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Altuve’s having some year.
This “Smith” currently on the mound is the most generic A of all time.
a 6’5″ 24 year old with back problems?
J.B. Wendelken sounds like the name of a mediocre midwestern airport restaurant
They have pretty soggy biscuits
The old bay seasoning they dump on the fries can’t mask that the oil needs changing.
The real problem is they use the same fryer for fries and fish sticks.
It’s Brad Peacock
peacock in the bullpen?
mm hmm
Oh hey Butler’s back.
One of my personal favorite Gene Wilder line readings.
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he should get 100% of hall of fame votes, but there will be idiots that think 1) he wasn’t that good, and 2) he juiced because he hit 50 HRs once
have you seen this one?
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Hill’s 538 polls-only percentage has now passed her now cast percentage. Meaning it’s (very slightly) more confident she’ll win in two months than it is that she would win today. Bizarre.
Pretty good England/Pakistan ODI going on right now – Hales is about to beat the English record for an individual score.
And as soon as I write that, England lose 2 quick wickets.
But then a 20-run inning restores order, and 400 is possible.
Followed by a 26-run inning, and Buttler has 50 off 22 balls.
If only ours had the extra T.
And there’s the 400 with 3 overs left!
24 runs from the 48th over sets a new England innings record and brings the all-time record (443) in sight.
5 needed off the last over.
Made with a 4 off the final ball – 444 for 3!
And now for the reply.
Maybe we’ll see something like this.
Oooohhh … a missed LBW call on the first ball of Pakistan’s inning.
Is that kind of like sticking your elbow over the plate to get hit?
No – because if it hits you when it’s in line for the stumps, you’re out.
Or not!
At this rate they may not last 50 overs.
15 overs and 1 wicket left (oh, and 245 runs behind!)
And the 10th wicket is dropped by Buttler!
3 consecutive 6’s later, and Amir has the record for the highest ODI score by a number 11 batter.
245 runs out of the bowlers?
damnn
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France stays France
The note at the end of this is perfect.
The woman playing Hillary in Trump’s mock debates comes in with the worst Kaepernick take so far.
what is a rainbow flag beef game?
Of course Skip Bayless made sure to personally attend the Tebow workout. Of course.
*Blinks* He’s easily impressed.
DID NOT BOBBLE OR MISS A ONE. HE HAS THE BASIC COMPETENCY LEVEL OF A DECENT HIGH SCHOOLER. TAKE THAT HATERS.
OK, everybody calm down.
Don’t worry, that same scout thought Ynoa was a once in a generation pitcher.
I’m still bitter about how much shit I got for calling that phrase out.
I remember that prospect list thing where people wanted to rate him high on our list without ever having thrown a single pitch at any level. It was pretty ridiculous.
Pot calling the Kettle Black, again.
I don’t know whether to laugh or be disappointed that she didn’t refer to her as “Crooked Hillary.” For an art piece, I feel like that’s a fail.
This woman is in no meaningful way “managing” Trump’s campaign. She’s on cable TV and right wing radio all day every day.
Of course that may be the only way to effectively communicate with Trump.
I know what you mean, but my concern with phrases like pot/kettle is the implied equivalence, which really doesn’t exist in this election.
Day 1: Trump calls Clinton a “bigot” with no explanation
Day 2 am: Trump calls Clinton a “bigot” again with no explanation
Day 2 pm: Clinton lays out detailed history of Trump personally discriminating against blacks, leading the birther movement, slandering Latinos and muslims, mainstreaming hate groups etc.
Day 3: “Clinton and Trump exchange racially charged accusations”
It’s pretty insane the way the media covers this. How can you not do your due diligence and simply call out the bullshit for being bullshit. Yeah, you’ll get called bias. But so fucking what. You’re already being called bias. Try being called correct.
They aren’t even willing to call this shit racist. It’s bananas. “Racially charged” my ass.
I get the attempt to be unbiased. It’s important. However, when you have factual proof that it’s completely bullshit, call it out for what it is. And there’s absolutely no cause for giving equal time to idiocy.
this
And even setting aside the ridiculous false equivalence, they ignore that she didn’t call him a racist. She certainly laid out the evidence showing he is one, but she didn’t call him that thing that shall not be said.
And yet, we still get this “OMG they are calling each other racists and it’s only August how low can we go woe for the republic due to both sides” handwringing.
