Burns, Lowrie, Cespedes, Donaldson, Norris, Moss, Callaspo, Reddick, Punto + Hammel
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Burns, Lowrie, Cespedes, Donaldson, Norris, Moss, Callaspo, Reddick, Punto + Hammel
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Ex A alert: Gregorio Petit.
Trogdor has “flu-like symptoms” so they had to scrounge up a different ex-A. Boy, that’s digging deep.
PT thought he was a super-prospect, I remember arguing with him about that…
No more fly balls, Burns.
I see you hit one in the air, you owe me 20 push-ups.
OK – I’ll delete mine.
i was planning on dr K’ing it later though…
Fosse declares the Red Sox not starting Lester today a “class move.” Uh, OK.
Smart maybe. Class? I think not. It’s not even about class, it’s about leverage.
Thanks Farrell.
Hammel for Hamels – straight up. Maybe the Phillies won’t even notice the difference.
Billy might have thought he was getting Hamels, maybe a spreadsheet mixup.
this is a shitty team jason.
But he’s a shitty pitcher, so it’s a good matchup.
shitty hitting beats shitty pitching.
please say “and vice versa”
Slow turn is slow.
Not a fan of the cheesy train sound effects in this park.
don’t go to safeco
Isn’t that a real train?
yes
Yes.
I wasn’t exactly expecting him to be lights out when he came over, but fking shit man, he’s just shitting all over our beautiful bed. The sheets are ruined. RUINED!!!
right?
Plus, coming over in the big trade makes it harder to get him out of the rotation.
Maybe this will make it easier…
If you think of it as Russell + McKinney for Samardzija, and Straily for Hammel, we still might have lost the second part of that trade.
So far, Samardzija and Hammel for free would be a losing trade for us…
OK how are people seriously shitting on Samardzija?
He’s not pitching like an ace, but merely a good starter. And people don’t like the fact that we gave up a really great top of the line spec for him.
I meant if you combine what they’ve done, its worse than if the trade hadn’t happened.
I like Samardzija, he’s good, but he’s not great, either, and he hasn’t really pitched that well for the A’s. They could have done a lot better.
No, this isn’t about combining. This is about Samardzija. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen FKers dump on him. Sure, he wasn’t the best pitcher on the trade market, but we got him a month early. He makes the team better, not a doubt in my mind. You can’t blame him for Hammel. Samardzija is going out there and doing his job. He damn near outdueled Felix for fucksake.
I’m pretty sure mikeA doesn’t need to be lectured about what he meant by his own comment.
Yep.
I didn’t say anything about what he meant.
mikeA
Pretty sure this is saying what he meant is wrong.
Yep. Again.
So now you are telling me what I meant. Which is perfectly fine.
Now youre telling me im telling you what youre telling someone?
We could do this all night if you really wanted. It wasnt me alone who read it and I’m pretty sure the cut and paste function didn’t add any words to what was written. DMOAS said it great above. Samardzija has pitched well, but has not been a shutdown ace, and clearly Hammel has been a disappointment. That is not what you want to see for giving up what we did. And yes, it was a win now trade, but in those you want to you know…win now.
Oh for fucks sake
sounds like a shit show so far but… is a TV broadcast of this game entirely unavailable?
Is this game not on TV?
Astros telecast only.
Ok, I’m in the mikeA camp that Hammels just fucking sucks.
And so does Billy Burns.
Somebody save that baseball for Billy Burns.
is there anyone else on our roster with oriole taont? we need to rid ourselves
taint
I think there’s a band in Richmond called “Oriole Taint”. NowBodhi plays eight-string bass.
You know I love a nice taint, Oriole or not.
FIRE MELVIN NOW
Any chance this increases the odds Billy pulls the trigger on Lester? And if so, we regret what we give up?
Can we have norris go to the mound, punch him in the throat and DL him?
I’m pretty close to going there and doing it myself.
Get us fking Lester, please.
I mean, he was having a good year, and wasn’t this bad, right?
Unfuckingbelieavable.
Ok, well at least we should be rid of him now.
Hammel for Uggla.
I’d do that trade. Then immediately DFA Uggla.
It would never happen. The A’s would come out too far ahead.
Uh
So, Pomeranz or Milone?
Yes please.
Lester.
So better than Hammel.
yes
For what it’s worth, a buddy was there last night and says there were a number of balls that were misplayed, could have been ruled errors. Doesn’t mean he had a great outing, especially giving up a couple homers, obviously.
Even Petit is ripping line drives.
Make him pitch a complete game.
