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MC Fresh Breath

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  1. The Rangers aren't alone in that, in case you didn't know.  Felix has been declining badly for the last three and a half years.  As a Mariners fan, the King was such a great reason to tune in for so many years when just about nothing else was going right.  I could go on and on really, about Felix, but this isn't the Mariners thread. To see him with no life in his pitches just hurts, because he gave us so many reasons to tune in over the years.   

    I'm glad that he and Beltre got to have one last fun moment together.  But otherwise, knowing that could very well be his last start, that one hurt for me, regardless of the opponent.

     

  2. Remy will always have the "here comes the pizza"  or "lost tooth" moments for me.  Of course, those were with Orsillo.  I have to be careful. I can go down the rabbit hole of youtube on those two.

    Agreed that the Nats didn't seem worthy of the bottom, but again, there's some in the top I haven't watched this year.

     

     

     

  3. 10 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

    Speaking of announcers... worth a review.

    http://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/2018-local-mlb-broadcaster-rankings.html

    Watching most Astros games on MLB.TV, I try and listen to at least one game a series with the opponent’s announcers.

    Gotta agree with most of the top although there a few crews I haven’t heard and will have to check out

     

     

     

    Thanks for this, had not seen this year's version.  Dan Orsillo is a joy, and gets those infectious giggles so easily over the mundane.  Will often tune into a Padres game just to check him out.   Haven't watched the Mets this year, but enjoyed their booth in the past.   In the Top 10 I've also watched the Cubs broadcast, Brewers, Red Sox, and Orioles.  Orioles one I remember being entertaining as they were just so damn upset about things.  I can relate.

    Will have to check out more of the Top 10, and wouldn't mind the Surly crew weighing in with their favorites of this year.  (Seems all years post Vin Scully will be weighted differently)

  4. Cubs game.  Baez out on slide into third but CB Bucknor calls him safe.  Then Baez starts towards home a bit,, and is thrown out at third (again) and called Bucknor calls him safe again.  Replay overturned it, but good lord.

     

     

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  5. On 7/12/2018 at 5:02 PM, Mileslong said:

     


    Yes it was very good and I was pleasantly surprised how good it was. If you like ripper street, penny dreadful and the like you will like it

     

     

    I thought Penny Dreadful was great, and an unexpected tear jerker at times.  The obvious love letter to the great poets of the Romantic Age was great.

    Spoiler

    That said, I was disappointed in the abrupt turn of character for Vanessa Ives.  I don't mind that the series ended with her death, that seemed appropriate.  I just thought that the Miss Ives we had been with for three seasons wouldn't have just surrendered to Dracula, even under the guise of "surrendering to who I am."   She was too much of a fighter. I know some of it was set up with the burning of the cross and what not (although that felt abrupt as well, in hindsight).  I just think it could have worked with the same type of sacrificial death without her giving it up to Dracula first. 

     

     

  6. On 4/8/2018 at 9:56 PM, Ebeye said:

    Altered Carbon is a great book if you like that sort of thing (I do), and the show was a fair representation.  I enjoyed it, but, as with any book nerd, I wished it was closer to the text.  It was never going to be though.  It was close enough to keep my interest throughout.  I'm curious if a second season gets the go ahead and how they handle it.  Obviously easy to get a new full cast with the nature of the tech, but I wonder if they will take it to Sanction IV from Broken Angels or if they jump straight to the third book.  

     

    I burned through this series pretty quickly.  I enjoyed it, for the most part.  I was not aware of the book prior to watching.  However, I happened to be reading some William Gibson short stories, and knew that this was supposed to be "cyberpunk" as well.  I've put a "hold' on the e-book from the library, look forward to checking it out.  

     

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    Struggling Felix Hernandez knows he’s pitching for his place in Mariners’ rotation

    SEATTLE 

    Felix Hernandez has been at his best this season in the most charged environments. Opening Day against the Indians and a home game against the Boston Red Sox were testament to that.

    But Thursday’s home start against the Toronto Blue Jays presents another level of emotion. Hernandez is not only pitching for the cheers of the Safeco Field faithful, he very well could be pitching for his future as a member of the Mariners’ rotation.

    “I can’t think about that,” Hernandez said, just days after he was sitting on the floor in the clubhouse at Angel Stadium after allowing seven runs in 2 2/3 innings. It was an outing manager Scott Servais called, “noncompetitive.”

    “I can’t think about anything right now,” he added. “I got another start Thursday, so I got to go out there and do my job.”

    Whether Hernandez should have even earned this opportunity was in doubt until Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto put it to rest publicly on Monday.

    Hernandez’s earned-run average has spiked to a career-high 5.58. Even with as much as he struggled and fought injuries last season, his ERA was still more than a run lower (4.36) in 2016 than this season.

    And Hernandez, the former two-time American League ERA champion, was no more embarrassed about his play than against the Angels on Saturday.

    “Last year I was hurt, the year before I was hurt and now I’m healthy and the results are not what I want,” Hernandez said. “I just got to figure out what’s going on.

    “I’ve been living in the middle of the plate all the time. I just got to command my fastball.”

    He insisted his back is fully healthy even after missing a start because of it, though before that he had allowed one run in eight innings against the Rays, one run in seven against the Red Sox, one in five innings against the Yankees and three in six innings against Baltimore.

    Hernandez is a long way from his Cy Young form, and the Mariners know that. With their bulked up bullpen, five or six good innings from Hernandez is what they need.

    What they can’t handle are starts like the 32-year-old had against the Angels.

    “Obviously on Thursday, hopefully we get beyond where he’s been,” Dipoto said. “Particularly his last start. We need him to do those things. The Mariners have relied on Felix for a lot of years to take the ball and we’re going to rely on him again.

    “Every time he takes the mound it’s going to mean a lot. But we’re not making any determination beforehand (on whether he’d stay in the rotation). He earns the opportunity to take the ball and he has earned that.

    “If Felix gives us a good one, we’re going to be a better team. If he doesn’t, we’re going to have to recover and find another way to answer those innings. We’re just going to take it as very time through the rotation we’re going to assess where we are.”

     

    https://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/mlb/seattle-mariners/article215937430.html#navlink=SecList

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