J. Weeks 2b
C. Crisp lf
J. Reddick rf
Y. Cespedes cf
K. Ka’aihue 1b
S. Smith dh
K. Suzuki c
L. Hughes 3b
C. Pennington ss
B. Colon p
{insert something clever}
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MOAR STRINES, LESS H’W’II’N’S!
by the end there may be equal amounts
TWSS
Wac thinks there are less than 500 people at the Coli. :(
announced 10,543
Usher told Bryan they’d been told 3,800. There’s only one more Monday night home game before Memorial Day, thank God. I was saying to Bryan that the A’s should designate it as Community Day and let in anyone for free who shows up in A’s gear or has a driver’s license in Alameda or CoCo counties.
Haha!
Skigurl got kicked out of 217 on Sunday, out of the blue. I don’t think management has any clue about keeping fans.
But they’ve got lots of good ideas about losing them.
WTF?
That sounds random and insane.
They should at least raffle off the honor…
I’m not so sure. Turns out it was the same lady that Wac got into a fight with last year.
Who are these people? And why do they want to alienate us?
Of course, my standard response to something like this is to get Machiavellian.
However, I’m trying to turn over a new leaf and not start any wars with people. Nobody needs to be stuck in the Coli parking lot overnight with four severed tire valve stems…
Oh, that one. A little authority can be a dangerous thing.
We could take her!
I don’t think it would be hard to get a low-level stadium employee fired.
It might be FK’d up, but I don’t see it being particularly complicated.
Yeah, I think the other M might be working on it.
HOW DARE SHE BE IN ATTENDANCE!
It’s been a rude awakening for her, for sure.
She’s had season tickets in 117 for a long time, and has been a loyal supporter. This has been a hard adjustment for her
Towards the end of 2010, I think, I got booted out of upgraded second level seats for the first time in like a decade. Repeated in 2011 several times. Not that I should be immune from blanket enforcement decisions of course, but at a mostly empty ballpark, for a fan comporting himself respectfully, it’s just so fucking petty and short sighted.
For a number of reasons, but ownership and their crappy attitude towards their fans high among them, 2012 is guaranteed to be the fewest number of games I attend in almost 20 years.
She feels the same now, I’m sure, as does Wac. The only thing that keeps us going is our love for the team and each other. The management has abandoned us and go go FK itself.
Well, I guess that was based on FB, from 45 minutes away.
From what television has shown it looks like 1978 Flashback Night.
Individual voices are coming through loud and clear on the radio.
95.7 (just checking. you don’t seem to be tuned in to johnny or vince.)
What’s with the obsessive use of the second person among baseball players and managers? Talking about Humber’s perfect game just now Robin Ventura said, “You’re just happy for him.” They all do this constantly. Is this some sort of a meme (in the original sense of the word) among baseball players, or are they just that afraid of expressing actual human feelings in interviews?
Don’t forget subconscious acknowledgement of irrational perfectionist tendencies.
the second part of that last sentence is the meme?
Bear in mind that the Australian national team colours are green and gold.
nice use of the
altcorrect spellingFixed.
Hi, Rickey!
Hey does anyone know if Robin Venture has managed at any level anywhere before?
He’s managed against the Monarchs…
and Dr. Girlfriend…
As for the current Sox’ MGR, this is his first gig.
He managed to get his ass kicked by Nolan Ryan.
Well, the hughs experiment has been a failure so far
He was going to wear the usual Kleenex boxes on his feet, but Vuc made him put on white shoes like everyone else.
MOJO. DEFUNCT.
So get this. Bryan says Coliseum security just made Jorge Leon take down The Green Stampede sign because it’s larger than 3 x 6, so violates new policy. Technically that’s correct, but the sign has been there for years. It’s a group of volunteers helping Oakland youth with homework, for Christ’s sake. It’s a nice, professionally made sign. WTF.
oh good lord.
I am so close to not supporting this team, at all.
From our on-scene reporter:
I don’t think it would be hard to get a low-level stadium employee fired.
It might be FK’d up, but I don’t see it being particularly complicated.
I don’t think it’s particularly fked up either.
!!!!
Are these fools employed by the team or by the city/county?
I believe they’re employed by the management company – the one that just got the boot.
And now, B says, they have given the okay to put the sign back up. Ludicrous.
It’s so Oakland, don’t you think?
This city is so seriously dysfunctional, I can’t even describe it.