Fuck. At this point, why waste the bullpen arm? He’s garbage and needs to go. Might as well force him to throw 8 innings and DFA him. So what if our Run Diff ends up in the negative after the game.
What the fuck. He’s gone from shitting all over our bed to shitty on the carpet, the couch, the chairs, inside the refrigerator, on the drapes. GIVE HIM SOME IMODIUM OR GET HIM THE FUCK OUT OF HERE.
email says that my whole day is going in the same direction…
WTF happened?
They Hammeled us.
Well this is off to a poor start
Fuck off, Jason Hammel. You flat out suck.
JD’s pissed.
I’m guessing he’s making the same “joke” we’re making.
What do the A’s have to offer the Red Sox that won’t hurt the team’s chances this year or gut what’s left of the farm system?
Why not solve this problem with existing starters who have performed well for the A’s?
Who cares about the farm system when we have a chance to win the World Series this year?
DFA?
Thanks, and go As.
No need to rub it in, mlbtraderumors:
I kind of doubt that. Beane wanted Hammel, but not including Russell in the trade would have been a pretty paltry return for Samardzija.
But it could have gone
BEANE: We want Samardzija
THEO: OK, but we want Russell
BEANE: Hmm, only if you throw in Hammel
THEO: Deal
That kind of makes sense, but is still painful to contemplate.
The sad thing is I think Hammel probably had more trade value than Valbuena. If it’s Samardzija and Valbuena, I think the trade is a little bit better. I would have loved Alcantara instead.
we just need one back every inning. And hold them
shit. already DFA’d kenny, and now nobody knows how to hold ’em.
Did you forget who is pitching for the A’s?
Today is making me especially glad that yesterday played out as it did.
Best team in Baseball nearly got effing swept by the Astros
HAMMEL IS GOOD AGAIN.
Does Hammel have options?
he can’t be sent out without consent, yeah? isn’t that a thing for guys with more than 6 years of service time?
Looks like he was optioned in 2005, 2006, and 2007. Plus what Ed said.
He’s gone after this year I think regardless. But it really doesnt matter, you cant bother keeping him around at this point. Youre not going to put him in the bullpen in the playoffs and clearly he wouldnt be starting. Pomeranz or Milone can do the same thing and we are trying to get Lester? We should DFA him in the literally right now.
Could offer him the choice to go down…maybe he’d rather have a couple of weeks to work on his mechanics and enjoy the cheese skirt burgers at the Squeeze Inn.
slow lowrie is slow
The start that broke the Hammel’s back.
hey-0
that is somethign
and back to nothing
JD since the Britton homer: .324/.435/.514 not including today.
“They felt that they needed someone to give them some consistency, and the reality is…”
I really hate that word
The reality is Ed hates a lot of things certain people say.
When it’s all said and done, the reality is, when it’s drilled, he has confidence, and Ed doesn’t like it.
i don’t understand why this doesn’t mention the salient minor league achievements of a texas ranger.
I was talking to former Ranger great Kevin Reimer, as Donaldson hits one to the right of the 3rd base bag foul as it goes right over the bag, and he said you have to have confidence and the reality is that Josh is into 2nd with a double.
Mostly because I was thinking of what annoys me about Glen rather than Vince until I realize it was Ed and he doesn’t watch, but listens.
this place in downtownish oakland has a sign that i always, always misread as psychic realty (and somehow, as a concept, that enrages me even more than what it really says).
Every realtor I have ever dealt with has thought they were psychic.
nice.
and, in my limited experience, true.
Felt?
At least he settled down?
well, now that you mention it
Good thing I hedged with the question mark
Oops.
This guy fucking sucks.
Thanks, and go As.
He pitched two perfect innings. They should’ve traded him while his value was high.
Bye bye Jason Hammel
Hello Jon Lester
Sounds like Lester –> Baltimore is the rumor of the hour.
But that would ruin Lester for the A’s forever!
as long as he pitches tomorrow
we really don’t have time for him. I am just glad we have a colorable chance at getting something for him today and tomorrow
here. but don’t go outside the lines.
Now that Diarrhea is out of the game, we’re totally going to have a 9 run, bat around inning and take this. Right? Right???! Oh. Fuck.
The next inning begins with Punto and Burns so probably not then.
Just don’t deal for Wei-Yin Chen and we’re OK. No more Orioles.
Ok, call Tampa, offer choice of any 12 minor leaguers for Price and Zobrist.
Well. The Marlins are looking at pitching. Any way they might think that hey, he did okay when he pitched in the NL? I mean, they WERE considering Johnson.
