Awww, Billy, Can We Keep The New Guys?

he's Red Sox player Julio Lugo's brother

We will also accept "Jackass."

But could somebody please put Crosby out of our misery already?!?!

Doyle and Cust seem like keepers. Guess that leaves poor Danny Putnam to go back to the Minors.

just brandished a chair at me.

... I think Lugo was pissed at the UMP because the previous two pitches were close takes, iirc.  

So his reaction to the swinging third strike was something on the order of: "let's see you call THAT one a ball, [insert appropriate four-syllable sobriquet here]!"  

Swisher was walking back to the dugout and didn't even know about the gesture til he was told, which also suggests it wasn't meant for him.      

I won't clap.  But I won't boo, either.

Um... go Darin Erstad??

The only team worse then us on offense vs the team thats just slightly better.

was actually grinning walking back from the box after Ruddy struck him out. I dunno. And Adamn Melhuse deserves some credit for calling a good game (not to mention knocking in two RBIs).

probably was a bungle on the play, but I am going by Gameday after all.

GIDP PLEASE!

<feels dirty>

said earlier Colon had a "mild triceps sprain" and will be listed as "day-to-day". In the Oakland world, that translates to "month-to-month" It'd be a pity.

Thanks A.J. and Jenks!

We'll take that game, thank you very much! .500 and gain a game...that's a good day.

Lincecum has faces 2 batters, and is down 2-0

...to Shane Victorino nonetheless.

year. Swinging through everything.

Must avoid middle of plate with good fastball.

No fastballs down the middle. Got it.

to bunt on the 2nd batter of the game.

1. Stating the obvious, Crosby had one good AB today where he "battled" back from down 0-2 to get the walk, however I could've taken those pitches even with an eye patch. In his other ABs he was our BoCro with a ! next to the AB where he popped up on a first pitch breaking ball with runners on. Good Job BoCro!

2. Putnam definitely is too young for the majors at this point, although that was a great catch.

3. DJ, Snelling, and Cust each had good ABs the entire day. Snelling set the table in the 1st followed by DJ's single and Cust did what he did 199 times in the minors.

4. Blanton for a chunk of the game wasn't fooling anybody with his pitches coupled with spotty control when he missed location (pitches ending up on the opposite side of the plate from where Melhuse wanted it) and left some balls up. Settled down nicely though. Embree same thing. Got hit hard but escaped thankfully.

5. Swish had a good series because he made contact the majority of his ABs. Good things happen when you put the ball in play.

million baseball fans in the US, and they polled 800, and think that represents the fanbase.

Good God, that fastball moves all over the place.

If you had told me a month ago that the starting outfield would be Snelling, Cust, and Putnam, my response would have been, "Beane's going to get Snelling?!?  F***in' A!!"

As for the Ruddy Lugo thing, people are making way too big a fuss over it.  So the guy overcelebrated a bit.  Whatever.  Nothing to get our panties all in a twist about.

is tiresome.   yay, yay, roger is coming...and everything will be okay! and a done deal all the way to the WSeries.  right.

despite kendall having one of his better games on sunday, he bugs me more.  sure, he can make me look less dumb than usual when i watch the game with someone and i predict a weak ground out double play, and that's useful.  but because the best i can hope for is that he gets to first base on either a walk, an error, hbp, or a deep drive to third base he's bad and boring.  sure, crosby's always going to make an out, or fail to make one when fielding, but when (on a weekly basis or so) the pitches hit his bat the ball seems to fly a bit further and offer the glimmer of "charlie brown going to kick the football" type hope.  and there's also the chance of an entertaining injury, like the thrill of watching a wreck in a nascar race.

proud that i didn't bring up kendall's salary.  oh shoot, did i type that out loud?