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The Thread Moves Into the 3rd - Nothin' But Zeroes

The story of the night thus far is the A's going scoreless in the first inning, even with Cabrera starting things off with a base hit for the fourth straight game.

 

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Wow

Cunningham just looked foolish on that one

Cunningham pulls off pitches a lot
New thread mojo?

{gasp!}

it’s beauteous!

to think that someone thought of this soley for that purpose....

is wonderful!

I made it just for you all....
You. Rock.
You need to get here for AN Day.

I’m going to go on a cupcake baking spree that week. Cupcakeapalooza.

You might just be my new hero.
i can haz mojo muffen?
Nice seeing O-Cab doing what he needs to do in the top spot lately
Spacious and pretty

I love the new green and gold carpet, 67M

he puts a special touch on all his game threads.
It was half-off, too!
which half?
He was talking about the carpet, so ...
It matches the drapes
And they said I was dirty.
well come on
KK put a lot of time into that Giecko commercial.
Fan Question

How many packages of seeds does Matt Holliday go through in a game?

Five!

Could have sworn it was four.

Man, I’m slipping.

Is that tonight's AFLAC trivia?

Um… D!

BLUE! GO BLUE!!!!

wait, this isn’t dot racing?

aren't they all free too?

The players tip the clubhouse, but the free seeds, chew and gum are layed out before every game. I think.

Yep. Even in the minors.

I worked for an Expos affiliate when I was a much younger man.

Will he sprout roots in Oakland?
Is that you, Tolbert?

I’m hungover.

[shakes head]

On a Monday? Prolly a man behind this.

My teeth hurt after seeing that Double Bubble Bucket
Baby Crosby born 12:52 today!
Tyler Joseph Crosby
JoCro

Or TyCro

TyCo?
Isn't that a star?

The ones in the sky.

Tycho Brahe's catalog of stars?
I'm having flashbacks of astronomy class...
Or a crater on the moon?
Don't be so nosy
Congrats to the Crosbys!
Tyler Joseph Crosby
Congrats Crosbys!
TJ

Good name for a future BB player.

Crosby's kid weighed 7.9 oz?

Did I hear that right?

Has to be 7 pounds 9 ounces
It's baseball.

Things are measured in ounces! They meant to say 121 oz.

I'm almost certain he said 7.9 oz

Time to clean out the ear wax again (I hate getting old).

Congrats Bobby & Gina Crosby!

And welcome to the world BabyCroz!

maybe this will give crosby a boost at the plate
say, hit a cycle like Ellis?
it worked for Elly

Didn’t he go 4 for 4 the day after he became a father?

I think Gina deserves a tip of the cap

For going into labor yesterday during the game, and not delivering till this afternoon – yeowzah

And keeping Crosby out of a game and a half?

Trooper.

How's about a little AN love for the newest member of the A's family!!
MUCH LOVE, LITTLE BACRO!
Uh-oh Mr. Outman could be serious about this one.

Let’s get him some runs boys.

+6

That’s how many runs I’d like to see.

Just joining in.

Watching the game on the new Safari 4.0

Enjoying tonite’s cocktail: the Vieux Carré

Is that French?

New Orleanian

3/4 oz Brandy
3/4 oz Rye
1/4 oz Benedictive
dash Peychaud’s Bitters
dash Angostura BItters

stirred with ice and strained into an old-fashioned glass with fresh ice
lemon twist as garnish

Yum!

2,000,000,000 gallons Mississippi river water...

Too soon?

maybe, but kinda funny.
That would be the 9th Ward Cocktail

Take 2,000,000 galllons of river water
Let sit for days while you do nothing

That would be Benedictine, nat'
Ooops!

Forgot to list a key incredient: Sweet vermouth.

