Sonny Gray with a live audition tuesday v some guy
manaea v fiers
hahn v some other guy for the matinee
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Sonny Gray with a live audition tuesday v some guy
manaea v fiers
hahn v some other guy for the matinee
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Sad loser lineup
can someone explain puppy filters to me?
Kids are weird.
That’s the stuff in a baleen whales mouth that allows the krill in but keeps the puppies out.
Brodie and Bip are absolutely gushing about the A’s, the rookies are amazing, more coming soon from the stacked farm system, what a great time to be a fan, etc. They may be overselling one good A’s series just a wee bit.
And Rush, a Canadian band, wrote a great song about Bangkok.
FK Rush.
er, uh, gosstt tonight
9 out of 10 times balls like that are called no catch.
Because they aren’t catches.
Ground can’t cause a fumble, right?
he turned the glove before it pooped out
but of course
He did, but then he panicked or something.
My theory is he felt it rattling loose in the webbing and tried to seal it with the other hand but he’s just not that coordinated.
They should just forego the replay process and just rule against us from the outset. Save everyone time.
FK replay
Astros guys report the A’s swept the yankees for the first time in a half century
oh good lord
A two-leg flight from medium right to second base is not going to get it done.
Take the sticker off your hat, JaVale.
this guy is a lot paler than i remember
dear a’s, thats a slider
em on houston tv
saw a couple of gulls close to cf camera
Has anyone seen the falcon kite?
This Gossett fellow is getting em out. Mixing it up with good location.
damn
lowrie can punish the guy who he was traded for i think
Fire the new third base coach now!
things went wrong there. 1 great play by springer 2 great thrwo by corea.
hale should have seen 1 and anticipated 2
Scarsone tonight.
We FKing pioneered auto-bold.
astros tv was inconclusive, but that may have been a violation
I can’t tell anymore what the standard is for whether the throw takes the catcher into the base path.
It’s not a violation when the ball is there so far before the runner.
Sounds reasonable. They’ve at least dispensed with the interminable review delays we had in the first year of the new plate rules.
correct. but the tv i saw didn[t show until after the throw was in the air. and it looked like gattis may have been in the way sooner
good ab by khris
Good start, kid.
Picked off 2B with Springer up, the Astros kangaroo court will be heard from.
altuve o’fer
victory
carrera seems to not like the inside pitch
Josh Smith has allowed runs in 6 of 14 appearances, that seems not good.
Edging ever closer to .500
Axford 7 out of 13
I was hoping they’d use Sipp or Gregerson.
And we wouldn’t use Josh Smith.
Why is Josh Smith in the majors
we need 2 dhs
is there some part of redwood city that is in texas? cuz geoff blum has an odd south bay accent
At the end of the day, brad peacock is always going to shut you down
Why did we resurrect Nate Dogg and make him pitching coach?
Thanks, and go As.
that made me laugh out loud
It took me a minute to place who he reminded me of and then HOLY SHIT.
Thanks, and go As.
i am not going to complain. it was an ok game
Healy is going to have to learn to draw a walk at some point.
how can he yell and pump his fist when he walks?
To sign, one hopes.
check the cover photo and pinned tweet
Aw, that’s sweet. Maybe he’ll settle for under slot.
“Welcome to Oakland”
I admit I haven’t been paying the closest attention, but this team seems to be the TOOTBLANiest A’s team in a while.
with this team “OTB” is an achievement
It looks like there’s a typo or mistake there:
slot bonus is $2,033,500, so the bonus is $233,500 below slot.
That makes sense. I’m reading that they picked Merrell because he would go under slot, and that they need the savings plus those from a bunch of seniors they got in later rounds if they are to have a chance at signing Nick Allen.
The idea of $233,500 for the 33rd pick is a little dubious too.
Speaking of, here are some opinions on the A’s draft. The Allen stuff is pretty interesting.
Jim Johnson is striking out 10 batters per 9 this year. What the hell, man?
the ball is juiced
Just blew a save against the giants.
Franklin Barreto’s numbers fell off a dang cliff over the last month. He’s now slashing .270/.311/.426 for the season.
¡boca campeón!
sucks though that they won it on a day off.
and that if i wear my jersey tomorrow, people will think i’m an off-brand warriors fan.
still, a ticket to the libertadores is a ticket to the libertadores.
And that’s the way our bawlgame begins.