It’s almost like all the team’s pitching fail had been concentrated, as if some malevolent spirit, in Johnson, and, having been severed from it’s host, seeped like a noxious miasma and took possession of Hammel instead
from whammy to whammel.
At least Friday will be Sonny!
(Get it?? Like “sunny” but with Gray’s first name instead because he is a pitching that game. And he’s pretty dang good. Do I need to break it down?)
Keep him away from Hammel’s noxious miasma on the airplane, please.
They’re letting Hammel get on the plane? Send him to Avis.
Gray has been great after a loss, and with his turn coming after Hammel’s that’s a lot of times to prove it so.
I think my nerves are so frayed from yesterday and the day before, that I don’t feel anything right now. Just nothingness.
Nothing.
now i’m going to straight up lie to you.
Well that sucked.
Hmm, silver lining silver lining… It’s better to lose by giving up six runs in the 1st than six runs in the 9th?
So you’re saying make JJ a starter?
I think we did.
Alright, prediction time: Does Hammel make another start for the A’s?
No. And I am not even sure we pick up anyone. But Milone and/or Pom Pom can do that.
How long does it take a chair-punching injury to heal?
Why? Did you punch a chair?
IIRC he is already back and throwing in Sacto.
I think he probably does. We got rid of Johnson too easily. Now it’s Emil Brown/Nick Punto time.
Needed more catcher…. and pitcher.
hate to ask… is the A’s winning months streak holding up for july?
It did.
oh good.
Yeah, brah!
It says something about this season that going 15-10 feels like a bad month. Of course, the Angles have gone 18-7 (with two July games left to play).
They’re going to lose them both.
As another FKer pointed out, we were 0-1 in March 2014.
Yeah and there was another non-winning month in there too.
October?
Why y’all gotta bring up the past?
John Hickey â€@JHickey3 17m
#Athletics mgr Bob a Melvin said he expects Jason Hammel (0-4, 9.53) to make his next start.
Okay, but for what team???!!
BUT NOTICE IT DOES NOT SAY FOR OAKLAND.
Thanks, and go As.
When you trade for a rental, you really don’t care about whether he can get his act together eventually. I’m sure Hammel isn’t this bad, but it was also obvious that he was a pedestrian starter having a career year, making a regression to the mean likely anyway. The A’s are getting the regression.
Because the A’s had an off day tomorrow, it mattered less. But the team can’t be burning through its good relievers in a blowout loss.
He’s the worst pitcher on the team now, and has been since he arrived. Now is all that matters. The A’s can’t afford to have automatic losses every fifth day, not in this race. At least Melvin could basically ignore Johnson. And with Chavez looking like he’s hitting the wall, the team still looks vulnerable in the starter category.
Never mind this A’s stuff. Let’s focus on what’s important, especially for 95.7 The Lame: ZOMG WUTS THE MATTER WITH TIMMEH????!?!?!?11?1?!
I flipped it on for about 3 minutes this morning. Here’s what I heard:
-The tail end of a discussion that appeared to involve the hosts ranking 5 celebrity women they would most want to have the sex with
-Mychael Urban (filling in for the boring one) explaining what “vajazzling” is, complete with use of the term “vajayjay.”
-Huff reacting to the possibility of the A’s getting lester by concern trolling that “now the pressure would really be on. You HAVE to win the World Series.”
*Click*
I guess it’s a running joke that Huff is hated by A’s fans. Bucher remarked on it the other day.
I don’t want or expect morning show sports chat guys to be fans on the team I root for, but it’s another thing when he comes across as an antagonist. I listen to that station in the morning more often than I should, mostly because there is occasionally a little A’s talk. But Bucher knows the NBA and that’s it, and Huff identifies with the Giants and individual players (understandable but not terribly useful when discussing the A’s most of the time).
The sex talk is tiresome, and does get me switching to music pretty fast. And the radio commercials actually make me want to listen to the station less than I already do.
I want to continue to enjoy sports so I don’t listen to sports talk radio. It’s the worst.
—i’d like to ask those same 5 women to rank the hosts to see if they break the top million (and to be kind, i’m willing to subtract a million even before that).
—vajeezus h christ on a cultural delay even longer than oprah explaining teen slang to her audience.
—and he’ll puff and he’ll blow your house do… nah, he’ll just blow.
That said, the A’s had a crappy road trip overall. Hammel is not pitching well, but the offense – aside from the 9th inning flurry last night that prevented a Houston sweep – is in a funk. It’s a long season, I remind myself.
