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Open Thread: Game 38 - A's at Rays (cont.)

9th Inning drama thread (to be open for potential extras, of course)...

The A's, having never led in the game, are now knotted at 3-3 with the Rays, following an RBI single from Orlando Cabrera that plated Bobby Crosby. Hannahan, unclear what to do in his rare appearance on the bases, was unable to extend the lead to 4-3, so we head to the 9th frame with the game up for grabs.

Braden, though he pitched well, has left the game, and will gather a much-desired no-decision.

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let's go Oakland
clapclap clapclapclap
Troy needs to be sacked.
It already has been.

Bloke called Homer wrote about it.

I'm tangentially related here somewhere...
What's the deal with that guy who thinks Travis should get a do-over?
Well, recited about it anyway

Someone else wrote it down, later.

Let's Go A's
Welcome to 9th inning Drama.

Why, thank you!

It’s great to be here.

shit, I almost fucking jinxed the whole game...

GYMNASTICS

Okay, lets win.

We can win now.
We're always winners, baby.
SPAM FLAVORED RALLY CAPS FOR MY FAVORITE HAWAIIAN CATCHER
Dear A's...

On 3-0 or 3-1 pitches, put the bat on the ground. DO NOT SWING. (Goes for you too, Suzuki)

Jack going yard

I can feel it.

you know,

I kinda feel it too…

TWSS

I knew there’d be at least one today.

that would be bad if she said that, tho....
She'd be a ho if she said that.

And I would love her.

Well yeah.
But that's what piercings are for!
can he do it!

Oakland Oakland!

Rally Winning Game, Cont'd
Percival should be very, very easy to hit
Even for out hitters

Ho Jack Cust

You know, Jack's easy,

but he’s not a ho. And he’s got feelings, Trainman.

LOL

That’s a go.

But good one

Here comes a 3-2 off speed pitch

no fastball is he has any sense

I like Zooks an awful lot, but good god does he

fail in hitters counts an awful lot.

lets go oakland

LET GO!!

walked Cust

cmon Holliday

HOLLIDAY!

CELEBRATE!

Please Holliday

please…

Memorial Day on Monday.
Rajai's in the game.

We’re sure to win now.

maybe we will.....

get a few steals from him

Crap

I hate that move, always.

Seems like comes back to bite us in the 12th, with his bad hitting and defense

yup.

maybe this is different.

i can feel it

holliday is gonna hit a homerun

I'm feeling GIDP for some reason

…that’s not a good feeling

so if Rajai doesn't steal here, in Holliday's AB,

that makes Geren a bad manager, right?

Geren must be a good manager.
I didn't make that contention, now.
Not if Holliday hits a gapper that Rajai scores on

That Cust wouldn’ thave.

Davis steals second
Davis probably ran on his own

LOL

J/K

ESPN GameCast is showing me two balls that look like strikes

o_O

Holliday doesn't look close
Greybeard

can’t get around of Percival’s heat, tho.

if percival still got heat

g man should still have his swing

Korach said Percivals' fasball is around 88mph
kk said the pitch to Holliday was 94
G man!!@!@!@

lets bring ’em home

Wait, did they just say Randy Marsh was there?

ok old man, show us that you can catch up to one
RALLY GRIAMBIPA!
Grandpa, tell me another story about the "good 'ole days."
I had to walk 10 miles in the snow to the ballpark...

just to take the edge off the steroids!

Luckily

The Rays don’t know that Percival sucks.
vr, Xei

old vs. older
Do these geezers have the stamina to complete this at bat?
might walk him.
are they playing hte shift?

Raj should walk to 3rd if so

dont think

they shift when runners are on base

not completely, according to KK
400 homerun

here we come!!!@

that'd be nice.
+1
........

so close to a home run but it turned out to be a single………………

Hey Jason!

What did I say about swinging on 3-1?

Giambi!!!

