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Open Thread: Game 152 - A's vs. Rangers (cont)

Going to the bottom of the 8th; A's trying their best not to win. 9-8 Texas.

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THE WAY WE WUERTZ
ninth
Bottom 8
I meant it in a "first" kinda way. :)
lets do 10

RUNZ that is- for the A’s.

Good luck, offense!
Rally Christina has a rally cap.

I'm awake all of a sudden
and rally boobies
Rally boobies


and

HAWT

[is floored]

is that a blue-footed baby boobie?
Oh wow!
Such a sucker for redheads!
Oh, wow, where did I go for ten seconds? Thirty minutes? Two months?
which christina is this?
Christina Hendricks of Mad Men
and more importantly Mrs. Mal Renyolds on Firefly
[clap clap clap]

I mentioned that yesterday as well.

Mad Men Kendricks.
Oops!

Hendricks.

ah, you didn't show her hips

that’s why I didn’t recognize her

that's cute

who am i kidding? she could wear a paper bag on her head and it would be fine with me

No paper bag needed.
I love my girlfriend but....
I still marvel at her popularity.

I have to go through pages of Google images to find a picture that I think looks any good at all. Maybe she looks better on TV?

you're nuts iglew
look for some of the snapshots from the show
Ellis working for his pitch
i'm not sexually confused tonight

Whoa.

cj is so hot

He ain’t got nothin’ on me.

oh honey...
In his defense,

he’s got a few more years.

To lower his expectations?
To grow a couple more inches.
Its not the height that I'm concerned about.
girth?
We discussed the development of the body yesterday.
Damn!

I missed it!

Here's the recap:

18 yrs old chests are not good. Period.

now that depends
ON BOYS! Sheesh!
You're cute when you use caps.
what's wrong with them?

I was kidding, I was kidding!

I'm tired

gotta go night night see ya everyone

Sweet dreams
You're doing it wrong.
Geez...what a jerkface
I could hear that bean ball all the way in my living room

ouchie

Better iglew? it's from the show

Yes, that's nice.
She reminds me of . . .

I’m partial to the rocker chicks . . .

is that the chick from Paramore?
I understand the hair similarity,

but other than that, I really don’t see it.

That one looks totally different except for the hair color.

She’s got a perky little chipmunk face like Jaymee Sire.

Barton hit by pitch. Payback time next inning damnit.
let's make them pay by going ahead in THIS inning
Oh, alright. I'd be ok with that.
Not really

Not a good idea to hit someone in a close game like this.

Especially when we're in such a close race for the playoffs
make him pay Penn
Rangers chairman up in the bullpen
E-Pat... lets do it.
Our last hope this inning lies with EPat?

eeeeeesh

If you want to tilt the odds even more

it lies with EPat having a 2-HR game.

EPat + bash = basepath
How about another one EP......Plz....

Have a night…

i like the way you think
I like the way I drink.
#2?
I'd usually describe Patterson's hitting

as “number two”, true, but we’re hoping for more.

3-0

fear the E-pat

I approve of that base on balls.
Hell to the yes!
O.k. AK.... Lets go.... take a look before looping at the first one...

unless it is dead down the middle, then you better drive it..

no, don't take out cj
It's about time Texas went softly

Into the Night

Kennedy can get it done
Rally Christina is smokin'

and drinkin

like me

Smoking is unattractive.

smokin', however, in this context is okay
Normally, I'd agree,

But Christina is special.

Smoking is smoking. Hot.

Well, I think it’s disgusting.

Im with you on this

with exceptions for hookah and cloves.

I'm stunned...

..by the AK 3u, I mean. Nothing to do with the pic.

hit it now
walk off win in the 9th.....

more dramatic that way….

Gah.

Damn you, Blalock.

Shoot!

Forget the beef.... where's the bud?
Raj Davis leading off the 9th

Hold them here and keep it a one run game.

pewpewpew

0-5. Why isn’t Rajai batting leadoff?

