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And the suck increaseth!
New thread anti-mojo
Doesn't look like the funky delivery fooled Abreu that time
Nice intro
yes Nico you are funny, wanna get married?
K. I'm busy tomorrow and Monday, but

Tuesday good?

let me check my calendar

oh and please promise me you won’t shave your head without consulting me first, unlike some sunflower seed eating bench warmer

Wow, just when RRS thought his day couldn't get any worse
Do we get to see H-Rod, Marshall and Casilla now?
Kilby should have hidden the ball better

Because throwing it was a bad idea.

he's obviously not doing the lucky butt swipe correctly tonight
If we lose this game,

does that clinch a losing season?

A non-winning season

A’s would have 81 losses

Here's my proposal:

Bring in HRod, and have him throw one of his 100 mph heaters at the 2B ump. His control is bad enough that he can claim it was an accident.

He'd probably throw a strike by mistake.
Another fragmentation bat
That broken bat piece almost hit the home plate ump in the eye

Could have blin—

Oh, well, never mind.

Wow....just wow.

Can we get an out please???

Kilby is wearing a blue hat with RH on it on Gameday
oh yeah, so at the Tour de Fat in GGP, which was ostensibly an excuse for fancy dress

There was some kid there in a Vladamir Guerrero CAPE

that's the fat tire bike thing?
yeah, it was a lot of fun

the same weather that has turned my appartment into a firepit made for a pleasant afternoon

i went to the brewery in ft collins when i visited my sister

the employees had all their bikes parked in front

Well, that's always encouraging. It was good to see so many people enjoying bicycling around
At least Texas is winning

A Rangers win guarantees the slegnA will not clinch against the A’s tomorrow.

But with 8 more we can win

and Eveland has been removed.

That would be more significant if Kilby were pitching better.
it's early. we have a chance.
Let's Go Oakland!!!!
I think the deception factor for Kilby has been solved

rather quickly in the last two games he has pitched.

Time to score some runs off horseface

Well that was fun!
If you're a masochist!!
I left with us up 2-0.

What the fuck happened?

Eveland pitching + lousy umping + lousy fielding = A's FAIL
shit. shit happened.
So basically shit squared then
oh ok
but we're gonna rally and win this one 15-11.
Hopefully Nick will write you a short synopsis

He’s really good at that.

Short synopsis:

Suck.

Suck suck suck suck.

Suck.

This is what happened

B.
S.

So it's YOUR fault??
See now I feel bad!
I'm just funning......

I’m getting ready to leave so any further sucktitude can be my fault til I get back!!

it looks like we got something going here though.
Let's all karma him a hit.......
I'm off shopping

Comeback victory pls.
kthanxbye.

Time for a Zook SLAM
I'm so not looking forward to the AL playoffs.

Here’s hoping that Detroit or Minnesota gets really, really hot!

living in Orange County

I’d be perfectly happy with the Angels losing three straight in the ALDS.

Memo to John Lackey:

CLOSE YOUR MOUTH!

Mouth breathing is so unattractive
and it really upsets dentists too
The defense from the left side of the infield has not been very good this week
you could say it's been abysmal
Just got under it
ok, we got one back
Isn't that tonite's game all over?

Almost a grandslam…but not.

Cust will make it 9-6, dig it.
TRUE
he waited nicely on that pitch
CHEESY MOJO IN THE HOUSE.

{smile}

You are sooooooooo right!
Sweeney should have gone to 2B

Rivera made a looping throw to 3B.

moot point now!!!! yippee!!!!
Yay, run(s)!

I’ve decided that a good achievable goal for the team this season would be to finish with more runs scored than runs allowed.

How are we doing?
I think we're about 10 runs ahead.

I don’t keep careful count day to day, though.

