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Man attempts to tame nature; 2-0 in the eighth.
Also: Texas has already lost, so the A’s can regain first place with a win tonight.
Also also: Kendry Morales injured in dog pile at home plate after hitting walk-off grand slam against Mariners. It’s okay to laugh. I think it’s funny, too. Video here.
UPDATE:Kendry has a broken ankle, could miss rest of season. I wonder what conspiracy theory Rev will cook up this time. Anti-cuban state department baseball espionage?
ELLIS!
Oh man, right off of Laird’s face.
Woo-hoo! I like this. Too bad none of you FKers are around to witness it. What, you’re all busy having lives on a Saturday?
Halladay working on a perfecto, going into the ninth.
One more out for Halladay…
PERFECTO!!!
Wow–I just flipped over. Good for Halladay. Two in one year–holy Toldeo!
Also, I just noticed it was a 1-0 game so that’s a pretty tense game all around.
The Marlins could have shown a little more respect for the achievement by letting that moment linger for a while, rather than shutting off the lights and starting their fireworks show or concert within a couple minutes after the final out. Not much of an appreciation of the history down there in Miami.
Electricity ain’t cheap.
Also, how close were the previous closest ones?
Also, our A’s game is pretty cool too! Hi Sal!
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Victory! First place!
How stupid are the Giants? After hemming and hawing over the Posey situation for the first two months, refusing to call him up, they finally call him up today….when they could’ve waited a week or two more. Did they not learn anything from the Lincecum situation?
Sabean’s comments on the radio this week, about how he had no idea what to make of a batter hitting .344 in AAA and how that would translate were not very encouraging.
By the way, the Lewis trade is really working out nicely for them.
I don’t get the Lewis DFA. His .327 wOBA in ’09 was third on the team behind Sandoval and Uribe.
Wooo first place!
Morales=hilarious. The Angels are done.
So, two-team race, Rangers and A’s?
Looks that way. I was not expecting the A’s to get back to first this year. The Rangers have an absurdly/terrifyingly easy schedule until the AS break, but I like the A’s chances if they’re not too far back in at that point.
I wouldn’t count the Mariners out. They’ve been frighteningly similar to the A’s this year; the disparity in records is amazing. Their pitching has been better, their defense has been slightly better. Offensively, they’ve been horrible obviously but so have the A’s. I wouldn’t expect their hitters to keep underperforming the way they have been.
The biggest difference is the disparity in one run games. Are the A’s fortunes (and the M’s misfortunes) in that regard repeatable?
I don’t think they’re any worse than the A’s, but 7 games is a lot.
It is but my point is that the A’s could easily start losing a lot more of those one run games and experience a M’s like swoon. While the M’s could just as easily have better luck and start pulling off a bunch of winning streaks (they certainly have the pitching for that).
I still think the A’s will finish in last. It will of course bring me no joy to be proved correct.
BTW, if anyone’s considering In The Heights at the Curran, save your money. Snooze…
You guys manage to make me look like a wild-eyed optimist.
You see FK, andeux was a simple country boy — you might say a cockeyed optimist — who got himself mixed up in the high stakes game of sabermetrics and interleague intrigue.
On second thought, since the M’s continue to find innovative ways to give away ball games (catcher’s interference leading to a run, 2 bases loaded walks, second straight day they give up a walkoff homer), it’s probably just not their year.
In other news:
1. Halladay is awesome. But the Phillies, jaded by
all their post-season mound-rushings of recent yearsthe broken legs and dreams of Angels, were way too restrained for the moment.2. Lakers vs. Celtics. Snooze…
3. Every time I climb back on a hockey bandwagon it drives into the ditch. Fucking Flyers…
1. I totally agree. When it was all over, Halladay sort of wandered towards the catcher like it was just another victory. And judging from his post-game presser, he’s not exactly Mr. Personality. Plus, it would be nice if such a memorable game had occurred in Philly. There’s something about doing it on the road that really dulls it down.
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Dontrelle Willis DFA.
I’d take a flyer on him. Obviously, he’s a head case. Maybe returning home would cure what ails him. Make him a reliever.
Eh, since he’s on waivers, a NL team will pick him up before the A’s have a chance to.
Taking him off waivers means picking up the rest of his salary ($12 million this year). Waiting till he’s a free agent and paying league minimum seems like the way to go.
and if he’s a free agent, he can sign with anyone, right?
True. But I think he wants to be in AZ.
huh. Well, okay. He may think the AL is his problem.