It’s a familiar lineup as the A’s face Zach Britton, the fifth straight game the opponent has started an LHP. Crisp, Gomes (DH), Reddick, Cespedes, Carter, Inge, Norris, Hicks and Weeks behind Jarrod Parker.
The O’s have managed a 52-47 record with a Pythagorean W-L of 44-55. You do that by going 19-6 in one-run games and winning 10 of 12 in extra innings.
It’s a humid 91 degrees at the Inner Harbor right now. Better than yesterday when it was 100 degrees at the same time of day.
would you belieeeeeeve…
I’m a believvvvver
I’m trying to formulate my greatest & favorite bands/solo artists of all time list. I’m sure I missed somebody blatant
GREATEST
1. The Beatles 2. Radiohead 3. The Rolling Stones 4. The Who 5. Led Zeppelin
1. Bob Dylan 2. Leonard Cohen 3. Bjork 4. Neil Young 5. Tori Amos or Kate Bush (too close to call)
FAVORITE
1. Guided By Voices 2. Wire 3. Talking Heads 4. Radiohead 5. Modest Mouse or The Raincoats (too close to call)
1. Brian Eno 2. Bjork 3. Neil Young 4. Robert Pollard 5. Colonel Bruce Hampton
Radiohead? Really?
Greatest isn’t my personal opinion, more of my gauge on popularity+quality+cultural impact. It’s unfortunate the 60’s & 70’s dinosaurs had the opportunity to have more cultural impact than any band could possibly have today. Radiohead gets lots of points for their live work, polyrhythms, the sliding scale album, and a consistently high quality of output. Fans dropped off because of genre changes and experimentalism, not because the band’s output went down in quality.
I’m a little prejudiced in their favor right now, because I listened to very little radio in the 2000’s and ignored Hail To The Thief and In Rainbows until about a month ago. So, I’m the opposite of bored of them. I also admit dude can’t sing his way out of a paper bag, but at least he sings badly in a very unique way, like Neil Young.
You think Thom Yorke can’t sing? I vehemently disagree. His vocals on The Bends and OK Computer are top notch. I think he’s just lost interest in singing melodically since then. He uses his voice as just another instrument in the mix now.
Revised greatest solo artists list:
1. Prince 2. Bowie 3. Young 4. Dylan 5. Springsteen
Prince and Bowie weren’t consistent, and both dropped off the face of the earth later in their careers (Prince never to recover.)
It’s always fun to watch people argue about something as subjective as music
Thanks, and go As.
Agreed, especially when we’re civil about things like we tend to be around these parts.
FK you too!
You say Prince was inconsistent, I say he was too generous with letting everything find a way out at some point.
And if the dropping off the face of the Earth is intentional, is it really a bad thing. I think Bowie was this way too, but I dont know. But for Prince it seems like a decision to just release things much more raw and having control of how they are put out, when, and what he can do with them. Downside means no filter, but like the chariman said, he does it his way..
If Prince had stopped making music around the time of the NPG he would have been Sandy Koufax.
If you are going to use popularity and cultural impact, I think U2 might beat out Radiohead.
Though they’re disqualified on the technicality of being complete tossers.
they’re interesting to think about. this guy intimates that there was a moment when U2 and bunnymen were both poised to become what U2 became, but only one of them did it. receptivity is mindboggling.
#2 I remember at the time thinking there was always some kind of competition between the bands on a bill.
I was 12 and understood it from a prism of sport, so I may have and excuse. I don’t get why people would actively dislike the opening act
you’re seeing it with your current-era glasses on, but the late 70s early 80s seemed to be a time to take sides, musically. disco vs rock. rock vs new wave. metal vs punk. techno vs industrial. but then came DRI’s crossover, sampling, and lollapalooza, and now we’re well again.
I love Gomes/Smith hitting second.
seems to be working too.
I love triples.
i think that was scored 2ble.
