Sunday Game thread

[Juliooooo]

Maybe I shouldn't invest $6k to go to Spring training for 4 days. lol

You go to Spring training to be in Arizona in March, and see some baseball. If the game goes 8 innings or 9 it shouldn't be the deal breaker for whether its worth it or not.

I'll be there next year, and I'll be lucky if I get to stay 9 innings to any game with my kids LOL.

I'll be looking for you. I'll be staying with my wife and her gf's from college.

Do you know when and where you'll be staying? We'll be in Scottsdale for the week starting March 13. My wife's family will all be there. Her 3 brothers and sister, and probably her dad.

[D-train]

You go to Spring training to be in Arizona in March, and see some baseball. If the game goes 8 innings or 9 it shouldn't be the deal breaker for whether its worth it or not.

I'll be there next year, and I'll be lucky if I get to stay 9 innings to any game with my kids LOL.

I'll be looking for you. I'll be staying with my wife and her gf's from college.

Do you know when and where you'll be staying? We'll be in Scottsdale for the week starting March 13. My wife's family will all be there. Her 3 brothers and sister, and probably her dad.

Are talking 2022?

[bpj]

They certainly gave Mallex enough time to make that trade worthwhile, might as well give Fraley a chance to make up for how terrible Mallex was..

Maybe he can get the net trade value from in the negatives to 0 at least.

Might as well see Fraley and Marmolejos for 30 games or so since they didn't sign anybody that deserves an everyday spot, we can see if Kelenic looks like he'll be an improvement over them at that point. I hope he excels in AAA and forces the issue quickly, but we'll see.

Its not the year to contend and never was going to be. This was always the plan from the very beginning. This another of evaluation whether we like it or not. We have to establish a firm core on which to build upon and I've been banging the drum for so long about.

It may have been the plan since Covid, but Dipoto has steadily pushed back their plans to go for it by at least a year.

Now next year when not enough kids do well this year, they'll say 2023 will be their year to contend and 2022 will be another "development year".

They barely missed last season. They'll barely miss this season. And they'll probably barely miss next season because they won't see the progress they're now hoping for this year.

They get dopes from the fanbase to help them push expectations back another year for 5 years now. Nice work.

[Juliooooo]

I'll be looking for you. I'll be staying with my wife and her gf's from college.

Do you know when and where you'll be staying? We'll be in Scottsdale for the week starting March 13. My wife's family will all be there. Her 3 brothers and sister, and probably her dad.

Are talking 2022?

Yes. 2022. We just booked the timeshare for a week.

[D-train]

Do you know when and where you'll be staying? We'll be in Scottsdale for the week starting March 13. My wife's family will all be there. Her 3 brothers and sister, and probably her dad.

Are talking 2022?

Yes. 2022. We just booked the timeshare for a week.

Cool we will at least overlap to some extent.

[Juliooooo]

Would anyone have felt any different about the Franchise if they had won a few more games and got in a quasi playoff in a pandemic year with only 60 games that they let 16 teams in the playoffs? Yay, we lost 2 playoff games in a year that really didn't count! If Mariners aren't in the playoffs in 2022, then Dipoto's job is at risk. He's not going to get to just push the rebuild back year after year. He's trying to build a team to contend, not a team that can sneak into a wildcard playoff spot and lose.

[Juliooooo]

Are talking 2022?

Yes. 2022. We just booked the timeshare for a week.

Cool we will at least overlap to some extent.

Nice. Do you just do 4 nights over a weekend usually?

[D-train]

Yes. 2022. We just booked the timeshare for a week.

Cool we will at least overlap to some extent.

Nice. Do you just do 4 nights over a weekend usually?

Yep. I might go longer next year though since we will finally be able to hit the back fields for the first time in 3 years and it will be flooded with prospects.

[Sexymarinersfan]

You go to Spring training to be in Arizona in March, and see some baseball. If the game goes 8 innings or 9 it shouldn't be the deal breaker for whether its worth it or not.

I'll be there next year, and I'll be lucky if I get to stay 9 innings to any game with my kids LOL.

I'll be looking for you. I'll be staying with my wife and her gf's from college.

Do you know when and where you'll be staying? We'll be in Scottsdale for the week starting March 13. My wife's family will all be there. Her 3 brothers and sister, and probably her dad.

They're in Tempe. I believe they also have an office in Mesa. They run a sports physical therapy company there.

[Sexymarinersfan]

They certainly gave Mallex enough time to make that trade worthwhile, might as well give Fraley a chance to make up for how terrible Mallex was..

Maybe he can get the net trade value from in the negatives to 0 at least.

Might as well see Fraley and Marmolejos for 30 games or so since they didn't sign anybody that deserves an everyday spot, we can see if Kelenic looks like he'll be an improvement over them at that point. I hope he excels in AAA and forces the issue quickly, but we'll see.

Its not the year to contend and never was going to be. This was always the plan from the very beginning. This another of evaluation whether we like it or not. We have to establish a firm core on which to build upon and I've been banging the drum for so long about.

It may have been the plan since Covid, but Dipoto has steadily pushed back their plans to go for it by at least a year.

Now next year when not enough kids do well this year, they'll say 2023 will be their year to contend and 2022 will be another "development year".

They barely missed last season. They'll barely miss this season. And they'll probably barely miss next season because they won't see the progress they're now hoping for this year.

They get dopes from the fanbase to help them push expectations back another year for 5 years now. Nice work.

I think if Covid hadn't of affected us, we would've been competing this year, but everything got pushed back. Thats my guess anyways.

I think they get in this year. Especially with the bullpen they have. I think we nav one of the wild cards. Plus I wouldn't be surprised to see Dipoto grab someone at the deadline to jump the gun in free agency for 2022 and set up next year. Thinking a second baseman.