I don't actually know.

He’s, like, the perfect leadoff man.

because Billy Bean will not let Geren make the move

BG has no spine… uh errr. I mean saks

This is the game we keep almost winning

Kind of like the entire 2003 ALDS.

Too soon?

I see a walk off happening tonight.
me too.

oh you said walk.

yes, me, walking off to bed, with an 'oh well'
Now, the whole season rests on tomorrow's game
time for some sexy brother chefs, let me know if we score
I don't wanna know...
and yet I do for some reason
Top Chef.
Thanks dear. I knew. I was hoping it was something else.
Well, good cookin' could lead to something else.
No argument there.
she's a top chef whore
I watched that first and DVRed the first hour of the game. Meant I got to skip a lot of commercials.
i am?
you always talk about it
i am

Me too.

me too. except for the top chef part.
Im rooting for the cute blonde girl who is always put out

or one of the brothers.

Jen.

Hawt! And a fantastic chef!

but do you really know that

i mean you never get to taste the food which is why it is so strange taht that show is so popular.

Wait, the cute blonde girl

who always whats?

i like those brothers
let's get our ROY another win for his record!!
"if anybody gets aboard, garciapara' shudder
get Powell warming up....
Rally Christina's favorite food,

according to this article, is chocolate-covered bacon.

well she fits right in here then!!
wow

i didn’t know i could love her more

Rally Christina not doing so good. Whatever happened to rally Salma?
Nice job Bailey!!
Baily mops up as usual!
I love bean burritos!
So, the CSNCA types may be full of crap

but they were talking as if Bailey and Andrus were the leading AL ROY candidates. I thought I’d look up how those two did head to head:

See for yourself.

Looks like Bailey owns Andrus
For the record,

Bailey hasn’t given up a run since September 5, and hasn’t blown a save since June 16.

I like the second part better
Would you be surprised to learn that I was at both games?
Off the radio:

“If Andrew Bailey isn’t the best rookie pitcher in baseball, I don’t know who is.”

Word. What could the guy have done better?

Heard that too.

It just sounds so awesome, and…official when Korach says it.

the only competition now

is jeff niemann. good case for both, but i’d vote for bailey :-D

raj raj raj - hit
Has security taken the chairs off the field?
SCORE!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lets go Suzuki.....

never say never

Make up for your last at bat Suzuki and hit one outta here already
Comeon draft pick!
Grant Green can't help us now.
heeeeeeey
if we say that enough

we’ll resemble the pirates or royals

We have a competent GM so we cant be the Royals and the Pirates have a good future.
only time will tell, DFA
To which part... Im pretty sure that all are pretty certain.
I cant wait for the day when we can be exited about players past AA and AAA...
Prospects are more fun
in relationships maybe
Id disagree.
elaborate please
A prospect is someone who's going to be good some day.

but right now she’s not ready.

I was looking at it as a prospect being someone I'd consider.
i have multiple prospects
Dating is the greatest thing on the planet

but theyve gone beyond prospects at that point.

A prospect is when I walk into popscene order vodka, muddled lemon, muddled lime, and 7up in a tall glass and look around the room and decide who Im going to end the night with.

So we're on the same page (except I'm drinking beer)

Using “relationship” is where I slipped.

i guess I like the part after i pick them up at a club and before the drama starts.

you know the good three weeks :-P

honeymoon stage!

yes, exactly.

and then somewhere along the way, she decides to paint your bathroom while you are at work.

Like you really care.
depends on the color i guess
At least you didn't have to paint.

Painting bathrooms is a pain in the ass… get her to re grout while youre at it.

So I should have seen the good side of that rather than freak out?
depends what stage you were in the whole shebang
early
like how early... did she have a key?
No key.

Just one of those nights where she stayed over, but did not go to work.

If you had given her a key it would have been sort of fair game

but since you didn’t thats kinda creepy as fuck.

