So the A’s acquired Adam Dunn, longtime wish-list slugger and an old, big version of Cust.
He’s not playing today, though. Red-hot Matt Shoemaker pitches for the slegnA against Scott Kazmir.
The lineup, as the A’s try to cling to the hope of staying within hailing distance of the Angels:
Fuld
Reddick
Donaldson
Vogt
Moss
Norris
Callaspo
Sogard
Parrino
That lineup is alarmingly terrible, but I’m still predicting a win.
Can’t do any worse than the lineup of the last two days
I looked up August OPS for everybody.
Fuld .652
Reddick .816
Donaldson .914
Vogt .654
Moss .574
Norris .540
Callaspo .553
Sogard .754
Parrino .442
Darn…you just beat me to it by a couple of seconds.
Moss, Norris and Callaspo… yeesh. No wonder Beane got Dunn.
Dunn? Just like the season.
You know what’s giving me hope? The last time you went on an epic negativity rant was after that sweep at the hand of the Rangers. After which the team went on a 2-month rampage through the league.
I missed one of his epic rants…those are usually fun.
There’s an amazing MadLibs version from a game thread a couple of days ago. Not to be missed.
THE ANGELS ARE SO DUNN!…Sorry, I’ll let myself out.
I’m approaching this as I did yesterday’s Cal game. I have no expectations. None at all.
That’s a good place to be!
Soft tossing, fly ball, no name pitcher who the A’s have never seen before with a good changeup…uh oh.
Pitcher who is breathing? The A’s hitters are in trouble. So it doesn’t make any difference. And this guy may be a no-name, but he’s been doing very well lately.
The A’s totally rake against dead pitchers though…bring on Walter Johnson!
We can’t be shutout if they can’t throw a pitch!
Exactly
We got this. Maybe.
We’re gonna win unless we don’t.
So, what’s the genesis of the eeyore thing? I’ve never really known what it meant.
Ever see Winnie The Pooh?
Probably back in 1978 or so. I can’t say I remember much about it. We read old copies of Popular Mechanics to our kids so I haven’t read it recently.
He’s like a depressed Charlie O.
Ah, so sort of a Joe Biden type figure.
Are there any popular Mechanics? I was going to say Mike, but he wasn’t really a Mechanic, technically.
Yeah, Mike was kind of the foreman of the mechanics or perhaps the shop’s secretary…it’s a little confusing.
It annoys me that the crappy Angels farm system somehow barfed out Calhoun and Shoemaker.
Hey! Our farm system has given us a bunch of great hitters. There’s uh…um….er…
There’s a shortstop at Midland who’s supposed to be really promising.
Oh, wait.
Hah.
Shoemaker is also irritating in that he looks like Brian Wilson.
I still don’t think Shoemaker is as good as he seems.
MLB.tv is fucking terrible today.
Thanks, and go As.
For what it is worth, it was fucking awful for me last evening.
Just a word of caution. If you take any Raiders in your fantasy draft you can be ruled legally insane by the state of California.
Crap. I just drafted Reggie McKenzie’s kid in my Fantasy High School Football league.
He’ll be our new GM sometime around 2041.
I’m drinking a Cherry Coke Zero which tastes like a regular Cherry Coke with an extra half of cup of water added.
I’m drinking a Lagunitas IPA. My liver would appreciate it if the team would start winning again.
Wait…is this the Linguica Thread?
Not losing!
Seriously, we got 2 really good years from Moss after he was a minor league nobody for a long time.
Is he turning back into a pumpkin now that he’s 30?
Thanks, and go As.
I think the answer to this is no. But there is something very wrong with him right now.
Moss has been one of the A’s most consistent hitters over the past two seasons. But he’s just lost. Whatever he thought he had figured out the other day isn’t working.
I think it’s time to put him in the #7 spot and tell him, “Hey dude. Just look at the baseball and swing at it when it’s something you can hit. Anything else, don’t do.”
