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Sabers-Flyres going to OT also.

78 thoughts on “Someone gonna throw up a game thread? We got a hit.

  1. FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 7:24 pm

    Milton Bradley is wearing earplugs. Good idea…hard to see him sticking with it, though

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • Ice Cream Apr 22,2011 7:30 pm || Up

      My heckling is falling on deaf ears tonight.

      Where is the good in "good-bye"?
  2. FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 7:28 pm

    Custastic!

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  3. FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 7:32 pm

    Crap.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  4. Soaker Apr 22,2011 7:37 pm

    I think these teal alternates are the ugliest uniforms in baseball. The problem may be that the cap doesn’t match; a teal bill on the cap might help some.

    What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 7:41 pm || Up

      Yeah, the teal itself I could live with, but there’s nothing to connect it to the rest of the ensemble in any way.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • andeux Apr 22,2011 7:53 pm || Up

        Yeah, I think they would be ok (in a cheesy 70s/80s retro way) if paired with an appropriately-colored cap with the old trident M.

        TINSTAAFK
  5. Soaker Apr 22,2011 7:41 pm

    Goodness, Kz just pulled a Crosby.

    What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 7:43 pm || Up

      Kz’s swing looks like it’s getting worse, if that’s possible.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  6. FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 7:59 pm

    Ouch, weak play by Pennington there.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 8:00 pm || Up

      You can’t be Olé-ing a ball off Jack Wilson’s bat like that.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • Soaker Apr 22,2011 8:02 pm || Up

        Olé indeed — that brings up memories of Davey Lopes’ days as the A’s second baseman.

        What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • Leopold Bloom Apr 22,2011 8:13 pm || Up

      but **** doesn’t think it was an error.

      In other news, the radio update buttons don’t work with Chrome. Thought you FKers just all turned in early…

      • FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 8:20 pm || Up

        It was a weak-ass play, because he had ample time to get his body in front of the ball, but he might then not have had a throw anywhere, so maybe if you give him that, you can torture events enough to construe the play as requiring more than a usual effort to get an out, and thus maybe not an error. But he fucked up the play, pure and simple. E, sez I.

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • Soaker Apr 22,2011 8:24 pm || Up

        I usually use FF4 but am checking Chrome right now on a Windows 7 machine and FSU’s comment above and sslinger’s below showed up as normal in the Unread Comments. Maybe recheck your profile settings?

        What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
  7. sslinger Apr 22,2011 8:22 pm

    Don’t know how much more of this I can take. I think I’ll head up into the hills soon and listen to Robert Plant instead.

  8. mikeA Apr 22,2011 8:37 pm

    Awful slide.

  9. sslinger Apr 22,2011 8:37 pm

    Kz can’t run either!

  10. FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 8:37 pm

    As bad as the contact play often is, it’s 100 times worse when you break late for home.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • nevermoor Apr 22,2011 8:47 pm || Up

      And don’t slide smart

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  11. Leopold Bloom Apr 22,2011 8:41 pm

    Watching these two teams play baseball is like watching old people fuck.

    • ptbnl Apr 22,2011 8:45 pm || Up

      without the benefit of performance-enhancing drugs.

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 8:45 pm || Up

      Right down to the teal coloring.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • mikeA Apr 22,2011 8:48 pm || Up

      horrible, yet none of us can look away?

      • Leopold Bloom Apr 22,2011 8:49 pm || Up

        exactly.

        • sslinger Apr 22,2011 8:51 pm || Up

          It may be ugly, but it’s still sex baseball.

          • ptbnl Apr 22,2011 8:53 pm || Up

            green collar geezer porn baseball

            If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
            • sslinger Apr 22,2011 8:59 pm || Up

              Perfect for a bunch of bridge-playing old ladies.

    • Soaker Apr 22,2011 8:49 pm || Up

      If you’re about to tell us stories of the times you’ve watched old people fuck…please don’t.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • the dogfather Apr 25,2011 4:32 pm || Up

      /comment about every other commenter’s mother.

      The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
  12. ptbnl Apr 22,2011 8:55 pm

    At least it won’t be another 1-0 loss.

    If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • Leopold Bloom Apr 22,2011 9:01 pm || Up

      [sigh]

    • nevermoor Apr 22,2011 9:04 pm || Up

      Hey, if the sharks can come back from 4-0…

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  13. FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 9:20 pm

    Am I imagining it, or is Fosse doing a lot more live promo ad spots during the TV broadcasts this year?

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  14. FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 9:26 pm

    Size 17 shoes is ridiculous.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • Leopold Bloom Apr 22,2011 9:30 pm || Up

      big feet.

      • nevermoor Apr 22,2011 9:32 pm || Up
        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  15. FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 9:32 pm

    The last three innings of this game are going to take two hours, and still no one else will score.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  16. Soaker Apr 22,2011 9:39 pm

    I haven’t attended an A’s road game in a few years now. When the schedule comes out I take a look and there are always a few candidates but the answer has been no. Then I watch the games on TV and it never fails; I think, “Thank goodness I didn’t travel to see this.” The current series in Seattle was high on the 2011 candidate list.

    Of course the same thing happens with Cal football games. Although they played UNR up here in Reno this past season so I couldn’t avoid that stinker.

