A's Capture First Series Sweep of 09

on a game wrap for a game I attended…sweet!

and Braden on Saturday

It gives me a little hope! And maybe…just maybe…the offense is waking up.

But I’d have to say I’m overly thrilled with our offense tonight. That whole rally was set up by ineptitude on the Royals part including the walks, HBP, and an error. Then Holliday gets an infield single and Cust is finally the one who gets a convincing base hit. Seems like a mistake induced rally if you ask me. But I won’t complain because a win’s a win and we’ll take ’em any way we can right now.

the carpet crawlers heed their callers we gotta get in to get outman may not make it in the big leagues but admit it he’s got the most classic socks in mlb hides foot fetish mancrush what if the whole team goes for the golden stirrups and we make believe it’s 1972 messes up the hair of the guy sitting in front of me to distract from sincere yet embarrassing bloodshift in lower body ok i know the team is a little dull sometimes but literally showing highlights of grass growing on the diamondvision is taking things a wee bit too far i am just saying warm glowing feelings you get when your team scores more than 2 runs two count em two consecutive nights i love the a’s and believe to an extent in moneyball and sabremetrics but i admit some games i wanna hang a big sign from dead center section 242 that says swing goddammit hey did you know that adam kennedy is one of four guys to hit 3 hrs in a postseason game no well there’s your geek stat of the night now go fetch me my slippers will you my feet are cold holy two-strike transformation batman someone put a contract in front of jack cust before he costs more than the zimbabwean bank bailout fuzzy snuggly 2 days off in one week feelings see who said this team was all weep and no sweep stay tuned viewers don’t touch that dial coming up on a’s of our lives will chavez win yet another 11 million free dollars on the new reality tv show america’s most inexplicably injured has-been will gallagher crush actual watermelons on the mound during a game in a last ditch effort to keep his roster spot away from vin mazzaro will crosby spread his legs so far apart at bat that the games will have to be rated nc-17 so kids can no longer get in and attendance drops to 130 a night will the athletics win three games in a row before football season it all remains to be senile

but I like these other guys a whole lot better :-)

42/3, 4 runs. Not great, but not disastrous. It’d be a fun thing for the watching of baseball if he got it togethter this year. Go Dontrelle!

Buck’s hitting a powerless .200 and he failed to lay down a bunt in an important situation for the 2nd time in a week. Expect he’ll go to Sac to get consistant abs and get his confidence back.

It’s still a small size sample though.

second on the team in OBP, fifth in slugging, third in OPS…

does this warrant a move to the top of the order, where o-cab is only good after calling team meetings, or is it a better idea to keep him at 9 to get a 2nd leadoff hitter? i would prefer the swap of crobsy and o-cab, which would give bobby the extra at-bat.

thoughts? is there something i’m missing that proves this is a statistical mirage and crosby is actually still our worst hitter?

Ever since his rant about Outman, the guy’s been a lot better.

…sweep!

I will take it! AND, Duke is on his way back, the bats are starting to awaken, our young pitchers are not looking totally lost anymore….reasons to be optimistic!

I like how the A’s are continuing to score runs in multiple innings as apposed to there old strategy, (score 2 in the first, get shut out the last eight innings & lose 5-2).

All I can say is THANK GOD FOR CUST!!!

I vote that until the A’s lose a game BBG does all game threads. I believe that we are averaging about 9+ runs in the games she has done in the last week.

and the venue we played at didn’t have the A’s game on. Stoked that we finally got a sweep, even if it’s only 2 games. Go A’s!

Well maybe not wrong in the sense I still don’t want him in the field and he’s really not the same guy he was the last couple seasons. The sac fly with the 2-2 count last night was finally what has turned me. No the ball wasn’t hit well or that deep .. but it was hit. He finally seems to understand there are times he has to swing the bat and stop taking close pitches with runners in scoring position. The average is up and while the walks are down so are the strike outs. Dude is on pace to drive in close to 110 runs and that has always been my beef with him. I never thought I’d day this but thank god we have Jack Cust on our team.

His fastball gives him a lot of potential IMO.