Okay, He and his campaign are both the Pot AND the kettle in this situation.
Conway also has Meg Whitman confused with Carly Fiorina and thinks that you win statewide in California by being more conservative.
She’s an absoulte fool.
How many more campaign managers will he go through before November?
I think by the end of September he names himself to the job, Charlie Finley-style.
I think he has to give Ailes a formal run in the big chair at some point. Then maybe Omarosa.
Wait… is that ANTHONY WEINER’S MUSIC?!?!?!
WEINER. TEE HEE.
Thanks, and go As.
Only the best people for the job. Only the best. The best people.
Meh, all Republican women look the same. Just like every Republican Black guy is a Neurosurgeon.
So every once in a while, I’ll show (at least) two different posts having unread entries. I’ll click on one, it’ll go into it. And it’ll mark all the unread stuff as read in the other posts that I didn’t enter. Just now, I clicked on the STL post, but it marked all the Houston, TX ones as read after entering the STL one, even though I had never been in this one prior to that.
Anyone else experience that? I never have, so curious about where the issue is.
Yes, occasionally.
Also (may be the same bug or may be different) sometimes click on a thread, it fails to load (with no obvious network interruption to explain why) but new comments get marked as read anyway.
That sounds like network issues (probably server side if your internet is ok). Mark as read is (of course) a server side event.
This is all so FKing sexist and racist that it makes me want to scream.
Hey, she’s a muslim and has a scary sounding name. Grab the pitchforks! She must be a terrorist!!! He’s pandering to his crowd. Sigh.
Trump frothing off about it is one thing. The LA and NY Timeses legitimizing it by positing that this is an “optics” problem for Hillz because (a) wives are somehow tainted by their husbands’ infidelities, and (b) muslims natually draw suspicion is what is driving me batty. They are trying force Hillary to fire this woman for no other reason than that she has a shitty husband and awful people racially stereotype her.
ffs.
that is the lamestream media liberal bias.
@dmoas: I too have encountered this on seemingly random occasions over the past 4-6 months or so. Not often, but regularly.
Don’t know how reliable this guy is but Slusser retweeted.
Huh. He’s been with us for 5 years already?
Almost 7.
Huh. Seems much shorter.
Fourth longest tenure in the Beane era? I’ve got Chavez, Ellis, and Zito ahead of him.
Looking up Zito’s debut led me to remember that Huddy improbably finished second in the 2000 Cy Young voting, which led me wonder who finished ahead of him, and….wow was the guy who won the award a lot better than Huddy that year.
Back in the days when a 4.14 ERA could get second place in Cy voting because #20wins
(but I am aware the 4.14 ERA was actually pretty good in the circa-2000 offensive environment)
Yeah, 9th in ERA (with almost nothing separating 6th-10th places), 10th in pitcher WAR.
A comp this year would be Rick Porcello, who is 10th in ERA (3.26), 8th in pitcher WAR, leading the league in wins, and being mentioned as a Cy Young candidate.
I don’t think we reflect often enough on how great Pedro was. He put up Babe Ruth numbers compared to his peers.
that the drum guy?
They really made a movie about Barack and Michelle’s first date. That is apparently not a joke.
I saw a trailer for this film and it actually looked good.
I want to see so that I can complain that they didn’t get the Hyde Park landmarks quite right.
The A’s will be sending cash to the Indians and could wind up getting some mid-grade prospects in return.
The Indians will presumably not be deemed heartless when Coco plays less than 27 of their 31 remaining games.
And/or, I wonder if the amount of cash the A’s send is contingent on that.
I assume playoff games don’t count in the contract?
Staff Ace Jason Kendall Graveman tonight against Someone McHugh.
Mike?
sup?
Thanks, and go As.
Semien leading off with his .301 OBP. Walks first time up though.
he is a speedy shortstop
I’m pretty ok with this. By wRC+, the only better hitters are Valencia, Davis, Healy, Butler, and Smolinski. Healy and Smolinski are both SSS, Davis has the same OBP as Semien, and Billy Butler is awful (and wasn’t in the lineup). You could make an argument for batting Valencia (349 OBP) leadoff, but as long as he is in 1-4 it’s probably ok.
naturally
Speed seemingly not one of Healy’s tools.
or dexterity
Good lord, Wash. A good throw gets him by 10 feet.
