As has been pointed out already, today is the anniversary of win #20.
This weekend pits two disappointing teams. Thread away, FKers.
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As has been pointed out already, today is the anniversary of win #20.
This weekend pits two disappointing teams. Thread away, FKers.
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if the jays would have scored 15 for hutchinson, they win
Burns is now 48-for-101 when putting the first pitch in play.
SLAM dah-daah-dah dah-daah-dah
Damn, Danny Valencia!
run slower dan
I know this isn’t going to help their draft position, but Valencia has been a great get so far.
He has.
And he’ll make a wonderful trade chip this offseason to help make up for any lost draft position!
good lord the mariner tv guys are boring
maybe lay off the high change ups aaron
Brooks doesn’t seem to want the win.
he is pitching to the score
the m’s tv guys are so boring I am going back to glen and eric
Wait…that game was on American television?
….
Venditte just doesn’t seem to be any good unless he starts an inning. Then he’s, well, OK.
This game is ass.
I don’t think it would have saved more than a run, maybe 2, but that outfield defense was ass
There gave been some fluffy scores around the league today.
fluffy?
Fluffy.
At least the FKin Gnats lost again.
at the beginning of the year I thought they would win 70 games. they are trying to make me look smnart
Classic.
i could fix that
Normally, I’d be pissed at Burns trying to steal with the team down four runs. Now, however, FK it.
And now???
To be honest, I took a break from the game.
OK, now I’m pissed at him again.
The outfield defense bugs me more
Routes a bit erratic?
yes. smolinski and ladendorff
94 for Doolittle
Regardless of record, the M’s are at least a bigger disappointment than the A’s.
Burns needs to be better at stealing
You are correct.
Special project for Rickey next ST?
Speed != Good base-running
indeed. cocaine is much better for that. ask richard pryor.
Just got back to my sister’s from the Fair, in time for the teAse!
nope. the other thing. the meltdown
Well that sucked, even from the front row seats.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an A’s team this bereft of pitching.
Weren’t the early Art Howe teams pretty awful at pitching….I just remember guys like John Wasdin and Doug Johns making a lot of starts.
I moved to Oakland the year after, in ’97.
Do the A’s play the Mariners 65 times a season?
God, the socks. They must think no one’s watching.
Wait…so tonights’ game is on American television as well?
No.
Well, it isn’t on mine…of course I’m not sure Arkansas is still part of America.
Bed, I’ve missed you.
I’ve missed you too.
Seth Smith, how I’ve come to hate that empty, slack jawed face.
Bullpen up before a single out is registered. And us without Ike Davis available.
I just want you folks to know I’m on a hard 180 comments count limit. I’m not sure what I’ll do when the playoffs roll around but I am coming off surgery and I have to think about the future of my commenting career.
If the A’s just stopped showing up for games how may people would notice?
I’ve wondered about an offshoot of this:
Say it’s the 7th inning and you are down by 17. Why not forfeit? Save your pitchers an inning or 2, and you only lose 9-0!
Speaking of Doug Johns…is he available to pitch?
I really thought all this Doug Johns talk would drive traffic to the game thread.
Doug. Johns.
It’s a good thing the A’s didn’t schedule South Dakota State.
I imagine Fosse is so depressed watching these games that he’s trying to eat himself to death with Dibs.
Okay, we’ve given them the five runs just to make it fair…time to turn on the engines, boys.
This game is Roger Goodell bad.
They said that guy who just hit his first ML home run is from Richland, WA. Given how close that is to Hanford, I’m surprised he does not have a third eye (blind or not).
as I recall when I live in seattle, there was a controvery about richland or hanford’s hs football team having a mushroom cloud on their helmet
Back when I was in college, the physics club took a road trip to Los Alamos during spring break. My favorite souvenir was one of these bad boys. I’d wear it around the Davis campus just to piss people off.
I wasn’t cool enough to be in the physics club at KU…this lack of coolness led to me never being able to watch The Mentalist many years later.
Who or what is a Jason Pridie?
New idea for Free Kraut…we shift the blog’s focus to Game of Thrones recaps and cat GIFs
Just in case anybody still wonders why Gags got canned …
Not watching or listening to the game. What caused that comment?
Wash made the correct call to hold Vogt at third.
It’s always good to wash your gags after you use them.
Wash held Vogt at 3B instead of trying to score him from first on a double to LF. Gags would’ve sent him, with a play at the plate looming. Instead of being out of the inning, the A’s has runners at 2nd and 3rd with two outs. Butler then bounced a seeing-eye single up the middle for two runs.
Not that it matters with our radioactive pitching right now, but it sure is nice seeing the base coach make good decisions instead of just sending everybody.
Thanks. And I endorse good decisions.
I endorse bad decisions…I also endorse Donald Trump…these two things seem related.
