Tomko Teams with Three to Blank Yanks
by 67MARQUEZ on Aug 17, 2009 9:43 PM PDT
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With Brett Tomko the apparent sacrificial lamb sent out to face the big, bad Yankees, this was one of those games that you marked with an "L" on your magnetic schedule long before the first pitch.
But a funny thing happened on the way to a Big Apple beat-down. Tomko tossed five shutout innings, Rajai Davis and Mark Ellis continued their torrid ways, and the A's walked off the diamond with a 3-0 victory.
Oh and it seems there were some signings tonight, too.
Seems Tomko's arm was not a bomb threat after all. Although he retired the side just once, he was never in any real danger, except for the third when he faced Alex Rodriguez with the bags loaded, and only one out. But Tomko got A-Rod to hit one back to the mound where he started an inning-ending, 1-2-3 double play.
All the game's runs were scored in the fourth, and good news for you dear reader, they all came on the A's side of the board. Davis doubled with one out, and stole third without a throw before Kurt Suzuki singled him home. Scott Hairston's base hit was followed by a Ryan Sweeney groundout that moved the runners up ninety feet. Suzuki scored on a balk by starter A.J. Burnett, who appeared to stop himself as if time was called. With Hairston on third, Ellis drove him in on a double that eluded Nick Swisher. Make that 20 RBI's in August for the second baseman.
And that was pretty much it, with one more scare in the eighth.
Craig Breslow allowed just a hit, while striking out a pair in two innings of work, and was followed by Brad Ziegler. With two on and two out in the eighth, Ziggy K'd Jorge Posada to douse the fire, and Andrew Bailey pitched a perfect ninth to close out a most improbable win.
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There is no "i" in Teamocil. At least not where you'd think.
by GreenNGoldSooner on Aug 17, 2009 9:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought it was a book.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Aug 17, 2009 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions
David Bowie is awesome.
A couple months ago I listened to his entire discography. Not all at once, of course, but over the span of a few weeks at work.
by LoneStranger on Aug 17, 2009 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Had one not heard of david bowie
One might mistake that for a woman.
I did before I read david bowie.
by ElQuesoCapitan on Aug 17, 2009 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions
I think the photo is from the film
The Man Who Fell to Earth, in which he plays an asexual alien.
so you might be closer than you think
agreed.
Twitter went down today--if only there were some short, shallow, self-indulgent way to express my horror.-Stephen Colbert
by Leopold Bloom on Aug 17, 2009 11:35 PM PDT up reply actions
I heard they were going to remake that with Keanu Reeves.
Please tell me that was just a bad dream and it’s not really true.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
well, he does manage to convey a total lack of emotion and human complexity
so maybe?
but Lordy, do I not like that
Admittedly, that is his special talent.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
they might make a movie of the same name, but they'll never remake that movie
only roeg can make the MWFTE as we know it. it’s a very personal movie, an allegory on his own life: trapped in hollywood, he can’t get back to his home planet (england), and his vision is being changed by the new atmosphere.
don't care if i ever get back.
Crow.
For Nico.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Aug 18, 2009 12:08 AM PDT up reply actions
well done, DF.
Twitter went down today--if only there were some short, shallow, self-indulgent way to express my horror.-Stephen Colbert
by Leopold Bloom on Aug 18, 2009 9:16 AM PDT up reply actions
All in good fun.
Right, Ni- /ack!
/thud.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Aug 18, 2009 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I can't see this album without thinking of Nick Lowe's "Bowi" ep
BTW This is great, and so is Station to Station.
by Ray of Lite on Aug 18, 2009 12:36 AM PDT up reply actions
We missed you in the threads, sir.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Aug 17, 2009 9:46 PM PDT reply actions
a lot of this today, but in a good way for once
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
Dragging the soccer net? Moving the goalposts?
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
Firing the surgeon general?
There is no "i" in Teamocil. At least not where you'd think.
by GreenNGoldSooner on Aug 17, 2009 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Is that what they're calling that these days?
"If Vin Mazzaro comes anywhere near me with shaving cream he’s gonna be coming away with a bloody stump" – Dallas Braden
Cabbage crates up the blue end!
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
okay, 67M.
You’ve obviously bean replaced by an android of some sort.
Twitter went down today--if only there were some short, shallow, self-indulgent way to express my horror.-Stephen Colbert
Can he call balls and strikes?
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
How about outs on the bases?
"If Vin Mazzaro comes anywhere near me with shaving cream he’s gonna be coming away with a bloody stump" – Dallas Braden
I am A's history bot 67
Did you know that Carney Lansford has a career .290 batting average….error error must kill all humans!
sirbed, who was The Creator?
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
Sorry, I was going on a little Star Trek TOS riff there.
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
I was thinking it was V'ger from the first movie
but I’m more of a Star Wars guy and I didn’t want to look more stupid then normal
Carney Lansford hit .336 for the A’s in 1989.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Aug 17, 2009 9:56 PM PDT up reply actions
when i saw him on tv in the giants dugout i was surprised
by OakA'sHoney on Aug 17, 2009 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm NOT happy
Oh, hell’s bells… first I find out that Oakland had realigned with Vancouver without me knowing it (Seriously… when did THAT happen?), and then I find out this.
