After doing the Lew Wolff Pocket-Lining Marathon in horrendous heat yesterday, I’m trying to decide between watching the game with my feet in a soothing bath or listening to the game in bed. But remembering that some of my companions from yesterday are working at the Alameda County Fair and others are at Pride, I feel compelled to at least throw up a thread before I relax.
Crisp, CF
Smith, S, DH
Lowrie, SS
Cespedes, LF
Moss, 1B
Donaldson, 3B
Reddick, RF
Vogt, C
Sogard, 2B
Less than 24 hours.
Woohoo!
Eep.
I always hate the pre-travel day. And the travel. But once you arrive it will all be worth it.
This BART shit has me scared.
BART and its unions have a long history of settling at the last minute. But if it happens, on a week when a lot of people were already going to take some days off, I think it won’t be quite the Carmageddon some people have feared. If you’re a dishwasher for a restaurant in SF who lives in Richmond and commutes on BART, and leaving two hours early is screwing with your childcare arrangements, that’s going to suck. For most of us, it’s going to be a bad traffic day but not necessarily worse than any other bad traffic day. I am going to clean out my car so I can offer people rides…once I get dressed and get my feet out of this massaging footpath.
Here’s the difference between Santa Clara County and the rest of the Bay Area. If VTA has a strike, I doubt anybody would notice the difference.
Or the North Bay where if a train doesn’t move we don’t give a shit.
Sure, but I don’t live there yet. Though we removed our final contingency today!
Woo!! Welcome back to boringland!
Thanks!
We are going to own 2 (TWO!!!!) toilets. #micdrop
already do.
Just because the homeless guy uses it doesn’t make your stoop an extra toilet, Ed
26th and folsom is lower noe, right? according to the real estate maps?
I have 3! And they all actually work at the moment! And 1.10 showers!
I’m just going to put in a trough. Unlimited capacity.
Squatting in the trough will lead to frequent mystery masses.
The rest of the Bay Area has better transit than Santa Clara Co.? Um, San Mateo Co. says “hi… no.”
I’m referring mainly to VTA light rail, which (I believe) is the worst LR system in the country, with abysmal ridership. I’m sure SamTrans has it’s own issues.
Oh god, yeah, light rail SUCKS. More than an hour to get from Mountain View to downtown SJ? That’s longer than driving at rush hour.
I remember reading someone’s story recently where he rode his bike to work one day, and took light rail the next, and it took THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME.
It would take me about the same amount of time, if I had the energy, from Willow Glen to just outside Moffett.
I hate to stick up for VTA light rail, because it does suck, for all the reasons stated. But, for my use case, since it has relatively comfortable seats and relatively reliable wi-fi, and no workplace interruptions, it is sometimes the most productive time I have.
Wait until SMART.
Marin says hi.
Oh wait, dmoas beat me to it.
Fresno has no clue what any of you are talking about. But HSR construction starts in a few months…Fresno to Madera!
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Footbath. Although I like the idea of a massaging footpath, I would be more likely to go hiking then.
The necessity of BART for commuters tends to mean they force settlements quickly.
Knowing Jennifer doesn’t want to rent a car, but checking anyway, Dollar.com has a rate of $146.10 (including all taxes/fees) for a compact for a rental at OAK from this afternoon through Saturday morning. I don’t know what the parking situation is where she’s staying, but I’d give it some thought.
If she’s staying at Ed’s in SF then parking is likely to be problematic. Some kind of super-shuttle may be her best bet, though I’m guessing they’re pretty heavily booked now.
I’m going to get her from OAK midafternoon and drive her to Ed’s.
Beats crossing a picket line …
That’s great. I was angling for the info in case I could make that offer too, but that’s not the way today is shaking out so I’m glad it’s covered.
Yes, since I’m honoring the picket line I have time today. And dragging luggage on two buses, with a presumably massive line at Eastmont Mall for a Transbay bus, seemed really unpleasant for anyone, much less someone just in from Missouri.
