But it's been that way for the last 3 hours. Usually, 3 hour dramas like this feature Kevin Kostner or something...

People are answering POLO!!!

ROTFL

any pudding.

Bonds at the plate, part IV

Bonds up again. The Earth continues to rotate.

They boo called balls to Bonds, as it's seen the pitcher is pitching around him, and then they boo the strikes, because the ump is blind? Pick one, morons.

So this is turning into a typical Arlington affair that makes bullpens look like the kids falling into the human meat grinder in The Wall.

Is that where Saags come from?

John Lannan wins again

Bonds down swinging

those screaming kids are annoying.

A's killer of the Rangers.

I really like this guy.

Denis Leary in the past three days. I've continued tonight. What's going on with the game? Any more pitchers in named after cities in Texas?

With less than 2 outs!

marshall (eek!) and calero (eek!)??

I'd have taken the strikeout/weak pop up myself.

I leave for a few hours, and look what happens.

Wow, that was unexpected.

30 minute guarantee not met, money to be refunded!

and for me, and for AN, and for the good of the country.

They handled that potentially game-winning single in a very un-homer fashion.

Another water bottle?

at our lovable muppets!!

I am SO going to go f'n mess with Texas.

Hold Poppy back.

I will KEEEEEEAALLL you.

him.

Was that Chad Gaudin flossing his teeth?

No, not Kiko

I used to think The Dugout was a pretty funny site, but looking back on the A's 'chatrooms' - uh, not so much

The Dugout, 3-27-07

But I call Andrew Brown... "Downtown"

we're gonna let it all hang out

Ugh - must we endure three outs of Kiko

top of the 10th on a Dimitri Young jack

has one of the best home run trots in the history of home run trots.

thrown out just to relieve the sexual tension - only reason you'd ever need to get that close in an argument.

C'mon Kiko, you can finish off the corked-up roider.

Calero scares me

Sosa scares me

Let's win so I don't live in fear

Darn!

...another quarter rolled off the back of my desk..

dammit!

winning run at the plate

KIKO.

thing the crowd are doing?

When he was standing there, he was at least 9 foot 6.

I'll take it home anyday after a bad bender at the bar

Incredible - Kiko actually got three outs without tripping over his johnson

A's win a nail biter!

Thankfully it ended on a good note.  Good night to AN!

the end of the Nats-Gnats

This game went on all together for far too long.  Who would have thought that Kiko would be able to do what Embree couldn't?  Still, like all of you, I'll gladly take it.

I'm glad Brown earned it

what a marathon

now the Giants are down by 1 in the home half of the 10th, with the bottom of their lineup expected to make something happen

will F-Rog dwindle into obscurity? I detest his celebration (he nearly blew another save tonight).

Giants tied it. Heading to the 12th.

And since it happened so long ago, here's a grand salami celebration photo:

Bad news - Anaheim Vermin won
Good news - Curt the Mouth took the loss

Apparently, Padres outfielder Milton Bradley is still hurting over being designated by assignment by the Oakland A's on June 21.

Bradley, acquired by the Padres from the A's on June 28, told the Contra Costa Times last week that the clubhouse atmosphere had grown increasingly tenser since the 2006 season, something Bradley attributes to general manager Billy Beane.

"I was pretty honest with them when I left," Bradley told reporters. "I told them I had more fun playing baseball in Oakland that I ever have ... last year.

"This year, though, it just wasn't the same, not only in the clubhouse, but on the field. It just seems like everybody -- the coaching staff, everybody -- was afraid of their own shadows. Everybody's scared to death of Billy Beane. Not me, though, and people could see that."

0 outs for the Giants

I wonder if they can end it...

Loiza - 4IP, 7 H, 0 BB, 2 R (both earned). River Cats won 5-2, our own Ziggy was the winner.