I keep looking at the lineup and thinking “this guy needs to get moved down for a week or so”. Problem is we feel like we have a lineup of all #9 hitters.
Gameday tells me Moss got sucked into a blackhole or something. Out, but no clue as to why. Did he at least see 4 pitches?
Strike 1, missed bunt strike 2, ball, called strike 3, confused look on face on walk back to dugout
He really is about to the point that CY25 rules apply to him.
Only play him against Houston?
Successful AB= 5 or more pitches, only 1 out made, and doesn’t spike himself.
A hit!
Yeah, Alberto. That’s what you do with a lazy changeup right down the middle of the zone. You hit a weak fly ball.
Oh good, here comes a Kazmeltdown.
hahahaha that pitch was right there, whatta joke this whole fucking sport is.
Two of the “balls” to Freese were strikes last night.
Oh look, Aybar again.
Nice throw, not Cespedes.
Sigh. I guess the game is over.
A’S FANS SHOULD NOT USE PANDAS IN MEMES
What?
Oh, right. The Giants. I forgot about them. They still exist, huh? Oh well. Fuck ’em, they don’t own pandas.
Sure looks as if Kazmire is getting squeezed on anything borderline.
Had him struck out on the 2-2 pitch. But it was too far from the glove.
I think the umpire is just a fucking idiot. Strike two to Beckham was farther inside than ball one.
Kazmir’s pretty close to getting ejected.
Yeah, you have to maintain your professionalism and he’s having a tough time with that.
Fuck professionalism. What’s the point of trying to stay in the game if the umpire is going out of his way to fuck you over?
This might be a good day for Melvin to take an ejection.
That would be fine, but you’d like Kazmir to throw his 100 pitches and not chew up 6 innings of bullpen work.
Right. I mean Melvin should take it for him.
Well, he took it, but not exactly the way I had planned.
Where did that first pitch to Beckham miss?
It was inside, but strike two was even farther inside.
ball 1 to beckham coudlnt have been any more down the fucking middle
Thanks, and go As.
This is an atrocity. He is posing after every pitch and the umpire is enjoying calling them balls. CLICK.
so glad it’s the last day of august. /eeyore
this
Hopefully September will be less muggy.
i’m trusting in this.
Somebody posted a brooks baseball thing during a game once. I wish I could figure out how to do that. This zone is bullshit
Thanks, and go As.
That pitch down in the zone should have been strike three to Iannetta.
Mostly he’s just missing though.
At least making a fucking attempt at framing those pitches, Norris.
Why bother? The umpire knows what he’s going to call before the pitch is even released.
This strike zone is bullshit, but was Fosse seriously trying to argue that ball four was a strike?
Yep, he sure was.
I’m OK if it’s a blowout loss. I don’t have to suffer.
I would rather not have Kazmir get thrown out. He’s getting squeezed, badly in some instances, but he has to maintain his composure.
See you all next month.
big shock that it’s Gerry fucking Davis screwing over the A’s again.
Thanks, and go As.
Gerry Davis once ejected Scott Kazmir while he was throwing a no-hitter.
Oh shit, this is the same guy?!
Seriously. MLB needs to take a real close look at him wrt Kaz.
In 2004, for hitting someone after warnings were issued.
Kazmir’s ejection this year was Jerry Layne.
Jerry Layne ejected him in Cleveland this year. I’m not familiar with a prior Davis incident.
didn’t laybe kick him out in the playoffs?
Laybe he did, laybe he didn’t.
Layne had a shitty strike zone during a Kazmir playoff start, Kazmir commented on it after the game, Layne has been fucking with him every chance he’s had ever since.
Well, I guess you have to pull him. But this puts the team in bad shape for tomorrow.
And tomorrow’s game is what matters.
Save the bullpen. Forfeit.
Current MLB headline:
Not to “try” to sweep the A’s, to sweep the A’s. Can’t really argue with it.
There is no try…only do.
They knew Davis was behind the plate.
