Sweeney
Cabrera
Giambi
Holliday
Cust RF
Suzuki DH
Crosby 3B
Petit 2B
Powell C
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Explanations:
Not platooning Crosby and Hannahan because you just can’t take that kind of bulldozing devil-may-care moxie out of the lineup.
Not platooning Petit and Patterson because two hits last night means Petit might be hot. Also he’s better defensively, and Outman needs all the help he can get.
Suzuki gets the day off, but Geren wishes to … wait for it … keep his bat in lineup. Plus Geren hates Buck.
I’m disappointed Geren did not find a way to work Davis into the lineup.
3 hits. and he’s a career .400 hitter.
Does Davis in with the game in extras count as having Davis in the lineup? It’s almost the same as starting him…
a run! We may need quite a few of those today.
home run!! that’s a true outcome.
SPARTA-KRAUT!
I love Cust.
CUST-O-FAB!
Thank you to Wakamatsu for not starting Felix today when they had the same rest.
oo. not out.
he was also not out on the steal last night.
yikes
crosby, too, loathes the hot yellow orb
I am loving the weather today. I might even break out in song.
97?!?
He throws very hard. That’s why he’ll be a very good reliever.
I. HATE. THIS. RADIO. AD.
i’m assuming that was to the MGD commercials? At least they’re better than mini sirloin burgers.
I don’t mind that JitB ad.
That mgd ad makes me want to go on a multistate killing spree.
I hope you consult my rankings when picking out the states.
I’m not killing anyone in a state with sunshine and humidity.
1. Those people are already living in Hell
2. I’m not setting foot in those conditions
OUT OF MY HEAD, MONKEYMAN!
eh. I’ve taking to muting the commercial once it comes on. Unfortunately, I know when to turn the sound back on because it plays in my head anyways.
Compared to the Coors light Beer Poets and the Bud Light Real Men of Genius campaigns, this new MGD ad is like a beautiful Indigo Girls ballad.
They don’t wear the road grays enough. Much better than the green.
Anyone want to join me in a class-action lawsuit over the misleading dollar-dog ads?
I hear it not as “And hot dogs, too, for just a dollar,” but as “And hot dogs: two for just a dollar.”
Wouldn’t work. They would pay it off in dogs but not supply any kraut.
Or buns.
I interrupt this game thread to dump a link. If we keep giving away the kraut for free, we are gonna use it all up and there won’t be any left for future generations.
Pffffff. Just buy more tubes.
bag full of lizard supplies — cuz lizard stuff isn’t all that cheap
Vince: “the ball was bananing … had a little banana to it”
true story: I read your comment, and then was going to bref, and I typed in “banana” instead of “baseball.”
Kurt is on fire.
I love A’s baserunning.
1st and 3rd 2 outs=not a good time steal. Maybe in little league.
damn…
this Petit guy is pretty damn good.
I like Petit. Can we keep him?
1. The power of “knows how to handle the bat”:
GS for Cabrera the past 3+ seasons: 488
GS hitting lower than 3rd in the lineup: 0
2. What does it mean to “have a seat on a flight to your life”?
3. Those otters appear to be hatching a plot that involves a) scratching out the eyes of their handlers, b) copulating ferociously, and c) detonating a suitcase nuke in a shopping mall.
They’re birthday otters. It’s my birthday.
By the way, thanks Poppy if those are for me. I know you know my birthday
Yes, those are for you :)
Happy birthday.
Party hats or not, those are some menacing otters.
They’re enjoying a nice cloudy day.
Not party hats.
Horns.Phallic symbolsEngorged clown phalli.That can’t possibly be true.
More like clown ticklers.
2. I think it means my life is really far away, so I can’t just wake up and be in it each day. So that makes me wonder wtf I *am* waking up in each day, and how I got here.
Listening to Niehaus today…he mentioned that it’s the 29th anniversary of the A’s stealing home twice against Jack Morris and Lance Parrish, one of which was on a triple steal, a play I don’t think has been duplicated since. All those years sitting in the old Coliseum bleachers, that was absolutely one of the greatest moments.
I had a revelation today about the “sippin’ on a MGD” commercial. This may have already been covered, but I realized that the reason he was able to not spill the draft beer when he trips on the dance floor is that it’s an MGD, and therefore it’s in a bottle, not a mug or a cheap-ass plastic cup. I feel so enlightened, I just wanted to share.
I think you’re not busy enough if your brain has time for that.
I blame FK. Someone (maybe xbhaskarx?) posed the question of what exactly about the MGD keeps it from being spilled on the dance floor?
I’m a problem solver. I solve problems.
A third of the line-up below the Mendoza line … if this goes to extra innings, we are so screwed.
And now, we have to HOPE that we are so screwed.
Sigh.
Springer and Eveland have one thing in common…in my house they are known by their first name, “Goddammit”.
Two hours and fourteen minutes ahead of time, you called it.
Ziggy doesn’t look so good.
“Orlando Cabrera just RAN over to Jack Hannahan and whispered something to him,” says Glen.
OC: “Dude! LEAVE. IT. ALONE.”
hahahah
Springer vs Lopez… round 2. We win this time.
Aardsma looks like a gopher.
1. I get Davis for Cust, but is Crosby really a better defensive first baseman than Giambi?
2. It’s depressing how quickly overuse, injuries, and airborne contagions have transformed the relief staff from a strength into a liability.