At the time, kinda. But it was eons ago.
call her up

tell her that your kitchen needs to be brightened up.

she can paint my back hallway
lol

We kept in touch. She got married. I’m always the one that prepares them for that step.

Its really not about you, y'know.
mind not working tonight

elaborate?

Just that you are somehow responsible for that "next step"
I wasn't being serious.

But yeah, I hear ya.

HA!

I should have known.

I like our minors teams, but its the A's I love.
this this this
They will be A's soon enough

There was a really good article on Fangraphs about investing/emotional mindset when watching baseball a while back. I am in the investing category.

what am I?

Does it say?

One of the best things they have ever had up there.

The Gambler and the Investor

Lunch time reading, sweet.
Suzuki "learned more about his body this year" according to Vince.
he's a growing boy
w/ no errors, we woulda won by now =(
Five unearned runs.

Ouch.

Change-up gets him. Game over.
Rally Christina is sad.

but her hips are so happy...
Funny!

She looks not sad. But I am.

Night!

come here christina, i'll cheer you up

and look… i have bacon. and chocolate.

That sounds like the greatest food ever.

Holy crap.

yum
There's a store in Rockridge where you can get

weird gourmet chocolate bars. One of them has bacon in it.

I don't know if I could do that.

Love ’em both, but together? Not exactly pizza and beer.

You don't have to. You can just, you know, watch.
Kinda naughty, but ok.
i like them as separate foods
In NY,

There is a restaurant where you can get a dark chocolate covered bacon appetizer.

I need a date for that!

You can get deep fried bacon with chocolate dipping sauce at buckshot in the city.
Holy cow!

I mean pig!

hi there

i’ll go!

Me too!
after that

we can go to the place that deep fries snicker bars and twinkies

there's a place in brooklyn that does that
Snickers... Twinkies...what CAN'T be deep fried?

I had a bite of deep fried Coke once. I thought I was going to have a heart attack.

ice cubes

unless you have a death wish

i'll watch it be deep fried but i won't eat that stuff, so bad for you
don't be a stick

in the mud shortening

oah wants to stay lean and mean
more for me

you should change your travis pic to one of you

i can never lose my travy pic, he's my oak a's honey!
i think oak AAAA's honey next year
so he'll always be a rivercat?

well at least that’s still within the A’s organization

KG says hes a 4/5th OFer moving forward.

In his last BP chat.

so that means maybe with the A's next year?
maybe... I wouldn't pin your hopes on it.
Oh, I know

I was at a fair, I saw “fried Coke” and I was too curious because, I mean, I can see how they’d deep fry twinkies… but Coke is a liquid. I had two pieces and threw the rest away.

It was just Coke-flavored deep-fried batter, I'm assuming?
Yes

I could barely taste any Coke

hmmm

i bet you could do straight coke syrup if you only put it in for like 10 seconds

Ugh.

I appreciate the novelty, I guess, but that’s about it.

Haha!

You and me in NY? Devastating!

Do we play there next year???
i'll be there in 2 months, holla!
Yep!

In August, ugh!

We can tear up Chicago too...
Now we're talking!

There’s our road trip! Love that town!

We're on it!

Mark it down!

We are so there!

I think there’s a huge contingent going!

omg, i just read up on cj, he is a "straight edge" follower meaning

“abstains from alcohol, illegal drugs, and promiscuous sex in order to maintain a healthy and poison-free body)”
but he looks so naughty!

It's always that way.

The ones who look naughty.

I didn't think that abstention went with "straight edge"

I thought it was just no drugs and booze

that was the shocking part
I've had something similar.

It’s surprisingly (well, maybe not so much) fantastic. Never had chocolate-covered bacon, but I’d imagine it’s similar, just…baconier.

The chocolate bar was essentially a solid dark chocolate bar, just a little salty and a little smoky. Just hints of bacon, if that.

