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Open Thread III: Game 160 - A's vs. Chula Vista Cherubim of Cucamonga

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Hey, wait, this is like, 35% baseball at most.

It's 5-0 Angels as we start the 9th, and the stills from the game indicate just how intense the A's offensive attack has been tonight.

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9th inning thread to roam in

I've been needing more A's pics
roamy?
and Michelle?
Post-it-notes
He broke up with me

on a Post It!

they're filming the 2nd movie now
Ima watch it!

I go to sleep to the first one.

i like dthe first one
Its why I put it on to go to sleep.

Happy ending.

So no going to sleep to Seven eh?
Um...no.

Nightmares for that one!

LOL

I find it amusing. The only thing that has ever truly freaked me out was “Lopan” from Big Trouble in Little China (love that movie).

Awesome movie
Yeah it is

You don’t see movies like that one anymore.

a very temporary relationship
Cairo
what is a city in Egypt?
That particular one is noisy and filled with drab buildings....but the pyramids - now they are amazing
Or a city in Georgia....
Or a city in Looziana apparently
Or Illinois...

Though there it’s pronounced “Kay-ro”

Good call

I forgot there was a Cairo Illinois. (Somehow I seem to remember knowing that though.)

According to mapquest

it’s almost in Kentucky and Missouri. It’s amazing that Cairo isn’t being fought over by 3 states. LOL

It's pronounced 'care-oh' or maybe 'kay-roh'
Kay Roh would be my guess

But living in Southern Illinois is not something I aspire to currently.

another embarrassment defensively
we've had too many of those lately
one more nostalgic pic

Yes?
getty images is being stupid, I think.

just a sec.

Is this the post-game thread too? LOL
this is the pre-post-game, pre-recap post-game pre-nuptial thread ;)
This A's team down the stretch has been maybe 60% Baseball

40% Frustration

Which is a big improvement....

…over the A’s in April and May!

when it was 20/80?
I think everyone left

if I drove them away I’m sorry

so that's Ted Lilly sitting on the bench, right?

and the picture file is “chavezsleeping” so I guess that’s Chavy. Dude, no wonder your back is messed up — can’t go to sleep on a bench like that!

100% A's, right now!
Can we muster a Let's Go OAKLAND!!!!!
Let's go Oa......sorry I ran out of steam
and there goes my gameday audio

how will I live not knowing if the A’s won?

Stick around...if you can read - you'll know!
mee reeed rill pritty
My video crapped out.

So I reloaded….and I’m now seeing ads.

You're getting blacked out
OH is he drinker? Cuz that's not good.....
bring in buck so i can see him in the black uni
man slegnA fans are weird looking
Those fans are invisible

Kind of like Chargers fans.

how can tomorrow's game not be televised

nevermind…i don’t need to watch eveland pitch

Fox blackout

Thank you, Fox

that means buck will play
of course he will. and he'll probably rip the seat of his pants too.
holy hotness

i can’t believe it’s not on tv

outside of House

I never thank FOX

What about the Simpsons?
not in the last 10 years
Beverly Hills 90210!
Tiffani Amber-Thiessen!
that I support O2B
you might be the only person who likes Harding and 90210 iglew
Is it a day game? FOX TV football rights or some such crap
Eveland's pitching tomorrow? That's kind of sad.

Who’s starting on Sunday?

E Gone
Way to finish out the season

Those two stiffs

I am sure they will not be on the roster next year.

pretty sad. eveland and e-gon back to back.
When you have those two on the 40 man roster

you know the team has serious problems

LOL

Next year will be much better.

as long as neither of those guys pitch
And if it isn't....we're hunting you down!!
I hope you are right
e-gon

what a way to end the season

I was thinking it was gonna be Cahill - who I saw almost EVERY game I went to!
eeesh, no kidding.

Geren must hate the fans. He coulda switched up the rotation a bit so that Anderson would start the last game, but nooo, it’s E-Gon…

That would have been nice....last game and all
Can we please get at least one run?
Eveland vs. Kazmir?

That sounds pretty brutal.

