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Anyone want to make a joke about Hudler checking the thickness of their bat?

...

Anyone?

ewwwww

Not that I want to wait til the end of the game to win it, but how nice would it be to see

F-Rod blow a save against us?

I have a really bad headache

and this game is not helping.

There's always booze...

Nick - April 29, 2008 reply

I'm already there.

what are you drinking?

Full Sail IPA from Trader Joe's

im jealous.

I'm on Le Merle Belgian farmhouse-style saison

from North Coast Brewing Co.

Damn this stuff is good.

And I just put the homemade quiche in the oven.

There's always more...

Nick - April 29, 2008 reply

Wow he swung at that?

fugly

7th!!

New Thread Rally Elephant Mojo!!

shake that tush!

haha

trumpet time…

drink409 - April 29, 2008 reply

OK I'm here

time for the A’s to start playing.

sprtsnwyn - April 29, 2008 reply

come on rajai

Go Stomper

anyone here on the east coast?

Yep, in FL

I fell in love with the Space Coast last week but thought I totally blew the interview

Today I find out they are making concessions to accomodate me. Amazing.

concessions?

Dude. They’re giving you hot dogs, beer, and novelty foam fingers?

Yo.

Nick - April 29, 2008 reply

Lil 'ol me...

awesome...the a's are my reprieve from the braves...how I'd love to have beane in the front office in atlanta

Can I wish I was on the east coast? Would that count?

Did Geren not get the memo?

The A’s don’t “bunt”

Unless its swinging

and you’re Jack Cust

That was one hell of a swing by Zook

NICE!!!

ZUKES!!!

LS!!!

Make it happen!!!

We need to start working this pitcher and get him out

Good knock

How about extra bases?

Rally

fish sticks in full effect

Big Sween Dog!!

Grip it and Rip it!!

Sweeny is due a big knock!

That change outside

is killing us

Wow I hate the Angels

Oh come on.

Vlad can’t catch that!

He runs funny

OOO AWW AWW

I hate it when fair HRs turn into

foul balls that are caught. It’s like “YES! Dang…foul!...Oh crap.”

Yarth

That’ll be on SportsCenter.

vlad looks like death when he runs

I ripped on Vlad's defensive ability...

...and he makes that play. Grrr…

Soaker - April 29, 2008 reply

Well, he didn't make it look pretty.

Can we get a break please.

Syphon - April 29, 2008 reply

Saunders looks good

the guy can flat out deal.

IMPOSTER ANGELS FAN!

I hate the Angels as much as anyone

but calling a pitcher good is better then calling your hitters crappy.

I dont always drink beer, but when I do.......

I prefer Dos Equis!

Stay thirsty my friends!!

he's a lover not a fighter...but he's also a fighter so don't mess with him

yes I am!

look on the bright side everyone...zito is in the 'pen!

if they release him.....

Blly can get him on the cheap

I would actually

be in favor of that…

dunno why

He is an A through and through......

he will never be successful without CY and Oakland

because you hate the giants? abd brian sabean?

Thats it!

I'm glad im not the only who has thought of that

they aren’t releasing those hundreds of millions of dollars… if all else fails they can make him a pitching coach or a bullpen catcher or something.

nateinberkeley - April 29, 2008 reply

For Zito's sake,

they need to trade him to the Met’s for a bag of used balls…

you can always dream

I have to clean up before the cleaning ladies come tomorrow. Who wants to help?

Does not compute.

No can do -

I have to unclog the pipes before the plumbers come.

I like to come home to clean. Not clean clutter.

My mother does the EXACT same thing.

WHY?! That’s what she’s there for.

man this offense is killing me

i feel like most of the time i check on a game it’s zeroes across the board. rally time!

nateinberkeley - April 29, 2008 reply

wow CPK ads IN THE DUGOUT

lame

angels network is so annoying

big daddy vlad, shut up

Good news

If we can keep it at 2-0, we get to face K-Rod in the ninth!!!

?

hopefully Zukes

knows to run home when K-Rod drops the throwback

OMG!

“Got touched by big daddy”?

Tobias Funke is in the booth…

I love you

Is he wearing jean shorts?

Gerg is daeling now

Wow!

Smith is very impressive, my first time seeing him pitch

WOW what a pitch

Cmon Offense. Greg deserves a win tonight.

Walk, Wild Pitch

I don’t know

MobiusKlein - April 29, 2008 reply

OMG!!!

