Athletics Nation

Well, with this team, my heart will go on

O Cab can't drive in runs with pop-up bunts and weak groundouts.

Trust me - I hate O CAB

Selfish player – I would rather have gone with Cliff or Bobby.

ryanmoser - April 24, 2009 reply

And then bat them 5th?!?!?

Agreed

I like Suzuki better now in the 5 hole.

In 2009, Mark Ellis has seen an average of 3.30 pitches per at bat.

Orlando Cabrera = 3.44

Ryan Sweeney = 4.03

Ellis’s career numbers are higher than Cabrera’s, by about a third of a pitch more, and about even with Sweeney’s. If Ellis should be hitting higher than Cabrera or Sweeney, I think it has more to do with OBP and power than with pitches seen.

Anyone remember that opening series against the Angels?

We were all so excited about the opportunity to watch this offense and the prospect the team would never be out of games with the likes of Nomah, Holliday, Cust, and Giambi batting together.

Beef, Brawn, TNT, Dynamite!

I still am very excited about the season.

now I'm at Winterland with Bruce in 78...

I have Zack Greinke envy

9 IP, 3 H, 1 R(unearned), 0.00 ERA

the guy that pitches for KC?!

He's from another planet

Weird to see the Royals good again or at least have a chance to be very good.

it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

Amen brother Leo

ain't no sin to regret it, either

el campysino - April 24, 2009 reply

you'll have to take that one up with Bruce.

First chance I get, I promise.

el campysino - April 24, 2009 reply

Wounded deep in battle

…I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted.

GreenNGoldSooner - April 24, 2009 reply

yes!

Orel’s record is safe for this year, but that guy is seriously untouchable right now

wtf, why are you happy about that...

not happy

He’s just out of his mind right now

?

i meant why are you happy that orel’s record is safe.
i’m very happy about grienke, i have him in my AN fantasy league.

read my mind, xbox.

I can’t stand that douche.

Orel's about as popular around here as Kirk effing Gibson.

Why did you say "Kirk" ??

That guy ruined my life for a period of time that I have a hard time forgetting.

I'm sorry

He still ruin my life if I think about it too hard.

can't deny though

That his record is one of those seemingly untouchable ones

and...

he’s a complete and total douchebag.

Tampa Bay with their excessive run scoring...

it seems as though 1 run is all they’ll need

Maybe they've wasted their quota of runs for the entire weekend?

I like the way you think!

Does everyone really believe that the A's are gonna be cellar dwellars

this year when it’s only April? I’m not even concerned at this point because baseball is too long of a season.

A couple weeks of this and we should worry

We need to get it in gear soon!

It's already been a couple weeks.

a couple weeks

MORE!

we're late starters.

The offense will come around. They’ll gel. The pitching suspect, but pitching in the Coliseum always helps. It’s early still.

Interesting little stat about Holliday.

I don’t know if anybody’s posted this, but here are Holliday’s career platoon splits:

vs. LHP – .299/.385/..497
vs. RHP – .324/.384/.563

He’s actually been better against RHPs over his career—not drastic but after 2,700 plate appearances, it looks like it’s not really a fluke.

This team’s really not built to do that well against lefties—and we just faced several in a row. Hopefully when we face more righties, Giambi, Cust, Chavez, Sweeney will all play up to their abilities.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Hannahan HR

DALE!

Whoops

Dude, that's Barton.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH

I caught it at 11:38. Give me credit.

Sorry, your reply wasn't showing yet

when I posted.

It's all good "mdl"?

OMG

Hannahan HR!

I'll be damned

lol

hannahan, off the top of the wall.

oh wow

HANRAHANTASTIC

Wooooo!

Hannahan! Savior of the team!

Holliday should be feeling a little stupid right about now

If only a homerun by Jack Hannahan was worth 7 runs.

Still pretty cool

That's a fact, Jack!

Englishmajor - April 24, 2009 reply

Hannahan!

HA!

OaklandInvader - April 24, 2009 reply

Announcer:

“Oh what is this!?”

There's still an HR in Hanrahan.

Why would Ellis slide?!?!?!

Grit.

His Omar Vizquel impression

he's a gamer

hahahahahaha

forgot what it felt like to slide home and actually score a run

Rally Time?!?!?! heh.

Well... Crosby's up...

Hannahan.

Recognize now. LB was right for the love. At least for one night.

Amen, darlin'.

thank you, poppy.

Validation, bitches!

I'm in the middle of a massive pile of reading,

but had to throw it aside in order to restart my computer and get in here and go “HAH!!!”

So…

HAH!!!

Now back to the books.

{sigh}

I miss academia.

Good God, I don't.

You can read piles of books without academia, you know.

I will, too.

No matter how I might complain when the work load is heavy, I actually love school.

Me too.

I want so much to return. Effing signs.

Sucking fines.

Fucking signs.

goddamn monkey.

I'm in grad school and I would gladly trade lives with you.

Signmaker sounds awesome right now.

I was in grad school and felt the same way.

