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Open Thread: Spring Training Game 34 - A's vs. Giants

Well, let's see if we can't get a little revenge after last night's loss! The A's continue to tune-up the team (I would expect to see some of the bench players take their cracks at the Giants tonight) in what is the penultimate game of the Spring Training season. Dana Eveland will take on Randy Johnson in what should be a good match-up. Who are we kidding? Any A's baseball on TV looks pretty good right now!

Oakland
Davis, CF
Ellis, 2B
Cabrera, SS
Holliday, LF
Garciaparra, 1B
Crosby, 3B
Cust, DH
Buck, RF
Thigpen, C

San Francisco
Winn, RF
Renteria, SS
Lewis, LF
Molina, B, C
Sandoval, P 3B
Aurilia, 1B
Rowand, CF
Uribe, DH
Burriss, 2B

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Anyone watching MLB.tv games today?

The video quality on the new player is absolutely incredible. I hate to ever give MLB credit for anything, but they’ve really done a great job with this.

I’ll post lineups when they are announced.

I was watching the Mets and Yankees games.

HD feed was amazing.

MY FIRST MATCH OF THE SEASON!!!!

And who’s throwing, but my favorite thrower on the whole team….medium-low hottie Dana Cleveland!!! I can’t wait to see what she’s done with her hair this year.

GO HOTTIES!!!!!!!

XOXOXOXXOXO,

Cindi.

I'm going to go into a corner and put on a distressed look.
Bad hair day?

:-(

-Cindi

I hope rajai starts today
Lineups and Gameday Link

Oakland
Davis, CF
Ellis, 2B
Cabrera, SS
Holliday, LF
Garciaparra, 1B
Crosby, 3B
Cust, DH
Buck, RF
Thigpen, C

San Francisco
Winn, RF
Renteria, SS
Lewis, LF
Molina, B, C
Sandoval, P 3B
Aurilia, 1B
Rowand, CF
Uribe, DH
Burriss, 2B

GAMEDAY LINK

hmm, is Powell supposed to play tomorrow?
Are the A's going to make Crosby just stand there

and not swing?

At least it's a lefty today.
I was referring to the A's policies for their pitchers hitting
I know.

And I’m referring to the fact that, at the very least, Bobby won’t see any sliders low and away tonight.

Ah yes - just the HOF slider down and in

A much better strikeout choice!

Wanna fight?
Sure

{swings wildly}
{misses}

I don't want to fight Bobby Crosby.
Cust sure keeps hitting low in the lineup.

I’m starting to get the idea that the A’s think of him as a 6-7 hole hitter. That’s odd.

Odd in a

“We like Cabrera in an OBP spot and Cust in an RBI spot…DOI!!!!!!!!” kind of way.

Or Cahill in the #2 spot.

You have good sinker. DO!!!!!!!!

That was "Doi" not "Do"

Just to clarify my nostalgic return to high school speak.

Game is on channel 3 KNTV in the Bay Area

I’m never going to get used to that.

Randy Johnson looks hideous in black and orange

Of course, Randy Johnson would look hideous in anything other than a burka.

Randy Johnson

Hideous

That is all.

Thank goodness we now get to see the extremely handsome Dana Eveland
The white pants don't flatter him
is it gonna be on csnBA???
It's on NBC

Here in SF

No, Warriors on CSNBA & boxing/MMA on CSNCA

It is the Giants announcers on KNTV, yuck.

RJ's fastball clocked at 89
Raj walks leading off
Anybody else having trouble with mlb.tv?
I am.

So I’m just listening to it on KTRB. :(

Help please.

I’ve got KTRB on the internet…its not the game! Is it different online???

I don't think they are streaming for free anymore.
I'm listening to it on KTRB right now

Though I’m on MLB audio…

Ah...I'm on the KTRB website. Stanford women's basketball.

I think my GameDay Audio expired.

Yes.

I’ve got the game.

I am not getting the game.

Same.

MLB.com isnt even showing a link to the game now.

yes. it's got me in some promo for premium

Make sure you have Flash 10 and the NexDef plugin for the new player to work its best.

