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Thusfar it's Kennedy, not Kendrick or Kendry, taking the helm -- Adam is taking it to his former team on both sides of the ball and despite the best CF efforts of Torii Hunter, gatherer (and with a niiiice two-out knock from Daric Barton) we're 2-0 A's with Gio sailing beautifully along through 5 1/2.

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Just in, what did I miss?
well first there was this giant boom
Stomper crushed the rally monkey?
I was told there would be garlic bread
We should be proud of ourselves

I didn’t think we’d get to a second thread

Ahhhhh

Fosse went to Disneyland with his grandson…..

What did he eat?
whatever was free
I bet if we listen close enough he might just cover that!!
Siddown!
okay but you didn't have to yell at me
Damn, they woulda had him at 3rd
Wow, close play at third! Aybar with an exciting triple.
Crap

Was that a soccer move by Gio to trap the ball??

if it was boring then it was a soccer move
what a minute......we have some fans here!
looks like it hit Aybar??
That's what I thought too
Anything in the rules about that at all?

I’m guessing not.

No, unless he does it deliberately
A's infield back. Good.
Agree

Any ball in play will score Aybar, so play for an out.

how about a 1-2-3 DP
That would only happen if Aybar was a total moron and Abreu fell down running to first
We like to imagine that happening
We need a K -right now!!!
you said it
I'll take another one!
Apparently, Australians prefer their sports championship games

when they’re preceded by 50+ year-old dudes singing cheesy rock songs before the match.

Let's see what Gio is made of.
Mostly water
garlic bread and sunflower seeds?
Fantastic curve ball from Goo. Strikeout!
That makes him earthy.
Ice water, that is
Gets him SWINGING.....
Say hello to Uncle Charlie, Bobby!
Vlad FAIL
And I for one am happy for it!!!!

Whew…..lets put some distsnce between our score and theirs.

Yeah! Vlad pops out!
Gio still has a shutout going. Yeah!!
Unless it's the Saints, I don't want to hear any more Australians singing before the footie match
I don't want to see anymore of that damn Paul Hogan!
Wow nice job Gio

(Thumbs up)

We can make the thumb appear......I did my part

C’mon AN

could we have more of this Gio from now on?

I like this Gio model

oh god dibbs
I'm thinking we need to discover some new fantastic snack that they can love in the booth!
why do they get dibbs and the players get seeds?
No freezers in the dugout??

really I have no idea. They probably have them in the clubhouse.

Raise your hand if you couldn't see that coming from a mile away...
Gio is such a model of consistency.
He's the Gio LX model tonight
Haha!

The cap on the glove with the jersey!

Hilar!

This is much better

Than that Gio Metro…

thanks, doctorK

i was left behind!!!

Me too!
(resists urge to post 'Left Behind' link
Patterson is really hitting well these days
Showed up a little late - but at least he showed up!
Patterson on Fire

8 for his last 12 ab’s

Bye bye Weaver

Hello Bulger

Is that a bulger in the game or are you just happy to se me?
E-Pat, hot!

Who knew?

RRS did
Yep!

The kid is good!

i figured he was saying that to be anti-buck
I think Patterson has been reading AN, made the changes we suggested and became a major league hitter.
He ripped that fastball right there
That's the shortest swing I've seen him put on a decent fastball

Maybe Skaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalan’s been working with him?

you can hear loud annoying fans
ya not like games in Oakland
you can hear crickets
In Anaheim, you can hear rats
In space no one can hear you scream
Pretty much the same thing.
Song about that, sorta

here.

or the ones in my living room
Are you referring to loud, annoying or fans?
If this is the real EPat, we might have a valuable commodity on our hands
valuable commodity

you and your fancy word talking

Hi
Hi...hope you're having a great evening
Not so much... hoping the game at least goes well
Sorry to hear that......hey at least it's FRIDAY!!
Hi pumpkin!
Hello sweetie!

Can’t wait for next weekend!

I know!

Our last tailgate! Can you believe it?

There’s nothing like the walk-off sacrifice fly.

truly there is nothing quite like it
well damn guess i've been missing out
I agree RRS

only the walkoff fielder’s choice rivals it for pure baseball exhiliaration.

But the commonality is the walk-off.......

Walk-offs are more than exciting….they’re exhiliarating

Thank you, Mathis!
k.

I like signs.
Signs like me.
I think I’ll go and climb a tree.
And shout from the tops how joyfully,
That I love signs and they love me.

Wee.

