Huston Street, meet Jonathan Papelbon.
Well, it didn't go the distance, but it was a thriller nonetheless. And the Phillies' hopes to become the first NL team to repeat since the 1975-76 Reds live on.
So no baseball until Thursday, but here are your next series matchups: Yankees and Angels in the AL; Phillies and Dodgers in the NL.
Until then, here is a League Championship Series you can read about.
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guess I can't use the games as an excuse for not working
not until Thursday, anyway
OaklandSi - October 12, 2009
shameless self promotion :-)
Go Phillies!
micdog2001 - October 12, 2009
I'm so glad the Phillies won!
With the other series won by teams I hate, they were my last hope not to spend the next several weeks rooting for extremely relative Schadenfreude. I mean, I hope the slegnA beat the Yankees, but it really isn’t going to be very satisfying when they do!
GreenNGoldSooner - October 12, 2009
That should read "IF they do...."
….since I’m pretty sure they ain’t beating the Skanks.
GreenNGoldSooner - October 12, 2009
Well I don't mind skanks
but I am rooting for the Yankees to lose.
sirbed - October 12, 2009
...
I just want some skank
doctorK - October 12, 2009
I cannot believe those guys are still playing together.
I saw them in ‘85 and felt they’d maybe hung on a little long.
Leopold Bloom - October 13, 2009
I agree
micdog2001 - October 12, 2009
Tracy very deferential in the press conf
cuppingmaster - October 12, 2009
I've mostly been listening to this series on the radio
so I didn’t realize until the 9th that Tulowitski is just using Don Baylor’s batting stance (with his hands held a little higher).
Nick - October 12, 2009
Hey NIck......
no more BB in the Metrodome!!
BERRYJO - October 12, 2009
Hey BERRY JO......
no more BB in the Metrodome!!
Nico - October 12, 2009
ECHO ECho echo
BERRYJO - October 12, 2009
Did you know that a duck's quack doesn't echo?
This random fact brought to you by boredom.
Nico - October 12, 2009
No - No I didn't
thanks for elucidating that little fact to me and adding to the meaningless and trivial knowledge that swirls about in my head…..
BERRYJO - October 12, 2009
Now pinch hitting for Pedro Bourbon
Manny Mota, Mota, Mota…
BleedGreen - October 12, 2009
Hah!
I thought I was the only one who remembered that quote. One of my favorites.
danmerqury - October 12, 2009
I know!!!
No more inside-the-park 2- hoppers to 2nd. No more pop-ups that turn into doubles when they go through the roof!
I wasn’t online, but I did a little dance.
Nick - October 12, 2009
Re the first example: Eew.
Nico - October 12, 2009
I'm pretty sure
that this is the game in which Kingman hit his “double”. I checked all the A’s games with Kingman in MN, and I think this is the only one in which he hit a double.
Do you rememer who hit the HR?
Nick - October 12, 2009
I thought Kingman's double was in the Kingdome
Or was that only the HR ball that hit a wire and was caught?
Nico - October 12, 2009
I thought it was the Kingdome as well
67MARQUEZ - October 12, 2009
Yeah, that was a booming HR that hit a wire in deep LF
I think that was early in 1984 — Kingman hadn’t hit a HR, then hit his first 3 of the season in one game. I think the wire-ball was in that series. Didn’t the LF catch that one?
I could be wrong about that time-line, but that’s how I remember it.
Kingman’s Metrodome double literally went through the roof. The Kingdome’s dome was solid (concrete, I think) — I don’t think even Kong could hit a popup through that.
Also, since we’re on the topic of the Kingdome:
Maury Wills.
Nick - October 12, 2009
Now I'm really moved
{I’m a batter’s box}.
Nico - October 12, 2009
Isn't the Kingdome also where Honeycutt (or was it Caderet) had 3 balks in one game?
Nick - October 12, 2009
Stop inaggerating.
It was four balks for Honeycutt.
{I figure “exhale is to inhale as exaggerating is to _”}
Nico - October 12, 2009
Eww.
Nick - October 12, 2009
May 4, 1984, Metrodome, confirmed
here.
