Game 134 Bad taste go away. ← FREE KRAUT!

Game 134 Bad taste go away. 243

the lightwave is coming in greater force tonight. I hope our guys step out until it stops. Fuck that.

Bobby Crosby in the house.

Also per Ms. Slusser, Lowrie being sent out on rehab. back on monday. I say let him play in anaheim.

243 thoughts on “Game 134 Bad taste go away.

  1. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 6:35 pm

    UPDATE: Vogt says he didn’t see the lightwave

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    • MikeV Aug 29,2014 6:45 pm || Up

      Haigh.

      And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

      Thanks, and go As.

  2. MikeV Aug 29,2014 6:46 pm

    oh fuck this guy.

    And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

    Thanks, and go As.

    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 6:48 pm || Up

      that just makes my blood boil.

      I don’t blame that call on the loss. I just really hate stupid CYS shit like that

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    • Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 6:54 pm || Up

      • dmoas Aug 29,2014 7:22 pm || Up

        Bull shit. On both counts.

        • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:24 pm || Up

          it really puts the lie to it.

          Aybar has to move out of the way of the fielder. he is moving out of Moss’ way

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          • dmoas Aug 29,2014 7:28 pm || Up

            Yes, that fielder who wasn’t even on the dirt when he diverted and never touched the runner. And oh yeah, you’re out of the base line if you try to avoid a tag while NOT in the baseline. You’re also out if you obstruct the fielder from making the play, which Aybar did by running on to the infield grass. So it’s bullshit on three fucking layers.

        • Soaker Aug 29,2014 7:28 pm || Up

          Actually, one of the things I enjoy about plays like that is being forced to go spelunking in the depths of the rule book to sort it out. (He’s right on the second count, 6.05(k).)

          What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
          • dmoas Aug 29,2014 7:29 pm || Up

            You can’t run out of the baseline to avoid being tagged. And you can’t move out of the baseline to obstruct a fielder from making a play. Aybar did both.

          • Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 7:33 pm || Up

            6.05
            A batter is out when —

            In running the last half of the distance from home base to first base, while the ball is being fielded to first base, he runs outside (to the right of) the three-foot line, or inside (to the left of) the foul line, and in the umpireÂ’s judgment in so doing interferes with the fielder taking the throw at first base, in which case the ball is dead; except that he may run outside (to the right of) the three foot line or inside (to the left of) the foul line to avoid a fielder attempting to field a batted ball;

            He can absolutely run outside the baseline in that situation because Moss was attempting to field a batted ball, which is one of many reasons why that play wasn’t obstruction.

            • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:37 pm || Up

              “attempting to field” is key. not “fielded” or “about to field” it clearly describes moss’ behavior

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              • Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 7:38 pm || Up

                Well, the obstruction rule is worded differently (“in the act of fielding”). If that means that you have to be the one who comes up with the ball or you can be guilty of obstructing, then MLB needs to announce that.

            • dmoas Aug 29,2014 7:48 pm || Up

              This applies more:

              (b) He intentionally interferes with a thrown ball; or hinders a fielder attempting to
              make a play on a batted ball;
              Rule 7.08(b) Comment: A runner who is adjudged to have hindered a fielder who is attempting
              to make a play on a batted ball is out whether it was intentional or not.

              Instead of running away from the fielders, he intentionally ran into them by going outside the baseline.

    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 6:58 pm || Up

      “consensus”

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    • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 6:58 pm || Up

      This is not helping the bad taste. What a colossal shithead.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:01 pm || Up

        I am not tinfoil hatty. I don’t think they would “go easy” on the team the aggrieved the night before, but shit like this makes me think they are too dumb to get anything right. and actually be actively bad, in a non random way.

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        • Thunderbutt Aug 29,2014 7:04 pm || Up

          I’m of a mind that umps are digging in on non-reviewable calls simply because they’re not reviewable. A turf kind of thing.

          There is always a score.
        • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 7:05 pm || Up

          Nah, I think it’s pure CYA, in the have each others’ backs imperative style like cops.

