Open Game Thread: Game 76 - A's at Cleveland

Will catch the game on XM while crawling through traffic caused by people who can't drive in the rain.  Hope to be home by, oh say, the 7th inning. Shades of living in the bay area.

Said Harden felt good today and is scheduled to be put in a game again friday or saturday

After topping at .523 during the Cardinals series he's back down to .504, with 1 single and no BB or HBP in his last 19 plate appearances.  This is his 6th consecutive start.

EVERYONE is supposed to hit tonight or Swish will KILL THEM!

hit by Ellis is a perfect example of what has been falling in every night for the Angels.  It was surely a double that has now turned into a single.

Just saying there is a lot of luck in baseball and we ain't getting any lately.

doesn't need to have a team meeting with himself.

Dr., would you like to call the time of death?

ones from last night.

"Kendall is a guy who lives in the dirt" - Cleveland announcers.

I don't know why that made me laugh so much.

Maybe they eavesdropped on our Team Meeting?

I thought we had that one in the bank

I hope you're paying attention. You need to score 2 today.

Say it ain't so!

knows he's done his part for the team this year.

Tie game!

at everything.

If he wants to hit it out of the park at the last one, I'm not one to complain.

CUSTARD PIE!

9 Jack Custs?

Sound off here.

makes a fella all weak in the knees. Well, it does that to opposing pitchers, anyway.

Ladies and gentlemen, your 2007 A's HR co-leader.

balls, you know, to take advantage of his natural speed. <injects homemade Laudinum and Lithium cocktail into neck>

Don't he know a foul ball when he see one?

Let's get another run now.

Stupid cat.  What happened?

He's always sort of moving out of the way of a pitch that's strike 3 called.

Work on that, MaEl. :)

Let's do something with it.

Even chavez can do something with it...

When Cust is hot, bat him third.

When Cust is not, bat him ... ninth. Or first.

...just tuned in and it's as if I never left.

First pitch swinging pop up from Chavvy with the bases loaded?  What a surprise!

LET'S GO OAKLAND!!!

nice done chavez, after a walk, first-pitch swing.
FU!!!

Color me surprised.

Get a hit, Cust! PLEASE!

a designated fielder position for Chavez?

chavez is ajoke

You aren't supposed to do that against the A's! Wait til we leave!

Settle down.

Get out of this.

our ace has just implode.

shit for dangling that frigging RISP carrot.

to give up a bases loaded opp and give up two runs after that

Ok, we can get back into this again. I'm really upset we didn't get any runs when we had the bases loaded.

1 run, Cust HR, huh?

show up in his Ronald McDonald outfit, and all will be cheery!

Let's hope so!

DON'T WASTE THE LEADOFF DOUBLE!!!

I believe it!

I'm listening to the Charlotte-Syracuse game and Ron Hassey's son Brad is batting.

Let's get this run in!

That's even better!!! YEAH MAEL!!!!!!!

MaEl is definitely my favorite player. Love that guy.

thanks mael!

goes to Stewart's "productive out."

you're not in my trading pack.

"If I wear a suit, people will respect me."

Lee walked Kendall to lead off the third; he got away with it.

Kendall leads off again in the fifth.  Lee surrenders the double.  You just can't get away with letting Kendall get on as the leadoff hitter twice in a row.

is his own GB-BABIP experiment. Instead of being in the lineup, he should be sent to Austria for further study.

have become excruciating.  Or is it the time of year? It is much harder for me to watch or listen these days. Not because we are losing (although that doesn't help) but because the team seems to have no life in them.  

Even with an inspirational team meeting and the buzz around Larry Davis' selection to the All-Star team, this game is like the old water drip torture. Or watching snow melt. Especially if the snow refuses to melt with runners in scoring position.

I got 39637 in Pinch Hitter, which roughly translates to a 1.200 OPS in the majors.

Big Daddy Unicorn!

that could run.  What about Rickey F'n Henderson you dumbass?

show his picture on the screen more!

Ellie, you're an average hitter, but the rest of the team sucks, so step up.

The snow is melting again! Come quick!

We're supposed to be losing! DAMN YOU!

coño

good god

MESSED US UP AGAIN!

is it allowed here??

Chavy is pathetic bandwagon right now. However, my man-crush on Mark Ellis is going strong.

Stewart, Ellis, Kendall:
6 for 10 plus a walk (2 doubles and a HR)

Chavez, Crosby, Kotsay:
0 for 10

but his call on that wild pitch was a classic Vince faceplant. "Uuurp! Oooh...kicked down the third base line..."

One more out lets go.

let him get out of this

to hit for them

1. don't groove one, and 2. no wild ass pitch.

Here

Castilla is AWESOME!!