Oakland Oakland!

bad baserunning
fuck me.

we can’t even rally right.

now, now, anything that isn't an out is fine in my book.
No, you misunderstand. LB means that literally.
WHAT?

How did Rajai not score on that!

sounds like Upton deked the runners
Nah, he deked himself
i can't believe it

horrible

Giambi's eyes on espn gamecast are scary-blue

Like Spice-Melange from Dune Blue

just in motel in Butte, Montana

weak wireless…… still tied?

bases loaded.

one out top of nine

Giambi just missed a HR by a few feet,

GOT A SINGLE OUT OF IT BECAUSE THE GD MORON PINCH RUNNER FORGOT HOW TO DO THE ONE THING HE CAN DO.

Was that as stupid as it sounded on the radio?
It was worse.

BB better be throwing a raging temper tantrum right this very moment. It was freaking incompetent.

Oh shit, what happened

Waiting on GameCast update…

How the fuck do you not score in that situation?

Is there any other team in Baseball that doesn’t score any runs in that situation?

Fuck me silly
Don't call me silly.

CALL ME

Rajai Davis

needs to be released right freaking now.

Cust would've scored there.
WHAT HAPPENED?
They thought he might catch it
great job Raji...

retard

Pinch. Runner. Fricking Do Your Job.

Nuff said.

Rajai's cementing his rep as a zero tool player.
Foolish baserunning!

What’s the roof like in that building? Does Upton have an excuse for losing that ball?

dfa rajai now!

dumbfuck of a baseball player

+1000000

0000000000
0000

Worst team in baseball

Hands down

Wait, do you want us to put our hands up or down?
First he's gonna shit, then he's gonna kill us.
DFA Davis!!!!!!!

the guy’s a fucking moron!!!!!!!!!!!

AK-47

fire one into the gap!!!!!!!!1

If Rajai was on the dance floor, he would spill his beer, even if it was an MGD.
you know, I like this one.
Awesome

Pam needs to see this.

It's ok

AK needs to deliver now,

Oakland Oakland!

Dammit!

We can never make it easy.

With one out, you have to go halfway on that

With Rajai’s speed, he’s coming around from second on a two-out hit anyway just in case Upton catches that and he has to retreat to second.

Unbelievable.

BJ lost the ball and it hit the base of the wall

again, retard

Lame x 100

The A’s and the Mets have to be the two dumbest teams these days.
vr, Xei

Honestly, if that alone doesn't get

Rajai Davis released and Mike Gallego fired, what will? A ball never caught, hit 400 feet to dead center, and Davis was running from second on the pitch. And doesn’t score.

Rajai doesn't do anything well but run fast.

He doesn’t run well, mind you. Just fast.

Because he went back to the base. Dunno what Gallego was telling him.
(1) how was that a single?

(2) how did Rajai not score?

No way we score this inning
Don't deserve it.
Reverse jinx?
we had another fiasco i take it
Wow. Just saw it because of the delay.

What a fucking horrendous move.

AK SUICIDE SQUEEZE FTW!!
That makes it moot
CRISIS AVERTED!
THANK YOU!!1
Even Rajai Davis scores from third on a single....

….with the bases loaded.

I BEG TO DIFFER!

AK-47!

AK AKA AKAKAKAKKAKA

bad ass pick beane

rajai gets bailed out by ak
AK saves your dumb sorry ass, RAJAI!
Kennedy singles

AND DAVIS IS HEADING BACK TO SECOND!!! Kidding.

That's some smooth baserunning

Silly Rajai Davis.

thank god...........

we have Ak 47 firing some real shots

GO OAKLAND

Kennedy has been pretty damn good so far...
...Kennedy!
Did Rajai score from 3rd?
He tagged up first..

Didn’t know it was a single, but eventually got there in the end.

MISTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR KENNEDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
screw BC, Rajai is my identified problem.

get him the hell out of Oakland now.

