We can have nice things, as long as we recruit more noobs to keep teh pyramid scheme going…
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Well, starting tonight the Rangers begin a 31-game stretch with
6 vs. the Angels
7 vs. the Astros
6 vs. the Mariners
3 vs. the White Sox
3 vs. the Twins
2 vs. the Brewers
4 vs. teams that don’t suck (1-Diamondbacks, 3-A’s)
So I’d suggest the A’s 6-game lead is a bit illusory.
You have to go back 31 home games to May 14 to find a smaller announced attendance than tonight’s 13K. The Blue Jays on a Monday night don’t bring ’em out despite the home club’s play.
You can get away with that in the Coliseum. Maybe still in Safeco despite moving in the fences? And probably Kansas City and Minnesota. San Diego in the NL. Other than that…
Any chance Gray can give the A’s a Matt Moore-esque September and continue it into the playoffs ala Moore in 2011, despite the fact that you know, he is not as good as Matt Moore?
Blevins has faced 18 batters in the month of July, so that’s basically been a dead spot on the roster. If he could get his act back together, that amounts to a deadline trade for a quality reliever.
The Tigers are gonna lose Peralta soon and Jim Leyland’s down to like, what, half a lung?!?
None shall pass.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
BPro has had them around 9 games below their 3rd order pythag for some time now. Seems to me that at some point they ought to begin to regressing back somewhat.
Correction; not quite identical run differentials.
Yahoo bizarrely updates its standings in three stages – first the W/L record, later the runs scored, and eventually the runs conceded, and it updates the run differential at each of the last two steps!
Currently it shows the A’s run differential as having jumped by 9 since yesterday (+76), and the Rays by 2 (+74). When the dust settles the A’s will have +72 and the Rays +73.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Young received a full no-trade clause as part of the agreement that persuaded him to waive his no-trade rights to the Phillies last offseason. The Rangers are paying $10 million of his $16 million salary, and he is eligible for free agency when the season is over.
Peavy has a minimum of $14.5 million left on his deal after this season, and he has a vesting option for 2015 at $15 million, but additional payroll is not a problem for the A’s, owner Lew Wolff told me yesterday.
We can get him for A prospects for an X increase in payroll or C prospects for a S increase in payroll. He has the option of taking the second scenario
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
You don’t see the difference between “technically we could scrape together the money and financing to purchase a luxury item” and the additional payroll is “not a problem”?
This doesn’t tell us anything. Of course Lew is going to say that he can/will increase payroll when he doesn’t have to specify for whom and most importantly, for how much. Technically, we “increased” payroll to take on Callaspo’s remaining 1 million or so this season, but I’m guessing that’s not the significant increase Slusser had in mind when she asked that question.
We can have nice things, as long as we recruit more noobs to keep teh pyramid scheme going…
I wouldn’t mind some of that.
The next generation always comes around. Lives change, people move on. NOTHING IS CHANGING!!!
Mojo v.3
Guy Frieri does it again.
Gave up homers to both Rangers catchers to lose it in the ninth.
damn
The Angels really are terrible.
i am watching. from the heart of the lol empire
They have a heart???
inlol empire? because that’s the really scary part of angeldom.
come hang out with me
Just got here. I know I am booked tomorrow. I will ty to figure it out from tuesday night and beyond.
Bring em’ home boys!
Woooo!
nice halfway mojo
I like super-Cespedes
I missed him so much.
SEXy FEEt
What were the TV guys saying about Melky? It looked like he was running with cement shoes.
Nothing. The camera flashed to second base, where there was no action, and I thought “Seriously?!? A singl… ohhhhh”
They were talking about how it’s a cold night and Melky thought he had
roidedhit that one pretty well only to have it die on the track.Personally, I thought Melky was surprised he was wasn’t getting cheered on his return to the Bay Area.
Duuuuude, we should do this new site thing more often!
That, or I should have waited a couple months.
Working smooth, thx!
Let’s wake it up JD.
30 pitches.
On pace for 1.1 IP?
What a terrible throw by Rasmus.
Good job Red, man Rasmus, is uh, weird looking.
Have you heard him talk?
No, I’m very curious now, heh.
Nice throw, bro.
You got this Theth mojo.
or not…
Always good to get Theth’s AB out of the way so he’s not leading off the next inning.
Kinda feel bad thinking the same thing…
It’s not great when your designated hitter plays the role of an NL pitcher in the lineup.
I do however have a feeling this will be the game when the worm turns.
Yeehaw!
Wait Texas won?
If you rephrase that as “Wait Slegna’s bullpen blew the game?” it makes a lot more sense.
asvd
Heh heh heh heh
Well, starting tonight the Rangers begin a 31-game stretch with
6 vs. the Angels
7 vs. the Astros
6 vs. the Mariners
3 vs. the White Sox
3 vs. the Twins
2 vs. the Brewers
4 vs. teams that don’t suck (1-Diamondbacks, 3-A’s)
So I’d suggest the A’s 6-game lead is a bit illusory.
