Cocowho
Johnthat’smynametoo
Joshsonofsomeone
BrandonIveseenyousomewherebefore
YoennisSaysWhatis
JedwhousedtoplaylastSunday
Josheverydayguy
AlbertoOKyoumighthaveapointthere
Ericglassesbitch
SonnyIonlyhavethebestqualifyingERAintheleagueasshole
A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
how can eric not have a name when he’s the face of boe or something?
Better?
Gameday tells me Coco has a .533 career average against Mr. Cobb.
Yeah but that was when he could turn his neck to the right.
I am giving sogard the benefit of the doubt that he didn’t do the weak side arm flip on the double play attempt.
walt weiss?
If this gamethread had a theme song it would be by U2.
these guys are from england and who gives a shit?
Or maybe a song by a different Irish band.
Or English
‘Murica
intercontinental horse of a different color.
I want Keebs to succeed but it’s very possible last year was his career year.
Sadly agree.
Sexual Assault Panda loses a HR to replay.
REDDICK!
reddick!!!
then his hat did a… bounce (?) and popped off his head.
scared me vince.
I did like the, not one, not two…
I did not like the “Confidence” line before. I am working, I can’t be getting blotto
That was as much genuine excitement as I’ve ever heard from him.
He was really into it!
Yup. So um… was that actually going out? Cause if it is… it would be not three either.
not over the wall. bases-clearing though, without the catch.
That part of the call was rather unclear.
its up on gameday
Only 46 pitches for Cobb…
maddening.
But I suppose he is throwing to many strikes.
Only 49 for Sonny.
Cobb has a 90 pitch limit but at this rate, he can still get through 8.
That pitch count might be the only thing preventing dueling Madduxes today.
if they both made it to the 9th 0-0 under 100, I would count it as 2 madduxes
Not going to happen for one of them.
49 for Sonny
Dammit, vince. don’t bury the lede like that.
Is cobb on a pitch count?
I’m sorry Dick, but he doesn’t have a name.
doesn’t matter. he had me at nasty deuce.
Between this comment and EM’s pic below, there’s a good joke.
Take one down, bid it around, another splat of shit on the wall?
yeah, tried “nasty une” and deleted.
Ew.
hey, those are nicer than ours… we could upgrade!
Meh. You can’t urinal dive in that.
The company selling them says “Work great for livestock feeders or beverage coolers.” Not thirsty now, thanks!
who’s back yard is that?
Prince’s
That stain in the corner….
this is the second time this week this woman has posted pictures of herself in an A’s hat.
I don’t get it.
It’s kind of creepy. And by kind of I mean entirely.
well, its a bad photoshop
she might be an A’s fan. it’s been known to happen.
Pfft… not bloody likely.
From Oakland, according to wikipedia.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’d like for us to score a run and get a few hits right now.
A hit!
Another one!
WE WANT MORE WE WANT MORE!
Now all we need is a string of ridiculous errors, and we’re sure to win.
no bases loaded BB?
You know, as bad as Sogard has been this year, he still has a 1 K/BB. I’m holding out hope that he has just been extremely unlucky.
Prince Fielder > spinal fusion surgery. See you next year, big guy.
If ever.
are they fusing it with gravy?
hashtag fat joke
Thanks, and go As.
Tofu. He’s a vegetarian.
Holy shit WONDO IS GOING TO THE WORLD FKING CUP
and Landycakes isn’t.
I’m kind of in shock.
Thanks, and go As.
Hoooooly……really? I didn’t think Klinsi would cut things down for another week.
is the 23 list out, or just pieces being cut here and there?
twitterpuppy.
Perfect.
here
Thanks, and go As.
i’m surprised so early. he probably just wants more time to work on plays and diagram with less variables and distractions.
They start their going away games next week though.
Thanks, and go As.
The saying goodbye to teammates thing has to get harder as this kind of camp goes on. It makes sense to start bonding the 23 together now.
i thought i read somewhere he was going to make the cuts right around the SF game. maybe i made that up.
oh, it was the NYT piece.
i kinda related cuts with the SF game date just because the two sentences were sitting together.
Brad Davis is a bit of a surprise. Guy’s got a hell of a left foot, but not much else.
DeAndre Yedlin and John Brooks made it too. I like those kids.
Too late to make a Wondo panini sticker?
I had forgotten about Donovan’s homophobic snarking on Sacramento Kings fans in 2011.
I’m for barring Lakers fans from representing the USA in any capacity, ever.
luis suarez had knee surgery this morning. 15–20 days recovery when it goes right. uruguay’s first game, costa rica, in 23 days.
Ugh. At least he’s at 84 pitches.
yeah. I bet Madden leaves him in for cespedes, then forces Melvin to make a decision about Lowrie
well thank you evan! we’ll take it!
