A case of the Mondays?

[dr4b]

I wore the outfit I bought yesterday to work today! It actually looked very good and is very comfortable. Dammit, Megan's always right.

This morning's chai came from Seattle's Best Coffee at 4th and whatever. The chai was just as generic as every other coffee shop, which isn't entirely unexpected. The guy who took my order said, "Can I have a name for your order?" and I said "er, Deanna," and he goes "Huh... what's your last name? I swear to god, you're a dead ringer for my ex-girlfriend." I told him my name, then said "If you were from Pittsburgh, you'd know who I was."

Hm, after work I walked down to Safeco Field to see the results of our deBooneification. It's surprisingly small, actually:

- Pokey Reese's face is now on Player's Row on the stadium side instead of Boone
- All the Boone merchandise in the team store is 50% off (which is still gratuitously expensive, I'd buy a Boone t-shirt if it was $5, not $10)
- Hahahahahahaha, the June 2005 issue of Mariners Magazine has him on the cover and they seem to be hiding the issues. Cover boy in June, DFA'ed in July. Nice going.

(Oh yeah, and he's been traded to the Twins for a PTBNL. Can we PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE have Joe Mauer? Or Justin Morneau? Please? I swear I'll be very very good and attend every game and never wear an opposing team t-shirt again. I'll clean the stadium after class and write "I will not make fun of Willie Bloomquist" on the board a hundred times.)

I'm a lot less bitter over this than I was when they DFA'ed Olerud last year. That SUCKED. Especially the part where he went on to kick our butts while playing on the Yankees later in the year.

Anyway, um, I walked uptown from the stadium and caught the 5 bus. I decided I would stop off at Red Mill for dinner, except, oops, it's Monday, so they're closed. Ah well, it was nice out and an excuse to walk another mile home. So I called Mori to order dinner from there, except, crap, they're ALSO closed on Monday! Dammit. I ended up stopping in at Olive You, the mediterranean place a block from here, which I'd never had an excuse to go in before, but at least it's open on Mondays. All I got was some pitas and hummus, because I wasn't really in a decisive mood... it was pretty damn tasty though.

Where'd the evening go? Crap... all I think I accomplished was building my last bookcase, fighting some skellies on PP, and chatting with Charlie for a while. Grrr.

I really want to write an article about baseball for Marinerds, but I'm just feeling creatively shot lately for some reason. I did finish reading my other library book today, and they're due on the 15th, so go me -- I can return them tomorrow and get back to my queue, in theory.

Comments

[jbru.livejournal.com]

Thanks for Boone. No, you may not have Mauer. Or Morneau. And don't even look at Santana.

We can maybe talk about Punto, but don't get your hopes up.

[dr4b]

If they give us back Mulholland, I will cry. He was already getting old when I watched him in highschool back in Philly. We already have Jamie Moyer (and Pat Borders!) as the Ancient Mariner.

I'd take Bartlett over Punto, but I didn't like Punto when he was with the Phillies either, so go figure.

[jbru.livejournal.com]

Hey, Mulholland, that's an idea! From the little I know about your club, I'd say you aren't likely to need a pitcher. We've got droves of outfielders in the minors and a few guys like Bartlett or Tiffee that can play anywhere in the infield. I hope Boone does well for us, we've got the Bitch Sox to catch!

[mh75.livejournal.com]

Yay!

and Yay!

and yeah, losing Olerud was horrible (i'm so afraid they'll do the same to Moyer, and i will cry), but i am not really sorry to see Boone go. I wish him the best with the Twins. As long as we're not playing them.

Glad to hear Olive You was tasty - i will try it some time.

[hosterman.livejournal.com]

Glad you wore your new outfit and liked it. =) Had fun shopping with you guys this weekend!

[jacquilynne.livejournal.com]

Do you know how long it took me to figure out what DFA means?

[dr4b]

Ack. Well, the whole explanation is: he was "designated for assignment", which means the Mariners could immediately remove him from the roster and make room for someone else -- but they didn't have to know immediately what they were doing with him -- at that point they had ten days to either trade him, assign him to a minor league team (which he could and would block because of his major league service time) or just outright release him. After ten days he'd go on waivers I believe (where any team *could* claim his contract, but *wouldn't* because he'd have about $4.5 million left on it), and two days later become a free agent.

Fortunately, they managed to trade him to Minnesota right before the deadline, for a PTBNL -- a Player To Be Named Later. We should be getting a minor league prospect somewhere down the line, but either way, it's better than the nothing we would have gotten for him otherwise.

At the point he was DFA'ed, Boone could have just gone and sat on his butt for the rest of the year and he'd still get paid by the Mariners, and he could just resume his career next year. But, much like it looks bad to have large gaping periods of time unemployed on your resume, it looks incredibly bad on an MLB career stat line to not be racking up at-bats, games, hits, home runs, etc.

So I think it works out for the best, although there are going to be many, many little kids in Seattle asking their parents "Where's Bret Boone? Where's Bret Boone?" in the upcoming weeks.

And the answer will be "flipping his bat in Minnesota, and watching Napoleon Dynamite ninety times with Justin Morneau and Joe Mauer".

[crankyuser.livejournal.com]

I told him my name, then said "If you were from Pittsburgh, you'd know who I was."

Heh, "Deanna of Pittsburgh."