Sweeney
Cabrera
Giambi
Holliday
Cust RF
Suzuki DH
Crosby 3B
Petit 2B
Powell C
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huh
Wheeeeeeeee
Explanations:
Not platooning Crosby and Hannahan because you just can’t take that kind of bulldozing devil-may-care moxie out of the lineup.
Not platooning Petit and Patterson because two hits last night means Petit might be hot. Also he’s better defensively, and Outman needs all the help he can get.
Suzuki gets the day off, but Geren wishes to … wait for it … keep his bat in lineup. Plus Geren hates Buck.
I’m disappointed Geren did not find a way to work Davis into the lineup.
a run! We may need quite a few of those today.
And now I don’t.
Arg.
I don’t know what the bullpen situation really is, but Geren’s handling of that situation was utterly mystifying.
home run!! that’s a true outcome.
I was in Taipei, in a hotel. Unfortunately, that was during the daytime there, but I did get to listen to Vin Scully.
SPARTA-KRAUT!
I love Cust.
CUST-O-FAB!
By extension, I blame mikeA for having a birthday, Poppy for remembering it, and A-Rod for only tipping 15% at Hooters.
Thank you to Wakamatsu for not starting Felix today when they had the same rest.
oo. not out.
yikes
crosby, too, loathes the hot yellow orb
No. We just don’t have anyone here to say “Game over.”
97?!?
I. HATE. THIS. RADIO. AD.
They don’t wear the road grays enough. Much better than the green.
The plot thickens: last May 3rd win was in 2003.
2008: Loss
2007: Off day
2006: Loss
2005: Loss
2004: Off day
Anyone want to join me in a class-action lawsuit over the misleading dollar-dog ads?
I hear it not as “And hot dogs, too, for just a dollar,” but as “And hot dogs: two for just a dollar.”
I interrupt this game thread to dump a link. If we keep giving away the kraut for free, we are gonna use it all up and there won’t be any left for future generations.
Vince: “the ball was bananing … had a little banana to it”
I don’t think so. It would have been 7-5 with the bases loaded and two out instead of 7-6 with runners on 1st and 3rd and two out. But then two runs would have scored on Ichiro’s single anyway.
Kurt is on fire.
I love A’s baserunning.
whoops, meant to reply to nevermoor.
1st and 3rd 2 outs=not a good time steal. Maybe in little league.
Because going home prevents a run from scoring.
damn…
I like Petit. Can we keep him?
1. The power of “knows how to handle the bat”:
GS for Cabrera the past 3+ seasons: 488
GS hitting lower than 3rd in the lineup: 0
2. What does it mean to “have a seat on a flight to your life”?
3. Those otters appear to be hatching a plot that involves a) scratching out the eyes of their handlers, b) copulating ferociously, and c) detonating a suitcase nuke in a shopping mall.
Listening to Niehaus today…he mentioned that it’s the 29th anniversary of the A’s stealing home twice against Jack Morris and Lance Parrish, one of which was on a triple steal, a play I don’t think has been duplicated since. All those years sitting in the old Coliseum bleachers, that was absolutely one of the greatest moments.
I had a revelation today about the “sippin’ on a MGD” commercial. This may have already been covered, but I realized that the reason he was able to not spill the draft beer when he trips on the dance floor is that it’s an MGD, and therefore it’s in a bottle, not a mug or a cheap-ass plastic cup. I feel so enlightened, I just wanted to share.
A third of the line-up below the Mendoza line … if this goes to extra innings, we are so screwed.
Ziggy doesn’t look so good.
“Orlando Cabrera just RAN over to Jack Hannahan and whispered something to him,” says Glen.
OC: “Dude! LEAVE. IT. ALONE.”
Springer vs Lopez… round 2. We win this time.
Aardsma looks like a gopher.
1. I get Davis for Cust, but is Crosby really a better defensive first baseman than Giambi?
2. It’s depressing how quickly overuse, injuries, and airborne contagions have transformed the relief staff from a strength into a liability.
3. Pet peeve, apropos of nothing: when people say “quite frankly”, followed by an uncontroversial banality.
4. Culinary assertion, apropos of nothing: lentil soup is the best soup.
take take take take
yay Petit is up.
This is the part of extra-inning games I dislike.
You have invested a fair amount of time in waiting for the outcome. At this stage, you are not optimistic that things will end well. But you don’t want to give up, because that’s not the kind of fan you are. Plus, what if it does end well? You would feel foolish.
But this game already has taken up more time than alloted. There are chores to do, requests from other family members, general restlessness.
And so it drags on…
Powell crosses the Mendoza line!
I’m looking forward to the highlights… who has this inning on the radio?
Vargas does not drink. Does not smoke. Does not make love. What do you do Vargas?
Are you serious?
I blame the evil birthday otters for this.
I am utterly confused.
Is this game still on?
oh, for krauts sake
not a fun birthday.
I think Holliday is having the worst game in baseball history.
It could be worse. We could be playing a double-header.
runs? maybe?
I’m guessing Powell can’t bunt…
take it off.
great.
Eveland FTL
did that really happen?
DFA Hannahan now?
If he throws home like a real infielder we win.
Um, wow. I don’t know many of the particulars of the latter stages of this game, and I’m going to keep it that way.
Talking of going home …
Tuning in to PBS’s film of otters in Mull, I’ve just seen a moment of “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” that shows a building crew installing bolt-on log-ends onto a steel-framed “authentic log cabin” in Colorado. The depressing triumph of form over function painfully echoed today’s unlucky 13th inning.
But the otter mum just fought off a seal that wanted to sit on the rock her pups were nesting on, and the west coast of Scotland is sublime, and the matar paneer is yummy, and Lily is asleep after a weekend of doing her “My community” project for school, and the theme she chose for the centerpiece was “My family”, and life goes on.
Happy birthday mikeA.