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Open Thread: Game 3 - A's at Angels (cont)

NEW THREAD MOJO! 4-0 Angels as we go to the eighth.

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Freakin' awesome
man

i really want that cupcake…

Rally Cupcake!
Mmmmm.....Mojo!

the cupcake worked

do it again anytime

You were SO waiting for that!
I started it an inning ago, but it took a while to write

but yes, for the past batter or two, I was hitting refresh on the main page waiting for the thread to open up…. ;)

By the way, I’m having fun with frosting tonight. You will all be the beneficiaries of this on Friday.

Make a "Roomy" one.
nah, i bet that cupcake was baked "live"
come on suzuki!!!
Couldn't kurt have done that with the bases juiced?
wow...

 a first to third for cust!

Be still my beating heart
I won't get excited until someone crosses the plate...
very cool

awright, Cust and Suzuki

now can we get some runners home?

Pinch hit Matt Holliday

for Rajai.

Let's hope we get that far
No lefty available to pinch hit -

Holliday, Crosby, Nomar. I don’t count Powell because he’s never had an AB.

Who plays in the outfield then?
Somebody who can hit?
Pinch hit anyone for Rajai
i'll start warming up
I'd give you an AB
yeah when i played little league my stance was so low

that my strike zone was non-existant

BoCro?
Sophie's Choice!
Sophie would've let him drown, dude.
We have to...

if we want to score… we have too

Nomah to pinch hit!

Does someone want to mention to the new look lineup

that it’s not just the kids for whom they have to provide run support, but the, erm, veteran pitchers too?

I assume you're talkin about our pen, cos I wouldn't count Eveland, Braden or

Outman as veterans!

no I know

I was sorta making a joke that they’d kinda misunderstood.

i’m saving all the good stuff for my paying jobs. erm, yeah.

How many hits can we have and still not score a run?
hush you!

this is a good mojo thread! leave those negative thoughts in the other game threads!!!

Haha...sorry. Lack of cupcakes make me grumpy
give me two days notice for when you are in town for a game, and I'll make you cupcakes.
at most 6 in an inning, i think.
Seriously, why do I irrationaly hate Buck?
His rugged good looks?
his stance gets on my nerves

Holliday in the hole!!

See I really like him, I think it's the doubles swing he showed in his

first trip to the majors. He’s been terrible since though.

the only reason i can think of

is his hair.

it is rather silly.

oh, and maybe that oversized wristband

Travis is due...I hope
Due to strikeout
baaaaaaad mojo
*hopes and prays
HOLLIDAY

WOOT!!

Let's go Travis!
Holiday for Davis
At least he didn't strike out on 3 pitches this time
travis buck blows
I HATE Travis Buck.
I second that motion
Oh my god Buck you scum...

It was right down the middle lmao

How fucking hard is it to hit a flyball?

How did he not swing the bat on that pitch?!?!

That was a good pitch. It moved to catch the inside part of the plate.
Way to take strike 3 like a man, Travis
wasn't his pitch
I like Travis Buck

but he redefines “no clue” sometimes

Swing the bat, meat.
These pitches are right down the middle... what is going on?
Angels in the outfield...
I'm not liking the negativity.
Way to look the ball into the center of the strike zone, Travis!
OMG A RUN!
A run...wheeeeee!
I'm on such an mlb.tv delay.

From where I’m sitting we haven’t scored yet.

OMG!!! WE SCORED!!!
yay we scored a run!
Man, that was a really dumb play by Chone
NICE!!!!!

We take a mental error here!

Thankyou Mr Figgins.
Thank you God!!!!

Flood gates, feel free to open

What a way to score

Woohoo!

A Custian slide.

Niiiice Cust....maybe im starting to like this Cust hitting second idea

you guys have convinced me….danm there goes my backbone

Bonehead play of the year?
What the hell was Figgy thinking?
Woooo!

TY grannie pants!

Holliday

for the tie?

the cupcake was on-the-board mojo!

you gotta bake one every game now….

THREE RUN BOMB BY MATT?????
once again, the pace of cust comes through

please holliday….

That umpire SUCKS!

He was gonna be safe by a mile, and he was ready to ring him up.

No double play!!!
I will take a single

Please get a hit, please please please please please

somebody break out that Jizz in my pants gif!

Thanks again, Napoli

You’re a real bud.

Prediction:

Holliday singles, 2 runs score.

Why would you jinx us like that
I'm sorry.