That I might try.
C'mon, kiddo. I'll take you home.
Damn. 'night all.
Day game tomorrow, Powell will be in the lineup...

Go get em A’s… TH esun will rise and a new day will begin.

hopefully on an A's win!!!
I'll be there,

for the game and 10/4 tix. Yay!

Have a blast!!!
Hunter gives up 7 ER and gets the win. Not cool.
HOLLY SHIT THEY JUST CAME OUT WITH A FANGRAPHS IPHONE APP

AND I NEED TO CHANGE MY PANTS.

It looks ridiculously awesome.

Saw it earlier. Now if only I had an iPhone…

what is fangraphs?
measures how big of a fan you are
you need an app to tell you?
there's an app for that
There's an app for everything - according to Apple!!
you yell into the computer and it measures your voice

not just how loud but how much feeling is behind it

OMG have you never read anything Ive written here

it is basically the stat equivalent to the British Museum if it ever was important and in any part of the British Empire… its in there.

guess if you're into that kind of thing
Stats? Yes. The best way to understand the beauty that is baseball.
i find it beautiful without stats, to each his own
With you, all the way.
Does anything but the desire to have a totality of baseball knowledge matter?
i have a love-hate relationship with your posts
sometimes I think you're my stat-addled doppleganger

we must have a skinny jeans competition some time

mine are skinny bells

way better than hipster straight skinnies

agreeance

though my huge increase in bike riding miles has me rethinking the showing off of the calves

thats why you roll one up

i blew out my back tire yesterday for the third time in like three months im kinda pissed about it.

I see I have much to learn from you
oh you hipsters, say hi to williamsburg
Williamsburg?
brooklyn, it was the hipster scene for awhile, its probably somewhere else now
Im in SF and we do just fine.
psh

Williamsburg is for wannabe scenesters.

I’ll see you in the Temescal

temescal in oakland? ha
arts district in LA is where all the hipsters are running too

once Echo Park/Silverlake/Los Feliz becomes to expensive.

just watch. I’m seeing it happen before my eyes

wow, I manage to you both "too" and "to" wrong

wow

is that where you live?
currently. I'm ahead of the wave

for now

so would the Elgin Marbles

be like a really important football stat that fangraphs is refusing to give back to nfl.com?

Remind me not to be beneath THAT on Christmas
HAY GUYS WHAT ARE THE A'S CHANCES OF .500 IM GONNA POST A DIARY
Kanye?

’zat you?

Good night darlings!

Its been fun!

Oh Morty....
OMG i think he's going to cry!
But I might first!
ZF channeling 67M in solo-conversing
He was so sad....
I'm kinda glad I missed it.

I’m sort of sensitive. I know, no way you could have guessed that.

Wow, yea. I'm pretty shocked right now.
I hope that doesn't keep you up tonight.
No worries.

I’ve got a DVD I need to watch.

Sounds intriguing. If you need company, the number is on the AN wall.
Oh, load!

Get rid of that already!

yes, someone get rid of that load!

hey, you said it.

That's what I'm trying to do!
fp read that email on the air on purpose from that woman who was drooling over him
over who? cj? travis?
she was drooling over fp?
she must be insane
you know you like all those latino men
i do? well not him, there's something creepy about him
Are you one?
i am, but i was referring to FP
I know. But I wanted to know about you.
are you a latina?
Nope, but I'm a fan of latin men.
well hi then :-)

i’ve also been mistaken for middle-eastern; especially at airports.

night night though ZF.

What inning is it?
the 11th
I'm hoping Buck hits a walk-off
he will if he comes over here!

watch, he’ll probably play tomorrow and its aday game that i cant see

Just your luck, miss.
You should buy a Lotto ticket

Speaking from the future

Those were some prophetic words… :(

bbg is watching Top Chef, no?
Another episode just started.

Still don’t know who the cute blonde chick is.

Jen.

She’s the sous chef for Eric Ripert, and she’s kickass!

Eastwick

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