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Hisashi Iwakuma has a lower WHIP. Of course lower K's ... but also a lower ERA, more IP, lower BB/9 ... (yeah yeah pitches at Safeco etc)

Chicks dig the strikeouts I guess!

Make the Mariner fans cry and get marinerswin.com shut down

Marinerswin.com doesn't exist and we're a pretty apathetic bunch when it comes to the Mariners. Why care more than they do?

Least the season series will be even now.

Smoak has been amost impressive lately.

 

As cynical as I am about the M's, there is improvement this year.  Just really tough to see it fall apart so badly this series after some good play the last month.  

Montero needs to abandon catching. Go somewhere ... anywhere ... and focus on hitting. Study pitchers ... etc. He looks like he has no clue whats going on at the plate ... well except against the Angels .... Montero seems to mash them.

Your boy Montero was amazing.  

 

Still have great things to say about the fat, lazy, unmotivated piece of garbage?

No. He has no place being behind the plate ... and next to no place being beside the plate. At least the other black hole (Smoak) had a decent series.

And we should have won this last one .... we had the final out in our clutches ... but Tom dropped the f'ing ball. Series was cursed. Ever since we lost the 15 run lead during that one game years ago in Cleveland.

As originally state ... Cleveland is insanely hot this month so far ... 

Cooling off sure.

They could have won 3 of the 4 from Cleveland but luck/whatever didn't go there way .... except this last one ... that one was just sad. Completely sad.

Their first series loss in 7 total series. 

Should be a fun 2 game series of 2 terrible teams.

Hey look! A stolen base!

Stolen by the umpire!

Looked like Young's ball hit a sign and then came straight down. Maybe explains why Trout missed it so badly.

edit : nah nvm from another angle it didn't.

Well played sir. Well played.

Perhaps Seattle will hang a banner at the beginning of their next home stand.

Next to their Spring Training Cactus League Championship banner.

As long as we're making banner jokes. You should all hang a banner for over-paid over-aged mediocrity. 

It's a conspiracy. All ex-Angels that join the Mariners are actually still Angels.

Well Trumbo was out.

He is nowhere near as bad as his ERA suggests.

But yeah, too soon.

I would rather they lose and embarrass themselves during ST than to do it during the actual season (like April of last year).

 

I'm not worried at all. The Rangers are 3-7. Cincinnati is 2-10. The M's are freaking 10-1. If anything, it just shows how bad the Angels' minor league system is, and I think we all knew that well before spring training started.

 

The Angels have kicked ass in spring the last two years. Look where that got them.

The M's are hitting the bejesus out of the ball.

But yeah ST doesn't correlate much usually.