Please don’t hit me. Please.

motel hotel holiday in
LET'S GO OAK-LAND!
(try to lighten the mood; let's go!)
I support the mojo in this thread.
Swing. The. Bat.
Holliday jus looked at pitch...
Damn...Rajai could've done THAT
NOOOOO!

that hasnt been a strike all night WTF!

Hahahaha

We are trying our best to not score tonight, Chone be damned!

WHAT THE HELL IS WITH LOOKING AT PITCHES RIGHT DOWN THE PIPE? SWING
Clearly you're looking at the same plate as the umpire.

That barely caught the outside part of the plate, and that’s very questionable.

Maybe not right down the pipe, but there is no doubt that you

have to at least swing at that pitch. It def caught some of the plate

You still don't want to sit on it like that.
Meh, if that's his style of hitting so be it.

Even if he hits that it’s going nowhere.

Holliday from hitting
Jeez this is a wide strikezone.
Im glad we brought him in to strikeout
Thanks for pinch-hittin.
Looked like a strike to me...should have got the bat off his shoulder
time for Ryan's new found power

now he’s a man, not a boy

i'd like to say I called that

but then, even a stopped clock is right twice a day

Ry!

Let’s do it baby!

Holliday seems like hes here

Jus to collect his paycheck….

He just expects a major league umpire to do his goddamn job

I don’t think that’s asking too much.

It was a strike
I agree, even though I hate to say it. It looked good to me.
Compared to every other professional ballplayer?
his at bats have just reached double figures

IT’S TIME TO JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS11111!!!!!1

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
ryan is the man
yayayay Sweeney!!!!
LIFE!! OMG!!
Oh life...

…is bigger
It’s bigger than you
And you are not me

He swung the bat!! At a fastball!!

Sweeney has been great so far

yes!!! one more run, come on!!
I'm developing a man crush on Ryan Sweeney.
Mine is here full blown i think

notice my offer below

I wonder what his favorite color is?

Or his favorite ice cream flavor?

HAHA

any ideas?

Probably Vanilla

Amazing what happens when you swing the bat!!!

Awesome. The kid’s going to have a breakout season

Perhaps. He's still just hitting singles. He was doing that last year.
Wrapping Ry in bacon.

Its good!

O-Cab... redeem yourself!!!
i'm loving that

lack of cheering in the background

Ryan SWEEENEY

you, me, babies?

Sweeney can go 0-the rest of the season and I'll still be happy
I'll quote you on that.
Haha damn paparazzi
Can we pinch hit Sweeney for OCab right now?
ahhaaha

i wish

The tease is on.
And a steal!
He's doing it all!
Stolen base.

What can’t he do?

...I like Ryan Sweeney.
stolen base?!
Me gusta Sweeño
Cabrera

should’ve stepped into that one

My god...

I thought he was out… whatever Ill take it!!! Come on Ocab

OMG!

Rally Cupcakes!

Quick

Pinch hit Bobby Crosby for O-Cab

Please Orlando

Please

just keep the innins going for Giambi will do...

Come on, O-Dawg

wrong player

that guy wears blue in LA

I love Ryan sweeney omg

That one stupid run
O-Cab lets go!!!
Sweeney is now hitting .462 this year
I predict that he will regress to the mean.
Stop being so negative!
Someone summon the clutch monster!
i think he's out for lunch
it can only be awoken once per 8 innings
Cool, so we'll have him in the 9th and then not again till the 7th tomorrow.

I’m down with that deal.

Wow that was close
That one run by Sringer really freaking stings right now........
It was unearned

Why the A’s are trailing:

  • Dropped fly ball, not caught/saved throw on a steal = 2 runs allowed.
  • Man at third, less than two outs: called out on strikes 3 times (Chavez, Buck, Holliday), DP one other time.
OCab is very consistent
No he isn't

He consistently sucks…

WHAT THE HELL

What is with us ruining hitter’s counts?

FUH

id rather have crosby out there.

Crosby woulda got a hit!
yawn.

good job o-cab.

i hate railing on him, but in the whole 3 games we’ve played so far this year…

Well..

Giambi – Chavez – Cust coming up next inning.

Can’t really get much better than that.

I’d like to insert a Pujols there though.

Sweet...all leftys vs Fuentes.

Sounds like fun.

Accept that Fuentes is a lefty...thats going to be a tough run for the A's
I can accept it

but i don’t have to like it

Problem is...they are lefties.
All lefties

against an all-star lefty closer… it could be better.

