What are you pouting about? Your team is in first place!
To cheer yourself up, think about Game 5 of last year’s NLDS against the Washington Nationals.
As a boy growing up listening to Marty Brennamen and Joe Nuxhall during the Big Red Machine era, this essay on the Redleg Nation blog really resonated with me.
I’m neither a Pirates nor an NL fan, but I’m happy to see how the Pirates are doing this year. It gives me hope that my Mariners might eventually pull it out.
Also, it’s nice that the Mariners are playing the Astros now. Some wins are a nice change of pace 
It made me sad. I used to listen to Marty and Joe all the time and didn’t realize that Marty had gotten so much worse. He was always snarky and blunt, but it sounds as if that’s turned into real meanness.
I haven’t heard Marty going off on Brandon Phillips.
Wonder why that is. 
Sure, it was against the Astros, but the Mariners brought up starting pitcher Taijuan Walker to make his Major League debut tonight, and the kid went 5 innings, gave up 2 hits and 1 unearned run, and earned the win. I unfortunately missed his performance because I was at work, but listening to the postgame show it sounds like he went out there and showed some restraint. He can throw 98 MPH, but he came out and just concentrated on throwing strikes, only bringing the full heat when he needed it.
The M’s also brought up Abraham Almonte and started him in RF, and he got his first big league hit.
CF Dustin Ackley went 4-for-5 and had 4 RBI.
So, for the rest of the season and the playoffs, Mattingly just has to bench Puig every other game or so for a few innings. Then we’re golden.
(I do hope Dodger fans have been following Tank McNamara this week. Hilarious!)
Hah. It’s because BP would go off on him like he did reporter C Trent Rosecrans in this recent gem of a video: http://www.101sports.com/2013/08/28/reds-brandon-phillips-goes-reporter/
Hmm. Again, I’m sorry I missed tonight’s M’s game. Apparently, that new kid, Abraham Almonte, stretched a bunt into a triple. Okay, not a legitimate triple - he laid down the bunt, and Erik Bedard must have sailed the ball well over the 1st baseman’s head, resulting in Almonte ending up on third. Not sure how that works - I though you only got one base on an overthrow.
Only if the ball leaves the field of play. If for example, the pitcher throws to first and the ball sails into the outfield, but stays on the field, the runner can take as many bases as he can get.