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Open Thread: Game 1 - A's at Angels (cont.)

3-0 Angels in the top of the 7th, as Saunders blanked Oakland for 6.2IP.

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Let's go, Oak-land

LETS GO OAKLAND!!!!

I think this thread will be good for us
couldn't hurt

any more than the previous ones.

I think copious amounts of alcohol would be good for us
How many fifths in a copious?
Not enough
In that case I'll have the double copious
Let's go NEW THREAD!!
I guess things can only get better from here
Maybe this will have some good juju

CUST CUST CUST LETS GO!

Ok we need to get something done this inning

Now’s a good time to start. We already have two guys out.

Hello zombies!

Let’s go!

Do we have a bullpen thread flinger?

Nico, if we are down by 5, can you pass the ball to someone?

5 laterals

I’m a Cal guy.

I feel something is about to happen...
Sounds like my last date....

Sorry, I couldn’t resist. I’ll stop now

?!?!?@?!@?!?@?!??!?@?!?@

Dates. I get it.
at first

I thought it was a pile of livers

ARE YOU TRYING TO ATTRACT THE ZOMBIES?!?!
damn zombies better not come around.

We’ll be ready. Don’t worry.

I've got some spare laser guns if anybody needs one.
Dried livers don't attract zombies.
That's what you think.
LOL

We need some laughs!!

come on, new thread mojo!

i really really want to use some of my images i have so cust should be nice and do something good right now

I think Ibanez is pitching.
was thinking of past first games of the season

two, three? years ago when Zito had the walk-a-thon and grand slam fiasco against the yanks at home? or did i dream that.

2006. It was a very good year.
i was there.

i try not to remember.

Then there was that Opening Night when it rained -- hard

And it was about 46 degrees by the eighth inning, the A’s were way behind, and some of my family was saying we should maybe leave early. We didn’t.

OK I think Im bad luck....

see yat next game

Is that a promise or a threat?
Custian strick.
knock it off with the dates, you are distracting cust.
Cust distracts himself

I’m offering him a piece of well being.

cust, that is not what i had in mind.

STRICKOUTSS!!!11!

…I always wanted to say that.

Another true outcome!
i can't believe cust is batting 8th
Yeah, not the smartest lineup, IMO
Not even the second smartest
Only thing that makes me laugh is...

that tons of people on AN say how lucky the Angels are yet the Angels win games like this all the time. I mean after awhile its not luck anymore

Until they get to the playoffs
That doesn't amuse me in the least
They have good pitching

And that helps quite a bit. Still, Saunders didn’t look very good to me tonight and the A’s still couldn’t pound him.

no its still luck
long time no post that i have seen. welcome back.
We've called the Angels many things

Lucky is one I don’t remember

Many of them rhyme with lucky, does that count?
I think on a technicality, yes
Wuertz has a truly awesome gameday pic
He looks like he has three or four faces.
LMAO

Yeah, the second face is superimposed over the first one.

MIkey Wurts is in
In the top of the 8th, I'd actually pinch hit Buck for Ellis

We’re not going to win without scoring 3 runs in the next two innings.

As long as Crosby's not part of the plan
Crosby is now warming up in the bullpen
Not only did he study hitting with McGwire

He studied pitching from Canseco.

at least maybe he'll get some hits

and in “hit by pitches”…bum dum dum

I'd pinch hit

Crosby for Holliday. I love to live dangerously.

I want to see what a pissed off Crosby can do
Turn green and fight crime?
BOBBY SMASH!
Hey, that's my line!
My bad
Saul Goode

You are the king and I am your vassal, sir.

I'm guessing, "Angrily flail at a low-and-outside slider"
and limp back to dugout holding groin.
He'll hit into impossible plays

like quadruple plays

A ball so bad that we get an automatic out next inning

Brace yourselves for the BULLLLLLLLLLLPEN

It was the Best of times, it was the Wuertz of times.

yea boy

howie strikes out

Wuertz is my boy

Hi, Im Mr. Wuertz

If you're waving at me, Howdy!
Kiko Calero sighting?
whats the word on Wuertz's control?
bases on balls

i think you meant ‘words’

About 11% walks....so could be better
We'll Find OUt

right about now….Strike Out!