I like Adam Kennedy a lot more than I did when he was an Angel
Off Topic

With the threads out pacing GameCast, perhaps someone can write an algorithm that analyzes these posts to deliver my GameCast needs, faster.

On Topic

AK, Yessss

Oakland Oakland!

Should be 5-3 now
Now it is
Should be 6-3 now

:)

Bases wouldn't have been loaded when Sweeney was up ;-)
AK is looking like this year's Jack Cust pickup from 2007
yup.

brilliant BB again.

Denorfia - where you at?

?

Denorfia

is hitting .231/.278/.352 at AAA.

Soooo he'd be an upgrade then...
Rays implode mode.
Sweeeeeeeeeet.

Bases loaded walk? We’ll take it.

Sweeney

better get on, the 2 batter black hole is after him.
vr, Xei

4 pitch walk to walk in a run

5-3

it is 5-3 now
Should bailey finish this off?
My fantasy team says yes.
Is there a Dr. in the house?
LL to the rescue!

They call me Dr. Love.
LOL, well thanks for responding.
5-3!

A’s and Rays traded places this series.

The reason we make at least one major baserunning mistake a week?

The players aren’t friggin’ coached.

No,

that was a complete moron running the bases there.

The ONLY time we let him in any more is to run and he can’t do that.

What the hell is happening

A’s scoring with the bases loaded?

Don't worry.

Crosby will fix.

why didn't Davis score on Kennedy's single?

I’m only looking at Gameday, so can’t see the real action, but how did that not happen?

he did score
He's an idiot.
oops

meant Giambi’s single

Rajai Davis is a fucking moron.

That about sums it up.

Davis went back to 2nd in order to tag on a deep fly to center by Giambi

… the ball hit off the wall, and he was only able to advance to 3rd.

You forgot the part about Holliday tripping over a retreating Rajai

at second.

More walks please, kthxbye
Yes, please walk Crosby, plz
Kennedy is my boy!

I miss you Elly, but this guy, y’know, is alright.

sorry

not really missing ellis right now

Ellis would have popped up to 2nd
Lots of short memories around here
not necessarily short.

just memory’s.

how bout a first homerun booby??

we need it

He's been trying from the on deck circle...

A homerun would certainly be nice at this time

Oakland Oakland!

Boo's from Tampa

SWEET

I wonder if Kennedy was looking

at third while in the on deck circle.

good thing we got in the runs before BoCroNoShow
Bobby..

don’t swing until he throws a strike

wow,

that was sarcastic by the rays crowd

If we could only hold on..

and thats ALWAYS an if on this team

but

3/4 from rays on the road – NICE

This is a great comeback

is the closer rested and ready?
vr, Xei

He's already in the game.
2 inning save?

or someone else gonna notch it?
vr, Xei

Not a save situation
It sure is, if Bailey doesn't pitch here
I mean it's not for Bailey

Might as well treat it like one, of course

Well

2 inning appearance.
vr, Xei

bobby

missed a bases clearing double by inches

god.......

strike out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's something familiar

and comforting about seeing the old “crosby strikes out swinging” blurb on gameday.

Crosby fan

Oops, I mean, Crosby FANS on the pitch.

Hannahann

Can put this game out of reach. Ya, right.
vr, Xei

AB or Zieg?
AB is gonna finish up
no one's warming up, so I'm thinking...
To Zig or not to Zig?
Or maybe we should Zag
I say naay
As it turns out

To Zig

You know,

ohmangoA’s post form yesterday is sounding a lot more realistic…

This just in: A'S MOVE RAJAI DAVIS TO 60 DAY DL

OAKLAND — A’s Outfielder Rajai Davis has been placed on the 60-Day DL, retroactive to May 21st, following an MRI which discovered a major detachment of the frontal lobe from his medulla oblongata. Doctors claim the injury has been seen only once before in the previous 20 years, hearkening back to the famous Jeremy Giambi case.

was that before or after he scored the go-ahead run?
After.

Thank goodness.

He better buy Kennedy dinner tonight.
FRANK THOMAS COULD HAVE RUN AS GOOD AS RAJAI DID THERE.
Well. He could have run as 'well.'
I love you.
My personal e-mail and cell phone are all over the Web.

Prove your love.

wow.

and you stare right into the abyss and don’t blink too.

Admirable.

I think she just asked to see the piercing.
The Abyss?
Should I start a nickname poll?
The move is retroactive to 1975
No bullpen action
crosby makes me really miss marco
crosby often makes me miss shooty babbitt

though to be fair, BoCro’s finally lowered expectations to the point that he is actually exceeding them this year.

No Mr. Bond....

I expect you to die.

you're not alone
Evidently, Miss Marco is a popular gal.
Way to move those runners up Crosby

Pathetic.

he's a damn alcoholic.
hell....

with all the hate on here, i would be too………

The MGD guy, fellas...
Huh?

So was Babe

Now we can share everything!
Bailey staying in

should have Zig at least ready

Crosby and Hannahan continue sucking
at least hannahan hit the ball out of the infield

crosby just struck out low and away, again

and I'm shocked your shocked by this

they suck – but I do like Hannahan defense

Tampa Bay is GREAT

at coming back in the late innings. No walks or dumb fielding errors in the 9th inning please. Did you hear me?!
vr, Xei

+1
if we hold this down

this small 3 game streak might do some good to our team’s confidence

So the right play for Rajai in that situation

is to go to 3rd and stand there. If it’s caught, go back to second, if not you can walk home. It’s pretty simple.

The right play is to be far enough off of 2nd base that you can score if the ball lands.
vr, Xei

I don't get it.

Signed, Rajai Davis

I think if he goes half way, he still may be able to tag and advance EVEN IF

the ball is caught.

he's just an awful baserunner

there’s really no other way around it

Rajai now in center....

…contemplating his future career plans.

Better not daydream

and end up dropping balls

Oakland Oakland!

I'm thinking bagging groceries really, really fast might fit.
I'm not sure he's cut out for bagging.

He might end up reshelving them instead.

Crosby Hannahan combine to create

in the lineup

They could use one of those

in their strikezone so the ball will always be there…

settle down AB
WHY IS RAJI IN CENTER ????????????????????????????????

HE’S HORRIBLE – put him in LF and keep or gold glove CF Sweeney in center

I said

NO WALKS!!!
vr, Xei

walks bad, Andrew
Car Bomb
BOOM GOES THE CAR BOMB!

3-2-1-0!
RUBBER HOSE, ROCKER BELT, DIGITAL SPEEDOMETER,
SPARK PLUG, GAS CAP, CIGARETTE LIGHTER,
HEAD REST, RETREAD, REGISTRATION,
FLOOR MAT, FIREWALL, ACCELERATOR PEDAL…
CAR BOMB!

The tying run is now at the...

WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE.

zig?

get him up – nice he is

Ziegler warming up

How about if Bailey walks two more first.
vr, Xei

Paging Mr. Ziegler....
A's making things interesting

Can’t just have a 1-2-3 ninth can we?

I'd buy him a Car bomb

for a double play.

GameCast Down!

Perhaps it would be better if I closed the window…

Oakland Oakland!

just listen to the dulcetuous tones of Mr. Kenneth Korach.
I'm not normally opposed to made-up words, but that one's just wrong.
It's

working for me, but crashes every couple of innings.
vr, Xei

Yay, in play, out(s)
Boys Down One
2-run homerun by zobrist
Dear god no.
wow..........

just WOW

FRICK FRACK!

Tie ball game.

HR ties it, crap
crap crap crap

Tie game. HR. crap.

SON OF A B*TCH!
FUCKFUCK FUCKFUCKFUCK
NO

NO NO NO NO NONONONONOOOOOOOOOO

so much for super sub

T.T

Well shit.
My bad.

