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30 Sep 2010  |  monkeyball  |Game Thread

A’s @ M’s. Gio vs Fister.

Davis cf, Barton 1b, Ellis 2b, Cust dh, Suzuki c, Kouzmanoff 3b, Hermida rf, Carter lf, Pennington ss

36 thoughts on “Gamethreadax: 3 …”

  1. Soaker Sep 30,2010 7:16 pm

    The ol’ 5-6-3 is Cust’s 6th GIDP of the season. That moves him into a tie for 8th place on the team with Coco Crisp and Jake Fox.

    What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • nanotrebuchet Sep 30,2010 7:23 pm || Up

      I can’t believe Fake Jox GIDPd 6 times in his short stay…I can’t believe he even got that many PAs with men on given our pathetic offense.

      • Soaker Sep 30,2010 7:28 pm || Up

        I had to double-check to see that 6 GIDPs wasn’t his total for OAK + BAL combined. Nope, 106 PA for the A’s and 6 GIDP (17.67 PA/GIDP). That’s much better than Ben Grieve’s fabulous 2000 season: 675 PA/32 GIDP = 21.09 PA/GIDP.

        What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
        • Soaker Sep 30,2010 7:38 pm || Up

          Wait a minute…so while I was looking up Grieve, Hermida GIDP’d? That’s #5 in 52 PA for the A’s. You think Ellis is making a September salary drive, look at that one.

          By the way, Suzuki is clinging to a 21-20 lead over Kouzmanoff in GIDP, so that’s one of those little dramas of the final weekend.

          What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
  2. andeux Sep 30,2010 7:41 pm

    Add baserunning to the list of things at which Carter is not any good.
    EDIT: Actually, that one might be Gallego’s fault.

    TINSTAAFK
  3. Soaker Sep 30,2010 8:15 pm

    Gio certainly tried his damndest in the bottom of the 4th, but that Mariners offense just features too much suck for him to overcome.

    What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
  4. nanotrebuchet Sep 30,2010 8:27 pm

    That Fister balk kinda tells the story of the M’s season, doesn’t it?

  5. nanotrebuchet Sep 30,2010 8:27 pm

    Wow, they even fucked up that pickoff.

  6. nanotrebuchet Sep 30,2010 8:28 pm

    This whole inning is hilarious.

    • Soaker Sep 30,2010 8:32 pm || Up

      The inning demonstrated why everybody on the Mariners, front office included, except Felix Hernandez so richly deserves to have a 100-loss season hung around their neck, and that’s why I’m rooting fairly passionately for at least 3 A’s wins in this series.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
  7. FreeSeatUpgrade Sep 30,2010 8:30 pm

    The Mariner’s defense is wilting in the face of the excruciating pressure applied by the A’s small ball attack.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  8. JediLeroy Sep 30,2010 9:08 pm

    /distasteful joke about a Fister and 13 singles

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    • ptbnl Sep 30,2010 9:22 pm || Up

      My kind of Mormon.

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
  9. Soaker Sep 30,2010 9:28 pm

    Ken and Vince were waxing about Rajai’s fine season (+0.5 WAR according to B-R, +0.8 on Fangraphs).

    What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • nevermoor Oct 1,2010 9:34 am || Up

      But he’s SCRAPPY, which is particularly impressive when you don’t look like Eckstein

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • nanotrebuchet Oct 1,2010 9:39 am || Up

        Not too many African American players are described as scrappy.

  10. lenscrafters Sep 30,2010 9:46 pm

    Stupid things like stupidly putting in Gross as a defensive replacement for Carter with a 8 run lead just reinforces how stupid Bob Geren is.

  11. Soaker Sep 30,2010 9:49 pm

    The 17th shutout was just missed when Ellis slipped trying to turn the DP in the 8th inning…but THE .500 DREAM LIVES ON!!!

    What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
  12. monkeyball Oct 1,2010 7:06 am

    That was a fun HR by Carter

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nanotrebuchet Oct 1,2010 7:12 am || Up

      Someone on Mercer Island is going to get a ball through their window.

      • monkeyball Oct 1,2010 7:59 am || Up

        … euphemism watch?

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • Poppy Oct 1,2010 6:11 pm || Up

          Wrote a little thing about the Coors Field humidor controversy for our show this week, and put it in our rundown (which is strictly internal) as “Juiced Balls.” Guy who builds the over-the-shoulder graphics asked me what I wanted to see with that story, I said “Eh, nothing special, maybe just MLB logo.”

          This is what I got.

          There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
          • FreeSeatUpgrade Oct 1,2010 6:42 pm || Up

            I’d like a screen grab of you with that graphic over you shoulder please.

            "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
            • Poppy Oct 1,2010 6:56 pm || Up

              Oh no, no, no… I was the producer. I do not, will not, anchor. Ever. Ever ever ever. Period.

              I hated to tell him to change it, because we were all having so much fun with that slug this week, but… alas…

              It didn’t get changed by much.

              There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
              • ptbnl Oct 1,2010 8:34 pm || Up

                Would you anchor on a train? Would you anchor in the rain?

                If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
                • nanotrebuchet Oct 1,2010 8:36 pm || Up

                  Would you anchor in a box? Could you, would you, for network FOX?

                • ptbnl Oct 1,2010 8:41 pm || Up

                  Would you anchor with big hair? Could you stand in for Colbert?

                  If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
                • FreeSeatUpgrade Oct 1,2010 8:48 pm || Up

                  Would you anchor mindless blather? Would you anchor like Dan Rather?

                  (also: I now know that Dr. Seuss wrote GEAH to win a bet with his publisher that he could write a book using only 50 different words.)

                  "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
                • nevermoor Oct 2,2010 9:09 am || Up

                  It always frustrates me that a cool site like snopes does something as stupid as trying to prevent copy/paste.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • FreeSeatUpgrade Oct 2,2010 10:20 am || Up

                  I’m not sure what you’re saying here; snopes says it’s true.

                  "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
                • nevermoor Oct 2,2010 2:34 pm || Up

                  I’m saying you can’t highlight text in snopes.

                  Purely an excessive javascript complaint.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • andeux Oct 4,2010 9:55 am || Up

                  It’s like they’re trying to make Jon Carroll’s job difficult or something.

                  TINSTAAFK
                • nevermoor Oct 4,2010 10:16 am || Up

                  Right click.

                  View Source.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • monkeyball Oct 2,2010 6:52 pm || Up

                  Have you played the game of good small words?

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come

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