Sheets vs. Wade Davis
Pennington, Barton, Sweeney, Chavez, Kouzmanoff, Gross, Powell, Patterson, Rosales
Sheets vs. Wade Davis
Pennington, Barton, Sweeney, Chavez, Kouzmanoff, Gross, Powell, Patterson, Rosales
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Powell is great on throws to second. I hope the Rays keep stealing.
Wow, the towels in the FK bathrooms are really fluffy.
And don’t forget about the radiant-heat bathroom floor!
That’s what attracted me.
Well, that, and the free kraut.
There’s free kraut here????
Thanks, and go As.
Yep. In your cupholder.
Unfortunately, you don’t realize I’m a Fabricator.
????
The cowbells + awful loud music on the sound system in TB are incredibly irritating.
Time to try to steal 3rd.
Throwing a fastball down the middle isn’t a great thing to do against Pena.
More good hitting than bad pitching that inning.
Crap. “Watching” on GameDay from work sucks. The A’s should play games in the PAcific Time Zone exclusively. Or I should quit my job and ignore my family so as to never miss an in
ningjury. Crap.fixed
The umpire has favored the Rays so far…
But Patterson walks anyway. Nice ab. He has the weakest arm I’ve ever seen…
The A’s should trade for Longoria.
I offer Rajai and Gaudin. And $5.
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The trade talk rattled him
Cliffy!!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!
He’s eager to make up some ground while Suzuki is out.
Well, how about that.
Holy crap! Pennington regains lead in HRs.
Suzuki has 4.
Aw shit. Forgot he was still alive.
who?
Vince is bugging me. He’s being so sour.
I haven’t minded him as much as others, but this year he has been…different. Sour is a good word.
Vince is bugging me. He is a radio announcer for my favorite team, the Oakland A’s, despite having no talent and being kind of an idiot on top of that.
He’s ok on rote pxp. When he goes beyond that … bad.
He’s really not ok on rote pxp.
I’m with monkey…I find Vince technically adequate for the most part; he just has no natural flair for the job.
I’m with mikeA. A decent radio pxp announcer will let you know what’s going on within a few words, either by giving the most important information first, or just with tone of voice. While Vince doesn’t reach Buan levels of incoherence, I often won’t have much sense of what happened until he’s done.
I do like it when he gets excited.
TWSS
Buancoherence
this is the “trickle through” inning.
The artificial surface might allow Kouzmanoff’s double play ball to sneak through the infield.
He crushed that single. Nice job.
hmmmmm.
interesting
No score from second?!?
see my comment above.
Near-HR for Powell, near double his first AB.
Some good innings from Ross may be required later.
Here I thought our pen was a strength
like now
Throw a fucking changeup.
apparently, it’s again’t his religion.
Instead of believing that Ben Sheets sucks and is just getting manhandled by the superior league I’m going to think that he’s injured. That way it fits today’s meme.
He’s not doing as bad as it looks. He’s pitching a lot better than the first couple games.
His fastball velocity is good. That’s about it. He’s hanging all his curveballs and refusing to throw anything besides fastball, curve.
plus Tampa is very, very good. They are hitting significantly better than the Yankees, even.
Yes, they certainly aren’t going to miss those meatballs.
He doesn’t have a good changeup. The curves look fine to me.
Nah, just have to disagree on that.
I’m all for the PT plan of having all the pitchers learn a cutter.
I know one of N**o’s big arguments in favor of veteran pitchers such as Springer, is that they are the ones who can truly teach others how to cut a
fastballmotherfuckermotherFKer.Do you buy that at all?
I buy the fixed version
I’ll cut a motherFKer.
Btw… is the swap ok? If so, I’ll put it on my calendar.
yes! most def
Sweet. Thanks for doing the scheduling posts, since you’re kind of a big deal over there.
My apartment there smells of mahogany.
We have Curt Young, Duke, and Braden. If Sheets wants to learn a cutter, he’ll learn a cutter.
So, are we now down to the denying-stats/eyeball-mach-1 excuses?
I mean, he’s getting hit hard, pretty consistently. I don’t care what he looks like. We’re not cutting motherFKers here.
