I sense I’m not the only one who is only watching an inning or two per game the last couple weeks. But today I’m letting the last of the summer tourists and the Burning Man refugees leave, and tomorrow night’s matchup of Sonny Gray vs. Scott Kazmir is legitimately interesting. Wednesday night’s Aaron Brooks start…well, maybe I’ll be around.
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Upon checking the standings, I was somewhat pleased to see that a top three pick is still well within reach..
Cool…what hitter that won’t pan out will Beane take?
Lawrie hit, Valencia scored, Nolin pitched well last night
OMG THANKS AGAIN BILLY
Thanks, and go As.
This team is likely going to lose over 100 games.
there is absolutely no way of that happening. that would be helpful to the future.
(72.6 third order wins)
That would mean they’d only win up to 4 of their last couple dozen games.
Your point being…?
Well, my point is that lemon pepper is better in marinades than garlic salt but it’s okay to use both.
Mustard powder.
So?
Having Donaldson would not make this a playoff caliber team.
Thanks, and go As.
i like the way butler strikes out in a situation where a double play ball might help
I like the way you like that, Ed.
nothing more frustrating than safe on a pick off
I’ll go with safe when your team correctly pitches out but then your heavily-bearded catcher can’t get the ball out of his glove to make the throw. Did i mention extra-innings in a wild card game?
fuck
I think you mean FUCK.
DMOAS!
Seems implausible.
Nothing…like in the entire history of the universe is more frustrating?
More frustrating than the absence of stable nuclei with 5 or 8 nucleons for primordial nucleosynthesis?
If the Houston Astros ceased to exist I’m not sure I’d notice.
I don’t sit in the bleachers…I’m a Republican.
I sure as hell wouldn’t sit next to them.
But you’re a Republican.
right, not to mock the official astros account. just to mock the astro fans who just now are paying attention.
Exactly.
huh, crisp is not dead yet
It feels like he’s been on the team forever…which in Beane years means he’s been on the team for at least three years.
we agree that the A’s batted around?
BOOM goes Team Dynamite
Then BOOM goes their version of Team Dynamite.
This game is at 3 hours 20 minutes and the A’s bullpen still needs to get 6 more outs.
…with Charlie Brown defense not helping much.
but the interferance not called on semien did
At this point, I hope Billy either DFAs or non-tenders pretty much everybody in the bullpen not named Doolittle this offseason.
Doolittle seems to be back.
That was quick.
5 pitches?
Never a doubt.
Did the right team win?
No, Bed. Left team.
I’ve heard it both ways.
If the money’s right…
then we party tonight.
Michael Lewis showed up at our neighborhood block party.
yawn.
tabatha soren?
I ran here to ask this.
not since kurt loder.
(though he hardly knew ‘er.)
Yes sir
I’m 3-0 at the Coliseum this year. I feel blessed.
2 blessed 2 obsess.
So why haven’t you gone more? I blame this season on you, Butt of Thunder.
my prediction about the A’s you’ve all been waiting for. they’re going to wear white shoes tomorrow. and boy is society going to look down on that!
That AB was more like it, but our $10M designated hitter, whose OPS was in the .650’s a couple weeks ago, is making a serious run at .700.
Can the other manager still ask to confiscate a bat for a cork check?
Billy Burns SLG – .387
Billy Butler SLG – .376
a tae of 2 billies
It was the best of at-bats, it was the worst of at-bats.
Butler read that between innings, which is why he foolishly tried to stretch that to a double.
This won’t help that..
Thanks, and go As.
fail
W00t Canha.
I wonder if Lick Spittle will continue taking credit for his late-season surge.
He’s going to finish with about 450 PA which has to be pretty close to a record for a Rule 5 player.
I’m guessing Ike Davis won’t be back next season, and they’ll give Canha a chance to win the 1B job outright during spring training.
I was going to suggest Josh Hamilton, but he only got 337 PA. Dan Uggla got 683 though.
Another “the reality is…” from Ken there. (It was “the reality is Butler has been a pile of shit this year” or something close thereto, if Ray hadn’t interrupted.)
The reality is we’re all gonna die, so e-mail me.
ASVD
Gentry is still alive?
I don’t get that at all. Yes, he has inexplicably retained his spot on the 40-man roster, but they have enough outfielders for September without bringing him to the major league team. Just tell him to go home and watch the mail for his release papers.
Even last year, when his bat was bad, he was worth 1.6 WAR. He was terrible this year in only 43 PA, but maybe he is worth keeping as a 4th OF.
