So we had the same 20-20 record..BMac goes on the DL on the exact same date, and we are starting to tank just like last year? Can I use this Groundhog Day scenario to my advantage?.
We join this game thread already in progress…B1 still scoreless.
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Yay gamethread!
IDK, we’ve gotten value from unexpected places this year, I’m postponing the WAGD till the 7th inning stretch at least.
Second thought WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!!!!!
Heh, love how the Giants fans scream when Posey hits a grounder to short….
“Ew, seriously, so gross” = the A’s defense.
I was thinking either the lineup or looking at Freak and El Colon Gigante..
Please, no tanking.
The difference I hope will be Melvin. I dont see the old Bob disaster happening this year (fingers crossed).
Maybe the plan is to get territorial rights in exchange for turning Lincecum’s season around.
that ball was suzukied about as hard as a ball can be suzukied
Ready to get Norrised myself.
Well, this is starting to suck.
Good thing I have a book to read…
There is the Giants’ run.
And oh good, here is Barton not snagging another difficult but catchable ball.
I think that hit the runner and the A’s got hosed on another bad call on a bunt
Yeah, he was inside the base line.
I think that was the subject of the owners meeting.
Everytime someone bunts on the A”s make sure you put the runner on first. Take that what I obviously didn’t understand about moneyball
Yay the pitcher didn’t walk!
I have to put a bed frame together today. I cannot find the needed screws. Other than this the honeydo list is empty letting me watch the game.
In short..I think Im going to begin a long hunt for the screws that will hopefully take a couple of hrs..
By the way, I’m about ready to get on the “Sue MLB to get rid of the Antitrust Exemption” bandwagon.
It’s a ridiculous exemption, and Selig at this point is simply laughing in the faces of A’s fans. So FK him, and MLB’s precious exemption too. The sheer absurdity of telling the A’s they can’t move over “territorial rights” granted to the Giants for a move they didn’t make is beyond absurd, and the team I root for can’t compete in a serious way in Oakland.
That blackout lawsuit intrigues me.
It’s almost certainly a loser, but still
Seriously, less Cowgill.
Has the guy hit anything other than a groundball?
WARNING TRACK POWER
Wow. Just…wow.
I’d love a run.
Or a passed ball.
you will get a ground out.
Pennington in the 2 spot is just not working, also why isn’t Reddick in CF?
Pennington will be a threat to hit 2nd as long as he’s short, scrappy, and white.
Is there really any viable option to replace him at this point?
Any time Barton’s in the lineup and he’s not hitting second, it’s a waste of the one thing he does well.
Especially when you bat him in front of Suzuki instead.
Barton, even the recent kind of sucky version.
Still has a good-ish OBP
King buzzo susbscribs to the Fosse school of running makes your arms too tired to hit
FK the Giants, their fans, their management and ownership. and their shitty ballpark, except for the grilled crab sandwiches.
Yeah, not looking forward to seeing my Giants homer co-workers tomorrow.
I really hope we don’t get swept today…
Can we get 2012 Timmy back please.
Especially not another 1 hitter.
Thanks Theth!!!!
Especially not another
1 hittershutout.Thanks Kurk!!!!!
he was really trying his bestest to GIDP
I went on Friday and Sunday. Both times the food was really good (buffalo chicken sandwich and nachos)
Make it a long pop-out pls.
Damn, no one else in this lineup could’ve taken that pitch.
KURT KIYOSHI SUZUKI, YOU GET YOURSELF A HIT YOUNG MAN. DON’t MAKE ME COME DOWN THERE!
It worked!
Almost 70 pitches
HOLY AWESOME_SAUCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suppose it’s possible that Bartolo might hit a grand slam, but I’d rather Cowgill try something here…
like that, fuck yeah!
HUP HUP HUP!!!
yay! a lead! forgot what that looked like.
YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I’m sorry I doubted you, Cowgirl.
Groovy.
AWWW CARP of course
uh oh. colon in pain?
[Sagh]
hi.
Hi!
FK NL ball.
It’s stupid and smells bad.
agrd.
What the FK was Kurt doing.