I am missing American IDOL!!! Sigh…..

Meh.

It sucked tonight.

Now is the time to start panicking

I would like some hits and runs please.

This game sucks every bit as much

as the Sunday game vs. Felix Hernandez in Seattle sucked.

Soaker - April 29, 2008 reply

but then they won.....

0akFoSho

has made an astute observation.

Soaker - April 29, 2008 reply

TRUE!!

MA in Obvious

MA?

A post baccalaureate degree.

Well there's a first time for everything!

Like Street actually not giving up a bomb!

still hate you.

Time for the offense to come alive!!

Coffee13eans - April 29, 2008 reply

We lost

(reverse jynx please)

talking about frank being scared of the ball or milking a ball

If Saunders' curveball was a baby

I’d kick it in the face

Nice cuts, Emil.

Jesus.

Rex "You too can look like Vlady!"

mute now for these stupid angels netwrok

sick of them sucking on vlads nuts

Worst. Visual. Ever.

Damn it

Crosby’s been stinging it today but no hits

WHAT?!

Bobby was an ANGELS FAN? Explains everything.

anyone have an idea of what inefficiency billy's finding in the market? are teams over paying for pitching?

Jeff Weaver has a job...

... so yes.

good point. I thought he mightve moved Haren because he knew teams would over pay for pitchers

With the kind of money even middle relievers are making on the open market...

... good, cheap pitching has definitely become a precious commodity. Beane struck at the perfect time (although it still hurt seeing Haren go), and he got quite the haul.

Isn't there a middle reliever

making $14.5 million this year?

iglew - April 29, 2008 reply

This is why I wanted to see more patients at the plate early

and not all the first pitch swings. You now have a pitcher that has only thrown 86 pitches and owns your ass.

yeah, more Angels HBP!

oh, maybe you meant, “patience”

I don't know

You see more patients, you have to deal with all of the insurance claims… Best just leave it alone

Hahahhaaha

good catch

Last night, as soon as I played

the song Touch my body, Daric hit that 3 run shot.

If we get enough people on here to play this song at the same time… The possibilities are endless.

yeah and pass the rally fishsticks too

Rajai = Speed

High socks make you run faster.

Police make you run faster!

5 0 Got to Go!

Is this that Hippity-Hop I've been hearing so much about?

A Hip .... A Hip .... A Hiba to the Hip Hip Hop and ya don;t stop!!

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ahahaah

That was funny, grabbed the wrong url. Meant to grab this one
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Wow he's fast.

If only he could hit.

????????

He has hit just fine on this team

275 with Gs last season

yes

Lackey is the ugliest Angel of all time

But he has

a pretty mean headlock

Reckon you make me some biscuits.

that was a different move

not the slide step

is it possible for a batter to miss a pitch by more than what GA just did?

Anyone feel

a breeze in here?

Wasn't me.

Who smelt it, delt it

yes....watch jeff francoeur and matt diaz

or crosby

or GA for the last 5 years

Did anyone hear Moron Hudler mention we will be facing a rookie

on Thursday?

I didn’t catch the name he said as my room mate was yelling something out at the same time

He guess Nick Green was getting called up...

... but Scioshchqwa was keeping mum on the issue.

"Guessed" that is...

Talking like The Crucible up in this bitch…

What did he/she/it say?

I don't recall who he mentioned

but it was only a guess. Probably someone pesky

Ok how about some runs

I'VE NEVER AGREED WITH SOMEONE MORE

I ranked you ahead of Cust in leftfielding ability, btw

Let's go Little Hurt!

why not ph for murphy

...

He's our leading HR hitter?

Other than the great Emil Brown of course

cause he hits knocks!!!

:-)

There We GO!!!

nice

I guess that is why

the approach has gone to s*** tonight

that was odd

Huh...

Well…

...Alright

$#)(&$%&(#@%$&($#&(%$#&(%&($#%&($##$$#)&(

.360 OBP AND YOU SAC BUNT DOWN 2

$x%x#W@&x%x($#x%x($#(&(x%xx%x(&^(&*

not a sac bunt

i still dont like it by denorfia.

by davis its ok.

and i think it was a delayed sac…intent to sac but wait to show it to at least have a chance at a hit

I think he was trying for a hit

Bad execution.

sometimes when you are down two

and you hit the ball really really hard instead of bunting it, you tie it!