I hope no one was pepper sprayed.
Hee, now I want to put Casually Pepper Spraying Cop into the right field bleachers. If I had Photoshop…
You might should wish that no one got shot.
I made my guys put a peep hole in our front doors. I’m afraid who will be on the other side.
hi
Thanks, and go As.
you would be welcome, darling.
woot
Thanks, and go As.
But it’s also just shitty management filtering down to badly trained, not too bright employees as practiced around the world. The pernicious doctrine of “If we make an exception for one, we have to do it for all”.
Fear the slippery slope!
I need to get out of here.
Cersei, Geoffery, Illyn Payne, Raff the Sweetling, Polliver, The Hound, The Mountain…
Uh, hello, Coliseum staff? There are maybe twenty people here, don’t kick them all out at once.
That may well be true, but this issue has zero to do with the City of Oakland. Ushers are hired by the A’s.
Yay! I hope!
Wac talked about this, but I didn’t hear all.
This kind of thing doesn’t surprise me at all anymore.
The Konerko HR reveals a “Wolff Lied He Never Tried” bedsheet which looks like it’s a fair bit bigger than 3′ x 6′.
Now I’m wondering if the original order was “make that guy take that sign down” and the guard misunderstood which one he was supposed to enforce policy on.
(both belong to Jorge)
I don’t agree with his message, but man does management need to grow a pair and just fking take it. Stop bitching about it too.
Pink isn’t well. He’s back at the hotel.
and Lew sent us along with this surrogate team where there are no fans in the stand.
Ha ha thanks
Well done, ohtobe!
I once listened to The Wall for 3 years.
and that’s 1095 days you’ll never get back…
1096, if one of them was a leap year.
NERD!
But only 1093 (or so) sidereal days.
nerds, nerds, just call it was it is… 1095.75
Cut it in half and say this half is mine, this half is his. Bite me ColiEmp.
Win!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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AJ failing to catch Kila’s popup.
Hughes is going to fit right in.
Luke Hughes at bat….
First impression – he’s hacktastic.
You don’t walk your way off the island continent.
I wish Rickey could suit up for this year’s team.
If he did, he’d probably be an All-Star.
Probably? PROBABLY?!?
Ricky = All-Star. Always and forever. BOTTOM LINE.
E
I’m FKing impressed. :(
Good Lord, I just saw that the WOLFF LIED HE NEVER TRIED sign is up! They made Jorge take down the Green Stampede and left that one?
C’mon, Bartolo!
My god, the Royals haven’t won since that Broxton meltdown. That’s amazing.
They haven’t won a home game. That oughtta bring ’em back to the K.
Holy smokes, 0-10 on the opening homestand. That’s painful.
Their slogan is “It’s Our Time” with Hosmer and Butler saying it on several commercials. Poor bastards.
It should be, “Seriously, It’s About FKing Time”
They do have Sofa King commercials that are quite funny. So-fa-King…comfortable. So-fa-King… beautiful.
LOL
Rally time, peeps. I need to pretend that we have a good team!
Nah. The way to enjoy this season is to suppress expectations, enjoy the aesthetic aspects of the game, hope for some development of the young pitchers such as Parker and Peacock and look for some occasional awesomeness from Sexped.
Okay. Thanks for giving me some proper perspective.
Thanks for giving me some proper perspective.Thanks for pouring ice water on my loins.I get it, just being realistic.
Also doesn’t hurt to hope they lose a lot of games and get the 1st draft pick while doing all those things.
Byron Buxton please
Thanks, and go As.
This has pretty much been my whole fan experience since 2002, with a few faint glimmers of hope that popped up here and there.
Didn’t you hear? They’re going to surprise a lot of people.
If we hang around at .500 and get Manny to hit .400 and Anderson returns and Braden returns and pigs fly…we will probably only end up 10 under .500 at the end of the season.
We don’t have a good team. We’re not SUPPOSED to have a good team this year.
You’re gonna have to come up with other stuff to cheer about, like seeing if Cespedes will hit another one 460 feet this year or how many people Reddick will hose.
Thanks, and go As.
The most impressive part of the season was the Saturday tailgate and the festivus of Cespedes.
Or how long it will take for Beane to get rid of Coco.
Could have gotten Bowden for him from the Sawx.
Thanks, and go As.
Have to keep him until chia head day.
Yeah, why the FK didn’t that happen?
Marlon Byrd already won that race.
