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Pre-Jordin Sparks thread 59

Same old same old: Cust still in, Sweeney still out (but not DL’ed), no Crosby, Leadoff Hitter Extraordinaire still leading off.

59 thoughts on “Pre-Jordin Sparks thread

  1. mikeA Jun 6,2009 6:12 pm

    Cahill looking very good so far.

  2. mikeA Jun 6,2009 6:16 pm

    Man, I love the Orioles.

  3. batgirl Jun 6,2009 6:16 pm

    That one was for you MB.

  4. mikeA Jun 6,2009 6:21 pm

    Cust’s haircut isn’t looking any better today.

  5. batgirl Jun 6,2009 6:23 pm

    Whoa. I just downloaded firefox, and FK is way different than it is on IE. I can finally see the “new post” yellow color!

    Now let’s see if this comment will post without the endlessly spinning arrows and having to refresh.

  6. mikeA Jun 6,2009 6:35 pm

    Paris is overrated; Barcelona is very overrated; Amsterdam is highly rated yet underrated.

    • nevermoor Jun 6,2009 11:57 pm || Up

      False, meh, true

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  7. batgirl Jun 6,2009 6:37 pm

    ouch–that looked really painful

  8. mikeA Jun 6,2009 6:37 pm

    There was a day about four years ago when I was unable to swallow for a few hours. Very frightening.

    • batgirl Jun 6,2009 6:39 pm || Up

      where did your spit go?

      • mikeA Jun 6,2009 6:41 pm || Up

        I spit it out. Tried to drink water a bunch of times. Went in my mouth and then right back out.

        • batgirl Jun 6,2009 6:50 pm || Up

          why did it happen? That would suck.

          • mikeA Jun 6,2009 6:53 pm || Up

            I have no idea; I was in generally poor health at that point…

  9. mikeA Jun 6,2009 6:47 pm

    1.029 OPS for Rajai in June.

  10. mikeA Jun 6,2009 6:55 pm

    Wooo! Nice to see from Giambi.

  11. mikeA Jun 6,2009 6:56 pm

    He hits that same ball once every game, but 90% of the time it goes foul.

  12. batgirl Jun 6,2009 6:58 pm

    Who are these people?

    • monkeyball Jun 6,2009 7:16 pm || Up

      Heh. I came back to the computer from changing JP to say exactly the same thing.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  13. batgirl Jun 6,2009 7:04 pm

    excellent work so far by Cahill tonite. I can get used to this pitching.

    • monkeyball Jun 6,2009 7:18 pm || Up

      He’s still leaving a fair number of pitches up, and still not throwing the slider to lefties. Not that he’s not pitching well, just sayin’.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • batgirl Jun 6,2009 7:19 pm || Up

        booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

      • mikeA Jun 6,2009 7:21 pm || Up

        I don’t see why he should throw the slider to lefties.

        • monkeyball Jun 6,2009 7:27 pm || Up

          KenKo was saying the coaching staff is trying to get him to throw it to lefties’ back foot.

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  14. batgirl Jun 6,2009 7:10 pm

    That sun on the 1st base side must be brutal right now.

  15. mikeA Jun 6,2009 7:13 pm

    This is fun.

  16. batgirl Jun 6,2009 7:14 pm

    Huh. What do you know. Can we start over, like about a month ago?

  17. batgirl Jun 6,2009 7:15 pm

    What’s our record for most doubles in a game? Let’s throw in a triple just for laughs.

    • batgirl Jun 6,2009 7:16 pm || Up

      Thanks graphics guy–Oakland record is 8.

      Let’s do this.

      • nevermoor Jun 6,2009 11:59 pm || Up

        OMG, graphics guy reads FK?

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  18. monkeyball Jun 6,2009 7:24 pm

    You know, it’s funny — when Rajai got his double, KenKo mentioned something about how Rajai could fuck with a pitcher’s head just by being on base. Berken did seem a bit distracted — and that was pretty much when he started unraveling.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • mikeA Jun 6,2009 7:27 pm || Up

      The FCC let him get away with that?

      • monkeyball Jun 6,2009 7:35 pm || Up

        Plus, you missed Fosse flashing his pierced nipple on the tv side.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  19. mikeA Jun 6,2009 7:28 pm

    6 straight strikes after 3-0, 5 of them in the strike zone. Impressive.

  20. xbhaskarx Jun 6,2009 7:31 pm

    For the first time in a long time I’m turning off an A’s game fairly confident that I won’t come home to find out that they have embarrassed themselves.
    This single game 2b record should fall tonight.

  21. mikeA Jun 6,2009 7:36 pm

    Hannahan is my new hero.

    • monkeyball Jun 6,2009 7:43 pm || Up

      That was truly awesome. Geren should have run out of the dugout and insisted the ump call him out.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  22. monkeyball Jun 6,2009 7:45 pm

    Speaking of Geren, what’re the odds that someone at ** this weekend says that Geren “saved his own job” by getting the team fired up and motivating them to play better?

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Jun 7,2009 12:01 am || Up

      If by someone you mean Nico, 100%

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  23. monkeyball Jun 6,2009 7:47 pm

    Man, the Orioles sure do suck, but Markakis and Jones are good.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Jun 7,2009 12:01 am || Up

      Don’t forget Matt Wieters. Chuck Norris never will, and Wieters only slapped him.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  24. monkeyball Jun 6,2009 8:11 pm

    That wasn’t a bad pitch to Reimold. He just went down and got it.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • mikeA Jun 6,2009 8:13 pm || Up

      Yeah, I thought he pitched well that inning.

  25. batgirl Jun 6,2009 8:28 pm

    whew. that made me nervous, Holiday.

    • monkeyball Jun 6,2009 8:31 pm || Up

      Really hard to assess the risk profile on that one. He lays back and lets it drop (in order to avoid having it roll behind him), and it’s still a pretty shitty situation.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • mikeA Jun 6,2009 8:39 pm || Up

        Always go for it if there’s a chance with a big lead.

  26. batgirl Jun 6,2009 8:29 pm

    This thing has a spell check? Is that new? How did I not notice that before? Maybe IE isn’t compatible.

    • nevermoor Jun 7,2009 12:02 am || Up

      It’s a firefox feature. You’ll get that in all text boxes now.

      Enjoy.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  27. monkeyball Jun 6,2009 8:35 pm

    Bailey = awesome

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • mk Jun 6,2009 8:52 pm || Up

      I like him, but his manner is at times disturbingly Papelbonian.

      no it’s not-mikeA

      • mk Jun 6,2009 9:47 pm || Up

  28. batgirl Jun 6,2009 8:50 pm

    Celebrate Cabbage, C’mon!

  29. monkeyball Jun 6,2009 8:52 pm

    VICTORY CABBAGE!!!

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  30. mikeA Jun 6,2009 9:20 pm

    DFA got dfa’d today after a hilarious baserunning gaffe (that he was involved with but not his fault.)

  31. whiteshoes40 Jun 6,2009 11:04 pm

    Can we play the Orioles all the time?

    Okay. So Travis is DL’ed right away and surprised to hear it, while Ryan admittedly can’t play yet but isn’t DL’ed. Yes, I understand completely.

  32. nevermoor Jun 7,2009 12:08 am
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"

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