Beats me. Gameday calls it a triple. Kuiper called it a triple, but the studio captioned it a double.
looks like it’s going down as a 3B according to gameday box score.
It should be. He was already about halfway to third as the throw as going home.
agreed. i didn’t realize how clear a call that was until i saw the replay.
…and KK just said it’s reddick’s second double of the day. i think he hasn’t heard our decision.
hmmm… cycle in the offing?
if Bob can lawyer his way into one here, maybe.
double or HR, either way he still has to get the other.
TROGDOR
Good God, Carter.
please don’t trade carter.
They’re baa-aaack…
Serious hang time there on the Carter blast.
I like this game much better than yesterday’s, so far.
Whoa, Carter! He’s my favorite.
So is Norris trying to be Gomes’s clone in terms of personal grooming…?
I like the looks of the Barbara Feldon game, much like I always liked the looks of Barbara Feldon.
broke my heart when she married 86.
huh, interesting bit o’ trivia from wiki: agent 99 became the first woman on an american hit sitcom to keep her job after marriage and motherhood.
The other thing with Carter is, aside from a clank here and there, it seems he’s playing a much more passable 1B.
Zach Greinke -> Angels
What. NO.
Blerg.
Just a ridiculous amount of talent in the AL now. Why can’t the Braves or Cardinals make some of these trades.
oh FK. Would be interesting of both wildcard spots came from the west.
This also makes the Rangers more likely to go all out for Josh Johnson. I really FKing wish we made the Hanley deal now.
HICKSVILLE!!
Hicks too?
LOL this team.
So THIS is what it feels like to be a fan of a team that hits HRs.
2002-2011 me told herself that it was a lie, awesome pitching felt as good, home run hitters are okay but whatevs gets the job done is *fine*. Now I know that no, it’s true, chicks dig the longball, we cannot help our love.
It’s immediate runs.
I kinda prefer a bases clearing triple, just for the excitement effect and the running and hustling. But scoring runs is definitely something I’m fond of. Plus it seems to help in the winning department.
would you settle for a bases-clearing double?
Hell, I’d settle for a base-clearing single. Also, 3 runs help me overlook the fact that he swung at ball 4.
Somehow both Chris Carter & Brandon Hicks trended for their homers. Must be lots of A’s fans now, or nothing else going on. Oh.
“Moneyball” leftovers in the consciousness + a decent team + pie = public interest.
If sympathetic magic(k) means a damned thing, the A’s are going to remain the luckiest club in the Northern Hemisphere just from the sheer generation of positive victorious emotion related to the A’s from people all over the world watching Moneyball, in belated premieres and through home media. It’s like hundreds of thousands or millions of people praying for the same thing, to a certain extent. Let’s hope they remain healthy enough to exploit this heavily fortuitous background energy climate.
YES! TBS on Sunday! Get to watch at work!
right on!
Damn. Mine says Nationals @ Brewers. Sadface.
Horseshit. Mine is probably like that, too.
Yep. Mine says Nats/Brewers. Nooooo!
I went and got all excited prematurely.
TWHS
TWHS
LOL!
It turns out the Sunday Slusser was referring to for the TBS broadcast is August 12, A’s @ White Sox.
i’m worried. IT’S BEEN INNINGS since the A’s scored.
Sebastian from Sacramento……
Seems to be a home run.
definitely hit the post.
So apparently a pole behind the fence is considered part of the fence in Baltimore.
Ground rules are vague: http://baltimore.orioles.mlb.com/bal/ballpark/information/index.jsp?content=groundrules
I cannot make it through an Olympic opening ceremony without crying.
I cannot make it through an Olympic opening ceremony without changing the channel.
That’s your warning, Matty. Next time I will hide your walker.
Evidently you have already exceeded my total 2012 Olympics viewing.
I usually start crying when they play the national anthem.
Hey, watch the spoilers, the crying doesn’t start until 7:30 PDT out here!