We're four game out of the wildcard, now, so the season's just about done

by my reckoning, anyways

And 3 morons just scored!
Groove is in the Heart

Cust a move, now!

oh YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!
Is the bad vibe gone now?
Good to see you're enjoying yourself, OAH.
Whats sad is

it should be 7-6 us now…

Jack F'in Cust!!!!
here we go.... I am coming back alive !
Wooo, hurrah for Jack!
CUSTATION WITH SOME REPRESENTATION!#%
Three-run Jimmy Jack CUST

Fark you, Slingblade

Whatever happens from now on, it's just heartwarming to see Lackey pitch so sucktastically
And it's nice how when the A's are down 9-2

you feel it’s not quite over, whereas when we had “good hitters” in the 1st half it felt over at 4-2.

That's because the "good hitters" WEREN'T TRYING!!!!

(kidding!)

I think it was over at 1-0.
omg my worls has shattered

travis looks goofy, did you see his ears without hair covering them? i need someone new to lust over….

< raises hand >
i'm so bad, how could i give up trav
Iowa 11 - Penn St. 10 (10:16 4th)

I’d really like to see Joe Pa and the White House lose this one!

For the Hannahanafans

I was over at LL reading about Ichiro getting thrown out, and someone mentioned that Jack Hannahan has grown a mustache. No pix though.

i'd like to see that
oh shit, seriously

Jack Hipsterhan?

cal got spanked today, and not in a good way

will this drop them out of the top 25?

Definitely not

Probably drop to #11 or so

ok good
it could be a bit worse

with a lot of teams winning but normally teams don’t fall that fast after they are ranked.

I'm really intrigued by the idea of

Cal being spanked in a good way.

just spanking in general, good and bad
As with everything, it's all about intent and consent
who doesn't like a slap on the a$& now and then?!
well, now you mention it, it is the fulsom street fair tomorrow
They mentioned it was happening on the news on Friday, but didn't explain it.

My mom said that a street fair sounded like fun. I then had to tell her what it was.

Nice weather for it

Although apparently, it’s never too cold or foggy for assless chaps.

ain't that the truth
On the plus side, the Ducks' throwback unis....

….were less freakishly fuggly than what they usually don.

Lackey does not deserve a win

We must score some more to make sure this does not happen.

I am having bad thoughts about what I would like to happen to the slegnA.

"And Brad Kilby's job is to get the A's back in the dugout as quickly as possible"

Crap!

If his job were “have a weird delivery” I’d be feeling much better.

c'mon kilby
kilby!

(right back)

What's up with his butt-whiping maneuver right before he pitches?

This is the first I’ve noticed it.

Uh, that should be wiping, not whipping.
odd, isn't it?

i never saw anyone do that before

helps him hide the ball
Looks like we've at least made a game of it

Hi all

They might fix that here.
mr kilby. you need one more out. get it NOW!
Figgins hit the ump for us.
i think he should call him out for that
Fletcher never saw it coming

There’s a shocker.

ha! no runs for you suckers.
Wow for once Lackey pitches less than 8 IP against us
Epat reminds me of Jason McDonald from back in the day
show me something Epat
A pat over the internet. An e-pat.

Wouldn't that be an iPat?
Nope, an iPat would be physically inappropriate
what does an e-buck look like?
Pretty much like one of those dudes by himself, but with bigger ears
that's why he needs to grow his hair back
something unsafe for posting
kinda like that. :P

i think that's an eBenj
No, this is an eBenj

good job to work the BB
That was a very good PA
a SB, E-2, E-2 would be nice again
"couple of plays have gone his way" right, no sht
i'm putting mathis on my fantasy team

OAH's fantasy team is much more interesting

than most fantasy teams we hear about here.

oh i think you do
I'm interested in hearing about the uniforms

on your fantasy team.

did you need a catcher? what about salty?
napoli is better

someone mentioned it on another thread — not sure why he doesn’t play more often for the slegnA

I think you may be using different standards for your fantasy....
haha

in that case, I want Jaymee Sire and Kotsay’s wife. isn’t her name Jamie too?

yea i want jamie kotsay too
I think they're both on R-Star's team.

