someones head just exploded.

I don’t hate the team, but I do agree we need a hitter. We need someone who is looking to hit the hell out of the ball and not just take a walk with a runner on second. Brown needs to be gone by July 31st or at least reduced to pinch hitting. The young guys need to play more! I love the big hurt but he is getting up there in years and his time was the 1990’s.

So who is out there we could get? Who do we give up?

Now Beane has stated he is rebuilding the team so this year is a wash unless the angels fall flat. I like Sweeney, Gonzales and Buck in the outfield and Barton at 1st. I would say he is going through the sophomore slump so let’s not get too worried. Those guys all need time to grow and that is this year. The same goes for the pitching. Now Gallagher, Smith, Eveland and Braden need to keep going out there and work on improving their game. Duke needs to show he can handle pitching 190-200+ innings. He has shown he can be a good starter.

Then good riddance to you…we don’t need fans like you…

Yes, its frustrating, but I won’t give up on this team…It’s hard to watch, but I’m still going to watch and will still root for my beloved A’s

If you don’t want to, then thats your decision. But don’t bitch and moan on fanpost about it.

I still record the games, but I don’t studiously avoid hearing the score, then go home and start watching right from the start anymore. I check the late inning score before watching to see if we’re even in the game. I don’t want to waste 3 or 4 hours watching them put up two hits, zero runs and strike out a ton. Not fun, not exciting, not interesting. BORING!

They’ll turn it around sooner or later, hopefully, but in the meantime, well, I’ve got better ways to spend my time.

Did people actually think the A’s would make the playoffs this year??? Is it really that heartbreaking???

Anyways, it’s good to see that players on the team won’t allow themselves to see the White Flag. It’s the reason Emil Brown (Veteran) runs out to LF every night. It’s the reason Big Frank and Mike Sweeney join the team on Road Trips and support the young guys. I saw some legitimate fire and fight during the series @ Tampa Bay. A’s players put up a fight. That’s all you can really expect at this point in the season, right???

Positives:

- Gonzalez looks like a legit CF and bat
- Same w/ Ryan Sweeney in RF
- Suzuki is surpassing all expectations
- The Brad Ziegler Story is UNBELIEVABLE.
- Duke might win the Cy Young
- 2008 MLB Team ERA Title?
- Big Frank passing Ted Williams and Willie McCovey w/ 2 more HR’s

• There are still many, many reasons to watch this team **

That is what you should feel for the team. It’s a team that COULD be good, mostly due to the pitching and defense. However each time our offense fails to score and our pitching ends up with one weak inning that kills a win…all I can feel is very frustrated. I think there were at least 5 late game losses that should have been wins. Especially that damn one against the angels. Combine that with the numerous times we just needed a couple more runs to win. The team is still loveable, we still have plenty of potential, we’ve just got big big weaknesses. Enough that I think we can’t win any world series this year. What also scares me is that Eveland and Smith aren’t dealing anymore. Eveland is especially bad the past month. We gotta get them back on track.

I hate losing.

I’m pretty sure FoolishGame is just sharing the same sentiment that the other 7.1million people or so in the Bay Area that don’t waste their times with trips to the Coli have. There are a couple dozen guys around here who will defend and spin every A’s franchise move to their death. Truth is, not many people are excited about anything this team is doing.

and thanks for the veiled shot just because i don’t refer to the a’s as “we” or “us”. if you don’t want to be a fan this year, don’t be a fan in 2 years when the a’s take the division.

to answer some questions:

-huston street would and will be on another roster, and frequently throws “over 82 mph”
-jack cust would absolutely be on another roster, he represents an upgrade at DH for more than a few teams, the mariners come to mind as one of them
-brooks conrad has played in three games. if he goes 0 for 30 with 25 strikeouts…then yeah, maybe send him down.

sure, it’s frustrating, but this was never a year to go for it. our team just isn’t good enough. our good hitters are in AA right now. when they get here, you will like what you see.

Attendance around 7K + rumors of replenished kraut supplies at the Saag’s stand = more kraut for me!

I do. I love this team. I think this team is showing us a bright future. There really are alot of great looking young players on this team and I don’t think it will take them too long before they make a postseason run. So what if it’s not this year?! They really have aloot of good looking guys for the future.
Might I add…I love Greg Smith. So happy to have him here. I am actually thinking about stalking him…Joking. Maybe.

I bet you thought Eveland was my favorite huh? But that isn’t so. I appreciate sarcastic comments. Seriously :) lol

When they go through stretches like this were runs and wins are hard to come by i just watch them less. There are plenty of things that I can entertain myself with. TV, movies, video games, reading, sleeping, or I guess I could spend time with my wife ; -)

I still check the score, watch highlights and read AN but I know that lwatching them lose a lot will just make me mad so I invest less time in it and ride out the wave of bad play. I can handle watching .500 ball but losing streaks suck.

BTW, I’m not a fairweather or new A’s fan. I still wear their t-shirts and leave my A’s doormat at my front door when they are losing : -)

so after 10 hours of work 6 days a week..I “relax” to a good ol A’s game! Ok, so it’s not the most relaxing thing around but it’s all good! I still enjoy watching and hoping! I am going to their series agianst the Red Sox in Fenway soon. I have tickets 9 rows behind the VISITING dugout. Wooooohooo! $800 a game for 2 tickets but so worth it! I can’t wait!

Kurt Suzuki in the clutch. Greg Smith’s pickoff move. Carlos Gonzalez’s arm. Cust’s power. Mark Ellis, on defense and sometimes at the plate. Justin Duchscherer. Bob Geren finally showing some emotion in his second season as manager. Those few times when Bobby Crosby proves us wrong (hey – I really WANT to like the guy). Huston’s tongue. Frank Thomas (when healthy). Rajai Davis pinch-running for Cust. Brad Ziegler. Ryan Sweeney at the plate.

...just to name a few. I, too, am not super excited about the 2008 A’s, even though they were in the race for quite a while, and they still have a winning record; they just are not all that entertaining, and not all that good either. In my heart of heart, I know it was wise to get prospects for Harden, even though we were still in the race, because I knew there was no way the A’s would get to the post-season this year.

But the A’s are still my team, dammit. And these are the things I love about them.

+1

and I’m already digging CarGone and Sweeney – 2 OF studs of the future but right now, this team doesn’t excite me, at all. There’s no one that gets my attention. No Swisher with the hair, no dances in the dugout after a HR, no red head clown pics to comment on… I guess this new group will develop their own identity next year. Until then, it’s a boring team to watch play.

The A’s raised the white flag on the 2008 season when they signed Emil Brown. If that didn’t make it clear enough, the signing of Mike Sweeney should have.

I don’t see any reason to hate this team. I can see where one might hate the way the season has turned out after a solid start but that’s different.

in response to my little rant. (No offense to the regs… I know who you are.) Perhaps, I should be the Ray Ratto of the site. LOL