For some reason I thought this was a night game. Looks. Click.
Melvin ejected. He doesn’t want to watch the game either.
Big worry is Kazmir at this point. He’s turned into a pumpkin.
He’d better explode when they get back in the clubhouse after this atrocity.
I’m in favor of letting Callaspo pitch the final 6 innings.
mlb.tv died and I ain’t even mad.
FK August.
Boy, a lot of FKers are clicking today. It’s good when you’re firing on all cylinders.
I’m done watching this fucking joke of a team. Later.
Thanks, and go As.
Mercy TOOTBLAN
When the A’s get hot the last couple weeks of the season, win the wild card game and then storm through the postseason at 11-1 we’re going to laugh at how hideous this series was.
Here’s hoping
six runs, three hits
When you come to a fork in the road…take it.
I’m holding out for the spoon.
It’s VORF when it comes to soup is off the charts.
I fear the psychological devastation of this series will linger. This is a four-game sweep, establishing the Angels as the superior team, ending in what looks to be total humiliation. If the A’s can limp into the play-in game and win that, they will probably face… the Angels.
Now I know what you’ll say. Remember when the A’s beat the stuffings out of the Tigers last summer? So maybe I’m overreacting. But this is going to mess with their heads. The A’s have no confidence. Can they avoid a total collapse that would leave them out of the play-in game? That possibility never seriously crossed my mind before. It does now.
A place to overreact is what blogs were created for. Let it all out is what I say.
This series is an unfortunate coincidence of the A’s at their worst and the Angels at their best. I fully expect the A’s to go on a nice September run after they get the F out of this series and comfortably lock up the home WC game.
september also allows the 30 person roster that the A’s are made for. this one difference will flip at least two losses to wins
Angels at their best? Hardly. Angels at their slightly-above-mediocre.
OK
Yeah, if this is the Angels at their slightly-above-mediocre, we’re fucked.
It is. Their pitchers have been the beneficiaries of a horrendously scuffling opponent. Any other contending team probably wins the first three games.
Okie-dokie.
I actually do agree with Mr. Nuts (yes, it can happen) that the story of this series has been much more about Athletics suck rather than Angels domination. In particular, Trout and Calhoun logged 2 singles in 27 plate appearances in the first three games, and winning a game when you have to substitute 8 relievers for Garrett Richards is just silly.
15-4 speaks for itself.
They’ve been playing a lot of bad teams.
I was talking about this series only, but sure, the Red Sox were an embarrassment in their own park last week.
really, if they were at their best, they would be 17-1 not 14-4
Yeah, in this series, after that first night with the blown obstruction call, the A’s have been defeated by the time “rockets’ red glare” is sung.
The3y just set a team record for August wins. It may be hitting every team at just the right moment or it may be they are playing really good. But either of those should not last for another month.
They were never as good as they looked at times before the All-Star Break when the run differential was plus a zillion, but neither are they anywhere near as bad as we’ve seen the last few weeks and one would hope culminating with the current disaster. Chances at the division are obviously pretty dim, but if they get things straightened out over the next month and get a break in the wild card game, that’s a hell of a rotation with enough offense to go well into October.
Honestly, I’ve been confused all year how they were winning as much as they have. I’m also confused about when you should write “effect” or “affect”.
I haven’t seen this many people leave a place so quickly since the debut of my one man play about the life of William Henry Harrison.
That’s because you had the air conditioning cranked up so high and no one was allowed to wear a coat.
Well, I sweat a lot. I’m half Nixon.
He’s no Taft.
GET OFF THE STAGE!
…and get into your car?
Well, I was going to say it can’t get any worse but I think I’ll wait until the team plane lands first.
Sadly, it occurred to me to check. They made it.
Relevant games for the A’s:
Tigers losing 6-2 to the White Sox (good for the A’s, who lead Detroit by 4 games)
Nationals lead Mariners 2-0 in the third (good for the A’s, who lead Seattle by 5 1/2)
Cleveland faces Kansas City tonight (Royals tied with Tigers for first in AL Central, Cleveland down 3 1/2)
cleveland KC on espn? did they lose a lawsuit or something? Weren’t they at the colisum last week?