10-4
The Upgrade family apparently survives another expedition to the wilderness. Either that or you are the sole survivor in the fashion of the Donner Party.
The little ones are sooo tender.
there’s been a helicopter pretty much parked over downtown/uptown oakland (i’d say fox theater area) for 15 minutes. anybody know what’s going on?
I read that as a helicopter party.
“Motorboat parties are better.” – MikeV
i don’t know why that’s a reply… i wrote it in its own little box.
So annoying!
i try.
oh you mean the chopper!
So far. We had to send the nurse out to hunt and gather some food back here in Berkeley.
I didn’t realize this until Ken and Vince just mentioned it:
“Sorry, wrong person.”
“We need to make sure this never happens again. Um… how about you just go away Dana.”
Ugh
WHA HAPPEN?
YOU decided something else was more important than the A’s playing baseball and like a house of cards in the wind, they collapsed.
That hurt.
You started it. Kick my walker?
HIDE your walker.
Would you all disown me if I said I was flipping between the Yankees and the Porn Olympics?
Only if the former was getting you hotter than the latter.
Well,
so the XXX Olympics it is!
Yawn.
You take your shirt off, send me a pic, then we’ll see who is yawning. To compare.
Tradesies?
Sure, I’ll send him a topless photo of
.
I think Sebastian in Sacramento understands what it mean to leave a pitch up now.
(means)
Doubt it. If he hadn’t learned that by now, listening to Glen & Ray watching some more sure as hell won’t.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.
Sniff glue. It’s better for you.
This was not part of the plan. Bad Parker.
Parker can’t lose.
Lewis.
Kubiac!
i thought that was a relatively safe half-inning to go home during. WTF happened? was there a slam?
YOU decided something else was more important than the A’s playing baseball and like a house of cards in the wind, they collapsed.
all i decided is that i’d rather hear them bat than field. (markakis looks a little bit out to me, fwiw.)
now confirming my allegations and pinch hitting for johnny gomes…
Britton pitched like crap but the A’s didn’t add on.
Apparently, they give standing ovations for everything nowadays.
THETH!!!!!!
theth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seth Smith does it!
WOOT!
That was incredible!!!
Hey peoples!
what’s up with that helicopter?!
ACK! I don’t know, but have you ever read Ecotopia?
is that a book? (i guess the answer’s no.)
Yeah, if not too hard to explain, its re: helicopters.
i’m reading the wiki on it but don’t see a helicopter reference. intriguing book though.
Speaking of, I did make Inherent Vice my vacation read, and it was hilarious. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
excellent!
I love this phrase, in my business if a piece of art is poorly constructed, in poor shape, or falls apart and breaks – inherent vice is the term thats used on the condition report.
Maybe only second to enzyme bath, which is when you lick your finger and rub something off.
The phrase in the book somewhat similarly is a piece of maritime law about the built-in risk of failure of the vessel.
Ugh. Apparently I now have Timeline instead of the old Facebook profile. DO NOT WANT.
BOO! Im scared that one day I will open FB and have it.
Don’t get FB. That’s what I am doing.
i’ve been on timeline for months it seems like, and i really have no different experience using FB now than i did before. to me it’s still a wall of people’s posts. only when i want to look at my own profile does it look different, but i don’t look at my own profile that much. so i wonder why people hate timeline so much. maybe i don’t know how to use FB right?? entirely possible.
I doubt it will substantially change my FB experience… mainly I dislike the layout and how easy it makes it to jump to my profile circa 2005, when I was in college and using Facebook (i.e. posting on friends’ walls and, when it became an option, posting status updates) about 10,000 times more frequently than I do now. There’s nothing incriminating that I really care if people see — just a lot of silliness.
there’s a fairly easy way to hide that stuff. i can’t remember how, didn’t do it myself, but there was a message about it when i got switched.