YAY
cool.
We just want to make sure you are there. Hopefully he at least slows down to drop me off. I’m too fat to tuck and roll.
But… the softness of the landing…
Woot! From BART to FSU’s ride is a FSU.
I don’t think I like having a blimp if it means overhead views of Beltran circling the bases.
Batting practice.
Isn’t batting practice supposed to be before the game?
I just emailed you ;)
Whatta play by Coco, beautiful.
SEXY FEET
Seriously, I wished he’d go up the middle more often with his swing. He’ll have more success, which should allow him to get more pitches to pull (and I swear I was thinking this before Ray said much the same thing).
Turned on the game and almost turned it off. Glad I stuck around for a few batters.
Dear Keebs, please don’t try to steal.
Regards,
Everybody.
So in the span of 2 weeks we get to play the 3 best teams in baseball. Fun.
Oh for fk’s sake.
I’d give two fucking errors for that one. WTF. Let’s slap the ground INSTEAD OF GOING AFTER THE FUCKING BALL.
this
Amen. He has a habit of that “oh im so frustrated” reaction. Time and a place for it…TURN AROUND AND END THE PLAY FIRST!
yes, this. we know you screwed up. it is a bummer. we know you are frustrated. you don’t need to act like it
Hey guys, can you collectively pull your heads out of your asses please?
In time. IN time
A particularly gratifying TOOTBLAN.
So even though the A’s look like they really want to lose this game, I’m saying MOJO!
This game looks like it’s going to come down to who wants to lose it more.
It’s reminding me that I miss Little League.
Happy Birthday, FSU!
Oh yeah! Happy Birthday, FSU!
Happy Birthday FSU!!
Thank you all! Unlike many birthdays that I spend with the A’s, today I left the TV radio and internet behind and ignored them completely. Fun birthday, and the A’s won anyway!
HBD!
Happy birthday FKer!
Happy belated BD!
Happy birthday FSU!
LOLOLOLOL.
This game will not be included in the new Tom Emanski fielding like a winner videos…
W
T
F
Couple of much better ABs so far by Cespedes today.
I have faith as you can see his adjustments pretty quickly.
When he actually makes them, yes.
At this rate the game will be won on back to back balks bringing in a runner from second..
That runner will have gotten to second by 1) reaching on a strikeout passed ball and then 2) surviving an 8-throw rundown while stealing 2nd.
Stealing second prior to a pitch being made.
I think this is a game made for Buancasting.
My Vogt is for his second big-league hit to be like his first.
Oh no, CY on-deck.
Shit.
Please, good things for the A’s!
FUUUUUUUUU
WERE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
VHDFBVHABRBJSNVLKNDSLKNBVLJRBVBSVJBJDF X BNMVBKHSBFKVBSKJFBJSBLJBV
bummer
The need for a new 2B is paramount.
SS to hide Lowrie…
Agreed, but they’re harder to find, but yes, that play in the 3rd, oh my…..
At least Lowrie can hit.
Yes. He can.
I’m going to say that everyday now.
DFA Suck Ass, Nakajima up to play SS, Lowrie to 2B.
That’ll work, get Utley too.
Bob does not look happy.
On top of Bad News Bears play on the field, Westbrook is getting everything, and Milone not so much.
He had to put CY in for Coco. He shouldn’t be happy for that one item alone.
Oh crap…
OH MY GAWD FUCK YES!!!!!!!
JOSHY!!!!!
Holy shit, Josh!
WOW! Gold glovier than you think..
Chavez 1.0 wasn’t initially a great fielder either
Hrm, CY?
Glen sounded shocked as he said “Chris Young…he’s got a leadoff double!”
WOOHOOOO!
I forgive you for the error, Jed.
Come and listen to a story ’bout a man named Jed
Wowrie!
Well, that was a BS strick call against Cespedes.
He’s been getting the bottom, aaaand below the bottom…
and now the up-and-in.
