2 crap things that taste less crappy together..got it.
He wanted to go out of his way to say Gergerson blew the game last night. SuSlu didnt get into the why but told him he did his job. Russo then spends like 3-4 minutes after she is off screen saying “didnt he give up the single..i thought he gave up the single. yeah he gave up the single.”
It made me immediately go and take a nap for like 2 hrs.
He’s loud, he has a terrible voice, and he is invariably ill informed about the topic on which he blusters. And yet, when you put him in the studio with Francesca, and he was this little gnat buzzing around and taking the piss out of that giagantic pompous windbag, it just worked.
The weirdest thing about Russo is that he is super New York, yet he roots for the Giants. I guess his family stuck with them after they moved west or something. That made him one of the few people on the radio in New York that wasn’t completely in the bag for the Yankees, so I appreciated him a little bit more for that.
Feels like the hardest run of bad luck. The kind of bad luck where you can picture the worst-case scenario and it will find a way to happen. That insidious, self-fulfilling prophecy, writing “hate” on the side of the water bottle kind of bad luck that gives ominous weight to cliches like “you make your own luck.” The tangible kind of bad luck that emanates from every pore in the luck-cursed stadium. That Jim Johnson luck.
But here’s another cliche about luck: luck always changes. And maybe saying the word luck this many times in a post can start that!
I actually am now ready for the slegnA to win out. I hope we can take 1 or 2 from them, but I really dont want them to collapse. They need to stay red hot through the end of the regular season. They have clearly taken our traditional role and I want them to keep it up right to their ALDS game 5 loss. Meanwhile we can be that team that careens into the playoffs and then makes noise.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
So I don’t recall us losing on a balk this year. How about fan interference costing us something? What about not getting out of the way of HBP getting called a ball instead?
We can come up with some creative ways to lose by a run, can’t we?
The Eeyorism and sense of dread that the team and fans feel right now is totally cockblocking the win juices from flowing.
Using group binding spells to block those energies has too many unwanted residual effects on the casters and castees.
However, a targeted shielding spell specifically cast on the Ma (the spacetime between the ball leaving the pitcher’s fingers and hitting the bat or strike zone) could have the same core effect without the pesky side effects.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I am getting some money to make sure whatever Oct plans I can come up with are possible.
It makes me upset and sad to hate. I have been in a spiral for about a month with this shit. I’m done I hope. I’m watching every game I can, and I will joke about good and bad. I would have done that in 2010 and 2011 when we were bad and were not close to winning. I can do it now when every game we are about 1 play from it.
To add to the 2010 vibe..”What? Is Billy’s soccer team doing real good so he cant be bothered to figure out what we need???”
Among the other hopes and dreams that’ll be ruined if the A’s complete the Full Collapso are my plans to have my brother and brother-in-law both fly out for the World Series.
Despair and gnashing of teeth notwithstanding, the absolute truth is that the A’s could lose every one of their remaining games and I would still badly miss baseball as soon as the season was over.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
As it happened, I was lunching with hopeful future Warrior James Michael McAdoo and he was keeping an eye on this gamecast while I tracked the A’s game. Guess which one of us was happier?
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Incredibly nice guy, easy to talk with. He’s friends with my brother from Virginia Beach. He’s working hard at the practice facility every day, says it seems like the Warriors like him and that there could be a power forward roster spot open, but hard to know what the W’s brass thinks. If he doesn’t make the opening roster he’ll probably go to the Santa Cruz D-League team.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I hope he’s working on his corner 3s. If he can hit those and defend power forwards, he’ll have a spot on this team. Especially if that other Tar Heel we have doesn’t bounce back.
If we’re going to build our offense around guys like that, though, it seems like we need to push the issue more. Fuld running in the ninth would have been especially nice.
So the way I see it, there’s a HUGE *IF* for us making the playoffs. Hell, we could be completely out of it by week’s end. BUT, if we DO make the playoffs (somehow) and do survive the play-in game (someway), it’s World Series or Bust… literally. Cause, you know, if we don’t win it all, it’ll have been a bust.
The thing that sucks though is that for most fans, the thing that facilitates being a fan (caring about how a team does) is also the same exact thing that makes it miserable to be a fan (caring about how a team does).