I mentioned extra innings in the game thread intro. :)

Well crap, back to work I go
how many K's and LOB's between Cros and Hannahan?

they’re like the anti-bash bros.

once again

bob geren’s mistake to stick with the non closer

A's commentators make note of bob geren's managerial mistake
AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Another great job GEREN

You suck…..fire him today

Let's face it, though

The A’s just got what they deserved. The way Crosby hit, the way Davis ran the bases, they gave away 3 runs. And you don’t walk the leadoff man with a two-run lead.

Sure you do!

Oh … you mean if you want to win?

exactly!

we should still be up right now.

Why did our CLOSER not come in in the 9th???
Because it seems like whatever move Geren makes...

ends up being the wrong move. I don’t know why.

Should have brought Ziggy in after the leadoff walk AT LEAST
coulda coaxed the groundball
because our manager is Bob Geren

FIRE FIRE FIRE…

his ken Macha available?

Bring back Art Howe

We don't have ONE.

But one of the two DID!

because he almost blew it last night

Ziggy did not look good. Sweeney saved his ass.

It's not over.

Someone explain to Bailey how this works. Better yet, explain how baseball works to the fucking moron in the dugout. Davis should be forced to ride a short yellow bus to the airport and Geren should be driving it.

so...if Rajai doesn't make the baserunning error,

we do score more in the top of the ninth, right?

No guarantee of that based on how it played out
of course there's no guarantee of it.

we’re dealing with what-ifs….

but they scored the second with a walk, huh?

Does Giambi score from second on Kennedy's hit?

Maybe. But I think the A’s are going to make it a moot point.

Yeah, but who knows where people would've been if Davis scored on Giambi's hit?

Holliday’s probably at third and Giambi at second, and on Kennedy’s single Holliday would’ve scored instead of Davis. Maybe Giambi’s held at third so Sweeney’s walk would’ve loaded the bases instead of bringing Holliday in there. Or he might have scored, or might have been thrown out.

Yup, GameCast crashing was probably a good thing

Which is why I am not surprised…

…and I will be doing something else and hoping, just hoping the A’s continue adding runs

Bob Geren is Terrible

Just terrible. Incredible…Bailey threw 40-plus pitches two days ago.

and Ziegler was a great catch from Sweeney, from giving up yesterdays game.
Hannaan, Crosby and Bob Geren = trio

of dogshit piles

D'OH!!!!

Another WTF moment brought to you by baseball genius Bob Geren who need to stop sipping on the MGD.

Why do we love draft beer?

Because even an MGD is a lot more pleasurable than at least 60% of A’s games this season.

minor dental surgery is more pleasurable than 60% of the A's games this year.
Just MINOR dental surgery?

You’re enjoying these games more than I am!

wel, that was a starting point,

and, to be fair, the game threads are generally speaking, pretty fun.

WOW

Someone should lose their job over this, and I hope it’s not me for wasting my time here.
vr, Xei

I blame it on Raj
Blame it on the Raj!

/Mili Vanili’d

Like the annoying smiley ads,

OMG, NO WAY!

Those are Rajai's fault too?
can't blame geren

ziggy hasn’t been pitching well lately. blame it on rajai and bocro.

Should have gotten more runs
yep, that, I agree
Ever the optimist Geren

can’t see his own idiocy

that's why geren didn't want to bring in ziggy

he was eminently hittable last night…and continues to be so today

Yeah, Geren didn't have a good option in this case

Both AB and Ziggy were problematic.

So then what you are saying is that we have no closer?

We used to trot out Huston Street out there in the 9th every time even after he got bad!!

and everyone complained about that too
Zig released for great justice

one batter too late

Unfortunately the Rays can honestly say:

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!

Face it.

If Geren had brought Ziggy in to start the inning and he blew it, everyone on here would be critizing Geren for not leaving Bailey in. It was a no win situation.

Bailey is the best reliever on teh team righ tnow.

It was the right move.