What stats am I “denying”? One game stats don’t mean much anyway. I could say he had a .368 babip and was unlucky…
I think he pitched terribly in the first couple games, less so in this game. What’s wrong with that?
Eh, for one game, we can only use eyeball scouting anyways. The problem is when people like N*** use it all the time, and deny the stats when it doesn’t match up with their observations.
Honestly, at this point, given Beane’s track record with injuries to key personnel and the signing/extension of and dependence on key personnel with dubious health records …
I’m reverting back to my first C/H cartoon
I am overwhelmed by the amount of A’s news in the last 7.5 hours. I was sending all my anti-DL vibes toward Dale, and there goes Anderson to the DL… Landon’s back (hooray!) and some other guy I’ve never seen before is here too… Ziggy goes on a rant about attendance, on Twitter no less… and every time I look away from my computer, Ben Sheets gives up another run.
I should just go watch 24. That’d be not as eventful, and more relaxing.
The Cardinals sure are cashing out on that Penny contract. Wish I could say the same for the A’s.
Is Cliffy hurt?
Looked like he kinda jammed his ankle a little bit, not serious, seemingly. Should alert the Tampa funeral home just in case, though. It’s Florida, they’re well prepared.
Weird ground rules steal a run, Cliffy gets hurt. Awesome.
I would’ve bet pretty heavily that a ball high off the foul pole on the bounce was in play. Seems odd, but I suppose that, just like an HR, a ball that hits the pole above fence level is deemed to be the same as one that had gone over the fence cleanly.
The rule doesn’t make any sense…
Well, a ball that hits the pole on the fly above fence level and bounces back onto the field isn’t deemed live, it’s a homer. I suppose you could say it’s consistent to treat the pole (above the fence line) as out of play either way.
But the reason the pole is there is just to be able to tell whether it’s fair or foul. I guess maybe the idea is it would have bounced over the fence if not for the pole, but I find that really strange.
Also, the ball is a lot more likely to take a weird hop off the pole than off the ground or a wall. It seems reasonable to exclude those. Tampa certainly has other stupider ground rules.
Now would be a good time for that
Barton HRclown-molestation we were promised.Seriously, have we pissed off any gypsies or mummies or zombie-making witches or…?
Ba’al?
could be…
Cliffy!
Did something happen to Cliffy?? Seeing the trainers out there scared me.
Wait, the TB feed is still running with no audio, and Rosales is back at 3rd. Dang it.
he looks fine now.
Cliffy always look fuh-yine.
So is Brett dead yet, or what
Thanks, and go As.
Not quite
RRS on ** via Olney’s Twitter:
FUUUUUUUUUU
better than TJS
yup
Could be worse.
As I said earlier…
6 weeks is probably about 1 fewer win.
I was really confused there for a sec, thinking RRS = Ryan Rowland-Smith, and that he was talking about AN to Buster Olney for some reason… and we haven’t even played the M’s for a couple weeks.
Anyway. Poor Brett (and poor us). Sigh.
I’m still confused.
Son of goddamn bitch.
Whoa. Dan Johnson at AAA-Durham: 323/386/742, 8 HR in 70 PA.
DAN.
JOHNSON.
Thanks, and go As.
That’s a surprisingly low walk rate.
Dan Johnson?
DAN. JOHNSON.
Dan. Johnson.
Hitting .323 for Rays’ Triple A.
Looks like he’s taking some facial hair tips from Gaudin.
JOHNSON.
ADMINISTRATION.
THE NEXT PERSON WHO SAYS “DAN. JOHNSON.” IS BANNED.
um, okay.
I was expecting this
ghost ride your whip!
I really should remember to watch that once a week or so. Maybe once a month.
DAN. JHONSON.
STAN. JOHNSON.
JAN. HOBSON.
DAN. JANSEN.
HARVEY. MANFREDJINSINJIN.
FAIL.
STAN. BAHNSEN.
I don’t understand. The A’s aren’t going to fremont anylonger
Wow, Longoria looking foolish on that swing.
HAHAHAH THEY FUCKED THAT CONTRACT UP FOR SURE
Thanks, and go As.
PHing Fox for Gross is very strange…
GCB!