Crap, that Matheny footage was brutal.
Yeah – it’s never good to see someone’s career get ended like that.
DP please.
Some wild, wacky stuff.
“Shut down inning”, drrrink.
Milone refuses to pitch with the lead.
If he can get one more out, he can leave the game with it.
Think that’s it?
82 pitches, bottom of the order up next inning. He hasn’t been sharp today, obviously, but I’d still be inclined to let him throw one more inning, with a very short leash.
I’d feel better about this plan if we could add on, say, three or more runs this inning.
And Joshy gets us started on that!
Better than Jesse Chavez.
M O J O
Their reliever has very nice socks.
God, I hope Donaldson has a shitty agent.
His agent is listed as Bledsoe Brothers, whose biggest client appears to be Mat Latos. No idea about how good they are.
fail
Wow…
Too soon to start thinking about what it would cost to buy out Donaldson’s arb years?
Nope.
Trade him while his value is high.
PAY HIM WHATEVER HE WANTS
Weeks is playing CF again today. Showcasing his diverse skill set for the scouts, I presume.
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Yu out in the 7th, Tex gives up 2 runs in the 8th, runner at 3rd, 2 out.
Cross your fingers.
Tex 3, Cin 2, Frazier vs Frasor.
Nope…
Coco out w/ back spasms.
Cumulative effect of excessive Bernieing.
heh, I thought he’d change his walkup music back for the day, he should have, man o man he stank it up…
Ugh, Doo…
Incredible, too bad it was a weak throw!
KEEB’D.
Other than the big flies, Milone wasn’t terrible today. Of course, the big flies count, so he was.
Dinger-itus.
JOSH!
Wow. That was a fun D inning.
And I do mean that in a good way.
MOJO!!!
Trevor is making us look silly, really surprised they gave up on starting him.
DONALDSON!!!!!!
Roped!
#BringTheRainToTheCiti
Josh for MVP
Ever find yourself wishing that when you had an opinion about someone that might not have been widely shared, you’d said something about it anyway at the time you had that opinion… so that a couple of years later when you were more justified in saying it, people wouldn’t think “Oh, you’re just saying that NOW because it’s obvious.”?
I said you were the kind of person to wish that a long time ago.
I’ve always known that.
“Jemile Weeks is not a major league second baseman?”
Does not fit the description.
Well, to be fair, I actually never said or even thought that about Jemile. Never disagreed with the reasons for his promotion.
Bwahahaha! Actually, I was thinking more about seeing Josh Donaldson while he was converting to 3rd base in Sacramento (and my opinion being “Can’t wait until he gets to Oakland, he’s going to be REALLY fun to watch”).
But now that you mention it, Mark Ellis is still a pretty fucking useful major league second baseman.
read the thread ed
LOL
still upset about MaEl?
Stoopid Reds.
IKR, ugh.
NL CENTRAL IS DOMINANT
Cook’d.
Also, I so badly want John Jay to be traded to Toronto.
It’s too bad the nickname “The Federalist” hasn’t stuck on him.
Now would be a good time to regress to the mean CY.
More annoying. Korach sayings “Seth Smith.” Or Ray saying “Forever?”
Neither. It’s Jon Miller saying “error.”
Krukow saying, well, everything.
Well, if we’re going there. Tim McCarver.
McCarver is more annoying even when not talking.
Bleacher fan FAIL.
BS strike call on CY.
3 tidy Cardinal outs please.
Nail biter in Pittsburg.
Inge at bat 3-2, bases loaded 2 outs.
Swings and misses, I love the Brew Crew but their season is done, really want the Pirates to make some noise in October until we meet them and they can lose.
We meet them in a week or so.
I dislike this interleague all year, they can suck then too.
RAGE
CY and Cespy need to work on their communication a bit.
Yoenis la tengo.
Hee!
Nice!
Winner.
(“What the hell is a yellow tango?”)
Young was calling it.
Plz talk to each other boys
C’mon Blue!
