I figure all the locals are at the park, and the rest of us might check in from time to time, so here’s the appropriate thread.
I don’t know what to say other than that… Â barbecuing chicken and some ribeyes I got stupid cheap… Â got my ol’ buddy here cleaning up in preparation for tomorrow’s dinner guests…
We’re gonna start this 60 minute rock block with some Billy Squier, and we’ll be rockin’ ya back to back with Bob Seger, ZZ Top, Eddie Money, and Baris Manco!
Ken makes a point, this is the wildcard match up right now. Gotta beat them. I am glad price was held back
Twins lead 3-2 mid seven in arlington (where the tv broadcast shows GBA, i doubt TSSB though. have to check it out.)
Parker just fucked with the jesus
My comments make more sense if you read them in the voice of Ed Sidawi
So do mine. That’s kinda scary, actually.
Either that or you’re missing your true calling in radio voiceover work.
“mileage based on EPA estimates, your mileage may vary”
“not for use in salads”
Barton would have had that
Did you have that pre-typed?
control D
Ken is in Mid season form
no rehab needed
Sadly so are Vince, Ray, & Glen.
BOOBIES
Also, Freiman’s “defense” is why I’m glad to see Barton back on this team.
Dejesus? Loney?
Loney was leading the league in average for a lot of the year.
I should pay attention to the leader boards more
Barton would have also had that
I found a $20 bill in the parking lot at work.
Can I have $5?
but I asked everyone if it was theirs, and it turned out someone claimed it.
My boss said he could describe the bill, and did, but I didn’t give it to him
It’s mine.
Liar. Its mine. I can even describe it..,green, Jackson on the front..
Which Jackson:
Michael, Tito, or LaToya?
Randy.
Reggie
I’d spend that.
It would tell you it was worth $25.
heh
Wow. That park is not packed.
Getting off [the] 101 was awesome today. NO line up at Ceaser CHavez
Odd. I know where you are talking about!
I don’t have to exit there anymore!
Not sure what Coco is bitching about, but that pitch looked very pretty to me.
Ho hum. I am glad i take that DOnaldson guy for granted and is not at all better than I thought
Ken:
And by the way, there are plenty of nice hotels on this side of the bay
I dont even want to hear Rangers scores until they are finals.
what about read?
Its pointless. I get excited and then they score 17 in the 8th.
I’ve got the game on tv on mute, and my wife’s listening to the White Stripes.
My top 10 White Stripes songs:
1-10 meh
I have a fondness for Conquest because my cousin did the (one of the?) music videos for it
I think that Fell In Love With A Girl is a pretty tight number. Also, the one Ed mentioned below. I’m not crazy about the White Stripes, but I don’t think they suck either.
1 Hardest button to button
2 We are going to be friends
3 Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground
4 Hotel Yorba
5 Getting Harder to be a Gentleman Everyday
6 Pretty Good Looking (for a girl)
7 Now Mary
8 Seven Nation Army
9 Jolene
10 Fell in love with a girl
11 Icky Thump
And I threw in an extra because White Stripes are great
It appears that you forgot Slowly Turning Into You and 300mph torrential downpour blues
Thanks, and go As.
they are great in the sense that they gave me an extra $1000 or so for the down payment on my place
I know the second wild card is new, but I wish sites would get into the habit of doing a +X for the first team so you can see their lead.
mlb at bat does that
A handful of places do that including MLB’s site. I’d like them all to. Given it’s only the second season, I’m not expecting much. But I’m hoping more places start picking up on the usefulness of it.
MLB does I belueve.
MLB’s is a bit odd, in that they use positive numbers to show both the lead of the first wild-card team and the deficit of all the chasers for the second slot, but just add an explicit + sign to distinguish between them. Logically, they should list the first slot team as being a negative number of games behind.
I really like their system
Ha – the Yahoo standing do use a negative number of games back for the team in the first WC slot.
Is too bad they have such a shitty interface. That blurred field background really looks awful behind the text.
Nothing like our sexy background!
I love the focus on a darker page layout, though. It’s much nicer on my eyes, which are light-sensitive.
I’ve started trying Stylish and a few darker custom CSS designs for a few sites and I like it.
Pasta sauce turned out amazing. Took a couple hours of simmering and double the amount of seasoning. Burned my fingers.
After that last Callaspo bobble, my eyes find it very difficult to believe that Fangraphs has the A’s as MLB-average fielding team.
I see I have replied out of place, but that is okay. That is good news on the pasta sauce. What type was it?
Marinaro della Callaspo
I like hello operator. They didn’t play it at a show in Seattle in 2000. told the fella it was her favorite song of theirs and he promised to play it at the in store the next day. WHen they finished with out playing she said “hey! what about operator?” and he said, oh yeah, and they went back and played it.
note, if you dig around that link enough you can find a picture of SLF herself.
that was a reply to Kay
That suddenly makes more sense.