But, yeah, I see that they still have the preview screen.

Lame.

Yeah.

Not starting

Is this not on at all in Sac?

Doesn’t appear to be televised, and I can’t get it on XM. I wonder if it’s on our new local affiliate (LOL).

Is that KLOL?
LOL.

It should be.

It'll be on KNGH

(Not Gonna Happen)

Wow, Rich Aurelia is still alive!
Unicorn

GIDP.

:(

Costco has a case of Pyramid brews for $15.99 right now.

6 each of IPAs, Hefs, Snow Caps, and Apricots. Just sayin’.

Tailgate people!
I'll try to go on Sunday

although i just got a fantastic cupcake carrier thing, so i think i’ll do some baking before Friday….maybe i should just take Friday off from work….

That's what I'm doing.

Strawberry cupcakes? Pweese?

I was thinking chocolate

but I might be able to do strawberry….

Oh!

Chocolate is good!

A little nostalgia for our vanished advertisers

The company that bought out 5-A-Rent-A-Space finally took down the old sign on Cedar and the frontage road in Berkeley. I no longer drive by singing “Storage is for business….”

Are you ficed with transportation 2mro?
That's fiXed. Carp.
I'll email you
I'll reply late -- I'll be away from the box for a while.
Can we get Pennington in for Ellis?

I demand an all Shortstop infield!!

lol

well, he was a shortstop in college. Does that count?

got the rockies and m's on

here. Think it is a combo of M’s announcers and Rockies’ ones. Gotta decide whether to do EI on Comcast or do the mlbtv thing this year….soon.

So is Powell going to start the season on the DL or something?

When was the last time he played?

Yesterday
I must have gone to bed before he came in for Zook

That’s good to hear.

He played last night

Had a single and an almost single. Looked rusty behind the plate though.

Grounder, grounder, walk, grounder for Dana.

0-0 after 1.

I like all of those

except the third one.

Insert a generic

<he’s grounded> pun here.

Oh, and mlb.com is no longer showing a link on their audio/video page to the A's game

which says to me that they’re the ones having tech problems with the game tonight. Other games are available (I checked, they work).

Yep, that's the case.
Bait and Switch!
I'm on hold with their tech support

Could be a while

Haha

Awesome. Im to lazy to call them out.

Me Too

Hang up so that I can have my call answered!

Eveland looks pretty good so far.
It's his hair, isn't it?
PUT HIM IN THE ROT--

Oh…

Nomah rocks!
Nomar with a leadoff "double"

Lewis shoulda caught it.

C'mon Bones! Advance the runner!
Bobby pops to first.

Unproductive out.

Wow, streaming audio is very late.
That's the crosby we all love
God I hate Crosby! WTF?!!!!!!!
Booby delivers his usual incompetence.
Cust gave it a good ride..
Brb flushing my eyes.

Bobby Crosby came to my school in the sixth grade and I received his autograph along with Robert Buan’s.

I have Barry Zito, Adam Piatt, and Robert Buan all on the same ball.

$2. Anyone?

Sure.

You’ll give me $2 to take it, yes?

:: Looks around. ::

Am I reading correctly that Monday's game is on ESPN?
Might be.

But even if it isnt. Im pretty sure MLB Extra Innings gives a week free preview.

Buck doubles!

Nomah scores! 1-0 A’s

RBI double for Buck!

nice

Travis friggin buck!

1-0 A’s

The SF outfielders looking a little pathetic.
I guess it's their turn tonite
Streaming audio is so late.

Thigpen grounds out.

Thigpen looks and swings a little like Kendall.

{Shudder}

Just logged on. What’d I miss?

Nomah + Buck doubles = 1-0 A's

Part of me is sad and a part of me is happy. I hate the Bay Bridge Series for that reason.

Garciaparra doubled and a few batters later, Buck’s double allowed for him to score.

There's no birthday party for me in here!
Well where are your pants
Hmmm.

I’ve got to play for my dinner, eh?

So be it!

{straps on hot pants, shakes money maker}

How about 14 1$ hookers?
In Bangkok, they throw the fifteenth one in for free!