As crazy as this may sound, I think we need to re-engineer sports so that most teams win most of the time.
Add up the aggregate records of the teams in the MLB markets, and they add up to .500. It’s a damned shame that the biggest cities in our country have to suffer so many losses. Those losses should be borne on the backs of small- market (or better yet) no-market teams. I say we expand MLB to 40 teams, but make the 10 expansion teams play 100% road games and ban them from the draft and free agent markets. Plus, allow the 30 “real” teams to draft players from the “shadow 10” at the end of every season, to keep the road teams shitty. With a schedule like that, each team will have 100 home games rather than 81, and almost all the terrestrial-based teams will play better than .500 ball.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
College football has done just what you are suggesting. I believe there are 38 bowl games this year, 128 teams in FBS, and 6 wins needed to qualify for a bowl game. So how do you ensure that 76 of 128 teams get 6 wins, when everybody plays a 12-game schedule? By scheduling games against the undermanned non-FBS teams! Cal beat up on Sacramento State this past week, so if they go 5-6 in their other 11 games, they are bowl-eligible.
But think of how awesome it would be once a decade or so when one of those teams actually makes the playoffs!
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
My fantasy team was geared up for a strong playoffs run. Stanton and Davis providing the dingers, Altuve/Posey the OBP, and some solid pitching to pip one or two categories.
Since bad things come in threes, I’m hoping who ever else gets knocked out can come back ok next year.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
I’m cherry picking the endpoints, but over the last 10 games, the A’s have a +8 run differential but are 3-7. They are putting on a clinic in how to underperform Pythag.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Processed food’s a bitch. I’m still addicted to it.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Why run differential isn’t everything: Blowouts exist.
Maybe we need a stat called NBRD… Non-Blowout Run Differential.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I’m hoping it’ll be Dressendorfer, ‘cuz that’s a LOT of letters for the back of one jersey!
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
If we ignore them, they can’t hurt us.
oh shit. company! [stops farting]
Company, you say?
(It still smells funny in here.)
That’s because of me. I’m not sorry. At all.
Could you at least point the fan the other way?
No.
Could we just start games in the fourth inning? We know the A’s aren’t going to do anything good before then anyways.
5th?
Sure, play 5 through 7, call it a day.
Playing hooky today and it is a day of terrible firsts:
-People really listened to Chris Russo? I caught 10 minutes of his show on MLB to her the Slustress and he is AWFUL. Just loud and stupid.
-People listen to Hawk? Man I miss me some Glen and Shitty.
Chris Russo is terrible on his own, but together with Mike Francesca he was…still terrible, but in a good way. You’ll have to take my word for it.
2 crap things that taste less crappy together..got it.
He wanted to go out of his way to say Gergerson blew the game last night. SuSlu didnt get into the why but told him he did his job. Russo then spends like 3-4 minutes after she is off screen saying “didnt he give up the single..i thought he gave up the single. yeah he gave up the single.”
It made me immediately go and take a nap for like 2 hrs.
General idiocy like that just can’t be helped.
He’s loud, he has a terrible voice, and he is invariably ill informed about the topic on which he blusters. And yet, when you put him in the studio with Francesca, and he was this little gnat buzzing around and taking the piss out of that giagantic pompous windbag, it just worked.
The weirdest thing about Russo is that he is super New York, yet he roots for the Giants. I guess his family stuck with them after they moved west or something. That made him one of the few people on the radio in New York that wasn’t completely in the bag for the Yankees, so I appreciated him a little bit more for that.
Is it possible this game will never end because no one can score?
Eventually a statue will come to life and end the game.
We have the power to freeze
timethe playoff race!It look 3 days for those two teams finish that game in Japan. We’re professionals, I say they can make it last a full week at the least.
A cricket test match, just what Ed is dying for.
the A’s would never score any runs
I see you’re saving your redemption for later, Fries.
Collapso can’t even sit with the bat on his shoulder for the good of the team for 3 pitches.
Gotta get that bat in the lineup tho.
I think they all need to shave all of their body hair. The complete opposite of what anyone else would do for a playoff run .
Agreed.
coco shoulda ran into that fielder on the base path and called for interference.
Thanks for bringing that up.
Somebody call the coroner please.