That recipe again:

3/4 oz Brandy
3/4 oz Rye
3/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
1/4 oz Benedictine
dash Peychaud’s Bitters
dash Angostura BItters

stirred with ice and strained into an old-fashioned glass with fresh ice
lemon twist as garnish

What exactly is in Peychaud's bitters?
It's a N.O. ingredient

Though bitter, not sweet, it tastes a bit like root beer, a bit like pastis

It’s also bright red.

Not very expensive, but a bit hard to find (at least in Oklahoma).

But a little goes a long way.

It’s also a key ingredient in such other N.O. cocktails as the Sazerac and La Louisiane

Incidentally...

….I love products with labels given over to advertising prizes won at world’s fairs over a century ago.

The bitters label seems to be a pretty strict genre

because that looks a lot like an Angostura Bitters label (except it fits the bottle it’s glued to).

I really recommend the Vieux Carré

First time I’ve made it but it’s very tasty.

Sort of a more complicated (in recipe and taste) variation on the basic idea of the Manhattan (though served on the rocks like an Old Fashioned).

Do you have the Sazerac rye?
Nope

I’m using Wild Turkey Rye, which is both inexpensive and good, though a little strong (101 proof)

Safari work well?

I’m asking the questions ’round here.

I tell ya...these kids today
Old Carriage?

That sounds appetizing.

Old Square

It’s apparently the old N.O. way of referring to the French Quarter

let's play some fucking baseball, eh?
is that the new "Play Ball?"
okay, okay

I should watch my mouth, sorry.

not complaining
In Canada, yeah.
Sounds dirty

I’m in

I'm in also.

As long as I’m always behind doctorK.

(checks mirror)
I wonder if Duke wants to be known as "Always a Rivercat"
I'm waiting for "Gregorio Petit, Always a Rivercat"
The Cubs

on days when Zambrano isn’t starting.

Lets go A's

put some runs on the board!!

Cool the power bats are up....
my sentiments exactly
How many teams are playing a guy hitting .173 in June?

The Twins have a few.

all of them, in the NL
and they're not pitchers?
I'm just being a snot, ignore me. I'll go back to petting my imaginary minature bison
I like it in your world.

it’s full of nice, small animals.

I prefer large animals.
I'm Brian Fellows!

That squirrel looks dirty

+1 for the Brian Fellows reference
what is the Jack Hanahan predictions

i say he grounds out to 2nd

He couldn’t even put the ball in play.

God he sucks
he sorta punched out his butt on that one

Not good.

About as close to an Auto-Out as you can get

Many pitchers are better hitters than him.

Davis batting .375 for June!?!
come on A's!!!!
rajai is finally batting over .200
He has the 6th highest batting average

Of the A’s starters tonight.

Harris is a brutal SS
Steal or hit and run please
his speed paid off that time
Rajai hit.
fake steal but would have made it easily
Speed kills!
hasn't killed me yet
How much did ya take?
I used to stay up for five to seven day stretches.
you're not kidding, are you?
not at all.
My wife and I lived in an apartment below some tweakers in the 1990s

It’s the only time I’ve ever called the cops on someone. They were having a fight about whether she’d lost their stash, and I though he was going to kill her.

wasn't me, was it?

early nineties or late nineties?

Well...she did lose the stash
No, she didn't even. They found it later

Evidently doing lots of speed can make you forget where you left the speed you haven’t smoked/shot yet.

No. Get right out of town!
And the cops couldn't have been less interested in intervening

I really wished we could have called a social worker instead of cops, but it was probably the 10th time in a few months we’d said, “Is someone really going to get hurt up there?” We kind of figured that we’d regret it more if we decided not to call and he threw her out of the window or something.

I had some neighbors who had domestic problems

They always aired their grievances outside so I wondered what kind of hell was going on in the house. Not a good thing to witness so I completely understand.

This was also a few weeks after these two Einsteins

had failed to install a window A/C properly, which we found out about when it suddenly fell out of their window….onto the ramp our cats used to go in and out of our 1st floor window.

SMASH!!

