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This postgame already sucks 61

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.

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61 thoughts on “This postgame already sucks

  1. xbhaskarx Apr 28,2009 9:28 pm

    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.

  2. Poppy Apr 28,2009 9:50 pm

    AAAAAAAAAHH!!!

  3. mikeA Apr 28,2009 10:03 pm

    didn’t see the game. the part about everyone on the team getting hurt is a joke, right?

  4. grover Apr 28,2009 10:06 pm

    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?

  5. 74mk Apr 28,2009 10:21 pm

    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.

  6. monkeyball Apr 28,2009 10:36 pm

    This is sheer fucking idiocy:

    Instead of possibly going to the DL, Chavez may be back in two or three games.
    “We will be more patient with him due to the circumstances tonight,” manager Bob Geren said.

  7. FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 28,2009 10:39 pm

    Listen, the team’ll do just fine so long as Giambi and Holliday keep crushing longballs.

  8. monkeyball Apr 28,2009 10:42 pm

    Goodman finally weighs in on Saul:

    some combination of soiled attorney Maurice Levy (“The Wire”) and Krusty the Clown

  9. 74mk Apr 28,2009 10:58 pm

    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.

  10. salb918 Apr 29,2009 7:49 am

    If anybody has any trouble posting comments, please email me.

  11. Sharon Apr 29,2009 7:59 am

    So uh…I can post without an invite right?

  12. salb918 Apr 29,2009 8:13 am

    Oh for…

    Player           AVG  OBP  SLG  OPS
    Bobby Crosby    .238 .306 .378 .684
    Carlos Zambrano .239 .247 .391 .637
    

    Those are career numbers, folks.

  13. salb918 Apr 29,2009 9:08 am

    Words that need to be retired from baseball writing:

    1. Gem (misuse)
    2. Flirt (overuse)

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