Manager’s Decision: Braden will start.
Detroit’s Decision: Willis will start no more.
mikeA’s Decision: 95°, partly cloudy. If it’s any consolation, though, it’s 74° and sunny here, so you’d be miserable anyway. I’m going to the pool.
Ed note: due to laziness, this post counts for two games.
Um, kinda looks like Braden doesn’t have it today. Detroit sitting on strikes and hitting them hard.
Not our day on either side. Ugh.
Cust’s first xbh.
This weather is at the outer limit of my tolerance
The weather is perfect.
You are correct, sir.
I have to shower using concentrated dish detergent to get the zinc oxide off.
Stuff White People Hate
LOL
Us white guys have it HARD
New sig line!
I still don’t get why Mazzaro is on the team as the swing man.
General managerial decision
Woo hoo! First place!
Coulda been worse. It was 95 and humid enough that I thought I was swimming (swimming in a river of lava) earlier in the week, but the humidity mostly went away. I spent the week being terrified about giving a toast, but I wound up doing great, so yay for me. There are some unbelievably large spiders here…
Yay for you indeed. I’m giving a best man toast in a couple weeks. My theme will be “scams.”
Is this game going to happen?
Townsend says first pitch set for 12:45 pm.
Hmmm, maybe the bunting era is over?
I don’t mind so much the white caps or the dark blue bills, but the red white and blue A’s logo is hideous.
The white caps make the Detroit unis look old-timey. I much prefer these white caps for the A’s than when they make them wear red or blue caps. That looks really bad with the green & gold.
Agreed. These really aren’t that bad, except for when you looks closely at the logo itself. But a Blame America Firster like myself would say that.
whoa, Nelson Cruz back on the DL and Holland is “likely to join him” according to LSB. Interesting…
Evan Grant/DMN:
I’m very glad that Gross has replaced Patterson.
E-Patt doesn’t make that perfect throw if he tries it 100 times.
Apparently putting the leadoff man on every inning is a good strategy.
RAIN PLZ.
New rules; game would be suspended, not shortened, if there is a rain postponement after five innings. Before five innings, they wipe the whole game clean.
Isn’t that just if the game is tied? I believe they can still call a game official after 5 innings if someone’s winning.
yes.
Stand corrected.
Yes, game can be suspended for later continuation only if game is tied, or if the visitors take lead in top half on an inning and weather/rioting prevent the home team from batting in the bottom half. Rule 4.12.
I find that third run very reassuring.
Gameday says Kz’s single was on a 100 mph fastball.
That’s some quality baiting by Laz Diaz.
Nice throw by Sexington.
I like the quick hook here.
Yes. Cahill’s done better that one could reasonably have hoped, and I’d just as soon the Tigers didn’t get another look at him.
odd pitch selection….
I’m pretty sure Perry just shat his pants.
Man, they missed their chance to squeeze with Barton at bat!
Wow Santago was maybe two feet off the bag when he received the throw.
I find that fourth run very reassuring.
0 sliders in 15 pitches. Not good.
The K pitch to Cabrera was a slider in the dirt.
Also threw some to Boesch…but those were all up in the zone and didn’t break much.
3 of 4 from the Tigers!
Watching Ubaldo now, damn he’s filthy.
Ditto!
Victory!
Woo hoo, 1 game lead in the AL West!
I like it. A lot.
Yay!! Now let’s go kick some Red Sox ass.
I’d say it’s a good road trip even if they get swept in Boston.
Since I won’t be at any of the games, it’s unlikely that the A’s will lose.
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Never wager what you can’t afford to lose.
Spoken like a true
sexgambling addict.I was at a very boring game between the Giants and Rockies, which the Giants lost. Actually, I don’t know if it was a boring game, but I was bored because our (free) seats were by the visitors’ bullpen and I feel too removed from the game way out there. And I was in the sun. But I had some amazing overpriced food, and got a free T-shirt to wear while cleaning the apartment.
“I, Robot” is on a Spanish station right now, and I’m really sad that the listing doesn’t say “Yo, Robot.”
We were in Spain when I, Robot came out over there, and yes, there were Will Smith posters plastered on the bus stops that said “Yo, Robot.”
(Also, that movie was a fucking travesty for a kid who grew up on Asimov like I did.)
(Also, we were in Montreal when Snakes on a Plane came out and we saw movie posters for “Serpents A Bord!”)
That rocks!
These are not teeth of the sea:
mais, oui, madame.
Um, the Dodgers just won on a balk off.
Couldn’t have been as entertaining as the sulk-off.
It wasn’t. It was bizarre.
SOme time in the 90s the dodger won on a walk off “catcher picks up the ball with the mask”
Christ, what an Asimovphile.
Doug Fister finally regressing back to being Doug Fister. He gave up 3 home runs today.
My weekend in a nutshell: