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Open Thread: Game 61 - A's at New York (cont.)

So far so good in this David vs. Goliath matchup. 2-1 A's after 3 innings, and Mike Rouse has already caught Antonio Perez in hits!

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Kielty KILLED that
looked about 440 ft on gameday
BOOM!
Way to get off the HR schnide.
Bravo, Nico!
Excellent klown-powered new thread mojo!
Nice new thread mojo
And monkeyballs 6 "automatic outs" are 4/8 with a HR so far.
Ha-ha! Brad Lidge!
</Nelson Muntz>
It's like Bizarro World.
I love the new thread mojo! Powerful stuff!
I will admit--
I get warm fuzzy feelings seeing Rouse out there. I like that kid for no reason that I can figure out.
This feels weird.
Hey, it's June - not May...
remember?
eerily giddy
irrational exuberance?
eerily gritty
Howdy.
All I have to say is that this is a team that looks like it can win a division.  Wow.
so, you're saying ...
... this is the lineup we should have been posting all season?
FREE ROUSE!
ROUSE FOR TRAINER.
ROUSE FOR TEAM CAPTAIN!
FREE now?!
Damn, I thought the ones I got at 3-for-a-dollar were a good deal...
I've got some free mumia if you want some
I'm pretty hungry
Could I have some free lumpia instead?
I can honestly say...
that's the first Philippino food reference I've ever seen on AN.
No.
I'm saying the way the whole team is responding, such as:

--Frank Thomas getting Haren an early run when he knows he has a tough assignment
--Haren pitching his ass off and looking PISSED when he gave up that one run, even though he got a good outcome from the situation
--The bench guys picking up their teammates

Is extremely impressive.

Nice work, AAAA boys
Oakland's less-than-stellar-on-paper lineup is killing the big unit so far. Way to go, big leaguers!
The New York Yankees
Cures whatever ails ya.
my heart just stopped
Is there really
a little voice in my head that's cheering for boston?
It's okay.
Next week, you can pretend it never happened.
The mystery that is the BALK
I give up. I will never understand the balk. I see no difference between what just happened and what happens to me after a glass of wine. "No officer, I didn't swerve. It was more of a balk."
This is fun!
Randy looks really frazzled! Awesome! Our boys look great tonight! It's like the subs (Kielty, Scutaro, etc.) have a chance and they want to make a great impression. Awesome!
Somebody has to do it!
Marco?
update, anyone?
GameChannel's had Scooter at 2-2 for 5 minutes.
12-pitch strikeout.
The One-Man inning.
he WAS at 2-2 for 5 minutes
fouled off about 400 pitches and then looked at strike 3
Wow.
Scoot's AB has some... dare I say it? ...grit.
Great AB by Scoot...
Finally K's looking on pitch #12
The one time a K won't bug me.
DAMN.
Does Perez seriously have one hit still?
1-33, 17 K...Thats impossible
Ball four! Bad call!
Oh well. What comes around, goes around.
No way...
That was MUCh more of a strike than the one to Jason
PEREZ!
homerun!
PEREZ HR!!!!
I don't F'in believe it!!!!
Perez for Prez
ANTONIO!!!
2 for 34 mother bitches!
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This game is just CRAZY!
CRAAAAAAAZY!
Holy Sh**** there is a God!!!
Why is Dr. Faustus in the A's dugout?
The world is ending.
Wooooo Hoooo!
Let's go Sacra... I mean Oakland!
No fin' way
Homerun!!
First time I've seen him smile
Oh my God
Oh my God. Oh my God.

I just shrieked.

FREE PEREZ!
AND there's hit number 2!
Welcome to Oakland, Perez! Nice job!
I still don't like you, Antonio
(okay, we'll give him the benefit of the "not much playing time" doubt... a little longer...)
C'mon Rouse!
Is there a way
we can get the A's to play the rest of their games at Yankee Stadium?
Thats unreal..
1-33 with 17 K.

