He’s going to be a bit jetlagged, so my plan was to go to the park and then go have an early dinner, but last night’s fireworks have put paid to those plans.
Any indoor, low intensity San Francisco based suggestions of things to do that’ll help me keep him awake? Plan B is sitting in and drinking beer, so, yknow. He can do that at home
One of the playoff games I went to against Edmonton a few years ago saw him get a hat trick. But he’s also gone through very dry spells that have hurt the team when they needed just decent play from him and a few others.
I went into Safeway the other day we scored 3 runs, walked from the car to the house scored another, but not when I was actually listening to or watching the game.
I get that they play games to get some wins – but will it be competitive enough to get them playing at the higher levels they need to get ready for PAC 10 play?
I won’t bother me, especially, it’s more that I think it puts her mind at rest if she thinks I’m somehow a fully functioning adult. Which in turn makes my life easier in the long run
Life is a journey and college life is alllll about making your own decisions w/o mom and dad looking over your shoulder. Not getting permission just making the decisions.
As much as anything else, the way you grew up drinking it is the way you like it – for me, it’s got a very
Proustian quality. So, I like it strong, from a teabag, with a spot of milk. That’s just how it is.
Having spoken to a few friends, there’s an interesting division – those of us who were born in the seventies (and earlier) and grew up under the shadow of mutually assured annihilation all went through a brief moment of ‘is this it??’ style panic, whereas those younger just thought it was a truck, or at worst, an earthquake
I remember only a couple of thunderstorms from when I was growing up in the Bay Area
and in retrospect, I wonder if the topography there allows for the thunderheads to be much closer to the ground there than here on the East Coast. I remember the thunder being a lot louder in the Bay Area than it usually is here — though a few weeks ago we had some really booming, shake-the-windows thunder here near Philly.
you get a flash of lightning, then a pause of 7 or 8 seconds, then a distant, low rumble. Other times, it’s a flash and then almost immediately a BANG! That’s the scary kind, but even back here where t-storms are common it’s unusual to get the kind that sounds like a grenade going off down the block.
I had a similar occurance last fall of a massive amount of helicopter overflights
that lasted for about an hour – I thought what the heck?? There was some army night flight training exercise. Why no one knew about it is a mystery. It was really freaky.
i was living about an hour from NYC. my sister was complaining about watching the news and my dad’s pissed, “you might not wake up tomorrow”. it was scary shit.
Some of the folks - like my parents- are no longer with us.
They would have been in their 40’s at the time. Married with children- well established in their careers…..for my gen it would have been the effect of Vietnam
yeah, see, the CMC wasn't about us taking risks, it represented an
external existential threat – which, of course, exists in every day life, but getting through the
day involves ignoring that, to a certain extent. Like I said, haven’t even started the groundwork
when i was younger, i never thought about my or anyone’s mortality. now that i’m older, i know that the vagaries of life mean you can be here one minute and gone the next. so some things aren’t worth worrying about. if they happen, they happen and i probably had no control over it anyway.
i can’t say that it’s had any lasting effect on me but i sure remember the tension and fear at the time. the entire Cold War thing was so pronounced then.
Yeah - I haven't even begun thinking about how to go and research this yet
It’d be hard to find a control group. None of us who lived through the cold war think it had a profound
effect on us, for the most part, but then, we never knew anything different.
I was four, but the adults apparently did a good job of not letting their concern show. But I do have memories from that era of my parents looking in the paper at breakfast for information about recent nuclear testing in Nevada — they did some calculation about how long the fallout took to drift over Minnesota and would avoid buying milk for a few days thereafter.
My mom told me years later that throughout the early 60s there were door-to-door salesmen offering to dig fallout shelters in your back yard or basement, and lots of our neighbors had them. Her plan in the event of an imminent attack was to stick us all in the car and drive TOWARD downtown because she figured it would be better to be killed in the first blast than to hang around in the basement for weeks eating canned tuna and then die of radiation sickness anyway.
After a five-homer game, a lot of SFs.
Great pitching by Anderson, Bailey again unstoppable in the 9th. Twins sent up Morneau and Mauer to no effect.
Yaaaaaaaaah!
You have to average 15 wins for 20 seasons. Unless teams go back to 4-man rotations, it’s hard to imagine many guys having the talent, health, luck, and opportunity to get to 300.
woo hoo!!!
let’s score some runs!!
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
yes please
idunno723 - September 12, 2009
gloomy
sirbed - September 12, 2009
ok i made some turkey bacon, who wants some?
