Open Thread: Game 117 - A's vs. Tigers (cont.)

and not sarcastically.

Ken Korach refers to “umbellas popping out” and I think, “When did we sign a hitter named Umbrella?”

and now i have to pay attention to the A’s again….:(

Street …..sigh.

put him into the closer role and move Ziggy back to high leverage “crisis inning and the next” duty. My feeling is that’s where those two belong long-term and this is a good time to gauge whether Devine can handle closing for 2009.

Complete game? God we suck!

how far behind him will Hannahan be before he gets there as well

Winning at a pace of one-game per week, A’s are on course to win perhaps 7 more games this season.

Mark Ellis: “Tip your cap to THIS, bitches!”

“The offense can’t be any worse than last year”

needs to homer here.

Mmmmm.

Here I was worrying about Curly Mullet coming up.

During the Pregame Korach & Cotroneo were going on about Robertsons struggles this season – That pretty much signaled this kind of game.

I’m switching to I Love Lucy.

Bad Idea = a meet and greet with Huston Street (for domestic violence no less.)

It’s about 85 and sunny
With lightning and thunder over my house, no rain
and now there’s 1” hail coming down. Still sunny and hot.

I wonder what changes will be made?

“Raburn doubled to left center, Polanco scored on shortstop Crosby’s throwing error, Raburn scored on Blevins’ throwing error”

Like, really sucks.

This hasn’t been fun to listen to.

“Polanco grounds one sharply to third and Hannahan goes to second for the force. Ellis looks for the double play, but decides to hold on to the ball in the face of a take out slide by Sardinha. That gives Raburn another at-bat and he uses it to rip a double to left field. Brown was backpedaling on the ball even though it was well over his head. Polanco was running on the pitch, so he comes around to score. Raburn advances to third on the throw, then comes in to score as well when Blevins tries to catch him at third and then airmails the ball into left field.”

And

“There were actually two errors on the run-scoring play in the eighth. Crosby got an error when his relay throw went wide of the plate. It wasn’t too bad of a throw, but the ball arrived at the same time and place as the runner and Suzuki couldn’t get his glove on it. The second is on Blevins poor throw to third. The A’s get something going here when Brown leads off with a double to left.”

The 2009 draft position continues to improve.