          "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
          • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:07 pm || Up

            good point professor

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            • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 7:40 pm || Up

              Thanks, little buddy!

              "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • lenscrafters Aug 29,2014 7:13 pm || Up

        There are few things that make my blood boil more than a proudly obstinate umpire.

        • dmoas Aug 29,2014 7:23 pm || Up

          Seriously. It’s one of the biggest things wrong with this country: the total inability to just fucking admit when you are wrong.

          • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 7:26 pm || Up

            Man, I may never have agreed with you more about anything. Instances of this directly anger me routinely.

            "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
          • Jennifer Aug 29,2014 7:33 pm || Up

            You’re wrong!

      • 5Aces Aug 29,2014 9:02 pm || Up

        This. He needs to learn when to STFU.

        Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it? -Steve McCatty
    • Ben Folds' Nuts Aug 29,2014 7:30 pm || Up

      HOW THE MOTHERFUCK

  3. FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 7:00 pm

    Excellent cure for bad taste in mouth: Berkeley Safeway selling $6 quarts of Lagunitas Sucks.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • colin Aug 29,2014 7:02 pm || Up

      I just drank like 2/3 of one of those Lagunitas Sucks quarts. But I think I paid $9 for it (still totally worth it).

    • 5Aces Aug 30,2014 1:49 pm || Up

      Putting 100% faith in you FSU. $6.49 quarts at the Save Mart by my house. Picked one up to be the official Ace drink of my (nobody cares) fantasy FB draft tonight.

      Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it? -Steve McCatty
  4. Jennifer Aug 29,2014 7:06 pm

    Last night I took 3 benadryl and didn’t give a fuck what happened after the eighth inning. Then work called. No, I won’t come in.

  5. Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 7:07 pm

    I think I would hate the Angels 5% less if they always dressed like this.

    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:10 pm || Up

      yup.

      that material and color last night were hideous

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    • Soaker Aug 29,2014 7:11 pm || Up

      Yes, these are Autry-era. Disney gave them the stupid wings in the font, and they’ve never really recovered.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
      • Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 7:12 pm || Up

        These remind me of Reggie.

        • Soaker Aug 29,2014 7:14 pm || Up

          I still liked Joe Rudi even when he was an Angel.

          What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
  6. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:17 pm

    back in the box meathead

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  7. Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 7:18 pm

    Oh man, Lester/Felix day game on Wednesday. If ever there was a day to play hooky.

  8. FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 7:18 pm

    Nice hops Callaspo!

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 7:20 pm || Up

      He makes Lagunitas Sucks? Who knew.

    • Soaker Aug 29,2014 7:20 pm || Up

      He needs to go about 8-for-5 tonight to lessen my anger at him.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
  9. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:19 pm

    Callaspo has a pad on his glove to make him more awkward in the field?

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  10. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:20 pm

    hey albert, instead of mad dogging reddick, be faster.

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    • Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 7:21 pm || Up

      Has he always been this unlikeable? I don’t watch the NL.

      • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:22 pm || Up

        I think so, full of himself in a not fun way

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        • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 7:24 pm || Up

          It was a bit endearing when he was young, in a purity of Sir Lancelot sort of way. Then it became clear he was just stuck up.

          "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • Ben Folds' Nuts Aug 29,2014 7:34 pm || Up

      What’d he do?

      • Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 7:35 pm || Up

        He hit a hard single to right and Reddick tried to throw him out at first, which meant he actually had to run out the play. He was apparently aggrieved because he gave Reddick a long, hard, angry stare.

        • Soaker Aug 29,2014 7:37 pm || Up

          It’s an Unwritten Rule. You only do that to a pitcher.

          What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
          • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:38 pm || Up

            and michael taylor

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          • Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 7:39 pm || Up

            I would not put it past Scioscia to have Reddick thrown at during this series.

    • doctorK Aug 29,2014 7:48 pm || Up

      Seriously, Prince Albert can go FK himself in a can.

