Thanks to the A's for the awesome season that isn't yet over!!!!

GO A'S!!!!

HILARIOUS!

I LOVE THIS TEAM!

LETS GO OAK-LAND!

Let's Go Oakland, clap clap, clapclapclap!!!

:)

HONK!

I didn't want to play the Twins. I wasn't too confident of us winning against the Twins, much less SWEEPING.

WE SWEPT THE TWINS IN THE ALDS. UN-FREAKIN-BELIEVABLE.

AND SWISH IS AWESOME. I CAN'T NOT WRITE IN CAPS RIGHT NOW.

Gotta agree 100 percent there.

LET'S GO OAKLAND!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE OUR A's!!!!!

Oh God, I'm so happy, I just came back home, clapping and jumping like crazy, hugging everybody, this is so good.

I wanna tell you again that I love AN and every ANer in the world.

BRING ON WHOEVER, WE'RE THE OAKLAND A's!!!!

Thanks and enjoy your stay!

;)

(that's David slaying Goliath for those who don't know)

Satisfying win. Congrats A's. This won't shut up all the counter-revolutionaries, but its a start.

http://www.royalsreview.com

Both of em basically stating the Twins lost, not the A's kicked the crap out of em.

Screw em.

WHEEEEEE I'm so freakin happy right now!!!!

People in my office were going nuts.

"I don't know. We just got done with this game."

SHUT UP ABOUT THE COFFEE SHIT, ESPN!!

Awesome.  Awesome.  Awesome.  

I remember being at game 5 in 2000 and being upset by the loss but believing that we'd get 'em next year... and it is finally NEXT YEAR.

They play their own version of Moneyball, even though they don't have a book. They get great results on not much money and against any other team I would be rooting for them.

I also feel their pain. Their team looked nervous and they got to make all the stupid plays that plagued our Big 3 era playoffs. They got the tough calls (Torii at the plate).  I hope they have a great year next year (except against us).  

Sing with me! To the tune of "Sussudio" by Phil Collins.

There's this guy in our starting nine
All the time,
Scu-scu-scutaro, whoah-oh!

Now he just has the coolest name
And I like the way he plays the game
Scu-scu-scutaro, whoah-oh!

Oh, for a grounder, he'll be there
He'll go running anywhere
He's all we need, every night
He fields so good, if I just say the word
Scu-scu-scutaro, just say the word,
Oh, Scu-scu-scutaro!

Now he's not quite Michael Young
But he is much more fun,
Scu-scu-scutaro, whoah-oh!

Oh, tell him to swing, give him the sign
He'll hit it down the line
Scu-scu-scutaro, whoah-oh!

I'm just glad to have him on my team
We see him in pre-game and we cheer and scream
He made me nervous, he signed my shirt
And he fields so good when I just say the word
Scu-scu-scutaro, just say the word,
Oh, Scu-scu-scutaro!

Gotta love his honesty.

Though I don't agree with him.

Ellis's hand, sad... Chavy's face... Huston looks like he's 10 years old...

2 more times!!!!

LET'S GO OAKLAND!!!

I so cannot go to sleep right now.

I think I'm scaring my roommates.

And it's totally worth it.

"Pandemodium at the Coliseum!"

GO A's!!!

Only two of our position players had not contributed in the first two games: Chavy and Milton.

Chavy was clutch in the second!

Milton made it double-clutch in the third and triple-clutch in the sixth!

What can I say about the Duke?!

And Marco:

Can you say series MVP???

The Marco chants were electric when he stepped to the plate in the 7th!  They only got louder as Jimenez stepped to the plate after his double!  And they did not abate as he came out to SS the next inning.  My lungs are tired!

It was a sweet comeuppance for those of us who doubted him!

A perfect day at the ballpark!

GO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love them.  BRING ON THE ALCS!

Utterly magnificent.  That's all I can say.

More later.

Scoot ROCKS!!  CHAVVY ROCKS!!!!  MILTON -- smoked that ball!!  WOW, what a game!!!

