SB Nation User Blog: seattlebruin

The On-Topic TagPost of the Day

seattlebruin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:59:07 -0000

I for one am sad the Olympics are over. The Olypmics are pretty much awesome in every way.

Now that they're over though, the world can shift its focus to other types of sporting events, primarily one played by students at many of America's largest universities, and which includes the use of a peculiarly shaped ball (no, not a Quaffle).

Last night, the following exchange took place on Sunday Night Baseball

MORGAN: Manny is hitting almost .600 off Blanton in his career

MILLER: In 24 at bats too, so it's not like he's 3 for 5

MORGAN: Yes, as you can see it's quite a big sampling

Fracture of English language and lack of knowledge of anything scientific (or about baseball for that matter)... must be Joe Morgan

Also, Jose Lopez is OPSing .693 in August. We may not be out of the woods for the Loafie's Annual Second Half Slump of the Year just yet, which means that - oh what the hell who am I kidding, I just want to write the tags.

It's 8:40 AM and there's no OTFPOTD

seattlebruin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:40:25 -0000

EDIT: It's now 8:55 and pdb posted an OTFPOTD but I spent a long time writing this so I'll leave it up anyway for discussion

This should suffice as today's off-topic post. First though, I'd like to mention how awesome the Olympics are from a completely non-political standpoint. It's truly amazing to watch the best athletes in the world at their respective sports all get together and give us this level of athletic competition for two and a half straight weeks. Yes, it's true, I don't the first thing about swimming techniques or beach volleyball strategy, but the athleticism, desire and hard work that these athletes put in is incredibly commendable and well worth watching. I can honestly say that I haven't gotten a whole lot of sleep the last couple weeks due to staying up late to watch the games.

All that being said, fuck you, NBC and ESPN, and whoever the hell was calling the Titans-Raiders preseason game on Fox the other day (I think it was Joe Buck). NBC - fuck you for not showing the games live on one of your ten or so subsidiary channels, and making the west coast wait three hours for the games. ESPN - fuck you for not only putting spoilers on your website (that's within our power not to check, so it's not that bad), but especially fuck you for running them in the bottom line and on in-game updates without giving a spoiler warning. I can't watch your station between 4PM and 8PM anymore because I don't want to know what happened. Lastly, fuck you, Joe Buck for out of nowhere blurting out that Michael Phelps had won his seventh gold medal during a football game that was PLAYED ON THE WEST COAST.

Being Off-topic is my specialty, kind of like Arthur Rhodes and left handed batters

seattlebruin — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:32:13 -0000

Things that could be discussed in this thread

- beer

- ponies

- basketball, and what the passports of USA Basketball say

For NOLA

- little &hearts; hearts &hearts;

- bigger hearts

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For everyone else

- why the Seahawks or (insert your favorite Pac Ten team here) will save us from the misery that is this baseball season

- what would happen if we removed one of the vowels from the alphabet

- make suggestions. No wait, don't!

- anything else your little hearts desire, since this is the Off-Topic FanPost of the day. Which apparently, we're keeping stats on on versus off topic comments in. Remember, whoever has the highest comment slugging percentage gets a new contract courtesy of Bill Bavasi

The Off-Topic FanPost of the Day

seattlebruin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:21:31 -0000

Remember how Kansas City picked up Horacio Ramirez? Well somehow they've now managed to TRADE Horacio Ramirez! They got back a 23 year old who's OPSing .716 in the Carolina league but still!

So in the past few days the White Sox have managed to acquire Ken Griffey, Jr and Horacio Ramirez. Who's next? Please be Washburn please be Washburn please be Washburn

The Off-Topic FanPost of the '08 Season's Only On-Topic Day

seattlebruin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:32:36 -0000

Today represents the only meaningful day on the Mariners 2008 calendar (besides all the ones that have FELIX!!!!!! on them). Today is the day that Jarrod Washburn may go away. Today is the day that Raul Ibanez may take his pride of defense to another (hopefully stupid team). Today is the day that someone will overpay for a 37-year old left handed specialist because hell, one time he got into a fight with Omar Vizquel.

History, however, suggests otherwise. It suggests something along the lines of Jose Cruz Jr, Derek Lowe and Jason Varitek for three decent to terrible relief pitchers. It suggests something along the lines of Randy Johnson for three completely unknown prospects (though to be fair that one turned out pretty well for us, but hell, I was thirteen).

Hell, maybe Lee will go crazy and the M's will be buyers at the deadline. I heard that Will Ohman is available!

