Jesse Hahn rejoins the A’s rotation in place of Chris Bassitt, who has a partially torn UCL and may be headed for surgery.
Phegley in for Vogt for the day game following a night game.
Some rookie on the mound for the Lastros.
Game 26 – looking for some hot Hill-on-hill action.
Hahn’s curve is pretty.
High fastball at 96 MPH not bad either.
Ah the joy of a baseball brew-day!
10 gallons of London Pride, 5 gallons of Sculpin, 5 gallons of Guinness, and turning on just in time to hear that “Bill had a great affinity for wind”.
Ah the joy of Boonville beer fest! Too many tastes to number.
Excellent! Enjoy yourself.
Hawt DP action
Hahn has never looked better.
Re. the wittering on the radio, rather than TJ elbow surgery the Astros’ pitching coach should have had a breathing condition that required X-ray treatment – Brent Strom lung radiation.
/rimshot
Semien seems kind of good now with the glove.
Yeah, I was still skeptical at the beginning of the season, but he seems to have genuinely improved a lot.
It’s obviously way too early for defensive stats to have stabilized, but Semien currently has the 6th best UZR among ML shortstops (not UZR/150)
Ken Macha, if you’re reading this, standing invitation to have a slice of pie at Nation’s, my treat.
Ugh, feels like the lead should have been much larger.
Now I’m nervous.
Axford is good stuff. I like.
Nervous
Never a doubt.
Yay competent baseball
Is this the first winning month since July of 2014?
15-12 June 2015. (And 2-1 October which doesn’t really count.)
I dig healthy, rebuilt Hahn. With Alvarez, the rotation and bullpen will be good enough to hang around in this division.
No one told me I could buy cobbler at the Coliseum! I’m going to have to find my way back up to Oakland this summer…
Hahn looked great. Lowrie fucking dogged it down the line. Burns not getting Phegley in did not improve my happiness. But I got to see Manaea’s debut, two A’s victories and have peach cobbler.
A good weekend.
Still a few dates available in the front row seats …
I’d just be giving the money away.
Only way I make another game this summer is to wake up at 0700 on a Sunday and decide to drive to Oakland.
Thanks though.
It was, indeed, a Hahndy win.
i am uncomfortable with rooting for the angels to beat the rangers today
According to wacchampions on the many-faced book:
oh good lord.
lots of empty seats for the giveaway
the curve seems to be a work in progress today
Discourse on orange tops with green grass is incomplete without Oompaloompa reference.
Let’s Go Oakland!
Or not. Whatever.
Meh. You can’t sweep them all.
Talk about a boring game to have the front row seats. That was d.u.l.l.
The highlight was it being about 80 degrees and the 12 year old in front of us in diamond level ordering buffalo wings and a hot chocolate. Kids are hilarious.
The socks aren’t bad. A bit tight for my taste. /Mr.Pitts
i thought fosse said they were big enought for an elephant?
Are you saying I have elephant calves?!?
Go Sharks, tho.
They are looking great.
This is quite the bed-shitting by Tottenham Hotspur the last two weeks.
It was always a bit of a hopeless chase, but bed-shitting is what they’re best at.
What’s dead may never die.
Amazing that there were still 22 players on the pitch at the end.
You apparently could have gotten 5,000 to 1 odds on Leicester City to win the league preseason.
What’s weird is the things that were at shorter odds than that, like Elvis turning up alive (2000-1) or Obama announcing that the moon landings were faked (500-1).
Someone did.
He cashed out awhile ago, though. I believe it was 100 euros he bet on it.
Thanks, and go As.
There have been dozens of stories about various people’s bets … some cashed out, some part-cashed, and some held firm.
Worst story is the new editor of Bloomberg News who was too busy moving to New York to place his annual £20 bet on Leicester.
How do you “cash out” a bet? The betting houses offer a discounted return, or third parties buy the tickets?
The betting houses have been making people offers to pay up early at much lower odds.
I’m still surprised I didn’t see any stories about the hopes/dreams of people who made the “Back to the Future” bet on the Cubs last year.
They got close enough I’d have expected to see something somewhere from a Cubs fan who made the bet long ago.
The worst one-day losses for the UK betting industry since Frankie Dettori rode all seven winners at Ascot in September 1996.
Really? There was that much action on them?
I’d have expected they’d do fine since all the actual favorites would have pulled most cash.
That was my first reaction too. But
1) In sports betting there are always people who will drop a couple bucks on their team not expecting to win. I’ve done it. That kind of money will be more evenly spread out than the odds would suggest it should be.
2) 5000:1 is a lot. Sure, most cash is on the favorites, but is the 4:1 team pulling 1000x as much cash as the 5000:1 team, or only 100x as much? Odds that big can magnify a minor imbalance into a huge loss.
For comparison, I just checked MLB and NFL futures. Cleveland at 200:1 to win the Super Bowl, and Atlanta at 500:1 to win the World Series are the longest shots.
Interesting. I guess it makes sense (and, obviously, is true if today was that big a bloodbath).
Guess they shouldn’t have added that last zero to the odds. Bad bookkeeping.
Kim Kardashian being elected the next US President was 1000:1
Thanks, and go As.
No way an idiot reality TV star could ever come close to being elected President…
Does it pay out if Trump selects her as VP, wins the election, but then dies in office?
I’ll be honest, I didn’t look into it.
Thanks, and go As.
I would think not, because she would not have been elected to the Presidency, she would have been elevated to the office based on the 25th Amendment.
All of this is predicated on her ability to raise her right hand and swear an oath, which I deem to be beyond her.
The estimate is £8M.
There are some interesting stories about the bookies desperately pouring money onto Dettori’s horse in the 7th race to shorten its odds – they got it down from 12-1 to 2-1, saving themselves £42M*
(*less the cost of their bets, and ignoring the people who opted for the fixed rather than post-time odds)
I wonder if this is going to prompt more betting on the long shots next year, thus helping the books recoup their losses. Surely there will be a load of new people deciding they may as well drop a tenner on Burnley or something.
What’s more likely next season:
(a) Leicester makes the Champions League quarterfinals
(b) Leicester gets relegated from the Premier League
about (b), does PL relegation only take one year into account? i’m used to a 3-year cumulative system.
Yeah, bottom three, one season.
damn. no resting on those laurels.
Canha starting at 3B tonight.
For those of you who don’t know from FB, I have a new cat. He is gold with green eyes and comes to me via Cat Town, Oakland Animal Services, and I’m guessing the mean streets of Piedmont-adjacent because his rescue name is Kingston and there is a street by that name there. So his name in my household is Bill Kingston.
@EM: Bill “Funky” Kingston, I hope. May you bring each other many happy years.