Maybe don’t run on Rasmus? That’s his 3rd assist against the A’s this year.
The A’s are somehow not the worst baserunning team in the league (Mariners) according to Fangraphs, but they are damn close at -18.2 runs. More alarming, the team’s position players have put up a grand total of 3.2 WAR all season (last place).
Our defense is also the worst in the league by a fair bit.
As long as I’m having fun with Fangraphs: The Reds’ pitchers have somehow been below replacement level for the season. That is goddamn hard to do.
Oh this is sure to go well.
How in the hell can he still be “considering” going to Mexico *tomorrow* to meet with the *president*.
The same way I am considering hitting a game-winning pinch-hit HR for the A’s tonight.
He’s apparently actually going to do this, and he’s bringing Rudy Giuliani and Jeff Sessions with him. This is going to be a shit show for the ages.
Can we build the wall while they’re down there?
maybe is we throw in cash considerations?
Meh, just have them arrested and sentenced to life in prison on Trumped up charges.
They made it back, and both are wearing hats that say “Make Mexico Great Again Also” tonight in Arizona. Seriously.
I am considering sending a message to Jennifer Love Hewitt saying yes, we can be together and live happily ever after.
Thanks, and go As.
So he ditched his traveling press corps in Arizona and is helicoptering straight from the Mexico City airport to the presidential palace while avoiding the local and American press in the DF. This whole thing is sketchy as FK.
Is he going to do this away from all reporters, so that he can come back and say that Nieto promised to pay for the wall? That’s just dumb enough to be his plan.
no vince, not “would be,” is ted williams’ birthay. he IS still 98
fuck you vince, don’t tell me the MPH, tell me if it’s a strike or not
high octane, over but low
one habit he has of saying “this time” as compared to another time that I may or may not remember
How great is it that I can listen to Glen and Ray, but also get the Vince experience vicariously through FK?
because you are watching on tv and I am listening on the radio, but its the same game that is being broadcast so well on the tv and also the telivsion, but also, you are talking about it on line, in typing form, not actually talking, but communicating the same thing?
As Ray would doubtless tell you, it’s the Rashomon Effect.
another cute thing about ray, is he loves the fake ray fosse on twitter
Are we sure @FakeFosse isn’t like @fakedansavage?
@howgreatdoesitfeeltobenottherealrayfosse
Watch it, he will tell you km/h if youre not careful.
one semien away!
Best A’s Coco moment was obviously the hit against the Tigers in 2012. What else belongs on the list?
the catch of prince fielder in game 3
So many winning hits. I remember a 3-run bomb he hit in New York in extra innings, early in his A’s time.
I feel like I remember a double against the Red Sox in the Bernie game.
Really I feel like I remember about 100 different doubles that had him doing the lean.
Fro.
Thanks, and go As.
wait. his? or his chia pet’s?
Yes!
Thanks, and go As.
I admire Axford for fully embracing the white shoes. Because those are some really white shoes.
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I am starting to eye September 21 businessperson’s special
This weekend I was talking with several FKers about doing a breakfast tailgate on Sunday 9/25, prior to the home finale. I’m pretty sure Team Upgrade is in.
We are likely to join for the brunch tailgate on the 25th.
And for the record, this response is before PTBNL chimes in with “I’ll bring a keg!”
Hmmm … breakfast beer. Maybe a milk stout?
Coffee porter?
I’m getting some good positive responses. Save the date of Sunday 9/25. Because you won’t get another chance to worship at this particular church for another 6+ months.
I’ll put up a stand-alone post sometime this weekend.
I don’t usually pay attention when I get their ads, but I just got one this morning for $5 Plaza Outfield seats for the 24th & 25th.
Ooh, thanks for the tip. I’ve retrieved that promo email from my trash folder.
I’ll eventually get a post up to gauge interest in group ticket buy.
They have a promo today until 4pm with $4.80 Plaza level tix, comemorating Healy’s 480 foot jack. I just bought some for the Upgrade family plus some extras.
Dear people who want Coco to get a ring, he already has one.
Both the A’s and the Astros are off tomorrow; today’s game is one of those CBA-mandated day games for the benefit of the A’s.
