the Angels are waiving the white something tonight. Hopefully it will be the flag after Monsieur LeBlanc’s 8 run bottom of the first.
Crisp Fuld, donaldson, norris, vogt, lowrie, reddick sogard. back Monsieur Gris.
His ERA has been better than five recently. I don’t know what that means.
Hernandez has a 2-1 lead in Toronto.
Kansas City 2-0 over Cleveland. so far
I am in the fk seats, behind the A’s dugout.
Enjoy the game in full-throated exuberance, Ed. Our offense is jammin again…no way this guy leblanc’s us.
I stand corrected.
KC and Toronto now both up by 5.
What is happening in Canada?
Bottom of the 5th:
– Dalton Pompey homered to deep right
– Anthony Gose doubled to left
– Josh Thole reached on an infield single, Anthony Gose to third
– Ryan Goins hit sacrifice fly to left, Anthony Gose scored
РJos̩ Reyes singled to right, Josh Thole to second
РJos̩ Bautista walked, Josh Thole to third, Jos̩ Reyes to second
– Edwin Encarnación walked, Josh Thole scored, José Reyes to third, José Bautista to second
– Adam Lind singled to right, José Reyes scored, José Bautista to third, Edwin Encarnación to second
– Munenori Kawasaki hit into fielder’s choice, second to shortstop, José Bautista scored, Edwin Encarnación to third, Adam Lind out
– Dalton Pompey walked, Munenori Kawasaki to second
Dominic Leone pitching
– Anthony Gose hit by pitch, Edwin Encarnación scored, Munenori Kawasaki to third, Dalton Pompey to second
– Josh Thole singled to left, Munenori Kawasaki scored, Dalton Pompey to third, Anthony Gose to second
– Ryan Goins lined out to left
In short: the M’s are epically choking.
After some thought, my rooting interests are, in order:
1. A’s win (obviously)
2. Mariners lose (b/c would hate to miss post season)
3. KC lose (home field for the 1-game)
4. Tigers win (don’t want them knocking us out again)
5. Orioles win (want them after 1-game)
6. Angels lose (want Orioles after 1-game)
Agree with all that. A Seattle/KC tiebreaker game for the second WC would be nice, but is too small a target to realistically aim for at this point.
Also, with our magic # probably about to go down to 3, there is the possibility that as early as Thursday (or more likely Friday), the A’s will be playing only for home-field for the WC game. Whereas KC (and Detroit) will still be contending for their division. In that scenario, do the A’s keep going all-out, or do they start giving starting players more days off, taking starting pitchers out earlier, and using the back of the bullpen a bit more? Or to ask it another way, how important is home field for that game to the team, versus maybe being a bit healthier and better rested?
I think home field matters too much. Especially to a bunch of headcases whose home stadium absolutely rocks when full/in playoff mode.
I just don’t want them flying around all over the place.
The A’s are a better team at home, and they could use the crowd. But it guarantees nothing, as too many past playoff games can attest. I don’t think pitching on the road will affect Lester at all.
I dont think this team can ever afford to take a “game off”. The second they do they forget they are good and poof we have a bad month and a half.
That’s an interesting question, and one I didn’t expect to come up. It would be helpful to have the home game, but there are certainly players who could use a day or two off.
But given all the platooning the team does, I don’t see it being too much of an issue.
2. I want them to tie with the Tigers for the lower WC, beat the Tigers, forced to used Felix on game 162 and whoever on game 163 before facing us.
3. KC the division.
The rest the same.
If the Angels were smart they’d just give up before this game even starts.
So, the A’s are just playing against one guy tonight? I like our chances.
The scouting report on LeBlanc is stay away from his slider outside of the zone and wait for his fastball up.
who are you and what did you do with Bed?
If the A’s lose this game we blame Ed, right?
No. Ed is our good luck charm right now. Safer to blame me, or Jennifer. Yeah, Jennifer sounds good.