Much thanks to you too Joyce!
who does myers think he is? Kevin Yokoulis?
Damnit Will with one el, You were supposed to swing and ground out on the first pitch so that Sonny could tie the record.
I bet someone has been credited with a full inning with less pitches.
It would have to be a reliever.
Doesn’t count.
Sorry guys. I did my best fantasy-jinxing but Cobb powered through.
Ooh, do I get credit for taking Prince Fielder with my second pick?
I mean really. You’d think that would have torched his game, right?
Score some fking runs now, please.
good job of yoenis to take the first two strikes at least
I’m not liking this lack of running scoring on our part. I feel entitled.
we’re bleeding run differential here! bleeding!
Just get this thing to Balfour. That’s when we strike.
No, that’s when we ball, baby.
Depends on who is behind the plate, yes?
Escobar….that guy
Escobar giveth and Escobar taketh away. I like this game a lot less right now.
yesterday it was more rodriguez. (but I bet reddick was going to be safe.)
OH MY GOD the A’s have 3 times as many hits today, but 3 less runs!
Our announcers have been talking about DDJ all series as if he is really good. Did they miss the year that he played for Oakland?
Remember that game when he two home runs? That was awesome.
i think there were 2 games
I would like some runs, please.
How did Callaspo become so useless at the plate?
I thought he was tough to strikeout
KK just said balfour is coming in
BB just said strikthree is coming in.
There’s a start.
ok, base runner, no outs. let’s do this thing.
and gentry! well done bob. Well done
that is just not fair. Good work Craig.
Either the Rays fans are not that thrilled with Balfour, or the Trop is piping in heckling.
for some reason i thought that was balfour himself yelling.
On one hand Game Day really started slowing down. On the other hand Balfour is pitching.
Yep. I don’t miss this at all.
Impressive teAse so far.
Come on brandon. be smart
It’d be nice if the Ump didn’t help the pitcher again.
according to gameday, those two were ridiculous
Yup. Especially strike three but even the first one.
WTF! why does balfour get those?
He’s a scary guy.
Fuck you blue. Those weren’t fucking strikes.
GameDay once again showing the ball well outside. But called strike three.
Two more non-strikes called strikes.
According to Game Day, one of those three was actually a strike.
And it was the one he swung at.
i’m watching and they tail a bit, so i wonder what plane gameday is catching the image at. could say they catch the front corner and tail away. there’s also a good amount of framing.
CESPY!!
hello!
In play, run(s)
Gameday says “Brandon Moss called out on balls.”
Wheeeeeeeee!!
Seeeeeeeeeeexy Pants!!!
Nicely done
Weeeeee!
Jackass McGee at the desk next to me is lifting his head back, sloshing his glass bottled drink back, GULPING it down, then smacking his lips with an “awwww” EVERY FUCKING TIME HE DRINKS. W.T.F. Asshole.
Ugh.
He eats like that too. All the damn time. I swear I’m going to smack him at some point.
Jesus Christ, Fosse. You’re not the PBB man. Shut up already.
wait. You are walking the bases loaded with balfour and his walk ratio?
Shhh… don’t tell him. Besides, he’d have walked him anyway. This is just speeding the process up.
Indeed.
From Scout: Grant Balfour may prefer to go after Josh Reddick, whose OPS is .634 this season, with the cutter rather than facing Coco Crisp, whose OPS is .754.
Scout is so insightful.
So, Derek Norris has to come in next inning and Gentry can play OF. Yet….Josh Reddick hits a fly ball not deep enough to get a run in.
So Reddick swings at ball four. Smart man he is.
Well, it’s not like he has a history of doing this.
CAN WE STOP FK’ING TALKING ABOUT GAME 4 ALREADY!?
{shivers}
i’m sorry. it’s not your fault…
[wipes tear from your cheek]
but see what happens when you make daddy angry?
awww
Interesting. GameDay showed the ball in the dirt, but it hit the lower end of the strike zone.
wow what a game, huh?
Rays broadcasters said Donaldson would’ve scored easily on Cespedes’s double.
He’d have scored even easier on Reddick’s walk had he not sucked ass.
The last pitch to Reddick was borderline but it probably would’ve been a strike if he didn’t swing given the shitty ump.
Watching the video, I’m not so sure. I’d rather have 2nd/3rd with one out than possibly 2nd with two outs.
Of course, I would also have hit BEARD for Reddick.
It’s on Gameday. Looked like he was rounding as the relay got to Escobar.
wait. what are the number cards for? when did that start??
What number cards?
honestly, couldn’t tell if it was a joke or not. as soon as sogard called for vid review, melvin walked out to ump, meanwhile, hale held up a card that said 5. seemed to imply the certainty of the replay image toward overturning. or it was college kids pretending to grade chicks walking by on the olympic scale. either one.
