Most of the rain has moved out of the Windy City. The forecast calls for a cloudy night with a 50% chance of Punto. There’s a 0% chance of Jaso, who’s being sent back to Oakland after not passing his concussion tests.
It’s been one full month, Aug. 10 thru Sept. 9, with back-to-back wins in only one instance, against the Angels at the Coliseum. It would be a smart idea to accomplish that a few more times in these final three weeks, starting tonight.
RHP Chris Bassitt makes his second career start for the Robin Venturas. He faces:
Coco CF, Fuld LF, Donaldson 3B, Dunn DH, Reddick RF, Norris C, Moss 1B, Lowrie SS, Sogard 2B. Samardzija P.
Bassitt? Release the hounds.
Barely knew it.
“if you don’t like it you can bassitt.”
similar to hardly knew ‘er, it’s a commonplace between me and mrs AV. started with a song that got stuck in my head once “if you don’t like it you can shove it,” which i kept singing, when we were on the bridge to benicia and one of us said, “if you don’t like it you can crockett.”
other manifestations:
if you don’t’ like it you can it’s it.
if you don’t like it you can rocket.
if you don’t like it you can chocolate.
Groan.
Google Image Search doesn’t seem to have any images of a bassett hound being eaten by a shark. I am disappoint.
the trial that I am currently in (opened today) has a part where the K-9 took down the client.
I can.not.wait. to ask a question beginning, “after you released the hound…”
Police brutality!!!
I had to get up and change one of the newsroom TVs from previewing the POTUS to the game, so I could check out Sam Fuld’s mustache. It’s worse than I expected.
“grimy”
this akron talk is a little tired.
Wow. Moss has just completely pumpkined, hasn’t he. I just hope he has a switch flip to good the way Sogard did.
Has FK stopped caring?
Oh. Um… DUNN!
We’ve been hurt.
I think I was done in the beginning of August. I gave up on the season and I’ve started back with my music/concert obsession. FK the A’s.
Closing in, yes.
I wish I could. It’s a sickness.
Vince: No score, that may be about to change, groundball to ramirez, to second for one and on to first for 2
I would rather listen to vince that Glen
Either of them is better than Hawk.
I was in the car and stuck with the White Sox radio guys on XM most of the last two games. Blab blab blab ball outside blab blab my golf game blab blab. It gives you a new appreciation for Vince, not to mention Ken.
Glen is completely generic, but he performs the TV pxp function adequately. Vince is identifiable as an individual, but he sometimes fails to meet the rudiments of his job description. Not sure I have a preference, though I’m on board with your idea of having Vince take Glen’s job.
Donaldson’s dog is pretty cute. Also, pre-arb guys have normal looking apartments.
not exactly mtv cribs
I skimmed through without sound. The dog is certainly much cuter than a Bassitt.
Did they say where that apt was? It had the generic look I associate with the all the Jack London Square condos built within the last 10 years.
Random question for the group: if a not-wealthy local pro athlete asked you where he should look for condo/rental housing, where would you recommend? I was thinking Jack London Square or Lake Merritt.
Coliseum City
define not-wealthy.
The league minimum in MLS is $50K/year
Thanks, and go As.
Big three sport, but not guaranteed a league minimum roster spot for a full year.
If its my taste sure, city living is the life for me.
The sounds doesn’t add much. It doesn’t say where it is, but I was thinking maybe Emeryville?
hsa that look. could be there. Or if in SF SOMA
It looks very similar to all the live-(not really)work lofts I can see from my office window in the Northeast Mission Industrial Zone.
the flats
Ed pointed out your building on a trip to the grocery store once. He normally points out jails.
:)
I have been in a lot of jails
I hear Joliet serves a wicked pepper steak on Thursdays.
The jail has more windows, in SF anyhow.
Me: “What’s that building next to the ferry? It was nice.”
Ed: “San Quentin.”
Me: “oh.”
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright!
not as nice inside
Are you thinking of the Marin Civic Center?
Not as nice on the inside
No, it’s about as ugly on the inside as it is on the outside.
No, I knew about that one, but could have sworn he designed SQ too. You and Google have now corrected my error.
SQ looks almost exactly like Alcatraz on the inside.
Some of the nicest real estate in the bay area.
Froze the video, did a quick GSV trip near AT&T Park, I think this may be the building (355 Berry):
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Creeper.
Impressive work!
So I need to find a guy by tuesday, do you work at court appointed rates?
with the sound on he talk about the art scene being better than at hom in the south, and city iliving in san francisco [quickly adding] oakland is much different (or some reasonable facsimile.
I think a lot of the players live in those new buildings near AT&T Park; there have been several media references to “so-and-so walks to the game” when the A’s play over there. The ones who prefer the suburbs are in San Ramon or Pleasanton.
I feel like there is a lot of Walnut Creek as far as baseball players go
Thanks, and go As.
Can the White Sox start playing terrible defense again?
Chill the F out, Josh.
Reddick, Donaldson, or NowBodhi?
Yes.
heat the fuck up, dial C for concicus…! concucisppenci…! cpeunceppconsupcspicou…! i mean lust.