Can’t answer your other question.
el campysino - October 12, 2009
I bow to your searchy abilities
Nick - October 12, 2009
seconded
67MARQUEZ - October 12, 2009
btw, Nick
that twitching thing that Jose used to do. I adopted it back then to try to look cool or something. Trouble is, I still do it.
67MARQUEZ - October 12, 2009
I was thinking about you.....
BERRYJO - October 12, 2009
You'll enjoy this, Nick
Video of Twins fans getting whooshed out of the Metrodome airlock for the last time (language advisory)
Englishmajor - October 12, 2009
watched it twice -- where was the strong language?
OaklandSi - October 12, 2009
A**hole - right at the beginning....
BERRYJO - October 12, 2009
ok, now I heard it -- cute!
OaklandSi - October 12, 2009
not to mention the F-Bomb
right around the middle of the clip
BleedGreen - October 12, 2009
does that still count as strong language?
67MARQUEZ - October 12, 2009
Yabetcherass
BleedGreen - October 12, 2009
Please! Stop with the "Yabetcherass"!
There may be children reading AN!
Nico - October 12, 2009
ARSE
is that better muthaf*&$@^%a???
BleedGreen - October 12, 2009
I was mortified!
ak_A - October 13, 2009
Oh - I missed that one!
BERRYJO - October 12, 2009
Missed that one
OaklandSi - October 12, 2009 via mobile
Ahh, baseball...
The sound of a line drive finding a glove…the smell of popcorn and hotdogs…the seventh inning stretch…
…and the tradition of getting sucked out of the stadium doors after the game because of the air pressure from the teflon dome over the field.
Nick - October 12, 2009
The aroma of Chuck Merriwether blowing another call....
Nico - October 12, 2009
Does that smell anything like Cuzzi?
BTW, the 1B ump in tonight’s game was Angel Hernandez — to channel Ray Fosse, for a second, how much fun would it have been to watch a deciding-5th game with Hernandez umping home plate?
Nick - October 12, 2009
Exactly a bunch.
Nico - October 12, 2009
Imagine how good Tulo would look in an A's uni
baseballnut020 - October 12, 2009
sigh
OaklandSi - October 12, 2009
MLB Network's postgame
Mitch Williams says that “Huston Street isn’t a strikeout-type pitcher — he’s a pitch-to-contact pitcher.”
Street in 2009: 61.2 IP, 70 Ks.
Street’s career: 330.2 IP, 341 Ks.
Plz try harder next time, Mitch.
Also, Carlos Pena is an in-studio commentator. Can’t I watch anything this postseason without seeing an ex-A?
Nick - October 12, 2009
The TV announcers also kept repeating that Street's best pitch is his changeup
Nico - October 12, 2009
He's was there with Eck too right??
BERRYJO - October 12, 2009
"Eck too, Brute?"
{hangs a backdoor slider}
Nico - October 12, 2009
Traumatic memory trigger
OaklandSi - October 12, 2009 via mobile
Eck? No, I didn't see him
Peña, Mitch Williams, Barry Larkin, and whichever non-player dude they have there (maybe Vasgersian?)
Nick - October 12, 2009
OH - my bad - I think I was thinking of the post game show.
BERRYJO - October 12, 2009
Black Taco?
GreenNGoldSooner - October 12, 2009
black dog
cuppingmaster - October 12, 2009
GreenNGoldSooner - October 12, 2009
Let's see....
“Way out West…”
Nico - October 12, 2009
I'l stab you.
mikev - October 12, 2009
Ah, the oddness of drum parts.
They always look bizarre compared to sheets with actual, you know, notes.
danmerqury - October 12, 2009
It was the only music I could find....
….for “Black Dog” online that didn’t say “Black Dog” on top, thus spoiling (the admittedly limited) humor of posting it.
GreenNGoldSooner - October 12, 2009
it was tasty
pepperjack sauce, yummy!
micdog2001 - October 12, 2009
The LDS: 4 series, 13 games
Nico - October 12, 2009
one over the minimum
here’s hoping an LCS goes more than 5
cuppingmaster - October 12, 2009
can you say suck
the playoffs haven’t been great so far. Hopefully they’ll get better.
sirbed - October 12, 2009
no more of that monl
ak_A - October 12, 2009
article barf
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-angels-10-reasons13-2009oct13,0,3313647.story
cuppingmaster - October 12, 2009
Not that i agree with the premise.....but some of the points are pretty good
Emphasis added by me.