I’d rather incur the wrath of Ed than Jennifer…Jennifer will cut you.
Well not only will she cut you-she knows WHERE to cut you.
Exactly…DON”T MESS WITH GERTIE.
I don’t like any of you FKers enough to waste my time.
i will smite thee
The couple of times I saw LeBlanc pitch in the Arizona Fall League I came away really impressed with his cutter.
The couple times I saw him act on Friends I was not impressed by his range.
Hmm…was he the one who married Brad Pitt?
I got a great deal on some tickets for the Raiders game in Miami this weekend.
How much are they trying to pay you to go?
Hah, jokes on you, this is a Raiders home game! Only us savvy season ticket buyers got tickets to that…wait…crap.
We’re Raiders fans…the jokes be on us for a long time now.
What’s the logic of batting Trout 2nd and Kendrick 4th? I know batting order isn’t necessarily the most important thing but I’m batting Trout 3rd or 4th. He’s the best player in baseball.
Ah, but this is Kendrick facing the A’s. He might just be a better hitter.
Sorry, I don’t have Kendrick’s stats against the A’s in front of me. I’m too busy breaking down Wade LeBlanc game film.
More PA in the 2nd spot?
Is that a question or a threat?
Okay folks…how about we do the classy thing and dedicate this game thread to Derek Jeter? It’s his last week and no one seems to be talking about it.
You know what? I don’t like the cut of Albert Pujols’ jib.
It’s a heavy, chunky, uneven jib. Not gonna catch much wind with that jib.
This just in…from ESPN the world wide leader in making shit up.
Rumor has it that 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh will soon be coaching at Michigan University. He’ll also be coaching Notre Dame, Texas, the Cleveland Browns, the Oakland Raiders, Manchester United, Tiger Woods, the Bad News Bears, and the Albert Einstein middle school girls volleyball team
This just in: ESPN reports that Dennis Allen will soon be selling Truck tires at a Truck tire store to people who need tires for their trucks.
I’m not liking the A’s defense right now…they need to work on their tackling and causing turnovers.
This just in…From Bed the world wide leader in jokes about Bridget the Midget.
Rumor has it that Raiders head coach Dennis Allen will soon be a greeter at Walmart. Here’s Greeter Allen talking about the new job, “I’m a greeter who greets people needing to be greeted at the place we greet people here in the National Greeter League.”
I’m not the type of person who reads ahead in the book so I blame you for my poor imitation of your post.
Heh…I like to think we’re just two great minds who think alike.
Is Sonny Gray running out of gas?
I actually think he looks more sharp tonight than in any of his last six starts or so.
Well, I’ve missed his last (insert entire season’s worth of starts here)but he looked a little gassed to me.
Anybody have a good pork gravy recipe?
Anybody have change for a dollar?
Anybody have rickets?
Is that a picture or a threat?
You’ve double downed…I can only assume that means you intend to kill me.
Okay, that’s it…I have my squirt gun locked and loaded…Come get some!
Anybody here?
I’m here, but still talking myself down from the position that we need to go Diamondback on Aybar. It is not his fault he is constantly doing something little to get an extra base or cheat and help his team win.
I just figured maybe everyone was at a Bible study meeting.
Just Corey
I admire the A’s efficiency at making outs.
Lew Wolff is smiling in his seat more tonight than I’ve ever seen from him. I figure someone dosed him with X.
Lew is getting high on life.
Not Jesus?
Lews for Jesus!
7 K’s, whoa.
See, like I said he looks gassed.
8! :)
Hmm…this is probably where I should admit I’m not actually watching the game…oh, and I have no idea who Sonny Gray is.
Of course, in his last start, Kazmir had 9.
Should we make an over/under for Sonny tonight?
Also, is that an emoticon of someone in a chef hat?
Sadly, no. Just eight, !, and :)
It’s the high socks.
It takes a special kind of slegnA to look like you are arguing a swinging strike 3.