But I left my blankets at home!
Speaking of:
Good. That’s the sort of thing that needs to be done. Now do it for the rest of the team. Headcases the lot of them.
‘eadcase here, i’ve got some lunch.
LOL haven’t seen someone get picked off that badly since high school.
You haven’t been watching many A’s games then.
this inning…This inning is taking a long time.
What did Ted Robinson say to get suspended?
Huh, first I’ve heard of it, but apparently something insensitive about domestic violence.
I have a burning OT question for you.
You’re the nurse, isn’t the answer always penicillin?
I’m allergic to many types of antibiotics.
Can you try a topical ointment
Thanks, and go As.
Did it work for you?
wanna check?
Thanks, and go As.
Strangest line yet.
basically he said the wife (fiance then?) was “pathetic” for goign through with the marriage, etc
pretty much totally ignoring that abused/battered/correct term here women tend to almost exhibit a stockholm sydrome type of thing
i know i’m not describing it right (blame rum) but he was pretty much acting like an insensitive prick and if there’s one thing I DO know it’s how to act like that
Thanks, and go As.
Ugh.
I wish every employer would take the approach of suspending people for publicly saying that shit. Half of Twitter would be unemployed right now.
Not the best time to say this, obviously, but I’ve always liked Ted Robinson as a play by play guy. Unspectacular but solid, in multiple sports, adept at delivering the basic info without getting in the way.
He’s pretty good. I’ve only heard him do football and tennis. Does he do other stuff?
Used to do Giants, then left for the Mets I think.
Yeah, don’t know if he has a regular baseball gig now, but he always picks up some TV or radio NCAA hoops games, Pac 10 football, and any Olympic sport that needs announcing. I seem to remember him doing diving broadcasts last time.
Did some A’s television work in the 80s. Was the first successor to Bill King on Warriors radio.
There’s a Storify of it and some of the reax on Twitter here.
Wow. What an ass.
Sounds like common ignorance more than deliberate assholery. Glad he got a suspension and sensitively training for those comments, but I will take the fact that the Pac-12 Network reacted that way as a small positive sign of changing cultural ethos, at least out here.
And his apology is an actual apology.
Pfft. He didn’t even say whether he’s sorry if I’m offended!
It usually is common ignorance more than deliberate assholery. But there’s no way this guy never heard about domestic violence and the way it impacts victims before. He’s been told all these things in the past and just didn’t bother including them in his “These Are The Things I Know Now” file.
Upon further review, nope, it’s full assholery. He doesn’t give a shit about DV victims.
And suspended.
Well, on the bright side, if KNBR gets rid of him, I’m sure 95.7 The Lame will be glad to offer him a spot alongside Aubrey Huff and Damon Bruce.
Today in Women’s Issues, with your hosts Damon Bruce, Ted Robinson, and Greg Papa
Damon Bruce is already ripping the suspension, naturally.
Jim Johnson is appearing in the Tigers royals game that is 2-0 royals?
wow
Probably not for long.
one batter, K
Was that a “duck snort”? I don’t know what a “duck snort” is.
Ventura looks like a slob in that oversized sweatshirt. Have some self respect, man.
don’t apologize to Jordan, vince, apologize to me
still, some bad luck with good defense for the A’s
Vince just doesn’t seem to have total command of English. He thinks he does, but he says things like “the a’s offense is just not predictable. It is predicable. It sucks. its predicable. its consistent. Its shitty.
Bassit, according to vince, aquitted himself. but added no descriptor.
again, I now prefer him to glen, but I wish he would stop trying to use words he doesn’t know
You’re looking at it the wrong way. He is telling you deep, next-level shit about the nature of life, reality, the world. He is a philosopher and a poet.
Wow, holy shit, Wash.
Wow.
There was a part of me that thought it might be something like that, or domestic violence, but I didn’t want to think it so I didn’t say anything. I felt confident it wasn’t drugs so I decided it must be an illness. Thanks for proving me wrong/right, Wash.
A few innings back Glen observed that Seattle drew around 15K yesterday (Felix game) and 11K tonight. So it’s not just us.
You could cut the apathy in here with a knife.
1-0 game which will last 3:30. The mind does tend to wander.
Well, this inning will refocus our wrath.
much like the A’s infield
Just watching with morbid curiosity now.
Ha!
That’s about where I’m at too. This team is just awful. We shouldn’t even be sniffing the playoffs right now we’ve been so fucking shitty.
Gregerson’s crew FSU’d.
He better not blow it, I think his friends are about half the crowd.
Infielders making him get 5 outs so it will be more impressive.
He didn’t
…..
sigh
We just need the White Sox to outsuck the A’s here.
looks like i showed up at the perfect moment.
Don’t start hugging each other yet, people.
Maybe if we could score more than one run off of Fred Basset this wouldn’t be so tense.
That dog don’t hunt.
Inevitable result is inevitable.
naturally
“Dan Otero is up throwing in the bullpen…” and the rest of us are throwing up.