Woo!
One more out pls.
Sorry, Mr Adams, but you’re not facing Blevins and Neshek today.
Aerial shot of RAGE was worth annoying Minion blimp.
2 Legit 2 Quit! Victory!
Yay!!!
Really too bad they couldn’t do this yesterday when the Coli was packed. #noteeyorejustsayin
Gosh, I guess maybe the A’s can beat good teams.
Big win.
Early this week I was watching a thing on MLB network where they were talking about the top 5 teams. I was bummed we werent in it. But now Im glad we took 4 of 5 against 2 of them-and who knows what happens if Parker stays in yesterday.
Yup, and if we had given the hook to Chavez after he nearly hit someone in the head, then gave up 2 more runs?
Congrats, EC! (I think?)
Hope they didn’t switch to the Euro…
From the reading they hadn’t.
I got to the beach early today, set up and was reading when a young blonde lady and her professional photographer and crew set up right next to me. Apparently she is creating a portfolio for her nascent modeling career. She was quite attractive, not quite Kate Upton although she shares a couple of Kate’s better features as she displayed during several bikini, wet blouse and topless segments. Seriously, they were there for hours (and were still going when I left) and it mostly looked like a very long day of tough work, not all fun and games as you might think from viewing a short “Inside the Kate Upton SI Photo Shoot” video.
Ken and Vince talked in my ears for three hours or so and I guess the A’s did OK.
Sounds like you had a crappy day.
Did you get her number for me?
I have heard that those model photo shoots are truly grueling ordeals. I hope you recover quickly.
It’s likely I’ll fully regain my senses tomorrow, when a plumber explains to the new homeowner why it is that when the shower runs in the hallway bathroom, water drips down into his garage.
Whew, easy fix, now I just need a drywall person to patch the resulting hole in the garage ceiling. I had the plumber replace the kitchen sink faucet too and that was costlier than the leak repair.
The gas fireplace insert installation is the $$$ project upcoming in a couple weeks, but that will become a major winter heat source and will take a huge amount of strain off the old but functional furnace.
I read a tidbit in The Nooner, a daily email on California politics, to the effect that there’s a shortage of both drywall and installers in Sacramento, which is probably a good economic indicator. Hope it doesn’t extend over into your neck of the woods.
Meanwhile, at my ramshackle shack, the transfer of the property from my old landlord to my neighbors in the front house has been delayed because the sewer failed inspection. There’s currently a trench from my yard into the front yard and our common driveway out to the street, and when I left the house an hour ago the sewer guy was down in the trench saying to someone on his cell phone, “I’ve never seen anything like it. I don’t know what to do.” Apparently there are multiple pipes that don’t connect with each other. Fun!
Ew.
we had a pipe burst in front of our three unit building. Raw sewage was being flushed onto the sidewalk.
fortunately it was the cities problem. THey dug a giant trench on the street in front. down about 7 feet was a lake of raw sewage.
WHen the workers were here, theo threw a football in the lake.
Splash hit.
“modeling”
The Yankees are the only team in the AL east with a negative run differential.
The Braves are the only team in the NL east with a positive run differential.
So the missus and I drove down to Monterey and went whale watching today. Good fun, though I did not get to see a blue whale which was my biggest hope. Saw some humpbacks though, quite close for a good stretch of time.
But the thing that by far will stick with me most vividly happened on the highway en route. On 101 between San Jose and Morgan Hill, I was just starting to pass a bus when Nurse Upgrade said “what’s that thing” in an alarmed voice. Milliseconds later, a fucking king size box spring tumbles end over end across the freeway, in front of the bus and into my lane. I jammed the brakes into a tire smoking screech and swerved towards the bus right next to me, and managed to just barely miss the boxspring and not send our car into a high speed rollover crash. It happened too fast to be terrifying, until it was over, and I looked back in the rear view to see that all the traffic behind me had stopped cold. I have no idea where that fucking thing came from, but I sure am glad that my 48-year-old reflexes are still reasonably sharp.