I’d take it back.

Are you studying to become the next Farhan?

Farhan, Nearhan, Inbetweenhan, whatever...

Hey baby.

Hubba hubba.

boys say boys say?

Is that Miami Sound Machine?

nononon

Gwen.

Originally?

I thought that stupid song said “boys say. boys say. bad bad bad bad boys. you make me feel sooooo gooooood.”
-Gloria Estefan

I don't think it has the boys say boys say part

but yeah, I totally remember the badbad bad bad boys song.

….Jesus, maybe I am queer.

Johnny are you queer boy?

I think I’m right too because my sister used to listen to that crap. I never liked Gloria Estefan or Miami Sound Machine.

I've got that song on my iPod!

The Johnny Are You Queer song, not the Miami Sound Machine…

Valley Girl was a great movie

With Nick Coppola?

Yep

she's cool

he’s hot
she’s from the valley
he’s not

Very well done.

these are the quotes from our favorite 80’s movies

i like the movie, but i remember that b/c of the bouncing souls song:

Eaten by the monster of love was the song I liked

from that movie.

Nick was so cool in that movie.

Well Peter Piper picked a pepper

but Run rocked rhymes.

it's tricky to rock a rhyme.

I said it's not that easy

For the A's to hit the ball?

so do i

Yay! At least we have one fun inning.

Odds crosby swings and misses at pitch that never touches the strike zone?

1:2

close

a foot outside

Damn it Crosby!

Swinging at the low and away stuff….STILL

It can only go downhill from here for Hannahan

But, LOL.

Flashfire - April 24, 2009 reply

No way. He'll finish the year with 1.000

But 2 more hits and he'll tie Chavez.

Isn't that how he started the season last year in Tokyo too?

We should have kept him for Game 7 of the WS.

Season OPS is 5.000

HaHa. This rays pitcher is awful.

Hannahan is our best hitting 3rd baseman

by far.

Vacafan - April 24, 2009 reply

amen.

The Rays should go for the reverse Jack Cust shift against Crosby...

He tries to pull everything

I wouldn't say that.

I’d just say he sucks.

How can you throw 11 pitches and still not have Crosby out?!?!?!

Because you're pitching against David Crosby?

Damn

8-1…

Oh my word....

The worst pitch gets Crosby to whiff.

That's the scouting report on Crosby

Throw him pitches and he will strikeout eventually.

I felt the air from that swing all the way here in China!

Jeez, how the fuck did he swing at that.

Takes over ten pitches

and swings at a ball 3 feet away?!?

Only six more to go to tie!

No more Crosby...please DFA him already

Why go home there?

I’m glad he made it but…

Mike Gallego likes to live his baseball life and third base coaching....ON THE EDGE

There's a darkness on the edge of town.

And vice versa.

el campysino - April 24, 2009 reply

I guess we can stop now

Scored out requisite 2 runs

Doubled the score!

Can someone make a summary

of the frustrations and rage towards Eric Chavez today.

I’m smelling he gets the DL again in order to “protect” him

Was Ellis limping a bit walking back to the dugout?

where people boo'ing Crosby?

Amnesiac - April 24, 2009 reply

I was

I was saying "Boo-urns".

Pop up here?

That hit by Sweeney got our OBP to .301

and doubled the score

Still holding out hope for Option G from the first thread poll.

Or better yet, option H where they win!!!

Holliday's first HR coming this inning?

I was feeling the same thing.

That's just the heartburn.

Shit, I'll take a base hit from him at this point in the game

A Holliday HR is like the mythical Bigfoot

Except Bigfoot is real.

Real blurry.

Anybody?

Mitch Hedburg?

Hell yeah!

There’s a large out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. And that’s extra scary to me.

Blurry is beneficial to his survival.

didn't we just do this hedberg joke a few days ago?

I was unaware of such happenings.

However, AN will never have too much Mitch.

can't have enough junkie humor.

Grizzly Adams did have a beard.

Holliday's first HR ball lands in Loch Ness

After first being transported there by a UFO

It will be delivered back to Oakland wrapped in the Shroud of Turin

If only Crosby had laid off a pitch a foot outside in the dirt. :-(

Where have I heard that before?

He has a quota to fill

In more general terms: "If only Crosby was good."

OC just walked, and the world did not come to an end

Suprise he has 7 walks

Only four more hitters until Hannahan is up again

woo.

I like Fosse speculating about Nomah knocking one out

I want to know what this feels like.

looks to me like the earth moves!

closetasfan - April 24, 2009 reply

I saw two of those last July 4

Or at least I thought I did – maybe it was just the heat.

I'm not positive, but I think Bruce

is about to bust out Venus in Furs…

No "Sister Ray"?

It was weird,

big single bass drum like the beginning of Venus in Furs. Then it morphed into Factory, but for a minute there, i was anticipating Cale’s Violin…

I. AM. JOE. MADDEN.

Isn't that the warden that kept Andy Defresne locked up?

His Judgment Cometh and That Right Soon

is that harry caul (hackman) from "the conversation"?

