Slusser sez: Nomar + Ellis both to DL, an infielder (Patterson?) + a reliever likely up.
She makes no mention of Chavvy, but I figger he’s not long for the active list, either.
And who knows how well or quickly Casilla and Anderson will recover.
Continue to color me unimpressed with Holliday.
PoppyEdit: �If anybody has any trouble posting comments, please email salb918.
I’m guessing Blevins and Patterson.
Four go down, we get two back, and Chavy’s still not ready. The A’s refuse to play with a full 25 man roster.
AAAAAAAAAHH!!!
didn’t see the game. the part about everyone on the team getting hurt is a joke, right?
I mean, wow.
A fifth of the 25 man roster is injured and we’re barely 1/10th of the way through the season. Have the A’s ever lost 4 players to injury in 1 game before, at least in recent snake-bit history?
Our IF when Giambi rests his tender thigh/groin/calf/buttock/whatever:
1B Crosby
2B Patterson
SS Cabrera
3B Hannahan
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I smell World Series.
This is sheer fucking idiocy:
Listen, the team’ll do just fine so long as Giambi and Holliday keep crushing longballs.
Goodman finally weighs in on Saul:
Okay, here’s what’s going to happen:
Giambi is going to muster whatever energy remains in his creaky HGH-ravaged body, and play every day at 1B until Ellis and Nomar return from the DL. This will also cause him to find that rhythm Ray Fosse is always telling us is so important, which means many doubles and home runs and absolutely no facial grooming whatsoever. Patterson is finally going to hit like his minor league numbers suggest he can. The Hannahan/Crosby platoon at third will be off the charts, grit-wise (don’t ask me to quantify that, all I know is that it’s highly correlated with Winning Baseball). Holliday will hit, because sal says he will. Buck will play every day, because I still believe major league baseball is a meritocracy. That 20 HR power allegedly trapped inside Sweeney’s BP bat will begin to emerge in real games against real pitchers, because … I don’t know, just because. Anderson’s blister? It’s fine. Cahill’s wildness? Fixed, via tried and true between-starts bullpen session. Eveland? It’s all been bad luck so far. Braden? Koufax, 1966.
Carlton, 1972.Unit, 2001.So really nothing to worry about. We’ll be fine.
If anybody has any trouble posting comments, please email me.
So uh…I can post without an invite right?
Oh for…
Those are career numbers, folks.
Words that need to be retired from baseball writing:
1. Gem (misuse)
2. Flirt (overuse)
…