WTF was Suckzuki doing on that play?
i don’t know. you (people with TVs) tell me!
On Colon’s bunt, Suzuki wasn’t even halfway to third, making it an easy play for Belt.
Suzuki has a knack for never running shit out but because he’s a gritty gamer, he never gets called out on it.
Well, you know his hand still hurts so he couldn’t run.
thanks. can’t wait to see that familiar hipbones-first waddle on replay.
HELLS YES!!!!!!!!
Take that FKer.
HAHA! You hurt our pitcher and we will hurt yours!
KA-POW!!
Timmy got Mother-Trucked
That was awesome. I’m gonna need a gif of that.
My thoughts exactly. I could watch that on replay all day.
I love how long it took for Colon to get to second base.
Call me crazy, but running (or making sudden movements) doesn’t seem to be one of Colon’s stronger points.
Sane.
Thoughts seeing it live:
1. Cool, wild pitch
2. Oh shit, they might throw Colon out
3. HOLY SHIT COWGILL
4. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
5. Oops. Bad form to cheer too loudly when Lincecum is hurt.
You forgot 6. FUCK THE GIANTS
I was too giddy to refresh the page. Totally agree.
After the week the A’s have had, this almost makes up for that frustration.
On the replay it looked like Joyce almost ran into Cowgill’s path. That could have been fun had he ran over him. Not sure how they’d have called it, but still fun.
“refresh the page Ed.”
Nothing against Lincecum, but he’s the Giants’ superstar, so watching him get clocked was quite enjoyable.
Plus, it was a totally clean play by Cowgill. That’s how you do it.
Cue the Giants whining about people being too rough on the basepaths again in 3…2…1…
I was thinking the exact same thing.
I would almost say that needs to be made into a .gif.
see vince, if you’d at all hinted that lincecum was covering first base, i would have understood how it was physically possible that cowgill was colliding with him.
85 pitches
How does Lincecum go from hitting 97 mph in his first season, to not being able to top 90? I realize some drop in velocity may be expected, but this is extreme.
Maybe he’s due for some TJ action.
those donkey shows are a myth.
oh wait. tommy john…
I strongly suspect the Giants have gotten Lincecum’s best years.
Yup.
ala Barry Zito? Oh, wait…
Kind of wonder if he’ll take the mound in the 5th.
See ya Bud.
He was predominantly four seam/curveball when coming up but is now more two seam/changeup. Of course, that doesn’t mean his velocity hasn’t declined, but it just looks worse than it is because he’s throwing a slower fastball more.
Then again, Pitchfx says his velocity has declined by more than 2 mph since last year so something might be up.
Needs a shorter bong, that reach is killing him.
WOOT!!!
Slugfest in Milwaukee, 28 H for 20 runs combined!
Jeff Gray – 4 H/ 5 ER in 0.0 INN.
Jeff sucks.
♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
Most excellent.
Looking forward to hearing Marty Lurie and friends whinge about this.
A
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I am mesmerized.
I’m glad I went back to skim this thread.
So are these home alts, no names on the uni’s. Icky.
i like no names on the back. it’s kinda old school.
Like pitchers hitting and real bleachers, it is old school and pointless.
A thousand times this.
It comes of a bit arrogant nowadays, but I see your point.
interesting. opposite interpretation of how i’ve been taking it. like the team is more important than a any name, rather than the player is such a star every fan surely knows his name.
Maybe its more that I associate w/ the Bankees more than anything else.
I like your take on it though.
yeah… i know. yet another nice thing they ruin.
So what’d you end up watching last night?
ha! i only dabbled here and there and landed on nothing. i tried that show you said but it’s a dr who thing and i never got dr who so… then i randomly picked shows i’d never seen just to get a feel, and that didn’t work either (numb3rs, in plain sight — really no good). by that time i was mentally done with work so i went home.
Aw too bad, the re-imaging of Dr Who is actually quite good, Torchwood is more action/ dark psycho-drama/ pocpcorn than zany alien trope fwiw.
i’ll give it another try. i put you guys to a difficult task because i was on 9 or so hours of work already. no way any show could have satisfied exactly what i was needing. i probably shoulda gone to justinTV and put it on a foreign language channel…
For anyone else interested, the 3rd season drops a bit and the 4th is unwatchable (starz play took over).