I ain't sayin' it was a good idea

But, FWIW, Denorfia ain’t much of a HR threat.

I WILL TAKE OUT ALL MY ANGER FROM RESULTS ON MONKEYBALL

why not ph for deno

Well, let's just ph for everyone!

I was hoping the same aproach would work, but I think it would make sense. Try and tie it up with Cust. He wont ph for anyone in the 9th.

b/c he's got a .360 OBP, and he's got the platoon adv vs Saunders

Stupid time to Sac Bunt down by two

Should have tried to get on and thenRajai could heve Sacraficed

Welcome to Bunt-Town

Population: A’s

no no BAD rajai

3-1!!!

Get the speed on the bases!!

Seeing Joe Saunders out there is wearing thin. Think the batters would feel that way, too

and do something about it, damn it!

97 pitches for Saunders

hope he does his king felix impersonation

Raj has wings

one flap short of safe

LOL Davis almost beat that

Raj need to hit it softer.

Now Cust is a non factor in this game.

"now"?????

He should have been at the dish instead of Davis with a chance to tie it.

"chance" sure...

but not probable.

I guess there's always a chance

Isn's Saunders a lefty? I wouldn't like Jack's chances

theblackpearl - April 29, 2008 reply

I would take Custs “chance” of drawing a walk or hitting it out over fucking Rajai Davis chance.

that's a change?

ZUKES!!!

Mr. Clutch!!

LOL angels announcers thinking like me

makes me think of Scoot

!@#$!^#$%#@$!@#$

Raj should be the one to do the sac bunt

He’d probably reach first safe.

Coffee13eans - April 29, 2008 reply

MLB TV

Finally broke down and got the monthly subscription….in time to see some pickoffs…

and to see Saunders BREAKDOWN….(Please?)

C’mon Kurt!

right there with you

Beans...

not a strike

Dammmmmmnit

Saunders 102 pitches. Frankie in the 9th no doubt.

Good. Kill 'im.

I can only hope. God, what if they let Saunders pitch a complete game and we don't get to try

and win off F-Rod???

Ellis, Barton, Thomas, Emil

Im glad they dont have there 2 best

pitchers from last year. He is there 3rd best pitcher

Weaver? Santana?

So far this year

Saunders has been better.

Lackey? Weaver? Santana? Where ever you put Saunders, that is a nasty 4-some.....

Last year

Escobar and Lacky are better then Saunders

A's seem to struggle when they go up against guys who pitch to contact

I agree man

To beat the A’s. Dont walk anyone and you have a great chance

opposing pitchers just have to do exactly what a's pitchers do

Well Greg deserves a tip of the cap for tonights effort.....

if your team doesn;t score, its pretty hard to win

Suzuki would have had a hit

If he were just a wee bit more pesky

So....

what’s the score?

The same as it was when you fell asleep.

Last night

HEY!

I’m WORKING over here!

Right or wrong?

Ellis should be lifted for Barton PH

I know we need him for defense but we need to score. He is only hitting .182 off Frankie and Frankie has trouble with LHB

No. Sweeney.

Cust for Ellis, Barton for Murphy

There is zero chance of Ellis being pinch hit for.

And I like it that way.

You're no fun.

OK Barton for Crosby for amusement's sake

man he pitched a gem

Let's not give Smith his first CG

Hit the frackin ball, boys!

Good Idea

Time for 3 hits 2 walks 2 HBP and 2 errors

Major credit to Greg Smith.

Nice outing. Sorry about the ‘O.’

they owe him an apology

Might as well get him used to it while he's young

This kid is, like, pretty good.

ERA = 2.76

Batting order next inning......

Barton, Hurt, Cust or R Sweeney!

Yomigaeru Bats!

Englishmajor - April 29, 2008 reply

are Crosby's ears sticking out more this year?

I don't know, but I never liked the shaved head

Rally Pumpernickel!

iglew - April 29, 2008 reply

whats in pumpernickel

tastiness

and rally

lets grill some patties, onion, and swiss on those

zzz

whoops

LS get on base however you can

dropped third strike?

Bring in Bobby Kielty

"the redheaded" bobby kielty

Bring in his little brother...

Braden’s a lefty, right?

pinch-run Kendall!

JUST FOUL!!

Damn... so close to a double

Dang.

good eye

Ellis walks!!!!

GOOD EYE!!!!

Nice eye LS

Even the Rangers could get a hit off F-Rod. Let's Go Oak-land!!!!

