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Should we be worried the Mariners are baseball’s equivalent of the Bush Administration? Fiscally undisciplined with negligible positive returns? Check. Marketed as veteran leadership despite any veterans with leadership experience? Check. Sloppy management reinforced with sloppy execution on the ground? Check.
Let’s put it this way: if the 2008 Mariners team photo involves a pyramid and prominently featured genitalia, then we’re calling for a Congressional investigation.
In all seriousness, the Mariners are playing sloppy, undisciplined baseball, and the responsibility for that can be spread all around. How many times have we seen Richie Sexson and friends strike out at ball four in the dirt? Swinging at bad pitches is bad baseball, period.
The Mariners' willingness to help the opposition by not working the count and swinging at pitches that should be leading to walks is indefensible. We’re more than a little relieved we got the win last night, but if this team can’t appreciate the concept of a decent on-base percentage (you too, Ichiro), then we have no business expecting anything other than the mediocrity we’ve accepted for the past five years. They currently rank 12th out of 14 teams in the American League for on-base percentage—just ahead of the Royals and Twins, who have also struggled to win early on.
Let’s just pray the Mariners' offense gives Batista a better exit strategy then the shock and blah they’ve reverted to all too often thus far.
UPDATE: Despite what was earlier posted, the Twins have proudly defied the logic of this post by maintaining a slim lead in the AL Central despite a lowly On-Base Percentage.
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Most of all, the M's have picked up the unfortunate Neocon habit of maintaining a dogmatic (losing) strategy despite mounting evidence that there's a better way to do it.
I'm also confident the author meant to call the MN squad the AL Cenral leading Twins.
Clever idea (if a bit strained...), but terrible evidence.
As the last commenter notes, the TWINS ARE IN FIRST PLACE, and the Royals are doing much better than anyone predicted. OBP is the least of the Mariners problems.
The problem has been a terrible bullpen, a few players who got worse (Wilkerson/Vidro), and a few who are slumping (Johjima)
OBP explains why until last night the M's were lucky to score a run per game.
Crap, the Twins are doing good. My bad.
yah, the author loses a lot credibility by not knowing the AL standings. Even though he was correct in that the Twins offense is not that good and the M's management is horrendous.
Go Twins!