kinda cool to watch a guy walk from behind the plate to the mound and warm up. He has a better arm than half of the M’s 2007 rotation….
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2 Harvey Bars // Jul 7, 2008 at 11:26 am
Rhodes has been battling LM issues for some time now. He should probably go see Dr. James Andrews about that.
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3 Gellman // Jul 7, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Ahh, the underused “miscarriage” instead of “abortion” rule. When referring to something thats so bad but not horrifically bad, use miscarriage.
Nice work, rule in tact.
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4 Aaron S. // Jul 8, 2008 at 10:08 am
Seriously, the offical reason given for Rhodes not being brought n is that he slept funny and his arm felt weird. Seriously.
I’m just going to blame it on Bavasi.
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5 Shakespeare DiMaggio // Jul 8, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Great report form larrybrownsports.com . Ichiro, Adrian Beltre and Willie (The Spork) Bloomquist all volunteered to pitch. Jim Riggleman must have felt like a little league coach.
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6 Aaron S. // Jul 8, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I guess it shows that Riggleman would rather Burke throw out a shoulder than any of those other guys….
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