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I actually don’t feel so bad.
Boys, check out Lake Street Dive if you haven’t already. The lead singer is hot and she does nothing but sexy dance the whole show.
I see they’re playing Sunday at HSB. Nothing like HSB to clear the mind from another painful end to the season.
I bought all of their records today.
They are in the Bay area for a few days.
I’m not dead yet.
That drained me of every emotion, including ones I didn’t know I had, like lugubrious. Stupid baseball
I’ve had a few shitty days at work. I had a migraine. I got home late and just medicated the fk out of myself until I fell asleep. Only watched a few minutes of the game. I’m sorry for your loss.
This is an Ebola free thread.
Umm… The most recent kraut shipment in the pantry came from Liberia.
So, I wouldn’t be so sure about that.
At least I know the Earthquakes suck.
Thanks, and go As.
Deep down, we all knew, right?
Yup. That’s why I’m pretty close to not fucking caring about baseball anymore. I’m tired of this. The players will go on with their millions of dollars and come back next year and not care.
There’a a reason I hardly went to any games this year. I’m tired of spending my money to watch them when I know what’s going to happen and I know that they won’t care about it once it’s over.
Thanks, and go As.
and even then, one gets the feeling they’ll get to the top before the A’s do.
Will Leitch takes a moment to appreciate our suffering
The collapse could have happened without the Fuld/Gomes play, but we needed it to ensure there would be an iconic photo that we’ll see for the rest of our natural lives.
(Seriously, that’s a great photo.)
it oughta rotate slowly and play the blue danube waltz.
That graphic in the background, the look on Fuld’s face. Fuck, that almost looks photoshopped.
Couldn’t sleep last night.
There were lions and bears tearing you from my side.
he jumped out of bed
turned on the light
pulled down the shade
went to the kitchen for a bite
rolled up the shade
turned off the light
jumped back into bed
it was the middle of the ni-iight.
me neither
so i’ve had a fun sports year. there hasn’t been such a gain in perspective since medieval art became renaissance art.
because whenever my brain wants to go: INCHESS!!!@!
my other brain goes: that’s cute.
I have saw a thing or 2 about Pedro ripping Grady Little a decade later after last night’s pitching moves. I wont read them because at this point I dont plan to ever read anything about this game.
But I find it funny that it came up because while wallowing last night I thought about the article or 2 Simmons wrote after that game and how it felt to be part of a tortured fanbase. (yes-not only did Simmons used to write, he used to write about Baseball!)
We are the most tortured fan base in baseball now arent we? Cubs arent tortured they just lose. Same with Cleveland. Even the Braves I dont think are tortured-they get there and they lose at some stage of the playoffs, but it isnt always the same horrible formula.
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE 20 EVERY TIME AND THE DEALER PULLS A BLACKJACK?!?
(I’m terrible at card analogies and I know even if I wsnt that we didnt have a 20 every time blah blah whatever..youre getting this top flight writing for free you know, its the offseason.)
Competing just isn’t enough anymore. We’ve done that. It just becomes less and less satisfying the more we fail to move forward. Unless Beane can look at this roster and say “I think this team will win it all” and truly believe it, then I want him to blow it the fuck up and start from scratch. “This team can compete” just isn’t good enough. Lots of teams can “just compete” and many don’t make the playoffs.
And change his diet and metabolism to create shit that does work in the playoffs.
Organic vegan with occasional guilty In&Out binges FTW!
How do you create a post again?
go up to the top left where there is a tiny grey box that says “show”. Click on that and shit comes down that includes create new post.
Click the ghostly “show” button in the top left corner for the menu of options.
I blame Latrell Sprewell for initiating a chokeland curse.
I think the most crazy making thing about this game is that after two months of everything going wrong, for 8+ innings, everything went right! Our guys got on base even with Shields getting a silly strike zone, and people drove them in. Moss hit home runs! Contrary to what people are saying here, I think Lester was pretty damn good despite not being completely “on.” Melvin simply mismanaged him. Having it all fall apart after it all seemed to have come back together is the most insulting part.