Enemy of the State I believe

ah, the lame non-award winning movie with a harry caul ripoff character...

Royal Tenenbaum is more appropriate, with those glasses.

you're right (plus the whole age thing)

Great f'n actor

great effing movie.

Both

WOW...........

Holliday looks awful!

Boras is crying

Not much commission coming on his new contract

Jeez, come on Holliday.

Maybe if our fans would chant MVP for every bat it would empower him again.

I miss DS9....

as much as I miss saying the term “Oakland slugging”…

ST - April 24, 2009 reply

Long live DS9

NERDS!

We need a miracle from the Wormhole Aliens

Ogre?

I'M NOT NICE!!

Holliday....celebrate.....

just got back from dedeaux

USC > Washington State yay.

but, uh, what’s going on here?

Jjjsixsix - April 24, 2009 reply

fun fun times

jakebmill - April 24, 2009 reply

and a beating

jakebmill - April 24, 2009 reply

Too bad we can't keep Dan Giese in to save up the good bullpen arms

Too bad we don't have Sean Gallager right now!

Geren still wouldn't use him

It actually is - I don't understand why, after a 14 inning game,

they wouldn’t wait a couple days to send him down just in case…this happened.

Because they lack the intelligence of the average AN poster?

Sometimes, the decisions made by the A's are baffling

Namely their unwillingness to use the DL, opting instead to be short a man or two.

It's like they overanalyze when it's a common sense type of decision

I want to see Hannahan 2 for 2.

Hit another HR and tie Cust for the team lead in HRs

That would be amazing!

60% of team HRs

are from John Joseph.

Then he'll only be 1 hit behind Chavez for the year.

Oh... and they're already tied with 1 RBI.

K

maybe we can afford Holliday after all...

Bu then again.. do we want to?

Syphon - April 24, 2009 reply

Let's Go Hanahan!!!!

Rally Time!

Go Hanrahan! Go A’s!

Nothing like an 11 minute version

of Prove it all Night. Just let Bruce (?) jam out for about seven minutes of solo…

Kurt Suzuki batting 101 points higher than rest of the team combined

Kurt's good

:( cry

Buck is seen dusting off the cobwebs from himself

Pena FAIL

Hannahan Magic!

wtg Jack

Rally Time!

I'm ready for this to end

Put us out of our misery.

Not me.

Ain’t over till it’s over!

like now

If it was 8-5 I’d be with you. But when you’re out of grand slam range it’s way unlikely

I enjoy hoping for every last hit, no matter how far behind.

The Phillies scored 7 in the 9th today

We, unfortunately, didn’t.

We need more cowbell

Good Ol' Ellis

Buck is still alive?

Buck sighting!

Sunshine Biscuits!

Englishmajor - April 24, 2009 reply

Who the hell is that wearing #6?

I’ve never heard of him.

walk-off homer

by Buck!!!

I think that would require extra innings.

Well, walk-off something anyway.

Ellis with his 485th pop out of the season

It's not easy to hit when you have a horn coming out of your head

It’s hard to stay down on the ball.

Ellis, Chavvy, Giambi and Nomah...

ahhhh… that veteran presence. So worth it.

Buck up for his bi-weekly AB

C'mon Travis

Hit a bomb just to shoe Geren what a moron he is

OMG BUCK LIVES!

Syphon - April 24, 2009 reply

So they're throwing Buck a bone?

If so, he still missed it

and he couldn't catch it

bad doggy

FAIL

I was about ready to shoot myself

Luckily the game has ended before I did so.

neht ythgir llA

Englishmajor - April 24, 2009 reply

Announcers:

“Buck’s got some good looking batting gloves. Look like they just came out of the package!”

WONDER WHY

HAHA excellent catch

Well, that's saying something without saying it.

Don't worry

Oakland will commit even more sports failures tomorrow as the Raiders ruin the career of another young man

Go Raiders!

Crush the Whiners!

lol

in 2001 we were 4-11 after 15 games

Just repeating what Korach said

i'm optimistic now

Does Hanny now lead the A's in home runs?

Nope

and we will never have to worry about him doing so

"I don't like anybody"

Romeo and Juliet,

Samson and Delilah,

Maybe they need to get haircuts for good luck.

does Carlos Pena have more HR's than...

the entire A’s team?

Just askin’…

Way to dump a guy, Billy.

Dude,

We got something for him at least. Detroit’s the one that dumped him. He was at least three or four years away. And while it’s depressing to think what if we would’ve held onto him, we would’ve had the equivalent of Barton playing first for four seasons. He was pretty fricking horrible when he was with us and he was horrible for the two r three years he was in Detroit.

8 HR's to the A's total of 5 as a team...

LOL

The worst start in A’s history. Tied for 2nd… 6 in 2007 and 2008. I sense a trend.

sheesh...

I’m waiting for the Barton callup any day now. If not him, then Doolittle. Something, please, Billy.

This is pathetic!

Pathetic starts at the top

with Mr “Never has anything bad to say”