If Sonny kept up this pace that would be a record or something.
Really? How many hot dogs has eaten so far?
He’s no Kobayashi.
Little known fact…Kirk Cameron took the Kobayashi Maru test three times before he passed it. Jesus changed the test so he could win the scenario.
It’s starting to make sense.
East Bay Evans with the early game thread win…the thread goes down early in the second round.
I’d like to thank Thomas and Bed and the Oakland Oaks for this one time achievement.
I have a feeling you may win a few more down the line. We can’t just let OakFoSho win them all.
I might be going to Hell for this thread with all the Jesus stuff…I’m just another one of those typical East Coast Intellectual Arkansas Liberals Bastards.
Can we score now, please? It is Wade Fking LeBlanc, not Jerome Williams.
Who scores less?
A. Raiders
B. Athletics
C. George W. Bush on Jeopardy
D. Me in High School
E. A Eunuch who’s alone on an island
Only one of those can go negative.
The Raiders.
I don’t think you’re giving W. enough credit.
“Again Mr. President, just because you sound confused does not mean you are using the form of a question.”
It’s my strategery…heh heh.
Oh, wonderful.
If Chili Davis became the Raiders OC and Greg Olson became the A’s hitting coach would anyone notice?
Loophole?
Are there more Chris Carter’s or Greg Olson’s?
Chris Carter: all he does is
catch touchdownshit HRs.What’s his FIP?
If you walk Sam Fuld you’re going to pay a price…the price of seeing him stranded on the base paths.
Hah, he sure showed you!
Vogt hasn’t hit one out lately, now would be a good time.
Oh crap I have a Botany test tomorrow and I haven’t studied since 1994.
They’ve hit a number of shots that I thought might have been hits off the bat. Donaldson that inning, Norris to Kendrick, and that Vogt loopy line drive. We need to keep this at 1, because we’re only gonna bleed through a couple at most.
The A’s offense is so bad I’m staring to think it’s directed by Joel Schumacher…this would also explain why the A’s uniforms now have nipples on them as well.
LeBlanc was worth .1 wins above replacement heading into tonight, so anyone saying the A’s are being shut out by a replacement level player can shove it.
What’s his OBP?
Hey…I see PBS has a new documentary about Baby Boomers. I’m surprised they could get them to talk about themselves.
THIS IS AWESOME ON EVERY LEVEL!
Heh, excellent.
I’ve always wondered what the Creme de la Creme of Creme de la Creme is?
I’ve never wondered that, not brûlée.
(rim shot)
If this guy sucks against lefties, then why are we sitting Dunn and Moss?
If Sogard runs through the base, he’s safe.
If Sogard sees his shadow it means six more weeks of shitty second base play.
In an era of Google Maps the song “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” seems un-hip.
this comment’s gonna bite you in the butt when you find the waze to san jose.
Crap. Beckham massacred my boy.
A Beckham ate my baby!
@FSU my boy?
Look how they massacred my boy.
My comment feels so ignored.
Sonny needs to get his crap back together.
And the A’s string of getting killed by crappy hitters continues.
Would you have taken Beckham over Callaspo?
Depends…can Callaspo bend it?
For his glove alone.
X 11
I would take most FKers over Callaspo.
I don’t suffer from any delusions about my baseball skills even in my prime, let alone now. But I am fully confident I could cover more ground at 2B right now than Callaspo does.
Callaspo is much better than I am at baseball. To be fair though I am Swedish.
Hell, I’m crippled and *I* can cover more ground then him. I could probably run faster too.
I’m almost positive I could outrun Lowrie and Callaspo and outthrow Coco.
Braggart!
Trout hat trick, right on.
How many more years on that Pujols’ contract? 17?
7 years after this season is totally over,
2014 $23,000,000
2015 $24,000,000
2016 $25,000,000
2017 $26,000,000
2018 $27,000,000
2019 $28,000,000
2020 $29,000,000
2021 $30,000,000
Always nice.