(actually, I think that’s on the brochure…)

Curses.

Such a value.

Scary

I was seriously wondering when I was going to see Bangkok tonight.

Right after the Big Unit reference for RJ.

No, they throw in a free TIE Fighter.

Hey - Bengie Molina just got to 1B

Way to go, Bengie! Nice to see Croz remind everyone why Cabrera was signed. Cabrera gets Nomar over there, Cust gets a SF.

Sandoval swings at

EVERYTHING

Yep

Took a swing at me a couple of years back.

you could say he's a swinger.

You're old.
But you recognized 'em, right?
Yeah.

But I’m just sayin’ that, to read “swinger”, and for your mind to immediately go to the “wild and crazy guys” skit, you gotta be at least 35. Which is hella old.

Bite your tongue.

Or mine. I really don’t care.

You're killing me veggie boy.
I should hang myself in the closet

before death comes to shake me from this mortal coil?

I am interested in your philosophies and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I will allow you to subscribe to my Twitter account.
There, you happy?

But the problem with the Vaughn reference is the possibility that being a swinger is cool. I think Sandoval is much more of a Festrunk — utterly clueless, wild, and crazy.

You're so money, baby.
I'll put a comment about foreheads here.
TW..

Give me a minute to decide if it is worth it or not.

Now that's how you pitch to Sandoval

Garbage, garbage, garbage

Right. You try your hardest to walk him while the catcher can still catch the ball
I wonder if he would even take an Intentional Walk

I bet he would try to take a swing at one if it got too close to the plate.

Eveland getting lots of weak contact

1-0 A’s after 2

Aaron Rowand has a huge forehead.

You know, if I were starting a game with a new club in what might well be my last season, I would have washed my hair.

I may have a new tagline.
I rather enjoyed that.
i have a question

wouldnt it be ideal to have one A’s announcer and one Giants announcer? So we dont have to hear about this young giants phenom who stroke out Manny ONCE!!!

Who do you have?
He stroked him out.

That’s rich.

Not a good mental picture.
It was a picture that was painted in my head

So I must unleash it upon the rest of you.

I rather enjoyed that.
That means I lost.

:(

Cheer up, Captain.

There’s always the Jarlsburg Flotilla next weekend.

brb. flushing my eyes.
what could possibly remove that image burned into my retinas?
don't screw up dana
that is one thing i miss about Smith

almost no one tried to steal off him

I was on hold for 45 minutes with MLB.com tech support...

…waiting to find out what happened to the game.

I was told nothing of any interest. However, the person I spoke to seemed to think the game was between the Giants and the “Atlantics.” Glad to see Bud is springing for tip-top technical support!

That was a hearty laugh.
If only they were all like that.
I'm a big Dickey Pearce fan.
Randy lose walks.

Someone go out there and rewind Eveland.

Fracking double steal.
is the game on the radio?
This game is on multiple radio stations.
maybe i should buy a radio then

because i can’t find an online stream either at 680 or 860.

If you don't live in Berkeley, Albany, or Oakland, maybe
sacto

i get rivercats games, yay~!

3rd walk allowed by Eveland

Bags loaded, 1 out.

Crappity crap!
Lewis singles

1-1, bases still loaded.

Miller laughs at Buck’s arm

These Pretzels Are Making Me Thirsty!!!
Tie gaem.

Curses

"There's a Giant on every base."

I’m drinking a beer for every walk issued by the A’s tonight.

Who’s got the recap for me?

True story.

I went and saw the Sonoma County Crushers one night about a decade ago or so, and their promotion was if a certain player on the opposition struck out, then the beer was half price for the next fifteen minutes.

Dude struck out four times. The crowd chanted MVP the last time. And several people had several interesting things to yell.

“You’re my designated driver, number 24!”

Ah yes, the beer batter!

I think mine struck out 3 times, and I actually considered not going for a beer the last time. For a second.

Bengie pops out to SS. 2 away
ahh, yes, i could hear the shrieking giant's announcer
Sandoval grounds out

Eveland limits the damage to 1 run. 1-1 after 3.

