About to watch some day baseball...

And not just any day baseball...Mariners day baseball.  I have to admit, today is going to be huge in my future viewship of the Mariners.  I'm not saying that they even have to win, but they have to do something, anything at all, to show me that they have the capacity to start to put this thing together.

Can you guess who's more frustrated by the Mariners lack of offense than the fans?  Guys like this...

Freaking pitching staff that this team has - and the M's can't buy a win.  It's sad really.

Now, I know that I'm compulsive when it comes to sports, and a compulsion is good when you're getting the best of it.  But when you watch every game and follow all the stats like I do, when it's going bad, it's sticks to you. 

Fister, Vargas, Lee and Hernandez all deserve more wins than they have.  Rowland-Smith?  Not so much.  They should gone with Snell when Lee entered the rotation?  How can I say that?  BECAUSE I WATCHED EVERY GAME.  It was clear as day that Rowland-Smith can't pitch down in the zone.  Complete inability.  He might be successful in Tampa Bay where they score ten runs a night, but not Seattle.

I know that this is a basketball-centric website, and I love me some basketball.  But this Mariner situation has actually distracted me at times from some great playoff basketball.  Well, not completely.  But while watching the playoffs, I start to think, "How in the hell does Figgins still bat in the 2 hole?"  Then I go back to watching the Suns get stomped before I switch over to the baseball game to watch Figgins ground into a double play.

So here we go.  Bartender, another round.  Just a strong effort.  That's all I ask.  Maybe go the whole day without any double plays on offense.  Something.  You're killing me here, M's.

And I'm looking at getting a Fister RC or two.  I'm still down with Gutierrez, but Fister is pitching on a level that nobody saw coming.