Aggressive A's, Generous Royals Pave Way for Oakland
by 67MARQUEZ on Aug 31, 2009 10:25 PM PDT
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PrintGot to hand it to these last-place teams; they do manage to entertain.
Not that anyone was around to notice.
Well, except here at the AN pub.
These one-liners are sure annoying.
Yeah. So the A's and Royals played a little baseball tonight, and there's a crazy rumor going around that 10,376 people showed up to watch. For the first couple of frames the natives were displeased, as Gio Gonzalez showed the visitors his shiny new fastball. Those mean Royals, they kept hitting the cheese but hard, breaking through for three in the first, courtesy of a run-scoring two-bagger off the wood of Mark Teahen, and a single by Alberto Callaspo that plated two runners.
David DeJesus made it 4-love with a long homerun in the second.
Ah but we've been here before with Gio at home, haven't we? A little more than a month after coming back from 10 runs down to shock the Twins, the A's shrugged off this little deficit, and put up a crooked number to take the lead in the third.
They rattled Royals starter Luke Hochevar with an impressive display of baserunning. Cliff Pennington walked to lead off the inning, stole second with one out, and came home on a base hit by Rajai Davis. Davis moved up ninety feet on a throwing error by right-fielder Willie Bloomquist, and scampered to third when Hochevar took his sweet time walking back to the mound- with his head down. Yikes. Kurt Suzuki was robbed of a single by Callaspo, but it was enough to score Davis. Jack Cust walked, Scott Hairston singled, and both scored on a triple down the right-field line by Ryan Sweeney. Mark Ellis made it 5-4 A's with a base hit to center.
Kansas City tied it in the fifth on an RBI-triple by Callaspo, but the home team took the lead back, and for good, with three runs in the sixth. Christmas is four months away, but the Royals were surely in a giving mood tonight. With the bags loaded and one out, Adam Kennedy hit one back to reliever John Bale, who instead of starting an inning-ending double play, decided to throw the ball into center field, and it so confused Sweeney and Daric Barton that they ran all the way home. Davis singled to score Kennedy with the game's final run.
The contest was then left in the reliable hands of the A's bullpen, and an assembly line of Craig Bleslow, Michael Wuertz, Brad Ziegler, and Andrew Bailey (who picked up his 21st save) shut down the Royals down on just a pair of hits over the last 3-2/3 innings.
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A Game that Started Slow
might have lost some fans along the way BUT turned out well when all was said and done
"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." Red Barber
by BERRYJO on Aug 31, 2009 10:28 PM PDT reply actions
Sounds like a Royale With Cheese
But a win is a win, did the A’s get rid of anyone today?
All Games and Comments are Subject to Blackout
Nice game, yadda yadda yadda
Chris Carter hit three home runs tonight.
we in the losin baseball binness. and cousin, binness is a boomin.
I assume it wasn't just me who was gamedaying the River Cats and A's at the same time...
"Life is a horizontal fall" -Jean Cocteau
by King Richard on Aug 31, 2009 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
nope
The Halos announcers sound like frat boys at a kegger… Ken Korach calls a game like a grown-ass man - Emperor Nobody
by designatedforassignment on Aug 31, 2009 10:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah I was doing it too
I love Chris Carter so goddamn much.
"I feel like we are sending Danny Haren for Mulder all over again." - Cardinal fan on the Matt Holliday trade
"But at this time of year, two plus two doesn't always add up to eight. Sometimes, it equals four." - Geoff Baker, Mariners beat writer.
Chris Carter entered a village,
where an ogre had devoured all the crops and livestock, and Chris Carter asked the people of the village, “Have you no beasts of labor with which to pay tribute me?” And the people answered, “No, the ogre has taken our livestock,” and with one mighty swing of his bat Chris Carter felled the ogre, and Chris Carter did proclaim, “Let my people be free,” and it was so.
Bob Garen is incontinent
by Aufheben on Aug 31, 2009 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions 10 recs
Rec'ed and made my sig line... that blew my mind
Chris Carter entered a villiage where an ogre had devoured all the crops and livestock, and Chris Carter asked the people of the village, "Have you no beasts of labor with which to pay tribute me?" And the people answered, "No, the ogre has taken our livestock," and with one mighty swing of his bat Chris Carter felled the ogre, and Chris Carter did proclaim, "Let my people be free," and it was so. - Aufheben
by designatedforassignment on Aug 31, 2009 11:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm honored,
and seriously, I’m pretty sure this guy is gonna hit a million dingers for us.