2017 a’s at least 1 dh in the field per game
astros guy confused by pinder in right. seems lke they do no research
He’s only there tonight because Joyce’s back hurts though.
sonny really really wants to stay in oakland
Sonny obviously doesn’t want to get traded.
That was a little rough.
WHO??
Cal guy.
that was not fair
Sonny may not have his A+ stuff tonight.
This “economic impact study” seems like pure propaganda.
2,000 jobs!
There is some pitching coach out there who has told his general manager, “I have seen exactly what has been wrong with Gray since last year and if you can get him from the A’s with a lowball offer I will have a Cy Young contender for you in 2018 and 2019.”
The flip side is that with 2.5 years of control left, there is really no reason to accept a lowball offer.
If the A’s opinion is that he’s FUBARed they might think lowball is better than nothing. I don’t mean the A’s would take Adam Rosales for Gray, it’s just that when Sonny came off the DL in early May I was thinking an Addison Russell and another very good prospect.
honestly, not knowing shit and reading comments, it seems like he has no plan and no baseball iq to formulate a plan
Sonny? Forst? andeux?
It’s a fair cop.
sonny. makes me think he was a big reason why curt young was let go
With a strong pitching coach and a good catcher, a pitcher really wouldn’t necessarily need a plan, just a enough trust in the teammate’s plan.
Except that Sonny seems to pitch by feel and doesn’t have clear distinctions between his pitches. See this interview by Eno Sarris. I came away from that interview thinking that Gray needs to spend a little more time thinking through his game plan, but also that it’s not something a catcher could do for him.
Sounds like the Bs may be the best option unless you can find some magical pitching coach who can get into his head.
He’s a pitcher, so a future return of nothing is certainly always a possibility. But there’s also the chance that an Addison Russell is back on the table within a year, so I’d be pretty disappointed if they settled for a couple of B prospects now. (But I would also hope that the team has some idea what, physical or mental, is going on with him, and could make a more informed decision on this than you or I.)
Pinder Power
promising
but…rajai
It’s kind of messed up that the Astros have this much talent despite busting on a #1 overall pick.
oh, i forgot about that stanford weirdo
Appel pitched a good game last night, but generally his AAA stats this season are rather underwhelming.
Losses from 2009-2014: 88, 86, 106, 107, 111, 92. So they had a lot of chances to recover from that one. Also, in baseball, plenty of talent comes from below the first two rounds, so it’s not like the NFL where a JaMarcus Russell kills you for the next ten years.
send him out for the sixth. as punnishment
How did that not get challenged?
bold move, but josh is not exactly khris
i don;t know about leaving martes is. thanks aj
Whistles are over the line. I wish the A’s would ban them from the stadium.
Draw. A. Damn. Walk.
nope. big spot for big man! swing swing swing swing!
(to be fair he fought off some good pitches)
Happy Summer, FKers!
I am glad this evening turned into something a little better than Soaker’s Less Than Excellent Baseball Adventure In Florida for you and your date.
The night is yet young. First, I say we win this game.
Defeat. It’ll have to be consolation sex, then.
So, I guess it’s safe to say that winter is coming.
thanks for the bunting aj
Aside from the strategic validity, having watched many Gene Mauch-managed games 30 and 40 years ago, I find today’s attempts at bunting to be sad and pathetic.
In my curmudgeonly moments I pine for a Mauchesque redass berating failed fundamentals to the point of tears. Then I recall parenting class.
I took a few minutes to look up some bunt-o-mania stats.
Mauch’s final 8 full years of managing were in the AL (4 with the Twins and 4 with the Angels), but having the DH did not deter his small-ball fetish. His teams led the AL in sacrifice bunts in 7 of the 8 years, usually by wide margins.
The 1979 Twins laid down 142 sacrifice bunts. The other 13 teams in the AL averaged 62, and the second-place team had 79.
Gene’s most spectacular season of small-ball managing might have been with the 1982 California Angels. They laid down 114 sacrifice bunts. The other 13 teams averaged 50 (bunting was already fading fast among most managers). What’s especially good is, that Angels team finished second in the league with 186 home runs. Six players hit at least 19 HR and three of those hit at least 28.
ffs, they were giving you an out
this is going to end well
come on. it was greerson
Well, I hope they retrieve that baseball for Michael Brady’s trophy case.
thats not the debut we were looking for
these astro outfielders are unreal
at least they get all mad when they strike out
2 catcher visits. pitching coach and short stop
I thought those of us who stuck out 3-1/2 hours of this were going to get one final teASe, but no.
that is ridiculous defense. if you just input a’s defense codes (minus chapman) a’s are right in this game
Frank Thomas is doing ads for testosterone supplements now. That makes me sad.
nugenix… because neonazi was already taken?
ouch. wgere is marketing on tha name?