  11. Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 7:21 pm

    What do you say you go FK yourself, Albert?

    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:21 pm || Up

      he’s old. probably can’t

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    • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 7:22 pm || Up

      He should steal second to make the A’s look bad.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:27 pm || Up

      I kinda wish cespedes would try that from left

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  12. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:21 pm

    Scioscia is being suck a dick not announcing the starter for tomorrow

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  13. lenscrafters Aug 29,2014 7:21 pm

    Starting to hate these Angels as much as the Lackey-Krod iterations.

  14. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:23 pm

    hamilton against a lefty again. Damn

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  15. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:25 pm

    Slow motion? assholes at CSN

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  16. lenscrafters Aug 29,2014 7:26 pm

    I want to fking destroy them. 6 A’s runz mojo please.

  17. dmoas Aug 29,2014 7:26 pm

    Man I despise the Angels. I didn’t feel this way a decade ago even when they were hurting us by being good. I think the money has gone to their heads and made them arrogant as fucking shit.

    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:28 pm || Up

      Its the only team I dislike.

      I have $5. No I don\'t.
      • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 7:41 pm || Up

        You came by the hate honestly, first hand over years. I feel that way about the Washington football team.

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
        • Soaker Aug 29,2014 7:50 pm || Up

          I’d think the (1A) Broncos and (1B) Steelers deserve mention above them.

          Hell, it’s taken 20 years of success under the Phil Knight ownership to develop much hatred for the Oregon Ducks. I still think of Stanford and USC as our two arch enemies.

          What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
          • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 8:02 pm || Up

            There’s a certain kind of fan hate you only develop by living among the other team’s insufferable asshole fans. That’s the way I hate the Washington football team. There are most definitely teams I loathe as rivals much more than DC, like Duke and Denver and Anaheim, but I’ve never been forced to breathe in the odiousness of their supporters every day, year after year.

            If I were ever forced to live in Boston I am certain I would go on a full psycho killing spree within a year or two.

            "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 7:46 pm || Up

      Those good 2004-2009 Angels teams were made significantly less hateable by the presence of Vlad. These Angels don’t have a single player I like.

      • Ben Folds' Nuts Aug 29,2014 8:24 pm || Up

        I think I don’t mind Howie Kendrick.

        • Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 8:25 pm || Up

          He was going to be the one exception. But I don’t like him. He’s just kind of there, being non-offensively good.

          • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 8:27 pm || Up

            this is my position. plus I feel sorry for him that he wants to be called howard and never is

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            • Glorious Mundy Aug 30,2014 1:52 pm || Up

              He does? That’s pretty funny.

              • Future Ed Aug 30,2014 5:34 pm || Up

                I don’t know if that is still the case. A few years ago I read that he was going to be called “howard” and no one ever did.

                He is potrayed well in the Michael Mcarthy book. Seems he has a compelling back story. and an interesting draft story

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  18. Thunderbutt Aug 29,2014 7:44 pm

    If Lester doesn’t prevail there will be some hate and discontent.

    There is always a score.
  19. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 7:44 pm

    no vince, norris is not also showing signs of “coming out of it”

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    • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 7:49 pm || Up

      Nope. And believe me, I am straining on every single pitch of every last Norris at bat to see something I can talk myself into thinking means he’s coming out of it.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  20. lenscrafters Aug 29,2014 7:48 pm

    Keebs picking up Callaspo

  21. MikeV Aug 29,2014 7:55 pm

    Lester getting squeezed?

    And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

    Thanks, and go As.

    • Soaker Aug 29,2014 7:57 pm || Up

      Looked like he got a little spanking from Cuzzi at the end of the inning.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • lenscrafters Aug 29,2014 7:58 pm || Up

      He has to realize he’s an A now, not a Red Sox.

  22. Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 7:56 pm

    Please. Stop replaying that woman screaming.

  23. Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 7:57 pm

    Lester seems to have a lot of these post-inning chats with umps.