I’ll watch that game if both George Brett and Willie Mays Hayes play.
I would have disliked this trade if the prospect was named Nolan Sunburn.
Nolan Sanburn anagrams to “anal born nuns”
That was the name of my band when I was at KU. I played bASS.
I think we should go back to talking about Linguica.
The A’s hitters are swinging like their bats are made of linguiça … nope, that’s not helping.
First of all, I hate the play-in game and was relieved the A’s didn’t have to deal with it during the past two years. (The only redeeming feature is that it places a premium on winning the division, which is a good thing.)
Play-in games are crapshoots, with the only variable favoring a team with a hot starter who’s available to pitch then.
Of the play-in opponents, the alternatives…
Detroit – worst option, Scherzer, with Price out of the pen, or Verlander.
Seattle – second worst. King Felix. Can get his pitch count up, and he’s less effective. But he owns the A’s.
Kansas City – second best. Good starters, if they’re available, but less scary against Lester
Cleveland – best option. Nobody as good as Lester. But they might be really hot.
Should we include the Yankees? Because yes please.
No, because the Yankees aren’t making it. And if they do, the season will end with a play-in loss to the Yankees. And the odes to Derek Jeter will never end.
I have too many bad memories from past Yankees series to want those bastards to make it in. I’ll take the Royals first and then the Indians. I don’t want Detroit or Seattle.
This is the wildcard scenario I’m rooting for.
Scars from the past still remain so I understand your point. But that’s exactly what would make hosting Jeter’s final game so delicious. The last laugh, so to speak.
I love the play-in game compared to the old system where the single wild card team was basically a fourth division winner. Your “only redeeming feature” is exactly the feature that makes it great.
But yeah, that’s going to be a gut-wrenching three and a half hours.
It’s awful. A one game playoff in baseball is a joke that ignores one of the primary features of the sport.
No. You win your division over the 162-game test, you’re in. You don’t win your division, fuck you, here’s a lottery ticket.
Ideally, if MLB expands to 32 teams, you have 8 4-team divisions, lots of intradivision play, no wild cards. That would probably lead to a lot of runaways though, which television wouldn’t like.
Divisions are arbitrary, and other sports don’t put much stock in them because it’s ridiculous (and unfair beyond any dispute) to do so. 8 four team divisions would be even worse, just a farce. There would be sub-.500 teams making the playoffs, while high 90-100 wins teams missed the playoffs. Complete joke.
The A’s have a good shot to have the second best record in MLB, which they also did in 2001 and did not win the division. That’s a pretty good showing in the 162 game test. Why “fuck you” because the team with the best record happens to be in the same division?
All that aside, no matter what structure they use, a one game playoff is an abomination in baseball.
Playing nearly 50% of your games against your own division and similar interleague schedules, completely different from the rest of the league, make it less arbitrary. I’d worry about a sub-.500 division winner, but you can get around that by requiring an x number of games over .500 to qualify else a wild card takes your place. But I don’t think we have anything to worry about wrt to a 32 team league any time soon.
I don’t expect the one game payoff to last after the yankees or red sox have the 2nd best record and are eliminated by the Royals or something.
My two proposals: 1) three best records in Divsion series, Division winner gets automatic bid in play in game (in this scenario one of texas or baltiomre is in the divisoin series and the other plays the tigers)
and or
the lower seed has to win 2 games. if they don’t their out. if high seed wins the first wildcard game, its over. If not, they play again. if the high seed wins, its over
I like the one and done scenario for the wild card because of the importance of the division, but I wouldn’t be opposed to a best of three with the top wild card being gifted a game to start.
I personally would end playoffs altogether if it was up to me.
Worrying about getting to the playoffs or being stressed while in the playoffs takes a lot of fun out of the season.
