Not gonna argue there. Although Willie wasn't a fraction of the pitcher the Babe was.

Grew up watching some damn fine ballplayers.

They are definitely more interesting to watch this year. I'm liking what I see in James Jones and Elias.

As long as they have a shred of offense I can watch which they do this year. I know good pitching goes a long way but it's boring year after year watching games with a handful of base hits.

I'm with you on that, I'd rather have consistency than the streaky on off offense we've been getting.

TRAITOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How about those M's? Some great baseball is being played folks!

Still in the hunt for the playoffs. meaningful games in August. How long has that not happened?

Been enjoying the M's games quite a bit lately...would be cool to see the AL West get three teams into the playoffs.

Fish on...

Todd

Damn. We have the best pitching in all of baseball and nobody cares? WTF? Dudes, if this were the Hawks, ya'lls panties would be soaking wet by now. Why no love?

I cannot stress enough how good of baseball the M's are playing right now. Its beautiful. BUT... we gotta take the Motor City Kittens down over the weekend for it to really get interesting...

Hank - Fvck the A's. Root for us.

I'm an NL guy at heart too Hank, but I got over it when I moved out here. I hate the DH.

Go M's!

Last night's Mo-Town Kitty arse beating was huge! King Felix on the mound today against Price is gonna be fun to watch. We need to take this series today and put some distance between us and Detroit.

Current AL Wild Card standings.

LA Angels 71 49 .592 - 41-23 30-26 567 480 +87 Won 3 5-5
Seattle 66 55 .545 - 34-32 32-23 480 386 +94 Won 5 9-1
Detroit 65 55 .542 .5 32-28 33-27 551 512 +39 Lost 1 3-7
Toronto 63 60 .512 4 33-26 30-34 547 539 +8 Lost 4 3-7
NY Yanks 61 59 .508 4.5 29-29 32-30 474 514 -40 Lost 5 4-6

People still complaining about the DH after 40 years, lol. The only league not using the DH is the NL, maybe they should get on board and quit making us watch pitchers take 3 swings and sit down.

mariners look pretty good this year. my A's are looking great, should be entertaining down the stretch.

NL cy young easy choice kershaw

AL cy young chris sale or felix, although lester is coming on strong!

NL mvp Mike (giancarlo) stanton cause stats. might be kersaw too

AL mvp mike trout

Damn it. Suck it Tigers! F'n Magnum PI muthertruckers!

Man, did I pick the wrong day to bring the family to Seattle for a ball game. Last week, when I found out Felix was scheduled to pitch, I was pretty psyched. I had decent seats, and I was looking forward to watching the King make a bad team look like a bunch of little leaguers. Imagine my disappointment when I learned that Felix was getting a couple days' extra rest, and I was going to see Erasmo Ramirez instead.

We got to Safeco in the top of the second, just in time to watch Morrison drop the ball that turned into the 3-run double (not blaming Morrison -he made an epic catch later in the game). While I was waiting in line for dogs and drinks, I heard the roar of the crowd in response to Zunino's solo homer, and that restored faith, for all of about five minutes, after which time I heard the collective groan that signaled Odor's grand slam that put the game out of reach before I even got to my seat. There were a couple nice moments in there (Seager's line drive homer in the 9th was as hard as I've seen a baseball hit in person, the bullpen was as advertised (excepting Beimel's rare mistake) and there were some defensive gems turned in. That said, I would have enjoyed it a lot more if the outcome had been in doubt for at least a couple more innings.

Oh, well. Beautiful day in Seattle, and the traffic going home wasn't too bad. Maybe next year....

Dude...you expected the best pitcher in baseball and got the worst on our club...ouch man. I feel you. I went to to see one of Jr's return games and he was expected to play...I was wrong...didn't even take BP. So much for getting to see him in person...even as his career was ending, it would have been a great memory, plus we lost like 9-2 or something lame like that. I have not some bad memories of safeco...as great as it is, it feels like whenever I go, something awful happens or I leave and we come back to beat the rays in the 12th on a slam. I would rather watch them on TV than spend all that cash, but its nice to get to the old ball park every so often. Glad you guys got to go!

It's coming down to the wire. The M's look a bit tired. The last stretch has some serious competition. It's going to be close for that last spot, so we really need to win this series before going back out on the road.

yesterday am on radio they were saying the Ms need to be about 19-11 next 30 games--they are 0-1 on that after last night. Did no get to see the game we had a block parrrtay at our house

Well, according to how baseball seems to work, the Ms should be due for the slide we're watching this week. Heading into the home stand, they had won a lot more than they had lost of late, which (especially for this team) meant a losing streak was all but inevitable. Good news is that they'll probably get hot going down to the wire. Detroit is due for a little slide soon, so who knows- it might work out in the end.

17-10 in August is a slide?