Because my enthusiasm has been totally curbed.

to define "mass," and you put "Shelli, ever since she let herself go," how can you not at least get partial credit???

Hey, I do feel better! :-}

-Cindi.

2. Jason Kendall- I hate you. Sure, you hit TWO HRs so far this year, but so did my grandma. I hate you and your fucking elbow pad, gritty face, and nasty-ass helmet. You've tried hitting with batting gloves and without batting gloves. Guess what? YOU STILL SUCK, JASON! And you throw like a girl. Hell, you probably pee sitting down, too.

3. Dan Johnson- You suck as a first baseman. You run like you have on concrete shoes. I want Nick Swisher at first. Sorry, Dan. That's the way it has to be.

4. Nick Swisher- Button your damn jersey. You look like trailer trash. .... I think that's it. Wow.

5. Joe Blanton- Remember when you freaked out and pushed Ichiro like he had just taken the last chocolate chip cookie? Yeah, that was stupid. You were just acting like a little pansy. Grabbing your cupcakes wasn't very attractive, either.

6. Joe Kennedy- Blegh. Eat shit. I'm not wasting my time on you. Bitch.

7. The bullpen- WHAT ARE YOU DOING? If you are trying to kill me, IT'S WORKING! Really, guys, you are making me sick. I don't even want to watch this crap anymore. It's like you aren't even trying.

8. Rich Harden- Rich, honey, I love you. You know that, right? I'm really starting to worry about you. I don't want to give up on you, though. You are making it hard for mommy to love you.

9. Dan Haren- You are keeping me going..

10. Chad Gaudin- Stop walking people, kay?

11. Eric Chavez- I don't know what to say.

12. Jack Cust- You know, there are other things to do at the plate than walk, strike out, and HR, right? Let's try mixing it up a little.

13. MLB- Shut up about Barry Bonds. I don't care. No, really. I DON'T CARE! You can't make me. Okay, maybe it Barry had one arm and a wooden leg. Maybe, just maybe, I might find him somewhat entertaining. But right now, I couldn't give two fucks about him.

14. Anyone bitching about Milton Bradley- Die. All of you. I don't care if Swish looks like a lost puppy without his Milty Bear. He's gone. He's not coming back. Get over it. Move on.

15. Marco Scutaro- HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

16. Travis Buck- I am so glad you cut your damn hair. It looked like a bale of hay. You could have been a relative of Eric Byrnes. That's isn't a good thing, by the way.

This isn't very rational, I know. I'm a little pissy right now. I hate the Angels. And losing. A lot.

I'm done. No more bitching. Let's go out and win some shit now.

I hate pansy-ass A's fans who care more about "who's cute," and "who's nice," and "who walks little old ladies across the street."
It doesn't matter ... if we had 24 guys all wanted by the FBI for the most heinous crimes ever committed, and they won ballgames, I'd be the happiest guy around.
I think fans who "worry" about character in ballplayers have misplaced loyalties ... they don't care about you, why do you care about them?
Winning is all that matters. Period. What ballplayers do off the field is completely unimportant and irrelevant.
I like it when a ballplayer vents and acts mad ... it shows me he cares as much as I do ... I think players who are "calm" and "mature" suck. They steal money, and they don't give a s***. And I think AN'ers who like those guys suck. They steal money, and they don't give a s***.

Now, just shut up, cuz you weren't supposed to read this anyway. :-)

Yea this season sucks. Yes the 2007 team is my least fav A's team since the 96 team. Anyway since nobody is reading this, I just want to say for all of us FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Darth Vader is Luke's father.
Rosebud is the name of the sled.
Norman Bates' mother is just a split personality.
So is Tyler Durden.
Soylent Green is made of people.
Verbal is Keyser Soze.
The A's could have afforded a better 2007 team; they chose not to.

I am sick of hearing about it. I read the book and yeah it USED to work before you told everybody about it ML! Now it's just garnering us a LOSING ASS team.
I want the old ways. Where we bought some good players and won world series. I want someone Like Rickey Henderson that entertains me.
and I am so sick of hearing immature kids on AN who really really believe things would be different if we had kept MR I am injured constantly Bradley on the team. It wouldn't be different because we aren't AS good as other teams that actually have guys who hit consistently in the lineup.

and I wish that Blez and Baseballgirl would make more posts on the site ...rather than make a column and disappear. Noone's reading this so I know I am not hurting their feelings. and I wish that FSU would make more threads too. THEY entertained me.

more than a $3 hooker. THAT is the problem. It's not the players' lack of heart or passion or caring; THEY JUST AREN'T VERY GOOD. Do people here honestly think that they would lose seven fucking games in a row or score a pathetic 24 runs over 10 (mostly excruciatingly painful and embarrassing) games if they were actually capable doing better?

To the people bringing up the Gum Chewer: Stop! We'd be just as crappy if he were still here. Hell, he'd probably find some way to make the team worse.

And to all the prognosticators: It really comforts me that you were able predict whatever awful thing happened to the A's after the first out of the fifth inning of the 79th game, or that Rich Harden would break yet again.

Billy Beane: Don't even glance sideways at another player who's ever had so much as a paper cut. And sweet fancy Moses, get us some damn offense!

Bob Geren: What's with the man crush on Jay Marshall? (I know there are limited options in the bullpen, but I'm ranting, OK?)

Bobby Crosby: Do you realize that you are so awful that pitchers will walk Dan Johnson to get to you? (Dan Freaking Johnson!) And that there's this place called right field that you're allowed to hit the ball to? Jason Kendall: You are not even slugging Shannon Stewart's batting average. And the next time a runner tries to steal, save yourself the embarrassment and don't even make a throw. Has anyone ever sucked more at their chosen professions than you two do?