The body is covered in Semien.
that’s dial c’s buddy. good going dial c. jerk.
I did all my jinxing on Tuesday
I think I have officially moved into acceptance.
would you trade 2 denials for that acceptance? (i’m still bargaining.)
At least you weren’t angry when you asked, I wouldnt know what the F to do then.
I’m delaying acceptance with a pungent mixture of willful ignorance, irrational hope, and old fashioned stubbornness
I swear we have had about 20 balls end up 5 ft from the wall and our opposition has had 25 5 feet over it.
Feels like the hardest run of bad luck. The kind of bad luck where you can picture the worst-case scenario and it will find a way to happen. That insidious, self-fulfilling prophecy, writing “hate” on the side of the water bottle kind of bad luck that gives ominous weight to cliches like “you make your own luck.” The tangible kind of bad luck that emanates from every pore in the luck-cursed stadium. That Jim Johnson luck.
But here’s another cliche about luck: luck always changes. And maybe saying the word luck this many times in a post can start that!
I actually am now ready for the slegnA to win out. I hope we can take 1 or 2 from them, but I really dont want them to collapse. They need to stay red hot through the end of the regular season. They have clearly taken our traditional role and I want them to keep it up right to their ALDS game 5 loss. Meanwhile we can be that team that careens into the playoffs and then makes noise.
Interesting perspective…
We’ve entered a mirror universe.
I want slegnA to win now so they don’t care during the matchup later this month.
A fist fight. They need to have a fight. Preferably a pitcher going off and then the whole team starts to brawl. Maybe right after the shaving.
Razor fight!
tried it. pitcher on DL. chair won.
It feels like we’ve been in a 45-day Vince Inning.
Just think how awesome it’ll be when this all turns out to have been a bad dream
Good morning!
We awake to find out that the A’s were contracted in 1999.
Effing GBA…
Based on the comments I was expecting the score to be 10 – 0. But with this team, 1 – 0 seems about the same.
Well the A’s were being one hit too. But not any more!
“Not really known for his defense” Thanks Hawk. But we really need that bat…
i’m sad the lola glaudini looking chick behind right handed batters is done eating her nachos.
So I don’t recall us losing on a balk this year. How about fan interference costing us something? What about not getting out of the way of HBP getting called a ball instead?
We can come up with some creative ways to lose by a run, can’t we?
do believe there was one fan interference in reddick’s area earlier in the year.
Well that would explain the redness.
The Eeyorism and sense of dread that the team and fans feel right now is totally cockblocking the win juices from flowing.
Using group binding spells to block those energies has too many unwanted residual effects on the casters and castees.
However, a targeted shielding spell specifically cast on the Ma (the spacetime between the ball leaving the pitcher’s fingers and hitting the bat or strike zone) could have the same core effect without the pesky side effects.
Dont worry guys-Alberto is about to put the team on his back.
Where does he plan on taking us? Third place?
Third place is almost within his range, but not quite yet.
Callaspo has some sort of range?
Oh sure. Comedy, tragedy…he can run the gamut.
Callaspo dives, but the joke lands just short!
I’m not watching. Is there a reason Burns hasn’t even attempted to steal in this situation?
he knew callaspo’d walk.
There were a lot of pickoff attempts?
come on, coco. come on.
I could have sworn Gameday had Sale’s ERA at 1.99 and it now says 2.06. Is it a sign?
And now it’s back to 1.99.
At least he’s at 110 pitches
A different pitcher to face the heart of our lineup. It can’t be bad. We have gone through this pattern with this guy before.
Our lineup has a heart? Is it beating?
badly needed:
I was going to, but I am so tired of feeling negative. I am going to try to leave those in my mind.
Dont know if I will succeed but will try.
3.5% sales tax.
LET’S GO
OR NOT. WHATEVER.
LNP gonna give us TWTW.
Calling a ball in the gap, LNP re-tears the hammy rounding third.
You can put it on the board: This is embarrassing.
Ah, the hell with it. I give up.
It’s no longer just an El Foldo, it’s become a Death Spiral.
Blah, I thought my coroner comment at 12:32 was more deserving because it came trailing 1-0 in the 6th, not after the final out.
Maybe all the other teams will also stop winning. Then we would make the playoffs!
