This game is on MLBN, but I’m blacked out for some reason.
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Why have you forsaken us, Korach?
still?
“Zombie Night”
Far out, Atlanta.
anybody see any zombies?
snarky comment about the A’s offense
anyone seen the a’s?
So Detroit is already collapsing. In the second.
Zombie night? In ATL? I miss The Walking Dead.
Gomes was out on that pickoff. I think. Need a better replay.
what a strange delivery. i’m going to pretend he’s dressed correctly for that pointing part.
So, I’ve barely been able to watch baseball for the past two months. Is replay any more efficient/better than it was earlier in the year?
yeah, for the most part.
(eyeball opinion. might need review.)
Heh.
Good to hear though.
I think Gomes is conclusively out based on further replay.
Nice going, Jonny.
Vince is an asshole, no indication he was going to be called out.
zombie kid!
I’m getting tired of the latest Vince meme of calling baserunners “traffic.”
it’s a common result when you step on the clutch with high octane.
1-2-3, Swell.
Is the thread title a Tupac reference?
That’s Rick Gold who caught the Upton homer.
Throwing BP already, Hammel?
Thanks, and go As.
Rude, Justin.
See?
Please skip Hammel against the slegnA next week.
Fuck you, Hammel. Fuck. You.
Dude. No.
JFC
Thanks, and go As.
So back to the rotation for Chavez?
Getting Hammel out of the rotation is mandatory at this point.
And there’s the stupidest chant ever.
Lesser Upton.
Anyone know the last time the A’s went to Atlanta? (Or the Braves to Oakland) Just curious.
i went to an ATL @ OAK about 10-12 years ago. they T’d off on the A’s with about 6 HRs, which i don’t like bringing up for fear of the juju, but i guess we’re past that tonight.
[Braces for trifecta of dingers]
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score was 5 to 2 (HRs). 11-6 just counting conventional runs.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/OAK/OAK200306110.shtml
We were 1-2 against almost all of the 4 NL clubs (FLA, PHI, ATL, MON) we played against during that set of series.
Thank goodness for the Expos (a sweep!)
Last A’s visit to Atlanta was May 16-18, 2008. The A’s won 1 of the 3, beating Tim Hudson and surviving a shaky ninth-inning by Huston Street.
Thanks. I don’t recall it at all, ha ha
Cust, Frenchy, Kotsay… radically changed clubs.
Atlanta visited Oakland back in 2003, I know that much.
That was for EBE.
Appreciated.
It hurts seeing Coco like this.
When did a first place team become so utterly dull.
Yikes.
Has anyone mentioned that Hammel is terrible?
After a couple good games, bad Hammel is back in full force. Click.
“good” seems a bit strong
Yeah, the first one was smoke and mirrors. The second was against the Twins.
Good for him, I guess.
Ok, silver lining: no way he makes the start against the slegnA. And he should be out of the rotation.
Honest question, who was the last A’s starter who was this fucking awful?
Godfrey?
Good call.
Godfrey must be trying to coming back from an injury? He’s thrown a couple innings this week for the Diamondbacks’ team in the Arizona Summer League.
Jimmy Haynes.
Oh yay! Mass Racism!
Is it bad that all I can think about is how much they would be talking about this on 95.7 if Hammel was on the Gnats and pitching this bad
Thanks, and go As.
OH MY GOD GET THIS FUCKING GUY OFF THE TEAM
Thanks, and go As.
Well Texas is beating the Angels.
Wonder if Ron loses his job this offseason.
it would be a tie game right now if Hammel wasn’t fucking horrible
Thanks, and go As.
nice one, tall ship.
Ok now I’m even more mad at Hammel.
Nice, Nate.
You have got to be kidding me.
Thanks, and go As.
lol
Holy callaspo.
oh. my. FUCKING. god.
What happened?
callaspo didn’t know how many outs; ran himself into one to make up the difference.
shitty players.
Thanks, and go As.
Because Hammel is fucking garbage, Melvin has to use a reliever early.
Because Hammel is fucking garbage, the pitcher’s spot in the order is leading off and he didn’t double switch HASHTAG STRATEGY HASHTAG NL BALL
Because Hammel is fucking garbage, the bullpen is going to be taxed to hell today BECAUSE HE CANT GET THROUGH THE ORDER TWICE
Fuck this shit. Billy fucked up. Not jettisoning this sack of crap when he had “lots of interest” after getting Lester at the deadline, not getting a better infielder than Alberto goddamn Callaspo, Nick Punto, or Eric Sogard.
This team is not “all in” this year. Not with a total of ZERO WAR from second base divided among 3 players.
Thanks, and go As.
O’Flaherty doesn’t throw more than 1 inning so the non-double switch is irrelevant.