I dont think Melvin mismanged him. He is the “Big Ace” who had got like 10-12 outs in a row, was at a reasonable pitch count and had a 4 run lead. The whole reason we get him is for that: to take the ball and refuse to give it up. Right or wrong his job was to win that game. And if Melvin pulls him and we lose you never hear the end of it either.
Pulling him after three times through the line up at 100+ pitches with a fully rested BBIB waiting to come in would not have been hard to defend.
No it wouldnt, but hard to defend =/= get argued about. I wonder if Billy had any marching orders on that similar to the Grady “pull Pedro after 100 pitches” stuff that the Sox supposedly had.
I just know that in the car radio in the 6th and 7th my thought was “this is why Lester is here and there is no way anyone is taking the ball from him”.
Winning is great deodorant.
Oh, and I still say Fuld catches that Hosmer triple if Gomes doesn’t splatter him.
It’s not a triple if one of them backs off.
That too. But I think it’s an out. Gomes has to know he can’t make that play, and that in the game situation it’s not worth him trying. I get that he couldn’t hear Fuld calling him off, but he shouldn’t have needed to hear him. He should have looked.
I don’t think the two of them have spent much time in the outfield together and I think that played into it as well. He was probably going for it expecting Fuld to back him up and vice versa. It seems like a communication issue.
It’s not a triple the other way if Gomes doesn’t go balls-out afterwards
Petaluma can go screw itself. Leson learned: never bring someone back a second time. The only time it has ever worked is Rickey, and Rickey cannot be used as an example of anything because Rickey is Rickey.
But Thomas… And Giambi….. And we tried to bring back Hudson….
Harden
Canseco
(others im not thinking of)
Heck maybe even Reggie although I dont think you could have expected much of him other than a farewell tour and teaching.
Fuld…
Frank Thomas
Dave Stewart.
The in-game injuries really boned us. Soto and Coco getting hurt both came back to bite us hard
I hope that woman’s new puppy craps in all of her shoes.
I have no idea what this means, I dont think I want to because it is probably related to the game, and yes. I am all for ruining things for others (except you guys) today.
There was a woman in the stands last night who got on TV with a sign pointing to her male companion that said “If we win he’s going to buy me a puppy!”. Disgusting on two fronts (besides FK KC); she should go adopt her own puppy.
so if/when they lose to slegnA does he drive out to the end of town and drop him off?
Blackmail for pets is not the answer.
And given that Missouri is absolutely ghastly in terms of puppy mills, I would suspect strongly that the operative word is “buy” not “rescue.” :(
See below.
No Giants fans better even FKing try with me today. I’m not having it.
Playoff losses measured in rage units:
23. 2000 Game 2 74
22. 2006 Game 3 75
21. 2006 Game 4 77
20. 2006 Game 1 78
19. 2000 Game 3 79
18. 2006 Game 2 83 Thought Frank was gonna do it
17. 2012 Game 1 86 I missed most of this game, turned it on for Moss’s near HR
16. 2013 Game 1 87
15. 2002 Game 4 90
14. 2001 Game 4 91
13. 2002 Game 1 91.5 They blew a 5-1 lead, yet only 13th…
12. 2012 Game 5 92
11. 2000 Game 5 93
10. 2001 Game 5. 94.8
9. 2001 Game 3. 95
8. 2013 Game 5. 96
7. 2014 WC game 97.8 (probably #1 based only on how the game went)
6. 2002 Game 5. 98
5. 2012 Game 2. 99.1
4. 2013 Game 4. 99.6
3. 2003 Game 3. 99.7
2. 2003 Game 4. 99.8
1. 2003 Game 5. 100
0. 1988 Game 1 123
P.S. I think your li tags are blowing up the Lounge.