“Uhh, sorry dude!”

it does!

it’s a fun game we all liked to play…

reminds me of my 14th b'day
Aren't you supposed to call a doctor if it stays up that long?
Take a cold shower, or a dip in the pool
Yeah.

A female doctor.

I'm not only calling him...

I’m calling everyone else I know too.

Based on the time of your eastern time zone posts...
old habits die hard, O2B.
just a spoonful
gimme a spoon, gimme a spoon, gimme a spoonful.
Spoooooon Mannnnn!
lets get rolling comon!!!!!
time for a Rickey Run
the A's have more hits than last game
Now they need to make it more runs than last game
If only we were the angels for that one OC at bat
Let's go Oakland!
kennedy batting .185 this month
is that good?
Probably still better than Mark Ellis
Stupid ol' law of averages caught up with him
did everyone see CHONE got his first HR of the year yesterday?

{shakes fist}

CHONE!!!!

why Bloom? why?
Is that what depressed flowers think to themselves?
I had to mention it.

When The Nemesis succeeds, I must acknowledge it, so I can begin to plan undermining him.

fair enough, Bloom
I never knew

it was pronounced “Kahn.”

who the hell is it?

Davis almost gave me a heart attack.

Almost a Rajai fail there
Rajai Davis is an exceptionally bad baserunner

Like, Emil Brown bad.

That's bad...
The ONE strength he should bring to a game

is his weakness. Crazy shit, man.

worese, even.

and that’s saying something. Emil was especially poor at base running.

^^ chuckles ^^

I’d forgotten Emil.

Who could forget DFA?

He was even mentioned on Royals Review the other day.

apparently, so has everyone else
Bad baserunning.

Your sig line suggests that Rickey can't spell his own name correctly

Not that I couldn’t believe that, but…still a bit of a stretch.

ha ha ha ha
I copy and pasted it

from some article about him months and months ago.

No, Rickey was just a really, really big fan of Ricky Peters
I get that fresh tapped taste from a bot-tle.
sipin on MGD
Jack should be in 5 hole

The 3 hole and him don’t mix too well.

AHHHHHHH FIDDLESTICKS
meant to post this

we need a ban on emil brown of any kind
One of my favorite pics of all time. Classic.
ah

The “RBI machine”

Remember his "magic RBI wand?"

I love Fosse.

Mile long slide.
Maybe 7/8 of a mile.
Did he make it?
Willie Makeit by Betty Don't
Under the Bleachers

by Seymore Butts.

To the dugout?

Why yes, yes he did.

Major League?

come on, come on just a bit more your almost there….

Emil

did not make it. He came to a complete stop and Mike Napoli stood up and tagged him.

What's great about that picture...

…is that Brown is so far up the line that it looks like the product of photoshopping.

reality

Emile “I Drove In a Bunch Of Runs In April, So They Let Me Kill The Team For Far Too Long” Brown

anyone see blart mall cop?

This reminds me of that scene where he tries to slide behind that pillar and has to like but scoot 5 feet to get there

I did not see the movie.

but I did see that scene in the trailers, which were played mercilessly on television for weeks.

Emil definitely did NOT get that fresh tapped taste from a bot-tle.
He wasn't even fixing his guitar!
he may have been drinking at school ,though.

the lost lyrics.

Hannahan is capable at 3rd on defense, it must be said
capable's drastically underselling him.

He’s a plus fielder.

Makes you wish for a Designated Fielder roll-

But that’d be lame…

why don't we let Outman hit and DH Hanny?
outman retires 10 in a row
my bad i jinxed him
never never...
GET OUT, MAN.
OUT
ok ill leave.... sorry
we're teasing, u know that
Outman is pitching really bad.

There. I “reversed jinxed” it

Not to Jinx Outman

but he seems to handle LHB’s pretty well

he handles me well?
Another impressive outing by a starter.
hey now it is still going

wait until it’s over to call it impressive please

Someone should really talk to Giambi about the 'stache.