So go yard off Unit in Yankee stadium...Haha

Proposed nickname
"The Famous Rouse"
I endorse that nickname.
Nice work!
Absolutely
Though I'm having a nice glass of Lagavulin 16 year as we speak, the Grouse is saved for band practice nights.
Mmmmm, Lagavulin
Methinks we need a single-malt diary.
Macallan 12.
Simply. Always. Good.
when I splurge at a nice restaurant
... it's the 21 (20?) aged in the sherry (?) casks.
There's a pretty badass restaurant here in ATL
canned Summit's Wayside Tavern. They've got about 400 kinds of beer or so, and tons of liquor. I asked about Ardbeg, 'cause I like a good Islay malt, and the bartender just snatched the book and started quoting prices. The normal (10 year?) I think was $22/shot, up to something ridiculously old, which was $175/shot. Neither of which I bought.
yak!
That's just silly.

My default bottle at home is Laphroaig 10. Trader Joe's has it for $29.99 a bottle.

Mmmmm.
Peaty.
Where is grover?
<thud>
Sheesh, I walk away for 5 minutes ...
Gonna need some serious pliers
to pry that fork out of Randy Johnson's back.
Listening to the Yankees' broadcasters
they are not pleased with RJ giving up a homer to Perez. Classic.
Okay, boys...
let's get this game in before the rain starts.
runs
I hope Haren knows what to do with all these runs. He's in unfamiliar territory with this kind of support!
Yay, Rouse!
Mike Rouse
OBP machine!
"undefined] walked"
These AAAA players better slow it down.
If they keep playing like this they are liable to end up on the DL.
WRITE IN ROUSE!
perez
antonio always drives in runs when he gets a  hit.  so clutch
quote of the month nominee!
Unit just "dismissed" Fairchild.
lol
<struggles to suppress woofing>
Quit whining Big Bitch
HOLY CRAP.
Sorry, delayed reaction. But you have got to be kidding me... in a good way, of course.

My thoughts: Perez didn't like having his hit total matched by Rouse already, so he figured it was about time to homer. Take THAT.

I love that Rouse is batting 1.000.

I love that we're beating the Yankees. Especially with this lineup.

I LOVE THAT MIKE ROUSE JUST STOLE SECOND. Heeee!

Haha...Rouse SB!
And gets to 3rd
sweet...
you go, Mike.
WOO! Rouse!
{falls madly in love with Mike Rouse}
I'll fight you for him.
FIRE MARCO SCUTARO! That little bitch. <spits>
We could share.
That works.
You know, since we are... ahem.

<suggestive eyebrow wiggle>

hehe
<hugs>

<pushes Jennifer away>

hot little piece of Venezuelan bitch candy
No way.
Rouse for Prez.  Perez can be his vice.
Rouse / Perez '08
Rouse is amazing.
Rouse
1-1, BB and a SB.  Not a bad first game in the bigs.
It's as if we will ALWAYS go on a run in June
July August September no matter who is injured, etc. Awesome! This is so fun!
Mike Rouse!
We've seen three tools so far! He's a Giambi with speed!
Just turned the game on and looked at Gameday
Am I wrong to think that this has been a, well, bizarre game?  Gintonio homered?!?
Oh. My. God.
Dear Rouse,

Marry me. I'm sure I'll figure out your first name by the time we get down the aisle.

Mike.
Are you sure it isn't 'Sexy'?
Amo Rouse?
Sorry Kyli
Mike is already married. I think he married his high school sweet heart last off season.

I grew up with Mike and I'm excited that he's finally getting his shot. Go Mikey!!!

Damn.
Oh well. That's one lucky lady, then. :-)

Awww, it must be awesome for you to get to see him like this.