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Turkey bacon?
sounds healthy….I’ll pass
sirbed - September 12, 2009
I was thinking the same.
idunno723 - September 12, 2009
it is healthy
the real stuff is too fattening, gotta retain my girlish figure
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
that's why I hit the treadmill everyday
so I can eat whatever I want.
sirbed - September 12, 2009
i work out 5-6 days a week but i still watch what i eat
however i have an indulgence like once a week, like last night i had duck, so good
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Have you ever had duck bacon? It's really, really good.
Nick - September 12, 2009
there's such a thing?
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Nick - September 12, 2009
CLIFFY MAKES IT 4-2
NOW
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
I had a feeling Patterson would steal.
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
I think that counts as profiling
OkayJay81 - September 12, 2009
then the pennington walk that went along with it is profiling too?
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
So, my brother's flight lands in three hours
He’s going to be a bit jetlagged, so my plan was to go to the park and then go have an early dinner, but last night’s fireworks have put paid to those plans.
Any indoor, low intensity San Francisco based suggestions of things to do that’ll help me keep him awake? Plan B is sitting in and drinking beer, so, yknow. He can do that at home
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
Slap him.
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
Hm. Unconventional, but it might just work
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
the indie erotic film festival?
stormtown - September 12, 2009
Actually, that's a good plan. I forgot that was on.
I’m not sure I’d feel about watching erotica sat next to my brother, but, yknow. I can get over that.
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
Can we learn from our feeble first inning failure?
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
The A's haven't learned anything all year
why start now?
sirbed - September 12, 2009
Anyone seen those Seahorses before?
I think they’re a tad bit overrated.
idunno723 - September 12, 2009
It's secret, shhhh
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
AK....yard?
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
whoa, we have runners on with no outs
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
Hey, I like this thread!
baseballgirl - September 12, 2009
Any Sharks fans?
Sharks just made a huge trade. I’m freaking out right now.
idunno723 - September 12, 2009
Damn!
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
good or bad
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
My brother, who is a huge Sharks fan, informs me that “that’s the trade we wanted.”
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
We'll see,
Sharks get a big goal scorer but one of them is a young player 24 years old, but a little bit overpaid. The roster is a little bit incomplete though.
idunno723 - September 12, 2009
oh, not Cheechoo!
stormtown - September 12, 2009
I've heard of the two players they're sending away, but not the one they're getting back
Is he good, or is this a cap move? Please enlighten us
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
He's very good.
Can score 50 goals.
idunno723 - September 12, 2009
Nice
So, what you’re saying is, they’re definitely going to win the cup this year? Excellent.
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
But they're depth is as strong anymore.
Plus Heatley has a huge cap hit. This trade has ups and downs.
idunno723 - September 12, 2009
Forgive me if I'm totally wrong about this
but wasn’t one of the knocks on Cheechoo that he was good in the regular season, but went quiet when things started to get more physical?
Like I said, total outsider on the NHL
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
somebody is named Cheechoo?
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
yep.
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
what?
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
http://www.nhl.com/ice/player.htm?id=8467357
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
Even though he was from a small place in Ontario (Canada, ahem) he grew up an A's fan
Flashfire - September 12, 2009
Cree kid from tiny Moose Factory, Ontario
Diehard A’s & Sharks fan
I’m going to miss that crazy skating wacky celebrating lil’ bugger
SwisherThresher - September 12, 2009
Cheechoo had one good season,
that kind of went down hill.
idunno723 - September 12, 2009
Would rather they sent Marleau instead of Cheechoo
But both Marleau and Cheechoo have been up and down in San Jose. Heatley could be a beast with Thornton.
Flashfire - September 12, 2009
Really?
Most people at FTF would disagree.
idunno723 - September 12, 2009
I would have rather sent Cheechoo.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
looked him up, he's cute
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
I'm just not very big on Marleau overall
Seen too many playoff disappearances from him, especially for a captain.
Flashfire - September 12, 2009
Since 2002
Marleau is second in goals in the playoffs. Recently he had 2 game winning goals in the playoffs with a sprained MCL.
The media kind of exaggerates his disappearances.
Are we getting to Sharky here?
idunno723 - September 12, 2009
Overall Marleau has done well to put up points in the playoffs
However, he’s been incredibly hot and cold. He’ll dominate a series, then disappear the next. Pretty streaky.
