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Open Extra Innings Thread: Game 92 - A's vs. Twins (cont)

No change since the last one. Time for free baseball.

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Like I said in the other thread, we mustn’t give up on Lauren Graham.

Yay extra inning thread

the last one was tainted

ewwwww
Tainted love, whooooaaah!
I've got to

Run away.

This thread needs a disco ball and a fog machine

Yeah, now its a party
Xanadu!

(whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
Xanadu-u-u!

I don't think Lauren Graham is gonna come through for us twice.

Hey, don’t you doubt her!

Make her come through until she stops.
Maybe Jaymie Sire? (spelling?)
meh
huh wuzza wuzza wuzza!

Jaymee Sire is awesome.

just another one-night stand
lauren deserves better
...

Two balls are better than one
I've got the biggest balls of them all
Your ball is extra shinny.
My balls are always bouncing....
to the left and to the right...
I notice your ball is blue

Is that an omen?

Let's hope that amnesiac guy forgets where the thread is.

And where my AN chick is.

Oh noes.

He haz found it

She may be yours, but Im the baby daddy
Falcon punch.
Hmm... that last commercial about the

SECRET LIFE OF SEA MONKEYS behind the green door water?

or we could also get a dewar full of liquid nitrogen and throw it on the floor for fog
Hey - you just described most of my 6 years in grad school
this describes most of my summers in the lab during UG

and making frozen “hands” with rubber gloves

wow

I just came here and read about last night’s game, because I totally missed that we even played & thought, mistakenly, that we were off.

Wow.

Dude, you totally win the historic-game fail award.
Porno with the pop out
Second innings for Bailey are not good
seems like he gives a hit up in the second innings a lot
Burnt him twice in 2 appearances

Maybe his knee is bothering him.

shite

Siddown, R.A. Dickey

It's a total shock

when Bailey gets hit. Poor effort by Sweeney.

stupid cuddyer

ruining all the fun

Maybe a "morneau" with Jude Law will help

Looks like that was a misplay
What's our record in extras this year?

It can’t be good.

What's our record?
2-6 KK said

i think

Something like

Fail – 17

That's not good either.
Are we close enough

To make a run for worst record? We should try to land Bryce Harper

the nats have that market cornered

not sure we could do it even if we tried to suck worse

They are actually favored tomorrow
No

Don’t even want to look it up

Add Joe Nathan to the mix and we have a large mountain to climb.

oh yeah

there is a game on. BOO!

At what point are Suzuki and Bailey going to realize

that his curve is not his best or second best pitch?

Probably when they're not delerious from playing too much.
Yep. #1 is not called enough.
It's unbelievable -- he pours a fastball by Morneau

and then Cuddyer can’t drive the first pitch fastball right over the plate. So he speeds up Cuddyer’s bat with a slow curve. I thought he idolized Rivera — when was the last time you saw Rivera lop in a slow curve?

so should we start a petition nico?

seems like ANers are the only ones who realize

Do we have Lauren Graham pictures ready to go?

Less asking, more doing.
That was scary!

Good Jorb Barton!

Giambi's not making that play
Of course not

he’s dead

good point

They should let him play the season out unless he hits like .100

If/ When Giambi comes back he can split time at DH with Cust or Pinch hit.

THAT BALL SHOULD HAVE BEEN CAUGHT by Sweeney!!

Then again we should get more hits/ runs against that starting pitcher.

LET'S GET SOME RUNZ!!!
let's hope for a nathan-fail
I think I'd rather try to come back from down 10 runs

than try to beat Nathan.

i know.....just trryin to stay positive here!

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Emma rally

she's cute

who is she?

She’s Emma Watson and she’s going to Brown University.

i suddenly feel the need to buy a ticket to rhode island
Oh, I so don't agree with LB's comment on the prior thread.
I agree with disagreeing, based on this pic.

I recant.

She is not hot

That’s just not that good of a picture.

I respectfully disagree.
Barton HR

Please.

these girls are ok

but where are my penelope fans?

I think this calls for Salma.
Original Rally Salma

lol. I hope its not a sign
jesus could we be less selective

she could make me switch sides…not really travis

I’d love to see that show.

dammit Gnats - why'd you trade this guy to the Twins?
Zooey Rally?

I bet she is stoned quite a bit of the time
This sucks. Looks like itll be a long night. Ill go start the coffee pot.
Ok Sweeney.

Hits, baby. Hits.

This man is the true definition of a closer

Year after year is is pretty much lights out

Sweeney needs to make up for that misplay
gay
Have you seen that new commercial about using the word "gay" like that?

