Don't Worry, Be Happy

So....


(do you realize how many of my blog posts that start off like that?)

Every fan in of seattle is sitting like the following...


OMGOSH MARINERS LOST 4 STRAIGHT ... HOLY CRAP!!! PANIC!!!!

.....

Well hold on. Lets really think things through.

First off, we (and by we i mean people that really follow the team very closely) knew a skid like this was eventually going to happen. We knew that the offense wasn't going to constnatly sustain 4 runs a game (29 games so far ... 119 runs scored equals out to 3.9, yes i did round it up. shut up) this team has it's up's and down's and right now we're on the way down.


BUT HOLD ON!

Our Pastor used to say this all the time "Like an wheel while on it's way down and being druge through the mud, it's eventually going to come back up."


Don't abandon ship. (hahahaha Mariners, ship, HAHAHHAHAHAHA)

Let's be straight with ourselves. Today they just shot themselves in the foot repeatedly and they don't have means to continuelly get away with it as much as they have in the last week.
It's catching up to them it comes down to not executing or a play not coming out like we would have liked it.

Today,

1st inning, Branyan and Beltre stranded Ichiro on Third.

2nd inning, Balentine grounds into a double play after a lead off single

3rd Inning, Ichiro doubles with one out then Gutz and Lopez strand him out there

4th Inning, Griffey grounds into double play to end the inning

6th Inning, Ichiro walks, an error gets Gutz on first with no one out then Lopez hits a double play and Branyan pops out to end the threat

7th Inning, Beltre hit by pitch, griffey grounds into double play(again!) BALETIN DOUBLES, Rob Johnson strikes out... again NO RUNS SCORED

8th Inning, one out and ichiro singles, and then Juan Cruz gets the next two outs pretty easily.

9th Inning, Branyan strikes out, Beltre flies out, THEN single for griffey, Balentine walks, Sweeney singles and scores Griffey 1-3 with the tying run at third. Yuni pinch hits and DRAWS ANOTHER WALK... (2 walks in the 9th inning WOW! he's making some hitting adjustments!) then with the bases loaded Ichiro hits a hard ground ball to the short stop leaving the tying run at second base.


WE LOST OUT ON TONS!!! TONS!!! TONS!!! of chances to score. we're not going to be the team we were last year. We have already established we're better than that. But, we're not a 90 win team either. Our offense has got to get itself together.

Jarrod pitched another great game! It really was just sad that the mariners offense couldn't turn his performance to a win, which it should have been.

But, instead of panicing we just need to come to a place where we accept that If we do win the division this year, GREAT! if not, we all need to accept that atleast we were competative and that the goal is to build a team for the LONG haul and not for one year. does anyone remember how we were in it every year from 95-2003?? We went in knowing we could win the division, maybe '98 and '99 weren't so great but atleast we won some great games. thats where we are. we're going to be competative. which again dosn't mean we arn't going to go through some 5 or even 8 game losing strikes. It may happen. But that dosn't change the fact they are still going to go on some 5-10 game tares themselves.

Put down the meatball sub... it's going to be OKIZZAY... i promise