Another day game on a weekday, another game I had to follow via yahoo/espn/gameday. Most of the time that’s a good thing because I can actually do work without having Trupe scare me about every ball hit to medium depth center field. But then there’s a pitcher like John Rheinecker:

Staring at this man’s picture for 4 innings made me wonder if I was watching a ballgame or looking up sexual predators near Fenway. Would you want this man anywhere near your children? I don’t know if I’d let my kids go to the ballpark if he was pitching. Just freaking scary.

Curt pitched a decent game today, but was bailed out by the offense. After two 1-0 victories it was a refreshing sight to see three times the amount of offense in one game than in the past two. However, this move by Tito still makes me scratch my head. Who would you want as your leadoff batter?

Player A? Coco. Player B? Youks. Coco, dude, I want to like you. But when Youks is wiping the floor with your stats while he’s in a slump, that’s just no good. No good at all. Remember, you can’t steal second if you don’t get on first.

Now it’s time to show the West Coast what it’s all about. I expect to hear Dave Niehaus say “that one will fly away!” during many top halves of the inning this weekend. And Trupe, please do us all a favor, shut your pie hole and put your microphone in the Mariner’s broadcast booth.