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A's vs. Angels cont'd

At least I think the A's are playing tonight.

Saunders cruising, Anderson blistering, AN lamenting.

5-zip them.

But hey, Gallagher looks good. Hmm.

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phirst!
Dude, did ya fart?
That was me.

Dinner didn’t sit too well.

A's offense causes indigestion
I was in Oakland visiting my family when the A's took on the Rays and some drunk guy 2 rows behind me sharted really nastily and then ran up the steps to go to the bathroom.

He didn’t return to his seat…

Just the laxative he needed

2009 A’s baseball

Yes. It was one of the farts that had a lot of pressure behind it so when you fart you are able to break it up into like 10 mini farts...
Did you eat mini sirloin burgers?
No I didn't... made myself penne pasta with meat sauce... But are the mini sirloin burgers any good? I haven't had them yet...
no

too dry

wasted my money

I'll stick to the regular sirloin then...

But the commercials are really funny though… :)

Not after the 5 millionth time
Machine gun fart that sounds like words

You sir, may be a millionaire!

Props to all the good answers about Sean's cap
Yeah thanks, that was funny....
I feel renewed in this thread.
Do something..

Anything.

Where's that A's offensive explosion GIF?
i knew that there was some runz going on

but i don’t want to see it in GIF format

New thread mojo works!
Time for "G" to hit a 7 run homer

with one man on.

New rule by MLB count runs and add 5

cause remember, his dad was a big fan of Mickey Mantle
Okay. I like this thread already.
Is better

Bring on the Angel bullpen!

there's a good energy in the gym
our Bobby's better than their Bobby!
hahahahahahahahahhahaha

if only

In this thread, it's still 0-0
Just like to remind people

5 de Mayo is not our independence day in Mexico, some peeps in NC didnt know, kinda got me sad

The holiday commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín.

Isn't it the day to eat good Mexican food?
It's a French thing

Independence day is in September.

BB's quote from '07 still rings true

“just a beating heart … plasma that we’ll put into our uniform.” – Billy Beane

Wow, the A’s do not have anyone who an hit that thing w/ the 108 stitches!

didnt see gameday

what was anderson velocity like? fsn down here didnt have the gun

86-89 mostly

Broke 90 mph once that I saw

he was chewing on his finger from pitch 2

why would they run him out there?

Okay, command was spotty on the curve (left a few in the middle of the plate)

and he didn’t throw any cutters in to righties, so they hung over the plate and hit the ball hard.

If you guys need some relaxin'...

I’m on the air playing some jazzy tunes.

http://kdvs.org
KDVS, student, community freeform radio at UC Davis.

You should get some Rivercat interviews on the air
Got any Little Suede Shoes by Michael Camillo?
Get some cricket on the air

We go to the cricket at the school grounds sometimes

wait, wait, what?

they play cricket up at UCD??

real cricket?

But good point, first test starts Wednesday

Don't tell me that! I've struggled to be productive with the snooker World Championships on.

No chance I get anything done if the home tests are starting again.

When are they showing lawn bowls? And darts?!!!
it sounds like you are joking, but

I love those sports. or pastimes, rather.

Same time they show rounders and netball.
hahaha

nice. It’s the West Indies on Wednesday, so at least it’s not time to start losing to Australia, yet.

Yes, real cricket

www.ncalcricket.org

nice..

it makes me sad that there are none nearer san francisco…

I do miss playing an awful lot

First to third that Anaheim!
Matt

you are overdue 10 AB’s ago

Holliday

do something of worth

His bat looks slow
isn't it illegal to hit HR's in oakland
If you commit said crime, you will get traded
Then you'd think Holliday would be trying to do that.
This isn't going so well

I’m trying to write a three hundred word record review, and it’s taken me over an hour so far. And I’m only a half way through it.

Gah.

I blame bobby crosby

Metaphors are your friend
This, I know

but I’ve already compared someone’s vocals to bone china, which, frankly, is awful

Bone white china

That’s another word right there

GIDP inc

but we score

Sigh
Are you still here? I am.
I'm game threading and gamedaying only.

I’ve moved on to bigger and better things this Monday.

How is Gossip Girl?

xoxo

Greek!

GG is on at nine

Nope, 8.
oh, my mistake
It's gonna be scandalous, as usual.
Is Deroda back? I miss her.
LOL. Haven't seen her.

A “saved” Georgina is back though.

I have a hunch she's not really born-again!
I wanted your sigh to be proven wrong, but you were right
I second your sigh
didn't see that coming
HOLLIDAY....GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ
return to sender
Holliday trade value

a bag of rocks

A bag of rocks from the rockies?

Can we get CarGon back?

Sweet popout
Sometimes

I hate this f’ing ballpark!#%

Not its fault

Holliday is not getting any good swings on the ball

I'm growing tired of blaming him
cause if he hadn't popped out there he wouldn't have popped out to any other part of the field?