That’s kinda cool.
“Hello Operator” is one of a handful of their songs I am more than meh about. I like the drumstick-on-rim minimalist breaks.
that is what makes me feel bag for slagging him. But it doesn’t stop me
He’s a sexist jerk, so I slag him too.
No, Glen. It doesn’t say it all. It leaves out a lot actually. And would you two stop fking fellating the opposing team?
They should fellate each other while Hatteberg does the talking.
I’d be okay with that. Just so long as I don’t have to see it.
You’d have to hear all the noises.
As long as I didn’t have to hear commentary, a “blow by blow” if you will, I’d be okay with that compromise.
“Drilled!”
“Confidence”
“And *THAT* baby is GONE”
“how great is it to be getting a hummer while on extended basic cable?”
Gulp-down inning.
Out goddamit.
kurt being kurt, or the walk?
Kurt throwing out the runner.
No, he actually threw the runner out.
oh, then the hit makes me mad
And here is the single DeJesus highlight…
this one?
Takes one to win. that’s ok
Parker continues to disrespect the Jesus
I find it more disrespectful to both spell and pronounce his name incorrectly.
Aces! twins win!
See..it works.
I really hate the Rays, and their perfectly placed fielders.
ctrl-D
heh
A’s runs plz.
The good news is Baltimore, Cleveland, and Arlington all lost.
How has Parker looked?
Normally I say handsome, but with parker, Iam not sure if that would be a crime
oopsie
Freiman woulda had that.
Oh, I thought Zooks was up, but instead it’s CY. Bunt, please.
I think Ray just said CY25 is hoping to make a productive out. Im hoping for a hit myself.
Aside from Ray’s fixation for playing for a single run, he also knows that CY is likely to strike out, pop up, or roll over on one to the left side.
Wow, can’t believe he wasn’t rung up on either of those last two.
Same here. I’m not giving him credit for a good PA there. He struck out twice.
Regardless it qualifies as a good CY25 AB.
>5pitches
1 or less outs
Did not spike himself
He wasn’t going to hit those pitches, so I give him credit for not swinging at them and taking his chances.
Both of those were off the plate outside, if barely.
That was sort of a great AB by CY.
I take full credit for all the negative thoughts I was having about him.
Zk too, I assume.
NO. WAY.
Gad ZOOKS
I DONT BELIEVE WHAT IVE JUST SEEN!!
Well then. Welcome back to Oakland, Kurt Suzuki.
The Collaspo/Young/Zooks combo that has been destroying teams all year.
callaspo has a 134 OPS+ with the A’s, Suzuki is even higher.
Young … well, not so much.
(nice to see you around, btw)
It’s been a busy August. I still like you guys.
Good busy?
I think so. I took a little hiatus from publishing but I’m trying to prepare some manuscripts now. I forgot how freaking much work that was.
Ugh – yeah.
One advantage to a 600-person collaboration is that there are lots of other people to do the writing!
Well, my project is no stranger to author lists that exceed the length of the actual publication. But I’ve been advised that publishing some of the smaller, more focused studies is good for my career. I can’t disagree. I published a ton in grad school, and I could still probably write a paper in that field in my sleep. But I’m in uncharted territory, not as familiar with the landscape in this new field. So I’m starting over a little. But, y’know, as Calvin’s dad would say…it builds character.
Um. Wow.
It’s a good thing the A’s acquired this hitting machine.
SSS but imagine that, Kurt Suzuki hitting more effectively as part of a platoon.
And that’s a FKing shutdown inning.
I’d be ok with the A’s scoring, say, 7 runs this inning, and letting Anderson close it out.
So, I know CY has really had a suck season this year, but good grief.
Yeah, sucks for him. Those two non home runs are like 30-40 points of OPS.
Which relievers are we trusting tonight?
Mecir and Rincon.
Fuentes.
Go fly a FKing kite.
Sorry, I momentarily forgot what year it was.
The year Barton and Suzuki are the future
Dear god that’s disturbing.
Parker?
heh.
Appearantly none.
hee
Bullpen please.
One if not two batters too late.
I don’t mind the first batter. But it should have been one and done.
This. I thought 7 innings and 100 pitches was good, but can understand bringing him back out until first sign of trouble. But we got 2 signs.
I don’t remember de’Lawd being this good.
I’m in the forest, can’t get say radio but can get phone signal. We’re winning!
Everything was going fine until you showed up. Go back to the forest.
I have faith.
you got to
You gotta have it.
I thought about you earlier today when we drove past some llamas.
Aw, that’s sweet. I thought about you when I briefly considered stealing my coworker’s chair.