Bob Garen is incontinent
Satilites will rain out of the sky until NASA starts to clear airspace for Carter's blasts.
Chris Carter entered a villiage where an ogre had devoured all the crops and livestock, and Chris Carter asked the people of the village, "Have you no beasts of labor with which to pay tribute me?" And the people answered, "No, the ogre has taken our livestock," and with one mighty swing of his bat Chris Carter felled the ogre, and Chris Carter did proclaim, "Let my people be free," and it was so. - Aufheben
by designatedforassignment on Aug 31, 2009 11:14 PM PDT up reply actions
The A's will be forced to play all of their games on a floating barge in the Pacific.
Caused, of course, by the massive property damage that Carter creates on a nightly basis.
Of course, the A’s will start counting “Non-Splash Hits”, when Carter hits either the eastern shores of Hawaii or the western coast of California.
Somewhere, a simian is similing.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Sep 1, 2009 9:11 AM PDT up reply actions
Awesome post, but too long for a sigline.
Personally, I think anything that goes to two lines is too long. That’s why they call it a sigline, not a sig paragraph. Where does it stop?
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
im typing up crime and punishment as we speak
Chris Carter entered a villiage where an ogre had devoured all the crops and livestock, and Chris Carter asked the people of the village, "Have you no beasts of labor with which to pay tribute me?" And the people answered, "No, the ogre has taken our livestock," and with one mighty swing of his bat Chris Carter felled the ogre, and Chris Carter did proclaim, "Let my people be free," and it was so. - Aufheben
by designatedforassignment on Sep 1, 2009 2:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Rec'd
"We were shit, pathetic," Guillen growled early in spring training. "We hit too many home runs."
by lenscrafters on Aug 31, 2009 11:07 PM PDT up reply actions
the river rats boxscore is good
Chris Carter (1), Chris Carter (2), Chris Carter (3). Chris Carter a milli!
I care about your fantasy team.
The word I got is he's all right
The Oakland A's: Pissing off fathers of disappointing baseball players who still managed to be better than their dads (charter club members: Tom Grieve & Ed Crosby)
Last of the Ninth - Photography
oh good
thank you so much for the photo you posted of him from the other night, it is lovely
by OakA'sHoney on Aug 31, 2009 11:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Welcome
The Oakland A's: Pissing off fathers of disappointing baseball players who still managed to be better than their dads (charter club members: Tom Grieve & Ed Crosby)
Last of the Ninth - Photography
It's fun watching Rajai get into
opposing pitchers’ heads
by OaklandSi on Aug 31, 2009 10:56 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Empty Stadium
My guess was around 7200, Dr. Pez said 6500. Both of us were being generous in our attendance pool. If there were 10,000 people at the Coliseum, the Gio pitched a no-hitter.
Entertaining crappy game between two bad teams, one significantly worse than the other. It helps, though, that the A’s have a pretty solid late-inning reliever system at work, with Breslow, Wuertz, Ziggy & Bailey. Also that Rajai Davis is on the team.
I think they counted the players, the coaches, the vendors, the grounds crew and several thousand blades of grass.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Aug 31, 2009 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions
What I said was...
…that they’d announce it as “6500” – I thought that even by the overt lying they couldn’t do more than triple the actual crowd in the stands. I said that there were 2200 people in the seats.
Then, when it was announced as “10376” all that I could do was scream “BULLSH*T” at the top of my lungs.
Hellooooo 1979…
"Paid attendance"
All those corporate season ticket holders that can’t beg tickets away get counted
"I was right and you were wrong." - Ray Fosse
Funny...
Just before the game I was talking to Johnny Doskow (radio voice of the River Cats) about how I’ve yet to really see Carter square one up.
First AB, blasted. five-spot in the first. Then he hit another, and another in the ninth when they scored seven more. He would’ve batted another time except Cunningham made the last out in the inning. Three homers, seven RBI. 17-6 final.
What’s more, I don’t think Carter’s were the most impressive of the night. That honor probably goes to Everidge, who crushed one off the very top of the scoreboard (which you can see here from a game earlier in the season – it hit right around where it says “Aces”).
