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Somehow today isn't turning out as bad as I thought it would

Very nice.

me either...I thought they would all be hung over...
Let's Go Halos Rookies!
Time for some more fun with Jepsen and Bulger!
YAYZZZZZ!!1!

…bulger is in.

SLC vs Seattle

so much for the Rainiers!

Just need to put in Reggie for Anderson and Matt Brown for Vlad.
Heh, Sandoval in for Vladdy.
After Weaver, Bulger probably looks like he's throwing 100 MPH.
i would be more suprised about the score

if the M’s didn’t suck SO BAD.

Roll Call!

Hello to all my HH brethren :)

these might be the happiest two game threads this year
Pessimists are still hung over. :-P
does that make me a pessimist? :)
Too hung over to work the intertubes.
hard to be upset

after you just clinched the West and are beating the crap out of the “trendy” pick of the year

Bulger gets 2 quick outs
haha, silly 'ners

’NER ’NER ’NER ’NER ’NEEEEEEEER ’NERRRRR

Let's go halos! clap! clap! clap!

anyone going to sell playoff tickets??? let me know….i’m definitely going this year. Last play off game I attended was the twins vs. halos in ’02.

From a distance, Bulger looks like Speier

Except that he doesnt need to give up atleast 1 run an inning.

I wish this country had a song I could actually sing

At least O Canada is in my vocal range

lol

you can’t sing it an octave down?

I can't really sing anything, to be honest
ahh

then never mind. :)

Hahaha

It is what it is

no shame in that, sir

everyone has a different gift

i bet after some liquid courage you could manage
Perhaps you should try to compete in American Idol
that leaves you with...

rap? Spoken word?

Drums and/or Rock Band
Love that game!
That'd make a hell of a good anthem.
that was well done, singer

i heart that song

I'm not even American (not even close) and that song always gives me goosebumps when I'm there
I thought she sung it well

but in half the time… what was the rush?? Let us savor it.

Do the Mariners have new hats?

Like a weird logo?

special hats for 9/11
HUH?

seriously? I thought they were wearing those yesterday.

Stupid Ichiro ruins the gras!
Ichiro screws up our turf, lol
bigger divot than Brandon's 3-wood
Ichi ruined the field.
get the hose arredondo !
If I do that at the golf course

I get my ass kicked!

If you slide at the links

you deserve to have it kiked.

Glad the Samurai wasn’t hurt. Ichiro is tits

Seriously, that looked dangerous
Guess I forgot to completely fill in that tiger trap.

But in my defense, I thought GMJ would be in right tonight… >_>;

nice try, Woody

stupid Betancourt…

Nuts, Brandon back under .200.
ehh

i’ll gladly take a 2-4, RBI night from him

Sure, but it's awesome to have him over the Mendoza line in the bigs.
give it another 2 days

against the M’s pitching, Mathis could get back to .200

damn

lets finish them off angels.

Sharp...

Somehow I think Panasonic, Sony and Pioneer all make better TV’s.

I've got a Dynex

Whoops.

…at least it only cost $350 for a 32" LCD

Sounds like a good deal to me

A lot of those cheaper end tv’s have the same screen as some of the higher, bigger brand tv’s anyway. Back in Europe you could get every Philips TV as a “Aristona” tv which was significantly cheaper.

scioscia knows where to get those

i can’t remember the name, though

So are we gonna put Speier in

And get K-rod #57 today ?

Seems like we are (answering my own question here)

He wears his own shirt today

If you hadn't post this

I would’ve.

Torii Hunter now pitching.
according to Reuters, anyway

lol

uh oh... shutout officially in danger
good call.
about the easiest one ive ever had to make
The Soth is putting lots of faith in Speier.
I think he's trying to get K-Rod another save.
who didnt see that one coming
there's your Speier home run

ladies and gents.

and here's your sign...
ha!

Bill Engvall makes me laugh.

is that Soth’s sign?

Speier gets right to it

Come on. Let’s give them some more runs for Frankie.

Hey Soth. It's over.
Well Justin ...

gets to stay home during October.

I swear...I was just sitting here thinking OH SHIT it's Speier time

not a good thing

Wow...

…giving up a HR to Ichiro is like…

…well it may be like a few things. it IS sucking.

That is for sure.

Hahaha.

Funny…

Where's Jepsen?