SwisherThresher - September 12, 2009
That's what I've seen, mostly
One of the playoff games I went to against Edmonton a few years ago saw him get a hat trick. But he’s also gone through very dry spells that have hurt the team when they needed just decent play from him and a few others.
Granted, I’m not blaming playoff losses on him.
Flashfire - September 12, 2009
OMG
Oh wow. I have to go to work in a bit, and now this is going to be weighing heavy on my mind…FRICK
Time to skip on over to FTF.
(Noooo, not Cheechoo!)
Now my two favorite boys are gone
“I’m a sad seal”
SwisherThresher - September 12, 2009
It's 100% confirmed this time.
idunno723 - September 12, 2009
well, I figured after Bucci said a trade was made
that there had to be some truth to it
SwisherThresher - September 12, 2009
you can have sweeney if that will make you feel better
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
I'm feeling a triple here with runnin' Rajal. Or another walk.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Yay Rajai!
baseballgirl - September 12, 2009
We Be Up 3-2!
ARGGH.
louismg - September 12, 2009
RAJAI
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
ok, we got a run
GS would have been better, rajai, but this works
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
I'll take it.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
YEAH!!!
baseballgirl - September 12, 2009
Zooks!!!!
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
This is a Sac Fly game.
5 of the 6 runs via the SF. Right?
louismg - September 12, 2009
I think so.
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
yay!!!!
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
good job with 2 strikes, kurt
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
more insurance!!
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
KURK
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
Nice job by Pennington to get into scoring position for Suzuki.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
when't the last time Cust hit one out in back to back games?
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
Time for a moon shot.
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
It's one of THOSE games for Cust
Flashfire - September 12, 2009
big surprise there....
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
Gee, cust.
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
damn turf hit
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
but a nice DP
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
Hot DP action
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
Yes! Anderson hanging tough.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Another nice inning By Anderson.
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
You Gotta Like These Kids!
heh
BleedGreen - September 12, 2009
Hi all
I walk in from the car and the game goes from tied to we’re winning! I like that in a game!
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Must be a long walk from your car.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Had to feed the cat in between and read the thread b4 I posted.
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
walk back to your car and see what happens!!!
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
Heeeey
What are you sayin’ exactly?? JK
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
That always happens to me,
I went into Safeway the other day we scored 3 runs, walked from the car to the house scored another, but not when I was actually listening to or watching the game.
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
It's that Hey-that's-cool-moment
followed by the how-did-that-happen-moment!!
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
ray and glen are talking about the trade
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Ellis on base, let's hit him in.
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
I like it.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
anyone going to the cal game?
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
My brother...
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
I was just wondering what the projection for that game is
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
cal will win
my bf and his friend are going, he said he will make sure cal wins
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Can he come to some of our games too??
Why aren’t you going?
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
he isn't so much into baseball, i know, he's crazy
his friend got him a ticket…i don’t want to see football until baseball is over…omg only 3 weeks left of A’s baseball!
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Ahhhhhh
just curious since you seem like a person that likes sports in general….Let’s not talk about no BB…..
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
i like sports in general but really only "get into" baseball and maybe tennis
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Tennis.....me too
I’m switching back and forth to the Open – but Roddick’s not in so it’s more casual. Did you see any of the Nadal/Gonzales match?
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
just a bit, unforunately i didn't watch much of the open, so i wanted to today andit's rain delayed
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Serena and Venus are on now.
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
It might be a replay of a classic match
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
it is
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
We could play our backups and we’d still blow out Eastern Washington.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
That's sort of what I had heard.....
I get that they play games to get some wins – but will it be competitive enough to get them playing at the higher levels they need to get ready for PAC 10 play?
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
This game won’t be competitive at all, but next week’s game at Minnesota could be.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
It seems at times that an "easy" team leads to poor play b/c the expectations are so low
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
mikev said he was going to see it… i guess he meant in person.
AV - September 12, 2009
I am definitely going to watch it on television.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
YAY PROGRESS
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
I'm ready for more runs.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Me -too
We can DO it!! Go A’s
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
I'm ready for a walk.
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
but it didn't happen. The real Patterson showed up today.
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
I'm all for giving the kids a chance to play. Except Patterson.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
how did he single and nobody scored?
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
Play too close to the runner?
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
nooooooo : (
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Kennedy FAIL.
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
AK the rally killer!!!!
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
not what I had in mind.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
I like when they swing early in the count and make outs. I'm a simple guy.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Just as long as you're not a simpleton...
