Ads on the pitchers mound are bad enough. Proselytizing is worse. He Gets Us to hate everyone different than us. Fucking this Taliban state with a splintery stick.
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We join today’s programming already in progress, 3-0 good guys behind a ball Dermis absolutely exfoliated off the left field facade.
He can have ’em as far as I’m concerned. But yeah, the fact that they can even do that for an MLB game is pure BS.
So a very TX game going on I see.
Waldichuk being given a long leash despite some loud Rangers hits.
Five innings, eight hits: single, six doubles and a homer.
Wanted to get him through 5 innings so he would qualify for the win. And he did!
Now for the bad news…
this made me laugh
I got hung up trying to figure out when Ken saw Elton John in San Diego. It was in 1971.
No setlist available. Also England Dan and John Ford Coley were just starting out and unknown enough that the first one shows as “Dan England” on the poster.
Did you send it to him via the twitters?
No, I am not a Twitterer, nor a Facebooker or Instagrammer. I look at a few other people’s (reporters) Twitter accounts but that’s all I do.
You can send it to Ken, but based on his Twitter participation it might be a few months before he sees it.
I usually send stuff to Vince when i want Ken to see it
This is also how I tell my parents things.
Vince like the tweet. I assum Ken saw it
12-8 to avoid 100 losses would be at the end of the Bell curve.
So it turns out Brett Favre is a real big piece of shit, huh.
I looked up his Twitter account to see if he had a response. He did not; below is his last tweet, about a month old. Perhaps he also gets welfare funds to pay for ads on the back of the mound in Bible Belt ballparks.
Speaking of real big pieces of shit, Ron DeSantis is an all-timer.
Marcus’ mind was already on a beach somewhere.
We have all been there
That’s a great clip
It will be interesting to see how this affects the next round of CBA negotiations.
Minor leagues getting shut down.
Nobody the A’s put on waivers ever gets claimed. Oakland: the end of the line.
Whataburger stenciled on the mound dirt tonight. That’s a religion I can get behind.
I put Whataburger in the same category as Chick-Fil-A: some people swear by it but the appeal has always escaped me. Unlike In-N-Out, where you do get a pretty tasty meal for under $10.
Whatahomer by Garcia.
Got out on a straight line. Like a sword stroke. An Épée Dermis, if you will.
Sabre metrics
That is my thought of Five Guys. So many people love it and it is just such an expensive bad meal to me.
I don’t agree with “bad meal” at Five Guys, they are pretty good at what they do, but “expensive meal” most definitely; the price/quality ratio at In-N-Out is way better than Five Guys.
5 guys cajun fries are best-in-class.
Their buns, specifically, took a huge hit when they expanded beyond the DC area and had to find nationally-consistent vendors. The OG experience was magical.
Sears is dying a long, slow death.
The Cody Thomas Fan Club makes me think of “Northeast Texas Women”, a Willis Alan Ramsey song covered by Jimmy Buffett.
I reckon they’re sorority and frat pals from Oklahoma.
His hometown, Colleyville TX, is right there near Arlington. I was thinking Cody has a thing for blonde girls and that’s every girl he screwed in high school.
I also want to point out that the Willis Alan Ramsey album that had “Northeast Texas Women” on it also included his song “Muskrat Candlelight”, a song that was most famously covered by The Captain and Tennille as “Muskrat Love” and was a staple of Hits From Hell when Dave Morey did that on 10 at 10.
Mostly mentioning that to get Elton John, England Dan and John Ford Coley, Jimmy Buffett and The Captain and Tennille all in a single FK thread.
Seth, when you see Ramon going after a fly ball you just need to stay as far away as you can.
Guessing he would have scored from first on that home run anyway
Wow, Ken and Vince have been building the Mathias/cyr Fremont connection all game and Vince made a great call on it, and glen and Dallas didn’t say anything about it
Just awful tv
Ken and Vince were talking about how this ballpark in Arlington is better with the roof open rather than closed. I think that’s true of all of the retractable roof places, and something I’ve thought about if I do the June Milwaukee trip next year. I wasn’t that impressed with the Brewers’ park, but the roof was closed the entire time.
I’m still rooting for “don’t lose 100”, against the odds. This would be a very good one to not lose.
And yay. I mean, if they scored 7 and 8 vs. a team not much better than them and couldn’t win either one, they might not have won another game for the rest of the year.
I hadn’t been paying attention and was just thinking “pls not Puk pls not Puk”.
If there was an angle that had the base stealer out at second on review I haven’t seen it.