Because you should.

Rally pic FAIL

We had too many different girls going.

We need to stick with Adiana Lima!
This is true.
Usually that's not a bad thing
we need much more cohesion.
a rally girl protocol

first lauren, then that emma girl above, then salma

last night we were strictly Lauren.

We should go with that until she loses.

when can we post the guys?

Never.

ever.

really, even if i say naughty things?

I changed my mind.

Damn, I’m easy.

especially not then

If you say naughty things to me, I’ll consider it.

You sure do know how to be persuasive,

don’t you, Hon?

a girl has to do what she has to do to get her way

Yeah, but can you talk dirty in Russian?

That’s what I want to know.

french

no espanol?

no

one could hope

not that I’d kick the dirty French-speaking girl out of bed

Lexi (kind of) speaks Spanish!

Hmm, that's not bad. I think I could be convinced.
Wanda?
I actually have seen that,

but I wasn’t intentionally alluding to it. There were lots of Russian girls in the SF opera community, and I was a total sucker for the accent.

there's a lot of Russian/Eastern bloc girls here.

a good chunk of them are…um…“for hire”

hey.....we gotta get our rally jollies too!!
if we had a 10 run comeback while posting pics of

some half-naked man, I’d say we run weith him.

hmmm we'll just have to saturate this thing with lauren

well how about that one hot model who had me “confused”

she was completely random.
but kinda hawt
yes, but...

it was supposed ot be Rally Lauren. We had four or five different people just randomly throwing images out there. Regardless of how or why, it seemed like every time we put Lauren up last night, we scored.

should've done it tonight.

that was kind of pitiful, from a gamethread pov.

Cause we're already watching a bunch of sweaty mens on TV.
yeah...but they keep their shirts on.....
WTF Sweeney.

That was horrible.

Going to the game tomorrow....

Think good series winning thoughts!!

Dang -- with that power he'll develop I was sure

Sweeney would take Nathan deep.

They shot their wad last night

Nathan is Game Over.

Oh well.

i’ll tell you that story another time

I got a phone call and missed most of the 10th

Was it a good tease?

they scored,

the A’s rolled over on their collective back and curled up like a spider in death throes.

Well, at least it was a decent performance

Imagine having the Mets lineup…shut out by the Nationals, fifth time the Mets shut out in the last thirteen games!

i wouldn't mind having wright at 3rd
So much for momentum from last night
Did we win yet?

No, OakA’sHoney won’t talk dirty to me because the game is over.

you need to ask sooner, kid
I'll remind you next game

Trust me, I’ll remember.

Mkay

Keepin an eye out

Why?

Lucy’s just gonna pull that football back again Charley.

you have a point,

even if you don’t know how to spell Charlie.

I do know how to spell Charlie.

Or at least I did. I was going to use “Blockhead”, but I didn’t think he would get the reference.

Kids these days don't know Jack

I know Jack.

Dad!
Jack Marquez?!

…well it does explain the tacos thing. Tacos don’t really belong on that menu…

I like blockhead.

I’m quite the blockhead some days.

We know that doesn't work.
YOU WERE SO INNOCENT THREE DAYS AGO!!!

What set it off, again?

good 'ol AN corrupted him
Seriously! What happpened????
Sigh. We started talking about erogenous zones.

That’s right.

I blame all of you.

That was supposed to be EDUCATIONAL.

Tell that to my — well, it still was.

Seven! seven! seven! seven!

…… (seven!)

I love you for knowing this!
Can you enlighten me?
When Harry Met Sally.
Oh! Oops!

Friends.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I remember now!

Possibly the best scene in the entire run.
Close...but I REALLLY love the Thanksgiving episode...

where Rachel makes the triffle.

the layer of meat!
It tastes like feet!
I'm dying laughing over here.
I can recite that entire scene.

And I laugh histerically everytime.

Whats not to like? Meat, Good. Jam, Good. Custard, Good.
Oh man.

Now I’m watching that YouTube vid, instead of preparing for my phone interview tomorrow..

Friends clips sucking me in!

Noooooooooooooo

Must prepare for interview!

NOT!

Yes.

But the real question is…does he know more than seven?

Who? me or Chandler?
You! duh
To seek beauty or truth

is an endless quest. No matter how much you learn, you haven’t discovered everything there is to discover.

ya can't unring that bell....huh?
ring the bell!

schools in, sucka!

/A’s VP

i've actually been thinking about that armpit thing
LOL.