I'd pinch hit Nomar for Chavez.
How about..

A matt holliday who looks at pitches right down the middle?

Cabrera=buzz kill

hitting 2nd? are we done with this experiment? (I know its early and plus im not in the camp of cust at 2nd anyways)

Then stop complaining.

You didn’t want Cust up there in that spot? OK.

OK

right there sure i did…but im saying overall im not sold on it…but that keeps happening im sold

Well.. at least we made this game close.

We could have easily won this game if we would have scored one of our 80 LOBs

Ugh, MLB.TV totally crapped out all of last half inning.

I assume Sweeney did well.

hey fuentes isnt THAT good

this is possible

Is Garciaparra available?
You thinking what I'm thinking?
who you guys want him to pinch hit for?

with the Lefty/Lefty/Lefty ninth

None of those three

One swing of the bat from any could tie it, lefty on lefty be damned!

yep

Plus Ive never been all that big on fuentes anyways

Pinch for Chavez or Giambi?
Suzuki, if he gets the chance.

Plug him in there in Chavvy’s spot

Bailey time, huh?

Let’s get it buddy!

Its both sad and funny that we have 3 Lefties coming up
If Holliday is good enough to play left then why didn't the Puss not start the game?

I’m getting annoyed by him

wow, remind me not to complain around here when I have the flu....
Or try to use proper English
Ouch i just noted that
S'all in good fun
Can _you_ play outfield?
I assume you're not serious
I'd bet

He didnt make the final decision…but could be wrong

Horrible grammer.. but i'm pissed
Really? Seriously?

He has the flu. What do you expect?

Him to be god. Thats what I thought he was...
I'd trade Street, Gonzalez, and Smith for God anyday.

Does He play short?

Is there any chance that they reconvert this Bailey kid back to a starter? He’s sick!

I was hoping they would actually.
I thought this was the guy who was much, much better in the pen

cos he amped up his fastball. Plus he only has two pitches.

Unless I’m mistaken.

No, you're thinking of Holliday
Bailey

Has that Harden strikeout shirt tuck in sort of thing going on.

Hope that made sense!

Lefties hit .209 against Fuentes last year...
Oh wait

that’s shields

.1........8........4.....for fuentes
Defense is not a strength
27 hits in 2 games so far

That should equate to 2 wins.

Maybe 29 hits does.

Nomar 0-6 against Fuentes

/Sigh again.
Lord

Cust would have had that.

Hahaha

Do we want to win?

Mark's little skip there was comically late

i laughed

NO!!!!

ELLIS E!

I blame Sweeney for this.
too many dropped fly balls tonight
grumble.

if rajai didn’t make an error, mark didn’t either.

A lotta near-collisions so far this year
huh.

Must be opposite day.

A Buck nearly killed a Unicorn
Oh, deer
QOTM of some sort.
Horned Mammals division?
i thought they sent GMJ to AAA
Jesus...
Im not sure even he can help us.
Yeah, I'd prefer Manny or Felipe
On this team...

….Jesus would strand all twelve apostles in scoring position.

We shoulda won this game.

But with all the sloppy play we dont deserve to..

agreed

At least we are playing good enough to win, w/o Holliday!

hold your horses

its still a game, i mean am i wrong?

A's will get 2 runners on base with no outs and not score.
Just concentrate on the hitter, and we'll be fine
matthews lmao, what a signing great job angels
You're being sarcastic, right?
I would assume so
Lol i'm fairly confident he is
sorry, didn't see the lmao at first
yeah that is about the most obvious sarcasm you will see on this site
That's an error but Rajai's isn't?????????????????????????
It was Buck's fault
I just think

Rajai made an error…Sure long run but he didnt have to dive, didnt have to do anything except catch a baseball like a normal human being cuz he ran it all the way down…

TOTALLY

Clear E8

They ruled E4, which is just lame

An attempted over the shoulder catch leapfrogging over Buck.

haha

and the games most expensive 5th OF makes an appearance

i alerady pointed that out
sorry

didnt mean to cramp your style

At least the A's are only paying $500,000 or so for our Rajai
as someone pointed out to me earlier....

umm….crosby…..

Anderson will shut these clowns down tomorrow
This game isn't over yet
Didn't say it was
i think it's more about our offense than pitching
let's get some 9th inning mojo going

maybe someone has a fuentes voodu doll!

I think the A's need more spring training...

But it could be much worse. Randy Johnson gave up a 3 run homer to the Brewers pitcher today.

