Open Thread: Game 159 - A's at Boston

Bye Bye! Barton is awesome. He even makes adjustments to pitching! Wow! What a concept!

on gameday every time he gets a hit. pretty.

NICE.

I know Boston has their oddball "Patriots Day" April game which starts at like 10:30 Eastern, coinciding with the marathon, but what's up with 5:00 Eastern today?  

Boston's notorious for not accomodating departing teams' needs for early flights, so it's surely not for the A's benefit.

I think its cuz he is coming back from an injury and want to get him out of the game after x number of at bats

Nice call, ump!

no radio, whats with the delay. And Is anything being said about the strike zone? there seem to be lots of called Ks.

Good thing I'm procrastinating at work and decided to check AN....I thought the game didn't start for another hour or two!

can someone provide a good description of the action.  I'm following on gameday. Thanks!

They are bitter and funny.

babbling about ugly Mount Davis and how Swish looking out toward right field in Boston and seeing Cambridge. I'm so sick of other announcers making fun of Oakland. How much longer until Sisco field?

down my street -- it literally looked as if he had an enormous, open, black mouth.  Check out Gameday photo for an idea of what I mean.

that vertigo can be caused by an inner ear virus.  So if you were wondering whether vertigo is contagious, the answer is Maybe.

Boston just scored to tie the game. 4-4.

...on that RBI single.  Francona & trainer go to check on him.

Damn, he's staying in.  You still owe us some pain for Piazza, Lowell.

way to go, pizzaman!

Seriously, shut down the opponent after your offense gives you the lead, Blanton.

Mentally weak effort ... again.

Fosse says some fan in the back row of the Monster seats tried to catch the ball, and it hit off his hand so hard, it bounced all the way back onto the field.

HAH!

fire up mlbtv or take a nap.   nap.

I want to see that DP that just happened.

later than 7:10 in Boston.  The moon was full and I thought my clocks were all wrong.

Let's get some offense going against Mr. Lopez.

I think of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I have no idea why.

What'll I get?  Something from E-5 to put a hex on Lowell?

for the draft.  we can do it!

I just left to mail some crap and all of a sudden we're losing.

I didn't even realize THAT.

I can't wait till the next inning. Going to vending machine NOW.

a commercial playing, and the score still 8-5.

The score is wrong.

to Japan?

Vince is talking about us..says we come up with well thought out things, perspective, sometimes a little bit of skew...

To hear a mention on the radio. Thanks Vince

come back and find us with an 11-10 victory.  

I'm out. Good luck. We need it.

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and the score was 5-5

now I'm back...what the **** happened?!

Why are Ken & Ray talking about our ALDS From Hell in Boston?

That's my only thought on this game.

right? Thank god.

at least the A's didn't just roll over and die.

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