Well, at least we have more base runners than errors so far.
Amazing that we may have upgraded our team with a .224 hitter…sad.
I suspect that, going into 2013 spring training, the A’s will have accumulated a glut of 3B/utility IF types, much like the assortment of 1B/DHs who showed up in Phoenix this year.
Similar to when we had a shit-ton of OF’s who all sucked. We even picked up more during the season and Langerhans only played in a couple of games.
I was just looking at his stats on bb-ref, and was wondering how he could possibly have rated getting 317 PA last season. Then I remembered, he was with the Twins.
Championship!
Next year you’re going to wonder the same thing and remember, oh yeah, he was with the A’s.
I suspect they would have given Timmons his cup of coffee instead if he weren’t hitting .130 in Sacto.
I just saw some dude in a San Francisco Athletics hoodie. Is that a thing?
burn it
And the one in it.
Green and gold?
Yes! I only saw it for a split second. Very strange.
USF athletics department?
Maybe. It’s been a while since I was last in the Bay Area.
i’m not saying it wasn’t some cross-combo. just throwing out possibilities. if it said athletics in the script font, it’s a ripoff. if it said it in straight square letters, i bet it’s just a coincidence.
Looked like the latter. I guess a public stoning won’t be in order.
Meh.
Smoke and/or throw’em if you got’em!
Lew just took a big slug of whatever’s in that bottle next to his seat. I swear, you can almost see the Andy Capp bubbles over his head.
Did he permanently locate to the lower area where he can’t be reached by opinionated fans?
Shockingly he does not make appearances in the LF bleachers any more. Or even in the first row behind the dugout.
Yes, he’s hung out in that same seat in the “Diamond Level” for the last couple of years.
And as I’ve said before, I’m absolutely certain he moved there from his previous behind the dugout seats so he never has to walk through places where non-Diamond ticket buying fans sit, ever.
To be fair, if I owned the team that’s where I’d sit too, especially to avoid the long climb back up to the concourse which is not always the easiest thing for an older person. I’ve never been in Diamond Level seats but I’m guessing there’s an elevator service to that level.
But he started out by sitting among the regular fans so it makes it less okay in my mind.
However, he’s not exactly the most popular guy in attendance here.
Yes, and everybody is so cool to him. I can’t possibly imagine why he doesn’t want to hang out in the bleachers.
Thanks, and go As.
Charlie Finley, who managed to be even more unpopular than Lew in spite of having winning teams his first nine years in Oakland, used to have his owner’s box up on the press or “Loge” level back before it was converted to skyboxes. Although when NBC came to town for the playoffs and World Series he would suddenly appear in the first row behind the dugout.
At least Lew is in town more often than not. Finley’s box was usually empty as he was back in Chicago.
He still goes to games?!
Why wouldn’t he?
Thanks, and go As.
Cos the team hasn’t been very good for half a decade a good portion of the fans dislike him.
That’s not a reason to stop going to games.
The team is, after all, the “product” in this equation.
Yeah… even Donald Sterling goes to games…. FKing POS…
I’m pretty sure drinking outside alcohol is a violation of coliseum policy.
Nice DP!
Sweet!
Yes YOU are :-)
Aw, hi darling! (♥)
FK the Gnats
Hot damn. That is fun to watch.
Sexpedes!
We need more of him in our lineup.
Call the Castro brothers. Tell them to send additional units.
I want to call InventHelp and pitch them an idea on how to bring more A’s fans to the ballpark.
Is it Topless Tuesdays?
Still working on the plan but will be sure to include this if you attend 7 games.
Followed by Free Beer Fridays?
Whore Wednesdays! Slut Sundays!
Naked Hot Chicks Days That End In The Letter “Y”
Thanks, and go As.
so what was beckman trying to tell cespedes when he was pointing at his shoes just now?
Swing at that?
down by his shoelaces? nah, that’d be “schwing” at that.
I love those guys! I need to hang with EM more often.
I need to hang with LG more often!
Yay! Day games will happen when my boss get’s his priorities straight!
Probably about the same time that mine finally responds to my whining and puts me on 9-5.
Nooooo!
Dunn-de-dunn dunn dunn
is there some kind of “back spin” convention for broadcasters?
I heard vince say someone was “good” at putting backsin on the ball and I also heard Krukow say the same thing about someone today in the Mets game.
The gyro-ball is so passe.
it was what the broadcasters were passing around in their FB today.
