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Open Thread: Game 126 - A's at Seattle (cont.)

5-3 M's going to the A's. Mojo thread. Oh, and Rajai Davis doesn't catch fly balls anymore.

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RALLY RALLY RALLY
Roomy Roomy Roomy
roomy.

Hendu in the booth.

Hendu was a fun player to watch play
That has to count for something!
Raj Mojo!

Just in time.

KK just said

[Hendu] would have caughted it. LOL

Mark Lowe?

…more like Mark D’oh!

Nice Thread MOJO!
HENDU!

WE LOVE YOU!

Well, at least Rajai didn't make an out

If he tries to steal and gets thrown out, DFA his ass.

Damn, that was close!
Hey guys

I’m here for the RALLY and it ain’t gonna be no tease tonight

are you sure?
I don't f*** around
I don't either my girlfriend won't let me
i like this side of you
Kurt is this close >< to being disowned
Yeah

That was not cool to see. I’ve been listening to Queen while dealing with a breakup. Freddy knew love like Shakespeare.

What???

I missed some news. Sorry o2b…

Two years down the drain

Draino!

ugh...hope you're doing okay
I am

Will. I. Am. Not.

rent some porn

and eat a steak

Soft core of serious stuff?
gotta spend money for the good stuff sometimes
sage advice.
I'd spend more of the money on the steak

can’t beat a great steak

I'm hearing the guy from Superbad

explaining what kind of sites you should patron. Funny shit.

My friend gave me a DVD of porn tonight.

No idea why!!! What does it mean?

Blue balls version for a woman, me thinks, he/she thinks
Your friend is either creepy or awesome

depending on your opinion on porn.

I say creepy since it was unsolicted.
Why would anyone solicit that?

“Hey man, can you get me some porn? That would be awesome.”

If I was going to get it. I'd ask a male freind to get it for me.
Do you call that male friend Google?
My bad.

I’ll take it back.

it means he wants to have sex with you.
He's definitely has admitted that.
he's re-enforcing that position.
So did Mikev mail that to you or personally deliver that?
Nice.

I missed you on Saturday.

I missed you too :*-(
I hear youre in my neighborhood so ... :-D
Now?

Did you just now learn this?

Yeah I thought you where a Bay Area girl.
Originally.

Not for a long time though. So you thought I came down for all the SoCal games?

well in all fairness, I did only meet you at one and that was when the girls where road tripping.
WTF.
oh no.....
now you've done it...
For the reord, I was gonna fight him for your honor.
Ok...please continue.
It was going to be a duel.
No, it was going to be a slaughter.
Um,

Its good porn?

I don't know yet.

Hold let me go get it and read the title.

White Chocolate 2

Anyone? Anyone? My only comment to him was, “They made a 1?”

Haha!

Well, it is porn, y’know.

What's on the dvd?

that’ll tell you

The cover (and title) suggests its all white girls with black men.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Wow…thats bold.

....is your friend black?
Yes
And you're wondering what the message is?

It ain’t rocket science, girl?

But who says..."hey I got a present for you. Here."

Totally out of the blue. No mention or discussion previously.

um, he's also trying to silently tell you

that he’s got a big dick.

He said he didn't want to ruin it for me but one was really big!!!
Oh dear.

You really have no idea how men think, do you?

this.
But I've told him no 1000 times.
If you don't return the porn unopened

you will undo about 700 of them.

It's his DVD!

It’s already opened and been watched many times.

purell.
Ya think?? haha
I wouldn't touch the case
with a ten foot...

oh nevermind.

No doubt.

He gave it to me in a little bag and slipped it to me under the bar. I was like WTF!

you know the past

of that case

ewwwwww
Oh shit...

I don’t think i have a jpg to express how creeptastic that is

He sounds like an optimist!!

No means yes to guys??

The standard female way of saying "no"

does not sound like “no” in man-speak.

That's what I meant....not what I said - tho.
If you watch any romantic comedy you would think so

but if done in real life 87% of romantic comedy protagonist would have restraining orders

rom coms are poison
yes

also they are generally bad movies

I love rom coms.
I do too.

This is the problem. Women start to believe that THIS IS THE WAY IT HAPPENS.

I told my ex-gf

All I wanted to do was make you happy. Sorry I failed in the attempt.

Oh, you're making me sad.
Sorry

I thought it was the truth but we both failed each other.

Well don't apologize to me.

You’re the one going through a breakup, make me sad by all means if it makes you feel any better.

It’s not about failing. It takes a while but it’s about learning more about yourself.