Most of me wants the A’s to score. Part of me wants to see how far they can take this.
No, I want them to score. They need it for their psyches.
Dunn is only 34? And he’s going to retire after the season? Is he independently wealthy?
Aren’t most baseball players independently wealthy? I mean if they’re saving their money and investing wisely?
Well, yes. But there’s wealthy and there’s wealthy. Most of these guys aren’t going to earn this kind of paycheck after retirement ever.
Who needs to? Give me three million bucks, I’ll make it last the rest of my life.
not with kids
So far it seems like they cost about a million bucks each. By the time they get to college I hope my wife’s second husband can pay for them.
He’s had pretty large contracts for a while though.
He’s made around $100M I think he’s doing OK.
Thanks, and go As.
Yeah, but taxes and whatnot.
I bet Donaldson could steal home, from first, on defensive indifference.
I am most interested to see how many innings the offense can go without scoring.
Seems like any time they get runners on, it’s “Now batting, Alberto Callaspo!!”
I can never keep up…do we hate Callaspo more than Sogard or Punto now? I like to keep it simple and just continue hating Barton.
Callaspo has been worse than Punto lately, because Punto has not been playing. So thanks, Punto.
AlbertOH-FOR-SEVENTY CallaspOH-FUCK-IT’S-THIS-GUY
Oh good, it’s Alberto fuckface Callaspo
Is there a reason Tyler Ladendorf isn’t playing instead of Callaspo?
He’s injured.
Seriously? He played on Friday. Good fuckin grief, everyone in this organization is injured. Billy Beane probably has a sprained deal-for-a-fucking-second-baseman muscle.
Pulled a hammy that night.
Vince is almost vocally hoping Trout hits a home run.
Oh good, Jason Hammel’s pitching tomorrow. Two days after that we face King Felix. We may never win again.
The A’s wouldn’t want to pitch a consistently effective left-handed starter on turn against the Mariners. They’re determined to save face on Hammel.
Maybe Billy has just decided fuck the postseason, let’s set a record for most spectacular collapse in baseball history.
That would explain all the ex Cubs and Red Sox.
Need to fire Melvin and hire the corpse of Gene Mauch to manage the final month.
I hear he comes cheap these days.
They’re not even close to that.
But still
Thanks, and go As.
Nice job by Chavez getting out of trouble.
Sogard, Parrino, and Fuld. A real murderer’s row.
naturally
Where’s Bo Porter to tell a guy to go back to shortstop when you need him?
Nope…I actually color my hair.
1949 – the last time the A’s got shut out three straight games by the same opponent
So we’re talking history here, maybe.
Laybe I’m Amazed…the new hit single from Saul McCartney. With lyrics by Ed.
Does the play-in game count as the playoffs? Or is it just a play-in game to get into the playoffs?
What kind of a T-shirt does that make?
We Own the Stress
Statistically, the wild card game is a postseason game. When you have games to resolve ties after Game 162, those are regular season games.
TB made a flag. I can only hope we won’t create one if we end up in the WC game.
All 27 Rays fans were pumped for that flag.
That flag is probably in play under the ground rules there.
To me it’s never counted as the playoffs.
I don’t care what they call it. A one-game playoff just determines the Wild Card team. The play-in game loser isn’t a real playoff team.
Just remember…it ain’t over til it’s over…and it’s never too early to start saving for retirement.
Mariners take the lead on an Ackley three-run homer. 4-3 Seattle.
I feel really bad for anybody who traveled from the Bay Area to Anaheim and made this their big out-of-town A’s trip for the year. Those trips can be tons of fun, but man…
“All the things that are right about baseball, though, are in Mike Trout” – Vince
And if that’s not enough, that followed on the heels of an inexplicable Derek Jeter comp.
he thinks he is a poet
It’s cute that Glen and Ray are talking as if the A’s have a chance to win the division.
New reality, guys. The goal is the play-in game.