    • doctorK Aug 29,2014 7:58 pm || Up

      I’m going to enjoy this now, because next season it will really piss me off.

      • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 8:00 pm || Up

        who cares about the dodgers

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        • doctorK Aug 29,2014 8:06 pm || Up

          We will, when we play them next season.

          On the bright side, if he signs with the Dodgers after this season, there will be a measure of schadenfreude watching the Gnats fans bitch about it.

  24. Jennifer Aug 29,2014 7:59 pm

    No hits?

  25. Thunderbutt Aug 29,2014 8:04 pm

    Lawd, whadda bunch of whiners.

    There is always a score.
  26. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 8:09 pm

    hey its don baylor in a 70s/80s angels uni!

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  27. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 8:12 pm

    you know, I think coco and gentry and fuld all get to vogt’s fly out.

    And no Ken, I don’t see any joy in trouts play. He is great. but he looks like he is just doing his job

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • doctorK Aug 29,2014 8:20 pm || Up

      NO WAY THE ONLY GUY WHO MAKES THAT PLAY IS TROUT OR JETER!!!!!11!1!1!!!

  28. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 8:15 pm

    So i put one of them privacy blockers on my computer and the folks at em el bee tee vee have not figured it out yet. every once in a while they ask me to reenter my credit card info to confirm my location and tell me that if I am out of town on work, turn off my [vpn? i don’t know, something] that my work put on my work lap top. (don’t know why they think i am travelling for work)

    TV is kinda fun.

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • MikeV Aug 29,2014 8:23 pm || Up

      it thinks i’m in england

      And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

      Thanks, and go As.

      • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 8:24 pm || Up

        that is next for me. No new york games yet

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  29. MikeV Aug 29,2014 8:22 pm

    THAT WAS A BALK

    And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

    Thanks, and go As.

  30. lenscrafters Aug 29,2014 8:22 pm

    Oh good another missed call.

    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 8:22 pm || Up

      and almost kicked melvin out because of it

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    • dmoas Aug 29,2014 8:25 pm || Up

      Well, these umps have already thoroughly proven they’re blind.

  31. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 8:22 pm

    don’t the umpires have to, you know, watch the game?

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • Ben Folds' Nuts Aug 29,2014 8:25 pm || Up

      Quite obviously not.

    • dmoas Aug 29,2014 8:27 pm || Up

      Why watch the game when it’s perfectly acceptable to apply the one in your mind to the one being played for real?

  32. Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 8:23 pm

    I will never really understand the balk rule, and I am at peace with that.

  33. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 8:23 pm

    beckham couldn’t handle the lights

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    • Soaker Aug 29,2014 8:25 pm || Up

      It does look like it could influence the fielders a lot more than the hitters.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • Thunderbutt Aug 29,2014 8:28 pm || Up

      The lights? You want the lights?

      There is always a score.
  34. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 8:24 pm

    make them pay for trading you for green

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
  35. Ben Folds' Nuts Aug 29,2014 8:26 pm

    I will understand quantum theory before I understand why Alberto Callaspo is still on this team.

  36. Jennifer Aug 29,2014 8:27 pm

    Monkey shit.

  37. lenscrafters Aug 29,2014 8:28 pm

    Hard to sustain a rally with this many black holes in the lineup.

    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 8:29 pm || Up

      help me lowrie and jaso, you are my only hope

      I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 8:30 pm || Up

      The Lowrie injury has been a killer. Back on Monday hopefully.

      • andeux Aug 29,2014 10:25 pm || Up

        Yep, even those he’s been mediocre offensively this year, the step down to a second one of Sogard/Callaspo/Parrino every game is still huge.

        TINSTAAFK
  38. Soaker Aug 29,2014 8:36 pm

    If his neck wasn’t finished before that…

    What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
  39. lenscrafters Aug 29,2014 8:36 pm

    Well we’re fucked.

  40. Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 8:37 pm

    God dammit. No.

  41. dmoas Aug 29,2014 8:39 pm

    August feels like we’re just watching Game 5 after fucking Game 5 over the past 15 years.