LOL
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Lurch is up in the Twins' pen
Nick - September 12, 2009
Looks like Nick, you and me, Berry Jo.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
I just got back from shopping
and I have to finish cleaning out the fridge and then put the food away. So I’m gonna be on and off the thread for a while.
Nick - September 12, 2009
You've got some discipline!!
Cleaning out the fridge – a task I love to avoid!
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Yeah, I'm cleaning up my appartment, for the impending familiar visits
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
Oh yeah---brother incoming
where is he visiting from?
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
All the way from Europe
plus, my parents are coming out mid week from the East Cost.
My brother, he won’t mind so much a bit of mess. My mother? she’ll notice.
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
mothers always do
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
The worst is the passive-aggressive cleaning
Nick - September 12, 2009
It's not so much that, it's more the look of dissapointment and regret
that I’m a thirty year old adult, and I still leave half read books everywhere.
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
hey, you're a grownup and can live the way you please.
mom will have to deal with it and i say that as a mom.
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
You go Mom....
but I totally understand wanting a clean place for the visitors.
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Oh, I know
I won’t bother me, especially, it’s more that I think it puts her mind at rest if she thinks I’m somehow a fully functioning adult. Which in turn makes my life easier in the long run
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
WOW - that'll be cool to see him since you probably don't much.
I got an idea…..keep him awake by getting him to clean for Mom!! He’d LOVE that!
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
LOL. they could do it together as a bonding exercise.
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
Ha, wouldn't be the first time we'd had to tidy up in anticaption of parents returning...
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
Oh REALLLLLLY?
spill – buddy
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Oh, nothing exciting, more that when we were younger, and our parents went off for a few days
on holiday or wtvr, we’d just leave stuff lying around everywhere and clean up at the last minute.
Crack pipes, hard to hide.
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
mmmm-hmmmmmm
I left all that stuff for my older bro and sisters. By the time I got there – my parents were savvy or I was less rebellious.
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Yeah, I'm the eldest, with all the responsibilities that go with
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
The Boss as it were...
you’ve had to be the recipient of parental mistakes and sibling mentorship
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Yeah, I'd say my parents did a pretty good job, for the most part
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
Not that much discipline
I can’t even remember the last time I did it!
Nick - September 12, 2009
i'm still here. i'm too lazy to go run my errands.
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
A woman after my own ♥
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
That's a good crowd!!
I think others are here…..checking into their other sports….
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
I really like this new version of the A's
They play small ball pretty well…I am a huge fan of the SB too. so far 4 today. I think they had 5 yesterday?
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
I agree. It's a page from the Angels (and others) but I like it.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
speed is fun and exciting
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
Although all the CS'es in the extra-inning game against the White Sox might have cost them the game
Nick - September 12, 2009
True enough. I like speed with wisdom.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Even with wisdom, though, it ends up costing you outs
People complain about the A’s’ recent low-risk baserunning, but there’s a legitimate reason to play that way.
Nick - September 12, 2009
so what happens with AN during the off season?
do you still have threads or does everything start up again for spring training?
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
There are playoff threads.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
and after the world series?
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
I don’t think anything happens.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
Celebrate good times?
speckops - September 12, 2009
yahoo!
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
We spend more time in the DLDs
and have more analytical/hot stove league discussions.
Nick - September 12, 2009
We have lots of stuff
Postseason threads for everyone else’s games, Hot Stove talk, winter ball reports, discussions of baseball books/movies/games, rumors, rosterbation, retrospectives. Stick around.
Englishmajor - September 12, 2009
it might be too analyical for me, but i'll pop in to see
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
There's that after BB thinking again......
hmmmm
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
sorry just mentally preparing myself for not having my daily dose of the A's : (
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
I know -
I’m just giving you a bad time….like I do (I tell my kid it’s my job!)
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
It gets quite exciting around the winter meeting / whenever Mr Beane decides to make his Big Splash
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
rajai hanging in
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
Now he’s going to get the hit.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
Rajai's battling.
speckops - September 12, 2009
I didn’t say anything.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
Your fault.
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
true statement.
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
Gosh.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
see what happens when you don't get our coffee and donuts?
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
This, very much.
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
i offered coffee
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
RRS was asked before you arrived and his excuse was that he didn't know how to make it.
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
he doesn't drink coffee, he's agrowing boy and caffeine might stunt his growth
when he goes to college he’ll learn of coffee’s vital importance to staying up late to write papers
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
He doesn't grow.