Can somebody ask Albert if I can borrow five dollars?
Of course, Trout is under contract until 2020 as well. So they’ve got one bad contract and one good one for forever.
Braggart!
True, true.
Kind of funny how Trout’s contract ends one year before Pujols’s does.
No guarantee the Trout contract isn’t also bad by the end. It could very well still be awesome, but there’s risk.
In 18-20, Trout earns $33.25M. $60M in those two. Of course in 16-17, Hamilton gets 30 as well.
They did the Pop…they did the Monster Pop…it was a flop…it was a ballpark flop.
Super Sam! Don’t get picked off this time.
I prefer BatSam myself.
BatSam!…nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna BatSam! nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna BatSam!
nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna BatSam! nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna BatSam! nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna.
Update for everyone because I know you are worried. 1 week in and we still cannot kill off the rotten milk smell in the car. I’m starting to consider what sort of trade in value I could get. Next step unless things change overnight is going to be a profession shampoo and detail. I’m also wondering if I could be wrong on the source and maybe some animal snuck in the garage, crawled in somewhere and died.
Further details as they develop.
So that’s where I left the milk.
I had a gravy problem like that. Turns out it spilled under the seat, the under the mat.
It didn’t happen to be pork gravy did it?
This is my fear. I had it in the trunk and it got a hole punch in it. My fear is it leaked under the back seats and is soaked at some point that cannot be reached without pretty much replacing the whole thing. I thought I found a spot tonight, but so far the spot/odor remover hasnt killed it off.
Good news is it still doesnt stink as bad as Collapso.
I barfed up strawberry pop tarts in my dad’s truck. I took the vacuum from the house to suck up the chunks. Every time you would turn on the vacuum after that it would smell like strawberry vomit.
More Missouri Stories with Jennifer coming up after the break.
I guess that’s a…(takes off his sunglasses) no Vogt.
Is that a kid sitting on Uncle Lew’s lap? Did they have to staple him on there?
Make sure that kid asks Santa Lew what he wants for Christmas.
We need to fire these boys up…somebody turn on some Duran Duran!
This is such an A’s game. Lots of strikeouts and excellent performance by starter. Check. Costly error. Check. Inability to hit, no matter who’s pitching. Check.
And I forgot the home run by some guy who shouldn’t be hitting a home run.
Loads of Double Plays?
I guess that’s a…(takes off his sunglasses) no Lowrie.
I tell you what pretending to watch A’s games is really frustrating these days.
Josh doing nicely.
Josh Reddick has come to play.
As opposed to others who play to come, which I guess doesn’t make sense unless one is specifically playing to finance a prostitute habit.
Reddick has looked good the entire game. Sonny out, which seems wise.
I’m sure when we make the playoffs we won’t have to face pitchers of the quality of a Wade LeBlanc.
Remember to have your A’s spayed and neutered.
Good job, Sogey.
Your turn, top of the order.
Good start Sogie!
comeback start.. NOW
Whoot, BB!
Joe Smith: Didn’t even like him when he was with the Warriors.
Moss the boss, watch it!
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a CF as deep in Oakland as Trout is right now.
One of the reasons I hope to get my hands on the filedF/X data eventually is to be able to ridicule no doubles defense more scientifically than I can do it now
Did you ever get a look at the one month they did release?
nope
Apparently it was HitFX of April 2009 that was released. I unfortunately could not find the actual dataset online. And wow, that release was 5 years ago? Damn.
Well that’s a terrible strike 1 to moss on a 3-0 pitch 4 inches off the plate
Thanks, and go As.
Moss didn’t get screwed over, phew.
Vote Vogt!
of course
Thanks, and go As.
Where is Josh Hamilton when you need him?
If he was healthy, that was at him too.
I think I would have PH Dunn there. Vogt has been awful for a month unfortunately. This damnable elusive third win in a row.