Well that could have been worse
dana throw your *blazing* fastball more often! and preferably in that imaginary box
Unfortunately he's an outside-the-box pitcher

Holy hell. You really are ancient.

That movie came out after "Swingers"
Really?

I thought Kevin Kline died in ’88.

No, that was his career.
Or did you think it was this?

Just a guess...

but nobody thought it was that

Kevin's chest hair does kinda resemble Elliot's though...
I got me a Chrysler, it's as big as a whale!
love shack baby
I saw that like 35 years ago
And no it didn't.

A Fish Called Wanda was ’88. Swingers was ’96.

That's "The Ice Storm", dude
Forgot about that movie.

You win.

Cheer up, Vegan

There’s always the Stick-n-Seed Flotilla next weekend.

Wow.

I hadn’t considered all the ramifications of being a farmer until just now…

Well, the others and I have been talking.

And we all agree that it’s time you did.

Does the fact

that I just got a Blackberry so I can watch Gameday Mobile while I’m out there help my case any?

honestly?

a little.

I'm getting the urge to

either listen to OCMS or sodomize Ned Beatty. Perhaps both.

{Squeals like a pig}
for bluegrass

Old and in the Way would seem appropriate to the thread

I dunno...

…how about that old classic, “Mt. Davis Breakdown”?

Since that's a Tarkovsky film...

…I’m assuming that that frame constitutes the entirety of its 250 minute running time, right?

Two old people in bed?
I've been reconciled to the Giants announcers

Our guys could never say “Bobby Crosby strikes out!” with a note of surprise like that.

She's en fuego tonight.
It's the sleep deprivation
In that case

I say, stay awake!

Ha! I was just thinking that very thing.

.

GMTA!
Give me that ass? What?
Great minds think alike.
you obviously have been reading my mail.

Out of my mind, you!

Or did you already know that?
So now we know the one part of Crosby's "game" that A's fans still appreciate
Eveland allows his 4th walk.
Don,

don’t go out driving tonight.

You're so cute.

You’re really cute, you know that? Can I buy you a drink?

I would, sailor,

but I’m afraid you wouldn’t respect me in the morning.

Clearly

people have been talking.

There was a nude bar in Santa Rosa

right down the street from the El Rancho where the Raiders trained for many years. Or at least where El Rancho used to be. There’s a Costco there now.

Anyhow, the titty bar was named Everybody’s Talking. The girls that danced there were not what you’d call attractive. My buddy used to go there in the early afternoon and he and his buddy would chuck pennies at them.

Great story.

Was your buddy’s buddy Phil Villapiano? Sounds like something Phil would do.

No, but I was in county lockup one time with Phil.

Great guy. Handy with a shiv.

Eveland works out of trouble again

1-1 after 4.

Apparently Crosby bailed him out.
C'mon bitches!

Score some runs and gitter dun!

Eveland 58 pitches thru 4 with 33 strikes. How'd he walk so many guys?
Boy...

I sure wish I could SEE what was going on!

No kidding.
They're about two batters away from doing the drawing on the screen thing
Thigpen just stole a base!
who is thigpen? (i'm serious)
Our brand new backup backup catcher.
Backup C we signed from the Blue Jays a week or two ago
So new they haven't pasted an A's cap...

…on his GameDay photo yet!

They're trying to dig out the Rivercats cap for that one
Yancy.

Played WR with the Steelers in the 90’s.

Such a fun name.
a very good name.

not a bad WR either.

Not at all.

Is there anything better than peanuts and beer?

I said “peanuts”. You people are sick.

You weren't really serious
lol, i was, i forgot about him.
Thigpen steals second.
SB for Thigpen!
MaEl at the plate
LS continues to not drive the ball.
I'm listening to the Brewers game

following this thread and watching some gameday feeds -

and I just want you guys to know that Kendall just crushed a HR off Billingsley.

Is this Bizarro world?

or perhaps opposite day?

Warriors up by 7 in the 2nd qtr against the Hornets...

Yeah, but the Hornets are on an 8-0 run.

The Warriors had to suit up a player just to avoid the forfeit. They have seven healthy bodies with seven unhealthy.

that's kinda cool, tho.
I could have tickets for the game tonight,

but when I see those peeps freezing their tails off, I don’t regret turning them down.