It took me a year to get over an ex girlfriend of four years.

To finally admit that is was over, and she really wasn’t want I needed or wanted in a partner. At the same time, I realized other girls that had been in my life more recently were also not what I needed.

A week later I was re-introduced to the woman that I have now been with for over seven years and will be celebrating three years of marriage with next month. And we have a beautiful 13 month old son.

Everything that happens helps you understand yourself and if you don’t have those experiences, you won’t be who you are or set down the path that you walk.

Woah happy endings WTF?

:-P

It doesn't?
In Wedding Crashers

Owen Wilson breaks into a secret service controlled wedding to confess his love for someone hes been stalking after lying to her about his identity.

Which part of that sounds good?

Because Im doing none of that.

Just one of many examples

Cinderella Complex
RomCons are all the same

boy meets girl, boy doesn’t get girl, boy gets girl. Unless it’s nico. then sub “girl” with “goat”.

;)

thank you very much, SAT prep.

sounds like

he’s taking a new tack.

Never see him again, seriously.
I endorse this statement

Signed,
DFA

Why would he think giving you a dvd like that would make him attractive to you?
He saw it in a porn once?
I think he was joking and wanted to get a reaction out of me.
No.

But if that’s what you think, it’s a lot easier to understand how you got to this point.

He's actually a good friend.

And pretty harmless. I’m sure he thought it was funny.

+eleventybillion
OK, let me give an example:

What you say:
“I like you, and I’d like us to be friends, but I just don’t feel that way about you.”

What he hears:
“I like you, and I’d like us to be friends, and if only I did feel that way about you I would have sex with you.”

Therefore he tries to figure out how to make you feel that way.

What you need to say is: “There is no way I am ever ever ever going to have sex with you, so if that’s the only reason you’re hanging around, you need to give it up and move on.”

Have you ever tried being polite to a telemarketer? It’s the same idea.

But I think we always wish guys wouldn't be so dense about it all!

The Mars – Venus continuum

No, sorry, I'm going to defend my bros here.

Guys aren’t being dense. You’re trying to have it both ways. You want guys to do all the things they only do when they’re trying to have sex with you, but you don’t want them to try to have sex with you.

We just want to be wooed and romanced.

And we DON’T always want men to try having sex with us. Men and women ARE different in this respect. We communicate in ways we think are clear and guys prefer more directness. Happens all the time. Women are built to nurture and don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. Perhaps dense was the wrong word choice.

but thats the point ....

the reason we woo you is so that we can have sex with you. Its a genetic imperative. From evolutionary psychology, basically because reproduction from males requires almost no resources, we try to have sex as often as possible since that increases the chance that our genes live on. Women, the slow sex, expend huge amounts of resources in sex and must ensure that they mate with the best partner they can and that their offspring has the resources to survive. Wooing is a display of those resources. Men’s only reason participate is because its the only way they can procreate with women who hold out for resources. Therefore, by wanting to be wooed without providing sex you are breaking your end of the bargain.

How much of that is babble and how much is true depends on how much you believe my evolutionary psych class sophomore year of college.

I agree with all this.

I just want to add that (1) there are certainly individuals who are exceptions to the general pattern, on both sides; and (2) evolutionary nature, powerful as it is, is not all-powerful, and one might defy it if one wishes.

The one part of your discussion that I don’t directly relate to is calling women the “slow sex”. I know what you mean, and you’re right. It’s just that I happen to be a man who enjoys slowness in all things, including wooing, so that’s one place where I deviate from the male norm.

its an ev psych term

for the sex that contributes the most resources to the production of offspring.

THIS + A GAZILLION

I always try to be nice and it gets me no where. I’m blunt and suddenly I’m a bitch.

People never hear what they don't *want* to hear
Ain't that the truth.

For men AND for women.

Embrace the bitch.
Right from the start.

Get some balls, love. Unless you really are interested, bitch is the way to go.

I"ve learned this the hard way, haven't I?
I hope so.

You’re a sweet girl, but that has to be reserved for the right person.

Really?

I prefer bitch over vague or falsehoods every time.

And yet some people don't get the bitch either.
Just be consistent.
spending money on porn is like buying bottled water

It’s no better than the free stuff.

See, thats how I see it.
speak for yourself

LA water is foul

Coincidentally,

so is some of their porn.

there's not really a middle ground though

i look for the brita of porn but can never find it

Middle ground

The paradox of internet porn is that the only thing you can’t find is moderation.

All I drink is bottled water

maybe I’m a snob but I don’t think I am

you're not a snob

just ruining he environment.