I thought poets weren't allowed on AN
Do you use a lot of chemicals in the sign-making process, LB?
LOL
probably just cough syrup
You are for sure a sign monkey.
I like Geren putting the prssure on the Halos
Nice screwball by Mathis
Thanks Mathis again.
oh yeah... throw that ball around

Speed does funny things to defense

It must be hot in Socal?
It's always hot in hell
Excellent repost....
that's a big run

let’s get more

SB, E-2, E- 2 = run
Chances Are

That Mathis will blow it =)

how obscure emperor

and a uh…blown joke as well

Look....at me....
Because Johnny doesn't?
It's like we've swapped offenses for the night.
Let's not let them in on the secret, k?
I'm locking it up and throwing away the key.
hopefully its like that for the rest of the year
mvp....mvp...mvp

13 hit streak

mvp of what?
lets say.... uh...

The A’s….. whoelse?

That Davis hit streak continues with a double!
C'mon Swooney - you can do better than that
That was a brutal swing
That was not a very confident swing from Sweeney...
that is 13 for Rajai Davis

Was this crowd promised fireworks?

Or is the rivalry alive and well?

It's in Anaheim what else is there to do?
I WANT to see that!! again.....
That was a terrible at bat by Sweeney!!
All sliders

He just couldn’t pick up on ’em

lincecum out, giants losing in 9th
lost cause
If they don't pull this one out, they're sunk

Not only will they be 5 games back of the Rox, but two back of the Braves.

The best part about this Gio performance

no BBs

in years past, that’d be par for the course w/ the Angels, but they take their walks this year. Go Gio!

I agree BB's hurt

I got shot by some and they sting

i got shot by a bb gun as a kid, in my behind, hurt like hell
yep my stepsister got me

if she couldn’t kick my ass I would have gotten after her

He has also got out of some hairy situations

Earlier in the year he did not have the focus or concentration to throw strikes and get out of those type of situations.

Jinx
oops

when you throw your rotten fruit at me, just stay away from the face…

Darn.....doesn;t it always happen as soon as one mentions it!!
one thing i like about gio is

he curves the bill of his hat, unlike anderson and cahill.

anderson looks like a hobo or clown or drunk
how about a drunk hobo clown?
In the big rock candy mountain...
Charaaaarlie
clap..clap..clap.... for Gio
Stands up!
good game gio

i do not hate you tonight

here comes the sausage
mmm sausage by Johnny Mathis
i'll take the catcher mathis
i like that he made errors that gave us a run
that made me laugh
Took me a while to figure this out

well done

I like my Wuertz a little on the medium side.
there are wuertz ways to have it
KO or DP

We’ll take either

Siddown bitch
Morales no A's killer tonight
Wuertz strangles the Halos!

i know not what to say
Has that pic made an appearance in a game thread before or is it a rookie??
do I have to respond to this...
I'll take 2LBS of that, in honor of the 2k'S
I can say... OH MY...
that's enough to put me off sausages

TWSS

Nothing puts me off sausages.
except maybe sausages with cheese?
How would that be wrong?
dunno, it sounded dirty.
So good, then?
Perhaps. Depends on your mood I guess.

Sometimes a little dirty sounds pretty good.

cheddarwurst

it’s awful, yet amazing

Käsekrainer

Love ’em

I have to try that one day.
switching sides then huh?
she did have a thing for rally christina
Is that THE Howie Kendrick??
Weurtz = K machine!
Closing in on triple digits for Ks

Hey, Mr. Michael Wuertz how could you be so mean?
They told you you’d be sorry for inventing that machine
Now all the AL’s hitters will never more be seen
They’ll all be ground to sausages in Michael Wuertz’ machine!

can you do another lovely buck poem?
I have to await inspiration from the Muse
i know there hasn't been many shots of him in the dugout tonight
♥ IT
I like an LAAOA's shut out.
he's either going to be a very nice part of the bullpen

or he’s going to be part of a very good trade.

Wuertz has really added value to himself this season

If we vote tonight......

we’re keeping him??

yea, why is it always about trading people?
welcome to Oakland A's fandom

we root for laundry

How long have you been an A's fan?

it’s a long story…..

so he's a valuable commodity then?
one might say that

if one was feeling particularly verbose

If your going to trade him, wait until the end of next inning.
PR for Cust here?
Be nice to get some here..... Insurance

Angels are a good hitting team…..