    What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 9:59 pm || Up

      I’ve only twice seen the A’s play on the road. Once in the Kingdome in 1979 or 80, and this horrible game in Anaheim in 2004.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • Soaker Apr 22,2011 10:05 pm || Up

        I did a lot of my baseball traveling before the era of new ballpark building. Places I can think of that don’t exist anymore where I saw the A’s play: Tiger Stadium, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Comiskey Park, County Stadium in Milwaukee, Arlington Stadium.

        What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
        • FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 10:13 pm || Up

          Ah, you remind me, I saw the A’s in Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium once also, early-mid 80’s. That was nice old park.

          "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
          • Leopold Bloom Apr 22,2011 10:19 pm || Up

            Saw the A’s several times in old Commisky, County Stadum in Milwaukee, whatever that place in Cleveland was called.

            Of course, I grew up there. An A’s fan.

            • sslinger Apr 22,2011 10:59 pm || Up

              I saw them many times at Metropolitan Stadium, now the site of the Mall of America. At least they had the decency to name the main street into the mall Harmon Killebrew Way.

  17. ptbnl Apr 22,2011 9:57 pm

    All it will take now is for Matsui to make an out in the top of the 9th and the entire starting 9 will be hitting between 200 and 250.

    If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 10:06 pm || Up

      He proved up to the task.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  18. FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 10:13 pm

    Meanwhile…

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  19. FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 10:15 pm

    Crapp.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 22,2011 10:16 pm || Up

      (had to add the extra p, as I’ve already commented “crap” once in this thread.)

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • ptbnl Apr 22,2011 10:20 pm || Up

        It was particularly cunning of Bob to get Jackson’s out into the mix, dropping his average to 250 too.

        If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
  20. Leopold Bloom Apr 22,2011 10:19 pm

    Nice teAse, though.

  21. Poppy Apr 23,2011 9:56 am

    Will the Acorns continue their valiant drive to the cellar tonight? Tune in to hear.

    There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  22. ptbnl Apr 23,2011 11:11 am

    In case it might appear that I take BA to be a meaningful measure, let me also observe that the A’s have but one regular with a 3-digit OPS+

    Daric Barton 100
    Josh Willingham 97
    Hideki Matsui 97
    Kurt Suzuki 93
    Mark Ellis 82
    David DeJesus 71
    Coco Crisp 59
    Kevin Kouzmanoff 43
    Cliff Pennington 41

    If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • nevermoor Apr 23,2011 4:59 pm || Up

      I’m surprised to see Matsui so high and Coco so low.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  23. nanotrebuchet Apr 24,2011 10:07 am

    Someone gonna throw up? Oh, I’ve got you covered. Hard to tell if it’s the drugs or watching the A’s highlights.

    • nevermoor Apr 24,2011 12:32 pm || Up

      Are you ok?

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • nanotrebuchet Apr 24,2011 6:27 pm || Up

        I’m ok in that the potential for really bad complications has passed. I’m not ok in the sense that I still feel pretty crummy and the side effects of the curative procedures sometimes feel worse than the disease.

        • nevermoor Apr 24,2011 6:31 pm || Up

          Is there anything we can do?

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • nanotrebuchet Apr 24,2011 6:36 pm || Up

            Not really, unless you really, really, *really* like kids. And the far reaches of the East Bay.

            • ptbnl Apr 25,2011 7:50 am || Up

              If it would help, yes.

              If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
              • nanotrebuchet Apr 25,2011 3:51 pm || Up

                Much appreciated.

                Fortunately for us, mrs trebuchet’s dad just agreed to drive down from OR. Between him, my folks, and my sister, I think we’re covered now.

                The biggest bummer was that mrs trebuchet was supposed to defend her thesis last week. The one time in seven years I was supposed to watch the kids…

                • ptbnl Apr 25,2011 3:57 pm || Up

                  So she brings a couple of kids to her thesis defence … what could go wrong?

                  If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
                • monkeyball Apr 25,2011 4:15 pm || Up

                  Just think if she was getting her PhD in wymyn’s studies …

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • nanotrebuchet Apr 26,2011 11:08 am || Up

                  Yeah, no kidding. “Just sit in the back with a bowl if cheerios and ignore the slides about brehmstraahlung…”

                • monkeyball Apr 26,2011 11:18 am || Up

                  “Mom, you’ve got a typo there.”

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
            • the dogfather Apr 25,2011 4:19 pm || Up

              Where you at? If Muir Concord I’ll hike on down.

              The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
              • Leopold Bloom Apr 27,2011 1:09 am || Up

                My oldest niece was born there. Wait. That’s not the one in Walnut Creek, is it? Nevermind.

    • JediLeroy Apr 24,2011 4:53 pm || Up

      Mia’s there with you on the throw up. Hope you feel better.

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      • nanotrebuchet Apr 24,2011 6:37 pm || Up

        Right back at ya buddy – whatever I’m going through it’s a fraction of whatever your little girl is bravely handling. Best to you and your family. Keep fighting, Mia.

    • Poppy Apr 24,2011 11:16 pm || Up

      Need someone to hold back your hair?

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.

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