Rouse: MVP in '07
</Gammons>
Swish, don't mess this up.
For every minute when it's tough to be an A's fan
there are five where it's fun as hell.
Well put...
And sometimes the ones you expect to be painful are the most fun of all!
Lately feels more like
hours of grinding excruciating misery punctuated by moments of delight
</airline pilot>
ROUSE!
i love you.
6-1..
My god Bernie, nice throw
Rouse!
That man has some wheels.  Wow.
Five Best A's Ever
5.) Rouse
4.) Rouse
3.) Rouse
2,) Rouse
1.)Rouse

Why?  Because he spits hot fire.

he hits and he steals, he steals and he hits...
that is the way that mike rouse fits...
LOL, it must be because
he only  drinks breast milk from the finest Ethiopians
I.... I'm giddy
You can hear Unit
yelling at the ump on the radio... yes, even over the BOOOOOOOOOs.
I went to the (giants) game last night...
And this may be even more odd of a game already.
me too!
Sweet free tix courtesy of Mrs Monkeyball.
Sweat-free tux, courtesy of 5elix!
gad, that sign bugs me!
Always makes me think I've gone dyslexic.
in my head, I say it as "Felix"... :\
Dear Bernie Williams,
Thank you for having a crappy throwing arm.

That is all.

He's like a right-fielded Johnny Damon
Hmmmm
I think my heart rate just ROUSE.
gameday shows that pitch
that Swisher hit as being ankle high! The stars are aligned!

I love that Posada's error cost the Yankees. Since that homer off Zito in the playoffs years ago, I can't stand him.

frikken kendall...
leave it to him to get a walk with somebody on third with less than 2 outs...watch this dp ball right here...
Rouse will eat your babies
and set fire to your New York villages with the POWER OF HIS MIND.

Don't mess with that shit! Oh yes! It's OhMikeGod!

And with Karate he'll kick their asses...
into Tianamen Square.
{has Mike Rouse's baby}
{names her Mikette}
the boy
can be undefined] jr.
Son of undefined]
Yankees Fans are da Best (NOT)
What a buncha crybabies!
I'd love to troll at Pinstripe Alley ...
... if only they had more than three guys posting!
Have you checked Pinestrip Alley?
maybe that's where their blugmoster is
I thought
it was the furniture refinishing blog.
That was a fun inning.
Can we do that again? Pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaase!
you know how Damon
just threw the ball up to the stands after the 3rd out.

Do you think that is like really hard for him to do??

on the one hand...
...he's got no arm, so it could be hard. On the other, he's a crowd-pleasing pansy who'll still have a nice cute quote for the fans after this game (should it continue to be a disaster for his team).

I really don't like Damon. I hope Varitek picks his face for rearrangement this year. If not, we should send Kendall after him.

Can we keep Rouse?
please?
Probably not.
I blame Macro Scutaro. Yes, Macro.
But he's so pretty
I know.
<pets Rouse>
for now
A couple more days with Crosby, Chavy, and Swisher...he'll be a dirty little whore.
Micro Scutaro has a mighty tiny strike zone.
OBP of .821
what about Macrame Scutaro?
Ok, does anyone else read Batgirl?
Because she had this hilarious (as usual) post after Liriano's no-hit bid against the Angels, and it had to do with the macrame. And I will never think of macrame the same way again.

Ok, that is all.

This is amazing.
The world somehow looks so much sunnier than it did when I saw the lineup. Wheee.
yeah...
now I know I died during my nap.
The rest of the American League
cowers before the offensive juugernaut of Antonio Perez, Mike Rouse, and Bobby Kielty.
Nay, the rest of the world! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Fifth inning Gameday prediction...
Top 5TH B:0 S:1 O:1
Mike Rouse homers (1) on a fly ball to left field. Bobby Kielty scores. Marco Scutaro scores. Antonio Perez scores.
I credit the ...
... KrAZeE Link-Dump game thread mojo.
we are all crazed
I am begining to wonder
if maybe I am just asleep on my couch right now.  
we're all asleep on Poppy's couch
that might be true
It certainly wouldn't be the weirdest thing that's happened today.
Seriously
we all just fell asleep in the second inning?

