Slusser sez: Nomar + Ellis both to DL, an infielder (Patterson?) + a reliever likely up.
She makes no mention of Chavvy, but I figger he’s not long for the active list, either.
And who knows how well or quickly Casilla and Anderson will recover.
Continue to color me unimpressed with Holliday.
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I’m guessing Blevins and Patterson.
Four go down, we get two back, and Chavy’s still not ready. The A’s refuse to play with a full 25 man roster.
Well, as 74mk noted the other day, the entire roster/injury conundrum stems from Beane refusing to acknowledge that Chavez is a sunk-cost invalid.
Which doesn’t make your point less true or aggravating or inexplicable, just …
I say Cameron.
Just a hunch.
Cameron isn’t on the 40 man roster.
Maybe Jeff Gray?
AAAAAAAAAHH!!!
There you go showing off your vocabulary again.
Oh thank god.
I thought Poppy was sick and the doctor was taking a look at the back of her throat.
I was worried she put too much clown powder on her wiener.
I thought clown powder was a numbing agent, it shouldn’t produce that kind of visceral reaction. Although I guess there could be some drooling.
That presupposition is fellatious.
Well look who’s the cunning linguist.
didn’t see the game. the part about everyone on the team getting hurt is a joke, right?
no joke: ellis, nomar, casilla + anderson
WE’RE ALL DEAD!!11!!
That would explain a lot, particularly the sign shop and Florida. And the lack of sex.
I’m in hell, aren’t I?
I mean, wow.
A fifth of the 25 man roster is injured and we’re barely 1/10th of the way through the season. Have the A’s ever lost 4 players to injury in 1 game before, at least in recent snake-bit history?
Our IF when Giambi rests his tender thigh/groin/calf/buttock/whatever:
1B Crosby
2B Patterson
SS Cabrera
3B Hannahan
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I smell World Series.
Williamsport, Pennsylvania here we come!
8-year-olds, Dude.
Think the A’s would be stretched to play up to the level of competition?
Given the lower-leg injuries tonight, I don’t think the A’s are into stretching themselves.
I don’t see them making it out of the Al Houghton Stadium.
Powell at 1st and Crosby as back-up catcher.
…then Pennington takes over.
In every sense.
Cue the music.
{bowwoppabowbow}
{disrobing clowns}
And against lhsps, maybe in a couple weeks we can feature an of of holliday-rajai-cunningham!
Ah, that’s the gentle, melodious sound of my baseball soul saying, “Fuck this.”
This is sheer fucking idiocy:
Hey, bub, that’s the sophisticated approach to the 25-man roster which got us three games from Nomar in a ten day stretch.
I think Beane hired Tim Geithner.
Listen, the team’ll do just fine so long as Giambi and Holliday keep crushing longballs.
:-|
Goodman finally weighs in on Saul:
Oooo, I liked Levy a lot too…
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Okay, here’s what’s going to happen:
Giambi is going to muster whatever energy remains in his creaky HGH-ravaged body, and play every day at 1B until Ellis and Nomar return from the DL. This will also cause him to find that rhythm Ray Fosse is always telling us is so important, which means many doubles and home runs and absolutely no facial grooming whatsoever. Patterson is finally going to hit like his minor league numbers suggest he can. The Hannahan/Crosby platoon at third will be off the charts, grit-wise (don’t ask me to quantify that, all I know is that it’s highly correlated with Winning Baseball). Holliday will hit, because sal says he will. Buck will play every day, because I still believe major league baseball is a meritocracy. That 20 HR power allegedly trapped inside Sweeney’s BP bat will begin to emerge in real games against real pitchers, because … I don’t know, just because. Anderson’s blister? It’s fine. Cahill’s wildness? Fixed, via tried and true between-starts bullpen session. Eveland? It’s all been bad luck so far. Braden? Koufax, 1966.
Carlton, 1972.Unit, 2001.So really nothing to worry about. We’ll be fine.
Carlton, ’72? You mean we’re only going to win 59 games?
Looks like someone had a power lunch with FP Santangelo.
I don’t give a rat’s ass about Patterson’s hitting. Have some velcro and go-go-gadgetness been applied to his glove?
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You can’t add her? What kind of Krauthor are you?
I have no idea how the inner guts of FK work.
So uh…I can post without an invite right?
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Okay, since my comments are awaiting moderation I guess no one can read them, but whatever. I’m so happy.
I can see you!
[waves enthusiastically]
I don’t know if I’ve said it in the last ten or so minutes, but I’ve missed you guys.
You need to work on tracking moving targets.
Oh for…
Those are career numbers, folks.
Yeah, but can Zambrano play first base?
Or sell jeans?
Words that need to be retired from baseball writing:
1. Gem (misuse)
2. Flirt (overuse)
…
3. No-no (retarded)
4. Erupted (“…for # runs in the # inning…”)
5. Bobby Crosby
When the list gets to ten or so, use them all in a sentence.
Here we are at five:
“Dallas Braden pitched a gem, flirting with a no-no for seven innings, while the A’s erupted for eight runs in the fifth inning. Also, Bobby Crosby sucks.”
We are one or two words away from erotica.
Make that 0-1 words:
6. Shaved