They all do.
WOOO!

Bailey!

Bailey shut those asshats down

Purty sweet.

good Bailey

now let’s see what they can do against Fuentes

Bailey is awesome!

Time for Nomah to get ready to hit
He's reliable.
one good swing

Come on

I have to say, Bailey has impressed the heck out of me

Honestly, I’d let Giambi, Chavez, and Cust hit and save Nomar for maybe Buck if it gets that far.

three lefties??

makes no sense but we shall see

We wouldn't have any OFers left

Unless you’re comfortable with Crosby or Nomar out there.

Outfield ain't that hard. That's why failed 3rd basemen can play out there.
The A's are gonna get Fuentes

Giambi walks – Chavez doubles to left-center

Part 1 commencing
If Bailey is actually really good

Whenever Devine is back our bullpen would be insanely good.

Itll probably be really good even without Devine, everyone looks good.

Let's go Oakland!

Clap Shmap Pap Pap

One time!! come on!!!

Trade Devine for Hanley Ramirez

LET'S GO OAKLAND!
{clap clap clapclapclap}
Leadoff walk, sweet
Booby sighting
It's BoCro time!

I assume.

ASSUMPTION VALIDATED

EMMETT89 TRANSMISSION OVER

I approve.

He can’t swing at any sliders.

Man.

I’m really, really glad to see the Giambino back.

He’s an anchor of stability in this lineup.

WOO!!

Giambi is the man!

Love to see them walking Giambi!
Bobby Crosby?!

Please Crush one E

i have very low expectations for Chavvy at this point
Why?
except for the first game, when he hit the ball hard every time

he’s looked lost at the plate the last 2

No, he ripped a line drive to SS yesterday, and nearly doubled past 3B there
I'm going to start calling you Negative Nancy

NegNan for short.

well if it helps, I do think very highly of cust
haha, the angels fans are chanting DL to Chavez

That is actually pretty funny, I have to give them credit for that.

Asshats all the same
that is pretty hilarious
LOL, pinch runner for Giambi

I should feel bad for Crosby, but I don’t

Crosby and GMJ both doing the overpriced duties tonight
That looked fair!!!

:(

Replay

Nevermind.

Its Cust or nothing!
Old Chavez, tryin' to pull everything.
I don't like him against lefties at all.
He never had many muscle problems

Did he?

His butt was in the dugout while he swung
... Right after nearly getting a double down the opposite field line...
Yeah, but come on, cuz he cued it!
Chavey 0-5 with 2 Ks
Dude..

Garciaparra in the hole now? WHY DID HE NOT PINCH HIT FOR CHAVEY?

OOOOOOOH

that was a big hack

Nomar

We turn our eyes to you

At least we made the game reasonable...
dude, it's not over yet

if you’ve given up, then stop watching. but the rest of us are still here

Come on Suzuki

Make up for that bases loaded out

He's got 2 hits tonight...
And he's got a bases loaded groundout as well!
These things happen

To good hitters, even.

His nickname was captain clutch in college...lol MLB 09 The show
Yikes

That was ugly

It’s up to Suzuki now.

Mr. Clutch?

or the Zook that has been playing up till now?

Kurt sucks
Tell me you don't mean that
I don't lol

I love him secretly…

Kurt's a very solid all around player

one of the best catchers in the league, IMO and he’s still really young

Yeah he was one of the few hitters last year that I felt wouldn't be out of place

on a championship calibre team.

he peaked

at napoli standing up

Y'reckon?
i noticed him when he went to set up take a peak back
We're alive!!!!
bahahaha

WOO!

sweet
That looked like something we would do!
Nomar BETTER hit for Buck
GARCIAPARRA

No-mah.. No-mah

Why do Angels fans

boo Nomar so hard?

probably because he was a Dodger?
That was a tape measure shot......
Everybody safe!
Come on Nomar

Just a simple game on the line, pinch hit RBI single

wow this is awesome
don't know what happened, but...

i like it.

Hasn't happened for me yet...

….but I’m looking forward to it.

LET'S GO OAKLAND!
{clap clap clapclapclap}
C'mon, Mr. Mia!
Buck denied his chance to get a golden sombrero

Only 3 Ks for him.

Brett Anderson looks stoned
He's numbing the inevitable pain he's gonna get from this offense
i hate

the way fuentes throws the ball he like pushes it it and i hate the annoying angels fans with their stupid chants in the background

Calm down man..

here, have a Midol.

WAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHOO HOOOO!!!!!!
YESSSS!!!!!!!!1
NOMAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
yay!
yeahhhhhhhhhh!!

skdfajlsa!! yeahh!!

FUCK YES.

SO FUCK YES.

+11111111111111000000000000000
whoooooooooooooooa

lets go OAKLAND

OMG!!!!

GARY MATHEWS JR!!!!!!

NOMAAAHHHHH!!!!
wow....Nomar
NOMAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Yeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES? YES!

NOMAH

I love ya man

Was that catchable???

(not that i’m complaining)

He would have had to dive
Maybe

but it might have taken a dive, and risked a 3B or ITP HR.

!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!

Like the Unicorn bunt attempt
WOW, that bunt almost made it!
really nice call
garyMatthewsjr

way to not lay out for that ball

I always thought it sucked how

fans said “Nomah” since I thought it was lame.

Now that he’s on the A’s, I can really see why they did it.

this is SO 2009 oakland A's
who was it on this site saying that the Angel's outfield would cost them?

I don’t remember his name – Dylan Thomas or something?

oh my sweet baby jesus

so nice to see we can still get blown saves with the Angels

RAMON HERNADEZ ANYONE???
okay, it's 1am here.

and I’m still at work. And I’ve got nothing done.

Sorry babe!

Prioriites!

I know.

It’s why I’m here and not getting work done!

ELLIS

HAHAHAHA

EFF THE ANGELS

CLUTCH MONSTER!
We can't wake it again until the 7th tomorrow.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A's take lead!!
Get ready, Ziggy!
YES YES YES YES YES YES
WHOOOOOOO!! lead!
NOMAH YEAH!!!!!!!!
YES! YES YES YES!!!!
WWWWWWWOOOOOOOHHHHOOOOO
wow!!!!

bobby crosby came into the game and now we are winning!!!!
what a miracle

U. Ni. Corn.
First our Rajai gave the game to them...

….then theirs gave it right back to us!

Yeeehaaaaaaaaaah

again

We're keeping this thread...y'all can deal!
YAYAYAYAY

HOLLIDAY IS UP!!!! REDEEM YOURSELF!!

I hear unicorns can perform MIRACLES.
IM CRYING AND JUMPING AROUND LIKE A LIL GIRL
FINALLY

The A’s get some luck.

A crap dribbler that allows Suzuki to get on. G-Mathews loses a ball in the lights… then Ellis squeaks one ‘through’ the infield.

holliday is up, omg!
it sounds quiet in Anaheim.
More!

Nomah scores.

WOOOHOOOO!

CLUTCH MONSTER!

Keep em coming boys!
this is amazing!!
Yes, I approve as well
34%:P@IO#$TU(#$WERDFML:
another run!!!

Holliday on fire!

Holliday

Single.

6-4

OMG!!!

HOLLIDAY DOES IT

Way to go short-timer!
HOLLIDAY REDEEMS HIMSELF!!!!!
what did holliday do?
he had one bad at bat earlier
well by that standard

every guy that inning redeemed themselves…including bocro

Hey now, he also had the audacity to be ill.
god damn his soul

he should have 12 homers this game so far

It was all the new thread mojo BTW
with frosting on it
It was the cupcake, definitely
without a doubt.
BBgirl, hold on to that cake image

I have a feeling we’re gonna need it this season

It was ggone not bbgirl

A real cupcake, too, not Photoshop, I think!

all I saw was the cupcake

too busy jumping up and down in my apt

yup, real

it will be there on Friday night. I’m not sure it will keep well all season, so we may have to eat it and reuse the picture….

I'm jumping around so much i cut off my own wifi connection
That can be painful
First Holliday RBI for Oakland
I <3 Holliday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was going to go to bed early

I’m so glad I didn’t!

Yes, sleep is highly overrated
freaking awesome 9th inning!
OMG. OFFENSE IS SEXY!!!
Fuentes =! Rodriguez
But think about how much more awsome this would be against K-Fraud
Yes, but I don't think it happens vs K-Fraud

historically speaking …

Yeah, however much I hate him, he's a hell of a closer.
don't call it a comeback!
NOMAH!!!!
Btw bbg, those were great pictures as usual :)
I think maybe Billy Beane knew what he was doing in 2009...

I don’t get the people who were confused. ;-)

This is NOT the old A's! I am so happy to see us rocking!!
I bet HH is having fun right now
Alright, time for Brad Eckersley
I like our lineup way more now

….incredibly

YES COMEBACK

now ziggy just has to come do his job

That... was awesome.
Agrd.