  42. FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 8:40 pm

    That was seriously demoralizing. Fuckin A, man, that’s gonna be hard to bounce back from. For everyone.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • Soaker Aug 29,2014 8:42 pm || Up

      It may not be that bad. That’s a “stinger” in football.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
      • dmoas Aug 29,2014 8:45 pm || Up

        This is Crisp we’re talking about. And the A’s.

      • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 8:49 pm || Up

        Yeah, but it’s more than that. The HR, two runs down, team leader lies hurt on the field. It’s a seriously bummer vibe, man. I at least will have a hard time bouncing right back. The A’s hopefully are more resilient. Hopefully.

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
        • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 8:54 pm || Up

          the slow mo from behind the wall with the ball slipping out of the glove was poetic

          I have $5. No I don\'t.
  43. dmoas Aug 29,2014 8:43 pm

    Damn it. Let’s win it for the Crisper.

  44. Thunderbutt Aug 29,2014 8:50 pm

    Let’s go Oakland!

    There is always a score.
  45. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 8:53 pm

    I am wondering what to type to say “click” for the season

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • dmoas Aug 29,2014 8:55 pm || Up

      Kind of feels like it, doesn’t it? Unless Moss would be kind enough to crush a fucking ball over the wall for us.

    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 8:58 pm || Up

      (i am only kidding thunderbutt)

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    • AV Aug 29,2014 11:26 pm || Up

      “there’s always next year.”

      *i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
  46. Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 8:58 pm

    GOT TO FIND A WAY TO STEP ON THE CLUTCH

    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:00 pm || Up

      why?

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      • Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 9:01 pm || Up

        So we can change gears I guess? Shit, I don’t know.

    • Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 9:00 pm || Up

      WE DID NOT STEP ON THE CLUTCH AND WE STALLED

  47. Soaker Aug 29,2014 8:58 pm

    Not only do I have this game to deal with, I also have an Eagles concert wafting through the night air. Presently working through “Life’s Been Good”.

    What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
  48. lenscrafters Aug 29,2014 9:00 pm

    something something Reddick in the clutch

  49. dmoas Aug 29,2014 9:00 pm

    Go fuck yourself Weaver. Against a half way decent offense you’d have been fucking toast.

    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:01 pm || Up

      yeah, he showed vogt reddick and fuld!

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  50. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:06 pm

    oh sogard

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  51. Soaker Aug 29,2014 9:08 pm

    The window of opportunity is looking like shattered car glass on the pavement.

    What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • dmoas Aug 29,2014 9:23 pm || Up

      The engine remove, the car put up on blocks.

      • Soaker Aug 29,2014 9:27 pm || Up

        Unfortunately, this series appears to be turning it from a “prolonged slump” to a full-blown El Foldo.

        What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
        • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 9:33 pm || Up

          I will stand up against some…some…of this pervasive Eeyoring and proclaim that hope still exists. Tomorrow, maybe.

          I do take substantial consolation in knowledge that the players and coaches don’t fall into nearly the depths of despair inhabited by the likes of us.

          "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
          • Ben Folds' Nuts Aug 29,2014 9:35 pm || Up

            We’ll make the play-in game.

            • dmoas Aug 29,2014 9:40 pm || Up

              I’m not even so sure of that. M’s & Tigers are playing neck and neck and aren’t all that far off from us.

          • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:36 pm || Up

            if moss and donaldson start hitting home runs, and lowrie comes back OK, things are fine.

            I am fine in the play in game, that will make for the most epic of stories during the WS prarade

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          • lenscrafters Aug 29,2014 9:41 pm || Up

            From a numbers perspective, I believe BPro has them at about a 1/4 chance at the division and a near certainty for a wild card spot. Of course, you did not have to trade Russell, Cespedes, McKinney, etc for a guaranteed chance at the wild card…

            The loss today doesn’t bother me as much as losing Coco, which could definitely ding that 1/4 chance a bit.