Carney was one of my favorite players when he was with the A’s — I’d cite his everyman appearance when contrasting why I was such a baseball fan, and no longer such a football fan.
And now he wears a gnat uniform…. Kill it before it grows (Anyone know how his son is doing?)
by As Fan in the Bronx on Aug 18, 2009 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm stunned
I expected Tomko to get maybe six outs tonight
"If Vin Mazzaro comes anywhere near me with shaving cream he’s gonna be coming away with a bloody stump" – Dallas Braden
Pleasantly surprised.
I tuned in in the 4th on my way home and couldn’t believe it.
skigurl: Buy that man a Swatch!
I had a good feeling about him tonight
Of course, I thought he’d give up two runs, so that tells you what I know…
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Aug 17, 2009 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
we signed Cookie Monster to pitch?!
Twitter went down today--if only there were some short, shallow, self-indulgent way to express my horror.-Stephen Colbert
by Leopold Bloom on Aug 17, 2009 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s ready to go. You should have seen him.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Aug 17, 2009 9:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey...."C" is for "Cookie." That's good enough for me!
There is no "i" in Teamocil. At least not where you'd think.
by GreenNGoldSooner on Aug 17, 2009 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Twitter went down today--if only there were some short, shallow, self-indulgent way to express my horror.-Stephen Colbert
by Leopold Bloom on Aug 17, 2009 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions
I love that one.
Twitter went down today--if only there were some short, shallow, self-indulgent way to express my horror.-Stephen Colbert
by Leopold Bloom on Aug 17, 2009 11:36 PM PDT up reply actions
lol
What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.
wowwwwww
i haven’t been to somethingawful.com in years. is it just a coincidence that the guy in the photo on the front page is wearing an A’s hat? is that site connected to AN somehow? that would make my life really close to complete…
Great Game!!
I went over 1000 posts tonight – so busy reading and having fun I missed the balloons and confetti!
"I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?" Yogi Berra
by BERRYJO on Aug 17, 2009 9:51 PM PDT reply actions
Thanks a bunch!
"I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?" Yogi Berra
by BERRYJO on Aug 17, 2009 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions
You earned it.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Aug 17, 2009 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions
It was very clever of Nico
to put the reverse curse on Tomko today by saying he would fail in spectacular fashion. I guess that’s why he makes the big bucks here at AN.
Reverse psychology works in many careers.....
"I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?" Yogi Berra
by BERRYJO on Aug 17, 2009 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Sign more Bretts
A’s with one Brett in the system = 53-65 = 44.92%
A’s with two Bretts in the system = 12-10 = 54.55%
A’s with three Bretts in the system = 7-5 = 58.34%
Just sayin’
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
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What happens if we have an entire 25 man roster of Bretts.
by ElQuesoCapitan on Aug 17, 2009 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions
World Series Champions
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Aug 17, 2009 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I though they played the games
so that everyone would have something to look at while they drank lots of beers.
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
LOL
Cubs gave up 4 runs in the bottom of the 9th – with two outs!
"If Vin Mazzaro comes anywhere near me with shaving cream he’s gonna be coming away with a bloody stump" – Dallas Braden
That must have been a GS, no? Unless they had extended their lead in the top of the 9th
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
Not quite
RBI double, then a three-run jimmy-jack, all with two outs.
"If Vin Mazzaro comes anywhere near me with shaving cream he’s gonna be coming away with a bloody stump" – Dallas Braden
Lots of sleepless nights on the North Side tonight
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
man, I wasn't able to go on AN today
good win though, I wasn’t expecting a shut out but obviously I’m happy about it. Nico must have made Tomko mad, good motivation.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
TOMKO!
I watched Ironman at the same time I was watching the A’s game. Maybe Tomko is Ironman? Unbelievable! Let’s get two tomorrow! Go A’s!
"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." -Jessica Rabbit
by A'sfansince1970 on Aug 17, 2009 10:11 PM PDT reply actions
Great Game, and really really fast too
The crowd wasn’t as large as I expected, but we parked all the way out and were very quickly on the freeway. Weird thing about the Yankee fans surrounding us: they were very meek and mild, and most of the women spent their time drinking beer and texting. Lots of texting from Yankee fans. Guess the game didn’t interest them.
It was really a fun game. I mean, when you’re cheering every time Tomko gets someone out, because that’s more than you’d ever expect him to do, nearly all his pitches were little victories. Low expectations will do that. And then the bullpen was mostly solid. Fun times at the ball park.
"Low expectations will do that."
That’s the story of the A’s season, post All-Star break this year. Low expectations relax the players and they can do amazing things.
by LoneStranger on Aug 17, 2009 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions
that's how I remember Esteban's games being!