Seriously.

let Figgy pitch
bwyuauauaauauah, i just signed into here just ebcause speier came in, so i could laugh with the rest, sure enough, he doesnt let me down
GMJ is a broken clock...

Speier is like clockwork…very reliable.

Lol Gibicza, I wouldn't call Ichiro's swing
whoops

I wouldn’t call his swing “effortless.”

Now Announcing Juan Rivera

Designated Pitcher!

I think we should trade Speier to the Mariners for Morrow.
They might do it.
they fired Bavasi, remember?

send ’em Q, too

Ofcourse!

They need VETRUNS!

wait is bavasi.. cause if he is...

IT COULD HAPPEN

Justin's seriously got to cut down on the HR's.
Ya think?
It's weird, he didn't do this last year. Not sure what the problem is.
Hes relaxed and part of the team

last year he had to prove himself.

Sosh has to light a fire under his ass.

Whos the drunk on the TV

so how many homers has speier given up this year

:rant2:

15
0_o

seriously?!

Yep

FIFTEEN!

how many innings?

excuse my laziness…

Dont know

Not too many.

It is terrible. He gives up tons of hits and HR’s.

73-ish innings

i got curious

62.2, not counting tonight.
whoops

i have no clue what i was looking at

57
sorry

thats how many appearances hes made

must suck being speier. i loved the picture of speier and gmj hugging yesterday. group session for those least likely to play an inning in october
is there really any GOOD reason for Speier to be on the postseason roster?
Allowing us to lose games we should otherwise win?

Or is that not a good reason?

How exactly do you define "good"?
....not bad?
how glib.

q = not p.

any reason besides "he a vet and making too much money"
To make K-Rod look more important
if he does make the roster, he better not face any lefties, even if they have figgy power
If he makes it...

He better make it as an outfielder. Not as a pitcher.

or as our new

Darin “take out the catcher” Erstand-type player

Slider-speed bat is K'd.
"do the speier" dotta da dot dada dot dot dot , dotta dot dot dadat
somewhere steve phillips is saying " i told you so..."

and nobody’s listening

Who's this guy blabbering ?
Speier... come on, 2 more runs!
Hey nice

So now we let the Mariners load the bases in the ninth and then K-Rod comes in and gets a 5-run save.

2 more runs! 2 more runs!
one more... with a runner on

== Frankie eligible for the save.

the skid mark on the sexy lingerie, speier and gmj
ewwwwww

and BWAHAHAHA

seriously Speier?!

are you effing serious????

Speier smiling

what a knucklehead

I'd like it if K-rod gets one of those 1 out saves

That would PISS OFF the Mariners fans soooo much.

Hahahaha

Oh Justin.

DFA Speier already

Come on guys, this is insane.

He's got a long contract and he hasn't historically been bad.

He’ll be better next season.

Do you believe that yourself ?
that's what we said about GMJ, right?
Yeah, but he's also been well below career average this year

I don’t think either player is as bad as they’ve been playing

i dont think Speier is really this bad

i think GMJ is playing close to how bad he really is

Close, but only recently

His absolute suckage earlier was not indicative of how good (bad?) he really is

scoscia looks like he's gonna cry, because he knows he's going to be telling a nice guy that he is not pitching in october. ah well
That's ridiculous - Shields has to come in.
SLOW SOTH WALK TO THE MOUND

…wow does speier suck or what?

I WAS admiring that walk...

think there was a message there? Sheez Speier…WTF?

goodnight speier

man what happened to that guy…

Mathis: So how does feel knowing that I'm guaranteed a playoff roster spot

While you probably just pitched yourself out of one?

Speier: It sucks. A lot.

Speier is a team guy

The conversation went like this:

SPEIER: I am so glad I am not going to be stinking up our chances in October.

a lot of libra’s worried about birthdays ruined by a playoff SPEIER

Soth cronyism = Justin Speier
I hope Franky is paying you well, Justin.
bad out to run ratio there speier
and a bad "pitch-to-homerun" ratio
i honestly feel bad for the guy...

he seems like a really nice, cool guy.

he’s just been flat-out terrible this year

Just because he's a nice guy

Doesn’t mean we should feel bad for him. He is FLAT OUT terrible this year and has been ALL THROUGHOUT this entire season.