It is Holliday, remember

Stupid foul territory
Is that Matt Holliday the guy who played for Colorado last year?
In the inferior league

yes.

No Raul Ibanze tearing it up

Ibanze?

Baby Chimpanzee?

I guess there's no humidor in Oakland
What is it with the A's and the first two months?

we always have terrible luck and play the same way.

Seems like Matt Holliday is slumping bad

Maybe Beane should try to buy low and acquire him.

If we tryed trading him right now

we probley couldnt even get jermey giambi

the rockies might give us greg smith back

but we’d probably have to throw in something else

How 'bout a towel
I meant Beane should try to get Holliday

Then I realized it was our team he’s slumping on and it made me sad.

Well, they won't pitch around Cust here

Not with Crosby on deck

No fear

Cust walks and 3 run triple Crosby awaits on deck.

Holliday can piss off.

I want Patrol Craft back/

i agree

i was mad after the trade and still am, he doesnt want to be here

he's OPS'ing 1.005 in AAA

of course he’s at colorado springs, but still

We should trade Holliday to Mexico City

Only place in the baseball world that compares to Coors Field

Arizona's stadium is pretty bad.
Minute Maid?
new yankee stadium?
were fans at the coliseum booing holliday?
Yes

And correctly so.

Sad cuz ya know it's getting to him

i just hope the guy calms down and finds a groove.

Remember this time last season when Emil Brown was doing great and hit all those RBI?

“The RBI Machine” was tearing it up!

I miss that. Not Emil Brown... just the RBI part... We had a fun '08 April.
Totally correct

Mike Sweeney was hitting better than Giambi and E. Brown was doing better than Holliday.

That and we had 2 great starting pitchers.

Cust w/ the hat trick

too bad this isn’t hockey

Don't mention hockey

Kelly might be back with all her weltschmerz.

Runners at first and third, no one out

They’re still there.

At the risk of being really negative, we suck rocks.

We're waaaay past negative

We’ve gone into plaid!

But the Scots really suck at the b-ball
Deliver us, bobby
did he really make some remarks about going to the yankees?

that’s f-ed up if he did, and he’s hitting .260

Cust 0-3 with 3 K's

Fail

the golden sombrero
Cust looks like he was pulling off the ball bad
It's like he's realised again that he's the only one who's going to hit any homers this year

so he’s trying too hard once more

Saunders this year: 8 K's against he A's, 7 against the rest of the AL
Cust, please, just try to keep your eye on the ball. Really, it'll work.
And of course, we can't buy Cros' double here
Because our medical bills are too high?
At least that was a good AB
Come on Boob.

Sorry for ever doubting you. Please get a hit here.

askin too much.

LETS GO BOBBY!

wait wrong Bobby

Tar heel drop!
What a pathetic lineup...

sigh.

bobbybobbybobbypuhleeze

at least i have grienke on my fantasy team

He is something else this year

ALways had the stuff. Now he’s got it going on

Congrats

Anderson’s on mine, just in case he goes all Hudson on us. Didn’t work tonight.

GREAT AB by Crosby
Just too bad that the other guys have failed to get hits when we have had chances

Seriously, if the score was even something like 5-1 or 5-2 I would still keep hoping.

Buck, if you want playing time

Now’s a good time to earn some

Bobby Crosby = A's best hitter
Crosby's been just super today

Of course, he’s the only one.

Gallagher, too
okay T-Buck

Show BillyBob that you need to play more.

You know we are really not that far from coming back in this game
Lets just start rebuilding for next year

this team isnt going anywhere, pitching to young and injuries and we cant hit

HAH, take that
I have to give Crosby credit for a good AB there

That 3-2 slider is the pitch he ALWAYS waves at. Good job by Croz.

He's yet to record an out

wow

Grand Slam please

just for drama

ONE HIT!

A wild pitch. A hit batsman….SOMETHING!

WHY ARE WE YELLING?
there you go, a balk is something!!
YEAH a balk!!!!
Ask and you shall receive.
buck will K
I wonder how Buck will fail

the suspense is killing me

I believe, I believe, it's silly, but I believe...
+10000000
Just tuned in. Let's see ... down 5 nothing, A's starter gave up 9 hits with no K's, and Holliday popped out twice with RISP. Did I miss anything else?
How many meaty mediocre fastballs are the A's going to miss today?
i hate that stupid bat twirl
SCORE!!!!!
A BALK, A BALK!!!! WE'LL TAKE IT!
hahahha

u called it

we suck so bad

We needed it. It’s the only way we can score tonight.

Balk

A’s on the board

A balk!!
Can U get an RBI on a balk

No probably?

I know why Buck sat all those games...

he’s not good at baseball

Check the minor league numbers, and his 07 ML numbers.
Hah

For a second, I though Buck was calling a home run shot.

Great minds think alike

& fools seldom differ.