Neat
Our run differential remains boss though.
one-run difference remains loss though.
I’m still keeping my October calendar open, I don’t care what you all say.
zombie A’s will be a big hit at halloween parties.
The Walking Dead does come back in October.
Woohoo!!!
I am getting some money to make sure whatever Oct plans I can come up with are possible.
It makes me upset and sad to hate. I have been in a spiral for about a month with this shit. I’m done I hope. I’m watching every game I can, and I will joke about good and bad. I would have done that in 2010 and 2011 when we were bad and were not close to winning. I can do it now when every game we are about 1 play from it.
To add to the 2010 vibe..”What? Is Billy’s soccer team doing real good so he cant be bothered to figure out what we need???”
You FKers make it okay.
6-11-9 for a 1.038 pts/game avg. in a real league, they’d be fighting relegation. but hey, at least they’re not chivas USA.
Among the other hopes and dreams that’ll be ruined if the A’s complete the Full Collapso are my plans to have my brother and brother-in-law both fly out for the World Series.
Despair and gnashing of teeth notwithstanding, the absolute truth is that the A’s could lose every one of their remaining games and I would still badly miss baseball as soon as the season was over.
Yup.
sheeeeeeeit. i miss baseball already.
gp
Oh look. We lost.
*anxiously waits to see who will win the Golden Eeyore*
Heh heh. I’ve been enjoying the Golden Eeyore a lot.
lithuania is never gonna pull this out. NEVER!
Big game for Klay, looks like.
As it happened, I was lunching with hopeful future Warrior James Michael McAdoo and he was keeping an eye on this gamecast while I tracked the A’s game. Guess which one of us was happier?
Nice! What’s the scouting report on him?
he’ll be paying $2.5–3K rent on a bright, modern 1 bedroom with a big living room.
Incredibly nice guy, easy to talk with. He’s friends with my brother from Virginia Beach. He’s working hard at the practice facility every day, says it seems like the Warriors like him and that there could be a power forward roster spot open, but hard to know what the W’s brass thinks. If he doesn’t make the opening roster he’ll probably go to the Santa Cruz D-League team.
I hope he’s working on his corner 3s. If he can hit those and defend power forwards, he’ll have a spot on this team. Especially if that other Tar Heel we have doesn’t bounce back.
You just used the word ‘win’ without the words ‘never’ and ‘again’, so I think that disqualifies you
I’ll never win one in this crowd. You could split dmoas in half and have two eeyores.
A real Rickey of Eeyoring
Besides, why would you want to win? Billy has apparently decided that winning is uncool, and we know he’s always ahead of the curve
Um… tagline?
Awesome line.
At least someone will be doing some winning around here.
Hey, the A’s won today. At outsucking!!!
So we had three innings with the leadoff man on. The three runners were Crisp, Burns, and Fuld. And we attempted to steal exactly 0 times. Sweet.
Well, lefty starter. And the league is 4 SB – 4 CS against him this year. (19-2 last year. I have no idea what the difference is.)
If we’re going to build our offense around guys like that, though, it seems like we need to push the issue more. Fuld running in the ninth would have been especially nice.
So the way I see it, there’s a HUGE *IF* for us making the playoffs. Hell, we could be completely out of it by week’s end. BUT, if we DO make the playoffs (somehow) and do survive the play-in game (someway), it’s World Series or Bust… literally. Cause, you know, if we don’t win it all, it’ll have been a bust.
[Puts away Captain Obvious Cap]
The thing that sucks though is that for most fans, the thing that facilitates being a fan (caring about how a team does) is also the same exact thing that makes it miserable to be a fan (caring about how a team does).
As crazy as this may sound, I think we need to re-engineer sports so that most teams win most of the time.
Add up the aggregate records of the teams in the MLB markets, and they add up to .500. It’s a damned shame that the biggest cities in our country have to suffer so many losses. Those losses should be borne on the backs of small- market (or better yet) no-market teams. I say we expand MLB to 40 teams, but make the 10 expansion teams play 100% road games and ban them from the draft and free agent markets. Plus, allow the 30 “real” teams to draft players from the “shadow 10” at the end of every season, to keep the road teams shitty. With a schedule like that, each team will have 100 home games rather than 81, and almost all the terrestrial-based teams will play better than .500 ball.