I love you, hippie.

I'm watching from China...

Trying to contain my excitement during lunchtime out here. Go A’s!

Why contain?!
I'm a teacher...it would scare the students! :-)
Where are you in China?
In Beijing, lived here for 6 years. Die hard A's fan.

Saw Cahill and Anderson pitch in the Olympics last summer too…very cool.

Very cool.

I was there last fall. Liked it.

I'm not containing

and i’m in the library at 1 am…lots of strange looks

In Ziggy we trust~
ziggy zig zig

gota give crosby some credit he scored the tying run!!!

I love this song

Oh, man, I am so freaking happy

Ridiculous joygasm! I HAVE FEELINGS AND I STRUGGLE TO SPEAK THEM!

6-4!!!

Un – Bee – Leave – A – Bull!!!!!!!!

Come on Ziggy!!!!!

Im freaking out over here at my computer
Put Cust in RF, give up the DH

Better than asking Crosby to make his debut there or Nomar to play an unfamiliar position.

Ziggy is the perfect pitcher for Cust to play OF
But in the case of Cust and RF....

familiarity breeds contempt.

I'm so far delayed on mlb.tv...

Holliday just got his hit for me.

have the aliens landed yet?

just you wait…

I've been a miserable, grumpy jerk to my family all evening

for no reason, it seems. Baseball is awesome.

once the game is over, go give your family a big hug

and then tell them you’ll be sane again in the offseason.

I would like to thank all of you for this

It was with the new thread mojo that they got their shyte together. Thank you.

Your reward? The Mini Serloin Burger song. Enjoy, you’ve earned it.

Crosby in center or RF?
i'm nervous

wherever he is. get grounders zig

the bay area is the most underrated sports city in the country

lmao scott reiss your an idiot

So glad the A's are able to comeback...

not like the A’s of last year. And with Crosby involved to boot.

Look at this quote from Halo's Heaven

I’m embarrassed watching THEIR defense. It is sad.

Whoops. Spoke too soon I guess.

JInx

just in case

I was just chillin' on my couch flippin back and forth between the game and Lost

I had to turn on my computer to join it!!

GO A’S!! TAKE THE HEART AWAY FROM THOSE ANGELS!!

Ziggy didn't retire a lefty last night
ROFL

Crosby in right field!

Ground balls, Ziggy. Ground balls.
Meh, he can run and catch.

As long as it’s not a line drive that he has to know which angle to take he’ll be fine.

Let's get this save, ziggy!
I honestly believe the best 3 word sentence in the English language is

In play, run(s).

+10000000000000000
In context, yes.

I don’t think that’s really a complete sentence, though.

But not until tomorrow
haha

splurge for the gameday audio

First one gets hit to Crosby
The New A's Offense?

100% Baseball! Yayyyy!

I'm scared.

Crosby bwuh?

OMG

this games are close! not like my heels… blowing out teams in the Final 4…

GO ZIGGY!

Fantastic lets go Im gettin Ziggy With it!
Oh my god

I am so thrilled!

Ring him up!

1 away

Strike two was a kind, kind call for Ziggy.
Ring him up! 1 down
K

Backwards, that is.

how does one do a backwards K on a computer?
>| there ya go
What is that, "backwards K" in Babylonian cuneiform?
Great strikeout pitch

byatch!

K!!!!!!!

Ziggy is pure!

sit down aybar
Good pitch there Ziggy
Halos Heaven is hilarious right now.
**** Fuentes

We have Ziggy.

Ziegler lets go

and note to AN another 15 hit game…Not a bad third game of the year so far

They were all singles though, right?
ZiggyZiggyZiggyyyyy.
God the slegnA fans sound like drunken idiots!

Can you get drunk on monkey?

If it's on your back....
how about a drunk monkey?
drunken monkey vs. crane stance
Maybe they have Kreutzfeld-Jacob

lets go oakland, lets go

He has maddux type movement

Or am I getting carried away

No you're understating it.
his to-first-base movement could use some work
Crud, IF hit

Damn that Figgins

PS, Ziggy, remember to get to the bag in case the 1B wants to throw to you
Well that sucked
damn, Figgins safe at first
Ahem....pitchers fielding practice?
:(

Ziggy… head in the game bud..

CHO-NEE!!!!!!

