Giambi Redemption! Clutch Hit Completes 7th Inning Comeback

In regards to our first three-game winning streak, I think I speak for everyone when I say that it’s about damn time.

We know the pitching can hold up if the hitting is there. Let’s rock it till the wheels fall off!

“Sweeney left the game soon after, forever a true Athletic”

Truer words have never been spoken, Nico

I watched through the sixth, nearly punched out my monitor because of the lack of offense, my bad mood triggers me to start a fight with my ex-g/f (who demands i turn the game off), the game goes off, i come back a couple hours later to find out the A’s won. What the hell? Somewhere, somebody hates me. :(

maybe Geren thought that ALL Suzukis were slumping, not just Kurt

right on schedule.

Bitches.

I’m sensing good things on the horizon.

But I’d rather have it earlier than when were in a race.
(even if its for 3rd place) ;)

the past and the present and the future faith and hope and charity the heart and the brain and the body give you three and that’s a magic win over the cavs in overtime jesus lebron 8 turnovers in the second half cough cough now where was i oh yeah the a’s are like the anti-castro cubans of the early sixties when they need an assassin they go to dallas ouch that was bad anyway i heard we just signed grand marnier amaretto disaronno and captain morgan so hopefully nico’s game wraps will begin to read more and more like charles bukowski wow did i just see raj davis exhibit actual legitimate baseball instincts in a big situation can a .200 average be far behind did you see holliday pretend it was ball three again when he walked with the bases loaded i thought he was gonna petition for another swing there anyone else enjoying the fact that second base is now the kennedy center for the arts poor mark ellis must be looking at the want ads on craig’s list gee here’s a real shocker ktrb just went off the air in the middle of extra innings again if robert buan falls in the forest and no one hears it did he really fall i have tickets tomorrow and we are facing a lefty so we should be outta there in an hour and a half should i bring a case of red bull to stay awake will we swing at the first pitch more than once a game can stomper hit right handed no i am only kidding no really i am it’s all in good fun honest all right come visit me in section 204 row 14 seat 14 i’ll be the one shouting i wannnnnt myyyy twooooooo dolllllllarrrrrrs like that john cusack movie from the eighties

Did I miss anything?

I was holding out hope and I’m glad I did (and that 67M’s curse is broken…not that I believe in curses, but at least the guy has one win this year). Nice to see Braden pitch deep into the game, but I wish he would stop trying to block grounders with his body. Oh, and Bailey is a stud.

Lynnzgal is good luck!
The curse of Marquez is lifted!
The old man (G) came through!
The A’s closer (no matter what Geren says) just dominated!

Thanks to Pam5681, Lynnzgal, Giggling one, wes7 and Marquez67 …and of course, yout 2009 Oakland Athletics for a satisfying win!

the A’s have won the last 3 games I’ve gone to (including yesterday and today). This is your cue to set up a “Send whiteshoes40 to every home game” fund. Thanks.

but during this 3 game streak so far, i have really enjoyed watching the A’s play

I had no intention of going to the game tonight. Even after Gigglingone made me aware that Pam had a ticket that she was looking to give to someone. Even after Gigglingone made me aware that said ticket would set me back a mere $2.00 and that I’d get to hang out with good people. (I’m a responsible bachelor, you see? When I tell you that my kitchen is kind of disgustingly filthy, and that I was thinking I would clean it tonight, you’ll probably want to take my word for it. See?)

But then my brother, my former roommate as of Sunday night, texted me telling me that he’d be over tomorrow night to help me clean the place up. And that’s when I knew that I kind of had to go. So I did. And while I was wary after the first, annoyed after the fourth, and ecstatically indignant after the seventh (ecstatic after Giambi’s hit, indignant that Lynn would think about getting water then), it all worked out well. I just need to avoid my kitchen for the next eighteen hours.

BTW, can I too say how much I love Bailey? Sweet fancy Moses does that man have some good stuff.

Anyway, it was a great night. Thanks, Pam! Thanks, Gigglingone!

I watched the game from the 3rd inning on, on my DVR, as that is where I left off while at work. Nice to see the Giambino come through when we really needed him to. Nice effort by Braden and “Pepe”, and Bailey looked absolutely sick out there in the 9th! Man, so this is what it is like to win 3 in a row, huh? I still don’t like some of the moves Geren was making tonight but tonight I’m gonna just savor the sweet taste of victory. Go A’s!

What are you guys doing awake?

I was going to write a post about tonight, but figured it would be somewhat anticlimatic. Let’s just say that the seventh time turned out to be the charm for both the A’s and I.

It was the A’s seventh attempt at three in a row, and I am pretty sure you all heard about that nasty little slump of mine. But the losing streak is no more, thanks to six people who stuck it out with me- even after the first inning, when I really considered throwing myself off the second deck.

(Side note: I was certain that Wes7 changed the words to “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”. I heard this: “If they don’t win, Don’s to blame.” He said, "I would never do such a thing. But I did sing, “I don’t care if Don ever comes back.” AN love, there’s nothing like it).

Here’s to pam5981, gigglingone, lynnzgal, Wes7, OaklandSi,…and of course LongTimeFan for the hook-up. It took the seven of us to keep me from going to 0-7.

And on the seventh game, after the comeback in the seventh inning, I saw that it was good, and I breathed a sigh of relief.

Seventh heaven, indeed.

Now pretty please, with sugar on top, go to bed. I’m gonna count to seven…

but i still say fire geren

:D

but I was reading Slusser’s game wrap about Big Bad Bailey’s performance in the 9th this evening and wanted to post this….

Asked about Bailey, Braden said, "I feel like we’ve got a nuclear weapon.

first time Russ Springer hasn’t pitched in 3 consecutive games. Coincidence? I think not.

How about that Bailey kid huh?

Dallas Braden, after the 1st, pitched pretty damn effectively…we have to be very happy that and hope that he can keep giving the A’s these kind of performances…

Great piece of hitting by O-Cab in the 7th and having his usual opposite field hit…

I was screaming at Davis during his at bat as he looked like he didn’t care…I loved him once he hit/slapped that ball to right

Good patience by Holliday not to swing at that 3-0 pitch…

And then, how about Bailey? Attacking those hitters…He looked very, very good tonight

last year you guys beat us all the time kind like we did in 2006.