WE WILL: Say Bay, Eh!

The Almost Great North 3

Pirates 5

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The Seattle Mariners entered last night's game 2 games over .500. I say that to encourage all of us die hard baseball fans. The Mariners looked just like the Pirates we have seen all season: give up cheap runs early off of a miscue or a bonehead play, struggle to score off of the starter, and finally make a late inning surge against the bullpen. So how do the Mariners own a winning percentage over .500 and the Pirates don't?

It must be the exchange rate!

FSN treated last night's game like Canada Day as Seattle is as close as the Pirates will ever play to JBay's hometown of Trail, BC Canada. It was cool to see all of the interviews with his family and the support group that followed them down to the game. There were so may there, and FSN pushed the Canadian connection so much that I started to doubt what Mrs. Smith taught me in 2nd grade geography.

If Washington is not really a state, then why did I have to learn how to spell Olympia?

FSN got into Brady Quinn Sister territory by showing JBay's mom and sister incessantly during the broadcast. In their defense, I think we all can agree that JBay's sister is MUCH better looking than Quinn's sister who may or may not be playing linebacker for both Notre Dame and OSU next season.

Here neck is bigger than most men's egos

It looked like FSN put a lot of effort into the production of their JBay lovefest by brining each family member into a studio for sit down interviews. This all paid off when FSN broke the story that JBay's sister has a stronger throwing arm than JBay. Raise your hand if you are at all surprised by this.

yeah, I didn't think so

As for the game, Gorzy struggled and got only one 1-2-3 inning, but held a mediocre Mariner offense in check. LaRoche continued to show he can only hit with men in scoring position and Paulino still can't hit, regardless of the pitch being inside or out. Hits came from almost everyone in the lineup, which is a great sign. The flip side is we stranded almost enough men to field both sides of a football team.

If they were a pee wee football team they would certainly
score more, and maybe even hit harder

The Chernobyl bullpen tried to meltdown but Homer Simpson, er Jim Tracy, woke up in time to summon Chacon to save the day. I'm still waiting to hear why Homer-Tracy brought Marte in to face Ichiro, who has a better lifetime average against lefties than righties. My guess is Homer-Tracy never read the scouting report on him, opting instead to take a nap at the control panel.


Greg Brown delivered a "Jolly Roger" that was so creepy it freaked even Michael Jackson out.


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