If a guy comes to work for me and he sucks at his job, even though he’s my friend, he shouldn’t get that job untill he’s (a lot) better.

Speier has been terrible since the beginning of the year and we’ve seen NO improvement whatsoever.

santana was 7-14 last year
santana didnt get the aids though
Santana showed improvement.
Not last season he didn't
Yes he did

Went down to SLC, came back and dominated Boston.

And then got lit up the next start against Toronto

just like before, he was totally inconsistent.

Which is unlike Speier

Who has been consistent all season.

Wrong.

Speier has come in some tight spots and gotten out of them. And occasionally put up a pair of scoreless innings.

everyone around here wanted him gone

i am very glad to eat crow on that one

So am I

But I do not consider Santana’s last year in the same category as Speier this year. It was quite obvious it was mental, at least it seemed that way. His stuff would look great but one little thing would go wrong and the dude would blow up.

Speier has been consistently terrible.

yeah, and he spent a month at SLC for his troubles...
Maybe we can transfer his contract so that he works out of the booth or something.
Any news on Kelvim Escobar btw?
Only what happened post-surgery.

Repaired the labrum, didn’t have to touch the rotator cuff. But no word since.

Speier = Sucks = 2008

:(

Way to rub it in Shields.

1 pitch for a lazy fly ball.

KISS - Keep it Simple, Soth

With a 7-0 lead, why not O’day for the 8th and Jepsen for the 9th?

Saves.

Franky wants them.

Shields is like... oh man... that was hard work.
scoscia giving speier every chance imaginable to show him something, dude just doesn't have it in him this year. every outing for him is playoff mode, and he keeps failing. RIP
I hate the Dodger hats in the stands

Only because wearing an Angel hat in Chavez Ravine is heckle-bait.

Jeff makin' it personal between him and Johjima.
Was Maicer sucking his thumb?
teasing rivera is a full time job
Freakin' warning track power...
Gooby just noted: The Soth expects Aybar to play at some point during the upcoming road trip.
What about HK?
They didn't give a return date - I'm guessing that HK is further away from returning.
Gooby and Rory were hoping HK can come back.
Magellan making sure to get his groundout to second in for the night
yeah he was way too productive so far.
So who wants to put 2 baserunners on for Franky?
shields will walk one at least ... the rest is up to god
come back soon tori ... figgins ... stonema.....NO
Must be something in the dirt around 1b @ Anaheim...

Kotch left some mono virus shit laying around the bag and Tex is trying to fight it…

Teixeira has been plagued by an infection that began giving him fever-like symptoms Tuesday night. He was out of the lineup on Wednesday and again on Thursday for precautionary measures. The medical staff is just making sure it’s not a staph infection, which Teixeira said is likely not the case.

The good news, however, is that the Angels expect first baseman Mark Teixeira and Chone Figgins back in the next few days, and that second baseman Howie Kendrick and shortstop Erick Aybar are showing good progress in their return from hamstring strains.

As for Kendrick and Aybar, the two middle infielders stepped up their running program to include running the bases on Thursday. Aybar’s hamstring, however, is closer to healing than Kendrick’s, and the shortstop could return to the lineup sometime next week, while Kendrick’s return is still unclear.

“Howie and Erick ran today and ran the bases and looked very strong running,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. “We’re going to pay a lot of attention to their rehab and where they are. We’re going to err on the side of caution because of the nature of hamstrings and where we are right now with making the playoffs.”

Linkie

a BEER infection, that is
get KRod up!
YESSSSS

totally called it

I believe he is already up.
i posted it right before they said it
K-rod warming up!
1 more baserunner for 57.
I will be massively disappointed if Shields gets a DP here.
I want a 1 out save for Frankie

Just to piss people off.

Shields should just plunk the next guy

so Frankie can come in

If Frankie gets a 1 out or 2 out save...

ESPN is going to be all over that.

If Frankie gets # 57 tonight, espn better be all over it!
they'll mention it

then talk for a half hour about how awesome the Patriots, Celtics and Sawx are

Because the only thing that really matters in MLB

is how the Sox, eventually, will get #1 in the AL-EAST anyway.

it'll be after a review of last year's NFL draft

fantasy draft…

Hahah Frankie time
Get me my Kaopectate
way to go Shields!!

let’s do it, Frankie!!