I agree, but everyone jumped on Geren for not bringing Ziggy in sooner.
What exactly is the alleged Geren error here?

Leaving Bailey in?

This is a real, non-rhetorical question. I can’t tell from GameDay.

His error is apparently, that he is just not liked.
This is going to be a horrible graeduation present.
A dictionary would be a good present.
Oh F****** No...
why let ziggy pitch to lefties?!?!
Wow louismg,

You weren’t kidding around!

I never kid.

Thank goodness I opened a new thread for the 9th?

Bullpen

The one sure thing Beane was supposed to do, build a decent bullpen, he has failed at as well. Wonderful.

As I recall, the bullpen was the biggest question mark coming into the season
This bullpen, has been the best in the majors, they are just overworked
When Ziggy gives up a double to a .189 hitter

you know he’s not right.

then walks a .186 hitter

described by Korach and Co as “all messed up” with his swing. Completely wrecked, and ..a walk.

This sucks

Bullpen doesn’t want to win.

Geren

opens himself up to those mistakes. now.. Zieg is the wrong move with a tie. Another case where two pitchers needed to be warming up. Hope he can pull out of it.

Breslow warming up.
UGHHHHHHHHHHHH
Maybe Crosby/Hannahan black hole can be useful after all...
signal dropped -back up and I see TIED again
Joe Maddon looks like a genius today for PH Zobrist

Not so much last week or whenever he screwed up his lineup card.

That’s baseball.

Walk's not the worst thing here

Now let’s get two.

Even kevin kennedy says geren is an idiot

i am watching the tampa feed mainly cause it is in HD and i dont want to listen to that clown glen kuiper call strikeout on a one strike count. kennedy is the guy who let jose canseco throw out his arm on the mound. when he says it is a mistake you kinda have to agree

Ground-rule double

and a walk. GIDP plz?

Well, that's not good
NO!

Game ends in Davis’ hands.

Sickening. So sick.
It's not really Geren's fault.

No one in the bullpen can pitch to save their life.

They were always going to implode at some point.

They’ve pitched like 45% of our total innings. That’s not sustainable.

False

The bullpen is the only bright spot

that didn't go well
im so pissed

whyyyyyy

Well, that sucked

Another day, another new way for the A’s to screw it up.

Game.

Nice try, A’s it looked alright for a second or two.

There..they both blew it.
good thing we had Rajai in there for defense.

HE would have scored anyway.

As KK said, any chance he had was lost when Rajai bobbled the ball.
Goodbye I need to go throw up.
Why are so many of you screaming about Geren?

Obviously, Ziegler’s been horrible this year.

Only since coming down with the plague
He was pretty horrible in the WBC too, right?
I don't make anything of the WBC

Games were infrequent and practice time sketchy from what I understand. Before he got sick, Ziegler was pitching very well this season. He’s much more hittable than what he showed last year but he’s always going to be someone who has to rely on the defense to make plays, along with where the ball is hit. He’s not going to overpower anyone like Bailey can.

Because Geren's been horrible too and he plays every day
This was inevitable no matter what.

I guess he could have brought in Breslow, but our relievers are so awful right now I’m pretty sure we were going to lose this no matter what

Aaaaand there's Rajai to lose it for us.
I called it

Rajai’s defense gets us the L

Not really

his baserunning cost them the game, more like it. That guy would have scored anyway.

Davis didn't lose it for us, it was the pitching in the last inning.
friggin' Davis

I HATE YOU

That was all on Ziggy.
And Davis and Bailey before that
Again, Bailey has been overused.

Yes he used to be a starter, but he’s not stretched out anymore. He shouldn’t be going multiple innings consistently. He threw what, 40 pitches on Tues? Too much.

Truly earned that loss.
BULLSHIT!!!!

Thank you BoCro and Rajai and Hanahan…another excellent perfromance from you 3…

No walk off HRs

please

so, seriously, how long til Davis is DFAed?

