Open Thread: Game 29 - A's at Tampa Bay (cont)

end this partay!

GIDP Kendall!

I can feel it.  

Kendall, I mean.

If we don't score now, this offense should officially resign.

Geren...here's your opportunity!!!

He's one of our only threats.

All right, some tough love. Get a hit, Stewart, you absolutely awful baseball player that is only playing because less awful hitters are injured.

give 'em a nice shit burger!

Kendall is involved. This is very bad.

look at our offense and laugh?  I mean maybe that's what Billy is going for.  Just break the other teams concentration because our offense is so pathetic.  

GO WARRIORS!!! SCREW BASEBALL. for now. lol...

They will be one game under or over .500 after tonight. This while getting the best 30 games of starting pitching in the history of the franchise.

And the truth is, with some brief respites, this has been an offense worth hating for a long time.

I mean, hasn't everybody figured out that most of us are thrilled to see Snelling and Cust hit because we are so pained having to see Chavez, Stewart, Ellis, Kendall, Crosby, and several other hit.

Oh crap.

my grandson who is 20 months runs around our house and his saying lets go oakland.

Swisher is hitting, right? That's a major league hitter. If any of those .240 monsters get on, we're in business.

And, by the way, is Eric Chavez ever going to be worth getting excited about at the plate? I mean like in the second half of 2001. The guy is amazingly consistent in being a completely mediocre middle of the order guy.

And Mark Ellis' 2005 really was an aberration.

(Just venting).

And Bobby Crosby will never be any good. Okay, I realize I'm late to that party.

And Dan Johnson is just filler.

And Jason Kendall is the single worst hitter in the major leagues.

And Travis Buck is playing at the wrong level.

And we won't remember Shannon Stewart in one year.

(What else?)

Mike Piazza: on a pace to hit 5 homers before the injury.

Feel free to add to this. I need a relief from listening to our team hit in the top of the next inning.

An inning I've predicted we'll score in, by the way.

Worried that he might overdue in the extra innings.

At least someone can hit.

Hitting with RISP? I'll wait and see.

He's just a total piece of crap. The Mike Dunleavy of the Oakland A's.

(And, as predicted, the one hitter delivered.)

Dan Johnson intentionally walked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How awful do they think Crosby is. I mean, he's not Kendall.

Let's go Bobby.

sigh

I am so over him.

2 for 6 ain't good enough, Bobby.

and he takes no prisoners.

Who wants this to end here?

Who wants to listen to the A's hit again?

My vote: More Snelling. I want to hear them (him) hit.

the Vegas odds and the inning over under on us scoring is inning 73.  There is no way that this team can score a run unless there is a catastrophic meltdown and one - or several - of the rays players suffer some form of dymensia and either throw the ball into the stands or physically carry one of our players around the bases.  

...inning. You can't stop a team that's determined to lose the game.

wasn't a bay area athlete i'd care so much more about this.  but i kinda just have to sit back and chuckle.  I mean our outfield today consisted of Stewart - who was recently carbon dated to an age of 12,334,431, some dude from Australia named Doyle and Buck - who can barely grip a bat.  

KENDALL you f'up!

between their awful at-bats and questionable defense they contributed more than their fair share to the loss.  
Crosby has a few good at-bats and then takes a few steps back.  Kendall just keeps taking steps back.

deserves to be sent down. Didnt produce at the
plate in the top of the inning and lost it for the a's defensively in the bottom of the inning.

Every year I say that I am going to give these guys the benefit of the doubt and not get down on the team.  And when the wave of 10-12 injuries comes I always say, tough luck, next year they will be healthy.  

I am beginning to that we need all new players...Not really sure who we'd want to keep around.  I mean I love Haren, but he's really the only player other than Street that has any value to other major league teams.  Can you trade with foreign leagues?  Our team could probably compete in Mexico...

tomorrow is another day.  Let's say our prays and hope for some good offense and defense. We can say Crosby and Kendall suck, which they do, but in the end the team needs to play as a team and pick up where others are failing.  Love Chavvy and Ellie, but their bats need to wake up, Swish needs to heal, and the rest of us just need to think positive.  LET'S GO OAKLAND!!!

Why would Geren not intentionally walk Harris in that situation? I didn't have TV access tonight so I was getting the play by play from Game Center. As soon as I saw that Harris was hitting .529 (9-17)against LHP this year I thought they had to seriously consider it. I checked on Baldelli's numbers and he is hitting .174 against LHP. I don't get it.