The recent OTFPOTD has exceeded the critical mass of 1000+ posts.  I was going to save this one for Monday, but eh, I've never done one of these and I'm way overdue anyway.

Possible Questions:

* Fall has been a topic of late, both in Seattle and NYC, where we are jumping wildly from low-60s to low-40s and back again on any given day.  We've talked holidays and nature and football and BEER, so here's another question with a different spin on it: do your music listening habits change with the leaves?  Do certain bands or albums typify fall for you more than any other season?  Extra credit: what about reading?

* Strangest book you have ever read?  Strangest movie you have ever seen?  Explicate.  Was it worth it?

* What non-curse, non-buzz word would you care to never hear again? 

* Via MarinerJohn, what's your favorite archipelago?

* Via waldo rojas, most overrated board games?

* Let's talk disappointment... in music.  Who is an artist that you were really excited about back in the day that never followed up in the way you expected, or otherwise got mired in prolonged periods of mediocrity?

* Movie series reboots have probably been done.  What about video game series reboots?  Any particular successes, failures, or ones that generated mixed reactions?

Go.

The High Desert Mavericks just won against the Stockton Ports.  It took them twenty-one innings.  The game laster about hours and forty-five minutes.  It was suspended at five hours and fourteen innings last night due to league rules stipulating that no inning should start after midnight.

The Mavericks used eight pitchers, five of which threw three innings or more.  The Ports used nine and only had three with three innings or more.  One of the hitters for the Ports had ten at-bats.  Two players on each team had eight or more at-bats without a hit.

In the twenty-first, Joe Dunigan (3-6, 4 BB, 2 2B) walked and was moved to second on a single by Alex Liddi.  From the looks of it, the two attempted a double steal and the ball ended up airmailed into center and Dunigan scored.

Box Score

Ichiro Gets Seven Hits in Minors Action

Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki was the leadoff hitter for both teams in a five-inning Rookie League intrasquad game on Thursday afternoon in Peoria, Ariz.

 

 

He went 7-for-10 with two triples and one double.

Okay, it's a little misleading, but just think, the offense and the defense are about to get that much better.  The only thing that's really missing is some snappy quote to the Japanese media.

Press Release

The catching depth on our 40-man makes this not so surprising, and I think Zduriencik has enough sense to go with Clement.  Johnson is also a possibility, but I can't see them carrying three catchers, unless Clement is the DH and they're giving up on him behind the plate.  Now, about that Adam Moore kid...

Goodbye Burke.  We applaud you for being better than Rene Rivera and also pitching in that one game.  Unforunately, you're on the wrong end of thirty by several years.

The TNT Blog says that the M's moved R.A. Dickey off the 40-man today, and he has a right to refuse assignment to the minors in order to become a free agent.  The M's also took off Sean White, because I guess they forgot to do it two weeks ago.  These moves bring the total to 36 of 40 players on the roster, none of whom are sucky Rule 5 picks by Bavasi. 

Wasn't Dickey supposed to be working with Nierko on figuring his knuckler out?  Maybe that's not working out so well.  Still, guy with no UCL, throwing butterfly pitches while making scary faces... I'm going to miss the guy if he does leave.