I turned on the TV after I heard it was close. It seems they showed one after the out call was officia that confirmed the suspicions
I think what happens on some plays like that is there’s no single camera angle that clearly shows safe or out. There might be an angle that shows exactly when the tag was being applied, and a second angle that clearly shows the baserunner’s foot being on or off the bag all the way through the play. The first one might be Camera 4 on the Oakland telecast and the second Camera 5 on the Texas telecast. So New York has to find those two angles, put them side by side, sync the timing and then can make a determination. On the telecast we usually see only one camera angle at a time, maybe three in all of the play, each shown two or three times, and just can’t tell. I would like to see more of the synced views on the telecasts.
This is why I think replays in all sports should have a strict time limit. Announcers love to ostentatiously proclaim “the important thing is to get the call right” but fuck that, I don’t want to an interminable wait while every conceivable combination of camera angles is considered. Basketball and football are worse than baseball for this.
Exactly. The much loved “did his foot come off the base..did he have full possession ALL the way down”. If you cant tell after 1-2 replays at a moderate speed then this isnt want replay was meant for.
There was an all time replay fail last weekend in Italian soccer. Juventus scored on a header in the dying moments to seemingly pull out a win over lowly Salernitana. Brilliant ending. Mayhem in the stadium.
After a minute or so, during which the scorer celebrated by taking his shirt off and getting a second yellow card for it, the referee was told in his earpiece that the goal was being reviewed for possible offside. Then, he was told to go over and review the play himself on the pitch side monitor.
The replays he looked at appeared to show that another Juventus player was behind the last man when the pass was played to the goal scorer, and thus in an offside position. That only negates the goal, however, if the player in the offside position interfered with the play. In this case, the guy tried to head the ball, but didn’t touch it. Cue tons of debate over whether that is enough to interfere. After several minutes, the referee decides yes, and rules out the goal, meaning the game ends in a draw rather than a Juve win. During all of this delay, a brawl breaks out and two players and a couple of coaches get red carded. This whole thing took a good 10 minutes.
Now, here’s the funny part. It quickly became clear after the game that there was a Salernitana player near the corner of the field where the pass had come from who was clearly closer to the goal than any of the Juve players, so there was no way the play could have been offside. The whole did he or didn’t he interfere debate that took all that time was moot. But the replay they showed the ref didn’t capture enough of the field to show that guy so the ref had no idea the guy was there and he cancelled an indisputably good winning goal.
Not sure replay can ruin a game worse than that.
Cool article about McClymonds High, small Oakland school, giant source of US athletes.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/high-school/article/oakland-mcclymonds-high-sports-17441839.php
I knew Bill Patterson slightly when I worked in Oakland. He never mentioned any of this.
With my reduced attention I hadn’t realized that tonight’s game is on Big Fox in a couple pretty big chunks of the country.
Between the A’s and Pirates that’s a pretty nasty self-inflicted wound. With a decent game they would have an opportunity because the NFL game is only on Amazon Prime except in LA and KC.
Gifting us another game with Eric Karros, who is awful, and AJ Pierzynski, who I somehow don’t hate.
No Karros tonight, thankfully.
I thought they were moving Kaperalien to the bullpen for awhile.
They were but then Oller got hurt, I think.
It seems like we’ll get to see if Garcia is a classic “don’t fall in love in September” guy in Mesa and in April. That’s exactly the kind of player the A’s have to give a chance at this point.
Allen is getting his chance too, and I’m thinking, who are the other shortstops the A’s have drafted in recent years? He does have the glove and that would be in his favor even more if the A’s had enough other bats in the organization.
When Jordan Diaz is hitting 334/451/642 next year Allen’s glove will be nice to have
I don’t believe in Garcia at all, that one-gear long righty swing will be picked apart by many pitchers his next trip around the league. Dermis is an itch I don’t want to scratch.
Switched to the football game in time for a shot of Roger Goodell and Jeff Bezos together in a luxury box. As though I didn’t already feel shameful enough for watching football.
In that last commercial break the local station ran this ad. I thought “and we’re just getting started” has MLB on the Strip in mind.
(you left out NASCAR, Steve)
Payamps should vanish soon, before becoming too memorably bad for me to instantly forget him.
It did take one more appearance after you made this comment. But, done.
Tuned into the radio broadcast just in time to hear that FKing train.
“Tough feeling for Kotsay right now.”
He bought his ticket. He knew what he was getting into.
True, but there’s that and then there’s living it. There have been times when they had a shot of him on the bench and his thought bubble seemed to be, “Do I really want to do this again next year?”
Weird that MLB didn’t schedule the Pirates to play at home on Roberto Clemente Day.
