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M's 14 ....

yeah suurrrre NOW it's rainbows and ponies

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jemanji

9/10/16

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FOUR IN A ROW

It's a given that the Mariners gotta rip off wins. What if they do?, is our question. The Detroit Tigers lost 11-3, putting them +11 over .500 to the Mariners' +6. Two and a half out with twenty games left? We followed the Seahawks last year when they were -4 back last year with 10 games left. The M's catching the Tigers is not (yet) farfetched.

Granted, this scenario stipulates that the Orioles will stumble. They got seven against the mighty Red Sox, series with the Yankees and Jays, and they got two decent starters of which one is injured.

Another stipulation is that a 15-5 or 14-6 Mariners finish would overtake everybody else. :: shrug :: There's a reason their chances are 1-in-12. But, happy K-Pax Day.

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BEN GAMEL

Looked relaxed, aggressive, and controlled in the batter's box. Little leg kick, keep the weight back, fire the bat through the zone ... wow. His slow week or two hadn't gotten into his head at all. Like with Eric Byrnes :- ) makeup isn't likely to be this kid's problem.

Put somebody like this or Dan Vogelbach on the Yankees or Cubs and they're liable to be hyped as the AAA player of the year. That's two pretty nice Major League ready bats compared to a coupla Rainiers we could name.

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SWEET LOU Dept.

The M's have faced some dubious pitching lately and the results have been football scores. You might not have noticed that this means the Mariners are still focused. Another feather in Scott Servais' cap.

Blowers intoned mournfully, during the 17-hit onslaught, this is why the May games matter. He relayed a colorful story about Lou chewing them after a lackluster May loss in 1993. Translation: the 2016 Mariners are staying at it here, very admirably. Problem is, if the other arm wrestler gets a wristlock, you get A for Effort and L for Loss.

Seven (7) starters had MULTI-HIT games on Saturday. You don't see that every day. ... after they fattened their batting averages, you had Seager at a 905 OPS, Cruz at 893, Cano at 879. That's nine hunnerd, not eight hunnerd. ...

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15-5

Thanks Doc.

15-5 = 89 and that still remains the best safe-bet number. Toronto, currently in the #1 WC slot, needs 11-10 to get to 89. It is possible that could allow them to catch Boston for the East crown; the Sox need to go 10-11 to reach 89. If we go 15-5 it likely makes the Blue Jays' effort a bit tougher, as we play them 3 times. Figure we get 2 of those 3 (which we probably need to do to get to 89), then they have to go 10-8 in their remaining games.

Baltimore, now sitting in slot #2, needs 12-9; Detroit and NY, 13-8; Houston, 14-6. But if we go 15-5 there is almost no way that Houston goes 14-6 as we play them 6 times. We would probably have to go 4-2 vs. them. Do that and then they would have to play the rest of their schedule in 12-2.

89 wins is doable. Well, sort of. Less than a 1% chance is still doable, isn't it? I made a hole-in-one once, and such things come with long odds. Of course, I've had several thousand rolls of the Par 3 dice in my lifetime, too. The '16 M's only get one toss. What was it that Ol' Blue Eyes asked? Luck be a Lady?

Indeed!!!!

C'mon bones, baby needs a new pair of shoes!!!

Moe

Edit: Oops. Left this out: I still really like Gamel...really. A lot.

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