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15 May 2009  |  monkeyball  |Game Thread

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41 thoughts on “Emergency rain-delay clown thread”

  1. FreeSeatUpgrade May 15,2009 4:45 pm

    .

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  2. nevermoor May 15,2009 4:57 pm

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  3. mikeA May 15,2009 4:59 pm

    Rain delay radio transcript:
    Ken & Tiger guy: Good long conversations with some nice stories
    Vince: You guys have lost some veterans. Is Miguel Cabrera starting to express himself in the clubhouse?

    • monkeyball May 15,2009 5:02 pm || Up

      Miguel Cabrera is lactating?

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  4. andeux May 15,2009 5:16 pm

    Remember when we traded Tim Hudson for Edwin Jackson?

    TINSTAAFK
  5. batgirl May 15,2009 5:32 pm

    This is just. I mean. This is really. Huh. What the heck was that?

    I think I’m gonna barf.

    • monkeyball May 15,2009 5:36 pm || Up

      Oh, yikes. Just looked at gameday. Fuck that shit, homey.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nevermoor May 15,2009 5:48 pm || Up

        I unilaterally declare the “Crosby at 3B as an Athletic experiment” over.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • batgirl May 15,2009 5:56 pm || Up

          Hey, sweet. Geren agrees with you! Now if someone can just crank up the ol’ time machine and head us back to the 1st, we’ll be set.

  6. vignette17 May 15,2009 5:38 pm

    Let’s go rain!

    • batgirl May 15,2009 5:45 pm || Up

      let’s go rain

      • ArakSOT May 15,2009 5:47 pm || Up

        let’s go rain!

        apparently, there is no justice in baseball, either

        There is always a score.
        • monkeyball May 15,2009 5:53 pm || Up

          les go vlae kershner

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
          • the dogfather May 15,2009 6:01 pm || Up

            Let’s go

            The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
            • the dogfather May 15,2009 6:08 pm || Up

              The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
              • ArakSOT May 15,2009 6:32 pm || Up

                yes! the tarp is out! with a half-inning to spare!

                RAIN! RAIN! RAIN!

                There is always a score.
  7. andeux May 15,2009 5:49 pm

    For people watching:
    1. How bad were the various errors?
    2. Did weather/field conditions contribute to any of them?

    TINSTAAFK
    • batgirl May 15,2009 5:53 pm || Up

      I missed the 1st one. Crosby’s was bad and had zero to do with the weather from how it looked on TV.

    • whiteshoes40 May 15,2009 5:57 pm || Up

      1. Bad. Very bad.
      2. Maybe, but it sure didn’t look like it.

      • the dogfather May 15,2009 6:03 pm || Up

        Cabrera gets in on it. Vince kerfluffled, too. TDF over/out.

        The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
    • monkeyball May 15,2009 6:05 pm || Up

      I’m still stuck at the office, but if Geren’s yanking Crosby, I can’t imagine Dwight had much to do with it.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • andeux May 15,2009 6:09 pm || Up

        Well what’s a little bit weird is that Crosby got an AB and another inning in the field before that happened.

        TINSTAAFK
  8. whiteshoes40 May 15,2009 6:04 pm

    Oh. My.

    We are officially in need of a very large thunderstorm in Detroit.

    Or an entirely new infield.

  9. ArakSOT May 15,2009 6:04 pm

    gotta agree with the Detroit radio announcers; A’s can’t do anything right tonight

    egad

    There is always a score.
  10. monkeyball May 15,2009 6:05 pm

    Man. Sorry, everyone, for the Evil Clown Mojo.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  11. nevermoor May 15,2009 6:09 pm

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t it only be 1 earned run? Gamecast is showing 2.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • nevermoor May 15,2009 6:19 pm || Up

      They fixed it. I win.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  12. ArakSOT May 15,2009 6:10 pm

    this is getting suspicious. I think the game is being thrown. I suspect Canadian gamblers

    let’s circle all the suspicious plays and compare notes

    *circles Crosby*
    *circles Giambi*
    *circles Cabrera*
    *considers Sweeney and Kennedy*

    There is always a score.
    • nevermoor May 15,2009 6:12 pm || Up

      Someone told the A’s that if they refuse to make outs they’ll never get to the middle of the 5th inning and the game will never count.

      It’s actually ingenious.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball May 15,2009 6:15 pm || Up

      Nice 8MO ref.

      I still insist that’s the best baseball movie ever made, by a wiiiiiiiiide margin.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • ArakSOT May 15,2009 6:25 pm || Up

        I concur

        “Two fingers, Anderson! Two fingers!”

        There is always a score.
        • monkeyball May 15,2009 6:39 pm || Up

          Every single actor:
          1. Is perfectly cast
          2. Delivers a note-perfect performance
          3. Looks and plays like a real baseball player

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
          • Leopold Bloom May 15,2009 10:36 pm || Up

            I like it too. But I thought…um…shit, maybe you’re right. I was going to say Bull Durham, but it’s flawed. And The Natural, but it’s flawed. Hmmm. What about the Christopher Guest part? That one’s not perfectly cast…it’s way over the top cheesy…but…hmm…

            • monkeyball May 16,2009 9:49 am || Up

              Guest? That would be miscast. But C. Lloyd (and his sidekick Richard Edson — who was a onetime member of Sonic Youth IIRC) is supposed to be bumbling comic relief, with a dash of pathos.

              My favorite, though, is Kevin Tighe.

              you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
              • Leopold Bloom May 16,2009 1:51 pm || Up

                That’s who I meant, Christopher Lloyd, yes… seems like a misstep, though the guy who is his sidekick is memorable, for whatever reason. He played it too big. C-Lloyd (as his friends call him) only has one setting, loud. But the rest of the movie…you, you’re right.

                Oh, I was a little thrown off by Arnold Rothstein being played by the guy who used to be on the show with the Sniglets,

  13. ArakSOT May 15,2009 6:18 pm

    Crosby out with an “upset stomach”

    followed shortly by any A’s fans in attendance, with similar symptons

    There is always a score.
    • mikeA May 15,2009 6:21 pm || Up

      The suck virus is eating away at his intestines.

    • the dogfather May 15,2009 7:42 pm || Up

      It’s virulently contagious, ‘cuz I got it, too!

      The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
  14. nevermoor May 15,2009 6:31 pm
    I will say this

    If we can condense a few weeks worth of suck into one game like this, it follows that the next few weeks we won’t suck at all. Which will be awesome.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"

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