{shakes fist at nemesis}

i hate kendrick

did i mention that? I hate Kendrick

Have I mentioned I hate Figgy?

eric chavez!!!!!!!

huh?

what happened?

Just the old 1-5-3 out.
booYA
Is that like slegnA for people who hate the Sacto Kings?
Crazy second out

Pinball action.

I hope Ziegler is fine after that one.

boy, was that something
Wow.

Ken Korach is going ballistic.

Hope Ziggy’s okay…

Why what's he saying?
Chavvy gets the out at first

did Ziggy get hurt?

Amazing footwork!
Dear Eric:

Thank you for being you.

+1

I’ve missed him so.

I can't wait to see him at third on Friday night
Yay Eric!

But what about Ziggy?

Priceless Eric
I [heart] chavvy
What a play by Chavy!
Wow what a play

Did that hit his shin or his foot? He looks alright

Wow Brad that was lazy

Your still awesome though!

Go in for the kill!!

Lovin' Nomah's reaction
Worst player for him to face
I wouldn't walk him for Vlad though
He'll stick 'em.
2 run lead = some good
Ziggy back to work
yahoo had eric as a comback player canidate

how bout a gold glove instead=D

A's win!

Oh my God we win!

Heart-breakah!!!!!
F**k. N. A.
Let's go, Oak-land!
Also, lick it, slegnA
We win!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!
YEA !!!!!!!!!!
woooooooohoooooooooooo

now thats 100% baseball

Went to bed early

Big meeting at 8 a.m. Could not relax. Returned to radio and here. Wondrous outcome!

Celebrate good times

Come on!

I love the first Celebrate reference after a win

Makes me feel like I’m home.

what a game
AHHA!!!

Baily for the WIN

Win!

It was the cupcake mojo!

I blame the cupcakes!

All hail cupcakes!

This is officially my first standing-in-front-of-the-tv-and-cheering game of the season

there was a little fist pump in there, too

Multiple fist pumps

and Jumps in the air…and likely a downstairs neighbor who is none too happy to be hearing this excitement at 10 pm…but ah frick em nice come from behind win

yeah my room mate thinks i'm on crack now

she didn’t live with me last season.

not that it happened all that much then, anyway

Haha

Yea IM positive my neighbors below me think I kill small babies cuz I get pretty loud when my teams play especially close games

I hugged my roommate
Way to put a bow on it Ziggy!
Mojo Thread went into overdrive and won it
This are officially no longer your 2008 Oakland A's!
You can say that again
Celebraaaaate!

Cya all tomorrow. Woot!

Halo's Heaven

is losing it.

Incredible

comeback

And a win for Bailey

makes it great, and no loss for Eveland
mmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmthat'saW
its good to know this many people are following along like this here

lets hope its the same way at the ballpark this year!!!!!

6-4 win!

ahhhhhhhhhh!

I love Kurt's happy face
Think the slegnas miss k-fraud yet?
You bet they do
I SO wanted Ziggy

to point to the sky like that jackass.

that would have been just about the funniest thing

we need to write him and ask him to do that next time

Just post during his blog
Not a thing of beauty, but we'll take it.
Sweet win

Moments like this remind me why I miss baseball so much in the offseason.

YAY

that made my day

I just want to let you know that the reason they won is to reward me for staying up this late on the East Coast to listen… :) WHAT A GAME!

took it from right under their noses.

best way to do it.

Bailey with the win!
All I have to say is:

granny panties.
I'll take her WITH granny panties
I'll take her without panties.

:)

Cottage cheese
Damn you.
let's be honest here.

I ain’t kicking her out of bed for anything.

I appreciate your honesty
Are you?

Seriously.

I probably would if the gf showed up unexpectedly
Hmm.

Your viewpoint gives me pause.

I might

if I felt the likelihood of losing my manhood was high.

I feel accomplished for the night
RALLY SALMA!!
I for one support the use of the Rally Salma.
It's better than a damn monkey
I suppose we could have a poll

in which we vote between random hot chicks to use as our Rally Model… but I like Salma.

She's done yeoman work to this point
Keep her as Rally Salma...

invite her to AN Day… maybe she’ll show up.

I thought she was married to a French billionaire or something

She’d have to arrive by private jet just for the day.

Come on

If you have to choose between AN and a French billionaire, it’s a no brainer.

I'm just glad I've never had to make that choice
That's a thought

does she not realize her newfound importance in the AN community?

i'd like to!
Winner-winner

Pollo dinner

Hey!

