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Woo-hoo !
I’m gonna say that will turn the season around.
1. Greinke’s ERA+ is down to 905.
2. Coco Crisp is underrated.
3. Over/under on number of times Fosse orgasms while describing Halladay’s CG win over the Yankees: 3.
4. FACT: You cannot go to the playoffs with Sidney Ponson in your rotation.
5. FACT: From the day Duchscherer comes off the DL to the end of the season, the A’s will have a better W/L record than the Royals.
Coco sucks. He is overrated. That was a horrible trade by an incompetent GM.
Buck’s defense this inning has turned the season around.
Ranked in order of radio commercial aptitude:
1. R Davis
2. M Holliday
3. R Sweeney
You are very lucky to have missed the tv ad or for jordin “sic” sparks they just played…
1. I’m shocked you’re not watching the Royals broadcast on mlb tv.
2. Vince says KC “has not been able to get the clutch base hit lately”.
I’m used to seeing the A’s get old players who have good career numbers against every team. Sort of funny to see Adam Kennedy’s bad career numbers against the Royals.
Kudos to Geren for not following through on the plan of playing Crosby at 3B against RHPs. So far….
Cabrera needs to bunt more so they’ll always play in like that.
FOOTAGE OF THE TEAM MEETING! CABRERA IS A HERO! THIS IS THE CHAVEZ BUS SPEECH MOMENT!
This is weird.
Hannahan stole the #3 spot in OPS from Crosby with that double.
My head just exploded into many little (SSS) fragments.
Vince: “Guys like Giambi, Holliday, Cabrera … you just felt that they knew when the right time was to speak up, to get the guys focused on the task at hand, and that’s what Cabrera did, the smallest guy in stature, but the biggest guy in the room.”
I don’t like how Vince insists on talking during Ken’s innings, and that when he does it is necessarily not describing the game, but instead saying stuff like that.
Vince has the big boy chair tonight. Bitker is in the Vince role.
Not sure why Korach’s not there.
Kinda freaking out right now… hold me…
LMAO at the look on Cust’s face in the dugout… “WTF?! Did we just score 7 f’n runs?!”
I’m glad I didn’t chime in earlier that I’ve always kind of liked Crisp.
mikeABlanton needs to not have two to three baserunners every inning.
Ah, somebody was paying attention.
I don’t get it.
1. American Airlines knows why I fly.
2. Vince: Guillen brings “vim and vigor” to the Royals.
Vim and vigor is code for: uses same pharmacist that Manny does.
Ponson has lost some weight.
Sir Sid!
I blame that error on the WBC.
If Giambi doesn’t hit a
grand slamsacrifice fly to deep center, I’m going to start akillingshopping spree.Cunningham is 2-3 with a 2B and HR so far.
Werth steals home (and three other bases) and stupid MLB.com doesn’t even post the video?!?
Once I found out it was Cotroneo/Bitker tonight I switched over to the Royals radio broadcast for audio. Both Arthur Bryant’s and Gates are advertisers! (And if you don’t know what that means, you need to take a trip to KC and find out.) I don’t think I’ve heard anything about “slipping on the dance floor” on this broadcast either.
They kicked me out of KC because I didn’t like AB’s or Gates.
Like that’s the first place you’ve ever been kicked out of. Come on.
Man, my gameday is slow. Kennedy just struck out on a 3-0 pitch.
Everybody has reached base and scored at least once. Only Kennedy is hitless.
FK 1.0’s color scheme > that of FK 2.0
Crisp is good.
Whew, at least he didn’t walk Crisp
Fun, in a Soviet May Day Politburo photo kind of way:
Lew Wolff is in the diamond level seats now, right in the frame behind the catcher. Sitting a dozen seats to the left, two rows forward, is Oakland City Council President Jane Brunner.
I wonder if there has ben a spike in City Council member attendance at A’s games this season … a FOIA request perhaps?
But who’ll have the parade of tanks — Oakland, or Crywolffisher?
… and, would that make San Jose Hungary?
More of a forced assimilation, Finlandization-style.
LOL love the winexp graph.
I wonder how much the ** game recap will attribute this offensive explosion to O-Cab’s “fiery” meeting.
Is Flashfire writing the recap?
I think/hope BBG is…I’m not too keen on reading anything by the blogmaster or FF nowadays…
Ok ok, I’m done with the ** bashing for the day.
My reaction lately upon reading comments by FF: 50% Sure, OK, that’s common sense, 50% oh-my-heck-I-want-to-cut-myself
Melky Pellows is unbothered by such things.
I haven’t fulfilled my quota: I never liked bbg’s writeups.
Too many semicolons.
Okay, don’t tell me I’m the only person bothered by her penchant for semicolon misuse and overuse.
(But that’s pretty much the only problem I have with bbg, and considering it involves punctuation, it’s not all that terribly important.)
I won’t tell you because you’ve asked me not to, but…
You aren’t one of the 3 or 4 people that chime in every. single. time. to say how amazingly well written her recap is?
For the record, I think she’s a really nice person. I just hate the patronizing.
LOL nice call
That’s, um, strong words there, Monkey.