Did they spit in your general direction?
I thought this was moving.
For the moment
oh FFS!
Ibanez-esque throw.
Well, this got interesting.
And there’s (hopefully) a Balfourian 9th still to come.
I need a photoshop of James Loney against a “Loney Tunes” background.
throw the fucking fastball
This long PA has disaster written all over it.
indeed
And there it is.
Speaking of Ribeyes, I actually have no idea what is considered a good price for steaks.
Thanks, and go As.
I paid 10.99/lb for top sirloin today at Berkeley Bowl, but that’s not a great price I don’t think. Great cut of meat though.
There is this little place in town I’ve mentioned before. There was a $5.99 a pound special on steaks a while back. I spent $12.99 on one steak and loved every minute of it for two days.
Yeah, but where you live steaks wander into your yard.
LOL!
My dogs dragged up a whole cow leg in to the yard this week. Whoops.
Awesome. I went to a steakhouse in Iowa once where there were literally cows wandering around out back. I was hoping we could pick one out like lobster at a Chinese restaurant.
There is this killer meat store we go to in Iowa. Bison, elk, homemade hot sogs, summer sausage. It’s good. I think they have a website. BRB
I’d like to try whatever a hot sog is.
When I’m in the mood to make cheesesteaks, I’ve been getting boneless ribeye around $9-10 a pound and having them slice it extra thin for me before I leave.
I usually see skirt/flank/hanger for $8.99/lb, but I like to pay $5.99/lb. Even better is when it has a $3 off sticker ‘cuz it “expires” soon.
I think costco is in the $5-6/pound range, but there are happier cows out there
Ribeyes are usually 8.99 lb at costco
Oh for FK’s sake
Seriously, I’m done. Any time I listen, they cough up leads.
Good thing Young plays great defense since he can’t hit
Thanks, and go As.
I’d like to blame CY, but Cook seriously has to be able to close out that PA way before the tenth pitch.
Agreed.
and parker shouldn’t have faced Zobrist and arguably dejesus
You can blame both of them. Hell add in Melvin for keeping in Parker too long.
Pig fucker.
Damnit.
Vogt definitely lets that pitch get away.
FINISH HIM.
Okay Vulture. Get the fuck out of this mess.
I just came in here to say FUCK YOU CHRIS YOUNG and that Baris Manco is awesome.
A’s caught a break.
like the break the rays caught on the zobrist steal that led to a run?
Yes.
I didn’t see the beginning of the game.
you can’t yell at the home plate ump, right?
I do it all the time.
LOL
Bad Cook took the kitties away from their good homes tonight.
What a stupid call. Umpires suck.
Looked like a strike to me.*
*Not really.
This guy too.
I’m not going to say we caught a break, but we caught a break.
The A’s caught a massive break on that strike three to end the T-8th. That crossed the inside line of the batter’s box.
Oh boy, Balfour warming up for the ninth, in a potentially tied game. Would could possibly go wrong.
Oh year, Coco.
Wait, you can go to the bullpen right away?
The only defense I can give is that the A’s bullpen has been pretty bad over the last two weeks.
That’s a new rule, enacted between the last two innings.
Coco’s got the green light here, right?
Can the Red Sox loan Johnny Gomes just for one AB?
Can the Orioles loan Dan Johnson just for one AB?
that only works for TB
C’mon Jed the Humanoid.
Response = no problem
Jed’s Other Poem!
Thanks for starting Coco, Bob.
FUCK YEAH
MAN NAMED JED!
LOWRIE IS HELLA CLUTCH.
Thanks, and go As.
Love that the A’s bench is giving him shit.
Why does anyone throw a strike to YoNo?
Time for an insurance run from Barton, right?
Loney should’ve called for a fair catch.
heh, ken: “these A’s fans are really into it. Its not social hour over here”
Now is a good time to have my first drink of the evening.
Just asking, but if Balfour by his own admission had nothing yesterday, what is to say he has anything tonight?
He got the ~30 bad pitches out of his system?
Thanks, and go As.
Anger is a good motivator?
Dude’s always angry.
That’s his secret.
No one will understand.
He’s got Molina, Escobar, and DDJ. I will be pissed if blows this.
Grant – here’s an idea. Get on the mound and throw some flippin’ strikes this time.
grrrrrr
That was a strike to Moss earlier.
STOP FKING WALKING PEOPLE!
DDJDP please.
he tried
This may be the only game this weekend I have phone battery for. Grant, I’m counting on you.
Reason number 37 why camping blows.
LAWN DART
At least he got the lead runner.
Never a doubt.
lol
Woot!
Whew.
Never a doubt.
Christ. Barton and Lawrie just played a really scary game of Knoblauch-chicken
ha!