“Falcon McFalconface cannot hear the falconer/Things fall apart; the centrefielder cannot hold the ball…”
He couldn’t have announced this while Soaker was in town?
Oh btw I photographed the falcon kite in action last night, will try to post a pic later. It appeared to help.
i caught last ev’ning ev’ning’s minion. king-
dom of seagulls swarming, dibs-cup-drawn Falcon, in his riding.
Michael Kay and Ken Singleton just spent an entire half inning dragging Scioscia for bunting a guy to second down 2-0 in the third. Kay was citing Baseball Prospectus stats to show how dumb it was. I hate him a little less now.
i don’t hate either, they are the confused aunt and uncls that think they are teaching you about something you know more about.
What’ll it be against these guys tonight? Close fought loss? Blowout loss? Close fought 5 or 6 innings that is Josh Smithed into a blowout loss?
not close, not quite blow out, maybe no hitter flirted with. lowrie and alnso break shut out in 8th
no hitter for 2 and a third, alanso no lowry in 7th.
“Josh Smith starts to throw”, reports Glen in the 7th.
pretty decent crowd sourcing
Ken is off tonight, so your Oakland A’s radio Dream Team of Vince and Ray will handle all the exciting action.
Ouch. Does that mean Ray does pxp in 3rd 4th and 8th and 10th innings?
mean more kevin and golden bear blum
Yes, Vince tossed to Ray for the top of the 3rd, in case anyone wants to sample a bit of this unappreciated brilliance.
I am tuned in.
It’s not that bad as long as you are also watching the game and not relying on him to tell you what happened.
Why would you listen to them instead of Glen and Mulder?
Cringe comedy
“It’s not that bad as long as you are also watching the game and not relying on him to tell you what happened” is also an excellent description of Joe Starkey’s calls on Cal football on the radio. Remarkably, Joe is about to enter his 43rd year as the PxP guy for the Golden Bears, still making a living off 20 seconds worth of work in 1982.
the astros guys really don’t like the drums
And now we’re talking about pork nachos and cheesesteaks.
Fiers! Fiers on the Mountain!
Where the hell was the CF?
I wish there were a team error. That was a defensive failure that should have been a double and an error. There’s just no one to assign an error to.
Game still tied because R. rather than K. Davis is in left field.
Hearing Mulder reminds me that he has a couple serious challengers for his golf championship, guys who haven’t played the last two years. Steph Curry is playing, and he’s been very good before, but I wonder if he’ll be able to play decently amidst the circus surrounding his group. Another excellent golfer who’s returning this year, and should contend, is Tony Romo.
Gurriel’s hair continues to be awesome.
Mulder knows more about baserunning than Josh Phegley, and probably a few other players on the team.
Actually I get the impression that five straight games of A’s baseball is about all Mulder can take without an extended break.
Yet somehow never managed to steal a base himself. He did OPS .880 one year in St Louis though
Brugman hopefully learned a lesson about big league (non-A’s) baserunners there.
Maybe we could also learn the lesson about Gattis liking the ball up, after the nth time.
After this hit, Astros TV showed a supercut of Gattis hammering high fastballs while pitchers shook their heads in disbelief.
yes that was a swing, but i don’t like home plate guys calling that
Man, remember when the A’s used to be able to hit? That was a great few days.
and field?
Ha! I can remember when the A’s used to be able to pitch.
The ad with Rosales tagging out kids at a playground is somehow plausible.
That’s Fairyland! Probably my fave commercial of the year so far.
Willie the Whale was there when I was occasionally taken to visit Dad at work in Kaiser Center, ca. 1965.
yes, me too
fairyland is not on the A’s bandwagon.
mccann likes to talk
Healy with his second walk of the series, after 21 games without one.
Phegley has 2 walks in 28 starts this season.
Almost 3 years since Vogt played in the outfield (Aug. 17, 2014). His first couple dozen games with the A’s, he played mostly right field.
They say Bob isn’t creative, but finding a way to make the defense worse took some doing.
Sorry, his first couple dozen games with the A’s *in 2014*. He had caught for quite a few games in 2013.
This Vogt OF inning is at least entertaining.
they are really executing the plan
The A’s had that season when they beat the Mariners 17 out of 19, and I’m starting to think Astros-A’s this year looks about the same.
