To quote Norm Peterson, “Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. Which was it?”

the best part of the end of the season is that i no longer have to listen to this mgd commercial. ever again, hopefully.

And Rockies. Next year will be great for our A’s! I predict 85 wins and over 100 in 2011. It was a great year thanks to all of you on AN! I look forward to Playoff Game Threads and off season information! Thank you all! I hate that we have to wait until Tuesday for more baseball, though!

I am so glad that I went to the postgame celebration for season ticket holders yesterday. The glow from that experience dulled the loss. This morning’s AN brunch tailgate continued that great feeling …if only the game lived up to it…

In 2007 the A’s went 76-86, in 2008 they went 75-86, and in 2009 they finished 75-87. So there’s no way you can really dress this up.

As in every season there were many good moments, and good things about the team. This year some of those positives include the bullpen (!!), the clear promise of Brett Anderson and hopeful promise of Gio and Cahill, the bulldogginess of Braden, the maturation of Kurt Suzuki into one of the game’s best catchers, and the emergence of Rajai.

I won’t dwell on the negatives, but one disturbing trend I saw all season was sloppier defensive play than we’ve been used to seeing from the A’s in recent years. That’s something even non-stars can do better and need to do better.

I of course will watch or listen to every postseason game that I can. (Looking for some good sports bars in Oakland or Berkeley to see the games that I can’t get on TV, any suggestions?)…and I love that the Tigers and the Twins have to play a one game decider — those are the most intense games…

and next year? I hope to convince my season ticket buddy once again to buy season tickets with me…because I am an A’s-aholic!!!

Reverse Ramon batting cleanup and The Cros batting fifth. That was just cruel for the brave and hardy A’s fans who watched this game.

I guess I didn’t miss much of a game and besides I got to see a great Raiders team lose by 23 points so it was a real fun day.

On the plus side the ribeyes were good and even bad sports is better than no sports I guess (if the Raiders keep losing I might change my mind on this)

As far as the A’s go it wasn’t much of a season as I enjoyed the game threads here on AN more than the games themselves.

I do hope Mr. Beane will add a bat or two this off-season and I’d sure like to see one of those bats play third base. AK plays hard and did his best but he’s not a third baseman and it is unrealistic to think Chavez can comeback next year and be the starter.

I have some hope with the pitching although I’d like to see Bailey do it for a second season before we put too much faith in him.

One last thing I want to say thanks to everyone here on AN. You folks made this season a lot more fun for me than it would have been otherwise. Go A’s and Go AN

THE CROS IN GONE. I REPEAT, THE CROS IS GONE.

ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL GONE.

Had fun this season guys. Here’s to a great one next year (and every year after, please?).

time everlasting time to play b-sides time ain’t on my side time I’ll never no no no not three years of identical sub-mediocrity in a winnable division hello and welcome to the best last place club in baseball you know you’re in for a long year when you wake up after the first big win of the season the next morning and players you just watched have tragically died (rip #34) hi i’m billy beane and i’m getting the band back together unfortunately i neglected to mention that the band is the damned come on now if i’d have told you in april that matt holliday jason giambi and orlando cabrera would all be in the playoffs i bet you’d have been thrilled wow rajai davis hits .305 i will have to take 305 hits off this bong to celebrate that too bad he takes routes to flyballs that occasionally have stopovers at oakland airport oh no here come the mariners are we still apologizing to them for 2006 well it looks like we have our closer just no one tell joey devine ok i’ll take distracting whiny never-were’s who blame the failings of those they love on everyone but those they love alex (jeopardy music plays) who is ed crosby? we have a winner select again ok alex i’ll take aging and out of position for 29 who is biff clankington? no i am sorry wrong category you were looking for “quadruple A’s” on that one select again ok alex i’ll take two tin cans and some chicken wire for 860 what is the athletics’ radio network? you call this a network? i’m as mad as hell and i’m not gonna take this anymore! ok alex let’s try too much foul territory for 330 down the lines oh look it’s huston street also in the playoffs chris carter brett wallace and adrian cardenas pick up the emergency green telephone please i give that fresh draft pick signin’ bon-us grip-pin on a 9th seed so giambi wonders if you’ve ever been to oakland well he’d know the answer if he’d have bothered to show up his damn self this is what happens when you hire your best man and not the best man for the job i know let’s get within striking distance of respectability and then lose the last week’s worth of games sometimes i think we make this division an easier ride for the slegnA than lassie or trigger or champion or whatever the hell the name of that pony was for gene autry oh well as christine miller liked to say where there’s life there’s hope brett anderson poised hope trevor cahill sinker hope andrew bailey dominance hope raj davis 50 steals hope al davis natural causes hope please somebody anybody fire bob geren already hope is it march yet? cuz yeah you know it’s true 2010 i’m burnin i’m burnin i’m burnin i’m burnin for you

Maybe there’s hope we can do the same change in Oakland and go in a new direction in 2010.

Another pretty boring season overall and of course I was not able to watch a single game during the one month when the team was actually fun to watch. Count me in among those who hate CSN-CA and the fact that everywhere I reside in the Bay Area does not have the channel.

I can’t really see this offseason being that exciting since we tried going the route of acquisitions last offseason and we didn’t improve at all. I’m thinking BB will just sit back and let the kids grow and maybe throw in a veteran or two around January/February.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that it was a thoroughly enjoyable season and I can’t wait until 2010. Anderson and Cahill! Bailey and Devine! Carter and Wallace! This division is wide open, baby!

I can’t wait for next season, because all our exciting young guys will seriously have exclamation points next to their names. You forgot Gio and Rajai!

Also pumped for this off season, we could make some splashy/interesting moves.

My favourite game of the 3 I went to was the Hairston grand slam + Gio owning Mariners hitters one.

My favourite of the other 159 is a tie between the 14-13 comeback vs the Twins, and the early season Angels = FAIL that Nico is talking about – the only one I got to see on T.V here (sad face)