I know they were both on my proposed roster for him.

i don't think napoli will pass OAH's cuteness test
normally the extra zeros of salary

make up for the areas in which someone lacks

not for me, i'm strictly visual
if gio had cliff pennington's a$% he could be considered hot
so you like dark-haired guys?
yes
just google matt garza on the rays

and tell me what you think. one of my female friends thinks he’s way hot

salty is my main catcher, mathis is back-up, i still need some infielders
does utley get you going?

or Uggla?

i don't know him, what team?
utley on the phillies

uggla on the marlins

Ian Kinsler?

He’s dreamy.

I stopped paying attention when

it was 9-3. Now I look over and it’s 9-6.
Maybe I should ignore the game some more!

good hustle by ePAT to get to 2nd
Are we winning yet?

I had to shut down for a while.

Yes.

Oh, you meant by the score. No, sadly, no.

Anyone else's HD look like shit tonight?
My Dibs look even worse!
Is there HD available tonight?
Nice make up call at second, there
that shit better not be reversed
Watching too much football on Sunday

if there is such a thing?

Ump tells Scoscia, "get your fat butt off the field!" He does!
gibson likes to bitch at the players, doesn't he?
WE'S GAINING ON THEM
BITING AND SCRATCHING!
hey we scored, woohoo!
Kennedy Double!

The "what are we gonna do about Marilyn" talk
wait.

what the hell are you people doing?

I want to see AK steal home here
That would be so much more exciting if it was the go-ahead.
close enough!
i'll take that though
there's that WP!
What is god's name happened here?

9-8? It was 2-0 when I left!

Imagine that you're elcroata watching a Baseball World Cup game between San Marino and Kyrgyzstan
I'm imagining being confused.

Which is the general idea, I’d imagine.

Glad I stuck around here tonight 9-8 now!
This game is funny.
Funny odd or funny haha?
Funny like

Hey look my hand is melting

I refuse to draw such a distinction.
so if it smells funny, you start laughing?
I like you. You're funny.
they keep flashing shots in the dugout of Scoscia in LA

“if looks could kill” as they said

Kinda like

the good old days when they were rivals

I was just telling my wife a half hour ago how the wild comeback against Minnesota was one of the best games to watch this year.

This one might be up there too.

Way to get the run in, Sweeney!

lol

Thus proving why stikeouts are not always a bad thing.
Iowa 21 - Penn St 10 (F)

So much for Penn State’s easy march to the mythical BCS Championship Game!

unfortunately ND came back against Purdue.
Yeah that sucked
tell me about it.
I thought you liked Notre Dame?
I do.

But…if they were to lose these types of games,and finish, say 5-7…then they’d have to replace Weis, who clearly cannot coach.

Unless they get to a BCS in the next season or two hes going to be gone anyway.
but if he goes 5-7 THIS season, he's gone right after.

Mediocrity does not sit well.

Oh

He is definitely a Bob Geren.

without a doubt.

He’s an excellent OC, but I wouldn’t put him in charge of my back yard.

Did you see that hit on Tebow?

Ouch. Just saw it for the first time.

What happened?
Tebow was sacked...

….and his head hit a Florida player’s knee on the way down.

He spent a few minutes out cold and then got up and walked off the field but didn’t return to the game (and was carted off to the hospital before it was over).

He's gonna get a lot more of that in the NFL

if he doesn’t stop trying to knock tacklers over when he scrambles.

Thats true, but this particular hit he was in the pocket and just held on to the ball to long, never saw the blitzer coming.
Yeah, but still

I’d assume the equivalent LB or DB on the blitz in the NFL would weigh another 15 pounds, and be faster.

Even really talented RBs careers fall apart after 5 or 6 years all the time because of the pounding they take. It’s not as big a deal for them because if they’re talented they can contribute as rookies. But it might take a QB 3 or 4 years to figure out how to read defenses, etc — if he’s all beaten up by the age of 28 he’s not much good to his team.

He got nailed from a blitzing OLB. Didn't see it coming.

