I just saw him and yelled GIOOOO! at my TV. Cool surprise.

Time to make another guy a tough-luck loser… sigh

Why bring up Pennington and not play him? It’s not like they’re going to learn anything new about Hannahan. I’d prefer to just see him in the lineup for the next 6 weeks.

I don’t think he’s thrown a single off-speed pitch so far this game. What’s he doing…a fastbal-onlyl drill?

i’m just watching the boxscore move…

what’s going on?

As I struggle for positives.

after their defensive plays

the game just before it starts so insure it is still scoreless.

and wouldn’t you know it, i have to go play ultimate frisbee the first time i get to see gio

go A’s, i’m outta here

Not looking good for the good guys.

Does he have problems that DIPS-type theory misses or would his ERA match his xFIP outside of that home ballpark and in front of a competent defense?

After getting battered earlier in the inning, it’s a good sign that he was able to shrug off the horrible outing and make the fielding play that he needed to get out of the inning…

I forgot he knew how to do that!

enough to keep me from making progress sorting my stuff for the move…except for my aversion for sorting stuff…afterall there IS an A’s game on at least.

GET AN OUT

Just… sigh.

To misquote Rufus from Bill and Ted, he’ll get better

Sure seems like Jerry is working a lot of innings this year. I’d rather save his arm for games we can actually win this season and for next season and beyond.

Patterson looked good on the DP there.

He has one fastball velocity, one speed/path for his curve – Uribe timed his curve, Quentin had the fastball gauged, etc. Pitching inside, adding and subtracting…GIo has a lot to work on.

time in majors, deal. I don’t understand all that.

wtf??

Way to not even take the bat off your shoulder on the meatball for strike 3.

But these A’s are starting to bring me down…

remember back when the A’s used to get hot in the second off??

We drafted Zito in 1999 – the first year of the Beane era that the A’s had a winning record.

The A’s had a winning record every year after that until 2007 – the first year after the A’s lost Zito to free agency.

In order for the A’s to win under Beane, they need Barry Zito back.

I guess that single by Brown in the 5th never happened.

If that’s how it works, the White Sox never scored against Gonzalez and it’s scoreless now.

that freaking ‘physics professor’ mlbtv ad did me in.

When i first tuned in, for about 30 seconds I thought that the A’s had scored 8 runs then i fell back to Earth and hit the A’s are losing bad tree, hitting every branch on the way down and then tripping and falling on the roots as well

That’s the shift-buster you need to work on.

Eveland, Smith, Gio, Meyer. That is starting to look a lot more like an organizational trend and not just a coincidence. Something wicked this way comes…

Not for the losing team, but for the team’s fans.

that if Meyer drilled Ass Jack in the nuts, I would only have laughed a little bit.

Go figure.

get one to the track or out

Pennington’s first hit is a blooper that Dye played into a double.

I’m sure he’ll remember it as a line-drive screamer.

one.

OK guys, just twelve more runs to go.

Quentin????

things could get intresting in the…

ahhh crap screw it. nobody cares. To quote major league 2, “Back up the bus. Bring in the pooper scooper.”

Though in this case he would’ve had to punch him in the neck if he was asked, “How does it feel?”

And they got him anyway.

has a headline link to the game and it has the score OAK 13, CWS 1 (f) i wonder what universe that game is taken place and how can i get there from here