Can we give up on this crap now?  I said before this season even started that we need Balentien and Clement in this lineup, and now it's one month in to the season and it's even more evident than before.   You're a complete idiot Bill Bavasi, your team can't score runs and you've made terrible decisions regarding the personnel of this team.   Call up your 2 most talented Minor leaguers and put them in this freakin lineup before it's too late.   The experiment is over, Wilkerson sucks, Vidro sucks, and Sexson still sucks.   Our offense is awful and there's two guys ready to make it not.   What the hell is the problem with this organization?   If you're serious about winning this year then field the most talented offense you can.   Doesn't take a genius.   I'm sick of watching our starters pitch great games, yet they don't get a win cuz outr offense can score only a couple of runs to support them.  It's just plain idiotic and ridiculous to keep sticking with these guys and expecting them to turn things around.

See what happens when you put the most talented players in the most important situations?   Ryan Rowland-Smith faces 5 batters to close the game out and retires them all in order.   He looked dominant out there and proved that he needs to be on the mound in high-leverage situations.  Once Morrow and Putz get back I think our pen will be in very good shape.   Bedard pitched OK today, not dominant or anything, but he also didn't really get batted around at all.  The only hard hit ball was the homer to Riggleman and the rest were just bloopers and balls that found holes, not to mention that if Beltre would've just gone to first instead of making that error at second then I think his line would've been a lot different.   That being said, Bedard could've located his fastball a little better, but regardless of the 5 runs, he did pitch well enough to get his first win as a Mariner, so that's really all that matters.    Oh yeah, and Richie didn't look completely incompetent at the plate today.... Brad Wilkerson however on the two run single looked like he was completely surprised to even make contact with that ball.   Seriously, look at the replay.   Well, lets keep it goin with Wash tomorrow. Goodnight.

Ok, I'm of the mindset that a manager doesn't really make that much of a difference to a team, but when they make god awful decisions two days in a row that lead to their teams losing and keep running out the same crappy lineup that has yet to score more than 5 runs this season, then my opinion starts to change.   John McLaren is a god awful manager who I personally hate right now.   If I saw him walking the street I'd punch him in his stupid squinty face.   As for yesterday, I don't give a crap what Felix said in the 8th inning, he was cruising and he could've finished that game off.   Of course he wasn't 100%, starting pitchers start off the game at 100% and gradually are less and less 100% as the game goes on, but as long as they are still getting hitters out and aren't visibly fatigued, then you LEAVE THEM IN THERE!!!!!   Instead you decide to run out a guy who threw 30 pitches the night before and got roughed up just because he throws the baseball left handed and coincidentally so do the guys with the bat in their hands.   And if you buy in to this line of thinking, then why not bring in the lefty Ryan Rowland-Smith who in my opinion has the best stuff in that bullpen at the moment and has only been in ONE freakin game this year!!!!   Instead that squinty A$$CLOWN brings in O'Flaherty who promptly gives up a double and a walk, en route to losing the freakin game in the ninth.

   Then comes today where AGAIN McLaren goes to the obviously tired O'Flaherty in the 8th over Rowland-Smith and O'Flaherty gives up a run which was actually quite predictable, because the second I saw him coming out of the pen I said to myself "Why the hell is he going to O'Flaherty again? He's gonna give up a run like he has the last 3 times he pitched and we're gonna lose this freakin game."  Well he predictably followed suit by giving up a bomb to Aubrey Huff and losing the game for us.   I mean what the hell, did Rowland-Smith sleep with his wife or somethin?   It makes no freakin sense, and he has proven to be a complete idiot who is incapable of being a good Major League manager.   I don't care if the Mariners go on a 20 game winning streak, I think McLaren is a complete ****** who doesn't know what the F he's doing out there.    And sure, it'd help if this offense wasn't so anemic and we could score some runs, but he's also the guy who decided who makes and doesn't make the club and running out this crappy lineup with the god awful Brad Wilkerson in it isn't helping either.    I mean Jesus, I thought Wilkerson was gonna be bad, but this is just ridiculous.  I'd honestly rather have a pitcher at the plate right now, he just looks terrible at the plate and that's being nice.   Then you've got all these people saying "Wilkerson sucks, we should start Mike Morse in right"  Well I've got news for you people, we've got a guy just chillin' in the minor leagues who's way better than both those hacks.   His name is WLADIMIR BALENTIEN!!!!  But we have a retard manager who loves to "stick with his veterans" that won't allow the obviously more talented player to be in the big leagues.   These things are all really bothering me, and they are all things I predicted would happen before the season even started.   There comes a time when you need to realise that you need to put the most talented players on the field in the most important situations instead of sticking with your "Veterans"  and "Matchups".   It's just ridiculous.   Field the most talented team possible and put your most talented players in the most high-leverage situations.   But he won't, because he thinks he's too damn smart and he knows what he's doing, well guess what Mac it ain't working, and your team with the "Playoffs or bust" Mantra just got swept in a four game series by a team in rebuilding mode that also happens to be one of the worst teams in baseball.   Keep it up ya freakin genius, and see if you have a job in a couple of months.  

Well after hearing some pretty bad Mariner related news to start the day off, the conclusion of this day left me feelin a bit better.   Carlos Silva's debut was much better than I expected and he looked in complete control the entire game.   I've gotta say, although I'm concerned with the hitting, the Mariners starters so far have been everything I expected and then some.   If they can keep up what they've been doing then this is going to be a very good year.   Silva never really got in to too much trouble, was locating his pitches and looked very good.   If he pitches like that all year then we're gonna be in pretty good shape.   Now, as for the offense.   Can we give up on this having Richie bat cleanup experiment already?  I don't see why if you have the exact same $hitty swing as you had last year and the same $hitty approach at the plate why you would expect for different results.   He just looks awful at the plate, and I don't see that changing.   The same goes for Brad Wilkerson, I knew he would blow this year and so far he has done nothing to make me feel differently.   I just hope he keeps it up so we can see Wlad soon.  Well, it's nice to go to sleep feeling good about the win tonight as opposed to last night when I barely got a wink.  Off day tomorrow, but the Rainiers start their season, so that's somethin.   Next game Washburn vs. Loewen @3:30 pm on Friday.   Lets hope Adam Jones doesn't go off on us, and I don't wanna see Sherrill at all this series.  

I had a very bad feeling that Josh Hamilton would hit the bejezus out of JJ's fastball if he caught a lot of the plate with it on the first pitch.   I remember sayin to myself "Throw him a splitter first pitch".   Then I saw Jamie Burke put down the fastball sign, then I remember sayin to myself "Don't give him anything he can pull".   I proceeded to witness Jamie Burke set up on the outside corner, so as long as JJ hit his spot we'd be ok.... but we weren't, he missed by about two feet and Hamilton pulled it and hit the hell out of it like I feared he would.   All that work for nothin.   I've got a bad feeling that this team is gonna have a hard time scoring runs this year due to their lack of power and the fact that Richie Sexson is still the same crappy hitter we all knew deep down he'd continue to be.   But the good news is that we apparently have the pitching to still keep us in games even though our offense is gonna blow.   That was a pretty ugly game though on both sides, hopefully tomorrow we see a little better defense from everyone involved, cuz that game was kinda embarrassing.   Silva and Jennings @ 7:05 pm.   Lets hope Jennings pitches as awful as he did last year.