I mean do you REALLY beleive that Perez homered?

I'm laughing so hard...
...it took me three tries to type this!
whoops
that was re: the gameday prediction a few posts above. I obviously couldn't click either!
Thanks
For the misplaced love.
sometimes that's the best kind
lol
There's no way I can type anything non-filthy in reponse to that.

Wait. I just did.

<wakes up on couch>

Whining from Yank Announcers
According to them, when Ichiro got rookie of the year, nobody held the fact that he had played in the Japan league against him, but poor Hideki Matsui lost to Barroa because of this (boohoo).

IIRC, there was a lot of talk about Ichiro not really being a rookie the year he won the award.

Whoot! Nice inning, Danny!
shutdown inning!
LETS GO OAKLAND
Am I hearing things or did I just hear a LETS GO OAKLAND chant thru my XM???  I love A's fans!!!
Haren's a BUM!
Did we really scare off all the trolls tonight?
enjoying the game on the couch
this is more like it!
A's with
6 runs and 6 hits?

I'm sure we don't want to see 6 errors...

*and* 6 walks, now that Kielty just walked
Cool....time to tire out the Yanks' 'pen
Reading the Yanks MLB board...
brought a smile to my face.

Mutiny and Pandemonium. Silly Rabits.

Aaron Small
WHIP: 2.10
holy crap!
I left work to come home, and when I was underground on BART, the universe overturned itself and some guy named "A. Perez" homered for Oakland. What's going on in the world???
Obviously...
...BART passed through a rip in the fabric of reality...
What's goin' on...
Old Testament, real wrath-of-God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.
<snerk>
"Small relieved Johnson"
haa!
lmao
Small, relieved Johnson?
He sure is, Monkeyball. He sure is.
No! Don't take a walk!
Get to the 6th, then let the rains come!
C'mon Perez!
Power threat!
I miss Randy Johnson.
A's fans heart Randy Johnson
Well, except for that opening day game.
back to the norm, perez
he got his hit
now he'll go back to sucking for another month...or two...
He just needs to be at Yankee Stadium all the time
Maybe Billy can convince Brian Cashman that Perez is just what they need, the proof being his amazing hitting stats in New York, and trade him for the entire Yankees pitching staff, salary paid and everything.

Yep, that's what'll happen.

hey!
dont worry he's creating a pattern.  He's planning on going strikeout, bomb, strikeout, bomb,  etc.
Who the hell is Norm Perez?
NORM!
What do you say to a beer Norm?
Going down?
Time to Start the Latest AN Pool
Who hits dinger #2 first: Gintonio or Ken Doll?
Gintonio
I love it.
What's Danny's pitch count?
holy crap, Glen just answered me
I had no idea he read AN.

(pitch #75)

Ohhhh!
Ranger/Sox play two tomorrow! DEATH!
media prediction
NYY's performance tonight will be blamed on their multitude of injuries.
Of course.
Those poor Yankees.
<sobs>
SOBs
I mean,
look at the A's. Zero injuries all year. Like tonight, they've got their superstar, uh... <tries to remember his name>... uh, he's... um....
I've heard of a "New York minute"...
...now we have "New York multitude" = 2.
What's Haren's pitch count?
I love watching Danny Boy pitch!
He puts the ball exactly where he wants it to go! So planned and calculated! He's going to be the Ace of the staff. You watch.
{has Milton's baby}
Little Miltina...
You're the A's baby factory.
She has to pump 'em out
faster than they can get injured.
lol
Twin siblings just arrived for little Mikette, btw.
and her brother
Little Millbrae
Nice freaking play Milton!
And a fist pump!
Yay Milton.
Heh, he's so pumped. I love this team. For the moment. ;)
Gamer!
Do Not Pass Go! Do Not Collect a Run!
Way to show some emotion Milty!
UNCLE MILTY! GAMER! What a play!
WEB GEM for sure!
Nice catch by Bradley...
Showing a little excitement with the fist pump, and our MVP leading off next inning.  Nice.
Woo Hoo!
Bradley didn't injure himself!!! Woo hoo!!!
My sentiments exactly.
two balls to Rouse
they're pitching around him...
Mike Rouse...
STUD <3
MIKE ROUSE.
<dies>
way to go Rouse!!
Woo hoo!! Half way to the cycle! :)
HAHA
Awesome.  I love this kid!
Poppy!
What are you going to name Mike's second child?
I think...
...I'll use Chavy's method of picking names for the twins.  They're "San" and "Jose".
YES guys nailed it...
He does look and hit like Walt Weiss.  Just perfect comparison
athleticsnation hearts rouse!
Batting 1.000
Go Mike!
Great hitting JK...
Well done
Heh.
Kendall tried his hardest to GIDP, but Rouse had bigger plans.

