Red Sox:
Late night law commercial
Can’t hit the inside fastball
Big Poopy
The man with an unfortunate former B-R URL
Teh Boras fail
Teh Canadian fail, eh?
Some guy named Nick Green
Welcome back, Kottaras
A’s:
The Demon Barber of Hegenberger Street
California, California, Califoooorrniiiaaa…
VOJC
It would be so nice
Lord of the Unicorns
Romantic Haiku Muse
The other Suzuki
This guy still sucks
Little House on the Prairie
XbX edit: anti-Boston rally Pitch f/x
Okajima vs Holliday
Danny edit:
Ziegler vs Varitek
andeux
Apricot
batgirl
Danny
oblique
devo
mk
dmoas
FreeSeatUpgrade
monkeyball
grover
Sharon
iglew
ptbnl
JediLeroy
Jennifer
Leopold Bloom
mikeA
MikeTheV
mjdittmer
nevermoor
ninathorsenkqed
Poppy
salb918
doctorK
sslinger
5aces
the dogfather
veganryan
whiteshoes40
xbhaskarx
FREE KRAUT! 
very nice velocity from Anderson.
Thank Ba’al you didn’t use Michael Landon’s later series.
oof
why?
I tripped on the dance floor
but I did not spill my draft beer
because I’m sippin’ on an MGD
WTF?
they get the draft taste into their bottles, so you don’t spill. It’s pretty amazing, actually.
TECHNOLOGY
It’s “a MGD.”
I have to go puke now.
A BLACK CAN?!!?
… get elected president?
Anderson=easily the best starter in the rotation.
Are you complimenting Anderson or disparaging the rotation?
both
mostly complimenting Anderson.
Doesn’t Wakefield have a perfecto going?
Crosby will break it up by reaching base on a Green error
I like my errors brown.
Close!
steal
What the heck? How do we not have a hit yet?
Where’s Shannon Stewart when you need him?
I have to admit, I feel a lot less hopeless in this situation than I would have last year.
I myself am freeking kraut.
Just not in front of the missus – you wouldn’t want to freek ‘r aut.
Sweet!
FUCK.
Oh for pity’s sake.
All (but one of) those heady 3+ BAs have withered :-(
** game threads must be a ton o’ fun right now
It’s Tim Wakefield, guys! Good grief.
Oaktown Power must be loving this.
Indeed:
http://www.athleticsnation.com/2009/4/15/839126/open-thread-game-9-as-vs-boston#14220026
http://www.athleticsnation.com/2009/4/15/839126/open-thread-game-9-as-vs-boston#14220084
First one pretty much distills the essence of the disaster that is o.p.
You just have to love [insert something I, in fact, loathe].
That pretty much distills the essence of the disaster that is o.p.
Big Pop-up-y’s first xbh of the season.
Well, now the failure to score won’t be so frustrating.
What – aren’t we guaranteed a 5-run inning every Red Sox game?
aw, crap
blerg
Bottom of the 8th:
Ellis BB check
Buck
FCFO checkSuzuki 1B check
Crosby K check
Powell 2B, 2RBI half right
Pitching change
Sweeney BB
Cabrera 1B (patented bloop over second baseman’s head)
Cust HR, 3RBI, Free Krauters across the land pump fists in unison, type comments containing only exclamation points
Obviously now Holliday, Ellis, and Buck will have to follow with back to back to back homers before the synchronized fist pumping can commence.
Still doable.
Not bad!
That HR was my fault, for leaving Drew out of my fantasy lineup today.
Speaking of Gallagher, Rich Harden has now pitched 9 innings this year, struck out 18(!) but allowed 6 runs. The Cubs are 0-2 in those starts.
Speaking of Harden, Haren has pitched 13 innings, struck out 11, has a WHIP of 0.77, and is 0-2.
that’s odd. Didn’t we trade him to a different team where things like that don’t happen?
No, that was Tim Hudson.
Gallagher is really helping his clutch score here.
Was Gallagher showing his frustration after the strikeout, or was that a Ruddy Lugo moment?
What. The. Crap.
That was all with 2 outs! Ridiculous.
Strategy. They’re trying to ice Wakefield’s arm.
The part of me that wonders why the hell Gallagher is pitching two days in a row is fighting with the part of me that thinks Gallagher just sucks.
I’m going with Dan Meyer Disease.
I don’t think he just sucks.
ZOOOOOK
Gadzooks!
There it goes….
Stand and clap..great effort.
Bring back Hammer.
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Why do you even bother?
go away
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Little Run on the Prairie
Alf:
The A’s are going to score three runs here just to stick it to me, aren’t they?
Too bad the crappy part of the bullpen came in and gave up 6 freaking runs in one inning, otherwise this would be a 2-1 ballgame.
(And what the hell happened to Gallagher and Blevins this year?)
Only 6 more to go …
Okay, if Buck hits it really far, can he and Holliday run the bases three times?
Buck tried to relive the magic there.
4 hits?! Save some for Friday, guys.
Oh well, 8-2 is better than a 2-0 no-hitter.
Yeah, I’ll take an ordinary loss over an extraordinary one any day of the week.
1. I wasn’t expecting much with the B team out there today.
2. Anderson’s performance was encouraging.
3. Ray Fosse wants to have Roy Halladay’s babies.
This Jack Cust might just not suck…