Just browsing at Fangraphs … OC is having a really, really bad year. Even with Crosby generating shitty range numbers due to his playing positions he’s never played before, he’s outplaying OC. Sure, Crosby won’t sustain his walk rate, but still …
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
People not watching. why not Breslow you may be wondering? Apparently he was going to come in, then Geren sent him back before he started throwing…. Not hurt…. Puzzling. I don’t like Casilla here…. Not at all…
2. Outman is now the third most awesome Athletic, behind Cust and Suzuki (moving past Braden, who has been downgraded not because of anything he did, but because I’m tired of broadcasters constantly describing him as gutty and hard-nosed).
3. Andruw Jones would have been a good pickup for the A’s.
I think I advocated it on the pages of Free Kraut like a month ago, when his OPS was 4.000 or something. Does that count?
Guess not.
Yeah, I don’t mean to say they should have signed him. But it always seemed plausible to me that his problems were related to malaise and calories rather than a steep, abrupt decline in talent (he’s only 32).
2. Kennedy is ineligible (a) because it’s only been for a month,
or (b) because he is a former Angel,
or (c) because his awesomeness is so manifestly stratospheric that even comparing other players to him would be unfair?
(d) Though it hasn’t happened yet, I sense that as soon as the A’s win 7 out of 10, he will be hailed by bloggers, columnists, and broadcasters alike as a “leader” who “knows how to play the game” and “just goes about his business” with a “professional attitude”. This bans him from the list automatically.
Outman incapable of passing Braden until he either changes his first name to the name of a major city, or he has a mustache tattooed on the side of his finger.
If he does both, though, he gets to be the A’s rep in the All-Star Game.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I have an actual uncle who was a HS US history teacher, and we once had an argument where he claimed that the judiciary was the most powerful of the three branches…..
My best friend is a friend of Hitchens’s and dines there once a month or so (he apparently has people over every night.) Great times, he tells me. Many great stories.
He’d give you a case of whisky for that 9th birthday.
[Firefox spellchecker flags “whisky” as incorrect. Bah. Actually, shouldn’t it be spelled that way in the FK banner?]
Burns: Yes. You see, you’re a left-hander and so is the pitcher. If I send up a right-handed batter, it’s called “playing the percentages”. It’s what smart managers do to win ball games.
Did you catch Kuiper ruminating about “these new defensive statistics” earlier? Fosse ruined it by setting off on a rant about unearned runs, but for a tantalizing moment, a second that seemed suspended in time, as I held my breath and stared agape at my monitor, I was sure Kuiper was going to throw out an UZR reference. Had that happened, my mind would have been permanently blown.
Gameday shows Cabrera showing on a DP grounder to end the inning. Did the 1B step on the bag first, and then get Holliday in a rundown after the run scored?
Seems like we should just have a rule that the second thread is deleted to avoid that. Buck! Woo!
A rule?!? Statist.
fuck.
My brain just broke:
… GameDay is taunting me now:
I am without TV or radio…can someone please explain this latest piece of evidence in the God Hates Us file?
ditto that request
nothing so far. Presumably the back issue.
Yeah. ESPN game notes:
Buck now has sole possession of 4th on the team in homers.
Somehow, every Buck hit makes me feel better than other hits simply because each one of those feels like a “fuck you” to Geren.
Outman is kicking ass.
Just browsing at Fangraphs … OC is having a really, really bad year. Even with Crosby generating shitty range numbers due to his playing positions he’s never played before, he’s outplaying OC. Sure, Crosby won’t sustain his walk rate, but still …
But he looks like a leadoff hitter!
Season deciding at bat right here.
So what was the decision?
Inconclusive? But we may yet get another season changing moment shortly as Casilla just walked someone with 4 pitches…
In all seriousness though, winning or losing this series may determine whether or not the A’s keep Holliday or not (and thus the rest of the season).
Damn right as I type this, Jones homers.