  52. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:10 pm

    why is aybar mad at kendrick? he couldn’t score on that unless he was running on th epitch

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    • doctorK Aug 29,2014 9:11 pm || Up

      He wanted him to run into Lester and get an obstruction call.

  53. MikeV Aug 29,2014 9:14 pm

    fuck this fucking bullshit team

    fuck beane for not actually going all in. fuck him for sogard callaspo punto and parrino getting playing time in a god damn stretch run.

    wrap it up guys. They can’t do it.

    And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

    Thanks, and go As.

    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:16 pm || Up

      the last two losses and to a lessor extent this one is directly linkable to poor middle infield defense.

      I have $5. No I don\'t.
  54. Thunderbutt Aug 29,2014 9:16 pm

    LET’S GO OAKLAND!!

    There is always a score.
  55. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:18 pm

    john hickey suffering from a concussion?

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
  56. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:23 pm

    DON”T YOU KNOW I AM PUJOLS??!!! HE IS OUT

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
  57. 5Aces Aug 29,2014 9:23 pm

    Thats obstruction on poo holes right?

    Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it? -Steve McCatty
  58. MikeV Aug 29,2014 9:24 pm

    he’s going to be out because fuck this team

    And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

    Thanks, and go As.

  59. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:24 pm

    he might be out. but it should be inconclusive

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
  60. dmoas Aug 29,2014 9:25 pm

    Make up call, but not good enough.

  61. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:26 pm

    lucky

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
  62. MikeV Aug 29,2014 9:28 pm

    They can’t even get 4 hits let alone 4 runs.

    And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

    Thanks, and go As.

    • Thunderbutt Aug 29,2014 9:32 pm || Up

      It’s true. I’ve never seen this team score four runs.

      There is always a score.
  63. FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 9:29 pm

    I want the waste pond at San Onofre to get hit by a cruise missile and rain lethal radioactive fallout over everything south of Oxnard. Right after the A’s plane leaves Sunday. JediLeroy, Ed’s parents, please get out while you can.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • doctorK Aug 29,2014 9:40 pm || Up

      I want a cataclysmic earthquake to open a rift from the Pacific to the Salton Sea and basically turn Southern California into an abyssal basin.

  64. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:33 pm

    remember home runs?

    those were fun

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • MikeV Aug 29,2014 9:34 pm || Up

      not so much.

      And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

      Thanks, and go As.

  65. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:37 pm

    vince, shut up about Cespedes. he was fun, but not the offensive force you think. they would not have been doing better in this game if TOmmy Milone or Jesse chavez was pitching

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 9:43 pm || Up

      Vince doing his SFGate commenter routine is not fun.

  66. Thunderbutt Aug 29,2014 9:42 pm

    Sometimes it seems to me as if Free Kraut reads more like Hummus on the House.

    There is always a score.
    • Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 9:44 pm || Up

      Whom, us?

    • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 9:45 pm || Up

      It’s all the goddamn vegetarians, isn’t it?

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  67. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:43 pm

    put some hits together please

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
  68. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:44 pm

    not with a bang, but with a pop out

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 9:47 pm || Up

      We are the hollow men.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  69. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:50 pm

    hey! way to make a play Eric

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
  70. nowBodhi Aug 29,2014 9:51 pm

    Happy 2009 everyone

    100 over with
    20 under without

    guess the numbers didn’t matter so much after all, huh?

    Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:53 pm || Up

      I really don’t think they do

      I have $5. No I don\'t.
  71. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:54 pm

    3 ks for weaver. He should not be beating us like this

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
  72. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:56 pm

    Huston’s face loost the same, but heis body looks old

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
  73. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 9:58 pm

    WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • Soaker Aug 29,2014 10:00 pm || Up

      We are all gonna have a lot more money in our bank accounts at the end of October than we expected a couple months ago.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
      • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 10:02 pm || Up

        Enough of this defeatist bullshit. I have enough faith in the A’s organization to know for a certainty that any postseason ticket refunds wouldn’t be issued until January at soonest.