That’s what leads me to point 3 and the bullpen getting burned through.
Thanks, and go As.
Good time to get Chavez stretched out again.
Welp, fuck this shit. There’s a soccer game on.
Thanks, and go As.
every time the top of the inning starts it’s already two outs.
Coco looks about as good as that time in early 2012 when he was playing with the inner ear thing.
Coco’s current awfulness is a reminder of how important he usually is to the team.
Why do we suck now?
A team might as well suck in all facets of the game at once. Bad hitting, pitchers serving up meatballs, sloppy fielding, boners on the basepaths…it’s so frustrating to lose a game because something breaks down in just one of those areas, might as well slump in all four at the same time. They’ll snap out of it, but will quite possibly have to look up to see the Angels by then.
At least Coco did see that one all the way.
Well, at least Burger King chicken fries are back.
[channels KK]
“that’s just how things happen when you’re going bad.”
i saw that right, right? he basically hit it into the nearest open glove?
Well this sucks.
and screw you too, racism-abiding zombie babe.
I like this sentence even more for not having any context for it.
Isn’t that the definition of a tagline?
I has a sad.
I hate this team and everything.
Jerk face.
I’m so despondent I’m reduced to watching the Raiders suck at preseason football.
It could be worse, I could have attended.
Which game? LOL
they destroy the field for preseason games??
Yup. Twas always thus.
I turned down free tickets
Thanks, and go As.
so, you made money?
well, I have a rum and coke right now so…
yeah pretty much
Thanks, and go As.
Call me when real football starts. Oh wait. I’ve worked almost every weekend for the last five years.
Tied in the loss column.
There was plenty of reason to think the A’s would regress a bit (Vogt was hitting a million there for a long while), and they haven’t had a serious slump for a while. Now they hit the red-hot Royals and Braves on this trip, after the team already was struggling to score runs.
So, fine. They’re due.
The logic of the trading-fest is that the acquisiton of three starters, including a legitimate ace, would allow them to win 2-1 games and avoid significant slumps. That isn’t happening. Even the vaunted Lester, while undefeated, has only been dominant once. The other times, the offense scored a bunch of runs and he was OK.
Even after wins, the players don’t sound confident. And the failure to address the middle infield problems is only coming back to bite.
Beane acted out of desperation, and there was plenty of admiration for the guts that took. Further, there was every reason to believe that the pre-trade rotation would not have won a playoff series, or held up down the stretch.
But somehow, my doubts about the loss of Cespedes have grown more serious. You must score to win games, and Cespedes produced runs even if he didn’t get on base. Lester may make Beane look smart in October, but he only plays once every five days.
The Cubs trade is looking pretty bad. Hammel is a disaster. He shouldn’t be in the rotation. If he’s pressing or whatever, then send him to Sacramento (if there’s an option) or trade him or make him the long man until September. Anything. (And Addison Russell, we are going to regret losing him for a very long time.) Samardzija is good, but he’s not a dominant starter.
Ranting…
hammel can’t go to sacto
home runs. donaldson and moss need to start hitting them again
Hopefully gomes too
really guys? lose 4 out of 5 and its a ghost town?
Where are teh super fans?
Remember geren? that guys’s finger stank!
I’m feeling pretty good about their chances.
Friday nights are our slowest nights, I’ve observed over the years.
While Trainman is probably slitting his wrists, most of us are doing other things.
Don’t tease. The world will never be so fortunate.
Besides, they had a complete failure of a game. I don’t really need to go back to thinking about that.
au contraire. hang out with people to forget about it. sometimes online.
i did like that thing seinfeld said about baseball lasting two days. you really do carry the last game till the next game.
I’m not really a diehard sports person any more, so for the most part a good or bad game has no real effect on me by the next day.
To be honest, I purged this one from my mind before it was even over.
Sorry, I was having the pain massaged away.
Other than Hammel I think the pitchers are going through one of those phases. It does happen. And if we score 2-3 runs every game we should be right there when they get their second wind. I keep hoping this is the swoon we have seen in Oct the last 2 years happening early.
It’s still nice to see that after 2 weeks of uninspiring play we are still where we are. Dont like being a game up but its better than a game down.
Are the A’s really wearing blank caps tonight, or…
Yep.
Perhaps the A’s were wise to stay away from Hudson?
Why, what’s the matter with Timmy?
I’d feel sorry for him, but once he put on that garish orange-black combo, he died to me.
Man do I not enjoy Mike Krukow’s shtick.
When he’s been on a national broadcast, and therefore required to be objective, he’s actually pretty good. While drinking the Kruk-aid, however …
Ha, the Giants broadcast just went around in some sponsored bit showing fans having a good time and showed two separate bachelorette parties. Classic.
Lots of gamer babes, I’m sure.