He blotches through osmosis.
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
I will never drink coffee.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
What about speed?
speckops - September 12, 2009
No.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
Red bull?
speckops - September 12, 2009
No.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
Mormon?
speckops - September 12, 2009
No.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
just wait until college, you'll be doing many things you never thought of
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
I highly doubt it.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
are you going to live in a dorm?
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
I don’t know.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
Just be sure you report back here.....
Life is a journey and college life is alllll about making your own decisions w/o mom and dad looking over your shoulder. Not getting permission just making the decisions.
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Yeah, I’ll be here.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
But you said you like tea, right?
Nick - September 12, 2009
Yes.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
You've got your stimulant beverages covered, then
Nick - September 12, 2009
My brother is bringing me some tea from England today
I am very excited. I’m nearly out of decent teabags
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
Loose-leaf
much better than teabags.
Nick - September 12, 2009
Tea is a very personal thing
As much as anything else, the way you grew up drinking it is the way you like it – for me, it’s got a very
Proustian quality. So, I like it strong, from a teabag, with a spot of milk. That’s just how it is.
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
that's the good stuff
also from ireland like bewley’s and barry’s
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
I do like a good brew up
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
he should also obey his elders or pay the consequences
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
This
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Let this be a lesson.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Truth hurts.
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
He jinxed Kurt as well.
speckops - September 12, 2009
can Cust k for a 4th time this game?
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
He narrowly dodged the golden sombrero.
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
I think he gets another ab and k's in that one.
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
grounded out to first to prove that he won't do it this ab.
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
Anything is possible...
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
victory for cust...no K
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
Cust hits ground balls?
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Sorry for bailing out on you guys...
my interest level in this current game kind of just dropped. You guys understand right? right!?
idunno723 - September 12, 2009
Understood.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
totally
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
I love that Geren is letting Anderson pitch.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
bob geren always a rivercat...never saw that commercial before
haha!
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
OK so I'm not paying super close attention, and I got here late....
no sweeney?? any reasons we know of?? my guess is LH pitching?
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Probably that and giving other guys (ie Patterson) a chance to play.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
About what I thought....just curious
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
The Twins' starter, Manship, is RH
Nick - September 12, 2009
it was also mentioned that he has tendonitis in his knee
that’s been bothering him on and off
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
can't blame me for that one
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Nevermind then.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Daric is going to rip one here
Nick - September 12, 2009
A hamstring?
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
I heard he had a burrito for lunch
Nick - September 12, 2009
Hmm, Wuertz coming in for the save
Can we assume that Bailey’s knee is hurt then?
Nick - September 12, 2009
it's only bottom 8...
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
Lol
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
Whoops, my bad
I’ve been doing errands and stuff around the house and checking in on the game — thought it was the 9th.
Nick - September 12, 2009
Well - I'm paying more attention that you!!
at least…..can you come do my cleaning when you’re done with yours?
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
I don't think so...
since I’m on the East Coast.
How much do you pay?
Nick - September 12, 2009
NJ right??
we could negotiate….srsly…I wouldn’t do that to a friend…..it’s bad enough to do your own!
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Yup -- near Philly
Nick - September 12, 2009
2 inning save?
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
well a good thing about early baseball is you have the rest of the day to do stuff
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
I'm engaging in some shopping therapy
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
True that
And I did all my work this morning, so I’m free Free FREE!
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
stranegely enough what i really want to do is take a nap
even after 2 cups of coffee
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
it must be the weather and thunderstorm interrupted sleep
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
who knew it was going to rain? it was kind of muggy yesterday but the rain then that thunder was surprising
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Yeah, it's really thrown me, the thunder. I was up at 7am today.
But the coffee is keeping me going.
And the sweeping.
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
Woke me up.....kinda strange
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
me too, plus my neighbors dog kept barking
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
I was hoping that there was enough rain to keep the red flag warning/fire danger down
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
according to yahoo there are several lightening caused wildfires burning.
it didn’t rain much at all
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
yup, very strange. i'm from the east coast. i miss thunderstorms.
i prefer that they don’t wake me up, however.
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
I stayed with my sister one summertime when she was living in CO
there were thunderstorms almost everynight. At least it seemed that way. I just loved watching out the window as the cell passed by. Fascinating.
Kind of like the firefly phenomenon in the east coast. Phenom to me who had never seen one!
