Bavasi's strengths sucked too!

It looks like by the end of the day two of Bill Bavasi's coveted first round draft picks will be heading to a new organization. Rumors have Jeff Clement all but gone and speculation is that Brandon Morrow might join him.

Why does this matter? How does this involve Bill Bavasi? Why do we keep bringing up that horrible excuse of a General Manager? Well the reason is, for all the things that Bavasi wasn't, he WAS supposed to be a hell of a talent evaluator and was tasked with re-stocking the Mariners farm system. Clement and Morrow were two of Bavasi's first round draft picks and have clearly fallen out of the eye of new GM Jack Zduriencik.

If you pair this with the decision to move Philippe Aumont to the bullpen the report card on Bill Bavasi's tenure with the M's is about as good as the college student who spends his time smoking pot all day rather than going to class. Hell, I think that kid could've done a better job, at least then we'd still have Adam Jones.

If this deal goes through, Bavasi's legacy with the Mariners will be defined as the guy who gave up Adam Jones for nothing and wasted four consecutive first round picks. Two on guys shipped out of town and two as relief pitchers.

The Bush Leagues, now on video!

Hey everyone,

Just as Nick eluded to earlier this morning, we have in fact evolved as a Mariners news source. We are now offering video of our blogcast so all of you can see our interactions with each other and exactly what goes on when we record. Although I must admit, we do exactly what it sounds like we're doing...sitting on a chair clucking like a couple of hens about baseball. Not a bad way to pass the time.

Apologies for the sound at the end but I'm kind of new to video editing and my audio didn't quite sync with the video the way I had hoped. Please be patient as I go through the growing pains of digital video editing.

P.S. Garbs' hat says, "Chicks lay better in the morning."

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The Bush Leagues Blogcast, Episode 6

Hey everybody! Noah and I finally got around to recording episode 6 of TBL. Listen in as we hit on the AL West, player injuries, and Interleague play. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Garbs

Episode 6

The Bush Leagues Blogcast, Episode 4

Check out the latest episode of the Bush Leagues! We dive into why the M's are losing lately, Russell Branyon's future with the club, and what to do with B-Mo. Check it out, and for the love of God, please let us know what you think!!!

Episode 4

Nick and Noah

Hmm...

What in the hell happened to Brandon Morrow?

Be sure to turn off the lights before you go home

Baseball is becoming a spectacle sport. What started as playing music for plate appearances has turned into each Major League established closer having their own music as well. Mariano Rivera has "Enter Sandman," Trevor Hoffman trotted out to "Hells Bells" and JJ would strike fear into opposing batters with "Thunderstruck."

But is this an intimidation tool? Or simply another way for the home stadiums to pump up an already excited crowd with the lead in the ninth?

I haven't been to a Mariners game this year where Brandon Morrow has needed to come in and lock the game up with a save. Because of that I have no idea what his "closer entrance theme" is. If you do know, please tell me in the comments.

But this posed an interesting question for me. If you were a major league closer what would your entrance music be?

I'll go first...Hatebreed "I will be Heard."

Hopefully most of you reading this will know what I'm talking about but for those of you who don't, imagine the most hardcore metal song that starts out with, "Now...is the time...for me to rise...to my feet! Wipe this spit...from my face...wipe these tears...from my eyes!"

If you can't get jacked up for that, you aren't alive.

How say you? What would your closer entrance music be?

*UPDATE: Garbs points out in the comments that Morrow's closer music may be Lenny Kravitz' "Are you gonna my way." If this is in fact true, (which I hope it's not) you can eliminate any chance of using closer entrance music to strike intimidation into the hearts of batters. Instead, in this case, it's used as a means to get the average fans toe tapping with catchy guitar riffs while at the same time succeeding in ultimately pissing people like me off.