Tonight or tomorrow?

I'm thinking never.
Can't wait for Geren's postgame comments

“Well, we did a great job coming back and taking the lead but it just wasn’t in the cards for us today. Great effort by our guys.”

yea

fuck bob geren

D'OH!!!! Part 2

Well that was fun I guess after this one I’m gonna go sip on some MGD.

DFA, Firesale, Trade deadline

THIS TEAM IS DONE!!!

Davis should be DFA.

I have been holding my verdict on Rajai to evaluate his game a little further. He is trash.

He is certainly one of the least intelligent ballplayers I've seen in a while

He really doesn’t do anything right, other than “run fast.”

Rajai really needs to go away.

I’m with miggy there. I’ve held my tongue on most of these guys. But the guy’s just a turd out there. He can’t do anything right.

Fast, but a horrible base runner.
A Great A's Tradition!

Nice socks.

Love the colors, too.

why stop there?

crosby
hannahan
geren

What did Rajai do on that last play?

Gameday just says “single”.

Ditto the question.
Fumbled the ball but wouldn't have thrown out the runner anyway
Booted it. Would not have thrown the runne rout anyways. He couldn't throw a runner out if he was standing on second base.
Bobbled the ball on the sharp single, never got off a throw

Probably didn’t matter, but was icing on the cake.

bobbled the ball

eliminating any chance for a play at the plate.

bobbled his career

byebye Raj

although he wouldn't

have thrown the runner out anyways. still, he sucks monkeyballs.

Couldn't handle the ball

Bobbled it like crazy.

He bobbled the ball in short center.

It would have been hard to get the runner, but he didn’t even get a throw off.

Truly a zero tool player.

Was Weurtz available?

Not the conventional option for the 0th, but probably our best

How about Springer?

j/k

3 in a row!!!

3 in a row!!! 3 in a row!!! 3 in a row!!! 3 in a row!!! 3 in a row!!! 3 in a row!!! 3 in a row!!! 3 in a row!!! 3 in a row!!! 3 in a row!!! 3 in a row!!! 3 in a row!!!

Don't you think that's asking a bit much?
Ziegler should NOT have pitched to Crawford, a lefty.

Breslow needed to be in there.

Yeah, but realistically, then it's Breslow-Longoria
Game not over according to Yahoo
Hope springs eternal!!
For what it's worth

I’d have begun the ninth with Bailey as well. He’s a better end-of-game pitcher than Ziegler because of his stuff.

I probably wouldn’t have used Bailey in the eighth, however.

Bailey was really good...

Save for one pitch.

and the four balls

he threw to the batter before that.

That's true...

But overall, it comes down to one pitch that he just missed his spot.

And an 0-2 mistake in the 8th

Not his best effort.

you use Zig to set up?
Depends on the situation

I’d like to keep him for spots where they need a double play, but it also sets up failing a lot and letting a lot of inherited runners advance or score if he can’t get it. I don’t like the idea of hoping so much that he can get two on one pitch that if he doesn’t it’s akin to failure.

so who comeso ut for the 8th, Weurtz?
Breslow?
that works.

save AB for the 9th…he had an inning’s worth…

I mean, I know Breslow's the new guy...

…but if Geren’s just saving him for a lefty, nah.

Maybe.

But I like to think I would have pulled him after the lead off walk. That alone should have told Geren that he’s been overused.

Thanks to Hannahan, Crosby, Davis and Geren

along with Ziggy pitching like a pile of crap of late.

Ziggy is a shell of his former self and cannot get lefties out.

This team is quite sickening for the most part.

A split in TB is all well and good

but we should have had 3 out of 4.

I agree

3/4 was well within reach…

Yeah, a split is better than getting swept
I'm going to put on the end of last night's game

and pretend this never happened.

Well the A's come home to play the equally crappy Diamondbacks this weekend....

If they can’t get some wins against that team then I give up!!

Equally crappy but currently tragic.