Seasons 1 and 2 are awesome though, very contemporary and anti-hero.
cespedes not coming off the DL on schedule.
You could have waited till the game was over, we’re feeling good in here. ;)
Spoke too soon.
Guy never missed more than 3 games a season in Cuba. Gets here and is on the DL in a month.
*Euphemism watch.
see?? #athletics.
So any word on what the hells actually wrong w/ him, muscle strain was it?
It was a BP injury right?
they never said. KK was just reading a litany of injury and
malaisemal-A’s, name by name, and mentioned that he wasn’t going to be ready.Thx
This is kind of sweet, and yet… Mark, have you heard of the google?
https://twitter.com/#!/markmulder20/status/204326916646387712
We joke about our medical staff and amputations but
https://twitter.com/#!/Buster_ESPN/status/204314745870880770
wow…
Oh, wow. That is scary.
Um whoa, poor Ellie. It a double play breakup?
Btw, don’t wikipedia or google image fasciotomy, the operation Ellis had. Ugh…
Very MaEl
INVISIBL FLYING UNICORN
nearly surreal, but we knew he could fly.
video.
It doesn’t really look like it was that bad on replay, but good to know that the injury was attended to on time.
Never dropped the ball.
Hope he has a speedy recovery.
D: D: D:
that sucks / that’s lucky.
Mark has been unlucky with injuries caused by other people smacking into him (BoCro I’m looking at you, idiot).
yes. yes indeed.
The Angels are 7-13 on the road, I like this.
Make that 7-14.
YUM
KIYAAAAH
C’mon Skinny.
H U G E
don’t make me take this belt off.
Somebody gonna getta hurt.
Awesome
i thought the edited 4-up was to signify his growth ratio…
Yeah, I couldn’t get the height tag right. Times I wish we had preview.
OMG, thats a lot of Bistec.
Oh Lord (or Lard).
That can’t be the right aspect ratio.
not enough gelatin?
oh wait, i thought you said aspic.
Back when he was young and hungry.
Time for some Elfin Magick!
I’d rather not see Ball four in this game.
reddick.
CRIMSON CROTCH
That is some power.
TUMESCENCE ! ! ! ! !
SO GUYS I THINK I LOVE JOSH REDDICK.
You’re not alone, I hope he’s still here in late-July.
Over/ under?
You mean over/under on if BB wants me to junkpunch him.
HA
Balfour on the other hand.
i’m happy for the both of you and i hope i’m invited to the wedding.
Theth just never makes it look easy.
Some clever person on Twitter:
oh, fuck. I hate not having Preview here.
Shows up brokey on Chrome, but thats a thing of beauty.
I’m going to steal it and repost…
for those who couldn’t see it
fb…
win
Love it.
Ha!
ver’ ver’ nice.
Awesome
Hi, sports fans.
Hello, Kraut fan.
so. Cowgirl jacked Timmeh at the plate, huh?
Right in front of James Joyce.
Full circle.
Hola literary figure.
Able was I, ere I saw Elba.
Was it a bat I saw?
A-ya
…are you practicing karate upon my visage?
Qi-gong to the dong mutha!!!!!
woot!
Tempted to go to the drive in tonight. It makes me a bad parent but it sounds SOOOO good.
Where at? and what’s playing?
Down near me, Madera.
Screen 1: Avengers and Dark Shadows
Screen 2: Battleship and Think Like a Man
Screen 1 is clearly the choice.
agrd.
.
No doubt. We saw Avengers last week with the 3-d, good sound, etc. Sova second viewing would be perfect there.
It would be!
ASSEMBLE!
I saw Dark Shadows last night and it was very very entertaining.
sorry mr burton, the lone ranger scooped your comic revisionism by like 30 years.
hold the candle, take off your bangle,
hold your neck at the right angle.
barney you’re the best ina di business,
barney chew youre neck like a wrigleys.
Oh dude, I only have Lone ranger on cassette, MUST DIG OUT NOW.
Smooth mother that one!