Referring to pitchers? I’ve never heard that. Hitters sometimes talk about emphasizing the top hand (highest up the bat) as a way to impart a more forward spin, thus keeping the struck ball down to produce line drives rather than getting under it and producing backspin and easy fly balls.
for the batters yes. I had not heard that before today.
Vince gushing over Pudge the younger…
God, he’s so embarrassing. I’m aching for Korach right now.
That sounds dirty and I couldn’t agree more. Ken is just simply fantastic.
I want him bad.
koraching.
Nice touch. I’m going to mention this to my psychiatrist tomorrow.
my psychiatrist focuses on bad touches.
Oh. The good kind?
the good kind of bad touches? duh! is there any other kind?
Touch-a. Touch-a. Touch-a. Touch me. I want to be dirrrrrty.
hand to hand or foot to foot or shoulder to shoulder or nose to nose or ear to ear or foot to nose or what have you.
true ranger
there it is.
Come on new guy. That isn’t going to work here.
This is one of those games where my avatar is most appropriate. I anticipate many more this season.
I’m beside myself, which is strange.
Speaking of work-related whining, has anyone ever found a successful strategy to deal with cubicle mates who eat at their desks, loudly and continually? Other than wearing headphones and cranking the sound up, which fortunately is part of my job so there’s no offense to be taken….but still, my cube neighbor’s lip-smacking of yogurt and crunch-crunching of crackers is driving me nuts. She eats about three times during a workday, too.
I got promoted, and moved to a private office.
The last office I worked in had a very bad problem with rats and ants, which took care of the food problem there pretty fast. Other than importing vermin, well… I dunno.
Leave a note.
I disagree. If he/she can’t do the yogurt quietly, then there’s just no hope and speaking up, yeah, no.
ps. go A’s!
Yeah, it’s never worth getting upset about this stuff. Wait patiently for it to go away.
Yup. It wouldn’t be annoying if I liked most of my job, I suppose.
It doesn’t get easier.
my officemate is a wet-mouth chewer. i can hear every gloopsmack. disgusting.
As a daily at-my-desk luncher who eats for like 10-15 minutes before getting back to work (The Man beats me like a rented bureaucrat), you all are making me self-conscious and worried that cube neighbors over the years have said these things about me.
ha! 2 things. one makes you feel better, the other shows you i’m no better. 1) i knew this about my officemate before i got an office with him. he’s a gross chewer. he’s always been. there are non gross chewers. 2) i was just telling witchy this on saturday… i was waaaay into my career before i found out flossing is a “private” event and that you “never” do it at your “desk.”
I’m currently feeling the seething coming at me from across my cube wall whilst I enjoy last week’s noodles.
And I’m feeling slightly self concious.
This thread rated NSFLAW (not safe for lunch at work).
You’re just going to have to go in there. Pardon me, I think you are great, but I can hear you eating in my cubicle. Could you possibly take your break in the lunchroom? I can hear you nashing, and while I also appreciate food, it’s kind of distracting. :)
Hmmmm … you could do something all grown-up and thoughtful like LG recommends, but OTOH, if only you knew somebody who could do a radio story on the subject, replete with sound effects — like on NPR or someplace.
Based on the response hereabouts, I’m thinking it could go national/viral.
If I wanted to get fired for bringing ridicule on a local public radio host.
Could you at least record it, and play it back when s/he’s on deadline?
Prey the fucker quits? That’s what it took for me to get past the same issue. I also got to listen to him ssssssssssssip his soda all fucking day too.
If my memory serves, over the last three appearances FDLS has done this:
single, walk, single, walk, double, single, single (may have mixed the order of the first four). Not one single out.
Didn’t he have a 0.00 ERA?
Yeah, because Jordan Norberto was there to save him. Not tonight!
10,574 officially…
It’s amazing how it’s always about 10,574!
huh
Whoa. Too bad they’ve dropped the guess the attendance Jumbotron game.
Crikey
New guy making quite an impression so far.
Why wouldn’t Hughes just get the lead runner there? Ugh.
FDLS has not retired anybody in his last three appearances.
That’s bad, right?
Not for the unemployment rate!
and yet
hashad an era of zedzero. was thinking of another joke involving the alternate pronunciation of “z”
Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.
I was hoping the A’s could get this one.
fixed
wasn’t there 2 outs when the runs scored and one of the baserunners was on via error?