That was deeper than a Cust HR drive

Thank you

For a second I thought Travis was calling his shot
He was, he pointed to where he popped out
We can't hit, but we can force balks!
That is funny- a balk scores a run.

Wow!

i am getting a sneaky suspicion there is a chicken in this thread
a balk run?

hey, I’ll take it

Captain Oveur: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?
Okay, so who predicted a balk
That's funny

Three starts.

And the A’s only score off Saunders because of a balk.

Saunders just needs to do that 5 more times...
Assuming a runner on third.

We need about 15 more balks to really do some damage.

Could we have gotten more than the one?

not with this team

nope.

and without a silly mistake, we get none.

 I know why Buck sat all those games…

he’s not good at baseball

You don't think a .186 hitter is good?
And that or an error

passed ball, wild pitch or HBP is about it.

wow

If that’s the only run we get tonight, sad times.

This is a v. sad game thread.
Cmon there's been detailed talk about farting and Gossip Girl.
and the people from England

had a little cricket chat

We could bring up CONKERS
But not in the spring time

Let’s have a conkers battle in the autumn.

there is a long and involved conversation to be had about conker preservation

but as you say, it’ll have to wait a bit

lemurconkers?
i tried watching gossip girl once.

the pilot… actually.

the only exciting part was when the guy said UCLA so i could yell sucks over and over again.

i got through about 25 minutes. i couldn’t stand it anymore.

Awesome! Are you a Trojan?
so our only rbi is by the opposing teams pitcher, welcome 2009 swingin' A's
More like the flinchin' and hope they balk A's.
rbi = runs balked in?
Is it possible that getting a run like that actually makes it hurt worse?
Elaine Dickinson: There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
More A's advertising brilliance

I just saw an A’s 100% OWNED promotional campaign

Oh dear. Fosse is still addicted to Dibs.
DIBS!!!1

Colin, add “What Inning Fosse Mentions Dibs” to the GOG

i hate m. urban

So does the world economy

Is that tonight's winexp?
reverse the x axis and probably close.
Also works reveresing the y-axis
How come all there foul balls go out of play

and ours get caught?

Because we suck...

…them back in

just the way things are going
This team is done
Just as well Giambi juggled it

One thing I never missed was watching him throw.

Does ANYONE actually go to the games?

This is the A’s biggest rival and no one is there.

I Always go on Mondays, but I wanted the blanket tomorrow.
I think we covered this in the last thread.

1. It’s Monday.
2. It’s rainy.
3. We suck.

and the kids are still in school.
the econmy is in the tank

if i had more money, I’d be going at least once a week

it's raining, and it's a monday
Rainy days and mondays always get me down.
A's games work for me
rainy mondays is a song!

tube

except not in the plural.

fail.

I'm aware
it always gets stuck in my head when it's a rainy monday >_<

it’s kind of silly.

Weekender

when I can

I go Fridays

in skigurl’s excellent seat

just dont pitch to vladimir napoli
Stupid Angelfan on Phone go the ball
OK i'm here!

GYMNASTICS!

So I see Davis is in CF.

Shit.

Rawr

How’s the hammy?

It didn't explode!

Could probably still go for a stretch.

can you exchange with rajai?

then we could DL him.

Your wish...
*swoon*
Seriously, you two.

It’s time to get a room.

Oh stop

Also can I borrow $39.99 for a night?

Hey! I'm a classly lady! It's gonna cost you more than that!
Moneyball was based around

the question “can he hit?”

I want Michael Lewis to give me my money back

Lewis abandoned us for basketball

And his homeboy Battier is looking good tonight.

yep

and Oher, who gets to replace the other LT highlighted in his book, Ogden

Last night I had to say bye at 10
tonight it's 9

Good night, all.

Not sure why I find it funny that a LibrariAN is going to bed at 9??

Bookman would be proud.

Good slumbers

Dream of green and glory and one day you’ll awake to an “A’s Rally in the 9th for the Win” headline.

Ah. 1989 was a loooooong time ago
Well anything that creates some humour

during a game like this is fine with me. I’ll listen in bed in the dark and sob quietly.

It's 11:00 here and I don't have any common sense
ok, 24 is starting

at least there will be some bombs there!

har, and if you will, har

I'll give you one out of three hars.
Rajai didn't break back?
Gallagher's ERA is dropping
More gas 'n' gossip

spoken here

Lovin' the link and comment.

Nice work.

I see in Susan Slusser's notes

about Chavy that Eveland is still listed as Wednesday’s starter according to Geren.

That game is going over so better get your bets in.

The Mariners seem to have all the pieces together this year

pitching, offense and defense. There is a good chance they will win the division. But, they are the one team I dislike the most, for some reason.

Did anyone notice that Suzuki just hit one out?
Did he get hurt though?

That seems like tonight’s MO

jesus, i don't think so, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Holliday looks like shit.
so does Cust
LOL. Join us in the new thread, boys.

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