Of course. Why should I think the A’s could string 2 wins out of 3 against a team on a 4-14 run? Well at least we face Sale tomorrow.
Fucking infuriating.
Back to back to back HRS
We’ve scaled back expectations from six run mojo to three run mojo.
Ha. Win two games in a row? Unpossible!
I’ve thought all along the A’s would bounce back in the last two weeks, survive the wild card game and put on a strong performance in postseason.
Until that inning.
This is why I really can’t shake the feeling that the A’s are now a bad team.
That was awful.
The supposedly slick-fielding second baseman doesn’t field a makeable ground ball.
But no, it doesn’t matter. A double play ball! Oops. Freiman throws it into left field. Two men on.
Passed ball, or whatever they called it.
Gregerson forced to get five outs, only gets four.
Maybe they’ll pull it out in the 9th. But sorry, this isn’t a good team anymore.
I don’t get it. That’s the last five losses all by 1 run. All but 1 of which we had a lead in…..
6
7
I don’t know which is worse, the complete bed-shitting in Anaheim, or all the totally winnable close games lost since then.
Yes.
Everything is worse. Everything is worst.
Not with a bang, really not even with a whimper.
More like a slide whistle.
Like an extended, squeaky fart.
The kind you accidentally let rip in the middle of a hot night right into a fan that blows it right back into your face. Or so I hear.
And at the end of said fart, you find it had a lump in it.
That’s no fart, that’s a shart station.
lol
Sad, sad loss.
fuckit
if you don’t like it you can fuckit!
Remarkable how this team has the ability to pull defeat from the jaws of victory. Quite the exact opposite of 2012.
Remember 5 minutes ago, when we were winning?
Good times
Great pitching is wasted on this team. Samardzija and Gregerson are owed apologies. Can’t hit. Can’t field. Choke job.
Gregerson made one bad pitch after already getting five outs in the inning. Samardzija made none, that I can recall. Absurd to lose that game.
Gregerson made the bad pitch long after he should have been sitting in the dugout. He didn’t have to get four outs. He needed five. And he was in trouble because of the passed ball and the bases loaded, making it tough for him to throw pitches in the dirt.
I don’t dislike the individuals on the team. They seem like nice guys. But they’re just so unrelentingly awful. They deserve every one of these losses.
I’m surprised he’s hung in there this long.
For our next home game, fans should show up wearing green and gold chokers around their necks.
Three errors by infielders. And Sogard was one of them, even though he wasn’t charged with an error.
What part of “all-in” involves not getting a competent middle infielder?
I feel like this is an idea I’ve heard before
Thanks, and go As.
Not claiming many original thoughts.
Know what? I’m done with this team at this point. I’m usually one of the more “look for the positives” fans around and I know everyone struggles from time to time out there, but this has turned into a monumental collapse I have no more patience for. I’m sick and tired of the offense being so shitty that there is no margin for error whatsoever from anyone on the mound or in the field. The way I’m feeling about them right now, they’re going to have to get to and win the wild card game for me to even watch another game this season. I’m that fed up right now.
Can’t really blame you. It’s not fun right now.
I’ve also kind of got the whole “sell the house and move” thing going on, so yeah.
I’m very intentionally not emotionally attached to wins or losses anymore.
However, I have a feeling they’re going to get hot the last week, claw their way back into the Wild Card game, and win it.
After that, things are gonna get silly.
From your keyboard to the baseball deities’ organs of understanding (I’m sure they have something more sophisticated than ears).
What a battle of suck this weekend’s series at Safeco Field is shaping up to be.
I have all the faith in the world the A’s can out-suck someone right now. We’re about to lose 3 of 4 to a 90-loss team who had lost 10 of their past 14 with our top 4 pitchers.
BP’s Win Probability Hamster says the chances of a wild card spot as of this morning are: A’s 94.9%, Mariners 33.6%. Let’s give that 72 hours worth of Chris Sale, Jason Hammel and Felix Hernandez and see how it looks on Sunday morning.
Season for Sale, get your Season for Sale…
Season Sure to Die!
General Manager Negligent!
There’s a Sale at Penny’s!
94.4% yesterday.
98.5% today.
You know what’s crazy? I actually think we’re going to win today. Freiman is going to atone for his sin somehow.
I like that storyline.
It’s either that or he’s going to self-immolate with shame.
I like that storyline.
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Leviticus 16:
From the Oaklandish community Melvin is to take two second basemen for a sin offering and a reliever for a burnt offering. . . Then he is to take the two second basemen and present them before the WOLFE at the entrance to the Field of O.co. He is to CAST LOTS for the two goats — one lot for the WOLFE and the other for the scapegoat. Melvin shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the WOLFE and sacrifice it for a sin offering. But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the WOLFE to be used for making atonement by sending it into the Nation of Athletics as a scapegoat . . .
alright. who’s gonna 146 us?
grumble. FKn FKers making me FKn work…
Is it a Dr K if I know I’m doing it? And does it do anything??
No. And No. In fact, you make thing worse by doing it intentionally.
I dont think that’s possible. So good thing I was just asking a question.