They were scary, yes—but the fact that they were scary kinda made them fun too, like the wheels could come off at any moment—roller coaster at the county fair-scary.
Twitter went down today--if only there were some short, shallow, self-indulgent way to express my horror.-Stephen Colbert
by Leopold Bloom on Aug 17, 2009 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions
there were some loud Yankee fans in my section
but as the game went on they quieted down quite a bit
Young Yankee fan couple next to us...
…he, to she, in the seventh inning:
“STOP YOUR FUC*ING TEXTING AND WATCH THE GAME”.
Priceless.
Wow...guess there was something to that revenge idea after all
Like I said earlier, stranger things have happened. Good for you, Tomko.
Just got done seeing District 9. F’n awesome movie.
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by Flashfire on Aug 17, 2009 10:46 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Same here
I liked it while my friends were more meh
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
by Helloooo 1st on Aug 17, 2009 11:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe that's Tomko's plan to be Comeback Player of the Year
Once he’s been released by every team in the majors, he can spend a year getting revenge on everyone by throwing shutouts!
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
That's a more elaborate plot than the one seen on Prison Break.
It’s so crazy it just might work!
Some motherfcukers are always trying to ice skate uphill - Blade.
It’s an even more elaborate plot than the one seen on this show.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Aug 18, 2009 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions
It would be like a baseball remake of "Kind Hearts and Coronets"!
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
Crosby apparently left the game with calf tightness.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/athletics/detail?blogid=21&entry_id=45690
Nomar’s injuries are infecting others.
skigurl: Buy that man a Swatch!
He heard a rumor the A's had signed Grant Green.
He got so tense and angry his calf started to hurt.
by LoneStranger on Aug 17, 2009 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Grant green stings ths sting of a million cliff penningtons.
by ElQuesoCapitan on Aug 17, 2009 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
TY!
sorry skigurl.
ElQuesoCapitan: (on Bobby Crosby) Grant Green stings the sting of a million Cliff Penningtons.
I like it better without the parenthetic.
It sounds more like a Zen koan that way.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
I've in fact already changed it.
Decided it was funnier.
ElQuesoCapitan: Grant Green stings the sting of a million Cliff Penningtons.
GYMNASTICS!
(better late than never?)
"I’m Joey Devine, I’m what Joba Chamberlain would be if he was good and nobody had ever heard of him."
hi mikey.
Twitter went down today--if only there were some short, shallow, self-indulgent way to express my horror.-Stephen Colbert
by Leopold Bloom on Aug 17, 2009 11:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Hello, sir.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Aug 17, 2009 11:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Good win
From where I was sitting Tomko got it done with smoke & mirrors. Big props to our bullpen, (Breslow in particular) and nice clutch hits by Zook & Ellis. Unicorn power!!!
PREPAREDNESS_Because those goddamn zombies aren’t going to kill themselves
Hey Nico, who do you think will win the WS?
I got money riding on this, just need to know who not to bet on.
You've got money riding on who Nico thinks will win the WS?!?
This has been another edition of: You may have a gambling problem if…
There is no "i" in Teamocil. At least not where you'd think.
by GreenNGoldSooner on Aug 18, 2009 7:48 AM PDT up reply actions
The Nationals. I don't think they'll win.
I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal
Sitting next to me were a couple of guys, brothers likely
They weren’t speaking English, and I couldn’t figure out the language. They were really into the game, laughing and cheering – chanting “Let’s go Oak-land!”
In the 9th with two outs, one guy turned to me and asked “With this out, game over?” I said yes as we all stood to clap and cheer as Bailey worked against Cabrera.
I then asked him where they were from. He replied “We’re from Holland! This is our first baseball game!”
Awesome : )
I'm a happy seal
by SwisherThresher on Aug 18, 2009 10:43 AM PDT reply actions
non-bored first timers? international fans of NOT the yankees? i love it.
don't care if i ever get back.
I know!
Isn’t that veird? Yesh!
I'm a happy seal
by SwisherThresher on Aug 18, 2009 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
DID THEY HAVE THE WOODEN SHOES????
"I’m Joey Devine, I’m what Joba Chamberlain would be if he was good and nobody had ever heard of him."
Can't tell about their shoes from this pic:
— but these flying Dutchmen did comprise a “World Baseball Classic” team.
So baseball must be hot there.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Aug 18, 2009 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I like GOOOOLLLLLLDDDDDD!!!
"I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything that I thought it could be." -- Peter Gibbons
by dtownmbrown on Aug 18, 2009 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Tomko stays
Looks like he’ll get another start, or more than another start. Guess what, guys who want a six-man rotation and the shut-down of Cahill and Anderson? Brett Tomko looks to be the answer to your prayers.
Works for me.
Hell, call up Eveland and toss him into the rotation as well. Egon, too.
Give Anderson, Cahill, Mazzaro the rest of the season off.
"I’m Joey Devine, I’m what Joba Chamberlain would be if he was good and nobody had ever heard of him."
I concur
"I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything that I thought it could be." -- Peter Gibbons
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