I had a pollo dinner tonight!

Chicken fajitas. Florida version thereof, but it wasn’t awful.

All in favor?

Aye.

WOOOOO

FUCK YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Folks, we're guaranteed to get out of Anaheim at least at .500

and have Anderson tomorrow to get us to 3-1. Couldn’t have asked for much mroe than that.

Celebration!

This one’s for Halo’s Heaven:

what the damn

Ninja’d

And Vegetable Man one ups Cheese Boy again.

true.

but what does that have to do with zombies?

Love your firework shows
The best part

Is hearing Rex Hudler try to spin this loss in a positive light

Builds character
I hope those dickwads can "build character" all year!
it's time to

CELEBRATE

Kool and the Gang performing it on YouTube
A's Win!!!!!!!

Incredible. Ziggy on his way to 50 saves!!!!!

A very, very satisfying win!

Now time for bed. ’Night all!

Angels fans...

didnt make me very happy when they started shouting “DL” at Chavy.

Yeah, but we showed them what’s up tonight.

I don't think htey made Chavy very happy, either.

I bet DrummerChick was digging being there tonight!

I'll say it if you guys won't

NIce win, bitches!

Some one has to!
I LOVE this team!!

Good point
thanks

it was well-thought out

dude.

I thought you were dead.

So Yahoo has both Chavvy and Nomar as

potential comeback player winners

They also have both Cahill and Anderson as dark horses for ROY

Holliday as a darkhorse batting champ, and both Fuentes and Edgar Renteria as potential free agent flops

all a bit premature
isn't that what makes it a prediction?
The rally monkey

must be hibernating

Rally Salma scared off the monkey
it got my monkey going though!

terrible, i know, but too good to let go…

I'm going to start blowing up massive pictures of Salma Hayek

and bringing them to games as a sign. Rally Salma.

That sounds kinda violent
I LOVE THIS BENCH

That would have never happened in recent years past.

You don't think Ginter and Perez were going to do that?
Man, I love how supportive Angels fans are

after every loss they have a blame of the game poll. classy.

the game threads here get increasingly negative when we lose

Check out these threads about the end of the seventh.

The game threads here get increasingly negative when we give up one run.
OH they of little faith.....

Good things come to those who wait.

It didn't many times last year

I love this new year so far!

Figgins

Easy call.

I LOVE those!

Who did they turn against tonight?

AMAZING BOBBY GOOD JOB!!!!

Oh wait, Bobby Frasor isnt Bobby Crosby

I read that as BOOBY GOOD JOB.

Wow, what the.

...

brb, going to go wash my brain with bleach.

I love Saag's commercials.

I miss home.

Serve Saag's

make friends

Louisiana Hot Links

I miss those too.

the hot links

with onions and the peppers.

I had fajitas tonight, with the onions and the peppers.

Things I miss

Hills
Ocean
Burritos
Good weather more than 6 weeks a year
Friends

Where are you? Prison?
Southern New Jersey

Flat. River. Cheesesteaks. 30 degrees tonight, will be 90 in 8 weeks. Not enough friends here.

Then pick up the phone!!!
Okay, then what?

All I get is this loud buzzing sound.

Call a girl and ask her out
I'm married

But, uhh, thank for your encouragement.

That never stopped Tony Phillips or Luis Polonia
Nor did the hall monitors
I liked Cape May
Out of my head, you!
Florida, I'd guess.
I love this fail graphic from norcalangelsfan on the HH site

Shawshank Redemption
"ShawSTANK..."

No, that’s too lame.

I love that we have the chops

to come back.

as long as they're pork chops....maybe lamb chops too....mmmmm
And that we actually came back!

I like that even better.

Right?

That was sweet!

+1

and now I must wish all of you sweet dreams. GOOD night.

Rope-a-dope

then knock it out

Sorry, I want to post more pics because I'm feelin' sooooo high right now!

Booyah, Biotch!

celebrate good times CMON!

I just tuned in in the 7th

whata rally. Nice mojo thread BBG.

Is it not especially sweet

to snatch victory from the Angels and hand them a big ole heaping, stinking, pile of eat shit and die? Still miss k-rod, but this guy Fuentes may grow on me.

I'll take Fuentes over K-Road any day
2 Out Of 3!

Against those bitches! Love it!

This thread is a behemoth.

But I’m going to remember it fondly.

from jumping too much

from hollidays rbi, i fell on my moms high heel. and i think i sprung my ankle

how many comments tonight?

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