Fortunately the Astros can’t clinch the division in this series.
UK handily beating France in the WBC qualifier right now .. but union jack high socks is not a good look.
She’s gone home
I really hope tonight isnt the night. But Verlander getting that ALDS strike zone against this bunch is a bad start.
Is verlander pitching a no hitter or something?
Just off the IL so he’s unlikely to go nine regardless.
So far a no hitter is happening. 4 innings of no hit ball.
We may not never not no-hit again!
Recent trends suggest this to be true.
Developer of Nationals Park wants to weasel out the retail they agreed to build in the DC ballpark deal. They blame the pandemic (Nats Park is 14 years old).
I always enjoy reading Billy Owens’ hype-heavy prospect rundowns. The man may be full of shit half the time, but he has a way with words. This bit on Pache is pretty interesting. It sounds like they were pretty shocked how little of a clue he has about hitting.
Another way of interpreting this would be “great natural talent with glove, zero natural talent with bat, seemingly unable to learn.”
Dear god, this is worse than the Cheez-It Bowl.
Two very mediocre teams slogging it out in South Bend. For Mack and the Upgrades: Notre Dame has no downfield passing game with this QB.
Cal’s pathetic “offensive line” will be the difference today though.
15 completions for 143 yards as I write this. One hopes the Heels DBs are up for that task. We’ll see though, I know better than to count on good things from Carolina football.
It did come down to a desperate heave and a ball bouncing off hands and bodies in the end zone, but in any case those are both 4-8 teams.
There is this, though. I think Cal was +11; add one to his ATS numbers. It’s probably because Wilcox puts good defense out there and keeps the score low.
The Detroit Lions of the Pac-12.
Ouch
Hard to argue it though. They both had some glory years in the postwar-1950s period and only brief appearances near (but never at) the top of the league since (Aaron Rodgers/Marshawn Lynch, Barry Sanders).
Oh, I wasn’t disputing the comparison, it’s just that seeing it stated starkly like that is like a rude slap to the face. What I find interesting is how so many good NFL players have come out of Cal despite how bad the teams have been.
Man
I feel bad for Frankie, but I can’t deny my first reaction was to be thankful this wasn’t the news in May.
Look, if it had to happen some time, it’s good that it happened to the Yankees.
I’m somewhat curious to see this guy. Mostly to see just how bad he is at fielding.
This is a reason to tun in. Not the home runs in the first
Did I hear the other night that the A’s have had 17 big league debuts this year? So this will be #18. Crazy.
Yes: Lemoine, Z.Jackson, Oller, Allen, Logue, Lopes, McDonald, Martinez, Koenig, Bride, Garcia, Stevenson, Langeliers, Ruiz, Waldichuk, Thomas, Wiles
Plus Sears, MacKinnon, Cyr all debuted with other teams in 2022 before we acquired them.
No idea who Lopes and Wiles even are.
Lopes was one of the c(h)ristians
The A’s are trying to make this like Rickey’s steals or DiMaggio’s hit streak, records which will never be broken.
That’s a classy thing for the front office to do; it’s Mondou’s reward for being a foot soldier in the minor league organization for so long. I doubt we’ll ever hear from him again after Wednesday.
Two errors last night, so, pretty bad I guess?
27 innings at 2B in his minor league career, so they put him at 2B in MLB Game 2 with predictable results. That order must have come down to the dugout from the front office; it wouldn’t have been Kotsay deciding to do that.
Let’s see if he can catch!
Irwin’s ball ain’t swervin, gonna be a long night.
Swervin restored.
Just went to mlb.com, saw that the A’s had the lead, and considered turning on the game.
Then saw that Puk was in, and thought better of it.
Unexpected victory cabbage!
Never in doubt
This appears to be a guy to keep an eye on.
Jordan Diaz does not seem to be familiar with offspeed pitches.
Kyler Murray not particularly regretting not playing for a crappy 100-loss baseball team right now.
The thing about flinging the ball as the player crosses the goal line for a TD drives me nuts though. Just hold on to the ball for one or two more steps.
Quite a faceplant from the Raiders, had so many chances to stop AZ in the 4th quaretr and blew them all, then vomited up the game in OT. At least it confirmed for me that I don’t care enough to get mad any more.
The FRS season tickets have officially been relinquished … they’ve been in the “family” since the move from Kansas City, but the A’s wouldn’t offer us anything close to what they promised when we moved back 2 rows “just for this season”.
Management truly has committed to the heel turn. New ballpark and fuck everyone who ever bought a Coilseum ticket along the way.
Oh, andeux, dare we dream?
Two down, eighteen to go.