Yup, it’s pretty thorough ownage.
Yet it can still get worse, turns out.
2006? clinched in seattle
Rumors on Facebook of a Vogt DFA
Thanks, and go As.
Thanks, and go As.
sad and happy.
seems like robot front office is trying to take control again
Sad now. I’ll look forward to Vogt on our coaching staff somewhere in a couple of years.
Yeah. He’s a good dude who seemed to enjoy playing here.
Totally understandable move, but still sad.
I’m not sold on Maxwell as a regular, but as with other marginal prospects like Brugman, Pinder, Olson, it’s worth at least giving him a shot at regular playing time.
Hopefully Puk and Beck have given Beaneforst a taste for high draft picks. With attendance already in the toilet, and the ballpark announcement theoretically forthcoming regardless, there is zero cost to losing a couple extra games while auditioning guys.
I figured they were about ready to commit to Maxwell, who was out for a month but returned to action about a week ago.
Springer taking second base on the routine fly ball to Khris on Monday night may have been the straw that finally broke the camel’s back about the crappy defense, and along with Khris, Vogt was the most glaring inadequacy.
Vogt wasn’t hitting, his defense was bad, and his vaunted leadership in the clubhouse and of the pitching staff wasn’t showing any results. Hard to argue with the move.
They also need to start moving more guys up from AAA to clear room for some promotions from AA. Joey Wendle is Joey Wendle, but he’ll be more useful in Oakland soon than blocking the talented young middle infielders in Midland.
Yeah I’m fine with clearing Rajai and Rosales to make room.
That may result in some ugliness in centerfield and at shortstop when Pinder and Brugman need days off, but what else is new.
Semien has apparently gotten the OK to start a minor league rehab assignment. I’d hope Rosales goes when he is ready to come back
Thanks, and go As.
Sounds great
[prepares for that butt-like-a-girl troll]
Hot news from SF Gate
Thanks for clearing that up.
@ andeux (from toasty Beach):
Twitter reacts hilariously to A’s decision to play game in scorching heat — the sorry excuse for a “news” site that is SFGate.
Is Hahn trying to prove that he wasn’t trying to kill Springer, he just has no idea where the ball is going?
Matt Olson got his first hit of the season. Also, Matt Olson is our second place hitter.
An eight-game homestand where you both sweep and get swept in a four-game series seems unusual.
It’s doubtful I would waste much of a beautiful day on this. A book and the SiriusXM music channels beckon.
if my doctors appointment didnt take 2 hours, i was going to go. it did and i went record shopping instead
10-run rule; have a nice day.
Only 9 earned though!
Josh Smith time
some guy (who was riding his skateboard the wrong way down a wrong way while eating a burger and who i was ceding the bike lane to, to give him room, but he kept trying to go more in the middle of the street too till it was too late and we both had to stop, me apologizing for the slight inconvenience with a goofy smile and all) spit his food at me. twice. with some landing in my mouth.
worst part? IT WAS FUCKING MCDONALD’S.
so gross. cheap asshole.
trueburger, i wouldn’t have really minded.
i am pretty sure that is the oddest thing possible
The comeback
so close
So the A’s outscored ’em 9-2 after I shitcanned the game. That should provide the momentum for an outstanding road trip.
Kings fans, you might like Justin Jackson. Will be interesting to see if he can create space for his old-school midrange game.
i love the “, ejected.”
you mean they didn’t let him continue
reminds me, what happened to kazmir? dodgers dl?
McConnell is going to let Dean Heller and one other Republican (I’ll guess Susan Collins or Rand Paul) vote no on this health care shitpile and then pass it with Pence, and the House will eat it whole. Then we get a signing ceremony where Trump lies about how it saves Medicaid or some shit.
Awful times for democracy.
It’ll be interesting to watch. There are three female GOP senators, so he needs at least one of them, and needs to keep the nutty far-right, and needs to not lose anyone else.
It’ll be interesting to see if the inevitably-awful CBO rating matters at all.
Seems obvious to me that he can keep the nutty far right on this with the possible exception of Paul. The other guy you would expect to be a problem, Ted Cruz, probably thinks he’s vulnerable to a primary challenge next year if he’s the one who blows up the supposed “Obamacare repeal.” Cruz and pals have been in the room the whole time.