You might call it a gutsy, bold, put-yourself-out-there move.
I think this just proves monkeyball has fire. If FK is going to get its ass kicked in comment counts every day, at the very least I want to see some fight, some scrap, some edginess from the blog leaders. I don’t want to hear about track records. I don’t want to hear “we’ll get ’em tomorrow”. I don’t want to hear about what salb918 did in 2007. I want a f***ing 900 comment thread! I want to know people care. I want YAY!s and pictures and people flirting like giddy fifteen year-old girls on Red Bull highs.
A’ight, peoples, huddle ’round — blog meeting! No press!
YAY!
lol
(yes, I am reading this thread at 3am)
I vacillate between adoring you (after all, you did provide the link for the F&L’72 print I have up) and thinking I may be the root of all that’s evil on AN.
And yes, those two things are a dichotomy. STFU.
Meh, I might recall incorrectly but she doesn’t seem to write as many “WTF?!?” statements as the other two.
That’s certainly true.
… largely because of her talent for taking a thousand words to say nothing at all.
I like Nico’s the best. So there.
Watching the reply I can’t tell if Cust intended to go to the left or completely mis-timed that.
Ryan Zimmerman’s hit streak is at 30, Adam Jones hit two more homers (as anguished fans across Seattle stabbed scissor blades into their forearms), Benji Molina has finally drawn a walk, and the Yankees, with a $200 million payroll, fielded a lineup featuring Brett Gardner, Kevin Cash, Ramiro Pena, and Melky Cabrera.
Good times, good times.
If I were a female adult film star from the Dominican Republic, my name would be Melky Pellows
My friend came up with the best fake porn name ever: Candy Maw.
Apparently UL Washington is 32nd greatest Royal of all time.
Also, Ken Korach writes a (sporadically updated) blog, and Egypt has banned internet pornography (aka “electronic dens of vice”).
I am learning many new things during this blowout.
Things I didn’t know about U L Washington:
* He was a football player who, by way of a cold call tryout, got into KC’s “Baseball Academy” program for raw athletes.
* “U L” is the entire name he was given when born in Stringtown, OK.
* He had a 2 homer, four hit game against the A’s on 9/21/78.
* He lost his starting job to a guy named “Onix.”
I also didn’t know there was such a thing as the Senior Baseball League, but what do you know, there was, and UL Washington played in it.
I was at the game at the Coliseum which was actually on 9/21/79. Was quite certain it was one of the last few games the A’s would ever play in Oakland (they seemed headed for Denver for the 1980 season). U.L. had hit a home run from each side of the plate by the third inning.
Um. What is going on here? My TV says KC 3, OAK 12. Pretty sure the CSN scoreboard people are messing with me.
Also, the winexp graph is completely awesome.
Ortiz finally comes through with the bases loaded.
Lew is no longer in his seat. I suspect he’s sitting in the Diamond section this year because you can’t be seen by other fans.
He had to wait for Selugworth’s permission before he could move there.
Oh goodness. We’re going to be hearing about this Cabrera-led meeting 243 times a day for the rest of the season.
That’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make if, as I expect, the A’s win their next 243 straight games.
If he’s such a cagey veteran, and knew this would be just the thing to turn the season around, shouldn’t we be pissed that he didn’t do it when the A’s were 7-10 or something?
I’m not going to give it anything more than they got up for a game, but the facts remain: Cabrera called them out, then went three for five, with four RBIs, including two with two outs. Are those two things independent of one another? I don’t know. But it is a rather convenient coincidence.
I’m with you…used sparingly, the well-timed, backed-up rah-rah speech from a guy with clubhouse cred can’t hurt, and I’m happy to choose to believe that it helped in some small way today. Of course, if I go to a game wearing a particular A’s hat and they win, I also choose to believe I should wear it the next game too.
OTOH, I vaguely recall a story from Cabrera’s CWS time in which he was scoffed at by a teammate for doing the team rally meeting thing.
For some reason, I’m thinking of the Happy Days episode where Richie gets put in charge of the camping expedition, and becomes a tin-whistle martinet.
Heh. I vaguely remember that episode.
I’ll admit to a bias here. I hate meetings. They’re almost always a waste of time.
How many times have we read stories about these players-only meetings in our lifetimes? How many times has a team that holds such a meeting gone on to do something fantastic? We need a statistic for that.
Well, anecdotally, those numbers will be askew, simply because we don’t really hear too much about the time so-and-so called a team-only meeting and it failed miserably. Though my sadistic, loser-worshiping ass would appreciate a story like that.
Yay, Angels lose.
Mazzaro: 8 IP, 1H, 0R, 5K, O BB.
Psssh. Only 5Ks? Not projectable…
Team meeting, mikeABlanton, whatevs. That was a massive, man-crush-affirming, step-on-their-necks hr by Cust.
I don’t get it..
Here. Wear it.
I like both of those guys.
I’m trying a post via PDA as test for posts from ballpark.
A resounding success!
but where were you? were game conditions properly simulated?
Well, I wasn’t nearly drunk enough to simulate game conditions, if that’s what you mean.
That’s EXACTLY what I mean.
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