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The bar we were at closes early on Monday nights so we had to head home for the 3rd OT. Dang, Zach nearly played an hour tonight! I'm hoping this one goes 7.

I lost track-is that his 8th team? Million dollar talent anbd a ten-cent head. Ding ding ding, you are correct, 8 teams. Remarkably only once has he managed to suit up for 140 games (even in those years where he played for 2 teams.) Baseball-ref has him making $35 million over his career, w/ $23 coming from Seattle.

MIlton Bradley is a Mariner no more.

Some nice highlights in the ESPN clips. It such fun to watch him get into trouble just to see how he'd get out of it.

Cruz may have to join Hamilton on the DL but like you get at, as long as you can get pitching like tonight some of those games may go your way while the big bats heal. I wasn't expecting anything fun & winning at all this year and the M's have done imitations of the Cubs August swoon with better teams than this, but to be hanging around in early May is better than I expected. What the hell, I'm even going to pretend that maybe the winning can extend beyond that.

An ugly one with 6 walks and just 2 Ks. He's been wild all year and maybe that worked for him tonight (along w/ 3 DPs.) Still, for a guy who was supposed to be the 2nd coming of Santana something doesn't seem right with him. An odd thing to say after a no hitter (and more importantly, a 1-0 win), but he still has a ways to go to return to that frightening form of '06.

They don't make it easy either. I tried tuning into the video via the free 2 weeks of mlb.com and got blacked out. For a game 3000 miles away? Whatever, at least they give me the audio on the iPhone app I paid for. If Figgins warms up & Ichiro & Smoak keep it up the team might just become entertaining enough to not be a complete waste of time.

Whoa, the M's sweep the Tigers in Detroit! Watch out BoSox. Darn the luck it will be the back end of the rotation, but as this could be it for the year as far as winning optimism for M's fans goes, I gotta ride it.

I'm visiting my folks and found my original copy. Unfortunately I no longer have anything to play it on.

Thanks for starting it. Jazz, blues or classical, you're involved in many a good recommedation thread.

Not sure. I was going to guess the '84 Tigers as they started 9-0 and were 35-5 to open. Pretty bitchin' eh? But they lost at home in the 10th game.

Wow, can't top the above! Happy birthday!

Yippie-yi-yo and a happy birthday! (Sorry about the tooth.)

I'm considering borrowing the Royals for this season at least. Because of Bill James, Rob Neyer and Joe Posnanski I actually got sick of the Royals getting so much ink for so little quality baseball. But James hasn't really written a ton about the Royals since the '80s and Neyer disappeared (at least from my haunts), and I've been skipping Pos's articles for a year anytime they're Royal specific. So no more Royal fatigue for me! And Billy Butler reminds me of Charlie Brown which is reason enough to root for a team. And if they fail I'll just jump onto the Indians bandwagon. I'll still check in on the Mariners though I have yet to listen to a radio broadcast. I'm still in denial about Neihaus and will have to face up to that eventually. In the meantime I'll cruise the airwaves with the iPhone app.

Cliff Lee was once sent down after being a starter for 3 full seasons and at an older age than Hughes. And when he came back he was CLIFF LEE. While there's no guarantee he'll have that kind of a dramatic improvement it's obviously a necessary move, and who knows, maybe it'll straighten him out. But there was a huge difference in the reasons why each were sent down. Lee was sent down because of location issues. He never had a problem w/ his velocity. Good point. It's just our Yankee fans here fret so much I was just trying to make them feel optimistic for a change. Whew, the Red Sox are playing mighty earlier this morning if you live on the west coast. I feel like such a slacker.

Oh enough about the games. What's really important is the Coca Crisp has gone Oscar Gamble!

Seattle's LF & CF is atrocious while they wait for Gutiérrez to get over his gut problems. In the meantime Langerhans has 10 strikeouts in 22 AB (at least 3 of his hits are HRs.) He's had a long career of doing nothing. Michael Saunders doesn't look ready for the majors either. I'm not sure if they intend to bring up James Jones once we get midway into May for the usual contract reasons or if M's fans have to suffer with guys who seem to be using whiffleball bats.

You'll be busy keeping up with Point Guard U! Jrue in Philly, Westbrook with the Thunder. The '6ers played the Heat well for a quarter and change.

I wouldn't go crazy about him. He came into Citifield batting .214 and courtesy of the Mets pitching left hitting .360. Oh I beg to differ. He's already established that he's a star ss and he's hitting his prime (now 26, turns 27 in Oct.) There's some of that Colorado altitude in his stats but not in the extreme of the days before the humidor. However I don't think he'll hit 80 homers or whatever crazy pace he's on.

Troy is playing out of his mind over in Colorado. I don't see how the Giants even make the playoffs with Tejada at ss. I'd be afraid the pitchers will get too hung up on Ks to keep batted balls away from him.

Cliff Lee was once sent down after being a starter for 3 full seasons and at an older age than Hughes. And when he came back he was CLIFF LEE. While there's no guarantee he'll have that kind of a dramatic improvement it's obviously a necessary move, and who knows, maybe it'll straighten him out.

That's an excellent analysis! Hard to argue with that data, too. The graph for Darrell Evans was especially neat. He was part of the '73 Braves where 3 players hit 40 HRs. At 38 he and Fisk both had huge "old age" HR spikes. Yet with Darrell you can see that it was a league-wide jump in HRs, not just an individual 'roidy thing. He's kind of the poster boy for SABR where it showed a guy could hit .243 yet be more valuable than a .280 hitter because of his power, walks and for a time defense. Thanks for the link Vajerzy, I hadn't come across that one before.

No doubt about it. You've had many all-stars and few hall of famers on teams over the decades but (and no disrespect to those playoff teams in the '90s) nothing quite like this. Have fun adjusting as you've paid your dues & then some!

You can just feel those Mariners breathing down your neck now can't ya?

Here's the AUD patch info on the Charlie Miller version of 11/21/73: Sony Stereo Mic -> Master Cassette -> CD (shnid=22096) supplies: Me And My Uncle (0:17 - 0:19) Dire Wolf (3:11 - 3:13) They Love Each Other (2:29 - 2:50) Let It Grow (2:33 - 2:58) Playing In The Band d2t08 (2:34 - 2:54) Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad (4:40 - 5:05) And seeing how I have something lesser than Charlie's, this is worth it to have the "Let It Grow," "Playing" & "GDTRFB" fixed. Plus those precious 2 seconds of "Me & My Uncle."