Dale's gettin that average up!
Let's get that homer ellie
2 on after Barton hit. 1 out, Ellis with warning track power up.
Line drive home run for ellis. RIGHT NOW
Chavez has a playoff beard?
more like the Mr. Mom I'm unemployed beard
does it look good on him?
Everything looks good on him.
Its time Markellis!
Wuertz staying in?
Didn't see if anyone was warming up
I think Ziggy was up earlier
rated-r, what time and channel is the cal game tomorrow?
still love the bears, even though I'm a student at USC now

I love that they’re ranked above the Trojans for the time being

Seeing Bill Romanowski on my TV makes me desire to hurl
That guy is psycho.
Mark McGwire is a pariah, no one respects Raphael Palmeiro any more

and neither of them ever bashed a teammate’s face in in a roid rage.

Why does anyone pay attention to Romo any more?

whatchoo talkin' 'bout Willits?
DP - plz
YES!
Strikeout even better. 1 Out!
Figgins tough to double up.
I know....he's a fast little bugger.
"O Canada" kicks Australia's national anthem in the ass
it's a great anthem
and a long one too
WOW - that one looked good to me

but I AM biased

SIT DOWN.......chonies
I don;t like this guy either.....
i'm feeling sleepy
A's games will do that to you
i'm always sleepiest on friday nights, just when i should be out and about
I have a hot date set up for tomorrow night
i'm going out in like an hour or so, i need to wake up

bf back in town from his trip, i told him to take a nap, he doesn;tknow i’m blowing him off to watch the game (aka to see travis on tv)

You're like a lot of women who blow off their boyfriends to watch sports

happens all the time

never thought i would be
there are only about 10 of you in the world

he’s a lucky dude

but i can't tell him
I'm sure he knows he's lucky

even if he doesn’t know about this game

Is it the sausage?

or the cheese making you sleepy?

AB going to get it loose
Love him!

Our ROY!

I thought his name was Andrew
It's Andrew Roy Bailey
I like Roy Hobbs and Roy Scheider better
I don't!
Bailey is going to have be better for more than one season

before I like him more than the Natural or Jaws

why does aybar remind me of michael jackson?
Has he been turning white this season?
i don't know. it;s something about his face.
Wearing a glove on one hand for no apparent reason?
Is he on fire?
Live look in at MLB.com now
Lets go ahead and strikeout the side Weurtz
We.want.this.
he does it!
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY
Wuertz got 5 outs tonight

ALL ON STRIKEOUTS !!!

Team got 12 then.....I think
yes... Gio 7 and Wuertz 5
yay strickout

x100

I think I'm gonna go ahead and figure out how to spell his name properly now. He's earned it.
sausage strikeout!!
LOL 5 K's in 2 innings
No. 100 and the side!

Woohooo!

That's awesome....
now THAT was impressive
twiwts

that’s what i want to say

Did we vote to keep him???
yes

and that was an impressive 1.2 innings.

I'm off to bed. I want to wake up with a happy face, so don't blow the lead.
no don't go
I love it when you beg.
asshat

GO TO BED THEN. WE DON’T NEED YOU. IF THEY LOSE IT’S YOUR FAULT, BTW

give him hell Cap!

and now I’m off to bed

So you're the next to get hell??

Oh sweet dreams

Hmmm

I guess my joke was about as effective as normal

i'm obviously clueless
I'm JK too
Sweet dreams
are made of these
Who am I to disagree?
I believe that song came out 26 years ago

In other words, halfway between now and when Buddy Holly was still alive.

Wow - I AM old!!
Join the club

Although I prefer to think that I’m not old — I’ve just been alive for a long time.

How old? Do you remember when they used to serve the beers at the game

OLD Milwaukee In a tall Cup and give the little plastic ones to drink from?

Yeah kind of.....

not a beer drinker – but I think I remember seeing that.

Been going to games since my teens in the early 70's
Your not old..... Just calibrating : )
I like the way you think!!
by calibrating with beer memories
sounds about right

but I am NOT old

1983 according to wikipedia

gee, seems like yesterday

1991 Marilyn Manson

frightfully bad version

of you,

things I know will never come true.

Why can't I forget the past

start loving someone new.

you can

i do in my head every day

Haha!

Channeling Patsy Cline.

Instead of having sweet dreams

about you.

Why's everybody going to bed so early....

our game is not until 6 tomorrow – plenty of time to sleep. ;-)
Darn those time zones anyway!

it's almost midnight where I am

but I’m still here fighting the good fight

YEah!! That's what I like in an NRAF
Diet Coke helps

plus I like to stay up until my girlfriend gets home from work

That's nice. You're in KS?
Nope I went to college in Kansas

now I live in the most spectacular place on earth

Cincinatti? Cleveland??
Hey Sweeney, hit one outta here
well he hit it hard
Another Swinky Swingle
ASS?

Hole!

hey when's the cal game?

