DH spot hard to fill

                   
nwsource.com     Jul 23, 2008            

Riggleman's choices limited; Mariners' average just .197 By DAVID ANDRIESEN P-I REPORTER You're the manager of the Mariners, making out your lineup card. Which of the available options would you like to write in as your designated hitter? The guy batting .222? The one batting .225? How about the ones batting .210 or .172? Jim Riggleman doesn't have a lot of good options to choose from at the DH spot, essentially stuck with Jose Vidro, Miguel Cairo or whichever of his top two catchers -- Kenji Johjima or Jeff Clement -- isn't behind the plate. The best batting average among those players going into Tuesday's game was Cairo's .225. "I'm kind of using (the DH spot) just to kind of have some contact in that spot and maybe move some runners, hit and run, that kind of stuff," Riggleman said. "(To) get some at-bats for some guys.... [read full story]                    

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Jim Riggleman Has Superhero-Level Powers Of Self-Deception

firejoemorgan.com     Jul 24, 2008          

And Jesse Baumgartner of MLB.com must be his sidekick. It's taken approximately four billion years for life to evolve from some sort of self-replicating ribozyme into a creature, man, whose brain is able to complete the...                    

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Jim Riggleman, Comedy All Star

seattlest.com     Jul 25, 2008          

Two of these Jim Riggleman quotes are real, and one was made up by the Onion. Can you tell which is which? A: "I'm astonished to tell you the truth when I look up and I see [Jose] Vidro's average is what it is, because I feel...                    

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