I’m going to be in Arkansas in late October. You’ll need to find some place else to go. Arkansas can’t handle that much awesomeness in the same borders at once.
Hmm…the good news is I’m taking a week long trip to lovely Houston Texas in October so the state may be saved depending on when you’re coming down.
10/22
What are you coming down for?
Concert. Duh.
I figured…who are you seeing and where?
The Avett Brothers. Jonesboro.
I’ve driven through there…I’m not that familiar with that part of the state though…that’s a concert I’d like to see.
I assume Gags refers to the Alvin Dark firing.
Another SeaBass FG and we got this sucker tied.
now its a 2 possession game
We need to get the running game going to set up some play action passes.
i’m not that good at math, but i think this rounds down to 9/5 of the law.
Well, Ed is a well known expert in law so I think the answer here is Cleveland.
The A’s being awful has allowed fans to catch up on other endeavors such as watching Netflix, boating, building life sized Gene Nelson statues out of human hair.
New idea for Free Kraut…we shift the blog’s focus to becoming a dating site for fans of Adam West.
swipe right, or was it left?
Edgar Martinez’s eyes look like they are focusing separately.
This made post made the Bette Davis’ Eyes song come into my head…so thanks for that.
Only one more Sunday without football…cue Ode to Joy.
Only 14 more A’s games vs the Mariners this season…cue Ode to Joy
I’m down for a Jaws remake if they use claymation.
not really you’re not.
AV wins the game thread by a whole bunch.
Seconded. But I will also add here that Jaws is one of my all-time favorite movies. It is one of the few that I can watch at any time.
FK Ebonka and Molly.
lol
New idea for Free Kraut…we shift the blog’s focus to an animated visual breakdown of the life and times of Doug Johns.
I’m just hoping to make Free Kraut’s 53 person roster at this point. I feel like I’ve had a good preseason and with Jesus on my side I think I’ll make the team. If not at least I have that $1.5 million bonus nevermoor gave me to sign…and I hear the Eagles blog Free Cheesesteak is looking for a third string poster.
we are pretty deep at nonsense talkers.
i am rooting for you though buddy
God willing things will go my way.
You know nothing, Jon Snow!
SPOILER ALERT PLEASE
I’ve got a week in Texas in October and then four days in LA in November…hitting all the garden spots. I hear Akron is on the table for December.
My family is finally coming back from Hawaii on Tuesday…I’ve got a beard down to my nipples and I’ve lived off of nothing but Red Vines and Mountain Dew since they left.
I’m eating Beer Nuts for some reason. I’ll work this into my Doug Johns fan fiction somehow.
I went out and got the mail…I was worried I was going to miss so many comments that I would lose my way in the thread.
New idea for Free Kraut…we shift the blog’s focus to a site for people to learn how to use their AOL email.
I think the A’s have lost all three game threads I’ve been in this season so clearly this disaster is all my fault…well, me and Gags.
I’m down for a Showgirls remake if they use claymation.
Well…I’m waiting AV…where’s the link for the claymation Showgirls remake?
i swear i looked. google let us down.
Have you considered using Bing? Just kidding, nobody ever considers using Bing.nn1
i’m going back to altavista as long as they kept their logo the same.
I’m waiting for GeoCities to make a comeback I had over 1,200 posts there about VORP.
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Things you can count on…the sun rising in the East, Doug Johns being dead sexy, and Future Ed posting a link to a song I’ve never heard of.
I feel like chicken or waffles but not chicken and waffles.
If you comment in this game thread you automatically qualify for $50 in credit with Fingerhut.
So to recap…Doug Johns, Beer Nuts, and Jennifer is much cooler than the A’s.
At 58-77 the A’s really better turn it up a notch if they want to win a 100 games this year.
This A’s season has been so bad if they ever make a movie version of it Nic Cage will surely be the star.
Yeah, that’s the season in a nutshell.
wait, phegley was catching when I left
Really bad timing for him. It was pretty much:
“You want me to move to catcher, Bob? OK”
(grabs mitt)
(squats)
BOOM
is that why there was a guy i never heard of catching later?
Yes, it was about as bad an episode of that as I can remember.
It’s Chicken Stanley’s stepson! (the real Chicken Stanley, not our Chickie)
I can only assume Vogt was not wearing a cup when he was in the field, then he went behind the plate without putting one on.
So not in a nutshell then.
asvd
It crossed my mind, but Vogt had finished 10 games for Phegley prior to yesterday so the position switch wouldn’t be unanticipated. If you’re a non-idiot who might enter the game at catcher I don’t think you ever leave the clubhouse naked.
Yeah, it makes sense. I’ve just never seen someone react that strongly to a cup shot.
What may be the worst development is that I heard Ken drop a “the reality is” on the pre-game yesterday.nn1
Dear god.
@Soaker – ha! You said nutshell.