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Mariners Take the Tigers off the Endangered Species List posted on 05/22/2008
The Mariners just keep on giving. They give until it hurts and lately it has been hurting a lot. Taking their generosity on the road, the Mariners have engaged in a tour of their fellow bottom feeders. Their first stop was Detroit, home of the stupid, giant plastic tiger. The team that dwells under that tiger has not fared so well this season. After bloating its payroll to NY/Boston proportions all they have to show for it is last place in the AL Central. This proves two things, baseball, like the rest of the country, is not recession proof and Leyland works better with a small budget. Still, the Mariners made these guys look like shades of the ’06 season.
With only three players flirting with 300, Ichiro, Lopez and Ibanez, the Mariners aren’t going to win too many games with their bats. Ichiro may drop in a base hit, steal second and advance to third when the nervous pitcher uncorks one over the catchers’ head, but when he is left for dead at third, it is all for naught. McLaren can continue to toss his line ups into a blender, but it all comes out the same. A weak hitter is a weak hitter no matter where he bats in the order.

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