I'd like to freeze there...

(sad panda)

Korach talking about

the ‘68-’72 ’A’s. I’ll be right back.

Yay Dana!
Nice 1-2-3 inning
70 pitches thru 5

Not bad

Molina K'd looking
OAKLAND A'S YEAAAAAAAAAAAH
Phew, can finally listen to the A's again

Had to (urp) listen to the Giants (blurch) in the car. Sorry, just threw up in my mouth again.

Where does KTRB not get reception?
North Valley

Had the Sacramento station for a while, then it faded.

That's pretty bad, when they're using a Sacramento Cable station
According to GameDay, Matt Holliday...

Loves to face: Change Up
Hates to face: Change up

Similarly, Nomar....

Loves to face: Four-seam
Hates to face: Four-seam

When Eveland faced Winn it had

Best pitch: Slider

Loves to face: Slider
Hates to face: Slider

And BoCro's Love/Hate pitch is the slider.
Loves it: when it's coming

Hates it: After he has swung and missed.

More like

Hates it: Most of the time
Loves it: DINGERZ!

Leopold Bloom

Loves to face: um, no comment.
Hates to face: Lack of no-comment

wow that extra 10 bucks they want really is a value

It has the same pitch for all hitters for some reason
So....

not only do I not have the A’s on any sort of audio source, but I now have spent the last 2 hours on the phone with DTV only to find out they can’t fix my receiver/TV issues over the phone and they’ll have to send a service man out to take a look….on Tuesday…..the 14th!!!!!!! So no TV or any of the million shows on my DVR for 1.5 weeks!

Oh and my friend called me a half hour before we were suppose to me up for drinks to cancel on me because his lastest fling wanted to hang out tonight. WTF. NOT PLEASED!

There's always booze, ZigFan31. Booze will be your friend.
And there's no blackout zone for booze...

…unless you live in a dry county.

And then you can make your own

Down Copperhead road?

I've seen him about a dozen times.

The earliest was about ’85?

Well, then you can hang out with booze's feisty cousin, moonshine
A bottle of wine it is!

I can’t believe how quiet it is in here. No TV. No radio. UGH!

Maybe you can read a book about the game?
The solution

Turn on gameday and make up your own play by play.

You do that??

I thought I was the only one.

The technical term for that is "Buancast"
I do have Gameday on. Not the same. I need KK.

But how rude is my friend? We had plans to go out. He cancels 1/2 hour before because some girl he JUST met (only had 1 date) calls last minute to go out. Who does that????

AND he’s going out with her again on Sunday. Really??? He couldn’t wait? BOYS!

No, he couldn't.
Clearly.

It so won’t last either. He’s Mr. Right Now.

You gotta get in where you fit in,

gotta take your cuts while the games in play.

I don't know

I’ve heard of people blacking out from booze before…

I don't remember ever doing that
killing spree.

it’s the only answer.

Don’t think.

Just get the guns out.

probably not the most appropriate suggestion today
Oh yeah.

I’m not appropriate. They can’t take me anywhere.

And….

…wait, xbox, did you just tell me I was inappropriate?!

Wait, let me get another beer

And maybe post a new thread.

i'm a model citizen

Way to bring it full circle.
why do you guys post so many images, it makes the site harder to load for people with slow internet connections
I don't have any animations of people gettting hit in the nuts handy
Hmm...Barney's movie had heart, but "Football in the Groin" had a football in the groin.

I don’t know if it makes a difference but if you click on the subject line it collapses the picture so you can hide pics (if people use a subject).

Next

something in black and white and finally something in the silent era…

Where are we in the game, guys?

Bondage

All tied up.

Sixth?

Holy cow, Warriors are winning!

I will have to surf between the two games.

We played a great first half with only seven guys.

Yeah, we'll see if they run out of gas
Joe Martinez looks like a zombie.
Zombie plan.

Dude. I’m telling you.

Somebody better get the lasers ready in case of a zombie attack.

Good game for Eveland

6 innings, one run = happy Curt Young

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