=P

Eh I'm one of those D's that doesn't worry too much about the enviroment
LA is ruining the environment

have you ever seen the CA Aqueduct? And every house has a green lawn. We should cut them off.

We should

though for the second straight month the city of LA has cut its water and power consumption. Gotta start somewhere

LA has NOTHING on Florida water.

Trust me on this. Florida water is scary.

swampy
this is true

was in FL earlier in the year and wasn’t sure whether to shower or just go in the pool with a bar of soap

it's like Mexico without the warning.
Wow you're scaring the hell out of me

if I end up there. C’mon there has to be something good about Florida?

Scalding summers,

crowded as hell in the winter.

LOTS of New Yorkers and (even worse) Bostonians.

It’s a paradise.

Oh Mr. Bloom I told my girlfriend about your Florida advice

and she said she was the only one who could tell me what to do

did you say, "yes, dear."?
I'm well trained
It does taste like ass

or so I’ve heard that is what it tastes like.

not that there's anything wrong with that
How do you know what Florida water tastes like?
Because I used to travel to Sarasota

when we had a plant there.

ass tastes better.
depends on the ass
Not for him.
bad girl!

(true, but)
Bad girl!

Ribeye

best cut of meat out there

You sir are correct DFA
With a little mound of roquefort butter on top.
on top of DFA?
Haha! No, the ribeye, you!
I have a great steak marinade recipe

Even people who don’t like me like my steaks

with truffled tater tots on the side
Oh, hell to the yes!
haute cafeteria food

awesome

no

you spoon butter on top of a crushed garlic clove and rosemary. Put it on THE PAN FROM GOD and you have amazing

Wow.

That just sounds like good advice, for any sit.

You must be a really fun date.
She is ;o)
Why, thanks, darling!
Now I know what you two do on girls' night in.
I feel ya buddy

5 years gone about a month ago over here

Five years that's tough
Sorry bud

I hope you find something great…like a new stadium for the A’s.

Two years of experience on which to build on

pain is the tuition in the school of experience.

Yep.

I’ll be a better man next time around. Actually it was mutual but still painful.

Freddy is my hero.
Dude has some serious lyrical pain

that somehow actually comforts me.

Do you have News of the World?

That’s Freddy at his best.

I have it all.

Been listening to Melancholy Blues and Play The Game and Teo Torriata and several others. A friend of mine got divorced, bought a house and lost his job all within 3 days so my life is just fine. My heart still hurts, though.

Ooh, I looove Melancholy Blues.

So awesome.

that was the last song I heard

before witnessing the upcoming RALLY

I've heard THAT before.
BOO!
You know I love you!

Its our team I’m having a problem with.

I'm with you O2B.
Alright. We have some strong mojo.

It starts with two and ends with a woo hoo!

I like the sound of that!
That's just great.

Could we maybe pop up the next pitch too? I’d love that.

Third times a charm?
DO IT JACK.
Hello Pam ;-)
hello

are you nice on Wednesdays?

yes, you made me change my ways
Cust wants revenge.
Cust goes deep here.

bank it.

hmmmmm, no comment
I would take that.

He’s hot!

Mount Jack?
you women have dirty minds
did you just call iglew a woman?
See, I *can* still pass!
depends upon the makeup.
No, depends on the dress.
I thought you *might* be happy about that

But I didn’t want to answer for you either way

wait what

i’m confused now

I float as the clouds on air do!
you say that like it's a bad thing
I say he works the walk

MaEl delivers us to the promised land

OR

a weak ground out to Hannahan.

One or the other.

meanwhile, Giants down 3-1 versus Arizona

in a lackluster game in SF. Bottom of th eninth Bengie Molina — who is hobbled with a sore leg — pinch hits and hits a 3-run HR,. That is practicallly all the offense that the Giants had tonight.

Bengie was even slower than usual ruounding the bases.

oops...bottom of the eighth, not a walkoff
kg redux
exactly what I was thinking

I just hate mentioning that one because…well, you know…

I went to the all star game fanfest when i was a little kid

and they had a “dub your voice making famous calls” booth, and somehow i got the kg scene. it was awful. i have the tape somewhere.

full count .... come on, do it
pleasescorepleasescorepleasescore

Oops, too late.

Or too early if you’re aiming for the 9th.

Id like everyone to know that out happened

after I grabbed my AN shirt and placed it on my head

Funny how they got to an ad for Jack Daniels

After Jack Cust grounds out.

Jack sounds good right about now.