It’s a great and glorious moment! A run! Angels fans boo.
[sarcastic clap]
So is Boyhood worth seeing?
Critics seem to really adore it. 99%/90% on RT.
Wife skeptical even though she liked the Before series, daughter doesn’t want to go.
I have to admit I’m not really very familiar with Linklater’s stuff in general. That said, from what friends have told me, the film is enjoyable and engaging.
Though it might have some aimless qualities given its subject.
Emphatic yes.
yeah
It was nice chatting with you folks. I’ll try and check back in once the playoffs start. Keep your heads up and go A’s!
Take it easy, Bed
Pour it on, Angels. IDGAF. Pain don’t hurt.
Moss needs to sit. I realize that the whole team needs to sit. But Moss seems the most hopeless of all. He needs a mental health/get your head together day.
Thank goodness. Have a nice flight, gentlemen.
Oh good, that will fix things.
It’s about fucking time.
Samardzija: You suck, Sogard.
Sogard: Moss sucks more than me.
Everybody: CALLASPO SUCKS!!
Everybody: FUCK YOU PUNTO!
And it’s a long meeting, Slusser just added.
I don’t know what can be said. Chewing them out seems counterproductive. A players’ meeting… whatever.
Sounds like Melvin lit into them a little.
I honestly don’t think it can be understated the impact a mild mannered person of authority can be when they explode on them.
As Melvin is not a hothead, is known as a calm player’s manager and has seemed very respected, it may have more of an impact.
Trying harder doesn’t get players out of hitting slumps, though.
Totally agree. But I also don’t think it’s necessarily “trying harder” that’s there problem. They all know what their individual problems are (Callapso!!!) and some even know the solution, but sometimes having it said from someone in the proper manner (an ass chewing) helps to set it in motion. Which isn’t to say it’s a guarantor.
Slusser has Melvin says the team should be “embarrassed” and feels bad for the fans.
They lollygag to first base…they lollygag the ball back to the infield…
Townsend and Roberts are still talking about the Angels, as if they have a chance to catch them. An all-out collapse and missing the play-in game is a more realistic possibility.
The low point of 14 years of passion for me. Trying not to shit so bad you all pass an Eeyore-pooper-scooper law. This feels like the end of this run. I really don’t have words to describe everything I feel right now, it’s like my life as an A’s fan is flashing before my eyes or something.
Melvin’s meeting. He did all the talking. Watched the game on TV, which he said was “different.” “It’s embarrassing. They all should be embarrassed.” He cut off the interview when asked about effort level. “I’m done.”
I have never heard or seen him so angry.
He sounds like… me.
LOVE that he could access the reality of the altered perspective of viewing on TV, as the majority of us do… and then voiced it from OUR point of view. NO ONE BREATHING on this Earth I’d rather have as our manager, NO ONE ALIVE.
I kind of figured today would be his last straw. Up until now there was a chance to continue to squeak their way into a better position. But dropping 5 games out and the whole lot of suck changes everything for this team. I think first place is still possible, but no way that happens without this team getting their shit together and more. Melvin getting tossed and having to watch this shit from the clubhouse, listen to the commentary, it sort of sets things in an external perspective. *This* had better be rock bottom. Otherwise their season is done.
As they say in New Orleans, “Yeah, you right.”
This feels like the lowpoint of the whole time I’ve been into this, 14 years. I dunno what to say except I’m not giving up.
Totally understandable. Glad you’re not giving up. Though man is it difficult to deal with right now.
Mariners win, cut the deficit behind the A’s and Tigers.
I’m still not worried about the A’s falling behind the Mariners and the Tigers and the Royals (or the Indians). I would like to avoid playing the Wild Card game on the road.
So would I, given their current inability to win at all on the road. But I’m not assuming anything – including making the play-in game at all. Many teams have collapsed, and the A’s current injuries have them quite vulnerable.
If they play like they have the last two weeks, they’re toast.
