Comments on Winter Beatings

They aren't praying hard enough.

Mariners will suck next year. What else is new? If they had any sense, they'd tar & feather Bavasi and crucify him on the viaduct for running this team further into the ground every year.

Bavasi gets his marching orders from Amrstrong and Lincoln. Getting rid of Bavasi would be like treating cancer with Tylenol.

The Mariners' stated goal isn't to win a World Series, it's to be competative... Looks like it's time to reevaluate their goals.

the great thing about winter is NO FUCKING BASEBALL CHATTER.

let it go.

Oh, I wouldn't give up hope just because crotchety old USS Mariner has. Baseball has a way of being completely unexpected--ask Rockies fans.

I agree with #6. USS Mariner is one of the best ones out there, but it's still a sports blog, which means too much fucking bitching. Is anybody worse than sports fans for bitching? Look at me, I'm bitching about sports fans!

I was disappointed to see the Mariners gave up on Santana already. I was excited about the prospect of watching him pitch more than once or twice a year when the Twins are in town.

Now he'll probably go to Boston and I'll have to hate him.

More like the other way around. Santana's not interested in coming here, and the M's couldn't put together a package for him even if he was. They'll grossly overpay for him, but they can afford to. We can't.

Unless we pull off something dramatic, and not involving guys on the wrong side of 30, we're going to win 77 games next year.

Hope springs eternal. The M's played above expectations last year. I'm ready for Opening Day now. Let's go!

They played above the averages, too. They won 88 games while being outscored -- you can't sustain that. They're working off of an 80-win plateau, not an 88-win one.

Totally agreed about Opening Day, though. When is March again?

March - the end of the two most horrible sports-vacant months of the year.

I hear ya, Fnarf. Though I will always laugh at naysayers and chart-dorks (at USS Mariner, say) calculating me up an equation that only stands to proclaim "I told you so" three months before Spring Training starts. Any stool-swipe like that ought to be spanked with a glass slipper on the jumbotron on Opening Day.