Wow.

He’s making them look pretty bad out there.

DAMN!

looks pretty good to me.

and this is why ST means nothing
I thought it was because the games don't count in the standings
well that too

but wuertz’ stats looked like crap in ST, if i recall correctly….

but maybe i’m wrong.

That was a high slider.

Where was this inning earlier?
Angels swing at everything

but then again, it serves them well … wish we were a bit more aggressive up there.

it's vlad we're talkin about here

he has one of the highest O-Swing percentage (outside the zone) in the bigs

something tells me

the results would be different. crosbyesque, even.

wow

I forgot it could be like that.

Wuertz reminds me a lot of Calero when he first came over to the A's

and threw 90 MPH. Except Wuertz uses the fastball a bit more.

I'm drunk

Damn Pedroia…..wait, it was my idea to make it a drinking game….I suck

At this point

We don’t even have to win… Ill take a run and be happy with it.

NO!

Winning is still an option.

That is a familar feeling to last year
were letting balls go right down th e middle
Let's fire the hitting coach
Or hit the firing coach
Yup

Pitchers start us with dead read every time … 0-1 automatic.

oops, RED
Colors are fundamental
They didn't PH with Buck

LETS GO A’s COME ON!

the most exciting thing about this game now is getting to see andrew bailey pitch for the first time.

can we please put buck in?

take out garciaparra, move cust to DH, and put giambi in the field.

if buck can’t do it, noone can

Can't have a DH if Gumby takes the field
you mean... how it should have been all along?
Can't move the DH into the field.

If you do, the pitcher has to hit.

and i call myself a baseball fan...

runs into the closet to hide his face and cry in the fetal position

with stars around that last part*
in college baseball,

the pitcher can become the DH. it’s very confusing.

So? The 9 we have ain't doing much
+1

it makes me look smart

LETS GO OAK-LAND!

Please?

i hope they’re saving all their offense for the rest of this series haha i want to see something awesome tomorrow!

yeah... they're saving it for AN Day!

… hopefully.

I am starting to suspect that Cabrera sucks
one of three guys with a hit...

not to overlook Cust

A double, followed by an absolutely incredible brain cramp

(and yes, I’m overreacting)

Thats what happens when you coem half way through spring training
What a popout .

I call for epic top of the 9th

The Pirates did it
hmmm

This isn’t what I expected

Remember last year we lost our 1st game, but won the 2nd...

Of course this will be pretty much the only game I see on TV this season.

Fuentes is a shaky closer

The ninth is OUR inning.

This is our independence day
THIS IS SPARTA

Yeah, and on top of that, we have Giambi, Holliday, Garciaparra, and Chavez coming up.

Plenty of popups for everybody

I always think “if you are within a grandslam and you still have outs to work with, you can win the game”… but all these terrible pop ups are making me lose confidence :(

Nooo.....don't lose hope!

Oh I still think we can do it (especially with the guys we have coming up) but… well… I think it less every time they have terrible at bats haha.

awesome, I like chicks with self-esteem issues.
In that case....Hello there ;)
bailey and cream time
Ellis's AB was freakin' horrible...
Gotta get there first
I love how your icon is an animated Ultimate Warrior

That guy is outta his mind

C'mon Bailey, hold it at three runs
Wow I'm sure glad I checked the game.

Didn’t take long for the Spring Training “score runs early” MO to wear off.

Midseason form already for the shitty popups and dominance at the hands of merely decent pitchers.

andrew bailey, i like you.

Heyyyyyy

I was gonna say that!

Made Morales look terrible.
Actually, he is terrible

i wanted to at least use something

is that like sesame street or something?
I have a feeling

this group isn’t gonna want to learn any OTHER letters…..

let's go bad rivera

K is the letter of the day

And the number of the day is ZERO
Have faith!

does he really go by drew or is that just the angels announcers being … angels announcers?