I think I fixed it…
Now that you’ve fixed it, can you apply it to the team?
There’s no way we have 23 playoff losses in the Beane era….Shit. 15-23. Do we have a positive RD?
I can believe it. But what I’m a little fishy is that we’re so far under .500. We didn’t take the twins to 5 games. And aside from this one, we’ve always lost in 5 the ALCS and WC play in notwithstanding. 8 under. I guess that fits. Man, they suck.
The sweep of the Tigers in ’06 mean we finished that year 1 game under .500, as we have every year we’ve made it. 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014. Eight times. Eight games under.
This is depressing and I don’t like it
I know, right? I feels like we’ve done better than that. But fuck if we’ve sucked ass. So close and yet not enough. But wow…
Thanks. Man, when you list it out. Just awful. I just don’t buy into the crap shoot thing. It just doesn’t offer a satisfying explanation for that.
1-13 when the opponent is facing elimination (most teams will be below .500 for this.) 3-8 when facing elimination (most teams will be above .500.) 0-7 in deciding games. 11-9 in other games.
We do not. 138-151. Twice we were positive and lost: 2000 and 2003.
Well, for 8 under and that many playoff games, that doesn’t seem so… AW FUCK IT. They suck.
Pythagorean record (exponent = 1.8… is that what people use these days?) for that run differential and 38 games is 17-21, which is only marginally better than 15-23
(edited because I can do exponents but not addition, evidently)
I don’t believe you until I see it in
So my boss calls me and makes me spend like 30 minutes talking about how much vacation time I have used and should have, etc. I am using the time he told me to use even though I told him it was too much. He is looking at reports about carryover hours I should not have, I told him I should not have, but that he wants to insist I use.
I may start drinking early today.
Two things I still kind of can’t believe from last night:
1. Norris dropping that pitchout
2. The porny Viagra ad
1. he forgot his viagra.
2. as opposed to the mile high hamburger ad?
1. SHOULD NEVER HAD BEEN A PITCH OUT. Two strikes, two outs. Fuck the runner, strike the fucker out. Make him swing and if he fouls it, no SB.
True. I do, however, wish they had some sort of a pickoff play to run in the ninth when Dyson was on second. He can’t be allowed that kind of a jump. Norris never had a chance, even with a fastball pitcher and no one in the RH batter’s box. And usually I wouldn’t trip on them having a runner on third with less than one out when Doolittle’s on the mound and a lefty is up, but Aoki is a motherFKer to strike out and he kills lefties.
Ironically that would have been a good time to try a pitch out at some point. But I don’t think Soto makes much of difference, even one some of the closer ones. They were fast and getting great jumps.
Yeah, I’m not really feeling the extensive Norris hate, other than the dropped pitch out. I can’t remember whether he should have done a better job on Gregerson’s wild pitch. Probably.
Sullivan has a pretty nice breakdown of the Dyson steal off Doolittle, which was the whole ballgame, as it turned out. (TRIGGER WARNING: GIFS OF ALL OF THE STEALS) I don’t see how one can blame Norris at all.
Not gonna look.
I am the biggest norris basher prolly. I don’t know about the dyson one. you tv people seemed to think it was not on norris. I will give you that.
He is just an all around below average catcher. I don’t like his game calling, i don’t like his framing, I don’t like his throwing, I don’t like his blocking of the plate. (something I also did not see, but I will note Fosse didn’t defend him)
But he was also battling injuries because zmog can’t play anderson! He was terrible the last two months because he was broken down. not his fault.
Like grover pointed out, he is a great platoon guy. Even platoon plus. but keep him to ~100 games behind the plate
I don’t like Norris as catcher either. The hope is that when he transitions to first base he can become Mike Napoli, but I’m not confident he’ll ever hit righties consistently. He’s probably more Kelly Shoppach than Mike Napoli.
A’s love Norris though. I believe Zaidi called him the second most irreplaceable player next to Donaldson.
