7 Months Waiting

I read countless blogs and articles in excitement for the 2010 Mariners season. I went online and bought tickets during the Mariners first home stand when the have Baltimore. So we get to see what we gave up when Bavasi gave up the soon to be perennial all-star Adam Jones for Erik Bedard, who has spent more time on the dl while he has been in Seattle than he has in uniform. Good move Bavasi, it's no mystery why you got fired. I like what the Z man has done so far though, particulary with the pitching staff. Lee should be an awesome pickup and Bedard will hopefully pan out and put together a solid 1, 2, 3 in the pitching rotation. However, if I were him I would have tried to sign a big bat. I'm not too sure how well Milton Bradley is going to turn out. He's off to a scoulding hot 1-17 start, great. More evidence that we need another bat. Seattle in its first five games is averaging less then 4 runs a game, and thats tough when your giving up 6 or 7, which explains much of the reason why my Mariners are off to a 1-4 start.

Watching the Oakland series I didn't understand why Wakamatsu threw in the rookie pitcher in the 9th inning in 1-1 game. We still had Aardsma waiting in the 'pen. When he got out of a bases loaded jam after walking two, Wakamatsu threw him back out for the 10th, why? Of course Oakland won it. In an inning and a third for the rook, Oakland had 5 hits. In the first 8 innings they had 4, I dont get it. We have a closer for this reason, to pitch in tight games. The next night we lost again in the last at bat, and again Aardsma was sitting in the bullpen. I love my Mariners but they break my heart, I really hope we don't have another train wreck of a season after an offseason full of hope. I'm not sure if I will be able to take it. The Mariners bullpen which has been known for being one of the best in the bigs has looken very mediocre so far. Then again 2 of the bullpen guys have been forced into the starting rotation because Cliff Lee and Erik Bedard are hurt right now.

I'm going to the Mariner game next Monday, the 19th, I'm stoked. All 8 of the freshman guys on the team are going. A little good 'ol team bonding. We're going to try to figure out how to take the bus to Safeco, should definently be an adventure. There will be pictures to come, I am going to take a lot of them I am sure. It doesn't get a whole let better than Safeco. Plus it gives me another reason to wear my King Felix jersey. Even though I've worn it everynight during each game.

But alright enough about my Mariners, you are all lucky they didn't start out 5-0 or else I would have written a lot more. Somewhere in there I'm sure playoffs, or World Series may have been mentioned. Might have been getting a little ahead of myself, but what's new?

We have a big weekend starting tomorrow with Witworth, who I think is sitting at 5th or 6th in the conference. A sweep this weekend would be huge, but it's not necessary. Linfield played UPS on tuesday and lost so that gives us a two game cushon in the Northwest Conference. I get chills when thinking about the possibility of dog piling on the mound after getting that last out to win conference. With the two game cushon it is possible that we will get to clinch on our home field the second to last weekend before we head down to Oregon to play Linfield.

Adam and Sam are on their way to PLU right now. Sam is looking into college baseball either here or at Linfield. I wanted him to see what college baseball is like and show him that he really can play college baseball. I didn't think I could play either until I went and saw a PLU game. Looking back, deciding to walk on and tryout was one of the best decisions I ever made. I have already gotten so much better and I went from playing on a .500 high school baseball team to playing on a nationally ranked college team.

We beat Seattle U. yesterday 6-0. The first division 1 team the PLU has beaten during the 6 years Loomis has been here. It was pretty cool beating up on a d1 team. I went and looked at their team site last night and saw that they beat Oregon, and we stomped them. What we decided on the ride home was that going d1 in baseball, is mostly luck. A lot of kids on that team were not that good, I could play for that team. I will give you that they are like 3-20 and it is the first year of their program, but still a d1 team. Their starting pitcher was 6'10'' and probably 190 pounds, one goofy looking dude.

But alright Shrek 2 is on and I have nothing to do so I'm going to watch. Craig is at the softball house with our neighbor Ben, who's dating one of the softball players. Since I got the room to myself I'm going to watch the movie and take a nap, I guess it's no different from what I would do if Craig were here, it just gives me more of a reason to. And any reason I have to nap, I'm going to take it, ah college.

Nathan...out