It’s a little ironic that if the A’s-Red Sox series were a 4-game series with a game scheduled tomorrow, the Astros could choose to play a night game and force the A’s to arrive home at ~2-3 a.m. prior to their Thursday night game. I read somewhere the other day that tweaks to the scheduling to fix stuff like that are definitely on the table in the new CBA discussions.
I’ll be heading down to the “Lake Tahoe Summit” shortly with Obama, Reid, Brown, Feinstein and Boxer all scheduled to speak. The drinking game will be, drink every time the phrase “climate change” or “global warming” is uttered. Tickets were inexpensive and readily available so I expect a fair number of climate change-denying, chanting infiltrators. I don’t know much about The Killers but they’re playing a set after the talking ends.
I liked about half of The Killers’ first album, but that was like 12 years ago.
Obama had never been here before so he got to use his Fredo/Godfather Part 2 joke. The crowd was surprisingly just about universally friendly to the Democrats on stage. Where the hell did they dig up all the liberals; it’s usually quite the opposite around here. I only saw one Trump T-shirt so I guess those folks must have been glued to the Mexico coverage. I don’t usually see bands as lead singer-driven as The Killers but their set was fun.
Something about not wanting to go fishing?
Obama said that now that he’s been here he’d love to come back. I’m envisioning a threesome of two-time defending champion Mark Mulder, Steph Curry and Barack Obama in next year’s tournament. What a draw. Not sure how the Secret Service feels about a recent ex-President in that environment, especially on 17 with all the drunk girls on the boats taking off their bikini tops. The only politician who plays in the golf tournament is Dan Quayle and who gives a shit about him.
Oh, and Barreto gets a AAA playoff cup of coffee.
Barreto completes his age 20 season in the Texas League with a .281/.340/.413 line, and 30/45 on SB attempts.
Every single time I see “Detwiler” and “A’s” in the same sentence I assume he’s pitching against us.
Every time I see “Detwiler” I assume it’s Steve and I think about popping the FSU CWS DVDs in my player.
Wendle is playing second and batting seventh today.
He registered a putout on Altuve. Auspicious beginning to a big league career.
Reaches on an error and scores from first on a Smolinski triple.
Grounds out with the bases loaded to end the inning.
Wendle and Alonso come together chasing a foul pop. Alonso reaches back to catch it, which is good for Wendle because otherwise it would have hit him square in the face.
no, ray, the soggy infield was not the reason Healy made 2 errors monday
Colby Rasmus has a gloriously terrible haircut. A mullet with stripes shaved into the sides.
really hate to say things like this, but he has really gotten the short end in the appearance department
I also hate to say things like this but I don’t think he makes up for it in intellect.
I’ve always been impressed by his 15-year-old stoner growing his hair out look. Especially since he is actually 30.
Often complemented by a classic horrible teenage mustache.
vince, if I hadn’t been paying attention (that is I saw the score when I turned it on via MLB at bat, I would be sad and confused by your call that impied the Astros lead 3-1 and gattis can tie it with one swing?
rossweiler? into the 6th?
Going to the bullpen didn’t exactly work.
Gregerson never even had a chance.
i happily put away my phone on the way into afternoon court with a one run lead and two out in the 8th
FK this team.
Liam Hendricks is pitching the 8th inning with a two run lead. Are they even trying to win?
The President of Mexico seems like he might not be so good at this whole politics thing.
Sheesh
What’s funnier: The fact that the campaign thinks it needs to do this, or the fact someone leaked it?
Geez – the Cubs’ magic number is 15. On September 1.
Really looking forward to them choking in the playoffs as long it’s not to the you-know-whos.
Yes. I am normally in favor of long-standing futility streaks, but should they end up in the NLCS against the Halloween team, then I hope it’s “CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN!”.
oh, relax, they aren’t making the playoffs
This is a pretty great historical document of life in 1980.
Name that team & players.
All names have been changed for the story.
Clues:
“it wasn’t until his second season covering the team that the players trusted him enough to take him clubbing. This was back in the late Eighties,”
“there were five or six stars who assembled each night to guzzle beer, snort coke, and gather their harem of  big-haired girls to tag-team upstairs in their suites.”
“Strider was a long, lean whip of a right-hander — a kid with a filthy slider, a Ford model’s looks, and a precocious sense of how to work a hitter. Along with Driller and T.J., Strider formed the backbone of a pitching staff that had come of age together, turning a bad team good in a couple of years.”