Murkowski might have to be bought off with some Alaska earmarks. Ernst strikes me as a party-line conservative–she’ll vote yes. Collins…I have no earthly idea what she is willing to stand for, to be honest.
Ah, I forgot about Shelley Moore Capito. Hard to imagine she’ll have the guts to scuttle this thing. She should in order to represent the interests of West Virginia, but I doubt it.
Yeah, wasn’t counting Ernst.
Hmmm…Murkowski is sounding pretty hard to buy off. The Medicaid cuts are central to the whole heist these guys are trying to pull off.
My “moderate Republican” Senator, Rob Portman, has been making noises throughout the whole process about wanting to defend Medicaid funding for opiod addiction treatment in Ohio. At this point, it seems blindingly obvious that McConnell has set things up so that Portman can get an amendment that appropriates money for some opiod treatment fund and then everybody says that it’s a big win, despite being a small fraction of what Medicaid was devoting to the problem. And so on with similar fakery to benefit the other fence-sitters.
Yeah, that’s the game they pulled in the House, and I expect them to pull it here. It would help if John Kasich were to pressure Portman as vociferously as Brian Sandoval apparently pressured Heller. But in the end, Portman just got re-elected bigly and he is going to get along.
um…
um, mitch? that’s 2, not including susan collins
The fuck does that even mean?
i hope it means he won’t vote for it, but you are right, he is leaving a lot of room
Cruz, Lee, and Paul have all complained about the bill for not being right-wing enough, but I’m not pinning any hopes on them following through.
trump is not popular in utah. i hope that means something
thats one
Looks like this bill won’t get to the floor before July 4. Pleasantly surprised.
So now either McConnell buys off enough votes to ram it through when they get back, or the dam completely breaks when the senators face the home folks and the thing dies.
*chin-scratching emoji*
that has to be bad news for the bill, right?
Not if he locks Heller, Collins, and Paul in the basement.
The steam pipe trunk distribution venue
Not sure whether it’s bad news for the bill, but maybe bad news for McConnell.
Relatedly, remember when he dragged all 100 senators to the WH in crappy tour buses for a substanceless North Korea briefing? That kind of shit has to drive even friendly senators nuts.
low energy
“I’ll be very disappointed in you”
Mostly bad news for the GOP Senators who are forced to go to White House and listen to his inane crying that they’re not doing his bidding.
Love it when senators boldly announce their opposition to their leadership’s bill after the vote on it has been pulled. Such bravery.
I always announce I knew it too after someone solves clue
Just wait when nothing changes and they announce their support when they all think we weren’t paying attention to their previous opposition. Maybe a single amendment that somehow “benefits” them gets added as they slap lipstick on this uuuuuugly pig.
I declare whether trades were good after seeing whether the prospects pan out.
At this time I am SOL for an exchange plan in 2018. I guess the next step will become evident over the next few months.
In 2017, my gross monthly premium is $619.54. I manage my income to qualify for a decent subsidy, so I pay $165.54 of that and the subsidy is $454.00.
Thanks, GOP.
SEVENTY. DOLLARS. PER. HOUR. LESSONS.
Thanks, and go As.
The most important rule of croquet is that if you aren’t holding a beer in your other hand while you shoot, you lose your turn.
Pliny the Younger sample – 90% attenuation and 10.5% ABV.
Now for 4 rounds of dry-hopping.
10.5% is maybe a little beyond my outer limit. It’s certainly a way to make sure FKers don’t make it from the parking lot into the stadium.
I’ll be bringing the smaller cups for this.
Does this mean we are still on for the FK tailgate July 29?
I’m hoping so – FSU?
I have saved 7/29 on my summer calendar for this tailgate. Non-FKers will likely outnumber FK folk, so friends family etc more than welcome.
As noted elsewhere I won’t be able to do much hype or prep before the last week of July, so mark your calendars now.
My brewing calendar is marked – one keg of a session IPA and the gallon growler of PtY.
Truly our cups runeth over.
I’m checking. We head down to points south on the following Monday (kids’ first disney trip, plus chill time at Big Bear Lake), so need to check Mrs. N’s willingness to lose me for a day.
Is this still on? Also, is anyone getting a set of tickets, or should I find one myself? If the latter, where?
We are going, and bought a pair of tickets for ourselves as I haven’t heard anything about a group ticket effort.
Not with that attitude.
Thanks, and go As.
2 rounds of dry hopping and it’s shaping up well – no alcohol heat despite the ABV and a very smooth hoppiness with a nice bitter sting in the tail.