Then again, Eveland vs. a pitching machine might favor the team throwing the pitching machine.

of all the guys who shouldn't end up on the team next year

i’m hoping for eveland to really be gone

the hipster with glasses?
if he's left handed and can't pitch worth a shit

then that’s him

Dodgers limping to the Finish Line

I’d laugh if Colorado gets to be crowned division champs.

No shutout, at least
Thanks for the prophecy
Went to shower. Have I missed anything interesting
A Casilla sighting

So interesting.

Just think

I the A’s were to (somehow) win this in the 9th, Casilla would get the win.

THAT'S sad
Wins for the A's are never sad.
I know.....I just can;t stand Casilla
depends, was someone with you in the shower?

go wash something else! it worked.

I'm almost certain I washed everything.
something else has to come off
We will only win if you are being totally serious

We need this.

i am

i take the tease rally very serious

Surely you can't be serious
yes and i'm on a leather couch so it's a little sticky
I'm going to take a cold shower now
I take nudity very seriously
you'd better have stripped off too
Big time tease!
Ok....here we go......let;s keep this goin'
Woohoooo the A's scored!
alright, Dale. Let's do this.
Is Dale Daric Barton?
homerface
Por Que?
Some announcer called him Dale
Oh okay LOL

Thanks.

yup AKA staplehead
Yeah

Came from last year’s opener in Japan, when the dumbass ESPN announcer called him ‘Dale’ Barton, and also referred to Jack Hanrahan.

Still wasn't as bad as the All-Star Game.

“Justin Duck-shur”.

that was awful.

Poor Duke.

Everyone misprounounces my last name except my family

I don’t bother correcting anyone.

Yeah, but when you're Joe Buck

And you’re announcing, of all things, the All Star Game…

I'm not saying professional announcers shouldn't get it right

I’m just saying I’ve given up on people getting my last name correct.

Isn't it...

..duke-shearer? (Or something like that.)

Duke-sure.
Oh that makes it quite simple actually

Thanks.

But I always prefer

Duke-surer-er-er-er-er

It used to be so if you put

“Duchscher” into babel fish set for German to English, it would come out “Duchscherer”. And then if you put in “Duchscherer” it would come out “Duchschererer”. And then if you put in “Duchschererer” it would come out “Duchscherererer”.

Unfortunately, they fixed that. :-(

Save Situation

Make them earn it.

they do things the old fashioned way

they earrrrrn it

Just a note, because I hate the whole

“defensive indifference” thing (first of all, I think a SB should be awarded, but whatever). If Kennedy is at 1B, Rajai’s ball is a DP. Instead…one more baserunner…? And Fuentes had to come in regardless.

Just a note, I hate spiders
Any chance that we can ruin the playoffs for them by making them overuse the bullpen??
I have game thread indifference.

Whatever.

Oh wow...why did I even bother checking the score?

Not the greatest offensive night, it looks like.

because you chemical physicists like the punishment
Evidently.

I’m a Raiders fan too. My life story is all coming together…

a chemical physicist Raiders fan

but you’re in a motorcycle gang on the side right?

Oh, of course.

Obviously.

ya we have to keep the stereotype going
I also spend my summers teaching AP Calculus to a group of underachieving hispanic high schoolers from a bad neighborhood.
Good for you!!
Yes, I'm Edward James Olmos, why do you ask?
Summer is a pretty short time span for AP Calc?!
ya I'm a teacher and I don't have any tats

or felony convictions so I really need to do more to be a true Raider fan

Give yourself some time

You too can become a convict if you put your mind to it!

I can do it!
The thing I enjoy most about that movie is that the story the way it's presented didn't actually happen

But, movie magic is awesome.

But I think there was a teacher who worked with kids who didn;t expect to go to college

and got them to believe they could

that's called working in a public school
In East LA no less
Not all.....
Yeah not everybody can teach Public School in Thousand Oaks though
ya no shit
I feel sorry for anybody who works in Sac City Unified

or Oakland’s school district, or parts of LA school district. But, at the same time, it’s not like teacher’s dont get paid.

But salaries in inner cities are ususally inferior. Inner city school kids get shortchanged in many ways
The world sucks

I’m not a fan of public school period. I think kids get short changed in many ways. But, that’s me. (I’m not a fan of elementary, junior high and high school.)