I would have for Fuld I think.
.209/.271/.339 for Oakland, but he bats second, plays everyday, and is not PH for with Adam Dunn where a home run would tie the game.
Managers truly need to be protected from themselves with guys like Sam Fuld.
BUT WE TRADED TOMMY MILONE FOR HIM DON’T YOU SEE
Thanks, and go As.
If they keep 2W-1L rhythm from now on, it’s a ring
Your jib is cut the best!
Not with this phase.
We are certainly capable of scoring 2 or 3 off Huston right here.
PHing Dunn was fucking stupid. A HR didn’t matter and a K was likely and would end the game.
Melvin sure seems to make some weird moves.
Thanks, and go As.
I didn’t understand that at all. In that situation, Dunn’s only purpose is to hit a home run. Who was going to hit if Dunn walked or got a hit? Callaspo?
And if they’d tied it up, who was going to catch?
the AJ griffin looking guy
Unpossible. He doesnt know something and it makes it physically impossible to catch the baseballs thrown by our pitchers.
I’ve been amazed that Sotto took one day and he was in the lineup, but Anderson cant even be considered for mop up duty behind the plate a month later.
They even gave up the DH in one game rather than let Anderson catch. Crazy.
I heard or read somewhere that they said they brought him up just to catch bullpens.
he does that with gusto, I will say
Just… Plain… Crazy…
Well, that sucked
LeBlah
I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN. Tomorrow.
I bet those Angels feel pretty stupid right now having DFAed LaBlanc and used up their bullpen in that one game that one time.
Well, that’s the last weeknight home game of the season.
The best thing about Lester is that the A’s seem to play better when he’s pitching.
Wait. FELIX pitched tonight in Toronto? Woh.
So the A’s are really good when the opposing pitching completely loses the plate. Or when Josh Donaldson hits a home run.
what happened on that play when the angels tried stealing 2nd and it seemd pujols hit soto with his bat, or there was interference, or something… but the runner went back to 1st and nobody was called out?
Pujol’s back swing hit Soto in the back. Since it was part of the swing and not post swing interference, it was considered a dead ball instead of interference so the runner just went back to first instead of being called out.
ah.
thanks.
That’s dumb
It makes sense in that it’s one thing to step in the way for any reason and a whole other thing to simply swing your bat only to accidentally make contact with it on the back swing. It wasn’t like Pujols was blocking him or actually interfering. It was just incidental contact as part of a legal swing of the bat.
Looks like Dave Stewart is going to be Arizona’s new GM.
Thanks, and go As.
Fantastic news for him. Hope he retains his loyalty to the A’s.
by giving us Goldschmidt for a bag of baseballs?
Thanks, and go As.
Oh man, Goldschmidt would be such a perfect fit. Any chance AZ rebuilds and trades him? They did trade JUpton…
Sure, we’ll give them Russell.
Their manager’s job security is ever more tenuous.
Yay! ‘Bout time!
Day tailgate after a night tailgate is hard. Well, should be there by 10.
Grilling up hot links while listening to a work call you barely care about is wonderful. But I actually think Farmer John Red Hots are hot just for the sake of heat. I prefer the Louisiana Hot style-more flavor. Unfortuantely I always forget that when I am buying.
But thats why we have bagels with cream cheese and coffee. yum yum.
I have yet to have anything that was “hot” that wasn’t just hot for the sake of being “hot.” The fact that it doesn’t sit well with me either means I really don’t care to find something that actually has a purpose for being hot.
there is plenty of stuff that’s spicy and tastes good lol
Thanks, and go As.
and a catfish poboy drenched in delicious habanero melindas tastes different than a catfish poboy drenched in delicious ghostpepper melindas. i would guess a catfish poboy not drenched in hot sauce tastes different than either of those, but i wouldn’t know from personal experience.
the heat is just a sensation bonus. like the crunch of an apple whether it’s sweet or not, or the satisfaction of fat on your tongue whether it’s from white tuna toro or from the crust of a ny strip.
just one question. who’s buying lunch?