Jack takes out Jack

that’s Jacked up

some scary looking people, esp chicks, on top chef this season
I kinda like that mannish-looking one.

but I’m sick like that.

Best part of Top Chef is and always will be, Gail Simmons!
I like Padma.
Gail over Padma....I like the pale ones
Penelope Ann Cruz?
yes yes
do you remember the film exec from Sopranos?

Her too.

NAME?
Don't have it, sorry.

She was very pale and red-headed.

Alicia Witt
She plays piano, you know.
the red head from Law & Order?

D-Girl?

Not sure but it may be her

She totally f’d up Spider!

that's her.

effing d-girl!

D-Girl?
development girl.

I learned that after much research. It basically means she’s WAY down on the totem pole in the corporate film studio.

who are you rooting for?

im kinda pissed Rick Bayless won the Top Chef Masters… Dude endorsed a burger king sandwich

i still don't know their names

takes me a few episodes

I try not to pick my favorites before a few eps in.

I think the fat guy with the beard or the driven pretty blonde girl will win it all.

Pretty sure they'll be in there.
as long as they wash their hands
A's behind in the bottom of the eighth

and they play tomorrow…so why is Bailey in the game?

all concert goers

the lovemakers (yeah, remember them from a few years ago?) are in san jose this friday at the blank club. if anyone cares. as is rex navarrette, great filipino comedian

The Lovemakers put on a good show

Fun, fun stuff.

i've heard they make out on stage and stuff

or something

They used to be a couple.
well, you can see the theatrics for cheaply this weekend
If you cant tell that by the songs you haven't been listening

or read their press releases.

You're right

I haven’t been listening. I just give tickets away to their local shows on my radio show.

Lol

Their new stuff isn’t nearly as good as Times of Romance

Hey

Janes Addiction had lesbians kissing on stage at Lollapalooza 1. It was something else.

Hey

Jane’s Addiction at Shoreline in May sucked.

Just sayin’.

sorry, that was antagonistic

but they were awful. so bad. at least, imo.

JA in 2009 is not JA in 1992.
true

but i have no idea why they headlined in front of trent reznor on his last.tour.ever. as NiN

There's a guy I know don't like me.
Older and less drugged out

People gots to grows up

Dude I love the lovemakers and The Hundered Days are playing with them

They are sooo good

I see the Lovemakers all the time

Let's go Aaaaa's!

Smaaaash Aaaardsma!

bacon donuts with beer sauce?
yum

can you make that?

someone on top chef did

they’re making dishes based on their vices

what would you make?
a chocolate orgasm floating in a cocktail
hmmm

what are the ingredients for that

let me think, i'm trying to combine my vices...
I like bacon.

I like beer. I used to like donuts (until I eliminated sugar from my diet). But Bacon donuts with beer sauce doesn’t sound so good. On the other hand, almost everything is better with bacon.

grilled PB&J with bacon

try it. it has a name but i forgot it

teaser hit number one.... on track
I will accept well placed singles
well placed singles?

do you have their numbers?

I still have some porn bots following me on Twitter

Will that work?

game ain't over yet
Rally time!

Where’s the girls?

racoon .... please do something
For iglew.

You must have spent a great deal of time working on Gilmore Girls photoshops.

It was worth it.

But not really as much time as you might think. Once you get the basics down for one, the others one kinda make themselves.

robophotoshop!
oh thank goodness...!
Bats a-breakin'!
Let's small ball them to death
Come on Tommy Sticks!
will he or won't he

bunt, that is

not with two strikes
dear tommy, get a hit..... nomar is behind you
Tommy Time

Time for that first HR…

BRING 'EM HOME TOMMY.
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTT'S TOMMY TIME
son of btch. dp time for nomar
i didn't want to say it, but i fear you're correct
wtf get your bat off your shoulders
tommy, that sucked
I think the shine has worn off of Everidge
I wish that goofy beard would wear off him.
Was it ever worn on?
There was a bit of it when he got on base something like his first ten games
Oh yeah Im immune to Small Sample Size

on 26 year old suspects from AA

swing the stick fucker!!!!
When did Everidge turn into bad Kust?
That was annoying...
What a pathetic at bat

that was

The shine has worn off

on three pitches, no less
BRING 'EM HOME, NOMAR.
3-run jack?

Puh-puh-please

Pretty puh-lease?
I wonder if that's the same bird from yesterday.
0-2 just like that nomer
Nomar K's too?
as long as it's not GIDP, I'll be happy
yup, happy with that

at least one more shot

i would have preferred the quick death

put us out of our misery tonight

Well done Nomar

The guy who never met a pitch he didn’t like, going down looking.