I’m ok with not sitting in the stadium watching them them lose 2-0…
WHUT
I’ve never heard of such a thing.
I don’t know if Davis was way out of line, or if the A’s were foolish to lodge a complaint about an umpire making a face when he was going to be calling balls and strikes today.
Unprofessional piece of shit.
Thanks, and go As.
ummmm…wtf???
Clearly not reprimanded enough. What a POS.
How can the league reprimand him and let him call Balls and Strikes the next day? I am SHOCKED that a series of “judgement calls” went against us.
One of the first rules in a professional environment is “don’t be flippant”.
Ew
It’s pretty bad when Scioscia is just being polite.
I’m reading what Gomes said Dunn told him, and I am encouraged. This might turn out to be just the last minute thing this needs. No one currently breathing wants to play in October more than that guy, NO ONE. Longest tenured dude w/no playoff games. If Moss sees more fastballs again behind this guy, it might revert to sanity and work out. There is some shred of hope, anyways.
I can’t help but have this deepseated feeling that this is all in the script, this epic tire fire of August. Like the part of Moneyball the First where the sportstalkers are all calling for Beane’s head and burying the team. It feels like that, anyway. Maybe I’m just reaching and we are amidst the most heartbreaking collapse of our lifetimes, I “dunno”. Maybe Dunn will.
I keep thinking that. There is always the part of the movie where it all falls apart. If we had just kept cruising through Aug-Oct it would be a pretty boring story. This is where they have the montage where Moss talks at himself in the mirror, Norris does something different to his hair, Collapso retires for the good of the team (its my story DAMMIT!). And then they start to turn it around (“here we go again in Oakland! oh MYYYYY!”)
Of course I also know that life isnt a movie and I could be whistling in the graveyard. But what am I gonna do, start flashing my cell phone and put a fucking fish hat on my head? As for me and my family, we are with the A’s. (about to take it back to 2012)
#canwin #ourbad #allin #couldwemakeadealtonighttogetTravisbackfromKorea?
It does make for a good second act moment leading into third act and the climax. Running away with it all without a real low lacks that drama.
I don’t want drama, I want 162 games of domination and then a bunch of sweeps in the playoffs
Thanks, and go As.
can’t have that… even the rich teams don’t get near that
I went 173-0 in an MLB 2005 season once. It felt satisfying and right and as it should be.
then again, there is the year we went 159-3 and lost to the Giants in the World Series. That was painful.
rabbit rabbit.
If you can’t handle any more A’s baseball today, the River Cats and Reno Aces go at it at 1:05 at Raley Field in Game 144 of 144 of the regular season. The Aces lead the Pacific Northern Division by one game, but head-to-head record resolves a first place tie and the River Cats would get the tiebreaker, so it’s a winner-take-all game. I’m thinking Lowrie will be in Oakland today after going 1-for-5 last night in Sacramento, but the River Cats still can rely on Daric Barton’s veteran leadership in this critical game. Arnold Leon starts the decider for Sacramento. Potentially of course it is the River Cats’ final game as an Oakland affiliate.
Happy Nick Punto’s option may not vest day everyone.
happy will be “Won’t” day
Lowrie and Dunn in the lineup. Fernando Rodriguez, Bryan Anderson, and Billy Burns also added to the roster.
Does anyone want my tickets for today’s game? FK season tix, 123/15/10-11. My entire family is descending on the house, and I’ve spent most of the weekend out of the house.
As much as I’d love to see Dunn’s debut and Lowrie’s return (and kick of September on a winning note) I’m going to have to let Korach and Cotroneo guide my imagery of the experience.
If so, please email me at mthanawala (g mail).
The Orioles broadcast is going deep on Melvin’s mad-as-hell-not-going-to-take-it-anymore speech.
Their opinion: Cespedes trade bad.
My opinion: Stick to east coast baseball assholes who know jack shit about the west.
well, when that is the only name you know on a team even though its your job to broadcast about baseball, that’s the kind of horse shit analysis you give.