OUR guys are calling him Andrew

He’s listed as “Drew Bailey” in the media guide.

Honestly, this game isn't NEAR as bad as I thought it'd be
Just not as good as you waned it to be
bullpen's looked really good.

Dallas looked good against a moderately tough lineup.

Our bats will come to life. There’s too much talent there to even really worry about it.

I think we’re okay this season.

Cabrera looked like shit.

Not that Crosby wouldn’t have.. but just sayin

Isn't he a notoriously slow starter?

But even if he sucks, we still got Holliday and Giambi and Chavez has looked good tonight, on both sides of the ball. Holliday and Giambi will give Swooney some room to develop and Cust/Buck will help add O. Our offense will not be a problem this year.

Maybe he was trying too hard tonight against his former team

(and yes, I was dumping on him earlier)

I think we are too! I’m really looking forward to seeing what all the young guys can do. It’s always one of my fav things about A’s baseball.

I like your optimism
true.

I’d rather have that 2000-04 sub-par first half, amazing 2nd half.
Than the 2008 surprising 1st half, piss poor 2nd half.

2004 2nd half wasn't that great....especially the last series
Our bullpen is sick-nasty

anyone opposed to just giving one inning a night to nine relievers?

OAKLAND A'S YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Bailey looked GREAT

Challenge-worthy fastball and enough else to keep you late on the fastball. Nice job.

A huge curve too.

Not like Gallagher.

I like Bailey.

Which is, y’know, something.

Big Arm
You know what they say about big arms *wink wink*
This was a dirty post!
yeah, sorry about that.
Giambi gets hit

Holliday gets a hit. Nomar homar.

Here we go

Lets slam dunk it right now.

Pedroia!

DRINK!

Brian fuentes looks like a pigbull
A pigbull?

Is there such a thing?

Sure.

Good totem. Wards off zombies.

LETS GO A’s LETS GO!!!!

If we win now, it will break their SOULS.
I'm gonna have to skip the game thread tomorrow night

didn’t get nearly enough work done on my paper

pretty simple story

One guy— Chavez— had good plate appearances. And Cust the first two times up. Other than that, nada.

i really hope pedroia's brother is convicted
OK

Let’s score here.

Getting shut out by this outfit pisses me off.

I guess I knew not to go tonight

You live near Anaheim?
I liked the duck commercial

I’m sure it’s another one that Comcast has in every market, but it was cute.

LETS GO OAKLAND!!!

clapclap clapclapclap!
Does Giambi do anything?
HE DOES NOTHING.
Except for those times he does something.
that's what I thought

But I thought maybe I was just skewed because of my poor opinion of him

he's a wonderful conversationalist.
Gets hit in the butt.
he takes up space
Tomorrow, he's getting out the leopard thong!
I'm starting to think that as well
he has interesting facial hair.
Giambi, if you were a dog, Billy would take you back to the pound.
But not before having Chavez take him out to take a dump on Joe Morgan's lawn
holliday's going yard

I called a 3-1 final like an hour ago

it's thong time, giambi

COME ON A’s LETS GO

gaaaaaaaaaaaah!
I love how half the stadium is already clearing.

Come on guys, hang out a while! You know? Celebrate your team winning?

No? Nothing?

Right.

Socal baseball "fans"
Holliday fail.
i don't like popups.

you must be enjoying this game haha ;)

What about the ones that tell you you've won

if you click here?

Yes

Apart from Chavy hitting a couple of deep outs, the rest of them didn’t hit their way out of their paper bags.

tis early, m'man. long season.
Are we the only team to be shut out today?
Two games were postponed.

Does that count?

sure, that can count
well, both the Royals and White Sox were,

as well as the Red Sox and the Rays.

cmon nomah

give chavy one more shot

well, at least the ball was in the air. not enough of those lately..
No runs on opening night??!!

FAIL!!