“Rico Suave, the third baseman.”
“Driller, who was on his first contract and still tossing around ten-spots as if they were barbells.”
“a job at a big-town tabloid … he was suddenly assigned the Monarchs’ beat at the ripe old age of 25.”
“The Beat Guy made friends with the Monarchs’ right fielder, a great-looking guy who got into a good college and could form a complete thought without keeling over … Georgetown was sharing a house with a Monarchs fielder called Dirt Bomb, a farm-town kid he’d met in the minors.”
“Even for the Monarchs, Dirt was a whore of a different color. He bitched about playing time, alienated his friends, and was the first of the Monarchs to go hog wild for steroids, transforming himself in a couple of years … But that, of course, was later, in the mid-Nineties.”
“the Monarchs’ favorite was cocaine.”
“Dino, the Monarchs’ slugger, … [was] just a kid then”
“Skip’s bending over for his best player, Dino, giving him days off whenever he wanted.”
“As for that demon group he’d covered in the Eighties, things didn’t end well for them.”
“Strider … became puffy, putting on 20 pounds, none of them useful. Where once his arm whipped through, now it dawdled, taking some of the hair off his curve.”
“So too with T.J., who’d been Nureyev on the mound, a beautifully balanced firebird bringing the heat. No one could figure out where his fastball went, and he was years too young to lose that gorgeous gas.”
“Same thing with Driller: early seasons of brilliance, then a decline to merely efficient.”
There may be more dissembling than just name changes going on too.
From some clues, the Mets would be an obvious candidate, with Dykstra as Dirt Bomb, but that would have to make the “late Eighties/right fielder” Beane (because it sure as hell ain’t Strawberry!), even though he only played 3 games – starting 1 – in RF, and they were in 84/85.
Well there goes my guess. I immediately assumed Dykstra.
May still be, just with red herrings and mis-rememberings.
For another example, if it’s the Mets then Keith Hernandez has to feature … but maybe Rico Suave is actually 1B not 3B.
Big town with a tabloid and a “metro” limits things pretty significantly. New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia. (LA had a tabloid but no metro in the 80s.)
Young pitching staff that turned a bad team good in the mid to late 80s would rule out the Yankees, Phillies, White Sox and probably Cubs.
So it’s either the Red Sox or the Mets. I’m having trouble placing those Red Sox into this story, other than Boggs.
The overall narrative and some of the players fit the Mets so well that I think it has to be them, even if some of the other details seem a little off.
i can’t think of a team witgh more hits than the mets
the owsley stanleys?
don’t sleep on the cubs.
they were always terrible, but they did ok in 89
Mets?
Dirt = Lenny Dykstra
Rico = Howard Johnson
Dino = Strawberry
Georgetown = Kevin McReynolds
Strider = Sid Fernandez
TJ = Gooden
Driller = Ron Darling
McReynolds played in left and went to University of Arkansas!
Not sure we need to spoil though – I’m thinking of this as a team effort!
“Good” is a relative term for colleges! Although next to Ron Darling…
Unspoiled. I initially thought you were the one who changed the names so I answered without clicking the link.
Fernandez was a lefty. A late 80s rightly with a filthy slider might be Cone, but the 90s decline isn’t there.
So who were the News’ and Post’s Mets beat writers in the 80s? I’m not finding the right search terms to get any leads.
maybe you’re forgetting to use the google exclusion?
Newsday is also a possibility.
Sigh.
Ugh. Just remove the grass and make the whole damn outfield dirt.
Honestly, the part where football is actually played is not a problem for me. The surface looks good enough, and I’ve been watching intersecting football/baseball lines here for like 50 years. The part that really sucks is the sad outfield grass.
I think a weird strip where the stands were of just dirt would be too weird. But if the Raiders were to forego adding those seats for the pre-season and play on the road during the regular season through the end of baseball season, that would work too.
Humpty Dumpty, really? An infinite number of monkeys pounding on an infinite number of typewriters all agree that sucked.
Man, if only we stuck with our homegrown talent! We could be the actual worst team in baseball for once!
i am sure that info would tell me something, if someone thought about it for a while, then told me
The A’s do a shit job of drafting.
And our international signings are no picnic either.