Hmm. That raises the stakes a bit on this weekend’s series.
It’s why we needed to kick ass while we had the chance coming out of the break.
If we keep playing like this, none of it will matter!
If we can 50 more against the Jays we are set.
BOOKED.
Normally I would agree, but Frieri does not suck.
He’s now faced 31 Rangers batters in that ballpark in his career and has served up 5 home runs.
Mawsome
Donaldson coulda’ beat that.
THETH
He’s keeping the ball!
Threak thopped!
They had an instagram? Dude I think shes banging the internet behind your back.
Wow A.J., wow.
Starting to think a few more of you locals should have taken EM’s suggestion to freeze your butts off out there tonight.
If you could only see what I’m about to eat.
(has filthy thoughts)
Reyes is rockin’ the amish beard.
Answer to their question has to be Rickey, right?
I didn’t even hear the question, but yes.
That’s what I assumed, but I was wrong.
Glen: It’s always good to see Rajai Davis.
Me: On another team.
Well so much for all of that…
Hmmmph. So much for those thoughts.
Well, if you’re going to have a no-no broken up, that’s the way to do it.
It’s officially a Griffin start.
BABIP .000
Good job A.J.
Now just take your time and get some outs.
Fosse must be bummed that food is being delievered with scotty in the booth
Obligatory Chef Rodney reference.
does that happen every game?
In fact, it seems like Ray has kinda backed off his food fetish this season.
NOM NOM
You have to go back 31 home games to May 14 to find a smaller announced attendance than tonight’s 13K. The Blue Jays on a Monday night don’t bring ’em out despite the home club’s play.
That’s impressive.
SCHLONG
Thanks for waking up the bats Norris.
WHEEEEEEE
Vince just suggested a disease known as Ray Fosseitis. I believe that causes the inflammation of the post game interview question.
Let’s just hope Korach doesn’t come down with Controneosis.
That HR almost hit Stomper.
I think Lawrie was aiming for Stomper there. Meanie.
The problem there was the 5 little kids Stomper ran over trying to get the baseball.
Griffin is now leading the league in HRs.
this is a problem
Yup, fly ball machine.
Career 11.3 HR/FB rate, 35.% GB%.
W T F
You can get away with that in the Coliseum. Maybe still in Safeco despite moving in the fences? And probably Kansas City and Minnesota. San Diego in the NL. Other than that…
It’s nice that the A’s are beating up a crappy team but I really don’t want to see AJ making a start for us in the playoffs.
Jesus Griffin Christ.
You mean Another Jack Griffin.
Any chance Gray can give the A’s a Matt Moore-esque September and continue it into the playoffs ala Moore in 2011, despite the fact that you know, he is not as good as Matt Moore?
I think BP/ long man after AAA season would be just fine if his innings count looks okay.
HARHARHAR
Enough with the home runs, Griffin.
ok, pay attention.
Yeah, fine. Nice curve. And it shouldn’t matter that much, given the lead he was given. But still, that has to stop.
I can’t tell if Griffin was crying or just had a sweaty face. Probably the latter.
Yespedes!
Ooh, a Blevins sighting!!
crap.
Blevins has faced 18 batters in the month of July, so that’s basically been a dead spot on the roster. If he could get his act back together, that amounts to a deadline trade for a quality reliever.
And it would keep the A’s from stupidly putting Anderson in the pen.
This.
I believe he can work it out and be good again. But he’ll need to pitch to do that.
If he’s on the roster, at some point you have to trust him. I thought yesterday provided some opportunities and tonight is another one.
Let him pitch the ninth. If there’s trouble again, go to Balfour.
I’m a fan of Jerry, but something is wrong w/ him at the moment, be huge if he could turn it around.
Approve of having two RP’s warming up here.
It’s funny how ageist of a baseball fan I am, if Vogt were 24-25 I’d be pretty stoked right now, but 28? Meh.
Pretty funny.
Fuck, hope he’s okay!
EM has been positioning herself for better TV exposure recently.
La Potencia!
He dug that shit out!
Cespedes probably needed that home run.
Blevins time!
La Potencia!
SEXY FEET (x2)
attention: paid. wow.
Progress: Blevins gets the leadoff hitter out.
I didn’t see a lot of velocity on any of those pitches though.
So nice to wake up to Sexyfeet being a double short of the cycle with 3 RBIs.
Progress for the problem children – Donaldson, Smith, Cespedes, and Blevins
CELEBRATION!
Could this game have gone better? Win, Cespy, Theth, and Blevins get a bit more back on track…love it.
Griffin could have been less homer-happy.
Victoire!
(Son of a gun, it turns out the French do actually have a word for that.)