I think that says more about the team and less about Norris.
Thanks, and go As.
It does seem interesting that the A’s have picked up a lot of offense-first catchers recently. Norris, Jaso, Kottaras.
Maybe the decrease in SB league-wide has led the A’s to focus less on throwing out runners. Maybe our pitchers are just awful and no use having a Pudge or Yadier if they’re steals anyway.
We may have gotten unlucky facing the Royals in the WC game because of that. Or maybe we just suck and I’m still coming to terms with that.
Yeah, but Weeks was untouchable not all that long ago too
Still is. Who would WANT to touch him now?
Circumstances did not let me see/hear everything. But any “hatred” I have of Norris is not on just this one game, but 2 seasons of him not throwing out runners.
This actually reminded me of something I read before-may need to go find it tonight. Bill James wrote something about the stolen base explosion in the 60’s and a group of weak armed Catchers from them. The basic concept was that in the 50’s you could and would catch even with no arm because it was so HR centric. When speed came back teams were just caught off guard. I feel like Jaso and Norris are from a similar mold.
Watching Norris try and throw runners out was like something out of a little league game…he had no chance.
It was a $1000 wedding
supposed to be held the other day
and with all the invitations sent
the young bride went away
when the groom saw people passing notes
“Not unusual,” he might say
“But where are the flowers for my baby?
I’d even like to see her mean old mama.
And why ain’t there a funeral
if you’re gonna act that way?”
If I get murdered in the city, I was probably having a good time.
Right up until the end.
I may or may not have set a personal record for dropping F Bombs during the 8th inning of last night’s game.
The Oakland A’s and the Major League Baseball Playoffs…two great flavors that don’t taste great together.
LESS FILLING!
Hey A’s for 2015…shave the beards. Go with mustaches in 2015.
Mutton chops.
and then what? serve coffee that’s too sour and call it fruit-forward? trennnnn-deeeeee. and soft.
there’s really only one intimidating hairfeature anymore.
ok maybe.
Gregerson did something and that didn’t seem to help.
You know, Jennifer, if you’d done what I suggested a few months ago, you could have enjoyed last night’s game with a cluster of FKers, slept with your favorite and just about now be heading out to Concord for Kings of Leon. I understand the weather is perfect down there for an outdoor evening show.
I wanted to, but I went to too many concerts last week.
KC news just let me know the puppy lady visited a rescue shelter today to look at dogs.
Good girl.
Who’s a good girl?! Who’s a good girl?! KC Puppy Lady! Yes she is!
LMAO.
poppy lady > puppy lady. funnier too.
It’s my only defense mechanism.
Good on her
That’s the only nice thing I’ve heard about Royals fans. FK the rest of them, though.
So that’s how it ends.
the thing about this game, as opposed to other win move on, lose ends your season games is the build up. there was none. no epic comeback (2012). No devastating blow it (2003 etc). there was no wasted effort, just a bad break(s).
It was all there. It just all happened in a single game.
for two hours???
I’d rather watch the Royals steal bases for 2 hours.
don’t blame you. that’s half as painful as watching them do it for 4.
this place needs a hot bed injection.
worst beer name/label in history, right?
how’d it get by battle martin?
he probably tried it and found out it wasn’t a false claim.
Holland looks on
no! don’t show THAT.
did we dr. k?
looks like.