He gave up a leadoff double, WP, then RBI single with no outs.
like mid-80s long beach?
Good stuff, Skinny!
This Chevy Cruze commercial is increasing my desire to buy a brand new Ford product.
Give it 3-4 months…
FK!
You know it’s bad when Fosse is sighing.
Should’ve been an error on Weeks. He should’ve caught the ball instead of going for the glove-flip.
He’s a bit too fond of the various kinds of flips for my liking. Square the shoulders and throw when you have time.
that’s what happens when the guys watch sports center before a game. (FK the burris.)
A base hit!
Really?
My shoulder finally allows me to post and this what I get?
Merciful ending.
Jake Peavy shutting out the A’s is like giving up 10 runs in a couple innings to, say, the Rangers.
I couldn’t blame Korach much if he wanted to Krzyzewski this season and come back in 2013.
LOL
And pin the 90-odd A’s losses on Vince’s broadcaster record. I can see it.
And of course, that also fits with management’s full fan alienation posture.
Well, that sucked.
I so did.
WHAT??????
(she’s going to pretend she meant to write “it.” just you watch.)
/
I’m glad somebody had a good time the last 2-1/2 hours.
Was it as good as it sounds like?
YES!
Thanks, and go As.
Curses.
It’s a Merkle the A’s got any hits, at all?
The team sure went quietly. Most interesting late inning development was some sort of organized cheering mayhem in about section 130, responded to by group improv out of the right field bleachers.
Annnnnd, Look Who’s been an Athletic for one game, and his average is already down 60 points.
Sad Kraut
Heh.
A’s: practicing offensive austerity
Rob looks very uncomfortable here
His thinking has been very influential on me as a baseball fan and a person, and I’ve met him a few times and think he’s a good guy. But this is not his strong suit.
So everybody who was not at the game in person, which is most if you, you missed the most entertaining part of the whole game, which happened shortly after the final out recorded on the field. AJ Pierzynski and Jake Peavy got into a fight on the field between third base and home, after AJ caught the final out he took the ball and slammed it hard into Peavy’s glove and they started yelling at each other, then as AJ was walking away, Peavy took the ball and threw it as hard as he could at AJ’s Head, the ball ended up bouncing off of the back wall of the White Sox Dugout, it was thrown from about 10 feet up the 3rd base line from home plate.
The one time you’d want him to throw a strike …
Yeah exactly…it was pretty crazy…not sure exactly what that was all about!
I wonder if Pierzynski is Rick Manning-ing Peavy’s wife…
nutty. they don’t like each other and they fought about something last year. wonder if it’ll get any press.
If this is true, I haven’t seen a single mention of it anywhere else.
Reporters might not have been able to see that from the press box, and with a very small crowd of A’s fans, I’m not surprised if no one else noticed.
I went over to South Side Sox to see if anyone mentioned it in their gamethread, and found an amusing string of comments stemming from someone noticing a comment on AN in which someone presented something as fact which was apparently from a Hawk parody site. Some excerpts:
LOL
Thanks, and go As.
Well, that’s just embarrassing.
Nice. I’m tempted to go tell them what happened.
I was thinking someone should, because the Gershman stuff really was not a huge deal. It was a dust up for a couple of days but I don’t think anyone bailed over it specifically.
Yeah, that was more of a WTF moment, nothing more.
I think you should. Give them the full story.
That’d require me signing back into my account on SBN and joining the White Sox site.
i wonder how long it was after this shot was taken, and what could have turned the smiles around.
oh yeah. source.
Maybe AJ said something like this: http://freekraut.com/?p=6842#comment-171566
or one said, “let’s go to the parking lot and see if FK is having a tailgater.” and the other said “tail TIDE!”
Wow, that’s bizarre, especially after the game Peavy pitched. Sure would be nice to see AJ finally wear out his welcome even with his own teammates.
The evidence mounts that absolutely nobody likes AJ.
According to the numbers, the A’s have sold the 9th highest fraction of their home seats, ahead of the Yankees.
Of course paid and present are very different things, but there it is to make of what you will.
The “total” includes the two games at the Tokyo Dome.
At the Coliseum the A’s are averaging 17,668 announced (30th out of 30) which is 50.4% of capacity (27th out of 30).
They were home games so I’m going to count them, FK it!
If only the A’s could play 81 home games in Tokyo…
If that happened, I’d move back out there in a heartbeat. Radiation levels be damned!
Well… that sucked.