Worrying that he hit in AAA this year almost exactly as he did in the ML last year. He’d still be a good 4th/5th OF on a playoff team.
How was the game?
Gray and Dull.
Ah. So I take it the A’s won, then?
75′– Messi decides to start trying
Thanks, and go As.
i think he was all, FK it. i ain’t getting hurt for this meaninglessness.
but yeah. overall, i think i enjoyed my radio dudes making fun of the handheld hose to water the crap pitch in a $10zillion stadium more than that pride-saver at the end.
also, FIRE MARTINO NOW!
Kind of a jerk move to not replace his divot IMO
Thanks, and go As.
why, was there a golf exhibition during halftime?
i bet you’ve seen this already.
it’s kinda good, unfortunately.
It’s very, very good.
BoMel = extended
also prolly: Beane -> VP, Forst -> GM
Thanks, and go As.
Oh no! Not…wait……who?
I never heard of this guy, but apparently he was hired last year to replace Farhan.
Please tell me that Beane followed that up by fake coughing while saying “Billy Butler”
In fact, some have been abad…WACKA WACKA WACKA!!!!
This is quite the epic contract year Yoenis is putting up.
itd be cooler if he didn’t make a 2 run eror yesterday, but yeah
My fantasy team is loving his Giancarlo Stanton impression. Loving Stanton’s broken-hand impression less.
I know it would be very unlikely, but I’m sort of rooting for Yo for NL MVP and JD for AL MVP.
john lester and sonny gray cy young?
Addison Russell and Billy Burns ROY.
Fortunately A’s fans will get to see Addison Russell play in Oakland in 2016 after all.
Holy smokes, there are actually people pushing him for MVP! In real life!! Over Bryce Harper!!!
yes. its the “the _____ would miss the playoffs without him” people.
you know, the guys who argued against trout in 2012 because the tigers made the playoffs, even though the angels won more games.
Reddick going back to “Careless Whisper” struck me as a nice little tip of the cap to the diehards who showed up tonight.
Brooks pitching strikes me as a concession by Melvin that he’d like to see a very high draft pick show up in Oakland during his newly extended managerial tenure.
What other options does he have?
With 16 of the final 22 on the road, I’d like to see them mathematically eliminate the Giants, but otherwise (I don’t usually say this) I’m content to make a run at a high draft spot.
I’m going to one more game this year, on my birthday. I would like it if they won that one. They have permission from me to lose the rest unless the Giants or the Angels are still in contention when we play them.
just looking at the schedule, looks like I am hosed for the rest of the year
if they continue to accidentally win, I’s like it to be that series
I love how Fosse always feels the need to explain that a ball that “the foul pole is really the fair pole.” Of all the things he refuses to ever explain, he wants to make damn sure we don’t think a ball hitting the pole is actually foul.
Oh shit, our season run differential just went negative!
Still a .526 team according to BaseRuns
We end the night 587 runs for, 588 runs against.
The A’s are STULL playing the Astros? Crap, it seems like this series has lasted a month.
?
i thought we were more forgiving with spelling errors around here.
“And that quickly, the A’s are on the board!”
Ken is trolling now.
This is some fantastic SFX work.
Thanks, and go As.
Wait, the Lion is on top of him, and then they cut to them squaring off in boxing position. I call bullshit.
I said SFX, not editing.
Thanks, and go As.
the angle of the lion also changes.
totally faked
Only because that clip has been edited from the original.
Duh.
i like it that palin opens up the fur coat and his chest is even furrier.
if you can tune into the rangers mariners. felix v beltre is happening next inning about 205.
so far beltre has hit the ball hard twice, but lined out twice and they really give it ot each other after the AB
rangers pull off the old 8-4-3-2-5 putout at second (it was a single)
bartolo with an rbi single and more shut out innings
Dilfer is very big on “changing the launch point,” whatever that means. I can never decide if he’s pretty smart or exceptionally dumb.
The only thing I know is he’s the luckiest and or worst Super Bowl winning QB ever. On TV I find him mostly harmless which is a step up from most of ESPN’s “talent”.
I Doctor K’d with a football comment during baseball season. Pretty much sums things up.
I think we should all just post in random threads…it’ll add some mystery.
love
He said Holy Toledo. Having gone to Aptos HS I am going to assume he has Bill King memories hidden somewhere in that bald noggin.
Him being from Aptos, I can just imagine what might be rattling around up there.
Well he went to FSU so it certainly did not get filled with additional info after he left Aptos…