Part of any full life is a full-speed NASCAR-style freeway crash. I had something similar happen back when the center divider on 880 was steel guardrail instead of the present concrete Jersey barrier, and was able to admire the dent I put in that thing for a while thereafter.
Holy crap!!! I’m nauseous just thinking about that. Glad you’re okay! (and hope no one got hurt behind you, either…)
Whew!
That was no ticket to a better night’s sleep.
Glad you’re both ok.
Daaaaaaaaamn.
Some idiot who was moving and too cheap to rent a proper truck, I imagine. Glad you’re okay, that would have been a horrendous way to spend your birthday!
Maybe a lost Quebecer?
Possibly….FSU, do you remember hearing someone yell “Tabernacle!”?
Holy Crap!
I’m at home.
thank god. i thought about you 10 minutes ago.
ditto
Glad you’re all right, but how terrible for your fire-fighting brothers and their families.
Ditto… :\
this too
This – very glad that you are OK.
That is just so brutal and sad. Something has to go horribly, horribly wrong for that to happen, no?
Terrible for them. Very glad you are safe.
Horrible day for all you, and us.
Holy crap. That is awful.
Thats really terrifying. I hope you stay safe and your friends and coworkers do as well.
Jeebus that’s terrible. That was an elite crew right? Did you know any of them?
Thanks for letting us know you’re safe and home.
Glad you’re at home. The one guy who survived must be horrendously traumatized.
Damn, that’s awful.
:-( and glad you’re safe.
Just awful. I am just so sorry for those who have lost friends and loved ones. I first thought of my cousin who is a firefighter in Phoenix (not on that crew) and you. Glad to hear you are safe.
Yikes.
Relieved to hear of FKers avoiding the trifecta of calamity. FSU, grover and brian, glad to have you all safe and sound.
Hear hear, too many close calls but at least you’re all ok.
Holy shit. Coco leans are selling for like $75 on ebay.
I had no idea…
I’ll go ahead and say it.
That’s FKing dumb.
Thanks, and go As.
You can’t even eat cereal out of it.
Cheaper in a month or two, maybe?
Hope so. I can’t justify that.
I had to laugh at the people who took pictures AT THE GAME and posted as soon as they could with eBay Mobile.
Ahh, capitalism.
I have the ebay app
For those keeping track at home, I am pretty FKing good at the “throw darts and break balloons” game at the carnival. and I won a prize for the pretty girl(TM)
Thanks, and go As.
Nice. Good choice of games.
yeah it seems like it would be a harder one to rig
Maybe you could grease up the balloons.
Half-inflated balloons, dull darts.
Thicker material, dull darts.
But I was tearing it up. I went 7 for 8, and the one that I missed actually hit the balloon and didn’t pop it. Hence the dull darts/thicker balloon theory.
However, I had the pretty girl(tm) AND the carnie working the booth picking out colors of balloons for me to aim at, and hitting them… Booyah.
Thanks, and go As.
Solid.
Superstar.
The A’s have signed an UDFA pitcher named Travis Pitcher.
Destiny
plot twist: hes a short stop
DH
BH (Belly Itcher)
Not really sure why I wrote H instead of I there. I need to have my brain looked at.
Balfour disagrees.
So, unfortunately, does Outman.
Bob Walk
Eric Plunk
Dick Pole
Peter Balke
Rusty Kuntz
Dick Harden. We didnt call him Rich, right?
I read that as USDA.
Another damn off day? This is some BS.
Anybody notice Puig’s game last night? sure he had a triple (pop up 160 feet from home) a double (proper), but his 2 singles were of the PADMY variety, although they hit the glove of MY. (Past a diving MIchael Young)
Dude’s had a great month. BFD. No way he should be getting as much attention has he’s getting, certainly not “All-Star” talk.
Also, a mug raised in a birthday greeting for FSU and doctorK. To many more, ye giants of Kraut!