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Open Thread: Game 53 - A's vs. Blue Jays (cont.)

A's up 1-0.  How long until we see Bobby Crosby hitting behind Eric Chavez?

LET'S GO A'S!!!!!!!

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that was really nice
ala kotsay.
Son of a...
Damn, Vernon. That was some catch.
That saved a run
cleanup
on a team with kielty, chavez, byrnes, dj, crosby, etc. why is hatteberg our cleanup hitter???
LOL
Sign at the Coliseum:

FREE BYRNES - PLAY HIM OR TRADE HIM

that sign
That's been up before. It's ridiculous. Given those choices, I'll take Door #2.
Interesting thought
The difference a year makes in the mind of some fans.  At this time last year everyone loved Chavez.   Pretty sure he had signed his new contract.  Kielty was hated.  People wanted his head.
No check the view of this teams.
LEARN YOUR NAMES
They just said, "Hatteberg, long run, no chance." Hello, newsflash, Dan Johnson is playing first today.
Who said that?
I Did It
Signed up for mlb.com TV.

For 30 seconds so far, it's brilliant.  No gaps, stops, delays, or anything else.  Announcers are using the "scooter-o" name variation.

I stole my friend's account mlb.tv account
Before I tried it I thought it was kind of a waste of money, but now I think it's totally worth it... I'll probably get an account for myself if they offer a better deal midseason.
i've had it for over a season
TOTALLY worth it. i can even deal with all the opposing announcers just to see our boys every game.
No chance
MLB is never going to offer a better deal, those money-grubbing pigs.
MLB.tv is the best
So far I've lost coverage for about half of one game this year due to MLB.com redesign or something, but apart from that - no problems at all. Well worth it, man.
Yup
This year it's improved a bit, plus they carry alot more games. The only A's games I've missed were the blacked out ones (ESPN or vs. Red Sox) or the ones I wasn't at home to watch.
Michael Kay just said Joe Torre
needs to pull a Billy Martin and start turning over tables to get the Yankees going. LOL
I like that play by Adams...
Smart baserunning. Would it really be that hard to get our players doing stuff like that?
"Take Off, Eh"
... to first base.  These announcers are Canadian.  They said "Saar-loose".
Yup
"Johnson flies oot"... "Full count, two oots"...
blah
5th inning blues.

i really hope our offense shows up today. we NEED this game.

Saarloos is unravelling
Oy vey
But y'know, if Kirk doesn't give up anything else this inning, that's 2 runs in 5IP. I would have taken that. Wake up, bats!
Blue Jays lead the league
in HBP.
I though Charles Thomas did
Byrnes is tied for 3rd
Everyone knows around the 5th inning Saarloos
can't pitch anymore.
but only at 65ish pitches?
he can hold on for a bit more.

5 IP, 2 ER? for our pitching staff, we'll take it.

come on offense!! please dont tell me you've run yourself dry!!

how many runs would 9 bobby crosby's score right now?

65
The Jays pitchers were talking about Sarrloos' well-known 65-pitch wall. If he's gonna suck it up, take him out. The 'pen got a good rest yesterday.
Wow
Hitters hitting .351 off Saarloos the third time through the order...
Josh "Cy Young" Towers
LET's GO OFFENSE!!!!!!!
No, we've actually
dodged the bullet, IMO. First 5 hitters for the Jays, 2 walks and 2 fly outs, told the story early. Saarloos is up with a lot of pitches, not with normal command.

5IP, 2 runs is outstanding for Saarloos with poor command. Our offense's job is to score enough for him.

First time this year Towers has walked
more than 1 in a game.  Impressive.
Let's make hay out of this
Scutaro is held at 3rd?
Um... Bill?
At least tie the game right here
Anyone home?
wow
that was called a ball?  Thank you blue.
4 pitch walk to Kendall
Chavy better not hit into twin killing.
Chavez need a big hit right here
Hay
To answer Ken Korach:

Before hay is hay, it is grass.  It has be to be cut and then left out in the sun to dry to become hay.  In California that's not a big deal, but in other regions where the sun doesn't come out all day every day, you have to watch the weather so that you "make hay while the sun shines", ie, take advantage of an opportunity when it presents itself.

thanks
I've wondered that too. Thanks!
gameday
I've never seen pictures of 2 that look as drunk as Kendall and towers!
Loading the bases for Chavy...
This pitcher is smart as a whip.
chavy (pressure = choke or hero?)
Towers has walked 3 tonight
after walking only 5 total all year!
please eric
FLY BALL.