FRAN-KIE! FRAN-KIE!

love the fans getting into it!

Oh man I was actually JOKING about Speier enabling K-Rod a save!

And yet… it’s happening!

Here comes Frankie!
i hope shields is just hung over
Shields just loves Frankie

He wants to give him plenty of chances to rip Thiggies record to pieces.

shields has been all over the place the last month. hasnt led to a lot of runs, but his location is garbage
I know, it worries me too - but his august is always terrible.

I was just kidding

This was TOTALLY on purpose.

Did you see the called strike Shields got on the third pitch?

Yeah and Speier was smiling after Butch left

It’s a TRAP!

no wonder krod wants a big contract next year

he’s got no cash after bribing speier into more save opps

shields trying to make speier feel better about last inning ?
Payday loans are stupid

duhhh…my favorite is when the students at the college I work at take their fin aid checks down and cash them at one of those places! :((

this is exciting and all..

but its totally lame that shields and krod had to pitch tonight…

cannot believe a 7 run lead

has become a save opportunity.

JUST KIDDING LOL GO ANGELS

I feel bad for Speier. He seems like anice guy. it's too bad he can't pitch.

Left field maybe?

Bullpen coach

Eh… no.. hold on!

I feel the same way...

total team player, really nice and funny.

Inexplicably sucks after a mystery stomach ailment.

Incidentally, if you couldn't already tell this was a setup, the grins

on the Angels bench should have clued you in.

This is fun :-)
DP!

nicely done, boys!!!

double play!!!!!!!!

on Ichibutt!

if he breaks the record on Saturday

im gonna be soooooo stoked

Then you better get me a salsa bowl :-)
I think Arte passed down orders that saves 57 and 58 happen in Anaheim.
Blue has a wacky strike zone
Congratulations, Francisco!

Uno mas y el record es para ti, solamente.

Wow that was premature, sorry

It’s all my fault if he screws up

Oh god its all my fault

Never pre-write posts

you're about to get a FAIL card, sir
Fuck, so sorry!

Jesus. This is why you need to be able to delete posts.

lol

you’ve been saved

like he just did?
Jesus, what did I do?
FRANKIE FRANKIE FRANKIE!
i'm stoked with all the LOVE from the fans for Frankie
Gefeliciteerd Frankie!

Goed gedaan jochie!

language?
Dutch (Nederlands)
nice

that would be why i didn’t recognize it lol

Love to hear the crowd chanting his name
....bummer

still need an out

hmm...

Bases cleared, 1 out to go,

RALLY DIAPERS ON!!!!
Lazy, GA, very lazy.

:(

Frankie making it a true Frankie inning afterall
haha how much is that douche phillips loving this...
Tying run at the plate?!

How is this happening?!

It's Frankie

1/2/3 is not an option.

It wouldn't be a Frankie save without the tying man coming up to bat
OK, Franky. Seriously. Enough already.
LOL

Has to make sure the fans get their moneys worth.

THERE IT IS!!!

LIGHT UP THAT RECORD

Frankie lights up #57!

57 for Frankie!!!

RECORD FOR THE ANGELS!!

Got the jersey number!

tomorrow it goes down!

Okay, I am no longer allowed to talk in the ninth.

Holy shit.

no worries

that 15 inning game in Chicago was my fault

mariners show why they are west favorites ... wait
Nice Frankie NICE! 57

LIGHT IT UP!

LIGHT IT UP FRANKIE!!!

no fear!!!

Hard to guess who the panther is tonight, huh?
WoooooooooHooooooooo Frankie

Just another KRod Save

Get your checkbook Frankie

You owe Speier some serious $!

squat ... scream ... fake dump on the mound .... gpa point ....blow kisses .... 57
LIGHT UP THAT CHICKEN!!!
Dance dance dance

Wooooooo That’s a tie

Frankie ties the Mariners
lol at shields, huge shit eating grin
Let's get that 57 Freeway renamed

The K-Rod Freeway

krod ties the mariners for victories... 57 all
I'm gonna start calling Frankie the Drama Queen
No breaking news on ESPN yet :-)
Maybe we'll make the first 20 minutes of sportscenter now
Australian Rules Football highlights are still on
wonder hwo much that ball will be auctioned off for ... 75 ? 100 bucks?
longest i've heard frankie talk in a long time ... good interview

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