On the way down hit his head on his own player. Concussion they are saying

Every time you watch it...

…you become a better person!

O U

don’t like him?

I don't.

But I was refering to the continuing media worshipgasm over Tebow.

Yeah it is pretty ridiculous.
like the Nat'l Championship game

It was ridiculous to hear them praise him that much.

That is too bad.

But ND basically sux. They’ll win >6 games and make a better bowl than they have any business being in, which will be annoying, but no more than that.

hey everyone
hi don's kin.
Don's kins are for doncing.
I laughed
Only a few of us are old enough to remember that.

When was that? 1970s?

My nino said he misses you..I talked to him earlier

Yeah, I miss him too.

I like him a lot. He’s a good man.

Have you told him you were gay yet?
oh, he knows.
Well I'm sure we could have figured it out...

I’ll let the two of you work this one out.

Hey you...how are u girl? I havent seen you on here in a while..
I'm good

How have you been?

Im good, I havent seen you at the coliseum either, are u going to the last game of the season for AN day 2?
Hi personthatrrswillhiton
speaking of RRS...

Where is he?

licking his wounds over Cal, I'd wager.
As well he should.

I’m sure she can handle it.

Casilla speaks to children about sportsmanship & education

He may want to educate them on how to lie about your age.

He may also teatch them how to preform better under false pretenses.
as long as he's not teaching them how to throw strikes
Good one

A real knee-slapper

who doesn't like a good kn33 slap, now and then?!
He's teaching them not to embarrass their opponents

Say, by not letting them get a hit.

thought he was going to throw it onto the stands.

for some strange reason.

i hold my breath every time a ball is hit to him now
i'd almost...

wait for it… have crosby in for defense

i think bobby does play better D

unfortunately, he can’t hit to save his life

nice shutdown inning
...


Yippie-yi-ay, frisbee sirloin burgers?
Holy crap....What the heck did I miss, I go to El Pollo Loco and the A's go crazy scoring runs!
Go there again
Please take Casilla with you!
i think you were watching it the whole time

don’t you remember?

you went to the crazy chicken and brought me nothing back?
he has made errors on Monday, Wed, Thurs, Fri

and for the weekend special he has made 2 today.

Adam Kennedy.. that's who
I'm going to miss watching Brad pitch, come the offseason

that frisbee really can make hitters look silly

Zookityzook!!
cuppingmaster, i'm lost in this thread

who are the players whose photos i should look up?

matt garza

chase utley, and dan uggla

no to all
ouch.
well just going by photos

maybe if i saw them play or something

wow really?

i would have thought that at least one of the first two would be your type

it's hard to say with photos
it's much easier to judge when they're standing naked in front of you!
Part of the problem might be that SS and 2B tend to be short to average height
uggla's a big guy no>?

on TV looks like he’s built like a tank

A tank describes his defensive skills pretty well.
ok i'll look at more photos and decide
He looks OK here.

I’m not sold on him over all, though. I’d still go with IK.

Is that a fauxhawk?

My 6-year-old wants that haircut.

I thought it was just hat hair.
here we go. we take the lead this inning.
Good dig by Suzuki to get a double

Lets go A’s… Lets Go A’s

Time for jack to GIVE US THE LEAD
Time for Cust to put us ahead
Cust walk, Barton bunt

RBI single by Ellis

bye bye Lackey win

that's a killer slider
Jack!!!!! Don't do that!
I like these A's

who play like they have a chance of winning

…except for Cust K

You forget the Cust Jack earlier.
Oh I remember

it was a beauty!

yeah, that home run was the worst
Rally-killer
Still ahead 3rd Qtr 23-13
I dont ever want to see another one like that.....
tie game.... swinging A's

hear the BOOOOOOO BIRDS

Wahoo!

Tie game! Tie game! Tie game!

HAHAHA

No win for Slingblade

This team has HUGE nuts!
I watched Dora the Explorer today.

They went through the Nutty Forest.