To summarize - I predict that Jarrod Washburn is not going away. I predict that Raul Ibanez will accept arbitration. And I predict that Arthur Rhodes will be traded for two cordless optical mice, a case of gum and a night at the strip club, courtesy of Theo Epstein.

In case you're wondering about the hour of this post, I already saw NOLA post at like 4:30 AM, so here's something more off-topic

Off-Topic FanPost of the Day, 7/29

seattlebruin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:39:22 -0000

I'd like to use the Off Topic FanPost of the Day to express that yes, while I think many of the regulars are the biggest culprits in going off topic, that we come here to talk about baseball first and foremost and are grateful for the work that the Triumvirate and Gomez put into the site.

It's definitely fun to have the random off-topic threads (especially at work), but I for one am glad that lately the more serious baseball posts have talked a lot about, well, baseball. I know it's a little different this week becuase for the first time all season, the Mariners are actually somewhat interesting, but it's a refreshing change of pace. Hopefully we can contain the off-topicness to a thread or two a day instead of a few of the free-for-alls that have been pretty common the last couple of months.

That being said, this is the Off-Topic FanPost of the Day for the day. Have at it!

Poll

Jose Vidro is the Mariners DH and bats fourth because

The NBA Draft FanPost

seattlebruin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:55:10 -0000

Today is the NBA draft where the second of Seattle's two competently run franchises (from an on-field standpoint) sets to determine their future. There are a lot of hot rumors surrounding the Sonics right now, who were originally linked to Arizona combo Jerryd Bayless, but now have apparently completed a trade down to #7 where they're expected to take Stanford C Brook Lopez. They've also been linked to UCLA combo Russell Westbrook at 4.

I was planning on using this post to semi-blog the first round (but I won't be in front of a TV, so I was just going to make fun of whoever ends up picking Anthony Randolph and his 6-11, 200 lb frame)

On the draft, I will continue to maintain that OJ Mayo is the best player in this draft IF he's allowed to play point. He's got great court vision, and the only reason his assists aren't higher is that his teammates at USC legitimately sucked.

The "Solving the Jeff Sullivan Problem" Memorial FanPost

seattlebruin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:16:48 -0000

So I was going back through the Lookout Landing Hall of Fame and re-reading one of our greatest triumphs - "Solving the Jeff Sullivan Problem ," which for the uninitiated was an attempt (primarily by Brayden, seattlesundevil and I) to hook Jeff (and Graham and Corco and Coach) up with a girl from Craigslist as a thank-you for all the hard work he's put into this site.

Only problem is that the links don't work anymore! Brayden reminded us the other day of the thread, so I thought we should resurrect it. Plus, you never know what you'll find on Craigslist.

Here's my incentive clause - whoever finds the best post by the end of the day, I'll rec every post you make in this thread.

Just to get you started

San Diego

Inland Empire (the counties directly north of San Diego)

Seattle

Portland

NBA Finals Game 6 Open Thread NOW WITH MORE BEER

seattlebruin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:02:37 -0000

At the request of NOLAmarinergirl,

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Because Jeff never opens game threads six hours before the game anymore, I feel the definite need for some serious chaos. Only problem is that wer're talking about basketball, so there may not be too many of us in there.

I'll try to be impartial, but GO CELTICS! I can't stand Lakers fans =(. Also, I'd like to point out that when I said at the start of the series "Hey, Paul Pierce is really damn good," no one believed me. Guess what? Paul Pierce is really damn good. Plus he has the coolest intro ever in their pregame. Lately, I'm comparing him to Ray Lewis - very good players who acquired an "overrated" tag due to their teams failures and their off-field reputations (Lewis with the double-murder he was said to have witnessed, and Pierce with the barfight/stabbing incident) and then they lead their teams on great playoff runs and everyone realizes "Hey, Paul Pierce/Ray Lewis is really damn good!"

On an entirely unrelated note, today, I am the poster child as to why you do not forget to book tickets for your vacation until three weeks in advance (or two weeks, really)

LL SoCal

seattlebruin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:00:21 -0000

So our (kind of)beloved home nine will be in Southern California to take on the hated Padres Friday June 27 - Sunday June 29. Are the SoCal LL-ers still interested in meeting up somewhere in SD before/after one of the games? I'd strongly prefer Saturday (I have plans on Friday).

Not sure how many of us there are now, but the Padres series has to be as good a time as any. Plus, I stil haven't gotten down to Petco, and I always welcome a chance to boo Jose Vidro in person.

Ninety-two words. Frankly, I'm stunned, since there really isn't that much to say here.