Open Thread: Game 57 - A's vs. Red Sox

I'm mad because I'm still sitting in my cube in San Francisco instead of being in the LFB where I have a ticket.  I blame Laotian terrorists.  

Jack Cust this game.  Couple HR's, maybe.

Go A's!!! I'm here for the whole game tonight :)

I like Ellis batting #2, too

in RF for the Padres tonight. In case anyone cares haha.

You can do this!

it's only the first inning.

Come on Lenny! One more out you can do this!

Down with Dice-K!

Or at least one scene.

I just realized my office doesn't get KICU on the cable.  Ay tank ay go home now.

Let's Go Oak-land!

Wow...picks up where he left off.

I love it!

LET'S GO OAKLAND!!

Maybe next time!

being on both the A's site, and Giants radio, and his comments of beaning Buck, here is his response.

You either didn't hear that I actually said about the Buck situation or heard what you wanted to hear. The A's are happy with my work, and that's all that really matters to me. For the record, though, I didn't say Buck should be hit. I said don't be surprised if Matt Cain throws at somebody as payback for running up the score, and I absolved Buck of any blame because I saw Lachemann sending him.

Thanks for reading,

Mychael

We we're batting, the fans sit three inches off the line. Top half of innings, the fans in the front row need binoculars and the players need a taxi to get from the dugout.

like squiggy, he is probably still on a pitch count

I feel so secure when someone hits it out there.

Go A's!

Not a good idea to swing at pitches out of the zone and then look at one that is. :(

I fell asleep and missed the ending last night.  :-(

We seem to like to squeeze pitches through small gaps between infielders tonight. Now we just gotta put some back to back :)

I mean, they have both red and blue to draw from in their color scheme, and they go with gym sock grey.

Woo!

against the Angels earlier this year, which was easily the coldest, windiest game I've ever attended at the Coli.

We were closer this time! Maybe next inning we'll get a run or two.

of the Kotsay relay to Crosby to Kendall play at the plate? Truly uninspired and lacking in detail for what was a REALLY exciting play.

to jinx Croz... but I was really happy so far this game and thankful that he got over his early season defensive slump.

THANK GOD for a DP! Whew.

nice DP

Is DiNardo pitching this well? Or is he having Kennedy-luck?

Crushed it! and it looked effortless too!

I was just going to comment that I don't remember him swinging and missing so much on low pitches... but then he hits a HR so all is forgiven :)

I miss Sharon. She would have loved the hot Chavy/Swish dugout action NESN just cut to. :(

dude does have power when he is clicking.

SO cute.

Dinner-do is throwing a one hitter.  How do the A's come up with all these guys

Ever.

Their dad's have been unconscious lately and I'm thinking they have formed some kind of competition between families.

This could be one of those low scoring affairs and I want the A's to be on top.

Dice K in Japan, and I thought that homers would kill him and the green monster would kill him.  I wonder if those are true.  But then I thought Igawa would be better than Dice K because of the Yankee stadium factor too

Sooooo much better than hitting into them!

...but this could be a short Red Sox game...

ESPN would still have the Tuesday and Friday doubleheaders like they used to in the early 90s.  I'd actually have a chance to watch some A's games like this one

getting a feel for it?

LET'S GO OAKLAND!!!

that Swish makes the All Star Team

I'd say a little better than 50%

I'd say Haren 98%, GoDan 60%, everyone else about 0 combined

about to roll 100 for 5 innings.  

Got the ill communication!

<thud>

Is there anything you can't do?

to video game levels of web-gemmy goodness.

Farking single.

eeeeeeeeeeeek

JUST A COUPLE MORE!

DiNardo is playing the "How quickly can we lose our itty bitty lead" game.

We bow to the woofing gods.

You can do this Lenny! Or Kiko... or whatever is happening right now.

Four pitch walk?

Fenway is bigger than the Coliseum. Crazy stuff.

Hell Yeah!

Sitdown bitches!

I LOVE IT!!! Sit down YOUK YOU SUCK!!!

Seemingly doesn't sound family friendly or wholesome...

Boston has stolen from us, keep them!!

Daisuke would still be pitching in the 4th.

Watch, the woofing gods are with us now.