That stupid rule cost Cliffy the cycle!
It will be a cycle (and a one-run game) in our heart of hearts.
This is a good game.
it would be better if the Rays would stop hitting the baseball so often and with such fierceness.
Red Sox have so little faith in David Ortiz that they PH Mike Lowell for Ortiz with a RHP on the mound.
I GET IT, I SHOULDN’T HAVE DRAFTED HIM. ENOUGH ALREADY.
Geez, who threw a
wrenchsponsored post in yourkeyboardcupholder?Heh.
Nice.
okay, well, that kinda sucked.
I actually enjoyed it. Not a frustrating loss at all.
Fun to see some offense.
couldn’t hold a lead. That part was frustrating to me.
Plus I had to listen to a lot of **ers bitch about how lousy Sheets was. Against the Rays at home.
Did you have to?
This sickness is suspicious. I think you might actually be an 11 year old girl who lives in Canada, and weren’t expecting Slusser to call your
bluffmom.OBAMA URGES SLUSSER: CALL CANADIAN MOMS
SLUSSER URGES CANADIANS: CALL OBAMA’S MOM
I have, as of yet, resisted printing out posts and taping them to my wall because I don’t want those around me to think I’m insane.
But I’m close.
This would go on my wall of crazy.
“SLURGES”
We’re not going to be impressed by your complaining about your other whore’s inadequacies.
spoken like a true woman scorned.
We aren’t scorned. Just flighty and aloof.
And very few of us are women.
huh. gp.
WTF does “gp” mean?
good point.
meh, a couple of bounces away from a win.
I’m too tired to have any strong feelings about it either way.
Only died a little bit?
Both of the Royals runs tonight have been scored on triples to Ichiro.
Damn, forgotten what it’s like to lose a game when scoring more than 4 runs.
So I was slowly reloading my commute iPod shuffle during the game, and I came across the song Bad Man by Juicy Bananas, from the Repo Man soundtrack, which I haven’t heard in a long ass time, so I did some Googling and as best I can tell the lyrics to the song exist nowhere on the internet at all…the Repo man script from which some lines derive does, of course, but not these lyrics…so here’s my little contribution to posterity:
Born in Chicago
Raised in the city streets
My momma gave me the basic facts of life
Get in the car boy
Put your seatbelt on
I never ride with anyone ‘less they wear their seatbelt
That’s one of my rules
You look like you’ve been in a few scrapes
I mean, you’re skinny and weak-looking
But you’re kind of wiry too
I bet you can handle yourself alright if you have to
Know what I mean?
If I get into fighting, man, I’m serious
Someone crosses me?
Straight off I nut ‘em in the face
And bring my heel down on their foot
And break the bone
I’m a fighter and a winner
I’m a bad man
You know, everyone can tell the way I am
I walk into a bar, or someone’s place of work
They’re shit scared
They know I ain’t no cop
They think I’m comin’ to kill ‘em
And I would. I’d kill anyone who crosses me
Or put ‘em in the hospital
I don’t mess around
Know what I mean?
I’m a bad man
Like music? Listen to this
I was into these dudes before anybody
Asked me to be their manager
Call bullshit on that
Managin’ a pop group’s no job for a man
Hey, guess how many suits I got?
Guess how many pair of shoes?
Guess how many ties?
Shit, I don’t know
Must be twenty-five at least
And you better believe they’re all silk
Every one
Think your girlfriend loves you?
Guess again
One way to tell if a woman really loves ya
If she’ll have your dog
I’m a bad man
OBAMA URGES WOMEN: HAVE MY DOG
upon reflection, that would really prove you loved the guy, huh?
Slusser is awesome.
Shoulda been a triple! And a cycle!
Hmmm…
Brett Anderson himself has this to say:
Words of wisdom. Thanks, Brett.
But they must have heard about it when Slusser asked them.
He is? Well, that’s bad news…
The memo is still fermenting in a certain fanny pack
Also, if that report was wrong, TJ is back on.
wat.
Thanks, and go As.
Would Buster lie to us?
I have it under somewhat good authority that Olney regularly throws shit out there unverified via Twitter, because, well, because he hates us, I suppose.
They could have seen a memo …