NO K.

NO DP!

please....

let's go chavvy
Holy Toledo!
holy cow
chavez comes through!!!
OH MY GOSH
ERIC CHAVEZ GRAND SLAM.
Clutch CHAVY!!!!
;-)
O my god!
I just called a grand salam and on the first pitch, too!
Heeeeeroooooooohhhhhh!
YES!!
YES again!!
CHAVVVY CLUUUUUTCHHH!!!!!!!!
EAT IT, NAYSAYERS!!!!
Whooooooooo!!!!!!!
OH MY GOD
I can't even believe it.
C'MON, CHAVY. LET THIS BE THE BEGINNING.
WOW!!!!!!!!
First pitch swinging... Way to go, Chavy!!!!!! :)
Grand Slam Chavy!!!!!!
June is a new month.
Does anybody remember what happened in April and May? I don't.
Chavy = the MAN tonight!
Can we replay that a few more times? It's giving me the chills! JOY!
Who says Chavy isn't clutch?
oh my god!!!!!!!!!1
WHO EXPECTED THAT?!?

please please please please let that be the shot that turns around chavy's season!!!

Pull Sarloos NOW.
I second that
I agree since we have the rested pen
Although we do have Setherton going tomorrow and might need the pen early.
Hatty almost hit that one out!
No MMQB here:
I'd get Duke up now, go batter to batter with Los Kirk, simply because Kirk's been up in the zone all night and done a great job to weather it--no need to let the Jays back in the game, with a rested pen: Duke, Rincon, and Street can take it from here, as needed.
June started two days early
If only it had started two months early...
Man.
Close, Hatty! That woulda been sweet.

Ooh, SAFE!

Missed it...
... by that much.
All those people...
that constantly bash Chavez...where are ya now?!
Saarloos
Is in line for the win now. If things go well, that'll be three consecutive SP wins. Awesome.
Chavez has no heart
lol jk
Now that is called
earning your paycheck.  First pitch, aggressive, against a guy who has no business owning the A's.  The best thing was that you could tell by his reaction from the centerfield camera that it was gone before he even left the box.  Way to go #3.
With one swing of the bat
we solve the mystery that was Josh Towers!
"in the dirt to hatteberg"??
That's the second time tonight.
DJ was running after a foul ball and they called him Hatteberg too.
They DO kinda look alike
Plus their hitting styles (patience, plate discipline) are similar...
Ya know...
Even Chavvy looked loke he couldn't believe he hit out, eh? Totally friggin sweet!
I wonder if the trade Chavvy
post are going to stop.  Probably not, they are thinking this increases his trade value.
trade wishes
that's how it always goes: when a guys going bad, everyone says, if only he'd be good for a while we could trade him. Then we he gets hot, no one wants to trade him.
Now Towers is unraveling
Not that I'm complaining.
even the FSN bay area guys are confusing
hatte and dj
That's why I love baseball
I live for these moments!
C'mon Croz!!!!
I have a smudge on my monitor...
And that looked like "C'mon Cruz!" for a second. I was slightly worried.
I know it's late...
But man do I HEART Chavez...what a swing that was.
the sound of it
man, it's a sweet sound isn't it?
I hate to sound like a broken drum
But I'd STILL like to see Kendall batting leadoff and Kotsay second.  Please, Macha, PLEASE????
True
Kotsay will hit anywhere
Tyler!
where is your optimism?  I am sure that KM knew perfectly well that they won the last three with Kendall leading off.  The franchise guy just had his best AB of the season, the A's are scoring runs and you of all people start kicking dirt?  If you keep that up you may get a bad rating!  Oh, I forgot, it's your site.
well i am off to band practice
keep it going boys
All the complaining about Chavy
but he is now leading the team in HRs and RBIs
I'm still upset
that Chavy didn't work the count. Gotta work the count. LOL.
yeah, wtf is up with swinging at the first pitch??
is everyone watching the same game im watching
What's happening?
Gameday has DJ walking and froze?
He walked
Crosby is up to bat, the count is now 2-2.
Crosby
Hit a ball right to the pitcher... Got the force out on second but Crosby is safe at first.
2-2
to crosby.
Gameday can't believe what's happening
any more than we can.
LOL
Their computers crashed when they tried to write "Eric Chavez hits a grand slam"...
Pitcher change
Pete Walker in.
Crosby grounds into FC, DJ out at 2nd.
The Swingin' A's!
How sweet it is!
Pull Saarloos out
NOW!
Pull em now, Pa, pull em now! (josie wales)
Okay
Saarloos doesn't have it anymore tonight... one more hit and he should be pulled.
yes, after one more hit, but not now.
How bout NOW?
don't pull saarloos yet!
Damn it, Jays
Don't you know that a three run deficit in the Coliseum means you're supposed to give up???
Is Macha going to leave him in there
And let the Jays tie it??
Yank
Macha:

Please yank Saarloos if another ball goes careening off the left field wall.  

Be pro-active for once, Macha.  Your re-active ways need to go.

Put in Yabu or Duke
TIME TO TAKE OUT SAARLOOS!!!!
bullpen is well rested!
Alaska A
good foresight - do you have the dugout phone number?
it's called...
the mindblock saarloos gets when he sees the number six.

he better not see my screen name anytime soon...

C'mon Macha
Please!  I wanna win!
Why wasn't Duke already up??
AN knew Duke had to be ready to go in case of, say, back to back doubles??
oops
i switched channels, i thought it was still between innings.  
i'm seeing all these "pull saarloos" posts and not really getting it...
This is agonizing!
Macha will blow this
AGAIN
This guy is not going to work out
of this he has been up in the zone all night don't blow this game.
The Bullpen Phone Number
... is GET-DUKE.  Someone please call.
WHEW!
Lucky break...
Yeah...
At least he got that groundball pitching to work for him. That was a best-case scenario, just behind a strikeout.
I have to go
Hopefully the A's hold on and get the W.

GO A's!!!!!!!!!!!

I love Huckabee!
Ricky Rincon in...
Thanks
Jason Schwartzman
Could be trouble
No an Easy Grounder
...like the announcer said.  Saarloos did a good job going down the mound and still timing the bounce on that grounder, and then reorienting to make the throw to first.

Hey, who's that coming in??

Rincon time to get under the bed.
I'll "wear it" for this one out...
It's when he comes out for the next inning that I'll hide.
i don't rust Rincon
Yabu or Duke will come out the next inning
Rincon will
Probably pitch to Catalanotto
GET WITH THE PROGRAM
For the last time, that is NOT Hatteberg! DAN JOHNSON.
the rincon bashing needs to stop
posted before the K
Rincon is the right move here
see what i mean?
struck him out
Yes (scrambles from under the bed)
going out...back to see the results later.
It is the right move but Rincon makes me nervous
anyways.
Rincon's pitching better this season
Almost like he pitched in 2002/2003...
Saarloos
may not be "consistently awesome" but he has been incredibly consistent: 5-6 innings, 2-3 runs almost every time out. Very solid for a #5, and tonight he did it without his best stuff by far (0 K's, btw).

And for all the "hiding under the bed" Rincon inspires, he's really pitched well far more often than not.

he gives us a chance to win
that's all we can ask.
Saarloos <3
I said this before, and I'll say it over and over again... I really like Saarloos so I hope he stays with the A's, whether that's in the starting rotation, or the bullpen, or what not. He really is consistant, has a great attitude and he's a fighter the whole way through. [He also is a fan of reality TV, or at least his wife makes him watch it with her :)]
The A's still have a chance at the division.
I've been reading diary, after diary about how everything we do is for 2006 and 2007.  Man, the future is now.  I still think we should be a better overall team than last year.  Mulder was the worst pitcher in the second half of 04 and Hudson was gone for over 1/3 of the season.  We've got a better bullpen and more seasoning with Harden.  Our offense should be better this year than last when you look at things.  
What do you guys think?  We are young and inconsistent but should be better as the season goes along.  
Depends
On how strong Calero, Bradford, and Harden come back.
better team?
"I still think we should be a better overall team than last year."

sure, but:
harden is injured
dotel is done
durazo is injured
crosby missed over 40 games
swisher missed a few weeks
calero is injured
bradford is injured
should i keep going?

