Athletics Nation

Aaaaand

it’s raining again

Hi.

oh, shit.

yep.

hullo.

Hahaha...

Still empty seats in the $2,000 section (or whatever they’re charging for ~~courtside~~ field level seats) in Novoyankiskii Stadion.

If it's a Russian stadium, shouldn't all the seats cost the same?

Not in New Russian Capitalist Paradise!

This is the New Russia...

The cheap seats cost $1,000. And they go up from there.

And the only music they play on the P.A. system is this.

Nope

folks get seats according to their needs….
and it just so happens that the politburo needs to use the seats to insure quality.

(oh wait, that’s Shoreline amphitheater in Mountain View where the city council gets free seats. Sorry.)

MobiusKlein - July 23, 2009 reply

all seats are equal...but some seats are more equal than others.

Kallus - July 23, 2009 reply

i see

It's always difficult to reminisce about the playoff game

where Zito gave up the solo shot to GEORGIE Posada

It's always difficult to reminisce

about the last two innings.

walk off bunt - July 23, 2009 reply

but LESS difficult

And I didn't see it 'cause I was in the bathroom.

Right when the A's offense

seemed like it would pick up where it left off…

come on CUST!!!

a HR would be nice right now

micdog2001 - July 23, 2009 reply

Was it safer without me?

Honey, you're harmless.

17, but harmless.

That’s good, right?

So IMMEDIATELY after I question why we've never seen

Rated-R and O2B together, Rated-R wanders back in….

Back and to the left. Back. and to the left.

Jim Garrison?

Is that you?

Mr Hat?!

Is that some kind of South Park reference?

yes.

Mr. Garrison. Granted, Herbert Garrison, not Jim, but….

I thought so

It’s been a while since I’ve seen that show.

effing love you

At some point tonight...late

I am going to wake up from a dream, think of that comment, and laugh. Then tomorrow, at a red light, laugh. And then…

Fine, I’ll stop.

rawr.

No, just smarter

(be nice, gee)

MobiusKlein - July 23, 2009 reply

If I was going to be mean

I would have said something else.

Over/Under

1 more run scored for the A’s tonight

I don't understand why the A's have 3 runs

Why didn’t the Yankees just buy outs when they needed them?

well played, sir

This.

We just need to drop a 16 on them and everything will be sweet.

Also, most pitchers get a mulligan pitching at Yankee stadium this year.

Why doesn't the bay area media call out Geren and Beane?

I mean Geren has no clue when to take out a pitcher who is struggling and usually waits for far too long and by that time the damage is done. As for Beane why doesn’t get called out for not firing Geren? It’s obvious that Geren has no clue what he’s doing out there, so why the hell is Geren stll with the A’s?

Rocky632 - July 23, 2009 reply

2 words: best man

Best Man Bob!

It’s a great nickname!

I will help spread it

although I didn’t have much success pushing “spazz” for Byrnes.

stormtown - July 23, 2009 reply

Because the Bay Area media

Is too busy talking about the Giants

Face it....

Talking about the Giants this year is a lot less depressing than talking about the A’s.

The fact that talking about the Giants is less depressing

than talking about the A’s is quite depressing

the fact that ANY of you

want to jettison your green and gold fate and swim across the bay makes me nauseous.

no, we just take BART.

don't let the BART door hit you on the way out.

:p

Hey, sometimes I have to attend Giants games. For social purposes.

well, I just have park envy, so...

eww

No shit. I HATE that bullshit. HATE it!

That's a strained reading of this subthread, LB

I have no interest in swimming across the Bay, literally or figuratively.

But if I’m a news organization deciding on how to fill column inches, SF beckons.

Have you ever seen the Boise St.

hook and ladder?

FU, OTB

ouch.

I'm a KU fan

the only positive memories I have are when they beat Schnellenberger and the 1st half when they held Adrian Peterson to negative 1st half yardage. Of course…AD stuck it up our ass and Big Game Bob covered the spread at the last minute :-(

Rock Chalk Jay Hawk

(I went to Iowa State)

I like the Cyclones

OU is a different story but my best friend attended and I’ve seen nearly every KU loss in football and every KU win in basketball over the last 20 years.

Do you like McDermott?

Maybe if his teams would start winning some games

Last season they barely beat UC-Davis (my undergrad alma mater) and lost to South Dakota State – at home!

Some of my best friends teach at KU

I’m actually happy to see them get their football program in shape.

I'm a season ticket holder and hope that they

win the North…even though they have no chance against the South in the B12 championship.

I went to Phoenix for the Insight.com bowl game this year and had unbelievable seats. Hoo yah!

Why would anyone want to watch them

and their blue fake turf?

It always has, even when we were winning.

We’re the Mets/White Sox of the Bay Area.

That's, of course, true.

This year, however, an actually neutral observer would find the Giants the more interesting team.

And that is depressing.

I am not neutral.

And I want nothing to do with those Halloween-looking freaks. The Bay Area don’t want none of us? Fine. More for the rest of us.

Neither am I

But I wasn’t talking about me (or you, LB).

I was talking about the Chronicle.

screw those guys.

except SuSlu.

Ask ms. slusser. she's practically the only one covering the A's

that's why we love her.

And the revolving door of people

for the Mercury News/Contract Costa Times/Oakland Tribune.

Aw, the return of the pixelated screen

My Comcast experience is nearly complete.

Aw crap Nomah's never getting up from that.

[ strains everything ]

lol yeah he was slow getting up after that

I'm back

It takes a while to log out as Rated-R Superstar and then get back to O2B…

I wish I was home. The rain delay ruined it. (No, it didn’t ruin my home.)

Shit, you are ohtobe

Hi. Freaks you out now, doesn't it?

now i'm confused

insanely

I cheated on my gf tonight... oh wait...