WALKS!!!!

NEED A BOMB!!!

#2 for DB

F-Raud kinda looks like he's gained some weight.

Or is it just me?

Have you gained weight?

Har. Har.

Yes. Smart guy.

everyone looks bigger in white

I think you're right

He’s also wearing his uni a lot baggier

OKOK Barton in...

Ball!

"Didn't miss by much"

Whatever Physioc.

2-0!!!

Wrong part of the field

Damn. That sounded nice.

Hunter makes the catch.

learning to hate Hunter

Dammit.

Hit it to the big part of the park.

DAMN!!!

Hot um where they aint dammit!!

Was that almost gone?

not really but it looked good off the bat

No, but he scorched it.

No

short of the track but well hit

nah

Nice drive, but off the end of the bat. One step onto the warning track.

Good AB....

I love how that freak

points up to the sky like it’s a lazy infield fly.

and FALLS OVER on his follow-through

Who's "knees" are those?

whose

ergh…. tired. need runs.

Strike at the ankles.

Come on Frank, we need it

WTF!!!

gosh barton killed that

weird strike zone

i guess it should be 2.5 and .5 instead of 2-1

WTF

NOT A STRIKE!!!!!

God damn. Another almost double.

Man, that may have been the pitch.

What the shit was that?

Really, ump? Really?

good fight off

He's sooooo far off the plate

i noticed that too

They showed that twice

and both times it looked fair to me.

they havent shown me a replay but it looked fair the first time

if it was even close, geren needed to get ejected

i agree

Me too but I see the world through green and gold colored glasses

+1

It might have been the camera angle

But damn that looked clearly fair.

That looked fair from the camera angle...

yeah, that was fair

screw this

Ouch

This strike zone has been nuts.

Last night's was crazier

looked fair to me two

ak_A - April 29, 2008 reply

Way to work that one.

They NEED to pinch hit for Crosby if he comes up

Yes, Cust

Man, I hate Frankie so much.

NO DP NO DP NO DP

2 on, 1 out

RBI Machine up!

MiniSweeney in to run for Frank.

YES

YES

Be clutch, Emil

Way to go THOMAS

Hits a double and draws a walk in one PA

now THATS talent

TheGreenGoldCrush - April 29, 2008 reply

OK, Emil, be patient...get your pitch...

oblique - April 29, 2008 reply

yeah put the pressure on him. make him pitch a ton.

dorK's mechanics are all effed up

Emil = Second most RBI in AL....standard BB pickup

good battle from Good Frankie against bad Frankie

The A's must be stealing signs badly this year lol

Wild pitch would be lovely

that would make up for the foul call

Brown gonna

launch one up K-Rods uterus

AthleticsReign - April 29, 2008 reply

i think technically that would be an out

put two runners could tag up

TheGreenGoldCrush - April 29, 2008 reply

dare to dream arnold....dare to dream

ugh that pitch was filthy

that ol james brown song, Please! comes to mind.

ak_A - April 29, 2008 reply

Damnit. That was a good pitch.

that one wasnt as dirty tho grrr

this should be a Cust PH

Yeah, at least no threat of a DP

yup

PH for Brown or for Crosby?

I think its more important to get Crosby these tough ABs, fwiw

oh DP threat mentioned, obv brown, with whichi agree

no, Crosby

Brown is much better than Crosby and I don’t care at all about him getting tough at bats.

Damnit. That one too. Lay off the slider!

Brown looking very bad.

Someone do a prayer to Jobu

oblique - April 29, 2008 reply

Joba?

I’m so sick of hearing about him.

ugh

just dont swing on 1-0 count to K-Rod guys!

at least strike out....no GB

augh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

where exactly are "the knees" anyway?

Bobby: 1 for 8, 4 K's against K-Rod

Would've been nice to pinch hit Kielty right here

Klown Power!

BoCro

heard you.

They shouldn't swing at his slider at all

He rarely ever throws it for a strike.

If they knew it was coming Im sure they wouldnt

UMP GIVIN K ROD EVERYTHING!!!!

Time to be the Hero Bo Cro

Could Crosby stand any farther away from the plate?

k rod is a freak surprised he hasn't gotten hurt more often

Bobby, I swear...

Seems like Crosby is back off the plate again!

Bobby definitely off the plate again

he wasnt even close there

LUCK!!