That was absolutely awful
Swin- oh nevermind...
christ, well nomer you had to take those early hacks
Hi all.

I see the nightly tease it on, including the flailing Nomah.

Swing the damn bat!
A's baseball

let the runs score on wild pitches and passed balls or hit batters.

game over, suck
KENNNNNNEDYYYYYYYYYYY!

Everidge, Nomar, Kennedy. What a joke.

Sorry to everyone

I really felt a rally coming tonight :-(

yea, didn't you command one
I've been striking out a lot lately
Are you Nomar?
without any mayo or Hamm
are you Zigfan's black friend?
my fleece as white as snow
Take some laxatives, it'll be ok.
uuuugh

(slinks into chair)

G'night everyone!

Hope your dreams are better than this game.

ditto- g'night.
They've been pretty weird lately.

G’night.

OMG. Me too.

what’s up with that.

No idea.

Except, that I keep waking up at about 4:30. When I finally go back to sleep its for about an hour. And the dreams are totally bizarre. And I feel like crap.

Just don't text me at that time of (un)morning.
No way. Never.
This morning I felt like I got beat up.

:-(

Write them down. You may need them someday.
I'm pretty sure what the're about, mostly
nothing but a big effin tease
Oh for cry-yi!
robert buan is going to have fun tonight
West World on TCM
I am sure Ed Crosby and his son are laughing
to keep from crying
All three games we were in it till the end.
That is true...there was a lot of hope in those last few innings
that was an absolutely pathetic series
Swept once again in Seattle

it’s really starting to be football season

hey o2b, i'll join you for porn-n-steak
goulet
you don't even blink, do you?
you win again, you always do
that's why I come up here.
Are you from the Bay Area?

i guess we’ll have to meet in Utah.

LA

we can meet in Vegas

I see no trouble with this plan
woo-hoo!

vegas.

and it stays there, in Vegas
thank goodness

watching porn with a dude would make me fall into a deep depression

you could take a drive north to the "ranches"
...and visit Isabella Soprano
i did not follow all the seasons
can you watch porn in Utah?
No

but you can live out your fantasies with several women

but you have to marry them first
Big Love time
i might need some of that myself
that should be a restaurant

one menu for steaks and drinks. one menu with porn choices

i can't even imagine the names you could get for a place like that
What kind of a concept is that.
male bonding at it's worst.
yeah

we have to get in a fight on the way, too

yay.

we’re good at getting swept by other teams that play poor baseball.

we're # 1 we're #1 we're #1
This game was over when JAck Cust didn;t get the HR call!!

Agree??

bedways is rightways now.

night, peeps.

I’ll see you all tomorrow….

Have a good sleep
Pleasant dreams.
bonus nachos!
Anything else on now

Besides Quick PItch? I see the gnats have taken the lead too. CRappola.

new episode of top chef
10 o'clock news.
eh

unless they show me how to make those bacon donuts again it’s not worth it

lots of tattoos and piercings on these chefs

and 2 kinda cute brothers…maybe you can find the bacon donuts recipe online

tattooed young men do not excite me

rather watch CNN and Erica Hill

the girls have tatoos and piercings
oh

well, i’m not down with tattooed young women either. prefer them more sweet and innocent looking

they are scary looking
if they don't warsh regularly the grunge, skin flakes can build up

on the piercing metals and slough off into the food.

TMI !!!!!
Unless you're talking about pierced fingers,

what the hell are their earlobes, eyebrows, nostrils, lips, nipples, or tongues doing in the food???

ask and you shall receive

here’s the recipe: http://www.bravotv.com/foodies/recipes/bacon-donuts-with-chocolate-and-beer-sauce

yay!

thanks, dear

if you actually make it let me know
seems easy enough

though i don’t keep beer or apple ale around consistently. or buttermilk.

DVR dude.

all kinds of stuff is on!

true

Netflix streaming doesn’t have good stuff though.

horrible product except for Weeds downloads
and all the frontline specials you can handle
Yep!

Some good movies, too. Mostly the period stuff.

I watch all kinds of stuff on NF....guess it just depends on what you like to watch!
surfthechannel.com

True Blood is amazing if youre not watching it already.

Love it

Hung is keeping me hanging on so far too.

Hung didn't do it for me
good site

thanks for the link

Tenative Tommy

that’s Everidge’s new nickname.

All’s he was trying to do was not hit into a double-play.

He looked scared up there, unlike his former self in the first few games with Oakland.

GAME RECAP IS UP

Enjoy

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