Oh, yeah. That’s the A’s system. 5 means CHALLENGE!!! 1 mean DON’T CHALLENGE!!! and 4 thru 2 is in between.
i just haven’t seen that many games lately i guess.
laminated 8.5×11 card, green box with a white helvetica 5 on it. not makeshift/handwritten, totally meant to be used for something.
Cue Jeopardy Theme…
oh yeah. totally out on video.
Holy Fk GameDay. It went from Caught Stealing to 3 – 2 to Sogard.
Sorry, that’s 6 – 2 to Sogard.
Yep. I got a little confused for a second, but figured it out with the help of you fine folks.
That was an amazing throw by DNo.
FUCK YOU BLUE
It’s fucking ridiculous how unfair the strike zone has been for A’s hitters.
I see five green triangles in the zone, with three more in the typical LHH zone. I see three red squares outside the zone with four more in the typical LHH zone. I see one red triangle in the zone. That means bad calls are 11-1 or 12-1 in the Rays favor.
And this is only for left handed hitters.
They didn’t give us the upper zone, gave them the lower zone and gave them the outside of the plate, but not us. Serious fked up. ROBO UMPS PLEASE!
I think it may be time to send Sogard down. That would assuming we had something better than Punto/Callapso to replace him.
Tyler…Ladendorf?
You know, the O’s just put their closer on the DL. Maybe we could trade them a bullpen arm for a 2B in their minor league system.
Johnson for Weeks? Heh.
It can’t fail!
It would be the greatest and funniest trades of all time.
Wasn’t there a guy traded for a PTNBL who ended up being him?
Thanks wikipedia:
Come to think of it, yeah.
That was me.
BLUE HATES SOGLAND!
Who do the Rays have left in their bullpen?
The lead!
C’mon, Ken. Mention the criminal record.
cespy! i thought that was gone off the bat. good enough if it holds though.
Bring on the Doo, we’ll win this too!
Doo not available?
42 pitches over last two days, so probably not if they can help it.
Pitch #1 to Joyce was a strike to us. Fuck you Blue.
Otero doesn’t seem so sharp today.
Holy crap that was scary.
Fk.
WHY WOULD YOU LEAVE OTERO IN??!!
Ugh
This is killing me. Off to the Olympic Mountains for a few days. Have a good Memorial Day, FKers.
Otero is throwing too many fking innings. The shittiness of Johnson has lead to BoMel not using him at all.
They essentially have 2 guys they want to stay away from at all costs (Francis, Johnson), one situational guy (Abad), and three guys they’re running into the ground. They have to replace one of Johnson and Francis with someone actually usable.
This exactly.
Which is exactly why we focused on the bullpen this offseason. In 2012 and 2013 the 3 we used were Cook/Doolittle/Balfour.
The highest total any A’s reliever threw in those years was 74 IP from Balfour in 2012. The A’s relied on their top 3 sure, but they hardly overworked them and there was plenty of quality (and cheap) depth behind them. Last year, all three of them were under 70 IP.
This year, Otero is on pace for over 100 innings. They threw 18 million at a minor problem that isn’t fixed by money and has in fact, made it worse.
Bringing in son of Gregor. I guess Melvin wants to get the team to the airport ASAP.
Start the bus.
called it
And now this asshole hangs a slider. Fk this.
CRAP!
Seriously with this
For a team that’s won 30/47 games, we sure have a terrible bullpen.
How is a guy with a 2.86 xFIP so bad?
On a good note though, best ERAs on the A’s
1. Savery/Scribner/FRod 0.00
…
11. Doolittle 3.13
…..
12. Lindblom 3.86
13. Milone 3.99
14. Striley 4.93
……..
15. Johnson 7.00
They have 10 pitchers with ERA’s under 3.00.
I don’t care what Gregerson’s surface stats say. He’s looked bad all season.
With the exception of his first game, yes.
I was thinking about this. If Gregerson had given up a single instead of a 3-R HR, would he only have allowed 1/2 inherited runners to score today?
well this turned out suckier than it was going when i left.
another unjust saw! :(
Yes. Thats 4 runsOk. But is it really the bullpen? Basesloaded twice. Fail.
That is a bigger problem today
Specifically the bullpen, no? Team effort on this one. HOWEVER, I don’t like a loss that was poorly managed. If he’d have gone with our scrap heap after Otero allowed a runner on, I’d have been okay if we didn’t pull it out. We just can’t keep relying on two or three pitchers in high leverage situations.
Yeah, I don’t get it.
Otero has been driven into the ground. I don’t know why he came out for the 10th. That says a lot about Johnson and rodriguez.
Anyone kow what is going on with cook?
Gregerson and Johnson are both in the top 10 among all relievers in negative WPA (Johnson 2nd worst, Gregerson 7th worst). Gregerson is leading the league with 7 “Meltdowns”.
Not the least bit surprising having watched them both.