#Athletics at #Mets: Weeks 2b, Pennington ss, Crisp cf, Matsui lf, Jackson 1b, Sweeney rf, Suzuki c, Sizemore 3b, Gonzalez p
— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) June 22, 2011
Ellis has apparently morphed into Mark Kotsay.
Game finally started in Flushing after ~1h rain delay. 0-0 top 2.
I wonder if the A’s are still under the impression that Kurt is a good player.
They are apparently still under the impression that Mark Ellis is.
FIRST BASE? Ba’al Freekin’ Kraut.
I think they just have to show other teams that Ellis is healthy. I would not be surprised if Ellis is gone within two weeks, which would be sad but probably the right thing to do. When that happens, I would think Carter would get his shot at first base…he’s hit very well since coming back from his thumb injury.
I think at least the first half of that is right. On the second half, I worry about nBob’s CoJax crush
I worry more about his Swingles affinity.
sweeney doesn’t bother me as much as jackson. At lestsweeney can play defense.
I would like to DeJesus to play over him though.
Right. DDJ almost certainly projects to be the best OF on the team.
Not true. He projected as a 98 wrc+
Well, they’re certainly not under the impression that Ellis is a starter. I have no problem with them being under the impression that Ellis is a backup infielder anywhere on the infield other than SS, including first base.
I am pretty sick of Suzuki ABs. I don’t see a way out.
Hey anyone thinking of going to San Jose tomorrow for the McCarthy start?
my mind is unchanged. But kudos kurt, kudos.
Didn’t he hit 2 homers in a game off Wakefield last year?
Career v Wakefield 19 PA 2 hr.375 .474 .813 1.286
good knuckle ball killer.
Well whaddya know!
SLG in 2011, quite the tight race:
1. Ellis .287
2. Kotsay .283 (141 PA!)
3. Barton .267
Crisp is honoring Rajai by hitting exactly like him this year.
And with that catch, Matsui’s fielding is already worth more than his hitting this year.
He needs to go back in time and teach Moises Alou how to do that.
Dammit, Ratto’s stealing my schtick again.
You know what? I like Ratto. I don’t give a fuck. I’m sick of soft-stepping around it. I like him. So there.
This is the best Gio’s been at locating his pitches all season.
I hate it when some out-of-towner records the radio commercials. That one said, “Your Farmers Insurance agent in Dolly City is …”. I’m thinking, Dolly City, Dolly City…AHHH! Something tells me that guy has no idea what used to be at 6400 Mission Street, Top of the Hill!
Blame the agency
that’s more like it
I’m glad we’re playing NL rules today…the A’s aren’t close to solving Dickey and while pitch count probably won’t become a factor with him, pinch hitting for him will.
And there he goes.
And there goes the game.
Richie Ashburn: HOF spoonerism
Turned on TV to see Isringhausen warming in Mets pen. Second “haven’t thought about him in eons” moment of game…earlier Korach mentioned Felix Jose.
Excellent! Always nice to pin a BS on KRod!
Cojax!
Meet The New Bob’s not thing only one with a crush on CoJax at the moment!
Also, it’s fun to hate K-Rod again.
Again? Or… hate? I love the man, he helped our team come back!
Bailey should be brought in but we’ll see Breslow.
Phew…and I remain baffled as to why managers don’t understand how to properly leverage their relievers in tie/close game situations.
Bailey warmed up but did not get in yesterday, right?
First play I’ve seen Weeks look bad on (being slow to cover 2nd on the pickoff).
He’s looked pretty bad all game. This, in complete 100% hindsight, probably would have been a good game to have given him off.
Nah. Starting Ellis and sitting Weeks today would’ve triggered a media-blog shit storm. Doing it tomorrow, though, wouldn’t be a bad idea at all.
Depends on how they did it. If they came out and said Weeks is the starter, Ellis the back up, blah blah blah like they did, but then said TODAY, we’re giving Weeks a rest day and he’ll be back in tomorrow and in Philly, I don’t think they’d shit themselves. But all of this is purely retrospect based on how off Weeks has looked today and nothing more, so maybe you’re right and it would have still looked wrong not knowing ahead of time that Weeks was going to suck today.
