Johnny Mac is a *****.

[Coach Owens]

(Title's supposed to be Mo-ron, I forgot it's censored.) Once again, his horrible in game management blows the game for us and turns another win into a loss. Today, Felix Hernandez had given up 5 hits and had thrown only 97 pitches in 8 innings. Instead of leaving him in to finish the 2-0 game at the time, he promptly brought in the bullpen which preceded to lose the game. Why do the Mariners have to have him? Where's Hargrove?

[boomboom]

Hargrove is just the lesser of two evils....

[Mike67]

I see the title of this and I wondered what did John McDonald do?

[gosensgo101]

Me too. He did make a nice play tonight, followed by a bonehead play.

[Mike67]

Yeah I saw both plays.. The collision didn't look too friendly..

[asianinvasion]

Its the beginning of the season and no one wants their pitchers to get overworked and get hurt. 97 pitches is a fair amount of pitches for this time in the season. Once we get into June and July is when we will probably start seeing Felix getting into the 120's. Also its not Mac's fault that the bullpen could not shut things down. I would have done the same thing.

[HoustonGM]

Once we get into June and July is when we will probably start seeing Felix getting into the 120's.

120's? If McLaren routinely runs Felix up into the 120's, that shows incredible incompetence.

Not many pitchers reach 120 pitches in a game these days.

[asianinvasion]

120's? If McLaren routinely runs Felix up into the 120's, that shows incredible incompetence.

Not many pitchers reach 120 pitches in a game these days.

My bad, my finger slipped. I meant in the low 110's.