3. Pet peeve, apropos of nothing: when people say “quite frankly”, followed by an uncontroversial banality.
4. Culinary assertion, apropos of nothing: lentil soup is the best soup.
1. Probably yes, and Hannahan is a better 3B than Crosby.
Yes on Hannahan, maybe on Crosby, but I wouldn’t have been inclined to replace Giambi’s bat in a one run game with Springer coming out for the 9th.
Not that any of this will matter after Suzuki homers to lead off the inning.
I’m not at all sure what the right move is there.
1. Crosby isn’t a better first baseman than Giambi, so I agree.
2. The inability of the A’s starters to pitch more than 5 or 6 innings (at best) is destined to turn the bullpen into a liability. That, and the fact that it was always unlikely some of these guys would continue to pitch so well.
3. True, but everyone has their conversational quirks. My daughter is going through “like” at the moment. Of course, she isn’t a paid broadcaster.
4. Disagree on the soup, but can’t narrow down a favorite.
4. I really don’t consider this an arguable point.
you haven’t had my split pea soup.
take take take take
yay Petit is up.
no good this time. SIGH. let’s score now please landon.
This is the part of extra-inning games I dislike.
You have invested a fair amount of time in waiting for the outcome. At this stage, you are not optimistic that things will end well. But you don’t want to give up, because that’s not the kind of fan you are. Plus, what if it does end well? You would feel foolish.
But this game already has taken up more time than alloted. There are chores to do, requests from other family members, general restlessness.
And so it drags on…
Mmmmmm… laptop and wireless at Mom’s house…
(I’m working and writing while I watch the game, since I’ve forgotten how to do fewer than three things at a time anyway.)
And you know why we’re in extra innings, don’t you? It’s because earlier in the game, Ray was talking about how bad the shadows would be if the game were to go past 4:00… like he was so sure that wouldn’t happen.
I say stick with the game, savor the Sunday lassitude, stave off the tedium of obligation-fulfillment awhile longer.
That’s what I have done. It’s what I almost always do.
At the moment, it’s looking like a game I’m glad to have stuck with…
And now I don’t.
Arg.
I don’t know what the bullpen situation really is, but Geren’s handling of that situation was utterly mystifying.
that Dodgers game a few years ago might have been the worst.
I’m multi-tasking though, so I at least think I’m being productive or something.
That Dodgers game was an exception, because I was in Los Angeles and listening to Vin Scully and staying in a hotel and the rest of my family was asleep anyway.
That doesn’t count.
I was in Taipei, in a hotel. Unfortunately, that was during the daytime there, but I did get to listen to Vin Scully.
Powell crosses the Mendoza line!
I’m looking forward to the highlights… who has this inning on the radio?
Korach.
Wheeeeeeeee
said it too early.
Vargas does not drink. Does not smoke. Does not make love. What do you do Vargas?
Are you serious?
I blame the evil birthday otters for this.
By extension, I blame mikeA for having a birthday, Poppy for remembering it, and A-Rod for only tipping 15% at Hooters.
How did the A’s do last year when I forgot mikeA’s birthday?
The plot thickens: last May 3rd win was in 2003.
2008: Loss
2007: Off day
2006: Loss
2005: Loss
2004: Off day
I am utterly confused.
Is this game still on?
No. We just don’t have anyone here to say “Game over.”
oh, for krauts sake
not a fun birthday.
I think Holliday is having the worst game in baseball history.
It could be worse. We could be playing a double-header.
runs? maybe?
I’m guessing Powell can’t bunt…
take it off.
I beg your pardon?
great.
Eveland FTL
did that really happen?
DFA Hannahan now?
If he throws home like a real infielder we win.
I don’t think so. It would have been 7-5 with the bases loaded and two out instead of 7-6 with runners on 1st and 3rd and two out. But then two runs would have scored on Ichiro’s single anyway.
Um, wow. I don’t know many of the particulars of the latter stages of this game, and I’m going to keep it that way.
Assuming there was 1 out to get, it didn’t make any difference between home and 2nd, and I don’t know why a home to first dp would have been easier.
whoops, meant to reply to nevermoor.
Because going home prevents a run from scoring.
Talking of going home …
Tuning in to PBS’s film of otters in Mull, I’ve just seen a moment of “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” that shows a building crew installing bolt-on log-ends onto a steel-framed “authentic log cabin” in Colorado. The depressing triumph of form over function painfully echoed today’s unlucky 13th inning.
But the otter mum just fought off a seal that wanted to sit on the rock her pups were nesting on, and the west coast of Scotland is sublime, and the matar paneer is yummy, and Lily is asleep after a weekend of doing her “My community” project for school, and the theme she chose for the centerpiece was “My family”, and life goes on.
Happy birthday mikeA.
1. Now I crave mater paneer.
2. That is a fantastic canvas. Though you appear to have flames shooting out of your sides in the centerpiece drawing.
1. I strongly recommend Mehak Tandoori although you have to ask for “very hot” to get Indian rather than American spicing.
2. Thanks – I’d been away Planck-ing in Paris all week, and her Mama was away gigging in L.A. all weekend, so we had some mutually gratifying quality daddy time. Funny you should mention the flames … over the last couple of weeks the arms on her figures have been rapidly (d)evolving, and those are actually vestigal fingers. Note also the dual vertical LILY signatures bottom-left and top-right, and the extra disembodied head – not sure who that is – mid-left :-)