Not a good idea in its present form.

Dude!

Hulkamania is running wild… what’s bad about that?

You don't fuck with a winning streak!
+ a million
I'm on my last pair of women's undies
meaning the grape boyz get a turn tomorrow?
( heads to Victoria's Secret )
The rose goes in the front big guy
you just made 67M's crush list.
When you win 20 in the show...

you can have mold on your shower sandals and the press will think your colorful

Fair enough

I stand corrected.

He's hoping opposing pitchers

have trouble controlling their fits of laughter.

is he still going with the leather daddy/prison stache?
LOB's are so awesome!
We do it like its going out of style!
question from last inning

what did Rajai do this time

He tried to go 2nd to 3rd on what was essentially an infield pop up.

He barely made it back to 2nd.

basically what rajai does

Yeah, he had to slide.

Almost got doubled off 2nd base on a pop fly to LF
he wandered pretty far off second on a shallow pop to left.

had to hustle and dive back

ah, ok, sounds about right
that was a reply all btw
Gaaak!

Don’t panic…

nice save Suzuki
Just settle down
talk to the motherfucker, there you go
Outman, outs, man.

settle down nawww

oh no... sinking... felling... in my...
feeeeling not felling
Feeeeeelings!!!

Nothing more than…. feeeeeelings…

I think its time.

Rally Salma.

Save it for offense.

Oh my…nevermind.

I think you distracted Outman
ooo ya baseball is on
Certainly got me distracted
now i feel better
If

those that doesn’t rally them, nothing will.

If we give up two runs

It’s your fault.

:/

One down..

This is even worse
salmanella poisoning right now

horrible pun, heh…anti-QOTM

This game looks like a tittles duel...

I mean a pitchers cleavage.

Huh?

I was too distracted there
Please do not give up a run

or walk on in.

This has a bad feel about it

Come on Outman, settle down...
Wrong time to lose it
tres and oh

camonnn

Control. You must learn control!

Ironically Yoda carried Mark Hammill in this movie
lol!

I like it!

Well that wasn't even close.
young.

young guys.

they do young things.

Are you serious? Four straight runners have reached with two outs?

This is like what happened to the O's

I like it much less when it happens to us.

Sauce(Goose) ≠ Sauce(Gander)
c'mon Josh

end this now

So he did.
not good

he was doing pretty well in this game too

Eh,

it was a good pitch. Sometimes the other team does things right. That walk pisses me off.

Meltdown

No excuse for this many runners reaching

These guys were hitting like.. .230, .185, .185

hit, walk, hit.

Much like how our rallies came about in this win streak.
Bad....but we should be able to score more than three runs in a game
Against Swarzak????????
Hope Spring Eternal

Especially after he opens an inning with six straight balls.

You’re gonna love his balls!

We have 5 hits in 12 innings

and have not scored in 11 innings.

I think it’s time to break that trend

three runs.

we can do this.

c’mon guys!

Let's go Oak-land!!!
{clap clap clapclapclap}
YES WE CAN!!
yeah, let's make bumperstickers,

oh wait

I make bumperstickers already.
yeah!

They got this!

Okay. Let's try not blow the bully for the entire series fellas
Well, inning over.
I'm gonna go lie down now
Well, Texas just lost.
Viva Canada!
there is absolutely no excuse for walking carlos gomez with the bases empty

let alone with the bases loaded

Ironically, the inning started with Mauer and Morneau getting out
look at it this way

if tolbert can do it, hannahan can too

cuddyer, harris, young, gomez, tolbert, casilla

getting points off outman.

I’m guessing no one’s fantasy team was hurt by this.

I like Outman talking to his glove ala Braden.
Texas just lost.

Walking Gomez was a killer. You got to let that guy beat you. A’s are still going to win tonight.

I feel bad for Outman

Our offense blows tonight…

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