Pay for inner cities should be more, not less.

Public school does not exist to serve the kids; public school exists to serve the public. And the public derives more benefit from educating inner-city kids than from educating suburban kids.

Not everybody can TEACH!!
His story of making a profound impact

It’s the story in the movie and the way it unfolded that wasn’t true. He can teach; I know I took one of his classes in HS.

any movie that is "based on a true story" is going to be full of it

because it has to be entertaining and do it in 2 hours.

The tying run is on deck! Let's do this thing!
Holy crap!

The tease to end all teases!

wooooooo!
i am hooked by the teAse
naked works, everyone start to strip
way too fat to do that

Sorry.

Also it's too cold up here LOL
It is indeed cold.

But I’ll strip anyway.

woohoo
Apparently it doesn't work when I do it.

I’m putting my pants back on now.

Right the F ON!!!
In Play, Run(s)

5-2. Tying run coming to the plate.

wooooohooooooooooooooooo
in play run(s) -- love you Dale!
yay Staplehead
Unicorn time
please, not nomar on deck
I fear the unicorn.

His appearance does not provide confidence.

Nomar?? Really?
Let him go out with a BANG!#%
is he going to blow out a hammy?
And not a whimper.
If only......just not too confident he can get it done

But Imma fan….so go nomar

Travis Buck is unavailable due to "Gerenage".
wait I'm missing Reverse Ramon's last at bat maybe for the A's

damn MLB.com

hey guys, remember me?

Go A’s!

Unicorn magic now!
Unicorn FAIL
Well, duh.

At least it wasn’t a double fail.

Apparently

Unicorns aren’t REAL

okay Nomar, try to make this AB last longer than 1 pitch please
Yay, called strike!
Nomah does not inspire confidence in me
nice 40 MPH bat speed
Down to our last strick.
Teased

Goodnight

That sucked!!
Well so much for that

You don't have to go home....

….but you can’t stay here!

I used to hear that a lot
Closing time!

Open all the doors and let you out into the world.

that's funny
Despair.......

visit THIS website

Heh.

That pessimism mug is pretty good.

I love going over there when I need a good laugh. And I can't look at one of those posters seriously anymore.

This is a good one in a different way…

Damnit!

Good tease tho.

They are good at that!
can i put my clothes back on?
Depends if you are feeling playful
Take Pictures

Take pictures, send them and then you may dress.

oh rated-r i'm going to miss you
Likewise

It has been fun.

I'll miss you both.

For different reasons entirely, though.

Yes.

Good effort, kid. We’ll get ’em tomorrow.

this interested me more than it should have.
We could talk, we could "BART",

as opposed to sitting in traffic.

stupid tease.

I hope the 2010 A’s don’t tease us like this. It’s so… draining. The 2010 A’s will just dominate all the time, so they won’t need to teAse.

Teases

They’ll tease a loss, but always win.

Does that work for you?

I would prefer just getting rid of the teases altogether.

We don’t need another heart-attack closer (I’m looking at you, Billy Koch).

oh, do tel…

Ugh. Fuentes with the save.

God, I hate Scioscia. So, so much.

My last game thread of the season

I’ll be too busy tomorrow, plus no TV, and Sunday I’ll be at the game. Thanks for a fun season,everybody.

see ya later, doc
See you at the game!!
Ditto.

I’ll be at the game tomorrow, with my baseball buddies.
 after, prepping for Sunday after that, and at the church of baseball Sunday.

Love you guys!

See you in the Spring!

Great AB by Barton.

Then Nomar was retired.

i think he's just tired

Did you read his comments in the chron too the other day? Seemed ungrateful… or something

An athlete ungrateful?

Shocking.

Well at least the feeling's mutual
here's the link

just sounded strange

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/29/SPE619U071.DTL

Sleep calls. 'Night, all!

I look forward to enjoying at least an inning or two of the seasons dying embers with y’all this weekend.

Sweet dreams
bend over and say ah everyone and have a goodnight
ah

Hey, wait, what the hell?!

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