It’s at 12:30 p.m. on ABC!

ok thanks, i'll be awake by then
are they playing Sac State?

Oregon.

bears will eat those ducks

I’m pumped.

You'd think a bear could beat a duck

and I know a Raider can beat a Bronco

Do they PLAY sac state? I dont; think they do

That’d be UCD

Don't take anything I write seriously
OK.....

are you the Jayhawk? Be serious for a minute…plz

class of 1997
That's what I thought....just wanted to be sure I have my connections straight!

I went to Lawrence for some training a couple of summers.

I love Lawrence but the rest of Kansas is uh....flat
so true...
Woohooo!

I’m so watching that. So’s I can flog my boss in my mind.

True story

I had a friend in Iowa – her initials were ASM. She married a guy whose last name started with S. Several of us tried to convince her to drop her middle name once she married and take her maiden name as her new middle name, but she was adamant about keeping things as-is. I should’ve got them a set up monogrammed towels: TAS and ASS.

what's his average at these days?
i think he's in the .280s

Sweeney is hitting .294 now.

mr. facts
you're right. i just checked. yeah for ryan.
buck needs to catch up

Travis Buck is hitting .224 this season.

my baby, awww

I’m hitting .000 this season.

don't worry, you'll improve

Well, I can’t regress.

That's a positive spin RR

Yeah, I was just thinking that.

Great minds.....

;-)

I'm batting a thousand baby!
Fungoes don't count
how about Brunettes?

I always strike out swinging with brunettes.

I caught one 7(!) years ago
i will be in about 2 hours
Want a Zookie bomb here
I DID.......oh well maybe tomrrow
he bombed all right...
the possible roy is coming in
The Natural..... Roy Hobbs?
mlbtv.com missed that entire half inning
Fuck the rally monkey... Bailey's in! Game over.
they can spank the monkey
Will that get if off their back?
Baby, baby, please let hold him.

I want make him make signs all night.
Sister, sister, he’s just a plaything.
I wanna make him make signs all night.

are you ok, bloom?
I think I know the answer to that one
Talking Heads

mid 1980s

Yeah, I know.

Urf.

I don't

I know two of their songs kind of

i know none
So I've got you by two then

hmm I don’t think that matters in anyway

Vlad Guerrero

Has never met a pitch he didn’t like to swing at.

Cliff's been having trouble in the field lately
he's no Crosby out there.
is that you, ed?
Not the time to do that Cliff
Ah geez, another E6
What the...? E6.
A's E's and Wuertz Ks
Let's hope that doesn;t come back to haunt us.
Ya know, I kinda like it when OUR closer points up at a fly ball
Pull head out of arse

Pennington.

2 outs to go.

He's started pretty much every day since the OCab trade

Not that I want to see Crosby at SS, but it wouldn’t be a big surprise if Pennington were a bit tired.

Yay home in time!!

Was watching on our new “toy” in the conf room at work :-D

Time Out

Bobby… get to shortstop….

...wtf you on
Waiitng how long that was going to take...
maybe he has a 10 pm softball game and needs a SS?
Bailey brings the heat! Strikeout.
AB has dimpled cuteness
AB has hunky goodness!
if we're talking as pitchers, i'll take that naughty looking braden with his nipple ring
It just amazes me how different our pitchers look now.

Chunky, Tall, skinny, freaky!

I love it!

but they are young, cahill looks like he's in high school
well maybe junior college
no, he looks like he has homework to do

and his mom packs his lunch

I'm going to flunk him if he doesn't get better
hey! it's my birthday, and we're winning!

This must mean that I am a good luck charm. Absolutely.

Happy Birthday!

That’s the ball game!

Happy what's left of the day

Will you party all night?

Happy birthday!
Happy Happy
Thanks all!

Nice to come home and see a victory over the Angels. But now it is almost midnight, and my birthday magic is almost gone…

You gotta work on stretching the celebration out a few more days!!!
Hope not, ws!

Mine went on for the whole weekend. Let’s hope yours does, too!

2 strikes, 2 outs. I want the shutout!

We win……on the march to .500 ball this season.

Suck it slegnA!!!!!!!!!!
I love watching the slegnA

LOSE

It just doesn’t happen often enough for my liking

i was hoping Hudler was the commentator today

it would have made it that much sweeter

He was on the radio

Him and that idiot Physioc.

Shut the Halos out! Yes we win

15 out of 19 wins

YES

The Magic Number is one! One more A’s win (or Rangers win) will guarantee the slegnA don’t clinch against us this weekend.

Yes....let's send 'em to clinch in TX??