See, lynnz rubbed off on you.

i asked my GF and it was like crickets in the room after i said it
You ASKED her about it??

i was curious

we just pretended i never asked

Speaking of French,

somewhere in the memoirs of Arsène Houssaye, there’s an exquisite sentence about “exploring the bays and promontories of her feminine geography”.

One of my favorite lines ever.

who are you?!

I love you.

Your long lost brother, apparently.
wanna come

to hell and discuss modernism with me?

As I was floating down unconcerned Rivers
I no longer felt myself steered by the haulers:
Gaudy Redskins had taken them for targets
Nailing them naked to coloured stakes.

wow, men quoting poetry to each other

French poetry at that.

Well, translated French poetry.

Not really into modernism so much.

Nor hell, either.

But if you come up here, we’ll definitely play pinball.

Is that verse translated? Looks like it would be even better in French. If it’s English, it’s gotta be a poet whose first language was Irish. Born anglophones don’t write like that.

Rimbaud, The Drunken Boat,

for Berkeley and the same.

Maybe we should stick to words he can pronounce.
Well,

This makes me want to talk about the past.

that's silly

Oh.

sweeney sucked tonight and not in a good way

You should suck for him instead.

you are getting so fresh

Well, I am the ultimate opportunist.

As my favorite actor used to say

That’s no way to talk to a lady

a little beyond fresh, no?
Slow down, hot rod
I think you need to go back to the kidde side of AN
back off the throttle, RRS

i feel like i need to take a shower

I'll get two towels.
I still haven't figured out if O-Honey is our age or R-Star's age.

I think she likes keeping us in the dark.

i’m in between

There you go, iglew

Between 17 and 44. Sigh.

17 is young, is it even legal?

I’ll be legal if you want me to be legal.

No, just stating the facts for numbers sake.
Meant we were no closer to your real age

than 20 minutes ago.

he's 40.

might be PT.

lllegal in California.

Not illegal in some other states.

surely not illegal here.
in Hell, you mean?

Nothing is illegal in Hell. I mean, what can they do? You’re already in Hell.

ROAD TRIP!
Not allowed to "transport a minor across a state line

for illegal or immoral purposes."

I don’t think there’s any rule against finding one on the other side, though.

That's what I was thinking.
If R-Star and I ever come to blows,

I hope O-Honey will come between us.

the meat in your sandwich? i had that dream about travis buck and his identical twin

you have some vivid dreams
see RRSS,

THAT’S How you talk dirty without coming right out and being nasty!

Hey, I’m learning.

(Hat tip to Lytton Strachey)
oh my god.

I HAVE to be the only other person here who even knows who the fuck he is!

Probably.

Unless Nick is lurking.

I think I've got writings by him here.

Oh, definitely in the Bloomsbury Reader…I’ve got sketches done BY him and sketches OF him…

Oh, well you're way ahead of me.

I mostly remember him for that one witty line. Vaguely aware he was connected with Woolf and Keynes somehow. Maybe the Sitwells? Not sure.

I think I know Keynes more than any of the others, which shows that I’m not the same breed of nerd as you are.

no, but does show the cooperative crossover points.
hawt

can you imagine that one?

over and over

i’ll be thinking about it later…

I'll be thinking about you thinking about it later...

my boyfriend has been out of town since the weekend so it;s been a little slowwwww if you know what i mean so it;s good to have an imagination

loud and clear, dear
"Since the weekend"!

Dang. I remember when four days seemed like a long time to go without.

it has been 4 days, so the travis stuff starts up again, that way i’m faithful

good thinking

another example of the A’s making a positive difference in the community

lol

but so true

well now it’s the rivercats

I have a very good imagination.
She's a little mysterious.

Which adds to the intrigue, of course.

Check her license first.
i'd say 25

higher or lower OA honey?

i’ll never tell…ok older

HAHA

well played, miss. or is it mrs. or ms.?

miss

Well, we knew it wasn't Mrs

when she thought four days was a long time.

okay i'll stop messing with you now

and leave you to your travis buck-themed dreams

i’ll tell you about them

and to think I was going to log off
well, you offered

spill it

oh i meant next time, i have to go have one now so stay tuned

i'll be waiting for that

on thursday. work for me tomorrow too, and this is NSFW

it was the nightly tease, cuppingmaster

just like the A’s

she fits right in here, that's for sure.
LOL

You’re as easy as me. Well, one could hope.

Okay, I won’t touch that one.

after being here with us

you need disinfectant

Oh shit.

Rated-R is really a 40 year old man.

Lies.

let me guess

a trans-am, mullet, and smoking winstons right?