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
It totally woke me up
Having spoken to a few friends, there’s an interesting division – those of us who were born in the seventies (and earlier) and grew up under the shadow of mutually assured annihilation all went through a brief moment of ‘is this it??’ style panic, whereas those younger just thought it was a truck, or at worst, an earthquake
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
I remember only a couple of thunderstorms from when I was growing up in the Bay Area
and in retrospect, I wonder if the topography there allows for the thunderheads to be much closer to the ground there than here on the East Coast. I remember the thunder being a lot louder in the Bay Area than it usually is here — though a few weeks ago we had some really booming, shake-the-windows thunder here near Philly.
Nick - September 12, 2009
I think part of it is, we very rarely have thunderstorms here
It’s the first one I’ve experienced in the five years here, and friends tell me it’s the first one in about ten..
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
we rarely get thunder
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
That's true, but with a lot of thunderstorms
you get a flash of lightning, then a pause of 7 or 8 seconds, then a distant, low rumble. Other times, it’s a flash and then almost immediately a BANG! That’s the scary kind, but even back here where t-storms are common it’s unusual to get the kind that sounds like a grenade going off down the block.
Nick - September 12, 2009
The time between the flash and the bang
depends on how far away the storm is – in reality, they happen instantaneously.
if you count in seconds, 4 seconds = approx a mile away
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
^four seconds difference between the flash and the bang
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
i thought you said "1 mississipi, 2 mississippi", etc. and each one of those was a mile
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Well
assuming the light travels so quickly that the speed can be assumed to be infinite,
the speed of sound is approx 330 m/s, so three seconds is ~1 km, and four ~ 1 mile
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
or you can have a neat tool that shows
that the lightning is right on top of you.
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
cool
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Yeah, that's what I meant
when I wondered above whether the thunderheads sit lower to the ground in the Bay Area. I imagine that height matters as well as ground-distance.
Nick - September 12, 2009
Oh yeah, sorry, I misunderstood
You’re right, of course. I don’t know much about the microclimate here, but you could be right in that?
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
I had a similar occurance last fall of a massive amount of helicopter overflights
that lasted for about an hour – I thought what the heck?? There was some army night flight training exercise. Why no one knew about it is a mystery. It was really freaky.
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
It's true
It really brought back memories of just how scary it was to a child growing up in the early 80s. To me, at least.
And hell, I wasn’t even alive for the Cuban Missile Crisis
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
I was so young I never even knew it was happening!
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
that brings back memories
i was living about an hour from NYC. my sister was complaining about watching the news and my dad’s pissed, “you might not wake up tomorrow”. it was scary shit.
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
Yeah, in the list of books I'd like to get around to writing, eventually
I’d like to write something about people’s experience of the CMC – not the immediate experience, but more
how they reacted when they’d ‘survived’ it – did it change the way they approached life, how long did that last,
etc. It would interest me, is for sure.
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
Some of the folks - like my parents- are no longer with us.
They would have been in their 40’s at the time. Married with children- well established in their careers…..for my gen it would have been the effect of Vietnam
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
What I'm most interested in is
Whether people were like, ‘oh fuck, that was close, I’m going to live each day as it’s my last’,
or made some radical change upon being confronted in such a graphic way with their own mortality,
and things like that
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
What I think is interesting...is that we seem much more blase about thr risks
are we just more fatalistic or realistic about whether we can have any effect on the outcome.
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
good question
personally, i think we’re pawns in the hands of the big guys. that doesn’t mean i think we give up. we just have to fight harder and dirtier.
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
yeah, see, the CMC wasn't about us taking risks, it represented an
external existential threat – which, of course, exists in every day life, but getting through the
day involves ignoring that, to a certain extent. Like I said, haven’t even started the groundwork
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
i wonder if age has anything to do with it
when i was younger, i never thought about my or anyone’s mortality. now that i’m older, i know that the vagaries of life mean you can be here one minute and gone the next. so some things aren’t worth worrying about. if they happen, they happen and i probably had no control over it anyway.
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
I think, to an extent, everyone does this
We’re cursed and freed by the knowledge of our own mortality
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
i was around 10 at the time
i can’t say that it’s had any lasting effect on me but i sure remember the tension and fear at the time. the entire Cold War thing was so pronounced then.
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
Yeah - I haven't even begun thinking about how to go and research this yet
It’d be hard to find a control group. None of us who lived through the cold war think it had a profound
effect on us, for the most part, but then, we never knew anything different.