Technically, its THEIR opening night.
Sigh.

Your 2009 Oakland Athletics.

i hate torey hunter
you hate torii hunter?
Kotsay probably likes him.
FIRE GEREN NOW!
Ended on a flyout

How appropriate

Light up the Halo

says Steve Physioc

God that guy is nauseating

Have you seen, "I Love You, Man"?
He's like the douche who plays the other real estate agent.

lol i was wondering where you were going with this

Hunter screws us again.

C’mon Torii. Don’t run so hard. For old times sake.

What, no douchebag performance on the mound after getting a routine save?
No baserunners in the last 4 innings.

well that was disappointing. :(

I am hoping tomorrow is better, can’t keep these hitters down too long!

LETS GO OAKLAND! GET ’EM TOMORROW! WOOO!

To recap:

The sky is falling…the season is doomed. We’re all going to die….it’s the end of t world….

Oh baseball, I missed you!
My Favorite Game Moment?

HD Defining Play in a game NOT broadcast in HD. Huh??

It's been real

let’s hope for excellence tomorrow from cahill

Where was this great offense we were supposed to have?
too many fish tacos today
You can never have enough fish tacos
It went on the DL with everyone else.
I blame zombies.
It's ALWAYS the zombies' fault.
all by ourselves in last

will we view that stupid double steal as the moment it started going downhill this season? LOL

Fuck the win tomorrow...

I am I hoping we could jus score a god damn run…

i gotta change my calendar

apparently its still 2008.

Mindi Bach annoys me.

I can’t really place why…but she does. A lot.

What happened to the other cute one?

i think we all know that feeling
LMAO

That’s what I need after a loss.

do you just have these stored on your computer, waiting for the perfect time to strike?

cuz if so,

you’re my idol.

There's a big folder called Failures.

Perhaps.

You already have a photo ready for every A's loss,

don’t you?

Soccer -- the game that's all about kicking balls
"Too much pitching for the A's tonight"

That’s funny. Just trot anybody out there .. hell, we’ll make him a millionaire. Quick.

I hate how Comcast's MLB package

IMMEDIATELY ends following the game. It reminds me of how, after I’m through, the girls in Bangkok will throw me out of their room. And play annoying muzak at me.

aaaagggghh! that set is too bright! my eyes!
I won't get to see a game for a while now

I’m off to get ready for bed….Still I feel like “GO A’s!!! WOOOO HOOOOO”

I'll give this one up

for a series win

Go A’s

waiting for one shining moment... sigh.

also, FIRE MACHA NOW. yes, i meant macha.

We always lose the season opener anyway

Even when we were winning the division.

I can't remember the last time our postgame show didn't start like

“Hey, there’s a reason Joe Saunders Tim Wakefield Mike Andrews Tim Schlub Don Smith Mike Johnson won x games last year …”

All I ask for tomorrow is for Trevor Cahill

to keep the ball down and not get too amped up. That is going to be tough because I am sure he will be very, very nervous.

Go A's!

We’ve still got a chance at the series!

But judging from the vibe around here, the season is dooooooooomed!

We need our offense to show up

Giving up 3 runs a game is not bad but let’s face it. We have 2 highly promising rookies and 3 number 5 starters. Actually I think Outman is a number 6 starter and maybe Eveland is a number 4.

this thread’s wordle thing haha:

Wordle: A's game thread

It's zombie-free!

I should do them for the other threads, i’m sure there will be a zombie in at least one of them lol

lol. I sometimes get the idea that mentioning zombies too much here might actually let them know of our plans.

Quite right.

Simply because they’re brainless killing machines doesn’t mean they can’t (and don’t) read game threads.

I think it was sweet of our boys to let the Slegna win their opener

Very gentlemanly….don’t do it again.

GAME RECAP IS UP

Here.

at least the offense couldn’t be any worse. Good job to saunders.

good pitching from the a’s as well.

just split the series.

but there’s 4 games, let’s take the next 3 and win it! :)

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