People not watching. why not Breslow you may be wondering? Apparently he was going to come in, then Geren sent him back before he started throwing…. Not hurt…. Puzzling. I don’t like Casilla here…. Not at all…
HIRE MIKEA
NOWTWO BATTERS AGO!!!1. Fuck.
2. Outman is now the third most awesome Athletic, behind Cust and Suzuki (moving past Braden, who has been downgraded not because of anything he did, but because I’m tired of broadcasters constantly describing him as gutty and hard-nosed).
3. Andruw Jones would have been a good pickup for the A’s.
3. Eh, unless you were advocating for it at the time, kinda hard to justify. I mean, he was done, and no one thought otherwise.
also, it’s not clear that he can play the OF.
I think I advocated it on the pages of Free Kraut like a month ago, when his OPS was 4.000 or something. Does that count?
Guess not.
Yeah, I don’t mean to say they should have signed him. But it always seemed plausible to me that his problems were related to malaise and calories rather than a steep, abrupt decline in talent (he’s only 32).
2. Kennedy is ineligible (a) because it’s only been for a month,
or (b) because he is a former Angel,
or (c) because his awesomeness is so manifestly stratospheric that even comparing other players to him would be unfair?
(d) Though it hasn’t happened yet, I sense that as soon as the A’s win 7 out of 10, he will be hailed by bloggers, columnists, and broadcasters alike as a “leader” who “knows how to play the game” and “just goes about his business” with a “professional attitude”. This bans him from the list automatically.
Outman incapable of passing Braden until he either changes his first name to the name of a major city, or he has a mustache tattooed on the side of his finger.
If he does both, though, he gets to be the A’s rep in the All-Star Game.
Bangkok Outman
All excellent points.
Rebuttal: Stirrups, wildly out of control facial hair, the best last name in baseball.
Two birds with one stone – TashKent Outman
We now return you to your regularly scheduled political pissing contest.
I think Chris Matthews would make for/is a pretty decent uncle.
Aw, geez — you’d be, like, 9, and he’d be giving you Caro’s multivolume LBJ bio for your birthday. That would suck.
I love Caro’s multivolume LBJ bio. I’m sure it would have been no different when I was 9. Great present. Matthews is awesome.
I have an actual uncle who was a HS US history teacher, and we once had an argument where he claimed that the judiciary was the most powerful of the three branches…..
Given my druthers I’d take Chris Hitchens instead.
My best friend is a friend of Hitchens’s and dines there once a month or so (he apparently has people over every night.) Great times, he tells me. Many great stories.
and whatever one makes of his views, he is a great prose stylist.
He’d give you a case of whisky for that 9th birthday.
[Firefox spellchecker flags “whisky” as incorrect. Bah. Actually, shouldn’t it be spelled that way in the FK banner?]
Woah, the game started and the A’s have a run. No Buck this game. Hahahahahaahahahahaha.
Something about an oblique injury with Buck..
Ibb to Chris Davis…. hmmmm….
I’m not kidding. They Ibb’d Chris Davis.
Burns: Yes. You see, you’re a left-hander and so is the pitcher. If I send up a right-handed batter, it’s called “playing the percentages”. It’s what smart managers do to win ball games.
This is the Edgar Gonzalez I expected in Oakland last weekend. I now suspect that was an imposter.
Fosse: Texas is winning because Wash brought an emphasis on pitching from the A’s org.
Did you catch Kuiper ruminating about “these new defensive statistics” earlier? Fosse ruined it by setting off on a rant about unearned runs, but for a tantalizing moment, a second that seemed suspended in time, as I held my breath and stared agape at my monitor, I was sure Kuiper was going to throw out an UZR reference. Had that happened, my mind would have been permanently blown.
Now Fosse is touting the ground ball to move the runner to third…
Gameday shows Cabrera showing on a DP grounder to end the inning. Did the 1B step on the bag first, and then get Holliday in a rundown after the run scored?
yeah
Ugh. It’s definitely Mabry-acquirin’ time.
Ugh. 99% of the time I’m with the maximal Beanean position on managers, and it pains me to agree with Napoleon, but …