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
I guess I'm suggesting there is probably a generational effect
BUT- the one generation that may have felt it most intensely is slipping away.
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Yeah, you're right. Maybe I'll ask my parents about it this week
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
I don't have memories of the crisis
I was four, but the adults apparently did a good job of not letting their concern show. But I do have memories from that era of my parents looking in the paper at breakfast for information about recent nuclear testing in Nevada — they did some calculation about how long the fallout took to drift over Minnesota and would avoid buying milk for a few days thereafter.
My mom told me years later that throughout the early 60s there were door-to-door salesmen offering to dig fallout shelters in your back yard or basement, and lots of our neighbors had them. Her plan in the event of an imminent attack was to stick us all in the car and drive TOWARD downtown because she figured it would be better to be killed in the first blast than to hang around in the basement for weeks eating canned tuna and then die of radiation sickness anyway.
Englishmajor - September 12, 2009
Interesting.... I really should talk to my parents about this
though, that might border dangerously on having an emotional connection with them.
And that won’t do at all
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
My dad worked at the Nevada test site but we never knew at the time what he was doing.
I knew a family here that did dig a bomb shelter. They sunk a box car in their front yard. The neighbors thought they were CRAZY!!!
I remember drills in school – ominous – but I never connected it to the CMC
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
oh, the duck and cover drills
not that they would have helped anything, but they gave the illusion of having some control.
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
Yeah, by the time I was in school, they'd stopped bothering to pretend we'd survive
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
Or the realized the risk was really not as great or that our weapons capability was much greater
we had more deterrent(SP?) so not so much need to worry
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Nick, I love your Jimmy Stewart icon.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Thanks!
I was originally going to pick a great closeup of Joseph Cotton from Shadow of a Doubt, but I decided it was a little too creepy.
Nick - September 12, 2009
The Vertigo shot is classic.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Those pancakes in the A's brunch ad look horrible
Englishmajor - September 12, 2009
I was just thinking that
they look like they are made of cork
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
I can't stand that pan with all that grease.....
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Take that Brandon Harris.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Brendan.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
damn, it is a day game.
ak_A - September 12, 2009
I have no respect for him so I misspell his name on purpose.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Good save...
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Yeah, nobody's buying.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
so i could've said to my teachers i have no respect for that word so i misspell on purpose
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Absolutly (another word I don't respect).
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
if only i knew it then
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
I love the Cal commercial.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
Let's add on please
doctorK - September 12, 2009
sounds good
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Go Bears!
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Throw up the “C” for me one time.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
C!
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Woo!
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
A!
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Woo!
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
L!
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Cal!
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
see rated-r, i'm getting into football
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
That’s good.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
GO!
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Bears!
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
i can be a cheerleader
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Woo!
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
i think i want the A's to finish this game off now
by the time i get to the grocery store, there will be no more unripe bananas. that will make me sad.
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
Pennington!
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
Wastes no time at ALL
SB!
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
If he hasn't earned the starting SS job for next year
I don’t know what will.
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
True!
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Maybe his dad could call Beane out in his hometown newspaper
I’m sure that would make things a lot easier for Pennington.
Nick - September 12, 2009
LMAO
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
good advice mr. crosby
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Rajai is due for a hit today.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
is having a GREAT game
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
ADD ON ADD ON ADD ON
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Wow. 5 HR's yesterday. 5 SB's today. Who are these guys?
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
they are your 2009 Oakland A's, 2nd half of the season
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
No wonder I'm loving the 2nd half.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Damn.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
Your fault still.
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
show him no mercy
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
The A'S of our future
or so we all hope
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
I keep mis-posting
argh
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
minus a smoking hot right fielder
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Kurk fale.
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
I'm ready for this to be a Mark IV.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
We can has Bailey throw?
VV A's fan - September 12, 2009
that t-shirt isn't bad
stormtown - September 12, 2009
Bailey will set an A"s record with this save!
Let’s go Oakland
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Win!!!!
Ok, bit premature, but hey, look at my name
OptimistPrime - September 12, 2009
one of my favs here!!
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
ah shucks!
blushes
OptimistPrime - September 12, 2009
Why do they keep saying "Orlando Cabrera"
formal, both names…very weird.
baseballgirl - September 12, 2009
I think it's just a fun name to say
lots of Rs to roll
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
Hey...ROOKIE OF THE YEAR!
baseballgirl - September 12, 2009
+1
OptimistPrime - September 12, 2009
Ichiro would have swung at the 0-2 pitch
Nick - September 12, 2009
The ball would have landed in left field somewhere.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
Most likely
Nick - September 12, 2009
OH HELL YEAH!!!!