That might explain why you’re the LoneStanger :)

Heh. My fourteen month old woke up really early this morning so we let mommy sleep in.

I put Dora on while I made him breakfast.

NO WIN FOR YOU!!!!!!
Daric!!! FU, Lackey!! No win for you!
BOOOOO -YAH!!!
Seriously??

The Angels fans are booing their own playoff bound team??

again, Really???

Lolfans
Frankly, it's staggering I feel like they should have their playoff berth removed

Can Brett Favre field a team, instead?

That is pretty odd, considering this means nothing to them.
I don't know if it's for certain yet, is it?
It's pretty much in the bag
their magic number could be either 3 or 4 depending on the outcome

they would have to blow it pretty bad

The A's won't fit in the bag

Their nuts are too big.

I just looked it up. If we can win tonight and tomorrow, Texas can knock them around this week and may take their place.

Boston has one game on LA right now, so they’d have to hope that Boston loses a few so that they could take the wild card in the case that Texas grows a pair.

They didn't know about the playoffs

Last minute decision between Disneyland and Angels baseball. Don’t forget the beach ball.

boop boop!

onBART!

now the game gets good and i have to leave soon
boo

stay with us

it's saturday night baby, gotta go rock out
Oh...yeah. I'm posting on AN from my phone while at a club.

I’m not sitting at home. Nuh-uh.

okay

have fun at your rave or whatever

rave? please

going to see my friend’s band play

What do they play?
i'm going to find out,he's got several bands going, and they keep changing their names, you know how it is with musicians
Mystyk Spiral
we want unicorn magic
Rally Monkey flings his poo in despair!
Angels fans, if you don't like your team now

You’re going to hate the first round of the playoffs….

This game is ridiculous!

I like it. Well, parts of it. Especially the coming-back-from-down-7-runs. That is good.

have you noticed travis' ears sticking out

he needs his hair back

I haven't seen him with the shaved head yet!

I’m at the mercy of whoever’s running the mlb.com live look-ins. They gave me part of last inning— Cust’s strikeout and most of Dale’s AB but cut it off before he actually got the hit. They hate me.

But anyway, I’ll see if I can get a look at Travis somehow…

Make up calls by blue, guys getting hit in the head with errant throws

umos gettign hit by bats…. little bit of everything… even a Cust bomb

all we need is a fight

or a triple play

A fight between Angle players and their fans

as we turn a triple play to win it in the 9th.

I wonder about bizarre scenarios to end games

How many games have ended with:

a triple play?
an out on a baserunner being hit with a batted ball?
an appeal (I know this has definitely happened)?
batter stepping outside the batter’s box and hitting the ball?

There was that game-ending unassisted triple play earlier this season.
tulowitski?
Possibly.

I don’t remember who did it, I just remember that Francoeur was pissed.

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.
I saw that on TV last night.

Didn’t watch the whole thing, but saw that line.

The “dickless” scene was totally lame. They dubbed in something ridiculous.

Looking back on the '80s....

….there was a whole genre of film in which the protagonist is a total f**k up, who somehow manages to back his way into getting absolutely everything at the end of the film, while paying no cost (and bearing no moral responsibility) for his actual actions.

Ghostbusters fits the bill.

I just saw The Freshman for the first time in years last week, and that film is totally like that.

And there are many, many more.

Doesn't that describe pretty much every Bill Murray role?

Whatever else you may think of the 1980s, they were the nadir of the century in terms of moral responsibility.

I think in more recent years...

…Murray’s characters don’t get everything (e.g. Lost in Translation). But in the ’80s , that was certainly the case.

Also: Matthew Broderick (Anyone? Bueller?)

mark needs to hit line drives and not lazy fly balls
LB fired the Rally Monkey he said so himself!!
Barton's swinging the bat so well right now

It’s established: The guy can definitely hit in September.

yeah let's just hopes he figures out the other 5 months
KKK
Let's hope he can get another K
Please hurry, Brad.