Oh, that’s good to hear. I will try to figure that out.
yeah, I mean I spent some time culling shit that was FB appropriate in 04 that isn’t now, but it is a far better layout.
People like to get pissed about crazy shit.
Remember when everyone was up in arms about the news feed?
Brandon Allen to Japan.
[sob]
Parade of Nations
It’s a small world after all
It’s a small world after all
It’s a small world after all
I always ask for mayo instead of Miracle Whip on mine.
Best Foods WIN! (Hellmens East of the Rockies..)
Ump’s squeezing our Balfour
Yup sucks…
uh-oh.
This looks bad.
Double play time.
Hmmm, the elusive double play on a walk seems to be evading Balfour today. Strange.
Wth, if Doolittle was available today, why didn’t he start the inning?
Strike…
The bases are loaded on walks? Hmm. This seems familiar.
Pray for the grounder to third.
This sucks, that was a 3-3 count…
I think the Orioles proved earlier that walking the bases loaded isn’t a sound strategy.
FK YES!!!!!
whew.
“back in front still.” total vinceism.
Do the DOO!
The first car made it to Reno, about two hours behind schedule due to two accidents which completely stopped traffic on 80. The second time we were stopped for 90 minutes. Everyone got out of their cars and walked up and down the road. Fun!
hurray for the reno FKers!
It would be pretty funny if someone was left on the side of the road.
Oh shit, where is Chickie?
asvd
don’t worry about him. he prolly leapfrogged over cars to get to the buffets quicker.
BUFFETS?!?!
it’s kinda like that old dirty joke… death or buffet / death BY buffet!
Nice, that happened to us on the 1, hope it wasn’t too hot!
I surely hope that wacchampions used the time to fire up the BBQ.
Bay Area –> Reno or Tahoe isn’t a bad drive about 6 days and 12 hours of the week. Friday afternoon and evening is invariably horrid.
The fans are heckling “You ain’t Rickey”, heh!
Rickie is his brother.
Yeah I know, I just thought it was kind of ironic because Ricky is playing just as poorly pretty much.
it’s like chanting cheryl to reggie miller.
Chant to Jemile Weeks: “You ain’t Rickie!” No, really? Come with something better, O’s fans.
Ok, I’ll say it. Coco big fro is playing himself out of a trade…
BULLSHIT, this ump su-u-uuuucks…
He is indeed having a bad night.
WTF
FK.
i repeat, “FK.”
mother FK.
glck
FK this umpire…
Even gameday called ball 3 a strike.
Every pitch looked good…
Well, the “no doubles” defense vs. Hardy cost them in a big way.
They know there is no pie on the road, right?
It’s hard to pitch when the umpire doesn’t understand what a low strike is.
Or an inside strike.
Gawd that’s horrible…
simply aweful
Um, ump. If EVERY pitcher can’t find the strike zone. The problem is you.
ICK.
RALLY CAPS!!!!
Brilliant strategy to keep throwing fastballs to Chris Davis.
I liked this game better before I got home
YOU decided something else was more important than the A’s playing baseball and like a house of cards in the wind, they collapsed.
how do you like me now?
Why yes. Yes I do. But then you’re from the future so you had to know that was coming.
3 weeks ago I would have been a bit frustrated, chalked it up as a learning ecperience, and turned on the opening ceremonies.
Now Im ready to kick the dog.
this is how I was feeling too
this is how I’m feeling now!
Well the umpires are winniing this one, lets hope the A’s take it back!
PH for Inge here.
We’re in the fart of our order. We can’t pitch hit for all of them.
Ok. That works too.
wooooooo!!!
Had the umps not fked us out of that Reddick homer, we’d be ahead right now.
Of course the A’s tie it.
A Baltimore chop!
truff!
Figures, the Barbara Feldon Game gets its 9-9 score.
Reynolds missed it by that much
BOOBIES
Also, win
yesrris!
This game is ridiculous!
they’re killing me
This team, I swear.