Could Texas still pull this out??

i hope the rangers won
Yes

They won 8-3

yay, i want them to win the division or wild card or whatever
their chances are about as good as the gnats right now

They won’t win either.

Can't we dream??
yes you can

because sweet dreams are made of….(wildcard playoff chances?)

channeling annie lennox?
i'd rather watch them in the playoffs than angels
it's more fun to watch the slegnA lose

than the Rangers win

yes can we have both?
I'd rather watch football
Well - tomorrow's your day...
I'm more of a NFL guy

KU stunk at football when I was there

Well there's some of that going on too!!
wow only 1 more week of A's baseball, i'll miss chatting with you guys
someone said there will be playoff threads

besides, it’s not like AN goes offline in the offseason

No during the off season I have 15,000 word posts about VORP
that's not chatting and i don't read those
There are postseason gamethreads

and DLDs. Without gamethreads, the DLDs get more attention and comments.

yea but it's more fun to chat about our own players
my jokes will be just as bad no matter whose playing
well maybe i'll join in and ask baseball questions
the answer will always be look up their VORP
LOL
i'll give them an answer...

vorp this

I'm going to use that

hey vorp this!

nice

i’ll put that next to those 25 page cancer biology papers i’ve been meaning to read

I'm too lazy to go look it up...what's VORP?
i hope it's something sexy
I have a funny feelin'

it’s math related

Value Over Replacement Player
does that in any way relate to buzzhead buck?
seems like the last time he played before this

was around the last time replacements were almost used. 1995.

you are so mean

can you believe how he starts yesterday, no tv, tv today, no trav….

It's a conspiracy
the producer wakes up and says

“What would OAH want?” and then does the opposite

no kidding
he has one of those wristbands

WWOAHW?

don't you all?
WWOAHD?

Its the Canadian version.

Gracias!!
statistics come in handy for something
I know....I just don't have the mental stamina to try to really GET them

Of course it might have something to do with the fact that I flunked Stats the first time I took it…..but of course going to class might have helped!!

hey man I was a history major

math me don’t likey

for my final report in an experimental stats class

I did monte carlo (repeat simulations) using the 2002-2007 A’s teams. It made me appreciated a) how use they can be and b) how flawed some of what i looked at actually was

i feel really dumb reading that
me too

although to be fair I always feel kind of dumb

it wasn't really complicated

the program to do all of it was written in 1985 or something. just plugging in a lot of numbers

If you want me to break down Watergate

or the Marshall Plan then I’m your man.

have you seen the movie called Dick?
no but i saw frost nixon

that was an awesome movie

frost / nixon was really good

Dick is this funny film about Nixon and the whole watergate thing, tons of comedic actors in it

Did you get in on that discussion about the presidents?
beats the hell out of me ask DFA
NO fair!!!
fANtastic

thANk you team oaklANd

Goodnight everyone

I have to work tomorrow and Sunday.

That so totally sucks.

yep especially if they had to work all during the week
Sweet dreams

take care of the words of the world

Sleep well!

Hope you can make it for next weekend!

Will be at the game Fri eve

May be Gio will pitch again then

Come on Sunday, too!

Awesome AN tailgate!

goin2bed

NIGHT GUYS. GREAT WIN. GO A’S.

well not really bed, more like not here.
Sweet dreams
Gubicza looks like he's wasted
...

something like that

i was thinking more like woke up on a stranger’s lawn covered in feathers

didn't you in college?
always managed to stumble back to my rooom

usually alone, unfortunately

chicks aren't into feathers?
I so beg to differ!
ESP green and gold ones.....
You best be bringing the boas to the tailgate
i didn't bring my extra set of feathers for just such an emergency

like foghorn leghorn taught me to.

Funny story from me......spilling a banned substance on the floor and leaving it there

b/c well you know. Get up the next morning – it’s gone! Still a mystery!

how concentrated was this banned substance
not very.....it was quite organic if you get my drift!
haha nice

as long as you didn’t drink it and go blind

People have this weird thing

about wanting the public library open on weekends.

At least yours is still there!
AND you still have a job!!
I can't remember the last time I went to the public library
Come visit mine

solanolibrary.com

that would be a heck of a trip for me

but I do give away over 100 books a year to my library here in town I just don’t go inside.

You have that many books to give away?

reading is fundamental
See y'all at the next game

Meanwhile, rejoice and sleep well.

Here in my signs,

I feel safest of all.
I can lock all my doors.
It’s the only way to live
In signs.

You have a new pic!!

What happened to the other one?

flew away.
awwwww

i’ll miss it.

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