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
        • 5Aces Aug 29,2014 10:15 pm || Up

          Thank you FSU. I needed a good laugh before I turned in.

          Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it? -Steve McCatty
          • dmoas Aug 29,2014 10:23 pm || Up

            Good laugh? He was just being brutally honest.

    • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 10:00 pm || Up

      As true a sentence as has ever been written.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  74. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 10:00 pm

    defensive indifference, I think its pitching indifference with sogard at the plate

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
  75. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 10:01 pm

    I don’t like Nike gloves

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
  76. lenscrafters Aug 29,2014 10:01 pm

    Street pitching his 3rd straight day so at least he won’t be available tomorrow, probably.

    • doctorK Aug 29,2014 10:03 pm || Up

      I have no idea why they used him tonight.

      • bear88 Aug 29,2014 10:09 pm || Up

        Doesn’t Scoscia know he can pretty much toss anyone out there and the A’s aren’t going to score more than three runs in an entire game?

  77. Glorious Mundy Aug 29,2014 10:06 pm

    Blargh. What a depressing game.

    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 10:21 pm || Up

      I am ok with it. Better than yesterday. Sure Coco’s injury was/is horrifying. Yes, the offense was ineffective, but there is something to be said about being beaten fair and square.

      WIth the right luck, the A’s win this one, but only with the right luck. Yesterday, no luck was needed, just a fair shake.

      Also, I don’t think anyone expected coco to be healthy for the rest of the season

      I have $5. No I don\'t.
      • bear88 Aug 29,2014 10:23 pm || Up

        If no one, including the A’s front office, thought Coco would be healthy the rest of the season, Beane shouldn’t have bet it all on 2014.

        I think Beane was counting on Coco to be ready for the playoffs. (It might still happen.)

        • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 10:25 pm || Up

          Why do I get the feeling the people at Cache Creek are busy sewing on black “4” arm patches on the give away jersey for monday?

          I have $5. No I don\'t.
  78. bear88 Aug 29,2014 10:08 pm

    My dislike of both trades feels warranted at the moment. So there’s that. No middle infield help. No hitting. Lost star shortstop prospect.

    Laugh at me at the World Series parade.

    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 10:22 pm || Up

      lester trade was shocking, but I am fine with it.

      The first trade…I just don’t know. it seems bad, but exciting bad, and that’s not bad, really. I should be able to forget about it like the Carlos gonzalez trade that I rarely remember about.

      I have $5. No I don\'t.
  79. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 10:32 pm

    huh.

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 10:32 pm || Up

      I thought we dominated last year

      I have $5. No I don\'t.
      • FreeSeatUpgrade Aug 29,2014 10:38 pm || Up

        That will be what we say about 2014 next year.

        And we will be right.

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • AV Aug 29,2014 11:23 pm || Up

        there was a modest slump in august at the same time texas was un-slumping.

        *i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
      • Glorious Mundy Aug 30,2014 11:50 am || Up

        Texas callaspo’d last year.

  80. Future Ed Aug 29,2014 10:38 pm

    did we all die?

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • dmoas Aug 29,2014 10:39 pm || Up

      Yes. Well the rest of you did. I was already dead.

  81. bear88 Aug 29,2014 10:41 pm

    The only bright side is that the Beane-era A’s teams have a history of starting slow, roaring through July and August and September and then laying an egg in October.

    Maybe they’ll do things in reverse this year, assuming they get to October and last longer than one play-in game.

  82. Ben Folds' Nuts Aug 29,2014 10:55 pm

    If it wasn’t for the fact that he traded Addison, I think I’d be starting to wonder if Billy had ever actually believed in this year’s team, or if he was doing the usual hedging of bets. But he didn’t hedge his bets. He just didn’t make as many as he needed to. How can it be possible that he thinks keeping Alberto Callaspo and Nick Punto was a sound strategy?

    • Future Ed Aug 29,2014 10:58 pm || Up

      the only arguable middle infielder that moved at the deadline was prado.

