Open Thread: Game 147 - A's at Seattle

A near perfect lineup.

On Jorge Piedra HR.

Top of 9, 2 outs, runner on 2nd. Petit's up.

WTF is going on with Rescue Me?

evening here....my oh my.   HD tv on FSNW, grilled skinless chicken thighs with jamican jerk bbq sauce to brushed on near the end, sliding glass door open and that golden evening sunshine on the verdant green mountainside....snow fields shimmering on the far peak.    

for the THIRD day in a row.  Niehaus sucks at broadcasting.

trying to hold the 3-2 lead.

from the Space Needle.

we'll see Ziggy next year.

heading for Sacramento.  New Orleans is supposed to beat them in 7, but this has to have them worried!

if I didn't know that it's probably going to be 115 degrees in Sacramento.

when the runner is going?  Boy needs to swing.

High of 78 forecast for Sacramento on Friday.  I can deal with that.  Anyone want to join me on the drive up from Albany?

sure, but the element of surprise messed up the m's pitcher....lets see more of that stuff.

after 30 mins, we're 1 out into the 2nd??

but I'm scared to turn the channel.

"thank god he hasn't given up a longball in the first 3 innings"

stupid extra base hits.

It's adorable.

They should mail today's win in.

I'll take it!

I'd rather pitch to Cust.

Ibanez has a WEAK arm, not a STRONG arm... just ask any M's fan.

Barton should be in the dugout by now.

you just wanted to see a True Athletic at work, after all.

at him, or in lue of not being in the NL, at the next M's batter.

(and I thought I had lost the anger factor weeks ago)

how bad we are. I thought walking Cust was one of the single stupidest moves by an opposing manager all year, and we managed to make a terrible decision look good. Ugh.

Of course, the M's are so bad that...we're still tied!

Shoe?

Piazza and Scutaro both have 7 HR and 40 RBI.  Pretty scary stuff

w/ no outs

barton seems to have busted out of the slump that he was in yesterday.
scoots got as many hr's as piazza
cust has a walk and a strikeout, and so he only needs a homer to get the "cust tricycle"

I don't ever want to see a bad one.

A's magic number to be eliminated from the AL west race is 2.  

Thats the Haren that we all know!

run home this time.

Let's do this. How many freaking chances have we had tonight?

no DP
no DP
no DP

to have the worst at bat in major league history.

Way to go Mike!

Thank you, Mssrs Piazza and Geren.

The old man...showing these kids how its DONE!

Um, I mean I really appreciate your, er, baseball skills and, yeah, the driving in runs thing and all. Right.

dinardo and kennedy warming up

they'd be tied for the WC lead.  As it is now, they're 7 back.  ouch

4-5 hits were smoked off Haren, but about 7 of them had to be bloops, choppers, flairs...Really not a bad outing at all unless you just look at the box score.

i need to pay attention

coming around on the Suzuki-love

what a bunch of bleeders and bloops.  Haren pitched fine tonight, finally.

was safe.

and I gotta say, I think Ziggy should and will come up.  

coming after m' announcers kept talkin about "his best pitch" that fat fastball.

Going to bed.  Is there a game tomorrow?

does Embree seem to pitch better as a closer

and Street pitches better as a set up guy?

I'd like to see them flip flop a few times

has had some of the slowest A's games in recent memory... just on and on and on. We checked out in inning 3, caught two TiVo'd episodes of Coupling, and returned to see Haren still pitching. Now we're tied and to the 9th we go. Should we check out and check back in again?

and this game isn't helping.

things you learn in a long ball game..  check it out

with various people planning to throw up.

Kurt Suzuki's ball blocking skills have been improving

Without a trace of vomit!