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And that's the reason I hate Geren

as a manager.

alox - July 16, 2009 reply

Even Fosse ignored the question posedby Comcast!!!

warning track...

Kuiper

“THAT ONE’S HIT A LONG WAY!”

wow, the tv announcing has reached a whole new level of awful

I can't believe I paid for MLBtv this year

im droping mine after this month

buckfan6 - July 16, 2009 reply

ill just go watch them when they come into texas

buckfan6 - July 16, 2009 reply

Wow.

This thread is depressing.

Angels have 8 hits

A’s have 1 hit

See?

It’s not so bad!

I could not imagine such a thing!

Much like this team

+1

ElQuesoCapitan - July 16, 2009 reply

There's no "A" in

depressing.

“Depressing” is a state to which these sad sacks must aspire.

alox - July 16, 2009 reply

It's not really the thread.

the hit parade continues

I thought batting practice ended before the game

[sigh]

Pull Braden...

E-Gon can finish this shit up!!!

this is almost comical

then why am I crying?

menopause?

maybe a fruit shake from Jack-in-the-Box would help…

or 99m tacos for $.02?

I can't do Jack

until Steph gets back.

oh yeah....

I forgot.

oh my

It's just kind of a kick to the gut

It’s like when a college team goes 1-10 but at least gets that one win over their rival, it alleviates the pain some. If we could just play decently against the Angels, I’d be a lot less disappointed.

OC fails again and Braden getting the sacrificial lamb treatment......great.

Gift hit for Naples

And OrCa sucks

Dallas looking at CG 20 hits 15 runs

Trainman - July 16, 2009 reply

LOL!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is it possible that the A's are

actually a comedy troupe and this whole thing is a joke?

Watching the A's lose in HIgh Definition

is totally awesome.

+1!

dp

wheeeee!

Hey Fosse - STFU about HiDef already

Oooh, GIDP.

my favorite is when they asked him about which thing is best for the second half

and he paused for a minute and said “a’s in HD!”

quick, we need a diversion!

Lets try “guess the movie”
what is this quote from?

“Listen! . . . Do you smell that?”

no cheating and using the comcast guide.

Ghostbusters?

good job

“Get Her! That was the big plan?”

Ok, now you go. ;-)

Okay

“What an incredible smell you’ve discovered!”

too easy.

At first I thought Indiana Jones

but then I realized I was just thinking of Harrison Ford. Star Wars: A New Hope

Who's doing

the recap tonight? Come on, you know you want to. Oh, I kid. But really, I’ll pay you.

I'll do it for $39.99!

$13.5 million

You don't have enough money for that chore

Here, I'll write it for you right now, for free

“Team sucks.”

Has to be seven words.

Good god almightly, does this team suck.

night everyone.

What a god-awful game that was

Awesome is terrific

Awful is terrible.

Hit4TheCycle - July 16, 2009 reply

Lets take a page from Beane and turn on the soccer game?

I make one

Natalie Wood joke and it comes back to haunt me. I loved her as Maria, ok?

who's Maria?

The Love Of My Life!

We all need to say it softly

to have a chance in this game.

West Side Story.

Remember? We watched it on our first date.

Maybe if we have a dance fight the curse of Ms. Wood will lift

I wasn't really paying attention.

I was distracted by trying ot get in your pants.

You were awful.

borderline date-rape,

but you dressed like a whore—what’d you expect?

I hate when they blame it on how we dress.

This aside is not very funny, IMHO.

wrap it up Bloom

we’ve crossed the line.

I thought we'd already run out the womenfolk.

Still wouldn't be funny.

got that the first time.

almost

but Pam’s a gamer.

Is there video?

i no longer feel pretty

is it because of the A's?

that and a large breakout of acne

Yankees Stadium should help with that.

yes

although the word is they charge $20 per bottle of neutrogena

from the “look on the bright side dept” if we somehow grow a pair and go 48-28 in this half we will be in a pennant race.

hey….its all I got :(

PL78 - July 16, 2009 reply

Grow a pair of what, hitters?

Well played

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

How confident do you (AN) feel with Hairston batting 3rd?

Better than Giambi.

TRUE!!@

I like Hairston

Not sure that it was a good trade but I’m glad we have him.

I love how everyone that knows anything about the A's is kinda ripping

Bob Geren for being a worthless whimp of a manager but still he keeps his job.

Articles suggesting he’s as worthless as tits on a bull and he gets a free pass.

Trainman - July 16, 2009 reply

:)

LOL

Giambi

NWO Wolfpack ?

my goodness (wrings hands) what's happened whilst I

was doing something else! my gracious those angels had some more runs.

yep

it’s fucked up.