I'VE WAITED FOURTEEN YEARS FOR THIS AND I LOVE IT!!!

GO F'IN A'S!!!!!!

I LOVE YOU & I LOVE YOU AN!!!!!!!

The Coliseum was f'n rocking!

Just before Chavy's blast I said to my wife that now would be a good time for him to break out and silence all the critics. He's played so hurt most of the year. Dude is a f'n warrior. And his double off the left field scoreboard was smoked as well. Chavy's back. (Don't even think about walking Thomas now, bitches!)

And then there's "Thoroughly Modern Milton".

Let's put his "past" to rest. His home run to center was a no doubter. When he nailed Hunter at the plate the place exploded! To all comers, you're on notice. Milton is not the Bradley of old.

Finally, what more can you say about Marco Scutaro. Before he came to the plate, everyone knew what he was capable of and what he could do and the chanting began.

"MARCO!"

"SCUTARO!"

 It continued ever louder into his at-bat until that magnificent, two-out bases-clearing double when it crescendoed into delirium! What an indescribable feeling to have the 35,000 plus fans screaming in unison,

"MARCO!"

"SCUTARO!"

The yells continued in homage and appreciation as Scoot stood at second base and through to the last out of the inning.

If any A's player sums up the underdog nature of this team, it has to be Scutaro. And I just heard Cotroneo's call of Scutaro's at-bat and have to say it's his best call ever. Better than Kots' inside-the-park home run. He and Fosse perfectly summed up what was happening at the ballpark before, during and after the at-bat.

"Pandemonium!"

We freakin' LOVE Marco Scutaro!

This was THE game of the year.

Bring on the ACLS!

It is amazing how this season has played out.  I was able to go to all three a's games in chicago and made it out to oakland for the ranger's series at the beginning of august.  I'm in the video the DYE homerun in game 1 of the Frank return to chi series (the one in the A's jacket and hat behind the sox pen).  Anyway, i remember sitting there as the sox were sweeping and being so mad because the a's were so incomplete and not at full strength and it KILLED me that they weren't able to shut these sox fans up (the degree my hatred of D-BAG since I came here has exponentially risen).  Then to get a chance to go to Oakland and catch this team in a home environment was unbelievable.  Chavy's pick dive tag at third and throw to first for the double play was unblieveable.  That play actually settled Loaiza down and set up his great August in my opinion.  The crowd was amazing and I just hoped I would get the chance to return in October.  But being this transplanted it'll take the A's getting to October 21, so here's to the future.

God, it was great. :)

Ever.

It was amazing

Remember Everyone: You CANNOT prove your point over there. Even if you did, you DID NOT...because it never existed.

:p

LETS GO OAK-LAND!

Chavez' homer really set the tone of the day. He didn't just hit it hard, he CRUSHED it. Bradley CRUSHED his homer to center, and that was going to be it. Haren battled through, keeping the lead and stranding guys right and left.

SCUTARO. Wow. You KNEW he was going to do it, and then he did it. We were making sure section 114 chanted Marco (boom boom) Scutaro (Boom Boom Boom) until we were hoarse. The guy was clutch and every single A's player running back on the field during the inning change had to pay homage - even Jimenez.

DUKE came up big, and classily handed the ball over to STREET in the 9th, who put runners on but closed it out.

I loved the energy. I loved seeing the celebration IN OUR HOUSE. I loved the terrible towels, and seeing Baseballgirl, and Mcfood, and English Major, and representing AN. I love the fact that Thomas didn't have to hit a home run for us to win. I love the fact we're in the ALCS and can rest up while the Tigers smack around the Yankees. They can go the full five and go extra innings in every game until they should both quit.

THIS TEAM IS GOING PLACES. I won't pull a Blez and drop an F-bomb. Who knows when these words will come back to haunt?

We are IN IT TO WIN IT and WIN IT we are doing.

GO A's! Go Scoot! Go Bradley, Chavy and Big Hurt!

:)

P. S.  McFood -- you're the last one back so you can post it....

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