I’m not allowed to leave the house!

i'm officially spooked

Oh they're still playing.

Well Craig Breslow’s been kind of a nifty pickup, huh?

walk off bunt - July 23, 2009 reply

At Least Geren

Can blow out his arm, and save the younger kids arms. You know things are bad, when a reliever has stats of a starter, and he complains about being overworked to the media

hishnik - July 23, 2009 reply

Can Geren blow out his own arm?

That would be kind of satisfying!

That's about the best Breslow has looked

Really solid. He walks too many, but he’s not real hittable.

Good to have a lefty specialist in the 'pen

Especially one who has the ability to get righties out when necessary

I prefer Gio as the lefty specialist

who gives up titanic HRs to every lefty, usually with 2 to 3 guys on base at the time.

We can always pray

The Gio we saw in Cleveland is the future confidant Gio

hishnik - July 23, 2009 reply

and if I told you that wolverines made great house pets...

would you believe me?

They don't?!?

Oh shit….

WOLVERINE!

I feel the sudden urge to run off to the woods.

and shoot Russians?

micdog2001 - July 23, 2009 reply

In Soviet Russia

the guns find you

somewhere a monkey flings poo...

YOU TOO?!

We will be seeing this on Saturday

Many balls will go into the stands in right

Question for Nico: what do you predict Gio’s line will be on Saturday?

Straight to the showers?

I heard that Curt Young

Is going to crush some valium in Gio’s water that game. In an attempt to get a better outing for him

hishnik - July 23, 2009 reply

Maybe he should use Cialis or Viagra or similar

to boost his confidence.

I'd hate to hear he went on the 15-day DL due to a four-hour woody

It would be really awkward in the showers after the game.

Ugh

Did we ever have a chance to draft CC?

I don't think we could afford the extra cloth for his uniform

We'd just buy MC Hammer's old pairs of pants.

Hey!

Don’t speak ill of old A’s executives.

I'm not. We'd be doing Hammer a favor.

He was "unofficially" a snot-nosed version of Beane

Those were MY pants too

ring the bell

school’s in sucka!

day glo green baby

Can't touch those

we clothed Cupcakes...

Low outside slider, meet Bobby Crosby

They never actually 'meet.'

it's like a French film.

very deja vu

strangers in the night

WITCHCRAFT!#%

Pam, is it time yet?

I think it is.

But I can’t remember iglew’s rules.

done.

we past six?

Nice Ellie!

Never fear

Unicorn is here

(gasp!)

I’m in love.

damn she's pretty.

combination of those eyes, that smile and those cheeks.

And that goes for the other one too.

hammer time?

(get your minds out of the gutter)

unicorn

Unicorn Double

Let’s at the very least make this a two run game going into the Hughes/Rivera 8th/9th combo

Rajai is pretty worthless tonite

Come on Ocab.

"tonite?"

At least he's seeing

a lot of pitches.

Wow

never thought I’d see you have faith in Ocab

MobiusKlein - July 23, 2009 reply

let's try that again

is that a horse with corn in its head?

Kallus - July 23, 2009 reply

just one cob.

it is

Ohhhhh, uni "corn". i get it now.

Kallus - July 23, 2009 reply

LOL.

Rajai

Way to wait for a pitch to hit!

Heh, that talk about the Brewers

Then there’s the A’s.

They're touching.

Sigh. No rally for us.

Hey...29 runs in two games is quite an accomplishment

until you look at the AL West standings.

Really F's with the Pythag record.

( remembers 2008 )

Great

Clutch hitting

this game sucks now

I’m thankful for “The Office” right now. and DVR’s.

micdog2001 - July 23, 2009 reply

The Slegna are a damn pesky team

If we were half as resilient as they are, I would feel like we have a chance to win this game. Too bad we don’t…

Keep positive

It’s not over till it’s over.

It's not an official game unless Charlie O says it's official.

An A-Rod strikeout would be very satisfying

You should be very satisfied now

did she have a Snickers?

ha ha ha

sirbed - July 23, 2009 reply

How does that make you feel?

She's kinda shy ohtobe

pretty satisfied

where do you feel it?

rated-r, is that you?

YES!

I KEEP TELLING YOU ALL, BUT NO ONE WILL LISTEN!!!!!!

Oh yeah, baby. You know you like it.

That was a nicely uneventful half inning!

Hey, it's Carrie Fisher!

I haven’t seen that commercial before.

I stil haven't seen it.

mlb.tv only has commercials for merchandise and umpire school

I have my asshole, Drunk, obnoxious, Yankee Fan, roots for slegnA as well, roommate

spouting off in the background.

When it was 3-0 A’s he was yelling, here come the Yankees. Your pitcher is going to hit a wall and then Mazarro did the exact thing.

About 10 minutes ago he said, "It’s only 6-3 still, I thought my Yankees would have added on against such a sub-standard team like the A’s.

On top of this he is rooting for the slegnA.

If it was legal to arrange his face, I would put his nose thru the back of his head.

What kind of retard

roots for both of those teams?

Someone who clearly needs to have his ass kicked

He knows I hate both of them

and he does it on purpose.

I knew this was a Trainman post before seeing "Trainman"

Weird, eh?

same

I knew it was a Trainman post before I composed it

Anyone want ot earn a few thousand dollars. I will give you my address. Just bring baseball bat and wear rubber gloves etc. j/k

Ziggy rocked it.

Would agree with the one guy who was talking about baseball that Garen may have established a new low for a manager. Very hard to believe he still has a job.

tuck321 - July 23, 2009 reply

NO!!!! Stop sippin' on that MGD

sirbed - July 23, 2009 reply

HEY.

That commercial is awesome.

I liked it the first 6,768 times I heard it

sirbed - July 23, 2009 reply

And you'll like it the next time.