DON’T FKING BUNT
thank you
I was kind of hoping he would, but that works too.
I didn’t want him to bunt mainly because he sucks at it.
Yeah, but that makes it less likely he’d hit into a double play.
woooooo!!!!
Weeks!
nicely done lads.
and even nicelier.
so very nithe.
Weeks you magnificent bastard!
I like you.
JWeeks comes through! And, who the hell is “Crawford,” Glen?
Ray, he keeps pitching away because the ump won’t call anything in a strike.
And that was a strike.
When the plate ump is this bad, you just have to be the team that takes advantage of it the most
Yup.
The Ump taketh and the ump giveth back.
Keep scoring, guys, I’m not sure 12 is enough tonight.
I would have thought eight was enough.
You forgot to use inflation-adjusted values.
Not eight runs total. Eight run lead.
More runs!
Thank you ridiculously incompetent home plate umpire.
Robot umps. Has anyone ever been more convinced?
Joe Morgan is laughing right now.
Seriously.
The only thing we can be thankful for is that he’s been consistently horrible for both sides.
Hee hee hee hee hee!
Internet takes a shit and I missed it all but I DONT CARE WERE WINNING!!!!
The A’s have bookended this game very nicely when it comes to scoring runs.
BOOM
THETH!
3 more guys. Then I think we can finish this thing.
Seth Smith is killing it tonight. Now this one’s getting fun.
Now see, if that were a Hookslide recording I might hit the Play button.
We actually do cover that song :-)
Took a while but the A’s got that 5-run lead back.
I was worried we were burning our bullpen but theirs doesn’t look any better now!
OK, now, can someone PLEASE close this out so I can watch (WITHOUT SPOILERS) the Olympic Opening Ceremony?
It’s in London. Sorry, had to spoil it for you.
McNulty is sooo pissed.
he doesn’t care. bunk is the real fan.
HA so true!
Ok, in case you ever need a ralley, read your kid “One Teddy Bear Is Enough!” It has some sort of magic comeback mojo in it…
So, er, are we comfortable with this lead?
No. I have the lilest Ace nearby with his book to reread just in case.
No.
I was the first time… this time… not so much.
In the span of a few minutes we saw how the Orioles can win a lot of one-run games but also have a terrible run differential.
The beard is new kinda right?
I wonder if Showalter regrets sending Thome home last inning now?
The way that was going they may STILL have been hitting.
good lord WHAT IS HAPPENING!!??????????
This shows that if you randomly turn off and on the low strike pitchers wont know what to do.
Let’s end this game already! Jesus.
This game is so long, Markakis was clean-shaven at the start.
I didn’t expect the Industrial Revolution!
finally, we can be open about what we’ve seen.
Nobody expects the Industrial Revolution. Its weapon is pollution. Pollution and child labor. Child labor and pollution. Its TWO weapons are pollution, child labor, and no weekends. Three….
Chortle!
FKING SHIT.
Fuck.
When their catcher follows in Brandon Allen’s footsteps he’ll be a Japanese Teagarden.
Reddick, no!
KK made that scary.
oh oh. scary reddick on the ground?
OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT
I think Josh Reddick knocked the breath out of himself making that catch. Ow.
Whew!
Victory
I would rather be playing still…
Ankle?
Nope. Not arm. Not shoulder. Not hand. Maybe back. Ugh.
You sure? Dislocated/separated shoulder, perhaps.
Don’t think so. Didn’t look like anything actually hit the wall hard.
That’s exactly what I thought.
Me three.
Hit harder than I thought. Probably just the wind though. Possibly broken rib?
I thought it was head (concussion).
Lead with the back, didn’t see his head hit the wall at all.
I missed it, did he get up?
No.
Korach thinks they took him off on a cart.
Are we talking about you?
Worst fking piece of shit game of the year.
it was weird but i was riveted. umping was FPS umping of the year for sure.
I’m talking about the ending.
oh. yeah.