Okay
Let's bust this one wide open...
I'll take the #73 please
super carnitas, double tortilla, whole beans and hot salsa.  -kirk reynolds.
off we go with molding hay again...
haha, i love king&korach
woot!
I come home and we're winning again.  How wonderful!  Sounds like Saarloos was good again.  I'll take almost 6 innings and 3 runs from the #5 starter.  Especially if the pen can hold them down...GO A'S!!! :D
BTW
Did you hear about the Chavez grand slam? I kid you not... first pitch, too.
wait...
you are kidding right?
Scroll up and see for yourself...
wow!!
that's awesome!!!  today has just been full of suprises and good news!  :)
The thing about Rincon that make everyone
nervous is he can be lights out or he can get bombed. You never know what you will get and with a runner on 3rd it only intensifies it. he has been better this year but you never know when he might come out and start giving up runs.
In reality, though,
that can be said of 90% of the pitchers around. And as Ken K. points out, Rincon always gets the toughest hitters in the toughest spots, by design.
Yay!
Macha used Rincon for 1 AB only!
yeah, thats really the case...
people always remember the bad...and rincon has had some pretty bad blown games.  He's also had some brilliant games.  When used right, he's very good.  But there's always the fear that he'll lose the plate and get shelled.  Every team has one of these...and Rincon is ours.
Hey America, what do you want?
I want to tase my beer.
uh...
with antibiotics?
No, not with antibiotics...
gosh,
I HATE THAT COMMERCIAL.

thank you for reading my caps.

that made no sense.
i should get back to writing my essay.
essays are overrated...
I went to the A's game Monday night and watched the game last night instead of writing the papers I had due.  There's always after the game! :)
I have an essay too
I have to write a seven page paper on women in ancient Greek society. It's due tomorrow morning, I haven't started yet. :( The A's need to stop playing every single freaking day so maybe I can get some work done.
I have a takehome final
due monday.
I'm actually on an essay break...
I had one due Tuesday and one due Thursday...now I dont have one due again till Monday and another next Friday...and another the Wednesday after that...I kno, its pretty lame.
Are you all at Quarter schools?
I'm at Cal State Hayward/East Bay we're on quarters.  You're also on quarter too?  You should be out of school if you're in semester schools.
Homework
You two need to apply the elements of this game to your homework.  That way, you can justify it.  

I'm sure ancient literature has the same elements as the tension of competetive sports.

Didn't Homer say, "Let's go, Athens-land" or something?

The Greeks were big sports fans...
...they invented the Olympics.
I don't know...
I don't think I could really write a paper comparing competitive sports with women who betray and outsmart men :)
Bad News Bears..
The girl pitcher.
You want
to tease your beer?
Forgive me, I had a few beers
What does he say
... after "rocket science"?

The sentence makes sense as "This isn't rocket science", but there's an extra syllable.  Sounds like "This isn't rocket science's street."  Huh?  I've been listening to that stupid commercial all season long, and I still can't figure out what he's saying.

rocket sciencestry
It's supposed to be funny.
Fudge
Hinske, not Rincon, makes me nervous...
This ump is a clown
Inconsistent all night...
i love that kotsay scares runners
K!
All right, let's finish this inning.
BIG K right there
HUGE DUKE
one more baby!!!
Dukester!
Nice.
wow, nice work duke
DUKE!!!!
BEAUTIFUL!!!!
I HEART DUKE!!!
THE DUKE!!!
way to work out of a jam there man...
Wow
And I thought Monday night was bad! Justin better not ever do that again... I think the A's are rubbing off on the Blue Jays. Bases loaded, one out, can't even score one run...
My analysis:
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKE!
duuuuuuuuude
that was awesome
duke k's two batters
who were both 0-5 against him.  rincon faces only one batter and gets a big k.  i could get used to this...
great play all around
i could get used to this.
Chavvy's
Lookin like his old self!

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