I think this is just one of those stretches, but I get nervous whenever Coco is out/hampered.
We’ve tended to gloss over Coco’s absence because the team has generally rolled along. He’s been awfully pivotal to the team’s success, and now it looks like he’s just going to be fighting injuries for the rest of the season.
I think Coco is a big part of this team’s success. Hopefully he’ll be as healthy as he can be for the stretch run.
Eric Chavez lingered in the league as a Yankee, and retired as a Diamondback.
But he was one of the most spectacular defensive third basemen I had the pleasure of seeing on a regular basis during his career with the A’s. I remember getting irritated with many of his successors because they couldn’t make the plays, or make them look as good, even when he was just bouncing the ball to first. (Well, they also tended to be awful.)
I didn’t know Chuck Norris followed the A’s.
he doesn’t. he leads them by 359º and the optical illusion makes him look like he’s following.
Meanwhile Steven Seagal is ordering a double stack at the Steak N’ Shake.
Ummmmmmmmm, Steak ‘n Shake
/drools
//rents dinner for SnS for about 30 minutes
///Oh noes, I’m reverting to being a Farker
Bwah hah hah!
It’s hard to argue with that. I doubt Hammel would quibble. But that’s an interesting reaction nonetheless, especially after the offense has been stinking it up (last night’s 9th inning notwithstanding).
Interesting player reaction compared to Johnson.
The sympathy for Johnson was because of the booing. I think that’s what bugged Donaldson.
I wonder if a player coming over in a trade mid-season gets a shorter leash in terms of their teammates’ opinion of them than one who was signed in the offseason
3-3 road trip through Texas. Life will go on.
The PIrates committed the dumbest play of the season in this Giants game. Unreal.
I’m intrigued.
2nd and 3rd with one out. Stewart walked, and Snider just started trotting toward third as if there had been a runner on first. The pitcher threw the ball to second, and they ran Stewart toward third, which caused Sanchez to break for home. Stewart couldn’t even get in a rundown, and they tagged him immediately and caught Sanchez in a rundown.
Sorry, Snider couldn’t even get in a rundown.
That… that takes a special kind of stupid.
Saw that happen in little league once.
Wow. That is almost impossibly stupid.
@GM, very well might be the worst baserunning on a single play I’ve ever seen, and it looks like it lost them the game. an
Adam Jones!
Cool
I keep looking at it over and over again. I want to say that she just lost the cup. Yet I can’t even see where it went. It’s as if it just completely disappeared from the very fabric of our universe.
Can’t.Stop.Watching.
Something similar happened to my friend Emily’s beer at the All-Star Game. No ball was involved though. One minute the beer was in a cup, safely in the cupholder in front of her seat; then the dudebro next to us decided to head for the men’s room, and suddenly the beer was in the air, in her lap, on her new Donaldson jersey, and (to a lesser degree) on my skirt. We found the cup two rows down.
I’m going to guess that the dudebro did not so much as offer an apology.
Dudebro: Oh, shit. I’m really sorry. Can I buy you another one?
Emily: It’s the top of the 8th, so I don’t think you can.
Dudebro: Oh, bummer. (leaves)
Dammit Gausman.
Got squeezed on the third BB…
I’ve had enough epic meltdowns for one day.
Would you rather go on a date with Courtney Love or a wild boar?
Scary top of the ninth coming up in Baltimore.
Just learned that Mike Bordick is the O’s color guy.
I’m glad to hear he’s not wandering the streets.
I just adore this Machado fellow.
Phew, thank you Steve Pearce.
Um…guys? Cespedes for Lester/Gomes….
And a balance pick for cash
Wait, we traded a balance pick for cash?
Yup
That’s honestly the only move Billy made today that I don’t like.
Well it was part of the Cespedes/Lester deal
I guess if that’s the final piece it took, but couldn’t we have given them Milone instead of giving him to Minnesota? I’d rather have that pick than Milone or Fuld.
way to walk the crappy lefty hector
gonna stick with nick hundley buck?
dammit
bugger
well, at least they usaed the entire bullpen
Now Street can come in.
Jeebus – have they no plate discipline?
7 pitches, only one of which was in the strike zone, and he K’s swinging.
with scioscia complaining the whole time that they should be called strikes
4 pitches in the strike zone in the entire inning.
And Adam Jones took 3 of them!
Mike Scioscia is the John Sublime of baseball. A sentient bacterium given humanoid form, and usually an enemy of the X-Men.
Well, at least nobody saw this game.