Too slow on the initial break, and too fast to stop himself as he over-ran the tag opportunity.
110%
The DogMa: “You’ll notice that the guy with all the pins is sitting by himself.”
Smart woman, her.
Somehow I read “pins” as “penises”, and it made even more sense.
Jesus, Matsui!
look who just got all three starts in Citizens bank.
He actually may be better than willingham
He needs to win this game with #500 in the 13th.
The A’s need to win this game period. I’m too invested.
This loss will be on Melvin. Ziegler pitching to all these freaking lefties?!?
Hunh.
High leverage out right there.
clutch
All these lefties?
No problem!
He’s made a lot of bad moves tonight but they’ve all worked out. This is why he’s better than old Bob.
oldbob forgot to tell them to play better
Old Bob would have made six pointless double-switches by now and would have Landon Powell on the mound.
….not anymore
Oy
If you can stick that fuckin’ thing out there and get away with it…
Sonofabitch!
Not reasonable to ever expect to get that call, but the hitter obviously took that off his thigh on purpose.
I wish more umps would call guys out on that shit. You should not be able to lean into it, drop your elbow into it or otherwise not make an effort to avoid being hit.
I can’t disagree much, but that’s a tough one for the umps. Home’s watching the pitch, not the batter…1B and 3B might have a better look, actually…and ump conferences to parse hitter intent after one of every 10 HBPs would be awkward.
Not so sure. Home’s watching the ball. Most hit-by-pitches aren’t close to the plate so seeing it head inside like that, you’re likely to notice what the hitter’s doing. If it’s a 100 mph pitch, well, there’s not much time to see it and I wouldn’t expect it to be reasonable for batter to avoid it if it hits them. An 80 mph breaking ball, more of an effort needs to happen besides turning your knee inward. At worse, you could call to the base ump a la a check swing and let them decide since they’re watching the batter anyway. I don’t think a conference would be necessary.
iirc, ump called a White Sock on that play to end a game at the Collie, prolly 2005-6 or so.
It was against the White Sox in 2005. The ejection of the batter (I think it was Crede) who got the HBP recalled forced Jermaine Dye to play shortstop, which is how I always remember that game. Guillen should have just activated himself to play short in the bottom of the ninth.
A’s won on a walkoff by (who else) Marco Scutaro.
Did you see the call the other night against Nyjer Morgan? He clearly turned away from it but the ump called him for leaning into it. Total bullshit, probably because it was Nyjer.
Bullshit. He turned away from it. Didn’t try very hard but I don’t know if he could have gotten out of the way even if he had.
Really? The replay showed him turn into it. Had he simply stepped forward and stopped, no turn, it would have missed him. It was his last movement with his knee going inward that caused it to hit him.
I thought he turned away initially, then realized his opportunity and took full advantage.
It’s 5+ hours after the scheduled start of the game, the HP umpire is exhausted and his tummy is growling…what the hell, make him make a rare call. I’m sure Billy Martin looked up from his labors, mopped his brow and gave Justin Turner a big thumbs-up.
Looked to me like he turned and pulled his upper body away, while moving his leg/uniform into the path of the ball.
I was very surprised NuBob didn’t go out and argue, just for appearances sake.
Also pretty massive failure having Ziegler pitch
a) to a bunch of lefties
b) to anyone when his control is off.
You’ve gotta love losing a 13 inning game without using your two best bullpen arms.
so midnight in new york equals pumpkin?
For Whitey Bulger too
Any particular reason why Balfour isn’t available today? He pitched yesterday after having two off days before. Seems strange especially with Fuentes going for the 4th time in 5 days, and 4 consecutive games.
Fucker.
Fucker.
Smart baseball.
smart baseball from a fucker (who would have been a hero if he played for my team.)
this.
Still chicken shit. I hated Kendall for pulling that bullshit too.