Crazy graph: http://www.fangraphs.com/livewins.aspx?date=2012-07-27&team=Orioles&dh=0&season=2012
GET THE HELL OUT OF THE STUDIO AND SHOW US OUR SCHLONG
Brown chicken brown cow
Holy shit. 6-run 9th? I love this team!
I’m scared.
Group hug?
Please be this
Just what I said above, hopefully.
Phew.
Such good news!
Poor Colin Cowgilll…
vince talked to josh, he had the wind knocked out of him. “he’s gonna be OK.”
Vince actually producing music to my ears.
Oh thank goodness. I can’t cue up the Tivo Ceremonies worrying about Reddick. Now on to the parade of nations!!!
The entire ceremony had some kick ass music.
It was weird–when I went out to walk the dogs this morning I put my Ipod on shuffle and the first 7 random songs that came up were all British artists. It seemed just right!
Oy. That game.
Reddick lying on the ground for so long freaked me out. SO glad he’s okay.
And now I will see if the Opening Ceremonies can out-crazy that A’s-O’s game…
… not crazy enough yet.
SPOILER!
Oops. I shall edit it.
Have you got to the dove on the bike?
No, we just saw the raising of the Union Jack and the singing of God Save The Queen.
I cried there.
Nope. Now it’s something about
…
It looked like ET flying.
What time zone are you in?
Pacific
My mom and I got in an argument about the Olympics earlier. She came in during the Parade of Nations and asked if she had missed the Opening Ceremony yet. I said THIS IS IT. She said, “Where are the fireworks and bells?” It was lengthy.
Heh.
I enjoyed the Chariots of Fire bit.
Meredith Vieira just Danny Boyle about the “money shot”. It IS the Porn Olympics!
OH SHIT!
BECKS bringing the torch in!
Rangers lo-o-ose!
Scutaro to the Giants makes me sad.
WUT!?
cash and culbertson.
:(
where was he before?
colorado
am not in approval of haren’s beard.
So apparently the British musical contribution to the world between the 1960s and today did not include punk rock.
They played a 1.4 second snippet of London Calling in the opening montage.
More like 1.3, but who’s counting?
Also God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols version).
i don’t think they did that one.
??
when i watched live there were these balloon-headed guys in leather jackets pogoing to pretty vacant.
i suspect a united states editorial contribution.
That could be; there was a commercial break between the 70s and 80s.
Did they cut Fuck Buttons too?
Were they planning to include Fuck Buttons? I don’t remember seeing them on the playlist that we all discussed a few months ago.
Oh wait, that song during the movie intro at the very start totally was Fuck Buttons, right?! It sounded really familiar, but I couldn’t put my finger on it.
I wish they had a list of all the music used. That would be awesome.
Twice, I believe.
I remember seeing them when Firestarter was playing.
And God Save The Queen
tourist are money
Read the thread, colin
It did successfully make me want to listen to British music. Ian Dury is on the turntable now…
Yeah, I’m kinda rocking The Fall this morning.
Isn’t that just like every morning for you?
Kinda. I rise early, open the windows, turn the whole house fan on, and crank up something loud.
Today it was The Fall and then Warpaint.
The last few days it was Radiohead. I’m kinda late to the party on that band (I avoided them because they were popular).
Radiohead is a fairly consistent 2-3 WAR album band, with the exception of a >10 WAR peak (each) for The Bends and OK Computer.
I’m coming from a different angle. As a bassist with a polyrhythm fetish, I think the >10WAR peaks are Amnesiac, Hail To The Thief, and King Of Limbs.
It’s Kid A for me, with a huge amount of value derived just from the thick buzzing tones at the very start of Everything In Its Right Place.
My god man, that was a revelation!