Not me, I have 8 dollars until Friday.
Thanks, and go As.
That may be, but it’s not necessarily tasting good BECAUSE it’s hot.
Sure, it’s just a byproduct of ingredients. there certainly are a lot of “hot just for the sake of heat” foods out there, but it’s not all of them.
Thanks, and go As.
There are plenty of dishes that are vastly improved with the addition of hot sauce (e.g. most egg dishes, mac & cheese, many chicken dishes, much Mexican food, etc.), assuming that you’re using a hot sauce that doesn’t just obliterate all other flavors (looking at you, Tabasco).
Sure, you can say those items aren’t delicious just because they’re spicy, but you can say that about every facet of flavor out there
yeah, tabasco sucks. tastes like vinegar instead of peppers.
Personal choice? I will start with Cholula.
Tapatio.
Thanks, and go As.
maybe a case in point is that not all hot sauces taste good with all foods, hence, hot sauce is about flavor. cholula is great for a lot of stuff, but i wouldn’t use it on asian foods, to a lesser extent with cajun foods.
I’ll probably be villified for this, but I cannot stand Siracha in any way shape or form.
Thanks, and go As.
It’s nasty.
well, the rooster brand does fucking suck. vietnamese catsup.
i like this one. way less sugary.
It is Vietnamese/Los Angelean ketchup, but that’s not a bad thing, necessarily.
I like the sugariness of the rooster sauce, but I use it specifically for that purpose, especially in things like hot and sour soup, or mutant french fry dipping sauces.
Ditto
I could buy that. Also, much like Mike below-vilify my as you want but I’m not a tapatio fan on anything but popcorn.
Frank’s.
Likewise
i couldn’t narrow it down to just one.
and some of my favorites aren’t even available at the market. like the cheese board’s green cilantro-serrano-garlic, sophia cafe’s on solano (closed apparently, i’ll miss them dearly), or ao sen’s shrimpy pasty smoky pho dipper.
Obligatory plug here for the store Heat, in Berkeley, a fantastic purveyor of hot sauce. My current favorite is Marie Sharp’s, out of Belize. Legitimately hot but does not drown out the flavors in food.
My current fave from them is a Humboldt County habanero sauce. I don’t always like them with fruit like mango but this one is subtle enough that it’s really good.
The only time I like Tabasco is with oysters.
Thanks, and go As.
When i was a kid I had my first experience with Tabasco and oysters. Tried one and didnt like it. Got Tabasco on my finger and proceeded to rub my eye. Spent like an hour in the bathroom screaming “GET IT OUT!!!!!”
A situation usually reserved for the constipated and the elderly
And me.
Who does #2 WORK FOR!
American Standard.
Try Trader Joe’s smoked paprika. It’s not hot, but it touches off all the zones of your tongue. It’s got “Ooh Mommy”, apparently.
I found this mostly with Salsa. I have had several good ones from the family where it has that kick, but it is to get the flavor of the peppers, etc. Then I have also had others that are as hot or usually hotter, but have no flavor. I’m probably your polar opposite. Seeing as how my stomach ends up being pretty iron I will give them all a try to see if it can take me to flavortown.
I’m hot with a purpose. And that purpose is vengeance
lol
I’m talking things to eat, DC4C.
As I sit here this morning, I’m still annoyed at Fuld for getting picked off last night. Sitting right behind first base, I could see that LeBlanc was trying to lull him to sleep with a couple of really soft lollipop throws over before breaking out the good move. And it wasn’t even that good a move. That should never work against a supposedly heady ballplayer.
pretty dumb move. they’re making eye contact when fuld jumps toward 2nd.
To cap it off, Pujols gave Melvin a patronizing pat on the ass when he decided not to ask for a replay.