They need it to be able to say “Ils ont remporté la victoire”.
Ariel Prieto must be relieved that he doesn’t have to translate Fosse questions tonight.
Lol
I’m listening to him translate Vince questions right now. Not much better.
not to pile on, but has vince been getting more fosseesque in his questions?
i think so
Denorfia pinch-hit walk-off! The Giants stay in the basement.
Heh
Nobody does “this guy” like Jon Gruden.
Ive really disliked that phrase as well makes him sound like he has no idea who is playing and therefore knows nothing about which he speaks.
The A’s and Rays have the best record in the AL at 63-43.
Yay, my teams!!!
yup this
With identical run differentials too.
But the Tigers are 5 games under their pythagorean.
The Tigers are gonna lose Peralta soon and Jim Leyland’s down to like, what, half a lung?!?
None shall pass.
BPro has had them around 9 games below their 3rd order pythag for some time now. Seems to me that at some point they ought to begin to regressing back somewhat.
wow, that’s a lot
The A’s are 5 games above their 3rd order pythag.
Still in Italy or jet-lag?
Italy till the weekend.
Don’t ride buses
I’m being chauffeured by friends.
I’m curious, how come?
There has been a bad bus crash in Italy last week, where a bus fell of a viaduct.
A bus does not “fall”, it “plunges”.
Noted
Oh heh, errr, forgot about that, some reason I thought it was more nefarious.
Correction; not quite identical run differentials.
Yahoo bizarrely updates its standings in three stages – first the W/L record, later the runs scored, and eventually the runs conceded, and it updates the run differential at each of the last two steps!
Currently it shows the A’s run differential as having jumped by 9 since yesterday (+76), and the Rays by 2 (+74). When the dust settles the A’s will have +72 and the Rays +73.
I think Rays are better than their season-long baseline if we consider Myers being better than Fuld.
So I’m listening to the Guy Haberman postgame show…
Why the FK are fans so obsessed with relief pitching? Christ, that’s the biggest strength on this team.
Ok, I’m out. FK, the A’s being so good have lulled me into forgetting how inane sports talk radio is.
its worse than **
There is no such thing as “quality sports talk radio.”
Agreed.
Jaso + Rosales + Balfour!
That game last night was something…that one team really scored more runs than that other team.
I’m confident that he can once again be the difference maker in the AL West.
Also: The Phillies gave Michael Young a full no-trade clause!
It’s still his Rangers contract (and they’re still paying for most of it).
Hmm, but…
If he’s a FA it almost sounds like the Phils should just wait him out unless Texas really wants him back.
Step 1 Trade Young away
Step 2 Let Cody Asche suck
Step 3 Call up Maikel Franco
Step 4 Profit
I’m fine with 1…I have no clue who 2 and 3 are…I love money so 4 sounds good.
What, no underpants? Madness.
Hrm.
Of course you say that when you aren’t going to make the trade because they are asking for a top 10 and top 100 spec from you.
Sure maybe, but Lew doesn’t say that very often.
My gut feeling tells me nothing is going to happen.
I’m sure he’d say that regardless because he’s always said that.
Really, I only remember him saying this a few times (pre Holliday season mostly) but I guess I’m mistaken.
Pretty much any time he’s been asked, he’s said he’s willing. I don’t recall him ever saying he wouldn’t.
oh jesus fucking christ
Thanks, and go As.
Its like saying “I can afford a tesla.” technically i could, but Im not going to buy it.
You can’t honestly believe that Lew has jack shit to do with trade negotiations aside from saying yay or nay to payroll increases, can you?
Thanks, and go As.
We can get him for A prospects for an X increase in payroll or C prospects for a S increase in payroll. He has the option of taking the second scenario
Honestly I believe lew will act with treachery and lies at every opportunity, because it is what I would do if I were him.
Matt Holliday.
Thanks, and go As.
Your point?
You don’t see the difference between “technically we could scrape together the money and financing to purchase a luxury item” and the additional payroll is “not a problem”?
This doesn’t tell us anything. Of course Lew is going to say that he can/will increase payroll when he doesn’t have to specify for whom and most importantly, for how much. Technically, we “increased” payroll to take on Callaspo’s remaining 1 million or so this season, but I’m guessing that’s not the significant increase Slusser had in mind when she asked that question.
Can this be even more over-analyzed than it’s worth? Inquiring minds want to know.
Who’s overanalyzing?
Texas giving up hits, 1 and 3rd, 2 outs, 3-2 LAA.
Wow, Gentry makes a sports reel play to end the inning.
Passed ball by AngLols ties it up…
Howie Kendrick not increasing his trade value…
5-3 Tex.
In case anyone was wondering, Barry Zito still sucks.
Moscoso’s not much better.
In the past few days, I have seen the 2013 debuts of players named Asche and Hoes.
Christ …
What?
**
Asshole
Yes? What can I do for you?