That kind of setup is guaranteed to result in Communist infiltration. Right GM?
That and recalls, yes.
Alternate proposal: Teams from the City of Boston lose 100% of their games, allowing everyone else to have winning records.
That’s not fair. Add teams for NY, SF, LA, and Texas to that as well.
College football has done just what you are suggesting. I believe there are 38 bowl games this year, 128 teams in FBS, and 6 wins needed to qualify for a bowl game. So how do you ensure that 76 of 128 teams get 6 wins, when everybody plays a 12-game schedule? By scheduling games against the undermanned non-FBS teams! Cal beat up on Sacramento State this past week, so if they go 5-6 in their other 11 games, they are bowl-eligible.
Yeah, but we’d still be swept by those 10 shitty expansion Washington Generals teams right now. And it would feel even worse.
But think of how awesome it would be once a decade or so when one of those teams actually makes the playoffs!
I just tracked the game. Wasn’t expecting much. Got a better start than expected. That’s about all.
I feel like Lounging.
Yikes. Stanton was hit in the face. Headley was hit in the mouth. And CY
2524 hit a walkoff 3 run homer down 2 in the 9th.You sure it didn’t go 2 feet foul?
less than that
Not for the Yankees.
I miss last year, when CY25’s terribleness/unluckiness was basically the extent of our problems.
My fantasy team was geared up for a strong playoffs run. Stanton and Davis providing the dingers, Altuve/Posey the OBP, and some solid pitching to pip one or two categories.
Since bad things come in threes, I’m hoping who ever else gets knocked out can come back ok next year.
please tell me its king felix
Don’t have him. So that would break the “all bad news has to screw me out of the playoffs” rule.
Maybe Andrus could get caught stealing 4 times tonight though. That’d do it.
Or not. Got trapped in Google maps.
I’m cherry picking the endpoints, but over the last 10 games, the A’s have a +8 run differential but are 3-7. They are putting on a clinic in how to underperform Pythag.
I’m cherry picking the endpoints, but over the last game, the A’s haven’t scored at all. This leads me to believe that they may never score again.
This directly contradicts your next comment.
Technically, that contradicted my previous comment. But I like to change my mind when I’m joking.
Just as long as you don’t mind my jokes when you’re changing…
Mind? I encourage.
I may be drunk or just wake up groggy, but I’m predicting an A’s sweep this weekend.
Yeah, I could easily see the Mariners sweeping them.
@Matt I’m fairly certain you don’t drink.
Damn it! Then I woke up groggy.
Read the thread, ed
You realize only one Golden Eeyore gets awarded per game thread, right?
I don’t need it.
Good attitude. You play for the love of the game, not the trophies.
We need a Golden Tigger and Golden Pooh Bear.
I’d settle for runs.
Oh, those are easy to get. Hell, I spend a lot of time with the runs.
Stop eating flour and dairy products.
You’re welcome.
I don’t have issues with those. Mostly it’s processed foods and especially spicy foods.
Processed food’s a bitch. I’m still addicted to it.
Ain’t that the truth.
oh great. there goes my recipe for prune and senna quesadillas.
I call dibs on Golden Wol.
I don’t know whats more likely, DMOAS being drunk or an A’s sweep.
I know what my first guess (not really a guess, unless he has been lying for years) would be and I don’t like it.
If the A’s sweep, we’re getting Matt drunk.
Gotta find me first [runs around cackling like a little school girl]
(whispers)
I’m outside your window.
That’s a rather difficult task.
Bitch, I’m magic.
Why run differential isn’t everything: the A’s are 9-21 in their last 30 games. Over that stretch, they’ve got a RD of just -14.
Why run differential isn’t everything: Blowouts exist.
Maybe we need a stat called NBRD… Non-Blowout Run Differential.
9-21? At least that Van Poppel kid is going to save us soon!
I’m hoping it’ll be Dressendorfer, ‘cuz that’s a LOT of letters for the back of one jersey!
I won’t be in the gamethread tonight. Someone hang an albatross on the necks of those thousand thousand slimy things, and the Mariners.
Oh thank god.
WTF NFL
Thanks, and go As.