Runner at 3rd, 1 out. Go Swish!

double play grounder from Kendall right there
good thing Rouse was already on second
Yanks' announcers' take...
"A fine piece of hitting by Kendall..."

(seriously)

Swish. ick.
I love Mike Rouse...
and KenKo. I think my heart's going to explode.

<sob>

What did KenKo say?
"I hope he never wakes up."
It's the way he said it. <sigh>

 Ken was also talking about Mike and his wife, growing up in the BA.

wait. does that mean ...
... Rouse is on Poppy's couch?
A's with hits
Payton Thomas Kielty Perez Rouse

A's without hits

A's without hits
Kendall Swisher Bradley Scutaro

wierd.

I hate lead-off doubles.
c'mon, guys!
Rouse can't do this all by himself! I mean, he's not MaEl ...
Who?
OH MY GOD.  Did I just say that?

{kills self}

Oh, crap: Poppy's day-to-day
booooooo!!!!!!!!!
{has MaEl triplets to atone for betrayal}
Three little baby MaEls?
awwwwwwwwwwwww
They'll be Little League WS MVP's by next week
don't have any baby Bunnies...
They'll kill the baby MaEls.
Not to mention...
...all sorts of new vaccinations will have to be invented for the baby Bunnieses...
I think that's why I heart little Rouse...
He's like MaEl...

<sob>

<hugs MaEl's unicorn>

"<hugs MaEl's unicorn>"
<snicker>

Dirty.

<misplaces MaEl's unicorn>
Just checking in...
Watching the game on MLB.tv while installing a kitchen floor. Gotta say, it's great to see the bench guys step it up. It's always fun to see breakouts. Mike Rouse? Smile on, kid. Smile big.
Pergo?
Or are you going with the real deal?
Is Danny's arm going to fall off?
Is anyone warming up in the 'pen?
i just heard halsey
Hrad Balsey.
Whee, it's raining.
So much for the short leash.
Macha's saying "one more hitter..."
ugh....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, I'm going to barf.
This can't happen in every game Haren pitches.
He's either done or he's not. He was supposed to be on a short leash tonight.
I'd hate to see a long leash....
I'd hate to see Johnson on a leash
poor Chad
"Okay, bases loaded with pissed-off Yankees. No pressure."
By the way...
Have you noticed that our current roster only contains eleven pitchers?  Total?
I thought that said "elven pitchers"
maybe that's what I meant
New Thread and New Mojo (please)
not yet
This one's been good.
I can't watch...
Oh man...3-2 to Cairo
ROUSE
just got on whats with wrists with taped up and this is first major league game? did it  happen this game?
Silly Yankees.
Boston just retook the lead in the B8...
Sox 4-3 over the Rangers T9
woo hoo
way to get out of inning
did i just hear correctly that
gaudin just threw a 96 MPH FB????
woo hoo!
gaudin for 5th starter!
NEW THREAD OPEN
whyyyyyyyy?????
i'm a big gaudin fan
but i question whether he's the guy you bring in with the bases loaded.
he's been great for us, but 14 walks in 18 innings.
okay
time to get some runs off of small

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