And if you're going to lose, guys, can't you at least find a new way to do it? Bullpen implosions? Rally-killing double plays? Getting shut down by shit-ass pitchers? Pshaw! How about a triple play one of these days? Or a 14-13 game? It's like I'm watching Groundhog Day, except it's not funny watching my favorite team melt down.

but I'm not going to say anything right now

the pasta place where I used to work can kiss my ass.  I hate that company and its false sense of hope that it gives the employees while throwing broken promises at them.  My ex fiance that is currently living it up in her gated community down by San Diego is lucky that I don't know where she lives.  I'll go down there and kick over her dalmation statue when I do.  I paid her two times what I had borrowed from her spoiled trust fund ass to put a down payment on a car.  A few months after making my final payment, the car hit a patch of black ice and spun out, almost making another payment with my life.  EDD continues to send $1400 checks to the meth fiend white trash loser that kept depositing empty envelopes in the ATM and finally got his card taken away.  Meanwhile I got screwed over by a company that played with my timecard, stiffed me on vacation pay, and charged me for tips that I was didn't collect, but EDD said it wasn't good enough.  I failed to secure other employment?  Well if I did, I wouldn't have filed for unemployment, would I?  Does anybody remember when MTV actually played music?  Why wouldn't other countries hate us when all they see is snobby teenagers on Laguna Beach or spoiled brats throwing hissy fits on My Super Sweet 16?  Is poker a sport?  Do I need to see it on ESPN and FSN all the freaking time?  Dane Cook:  you're not funny.  No one gives a shit how many "friends" you have on myspace.  My little sister needs to quit being such a freaking emo kid.  Her over controlling manipulative boyfriend that ranks somewhere between roadkill and a drool stain on the pillow needs a beatdown.

Much better now.

Whatever happened to Jason Mcdonald and Jeremy Giambi??? Bring em all back, Todd van Popel and Vince Horseman. Mark Acre and Billy Taylor where are you....this is a crisis and we need you...Geronimo Berroa do you hear me we need some offense...Where is our cuban phenom Ariel Prieto? Was Jim Corsi any worse than JoKe? Don Wengert for 5th starter come on join the bandwagon now......No matter how bad we continue to be this year..just remember the above names from the past and remember how bad it had gotten back then......

Real pissed.  But we'll win tonight.

Ron Flores=Joe Klink

Stop lamenting over Travis Buck's hair.  He was beginning to look like that guy from Nickelback.  And NOBODY likes them.

I hated the old Angels bullpen because of their goggles.  I hate Manny Ramirez and Coco Crisp for their du-rags.

Swisher- button up the f'n jersey.  My 6 year old nephew was asking me if you didn't know how to do it.  He would love to teach you.

Pink is not any team's official color.

Dear Bobby,

Do you give a fuck about the team?  Do you give a fuck about yourself?  Are you ready to play for Sacramento soon?  Do you really believe that you are an intelligent hitter that is just in a slump?  Have you ever looked in the mirror and asked said mirror if you should try something different?  

You are the biggest piece of shit the A's organization has ever seen.  You suck so bad that it seems like a waste of time to even put it into words when it's so obvious.  I hope you go away soon regardless of whether the A's have to pay you every dime you don't earn.  It's obvious that you have the talent but you just don't give a fuck about the team and it pisses me off.  On a good note- Ben Grieve is no longer a bad word in my vocabulary because you have easily taken his place.

In closing... GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!  

Sincerely,

O2B

Now let's go play some ball!

like, the first 26 years of my life, I probably would've had a fucking heart attack by now because of this team. I would've written a fucking novel in this post ripping these dipshits all new assholes.

Now, I don't even care. Thanks, you fucking fuck-face fucking twats. You are so bad, and so boring, I can't even get worked up. You fucking retard fuckheads.

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a catastrophe. Everybody's on the disabled list or playing as if they should be. The dollar buys a nickel's worth on the FA market; teams are going bust; general managers keep a gun under the counter; AAAA chumps and 45 year-old has-beens are running wild throughout the league, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the team is unfit to root for and our players are unfit to play. And we sit watching our TVs while some local broadcaster tells us that today we gave up fifteen runs and hit into 6 double plays, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!
We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, hovering over AN message boards, pretending everything is okay, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my AN and my Daily Link Dumps and my QOTM nominations, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your GM, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the pitching and the defense and the Angels and the mess in the bullpen.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.
You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I'M AS MAD AS HELL,
AND I'm NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!"

Adapted, of course, from this speech from the classic Sidney Lumet film, NETWORK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dib2-...

Lew Wolfe: you allowed some overeager suckup to put a picture of you on tickets last year. Wanna name the new ballpark after yourself, egomaniac?

Billy Beane: thanks for that Tim Hudson trade.

Eric Byrnes, Miguel Tejada, Jeremy Giambi: learn to run the bases!

Ben Grieve: why didn't you take more steroids or something?

Bill King: why did you leave us?

oh wait....we're supposed to be negative on here.  i mean DAMN theres finally a place to vent!  lol

but seriously....fuck LA traffic! old asian people need to go back to the DMV and retake their test.

stop putting those stupid fake ball sacks on the back of oversize trucks...we get it, you have a small penis and your stereo's awesome!

my ex boyfriends' a douche, he broke up with me and i don't know why..still to this day i really have no idea why! yes this was years ago, but i'm a girl and need some fucking closure!  perhaps it'll be a way to not fuck it up in my soon to be marriage!  hmm i think i struck that nerve again...where i could go on and on about how great things were between him and i and how shitty things turned out to be afterwards...

the most amazing thing is....he's a member of this forum...sorry not giving out names...i just don't want the drama to start over again!

that all of the negativity on this thread and almost every other has done the trick. I think that I  feel better now. AND! I am out of the mood to bitch ...at least until the next game.