What is a van, a hairstyle and cigarettes?

just a stereotype of a stalker

Oh, right.

Did I get it right, though?

trans-am

recognize this famous car?

I heard it on That ’70s Show.

knight rider

hasselhoff. big hair. 80s. talking car.

anyway, a trans-am is a sports car in case you didn’t figure it out

Well, now I know.

...and knowing is half the battle.
G. I. Joe

nice

True Story

Yesterday after work I stopped by Walmart, hoping to buy a G.I. Joe, so that I could position his limbs in the shape of a letter K, and take a picture of it to use for recording Gio’s strikeouts.

I couldn’t find a decent G.I. Joe. Or at least not one that actually looked like Joe. There were a lot of weird things with the G.I. Joe brand name, but no Joe like I remember him.

Turns out it didn’t matter. I don’t think Gio got any strikeouts anyway. Or if he did, they were so outnumbered by hits that it would have been ridiculous to notice them.

you may be a real fan.
I don't know you

But I love you.

AN creeps into your life in weird ways.

Your = general us

Better than trying to shape one of these into a K

don't know if he'd take kindly to being metro
"now you're treading water!"
I thought this a long while back.

It explains why no AN Day…

that makes sense

I’m not 40, damn it.

40 is hot

I’ll be 40 for you.

Hello.
caught.
Yep.
Hey oh2be?

LB screwed up!

(damn.

replaced by a back-up sign man…)

And I think he's closer.
sigh.

I’m a sad (and hot) panda.

Eh. Now you're sad and hot.

And, supposedly, we’re evil.

sigh.

sad, hot and depressed.

Well think of it this way

40 year old mine, 17 year old body.

YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

*mind, rather

spelling fail.

It's the old age.
I think mikev hacked into RRSS's account.
Completely random...

Best Dennis Hopper line?

this

I remember lying there in the gutter, all bleeding and shaking, staring at my leg, next to the beer can, and I remember thinking: that’s my leg. I wonder if there’s any beer in that can? I also thought: Maybe they can sew it back on, but then the ambulance came, ran right over it.

speed

don’t fuck with daddy

Hanny hit two jacks for Seattle tonight.
they still lost

even though i’m surprised porcello got lit like that.

No Pepe.

But we know Braden likes Mustang Cobras.

Damn, he’s really serious and pissed.

I like it.

GAME RECAP UP

http://www.athleticsnation.com/2009/7/21/957489/cuddyers-revenge-twins-win-in-10-3

Wait, what? I thought this WAS the recap.

Are we still in the game thread?

When is the game on Thursday?
4PM pst

on MLBN!

We’ll be blacked out, I’m sure.

maybe you will be

but not here in LA :-)

It’s at 4:05 p.m. on Comcast SportsNet California.

Has this become AN: After Dark again?

Yes, it’s becoming a routine.

So what’s gonna happen during tomorrow’s game since it’s a day game? AN: After Noon?

We could go with that.

not this, some of us have to be at work

No!

ask if her if she likes football, kid

she might like your DLD-ness.

Do you like football?

skyrockets in flight.

The term, "slow boat to China" comes to mind
My motto's always been that when it's right it's right.
Well, I'm going to try to get some work done.

My hours are already low this week. I surely don’t need to spend all afternoon trolling AN.

I will need to resist, too.

Meetings upon meetings tomorrow. I hate hump days.

Take 'em when you can get 'em.
apparently.

you’ll either be happy or ashamed that I’m discussing literature.

been awhile for me
Just FYI,

I’m working on a Morneau/porno/DiGiorno limerick.

It’s pretty dirty. I don’t know if I’m gonna be able to make myself post it.

Email it to me, and I'll post it.

…and I’ll add “with love, pamcakes” at the end.

Email it to ME and I'll keep it secret.
Email it to someone...then it wasn't you!
Now is the time and place if you are.

It’s late and not a lot of people go back and read the old threads….then we can bring it back to share later.

you know this because?
LOL.

Sorry. I can’t do it. I would never hear the end of it.

it's only us boys
Yeah.

Exactly.

okay, so 67Marquez

if she posts it, maybe you can remove it in like 10. we can even “flag” it if you want.

Nobody here but us chickens.
I'm glad to contribute with the pizza link

Everybody likes pizza.

Pizza? Now that's what I call a taco!
Having fallen asleep with the TV on last night

 I can say that if this were really AN after dark, we’d have seperate threads on poker, another one advertising extenze, and another saying how easy it is to refinance our homes with no money down.

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