      I am guessing that Rollins was, indeed, unavailable, which is mind boggling to me. He must be a total nut job.

      there really was no way to upgrade at short or second.

      I have $5. No I don\'t.
      • andeux Aug 29,2014 11:01 pm || Up

        Asdrubal Cabrera

        TINSTAAFK
      • lenscrafters Aug 29,2014 11:14 pm || Up

        They could have taken Valbuena instead of Hammel as the rumors suggested. I doubt the Cubs would’ve scuttled the chance to get Russell et al if it was Valbuena over Hammel.

        Beckham and Drew would’ve been at least be able to provide solid defense. Drew has performed well offensively in the recent past. Beckham can hit lefties. Both can likely score from first on a double.

        andeux mentioned Asdrubal Cabrera. There are never too many MIF options at the deadline but my impression is that there were more options this year relative to other years. None awesome but upgrades over what we have now, because what we have now is worse than 2012’s Weeks/Pennington.

        • lenscrafters Aug 29,2014 11:28 pm || Up

          Should mention that all of this water under the bridge….no point rehashing it over and over again since nothing can be changed now. But I’m in the mikev camp that you can’t really be “all in” on this year with such a horrid situation there.

          • AV Aug 29,2014 11:39 pm || Up

            hey, how bout that cust? i’m starting to think he may strikout too much?

            no, what i meant to say is, the A’s are all in. just that… sometimes there’s a difference between being “all in” and having a “winning hand.”

            *i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
      • Glorious Mundy Aug 30,2014 11:52 am || Up

        I’m not sure that Russell wouldn’t have been an upgrade this year.

        • Soaker Aug 30,2014 11:59 am || Up

          Knocka boom boom Jeema boom boom

          What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
  83. AV Aug 29,2014 11:25 pm

    i feel bad for not reading these, but i saw coco’s replay and the end of the game so i feel bad enough already and resent that you guys want to make me feel worse.

    *i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
  84. Glorious Mundy Aug 30,2014 12:03 pm

    Hmm. Not sure I like the sound of this.

    “It’s been a month of adjustments in this clubhouse,” first baseman Stephen Vogt said, alluding to the three trades the A’s made. “Anybody that doesn’t believe that isn’t telling the truth, but they’re been good adjustments. … But it is a different clubhouse and any time you get that at the trade deadline, it’s going to take some getting used to, but it’s all positive, it’s not negative.”

    • bear88 Aug 30,2014 12:32 pm || Up

      I think clubhouse dynamics are overrated, but they’re not irrelevant. It’s like any workplace.

      • 5Aces Aug 30,2014 1:46 pm || Up

        Oh god bear. I just reread your comment while mine was posting and thought of my work situation. I’m sitting here saying they need to recognize and move on when I have been stuck in the suckzone for a year with bad managers, etc. UGH…

        Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it? -Steve McCatty
      • dmoas Aug 30,2014 3:39 pm || Up

        It’s overrated to an extent. Just like any workplace, it’s more a slow, subtle thing that takes time to have any acknowledge affects and sometimes those affects never end up showing up. But when they do it’s like they slowly erode things to the point of having a seriously negative influence. On the surface things seem fine until a bolt snaps and things come crashing down.

    • 5Aces Aug 30,2014 1:45 pm || Up

      Here’s my problem with it. I am almost positive they said the same thing a week or two ago. I 100% believe they have been pressing, and trying to figure things out. But once you recognize it you need to be able to stop and get back to doing your thing.

      Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it? -Steve McCatty
      • dmoas Aug 30,2014 3:34 pm || Up

        That’s unfortunately a management issue. They really need Melvin to implode and really put them in their place. Knowing the issue and acknowledging the issue aren’t always going to lead to the necessary change. Sometimes what’s necessary is someone above them getting the point across. It’s almost like a defibrillator. It’s needs to be an external shock.

        • 5Aces Aug 30,2014 4:07 pm || Up

          Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it? -Steve McCatty

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