Very nice pitched game by Saunders

Got to tip the cap on that one. Feel bad for Greg Smith. He had Joe Blanton against the Angels disease tonight.

shrug

see you tomorrow. Nice work Smove.

Oh that little biatch.

Nice catch. We lose.

sitting on the slider are we bocro?

DUMB LUCK!!

FUCK this game really pissed me off

frustrating

but we’ve gotta lose some. better to occasionally lose 2-0 games and win tons of blowouts.

Oh well. Win while I'm there tomorrow.

Piss some red shirts off for us!

...or get drunk & piss on some red shirts for me

drink409 - April 29, 2008 reply

click

ak_A - April 29, 2008 reply

I hate this team. ok, tomorrow we win

:(

Every break goes to the Halos..

what ya gonna do?

Syphon - April 29, 2008 reply

solid game

I’d rather lose and have Greg Smith continue to be awesome then the other way around

+1

iglew - April 29, 2008 reply

This game was Panther

Pink Panther

Hit4TheCycle - April 29, 2008 reply

Bad luck this game

Aww..

Croz was a groundout shy of the cycle.

oblique - April 29, 2008 reply

tonight our hitters regressed to their means

For reals, though. Bobby's way way off the plate again. wtf?

Looking to pull one, no doubt.

Hence the 5 sliders away he saw.

He can reach the outer part

I thought he looked good today, hit some balls well but right at people.

Yup, he did hit some liners.

And I didn’t notice where he was standing until the last AB.

His left foot is nearly out of the box.

was he HBP recently?

phastphill - April 29, 2008 reply

Crikey!

At least they got some on board, totally winnable game up against a nasty starter.

Smith matched him except for a those walks …..

That Suzuki passed ball was the game

Can’t make mistakes like that with a hot pitcher on the other side.

Well, whaddya gonna do?

What a lame loss. Oh well, see ya tomorrow night.

kid for angels pitched a good game to, just got to give them credit and win tomorrow

Thanks, Geren

For ruining my night once again.

No reason why Cust doesn’t pinch hit for Brown. Anybody who didn’t see Brown swinging at sliders nowhere near the strike zone is an idiot. K-Rod CANT THROW BREAKING BALLS FOR STRIKES!

Ugh. It makes me sick to see Geren in an A’s uniform sometimes.

And no, this isn’t second guessing. This thread just took forever to load.

thejd44 - April 29, 2008 reply

Brown is a way better bet there than Crosby or Murphy

I think the sac bunt was poor managing and not letting Cust hit for Davis in the 8th.

wasn't a sac bunt

I don’t have the game televised her in Sacrmento. Can you explain what it was? Man on first no out. Was third base really deep? What the fuck was it?

Man on first, no out

He was bunting for a hit up the first base line. He hit it too hard and popped it up a bit. Scorer gave him a sac bunt for it.

First baseman has to hold the runner,

he tried to bunt for a hit down the 1B line.

I wasn’t sure if he showed bunt early or what happened. Thanks for clarification.

Pinch hit the .170 hitter for the guy who's been the hot hand driving in all the runs?

Now that would be stupid.

I hope Rajai isn’t the hot hand you are refering to.

No, Email

why do i get a sick feeling when bocro is at the plate?

Crosby looks like the Crosby of old

Stands 8 miles off the plate and flails

he refuses to buy into beane's approach

OH NO THEY ARE NOT PLAYING...

...CELEBRATE IN ANAHEIM!!

Flashfire - April 29, 2008 reply

We got the breaks last night, they got 'em tonight

2 more to go.

Dude.

I don’t call umpteen hits ‘getting breaks’ last night. Ya’ know? But yeah, whatever. We’ll get them tomorrow.

Smith

8 innings 103 pitches. 3 hits.

I’d say hes an upgrade over the 126 million dollar LOOGY in SF

Zito got an out?

+1000

+1

I was just looking at Billy Koch’s career record this afternoon…
Beane knows when…and when!

One won lost won - April 29, 2008 reply

Beane seems to know when to let players go...mulder...zito...huddy has only had one good season really since leaving oakland

We have to get to Santana tomorrow night

Hopefully Eveland pitches as well as Smith did and we some forking runs.

The thing about tonight......

In the 8th and 9th, there were so many quality at bats, guys getting on, putting them in a position to win. Just great to watch.

in the 8th yes...saunders was getting tired....and in the 9th things were going well for a minute