Series Thread: M's At Astros...Time To Bring It!

[gohusk]

What a flippin joke. I guess the bright side is all the horrendous moves are going to get Z out of the front office and maybe we can finally get a guy who knows baseball calling the shots. I hope Lloyd doesn't go down as well. Not because he's doing a great or even good job, but because we can't keep throwing managers under the bus. Who the hell would want this job? Either some washed up grizzled out guy or someone that's green as hell. I don't care how bad it's been but we need some stability because M's manager is probably the worst job in MLB right now.

 

[Itsmytime]

Still not sure why Gattis and Upton aren't Mariners.

Why you ask? Because we have a fucking moron parading around as a GM!

 

[Anointed One]

At what time do we begin calling up Ketel Marte and Jesus Montero? Why hang onto Bloomy and what exactly has Trumbo done for us? Montero would've been much cheaper and wouldn't have failed us much imo... Trumbo has been a joke....

 

[Anointed One]

Farquhar doesn't let us down... Good thing he met our expectations today...

 

[cezero]

this is your team

 

[Anointed One]

Good lord... We've been outscored 22-0 in 2 of these 3 games vs the Astros...

Reporter: "So Lloyd, what happened out there today w/ the offense"

Lloyd: "We'll, we had some very strong AB's but we couldn't find a hole"

Basically, this is what we hear:

 

[gohusk]

At what time do we begin calling up Ketel Marte and Jesus Montero? Why hang onto Bloomy and what exactly has Trumbo done for us? Montero would've been much cheaper and wouldn't have failed us much imo... Trumbo has been a joke....

There's absolutely no reason to keep Montero down at this point besides Z and his ego. He sticks with his guys too long, like Ackley and Smoak, while a guy that crosses him is going to feel the pain. I don't see a scout buying him an ice cream bar (or whatever the hell it was) unless there was a lot of shit talk about him up the chain. I realize that there's a lot of problems at every level (especially the players, because they're the guys playing like shit) but he's a bum. He doesn't know wtf he's doing and the more you see the more that hatchet job that they did in the press about him seems true. They got to fire this guy. He's done nothing for us besides make shitty draft picks and shitty trades.

 

[Msfann]

They keep saying the bullpen is overworked, why are we bringing in our 6th pitcher of the game? Wouldn't it have been better to have one guy eat most of these innings?

 

[Anointed One]

The Texans are up on the Seahawks, 13-0...

 

[Anointed One]

This is the 4th time this season the M's will have been shutout by 13 or more runs? YIKES!

 

[Anointed One]

That walk to Seager was the best AB from the team all day long... 0-2 and works the count to a ball 4....

He could've just hung up down 13-0 with 2 outs in the 9th... Seems he, Smith and LoMo are the only 3 giving max effort anymore...

 

[NWinAZ]

Greg Johns ‏@GregJohnsMLB 15m15 minutes ago

Mariners have been outscored 67-27 and gone 1-8 in last 9 games in Houston dating back to last Sept.

 

[NWinAZ]

Remember in the off season a lot of us were hoping for Gattis? I wanted him as 1B/DH/Backup catcher. Ya whatever.

There was also the rumored via CBS I posted in the off season about M's and Braves talking Walker for Gattis and Upton type deal. That didn't get far luckily because both those guys are sucking.

Sigh............

 

[Anointed One]

Good thing it gets easier for the M's...

(4) against the Giants
(3) against the Astros
(3) against the Royals
(3) against the Angels
(2) against the Padres

15 straight games against teams .500 or better...

5-10 on that stretch?

 

[Anointed One]

Post game quotes:

“It wasn’t much of a game,” manager Lloyd McClendon said.

Sad that we've had quite a few of those this year...

“We were playing good and we’ve hit another lull,” Seager said. “We have two options: you can hang your head and feel sorry for yourself or get back to work and keep grinding.”

I'd like to know when they were playing good before they hit another, "lull"... They are 3-11 over their last 14 games... Their standards are pretty low if they think they've been playing good...

“Turn the page and get ready for San Francisco,” McClendon said.

YAWN

 

[unlvmariners]

We are going to get our butts kicked by San Fran.

 

[NWinAZ]

We are going to get our butts kicked by San Fran.

So just another series then, right?

 

[Anointed One]

At least I can watch my buddy, Jeremy Affeldt pitch... Great series to get his era down... Just what the Doctor ordered in his last year of his contract...

 

[WizardHawk]

At what time do we begin calling up Ketel Marte and Jesus Montero? Why hang onto Bloomy and what exactly has Trumbo done for us? Montero would've been much cheaper and wouldn't have failed us much imo... Trumbo has been a joke....

Because calling them up would end their careers too. We don't have a freaking coach at the ML level. Bring them up and they will fall flat on their faces. Is there any doubt about that? Any at all?

It should be a requirement for all of the coaching staff to wear over-sized shoes and red noses because the whole lot of them are a bunch of fucking clowns.

 

[Anointed One]

What do you guys think about Ryan Sandberg as a potential skipper?