BERRYJO - October 12, 2009
but but
slegnA. win.
(shudder)
cuppingmaster - October 12, 2009
I know.....
BERRYJO - October 12, 2009
We could have them knock them both out and lose the WS...
Leopold Bloom - October 13, 2009
Carlos Gonzalez is going to be a star
That makes me sad
streetisclosedin08 - October 12, 2009
It hurts me in my souly place.
Nico - October 12, 2009
See I'm lucky I have no soul
I’m a honkey
sirbed - October 12, 2009
QOTM
and me too!
Gaijin_Suketto - October 13, 2009
And Andre Ethier is already a star
That kind of hurts too
streetisclosedin08 - October 12, 2009
Sure, but what a Holliday we had!
GreenNGoldSooner - October 12, 2009
Speaking of holidays,
if Columbus had a better sense of direction I might have had to work today!
Nico - October 12, 2009
I think he directed the first couple of home alone movies just fine
sirbed - October 12, 2009
Well he had such a fine actor to work with
Nice family, the Culkins.
Nico - October 12, 2009
MaCaulay Culkin actually had a terrific career
Then he turned 12.
Nico - October 12, 2009
sigh
67MARQUEZ - October 12, 2009
A friend of mine from LA who's a writer
was the lead writer on MaCaulay Culkin, the E True Hollywood Story. He defended it as well written. While that’s kind of funny, but if you knew Chris, it would be about 100% funnier.
Leopold Bloom - October 13, 2009
Personally, I prefer Hollidays that don't involve a lot of effort!
;-)
GreenNGoldSooner - October 12, 2009
Yay for the West Indies!
mikev - October 12, 2009
Woo hoo, Windies!!
Nick - October 13, 2009
Chris Columbus ripped off my main man
Amerigo Vespucci.
…..Somehow an account of a 1497 voyage was published, and Wardseemüller came to believe that Vespucci had commanded the expedition and had reached the New World before Christopher Columbus, who found the mainland in 1498. Wardseemüller named the continent America and the label stuck.
Vespucci is said to have made a guess at the world’s circumference that was accurate within 50 miles. His real achievement seems to be that he concluded America had to be a new continent and not the eastern part of Asia, as Columbus believed. An honored citizen in Spain, Vespucci spent the years after his voyages as a maritime official for King Ferdinand.
Imaseasonticketholder - October 12, 2009
Columbus thought America was pear shaped
and that he had found Asia. How do I get a holiday named after me?
Nico - October 13, 2009
good news for Beane
He must be getting tired of seeing Cargon and Street in the playoffs. Street choke ends the Holliday trade talk for a while.
Arcman - October 12, 2009
If Billy couldn't take watching former players in the playoffs,
he’d be in big trouble.
Nico - October 12, 2009
LOL Huston
pam5981 - October 12, 2009
you weren't here during the game thread
but you jinxed it again! j/k
cuppingmaster - October 12, 2009
Did NOT!
I was listening in my car before my softball game and just KNEW he was gonna give it up.
pam5981 - October 12, 2009
lol yeah it was a foregone conclusion when he was 1-0 on Utley
He was doing the Huston nibble and was forced to walk him, setting up more nibbling, a bad count, and a meatball to Howard.
cuppingmaster - October 12, 2009
Though it would be kind of fun to have a freeway series, I am hoping it ends up being Yankees/Dodgers in the WS. That way I can root for the Dodgers without the added fear of the Angels having a chance at winning (and my entire family rubbing it in my face all off season). Plus the Yankees making it to the WS would not make Red Sox fans happy and I enjoy their misery.
drmmerchk - October 12, 2009
Yeah, LA/NY would just be rife with drama. MLB would die of happiness.
Imagine the photo montages!
pam5981 - October 12, 2009
laughed at Paplebon, cried for Street
year of the closer meltdowns! glad none are mine. oh wait…
my_cat_max - October 12, 2009
yeah o_O
Byung Hyun Kim is not alone…
fruitattack - October 12, 2009
Great
Now I have no baseball to watch on my days off.
day-to-day - October 12, 2009
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