Can’t Dr K in the off season. And I’m disgusted at them showing that. I fucking clicked away last night so I wouldn’t have to see it. Assholes.
wakey wakey. it’s superclásico day!
river plate v boca juniors, the totally uniquely stop-all fútbol battle (that happens twice a year, at least).
on one side, river, who plays at home this time around, leads the board with a scarily effective team managed by marcelo “the doll” gallardo. on the other side, boca is mired in the lower third thanks to points lost at the beginning of the campaign, which led to the firing of carlos “the viceroy” bianchi and the hiring of apparently competent rodolfo “the basque” arraubarrena, who’s reconfigured the team to good results. by which we know that nicknames are everything, and that the odds are slightly in favor of river.
but the cliche is that it doesn’t matter where they are in the standings, because a superclásico brings out the fight and they play at another level. so we’re looking at a river with teo gutierrez (to see which kind of game this is, the ones where he shows or the ones where he doesn’t), and with funes mori, mora, pischulichi, and maidana (all possible headliners in tomorrow’s paper). and at a boca with gago (who’s been the glue since riquelme left), chávez (the rising star apparent), and giglioti, fuenzalida, and calleri (the names for which we’re thankful this game won’t be televised in english).
at the very least, the welcoming of the teams on the field is worth a gander. even if it’s pouring in all of buenos aires and the monumental stadium in the north side of the city hasn’t looked this wet since they turned the firehoses on rioting fans when the team got demoted a few years back. edit: bummer — boca’s fans are not allowed in the stadium, in continuance of a recent no-visiting-fans policy to de-violentize the games. so instead of the stands divided by color and song, it will be all river fans against 1600 cops (plus a few “colados” i’m sure — false fans that get in by wearing the other colors).
so today i can’t help but say, fuck the
giantsbaseball, and dale boca!(will post official link around 1:15 when it comes on for the welcoming, for those who’re interested and/or at work trying to get ahead on a very busy upcoming week. hi!)
que llueva, que llueva
la bruja está en la cueva.
(dang it’s pouring. field is spotty.)
legal stream.
oh man. it’s already a mess of a game from the pools of water on the field.
but with boca up 1-0 toward the end of the first half, on a shot on goal by river, gago puts his head (confirmed by replay) into the path of the ball and gets nailed by it, ref thinks he hit it with his arm, red for gago, penalty for river, and… river kicks it over the crossbar.
still 1-0, though now 11-10.
rain was the protagonist. and faulty arbs. hard to play that way for either team and the game was just frustrating to watch.
ended 10 against 10, 1-1 final on a rebound that orión couldn’t quite keep in his hands after a sharp header. he’d been a wall up to that point.
Anybody want to still continue the Smith vs Kaepernick debate?
They’re both barely above average (but Kaep has potential to improve)?
I thought Kaep did a good job of managing the 4th quarter.
It was kind of ironical that Game Manager Smith threw an INT to seal the game.
Thanks, and go As.
This place is depressing.
It wasn’t depressing when the A’s were losing 60% of their games through August and September?
That was actively depressing. This is ghost-town depressing.
I declared myself sheriff of this ghost town and have been deleting posts as they come in
I shot the sheriff.
But you didn’t shoot the deputy! Muhahaha!!!
this town.
aaaaah aah.
This was on “ON TV” in 82 or 83. My brother and I rushed home from an Angels game to catch it.
My very first thought when I saw those words.
my thought right now is, all along i thought they were saying this time.
“Bet you’d live here if you could and be one of us”
You thought they were addressing time travelers?
“this time is my time, that’s your glamour mag.
bet you this copy of life here is not as old as this us.”
it’s not a song about reading materials at the dentist office??
Well it is now…
Yep.
farting tumbleweed!
I don’t like farts.
they’re horrible and mean. and rrrrrrrrrrrrrude.
#MrsN
They have their uses.
teehee. toot le monde.
Smell my stench, you FKers!
My wounds still need licking
That doesn’t sound very sanitary.
and we don’t even know where his wounds are!
For all we know it could be a hernia.
Thanks, and go As.
You wish.
We’re all sick here
My throat DOES hurt.
Does it need a massage?
if argentina and brazil play in beijing on the 11th at 20:45, do i wake up to watch it at 5:30 on the 11th or on the 12th?
11th
obrigado.
别客气
SAME TO YOU BUT MORE OF IT.
maybe.
i don’t know!
tighten up, nationals.
i K’d.