Have you ever found any other albums by him?
a few. i have the one in the vid, barnabas in collins wood (great cover), rosemarie, and badda dan dem.
all cheap-ass jamaican reissues full of dimples and stuff, but still…
I have a big dub collection I need to digitize, I just hate doing it.
jamaican wax is the worst, I used to tape the albums after I purchased them…
Lost quite a bit at my last warehouse to thieves but still have the tapes somewhere…
thieves? call junior murvin…
great to hear you have the bug for this stuff. a lot of people turn their noses up at it. too bad i’m working or i’d invite you over right now. a listening party soon though.
I actually had Police and Thieves stolen ironically…
Big Perry fan
Many years ago, I picked up a dub single of something or other (I forget what) from the dollar bin at Amoeba, and it had a very clear footprint right on the wax.
how does that make you a bad parent? i used to love the drive in when i was a kid.
Because they’ll be in the trunk.
We used to go in trunk, too!
spridle? Chim Chim?
You know, you raise a kid in garage who never speaks to anyone except a chimp, and you’re gonna get trouble.
that was the BEST PART though!
Because they have school in the morning.
Go for it — they will live. Unless you actually put them in the trunk.
air holes.
It’s the end of the school year. You can knock yourself out getting them there and they’ll probably just be sitting around watching “Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land”.
This is true.
I’m amazed how they just tell the kids now that the last couple if weeks dont matter. I remember in school the teachers telling us how they didnt turn in grades til the end, big assignments due last week, etc. We still have 3 weeks left in our district and they already stopped giving homework to eldest Ace (freshman).
pshaw. do eeet.
Seriously, Cook? Give me a FKing break Melvin.
So if we have Cooky here is it FU in the 9th?
Sounds likely.
Call the health dept…the Cook’s got sick stuff.
I have no visual. Is he quite good?
Cooking with gas, you might say.
Did Timmeh get ridden Cowgill style?
he did. He got jacked the FK up…
DAAAAAAMN!
Its kind of scary to think that film is 20 yrs old.
seriously?! Damn, I’m old.
I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen that Coors Light commercial. Debo is not looking good these days.
I have not seen said Coors Light commercial. I have not seen television in a while…
Not a bad thing LB
no, not really.
new girl wants me to get cable though so she can watch Giants on television…
Deal breaker.
she’s REALLY pretty. She has no business being with me, really.
Make sure you have a headphone jack.
He gonna cry in his car.
I hope the video gets posted, I want something more high-res than the gif.
yes.
let’s go oakland!!!! 3 outs and they can’t hold
19182008 signs at us anymore.Hold me
there’s nobody in the future,
so baby let me hand you my love.
FUENTES PUT IN DURING NON SAVE SIT!!! 2011 AGAIN???
Looked like strike 2, seems the zone shrank since the last half by quite a bit.
[ stands up, claps hands ]
CE-LE-BRAAAATION
SYMMETRYRTEMMYS
yay!
Bye, Giants.
It is written that after the A’s win at AT&T Park, they will send a monster to eat part of the Sun! Cower and tremble in the streets, Giants fans!
that lincecum gif is going to live much longer than the memory of this 2-1 series outcome. well worth it.
agrd.
.
.
Woohoo!
Oh god the Padres have those terrible camo-unis on…..
Whoa Amarista is fast!
Denorfia PHing for the Pad’s, crosses fingers!
LOSE LOSE LOSE slegna!
padres-angels? who’re the doyers playing then?
ah, i see… the cross-town rival cardinals.
heh
Denorfail.
Wow
I had to post this here.
‘k, A’s save face/make me a proud a little, boca regains the lead with a 2-0 over racing, and i gotta focus on photoshop. good afternoon people, and don’t forget the eclipse.
Looks like the slegnA will be nice and rested tomorrow, used up the whole bench and most of the bullpen into the 12th inning!
They’ve used 21 players!
AND LOST!!!!!
“Fielding error by left fielder Howard Kendrick”
Danny Haren PHing in the 13th, HAR!
made contact on a 95mph pitch buuuuuut struck out.
SFGate has some great shots of the Cowgill Crunch.
Sounds sexy.