NICE! C’MON K THE SIDE!
baseballgirl - September 12, 2009
nice!
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
That is some HEAT Mr. Bailey
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
said Mrs. Bailey
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
is andrew on your fantasy team?
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
no
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
but he has such cute dimples!
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
i know but he just doesn't do it for me
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Nice game by Pennington
He has significantly outperformed Cabrera since the trade.
boilerdan - September 12, 2009
and that Crosby guy
OptimistPrime - September 12, 2009
true
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
I likes me some A. Bailey
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
don't like count to Morneau
OaklandSi - September 12, 2009
Just groove one to Morneau here
Nick - September 12, 2009
damn, walked Morneau
OaklandSi - September 12, 2009
Oh .... crap...
C’mon, worst that could happen was a one-run game!
baseballgirl - September 12, 2009
Yeah, just toss a bp fastball over the heart of the plate
If he launches it, you’re no worse off than you’d be with a BB.
Nick - September 12, 2009
That was a strike, but okay.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
YES A's WIN!!!!
OaklandSi - September 12, 2009
Wait, Scott Hairston was playing today??
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
Yes.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
Ha, shows how much I've been concentrating
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
Whoo hoo!!!!!!! WIN!!!
Nick - September 12, 2009
i love you andrew bailey 'til the day i die!
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
GAME OVER
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
Can we go to the Second Half World Series?
OptimistPrime - September 12, 2009
yes!
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
awesome
baseballgirl - September 12, 2009
Who would we play??
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
my fantasy team?
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
yippity yay!
guess I have to get dressed now.
stormtown - September 12, 2009
me too
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Were you naked?
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
no
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Oh, okay.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
CRUSHED.
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
What?
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
but no clothes
so you can guess
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
I think I’ll leave it at that.
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
RRS' mind : BOOBIE
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
Plural!
Rated-R Superstar - September 12, 2009
ElQuesoCapitan - September 12, 2009
Well done, A's. A solid game all around, beginning with Mr. Anderson.
JJ Martin - September 12, 2009
Well my A's friends....
I would say with what we have in AAA and the play of the second half, we most certainly have something to look forward to next year!
OptimistPrime - September 12, 2009
right on!
OakA'sHoney - September 12, 2009
Good thought!
I always look forward to next year whether it’s realistic or not — but grounded optimism is better!
Englishmajor - September 12, 2009
That's very sensible
Nick - September 12, 2009
That will make the off season interesting.....
the looking forward. I am so gonna try to o to spring training in 2010. Gotta save my sick days so I can make it happen!
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
have a good day everyone
time to do the errands
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
HAve a GREAT day
hope you get the perfect banana!!
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Alright, I'm off to the airport. Cmon, San Francisco, let's see the sun!
bobnothing - September 12, 2009
Have an awesome visit!!
BERRYJO - September 12, 2009
Weird weather, but I doubt you'll see the sun
all that sub-trop coming up from the South.
I got up at 4:07AM to put away my drill, still live on the electric cord and outside. Nice lightning and thunder! (East Bay).
One won lost won - September 12, 2009
enjoy the visit and the tea
Deborah51 - September 12, 2009
A's beat the Twins, 4-2
After a five-homer game, a lot of SFs.
Great pitching by Anderson, Bailey again unstoppable in the 9th. Twins sent up Morneau and Mauer to no effect.
Yaaaaaaaaah!
One won lost won - September 12, 2009
I see Tim Hudson is pitching his third game this year
He’s at 147 games won. Used to think he’d get to 300, but this surgery ruined those chances.
One won lost won - September 12, 2009
300 is so incredibly difficult
You have to average 15 wins for 20 seasons. Unless teams go back to 4-man rotations, it’s hard to imagine many guys having the talent, health, luck, and opportunity to get to 300.
Nick - September 12, 2009
I'm watching the game, it's on Fox (ch 2 Bay area)
Cards 2-0 and still batting…Pujols, Holliday and Rasmus all singled
OaklandSi - September 12, 2009
Huddy just Homered!
OaklandSi - September 12, 2009
You guys had a game without me?
how come nobody told me?
Leopold Bloom - September 12, 2009
RECAP UP!
twiiter feed is down though
baseballgirl - September 12, 2009
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