Sincerely,
Bruce Pearl

Yea, if you're the guy who puts the K's out every time your pitcher gets a strikeout,

Do you wait after two until he gets four to put the K’s up?

i've seen the third one turned backwards

and i think that’s why

Backwards K's usually mean Strikeout Looking instead of Strikeout Swinging.
Nah, backwards is strikeout looking.
really?

this place gives me an edumication

ME too I had no idea there was any significance to the direction of the K's

ain’t a k backward just a k looking?

Got the first out.... SHUT down inning
I like watching SlegnA K's
did i just see chavy in the dugout?
they said he would be with the team

so possibly

apparently Adam Melhuse visited the team yesterday too

Blast from the past.

Korach mentioned that Chavvy showed up at the ballpark, and was in uniform before the game.

Then they went to commercial…leaving us hanging.

SuSlu reported he was in the dugout yesterday, but in civvies, not uniform
in skivvies?
Chavy in Chonies
Chave in Chone...WOW...TMI !
i wouldn't mind seeing chavy in skivvies
I wouldn't mind seeing him eat really hot sauce
It might have been his brother who is a bull-pen catcher

the shot was in the BP

i didn't realize that was his brother

where have i been all season?

He was there last year too.....
Where were you for "several" seasons?

LOL

Good Play by Pennington there
he looked like Walt Weiss on that play
that is one of my favorite baseball player names
HGH!
Harry Gatthews Hunior?
That's a really funny name to read aloud.
Het's lope me hakes on aut
God Damnit it

an 0-2 pitch

Fuck

damn
Go see your friend's band.

You can see the final score tomorrow morning.

AND THEN WISH YOU HAD BEEN HERE TO SEE IT!
That would be a good result.

Make it so.

Never trust a Yale man!
my god, that was a bad throw

did his arm fall off??

He would have been out at home on a good throw...
any type of decent throw and he would have had that train coming home
on an 0-2...damn
what kind of a throw was that???

i could spit the ball that far

A BACK TO SAC THROW
a suck ass throw
That was throw-up.
Perfect example of not being a ML'er

That is all about pressure and he couldn’t handle it.

Was it Raúlesque?
to quote one of my fav movies, termimator 2

“i could get out and run faster than this”

It was more way offline than at his own feet

but it did elicit a similar double take

THAT was one of the worst throws I've seen
Wow...WTF was that?
Wow, that pitch was right down the middle. On 0-2.

And…I’ve got to see this Patterson throw on the gameday replay.

and he's hitting .205 from the right side
This whole series, the angels announcers have praised GMJ for his bench role

Nothing like paying 10 mil for a “great” bench player.

Say...I heard Chavy is on the bench tonight.
expensive oxygen and space
I give Chavy a pass

for not being able to stay off a surgery table.

weekends not over
I know Patterson is not suppose to have a good arm but goodness, that was pathetic!
You aint a woofin there.....
I agree 100%

terrible throw!!!!!

Was that a DIBS bucket?

In front of Ray

Looked more like a popcorn cup than dibs....too tall
Truly a terrible throw by Patterson
Get it back and MORE.
Patterson showing that he's not going to be here in 2010.
His bat has been showing that for a while
Hey, at least the A's are not going to go down wondering
Bad timing for a CSN-CA radio commercial

that states the “A’s have never looked better!”

but that commercial’s been on all season!

oh. i see.

this is still a good game

but patterson soured the sweet milk of the comeback

Hey, they ran an ad for $2 Wednesdays a few innings ago

The next Wednesday home game being in April…

I can haz new thread plz
wtf happened , i was getting dressed
Clearly, you should never get dressed again.
Quickly! Get Undressed!
ok, if it will improve the score
You can leave your hat on.
mathis stipped nearly naked and ran into the outfield wearing only a jock strap
men running naked is actually not a good thing
He forgot to mention the part where Buck joined him.
Think of that scene from 'Sideways'

Ewwwww

LOL

but that was one of the funniest parts of the movie, IMO

NEW THREAD OPEN

Here

Thank you drive through

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