The Oakland A's: Pissing off fathers of disappointing baseball players who still managed to be better than their dads (charter club members: Tom Grieve & Ed Crosby)
Last of the Ninth - Photography
Please tell me you got pictures of Carter's HRs ... That is such a pretty field
Chris Carter entered a villiage where an ogre had devoured all the crops and livestock, and Chris Carter asked the people of the village, "Have you no beasts of labor with which to pay tribute me?" And the people answered, "No, the ogre has taken our livestock," and with one mighty swing of his bat Chris Carter felled the ogre, and Chris Carter did proclaim, "Let my people be free," and it was so. - Aufheben
by designatedforassignment on Aug 31, 2009 11:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Just the first, darn it
Timed it well. The second, I was set up even with the third base line but the camera focused on the netting and he hit it out before I could fix it. Just a little late on his last one.
I joked with him afterward that it was like the home run derby at the Double-A All-Star Game in Texas all over again.
The Oakland A's: Pissing off fathers of disappointing baseball players who still managed to be better than their dads (charter club members: Tom Grieve & Ed Crosby)
Last of the Ninth - Photography
1/3 gets you a pretty good BA
Chris Carter entered a villiage where an ogre had devoured all the crops and livestock, and Chris Carter asked the people of the village, "Have you no beasts of labor with which to pay tribute me?" And the people answered, "No, the ogre has taken our livestock," and with one mighty swing of his bat Chris Carter felled the ogre, and Chris Carter did proclaim, "Let my people be free," and it was so. - Aufheben
by designatedforassignment on Aug 31, 2009 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Yep, and I barehanded a grounder foul in the photo well to boot
The Oakland A's: Pissing off fathers of disappointing baseball players who still managed to be better than their dads (charter club members: Tom Grieve & Ed Crosby)
Last of the Ninth - Photography
Nice... look forward to seeing the one you got.
Chris Carter entered a villiage where an ogre had devoured all the crops and livestock, and Chris Carter asked the people of the village, "Have you no beasts of labor with which to pay tribute me?" And the people answered, "No, the ogre has taken our livestock," and with one mighty swing of his bat Chris Carter felled the ogre, and Chris Carter did proclaim, "Let my people be free," and it was so. - Aufheben
by designatedforassignment on Aug 31, 2009 11:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll post it in the minors thread in a few minutes
The Oakland A's: Pissing off fathers of disappointing baseball players who still managed to be better than their dads (charter club members: Tom Grieve & Ed Crosby)
Last of the Ninth - Photography
Johnny Doskow helped get me one of my jobs in baseball, when he worked as play by play for the grizzlies...
and they still played at Pete Beiden Field in Fresno. My dad knew him somehow and Johnny got me in with the GM of the Grizzlies at the time, Joe Hart, and I ended up working as a vendor for the Grizzlies for several seasons. One of the funnest jobs I have ever had and I got paid to boot!! Im sure most of you arent interested but i thought I would share when i saw Johnny Doskows name. He is a very nice guy and through him I met Gus Zernial, Ex Philadelphia Athletic….who was also a great guy and he had the best stories ever….
There is no A in OFFENSE!!
by wacchampions on Sep 1, 2009 12:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Did you know you can comment on Athletics Nation
from your phone or … ack! where did it go?!?
What’s this “keep the conversation going” stuff?
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
a meme is lost and the internets rejoice
Chris Carter entered a villiage where an ogre had devoured all the crops and livestock, and Chris Carter asked the people of the village, "Have you no beasts of labor with which to pay tribute me?" And the people answered, "No, the ogre has taken our livestock," and with one mighty swing of his bat Chris Carter felled the ogre, and Chris Carter did proclaim, "Let my people be free," and it was so. - Aufheben
by designatedforassignment on Sep 1, 2009 2:15 AM PDT up reply actions
how precisely does one pronounce "Hochevar"?
Because the way the A’s radio crew pronounces it is terribly close “Goat-shaver” which makes me and my pre-adolescent sons giggle incessantly.
Then I thought I heard Cotroneo pronounce it “Hotch-ehvar” which is far less amusing.
Either way, he’s a gas can…..
I think it's "Ho-chay-ver"
The Oakland A's: Pissing off fathers of disappointing baseball players who still managed to be better than their dads (charter club members: Tom Grieve & Ed Crosby)
Last of the Ninth - Photography
Give credit where it's due:
Mychael Urban had the best call on Hochevar walking back to the mound with his head down. Rajai pantsed him and Ellis gave him a wedgie.
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