When you wring your hands, does anybody answer?

Or do you just get voice mail?

(calls blez) 'nice should take a day off'

freudian slip...nice = Nico

ughhhh

why couldnt we have that

Is this shift thing that hard to figure out

Going to come back in the 9th

When the A’s score Opponent Score -1 and GIDP to end

Hit4TheCycle - July 16, 2009 reply

The classic 4-5-3 DP

Nine years ago I would've gladly raced G for money

Today, nothing has changed.

night all

I’ve been sick, I should be in bed. Please be well.

Hope you don't have what I have. Been sick for a month.

i've been sick all night but i know exactly what it is

catching the broadcast by the Angel commentators and the one who sounds like WWF keeps drooling about figgy this and figgy that and figgy get figgy with figs fig fig.

me, in my mouth, ke-blurghh.

Yay, the Office is on!

I know, reruns but we actually just got into the show. See you in the recap AN.

which bear is best?

um

I don’t follow.

Office reference?

yeah

a classic dwight sequence

One day I will be in on the joke.

yay strickout

More relevant scores to ponder

Kane County 3, South Bend 0 (Jeremy Barfield 2-3, BB, RBI, yay!)
Midland 4, San Antonio 3 (Adrian Cardenas 2-4, R, yay!)

Others in progress.

On the subject of shakespearean puns

I meant to mention this in the earlier thread, but I had stuff to do, but the phrase “Much Ado about Nothing” is a play on the word, I believe “Nutin”, or somesuch, which at the time was slang for a lady’s special area.

In other words, it’s like, “much ado about sexing”.

This is my story, and I’m sticking to it

bobnothing - July 16, 2009 reply

I remember it as being the 3

in the “3, 6, 12, wet, dry, abortion” mnemonic.

stormtown - July 16, 2009 reply

i have NO idea what that means

but it doesn’t sound nice

bobnothing - July 16, 2009 reply

It's a nerdy joke about shakespeare comedy titles

3" is much ado, 6" is as you like it, 12" is taming of the shrew. wet is midsummer night’s dream, dry is twelfth night. and the last is love’s labours lost.

stormtown - July 16, 2009 reply

and noting

aka, listening/eavesdropping, which the play is all about

Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin'

and nuttin’s plenty for me!

for old times sake, I got a big bag of Rolos

Had some of those after lunch today

Yummy

golden foil wrap, one of life's little pleasures

unwrapping each choc covered caramel treat, popping in your mouth, chewing whilst unwrapping the next one

Wow - 1,2,3, for E-Gon

maybe we can have him bat too

I wish Barton, Buck, and Cunningham

were leading next inning off!!!

OK, you want to get on I-5 going North

It’s about 85 minutes in average traffic.

So you want to watch a Rivercats game

Well

Bartons 0-0 with 2 BBs tonight, Buck is 0-2, and Cunningham is 1-2 as the Rivercats take on the mighty Reno Aces, who are winning 5-2 in the sixth.

You know I'm from Sacramento but I never

saw a Rivercat in the wild

Let's put Nomar in at SS and keep running his old ass out there until

the calf explodes!!!!

Ummm, that's not nice.

It would open a roster spot, that is all I'm saying!!!

How Cute!

Is it my HDTV or does it look like Ryan Sweeney is trying to grow a mustache/beard combo?

He also looks like he's trying to hit a double.

maybe it’s in honor of travis buck

Whoa

it took you more than one comment tonight. are you slipping?

T.W.H.S.

awesome

GYMNASTICS!

also, this team sucks ass.

also also, i killed a bottle of cpt morgan 100proof while gtailgating.

go a’s

mikev - July 16, 2009 via mobile reply

gtailgating

yes, we can tell.

no driving for you, friend.

of course not

i m a responsible xdrunk!

mikev - July 16, 2009 via mobile reply

word....

and you're still coherant? Impressive...

i didnt drinl it al myself

only like 3/4 of it

mikev - July 16, 2009 via mobile reply

It didn't affect your spleling ither

being on a phone doesnt hwlp

mikev - July 16, 2009 via mobile reply

help

mikev - July 16, 2009 via mobile reply

heh

Yay - drunk blogging

This should be entertaining until mikev hurls on his keyboard.

not only that, drunk MOBILE blogging.

everyone’s favorite.

TWSS

mikev - July 16, 2009 via mobile reply

rec'd!

Did you know you can comment on Athletics Nation from your

phone or PDA? SB Nation has launched mobile commenting. Check it out next time you’re shitfaced in the parking lot and have something to say.

Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QOTM

QOTM

I'm not in the parking lot

mikev - July 16, 2009 via mobile reply

Hey we got a hit!

i like me some leadoff doubles

Sweeney teasing us with another sporadic power display

yay!

cyke17 - July 16, 2009 reply

28 STRAIGHT GAMES!!

How bad could it really get?

HeavyHitters510 - July 16, 2009 via mobile reply

very....

:)

You ain’t seen nothing yet!!

0-28

~~HAHAHA!!!!~~

I think I finally understand

The A’s ownership, being soccer-obsessed, put together a soccer team, only this is baseball.

They must have been operating under the illusion that like in soccer you only need to score once a game to win.

emperor nobody - July 16, 2009 reply

and they can't even manage that!

Seriously... The Earthquakes are horrendous.

cyke17 - July 16, 2009 reply

Even the women's pro team from the Bay Area is in last

Haven't you heard the A's are using a golf strategy

where low score wins

2 hits no runs and 3 more innings to go still........

God truly has a sense of humor my friends……

does it annoy anybody else that when cabrera takes a pitch, he does something to make it blatantly obvious he's not swinging?

he adjusts his gloves or yawns or looks behind him or drops his pants to pee

at least look like you might try to hit…

i have no good reason for this

I really thought Cabrera was going to walk for the first time in 3 weeks.

Hey, I wonder if Holliday will HR for the first time in 6 weeks.

Can we dare to ask for both

don't bet on it....especially with your salary... :)

so during that inning

angels’ tv focused on geren and the commentators, citing macha, said managers in oakland only seem to last 3 years.

W H A T D O T H E Y K N O W ! ! !

They know we have to suffer through his incompetence for the rest of the season

if they can guarantee that end date, i'll sign

Aybar kinda looks like a tranny.......at least from this angle....

And you'd know because...?

because he/she is in HD!

nice dp!

Nice GIDP

You’ve just been UNICORNED.

Wow. That was a really great play.

Glen Kuiper is kinda cute

if only he could do the announcing without his friend ray

Oh man.

Your credibility just took a huge nosedive.

But it just got good for some folks.

Cute in like a muenster cheese kinda way?

Kuiper makes me want to have Papa back.

cyke17 - July 16, 2009 reply

They're totally awesome, both of them

Particularly in High Definition.

isn’t that sad, there’s no one to crush on anymore

Need to fix something here

if only he could do the announcing ~~without his friend ray~~ in sign language,

Major League 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQweJm4BsKE

I never has a regular girlfriend like you, but I did get kicked in the balls once by a mule. Now, I thought that I would be hurting for the rest of my life, but you know what happened the very next week?

my momma died.

winchester5 - July 16, 2009 reply

HAHA!!!!!!

MMunoz33 - July 22, 2009 reply

Dang, I don't think anyone has enough booty

for the sort of rally we’d need tonight.

It would take a booty of epic proportions

not even J-Lo?

Here's an attempt

nice....

Exactly what I was googling for.

how did she get her ass into that dress with a shoehorn??

Deborah51 - July 16, 2009 reply

Now I wish I was a shoehorn

ha!

lol....pervert!!!

Deborah51 - July 16, 2009 reply

{Turns Nico into shoehorn....poof!}

I'd like to know how the hell she can even move in that thing

Just less chance she can run away from me

Mmm. There's one.

Just need six more of those.

Who is that?

Reggie Bush's girl.

Kim Kardashian.

OldhamA - July 16, 2009 reply

I'm pretty sure it's Kim Kardashian.

I shouldn't have asked

Our side of the scoreboard appears to be broken.

well its the 7th

runs time?

Magic 8-Ball says

It seems unlikely.

I gotta get a new Magic 8-Ball

um

Tecate time?

Outs

are the A’s bread and butter.

home run holliday?! wow!

A HR for Holliday!

It’s about fucking time bro!

Chavez-esque HR.

OldhamA - July 16, 2009 reply

There's one

Right after my booty pic, mind you.

Rally Kim works!

it's the only work she's ever done

we need more booty!

MORE KIM!!!!

Damn. First HR for Holliday since JUNE 5TH!?!!?

121 At-Bats! boo-yah!

nico, there's 1/2

now where’s the o-cab walk?

yes, the monthly HR with days to spare.

Oh my God

Holliday goes deep it’s like seeing a shooting star

TWSS!

A Matt Holliday home run?

Yawn.

Anthony Morrow threw down 47 points in the Summer League tonight – a new record! Yeah, it’s kind of like having the Spring Training record for strikeouts in a game, but it’s more interesting than whatever the A’s are doing right now.