I heard it for the first time in my favorite (long since deceased) record store and had to have it. I was blown away that what I had considered up to that time to be an annoying radio pop band had done something so weird and glorious. I brought it to band practice (I was in a sort of shitty hippie band at that time, slumming with younger friends who needed a guitarist), and was telling the drummer that we should do a song with a skippy trippy poly thing going on, like the title track of “Kid A.”, but he couldn’t see beyond the forest that was the idea that the band used canned drums in the first place for the trees that were the idea of playing something other than 4/4 for FKing once! That band died shortly thereafter.
Alright, Kid A was a run-of-the-mill MVP type of 7-8 WAR album. I wasn’t fair to it. I’d say their three-album peak (Bends-OK-A) was like 10-12-8 WAR.
everything in its right place is by far their best song. But lets be honest, Radiohead hasn’t been compelling enough for me to listen to once since college.
You’re not listening to them as a bass player, drummer, or songwriter, tho. Their rhythm section craftsmanship is impeccable. Even when they’re playing in four, you can hear other patterns emerge, especially with choppier guitar riffage on top. I also love how they incorporated Mr. Yorke’s digital composition methods into full-band arrangements, as well as mixing canned and analog-generated sounds.
However, if I was listening to them as a dancer, I would probably think they’re too slow and boring, except the new material with two drummers. That shit’s got dancing potential.
I listen to other music besides dance music. But the complexity seems like its complex for complexities sake rather than much else.
are you guys using baseball stats for albums, or am i completely missing what’s going on?
That is an accurate assessment of our extreme nerdiness.
(see my math joke in the today’s game thread for more)
stiff little fingers doesn’t count, right?
They’re not my cup of tea, but I think they count.
If I’m going to listen to punk punk, I’ve been getting into early Buzzcocks lately.
I remember there being some FKers who don’t like the Buzzcocks. I am not one of them.
I used to be one of them, but like them more the more that I hear them.
Of course, what changed my mind was hearing Mr. Shelley’s “Homosapien” song about a zillion times on repeat. After that, I figured it was time to explore more of his work.
1. THIS TEAM
2. I’m pretty sure the opening ceremonies showed the British forging the One Ring. Sauron’s afoot.
3. Scutaro –> Giants is awful. I wanted him back.
4. THIS TEAM
Re 2: apropos.
“…One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the open marketplace bind them.”
They’re a nation of shopkeepers.
Re #1-4: Yes.
Is it just me or have all these trades seemed extremely doable for the A’s, mostly just money and minor league basura?
I want a $2m Chair-Scoot!
Missing out on Youkilis is looking like a mistake.
I’m Still holding out for Head(ley).
Who we then swap for Starlin!!!!
If Youk would hit for the A’s like he’s hitting for the White Sox, for as cheap as they got him, I’d take it.
Like I said, we needed our hot streak just a few weeks earlier.
No kidding, 3 weeks earlier and Youk would be wearing green & gold (I’d hope).
Yes.
Missed the game, had to work. Sounds like it was a boring one, though.
Ozz! Welcome home!
Thanks! It’s good to be back with sane people.
Oh, honey. I have some bad news. We are nuttier than squirrel shit.
Ha! I like that, I’m gonna have to work it into conversation.
Sane… people? Where???
Ok, people who share the same levels of crazy.
and me.
You’re beyond measure.
And we love you.
I didn’t know the results while listening to the post-game recap. That was enough drama for me, even though I was bummed to have missed it. Stupid work.
What, blow a 5 run lead; take the lead back; have your closer give it back in the 8th; and then score 6 in the 9th and win. That’s just your typical, run of the mill game. Happens all the time.
Apparently the opening ceremony caused the first broadcast of a lesbian kiss on Saudi TV.
Nice.
The only thing I’ve ever seen on Saudi TV was the movie Deep Impact.
I’ve never seen any Saudi TV, but I’ve watched quite a bit of a kids’ channel in UAE. Literally all of their commercials are for their own shows. They don’t advertise any products. I have no idea how they make money.
Oil.
I just want to say that the Kia Optima is a really nice car.