Most excellent. Hopefully a hypothetical play-in game against the Rays has the same result.
5?)runs on sanchez, 5 on verlander, 6 on scherzer, 4 on price
OK so Barton and Lowrie need to learn to throw to one another
Thanks, and go As.
never a doubt
often in error, never in doubt
Tag. Line.
Lev Landau on cosmologists.
“Landau kept a list of names of physicists which he ranked on a logarithmic scale of productivity ranging from 0 to 5.[17] The highest ranking, 0, was assigned to Isaac Newton. Albert Einstein was ranked 0.5. A rank of 1 was awarded to the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger, and others. Landau ranked himself as a 2.5 but later promoted himself to a 2.”
I’m sensing a few FKers had doubts.
One or two million.
How am I supposed to finish my work on a Friday night with this stress? Melvin doesn’t trust his ‘good’ relievers much. But it’s a win against a good team.
Nice. I will now retire to the sounds of chirping frogs and the gurgling Eel River, more than just a little happier from our lads’ victory.
COOK! with the well deserved win
he is 6-3
Btw… intending to roll out the new design tonight. There won’t be any lost comments or anything, but the formatting will be wonky as I get it up and running.
I won’t start for a while, just letting people know now.
Ohhh, Coliseum.
I can’t open it on my computer, but if its what I saw on my phone, way to cut to the potty humor at the most critical juncture in the game Tampa bay broadcast
I mean, Cook did throw a shitty pitch…
Thanks, and go As.
Where’s Ken Macha when you need him?
Home field advantage!
Aside from the Rangers annoying penchant for beating bad teams, until tonight, and Thursday’s awfulness, this week has turned out surprisingly well.
Last 7 days:
Oakland 5-2
Texas 3-3
Baltimore 2-4
Cleveland 2-4
Tampa 2-5
And that’s while the A’s were playing all other playoff contenders.
We’re a surprisingly good team
if the reielf corps was working, we woud be even better.
Damn you brian wilson
Just as I predicted..
You did say Suzuki would have a couple of big hits, or something along those lines.
oh my. would you lookie here.
A phoneAnd on
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Nice, missed that.
That was one hell of a game tonight, not a fan of the respective zones, but we caught a huge break for once.
Help, I’m growing some irrational hope that Suzuki might just be ‘unsucky’ in the playoff stretch, almost forgot he had a few 3 WAR seasons before the fall, tease…
Also, it’s looking hella fancy around here!
Aesthetic changes aside, which are quite clean btw, its blazing fast, great work nm!
Kinda wondering if the round avatar format might make Rube look a bit plump, we shall see.
Hope to see all you FK’ers tomorrow!
Thanks. Hopefully everyone likes it (and hopefully it works right).
We were long overdue for a face lift.
Looks much better, IMO.
Yay electricity! We had a fire in a power vault, knocked me out for hours. It was apparently so bad it gave FK some wild new look. Fortunately, not only did I happen to have an XM battery charged up, but Korach was back! Yay Zooks!
cool
We’re number one!
Russell to Sacramento.
oh my
That Stockton line is pretty: .275/.377/.508. 2:1 K:BB not so much.
because MIdland season is over?
can’t take ABs away from Parino, right?
I guess because Sacramento is going to the playoffs, and Midland is not.
gross
Morneau to Pirates
Anecdotal – a guy I work with is Jesse Crain’s brother in law, so he spent a lot of time around Twins players.
Says Morneau is a total FKing asshole
Thanks, and go As.
all cananadians are.
Wait, no. What?
Their cops and prosecutors seem to have senses of humor.
couln’t they wait until after the TX series?
Damn, for basically Shane Peterson.
Wow, Niners released long snapper Brian Jennings. He was about to break the SF record of 208 consecutive regular season games started.
His farewell letter is kind of heartbreaking
Thanks, and go As.
they consider a long snapper coming in for the first punt a “start”
that is sad
he sure likes to use the word “Men”
i haz a sad. pats cut zoltan today. :(
zoltan?
mesko.
I know her words are just as dumb as most color people, but I like Susyn Waldman’s voice
Her voice is fine, but her descriptions suck and the Yankees broadcasts are mostly advertising anyway.
That was a “Meineke first pitch of the plate appearance…”
“It’s a Dunkin’ Donuts throw back to the pitcher…”
“Rivera looks in for the Ford sign from the catcher…”
I can’t hear her name without thinking about her on-air orgasm with Clemens announced his return to the Wanks.
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yankees win. Bal loses
jumble chasing the wildcard is 4 teams all 4 games behind TB
Dystopian Hellscape
East bound off Treasure Island at around 5 minutes
Thats perty
Can’t wait!
I have friends coming up from the south bay. Accident on the bridge made it take umpteen hours.