8/18 Mariners Sniffing 9 Games Over, Again vs. Rangers Game Thread

[D-train]

Wife and Inhave seriously considered retiring there

Jesus, I can't even handle the time change here. I would be screwed.

It's actually pretty easy, DT. First night go out for a long walk and don't go to bed until 9:00 PM. Then remember you are roughly 8 hours ahead of us. I worked for a company that had to communicate with London and Singapore. One eight hours ahead of us, the other 16 hours.

lol I am talking about games starting in the middle of the night not my first day there, John.

I am the Global Strategic forecaster for $2B drug we sell in about 70 countries. I talk to colleagues all the time in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Switzerland, Poland, Portugal, China, Japan, Dubai and Australia so I am well aware of global time zones.

[D-train]

good game in Texas..... wonder if they can sweep or will they lose the last game again??

Flexen is pitching....GET OUT THE BROOMS!

Struggles on the road though.

vs. MLB lineups which Texas is not.

[mostonmike]

The climate is a lot like California. Last time I was there it was April and the oranges were ripe on the trees.

I have been to several parts of Spain and read up on Portugal, even have looked at condos on line

Cost of living is about 25% less than in London!

Yeah, don’t anyone ever consider London. Nice place to visit, not to live.

I would recommend Portugal over Spain, mostly because anywhere in Spain where there is a beach you’ll find Brits either holidaying or retired in cheap villas they bought probably in the 90s and early 00s.

It’s so bad it even has its own Wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British ... n_to_Spain

[Sexymarinersfan]

The Mariners have now gone 6-2 since their four game losing streak, again looking at being 9 games over .500 with a win on Wednesday.

The problem with holding Graveman at the deadline and acquiring at least another bat is that while we were just 1 game out the last time we were 9 games over, this time the teams around us in the standings improved so what once was 1 game out at 9 games over is now more like 3.5 games back.

We would have had to get even better just like the:
Yankees (Gallo, Rizzo),
Red Sox (Schwarber, Sale),
Rays (Cruz),
Blue Jays (Berrios, Dickerson, Hand),
A's (Marte)

Wasn't an easy path, even to the one game playoff.

Anyways, the players have the opportunity the rest of the season to prove whether they belong in the 2022 discussion, or not. Go M's!

I think getting Gonzales in Ace like form for the home stretch is going to be huge for us, as was evidenced today. He wasn't nearly sharp as his complete game, but we were in it the whole game.

[Sexymarinersfan]

The Mariners have now gone 6-2 since their four game losing streak, again looking at being 9 games over .500 with a win on Wednesday.

The problem with holding Graveman at the deadline and acquiring at least another bat is that while we were just 1 game out the last time we were 9 games over, this time the teams around us in the standings improved so what once was 1 game out at 9 games over is now more like 3.5 games back.

We would have had to get even better just like the:
Yankees (Gallo, Rizzo),
Red Sox (Schwarber, Sale),
Rays (Cruz),
Blue Jays (Berrios, Dickerson, Hand),
A's (Marte)

Wasn't an easy path, even to the one game playoff.

Anyways, the players have the opportunity the rest of the season to prove whether they belong in the 2022 discussion, or not. Go M's!

Except for they would have won 3 or 4 more games if they held on to Graveman and Chargois. They've had 3 blown saves and also lost a game that they were tied in and gave up runs in both the 9th and the 10th.

Few games they were only in because of Toro so

Exactly!

[Sexymarinersfan]

Two runs already, damn we might win 4-1 tonight!

You were close!!

[ddraig]

Jesus, I can't even handle the time change here. I would be screwed.

It's actually pretty easy, DT. First night go out for a long walk and don't go to bed until 9:00 PM. Then remember you are roughly 8 hours ahead of us. I worked for a company that had to communicate with London and Singapore. One eight hours ahead of us, the other 16 hours.

lol I am talking about games starting in the middle of the night not my first day there, John.

I am the Global Strategic forecaster for $2B drug we sell in about 70 countries. I talk to colleagues all the time in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Switzerland, Poland, Portugal, China, Japan, Dubai and Australia so I am well aware of global time zones.

The hardest thing for me was talking with people in Brazil. They are so far east that their time zone is almost the same as London's. Next was Eastern Europe. Most countries there are an hour or so later than London. Countries are small there.