The A’s don’t even have that.

at least the rangers lost
Is Haren pitching against us this weekend?

That should be fun. Or not.

I believe so.
My hope for the AZ series

Haren no hitter
Byrnes hits for cycle

Im so sick of the A's fuck them. The deserve to lose every game and be put out of baseball due to lack of interest from fans and people across america.
small sample size?

I tried.

Wow, that's some serious hate there.
I now root against the A's just so the have to get rid of them
Whatever tickles your fancy.
you're creeping me out, dude.

why don’t you take the next couple plays off?

Bobby Crosby, is that you?
What the game comes down to is that the A's

should have scored 8-9 runs. Crosby failed twice to make basic contact, once with the infield back and another time swinging through two BP fastballs with bases loaded, one out. Davis’ mistake was huge, because two runs would have scored on that play alone, with Kennedy and Sweeney coming up (singled, walked respectively as it turned out) and the inning spiraling out of control. Cabrera gave away the last out in the 8th against a pitcher who had nothing and wasn’t getting anyone out.

team loss.

together with the bullpen. It’s too bad too—sounds like it was a pretty gutsy start by Cahill.

Tampa Bay’s no joke, tho—to take two from them is really something. They play hard, and I thought we might get swept after Detroit.

I may be mistaken, but

I thought Braden was throwing.

I wasn't here for almost all of that

I was stuck in sign hell.

No worries...

I just thought my memory was going.

Crosby is the one person that really disappointed me..

I know it’s nothing new, but to watch two fastballs (the only pitch he knows how to “hit” anymore) and then hack AGAIN at breaking stuff to no avail just reminded me (as if I needed a reminder) why after this season he won’t be playing baseball.

Why would anybody even want to play for this shithole team?
We got the point
agrd.
i don't know seems pretty vague to me
Take a 'lude, Dude.

I suggest you log off before your negativity becomes relentless.

At the end of the day?

To make millions of dollars.

May I suggest

Taking a nap? Seems like a case of the crankies.

I will say this for the A's....

they played a competitive game. I can take this a lot easier than I can the romping Detroit gave them. But Geren needs to be put on notice that his job is at stake. And Davis needs to fly back from Tampa commercially.

IM sorry im just sooo pissed. My bad guys im gonna go have a beer.
good plan.

we’ll get em tomorrow, champ.

Have one for me too

:D

I recommend Tequila....

and firearms. And lots of posters of A’s players.

don't forget the manager
you know,

I think that asshat’s actually on one of the months of my calendar.

It sure as hell isn't October.
I'd rather have players that were traded before the regular season started
Oh I got those too.

It’s a calendar of fail.

NO we wont and thats why im mad. Happy Friday enjoy the long weekend. LoL nice Alox
Just make sure you don't place the posters

over the studs inside the wall. One, because no player on the A’s should be mistaken for a stud, and two, spackle will cover the little round holes as long as you don’t splinter the 2X4’s. Don’t really want to get into how I know all this.

sounds expensive, regardless.
Crosby and Hannahan left 14 on base

DFA both of them

14?!

Seriously?

Am I trippin'?

Are we the AAAA’s? I really feel the decisions toward the end of the game were something of a minor league team. Did Geren manage the Rivercats? Maybe in the minor leagues it is common practice to have a different closer several times a week. For some reason, pitchers need to be told what role they have or everything goes to shit. There Geren goes again getting all happy thinking he can put anyone in in any situation. Bailey is great. Is he your middle relief or your closer? Brad Ziegler did good enough to save the game pretty quietly yesterday, and I believe would’ve been good enough today. Instead, Geren turns it into some minor-league type competition for a closing job and we lose the game. I’m pretty confident Ziegler is great when he pitches in closing situations, and he sucks when he doesn’t. Evidently, the same is with Bailey in mid-relief. It’s to bad you just can’t pawn them around like the minor leagues and that there really are consequences.

nm, gonna post on post game article

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