Reds Kick the Sheets Outta the A's, 13-5
by emperor nobody on Mar 15, 2010 3:53 PM PDT
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A's pitching coach Curt Young and manager Bob Geren examine starter Ben Sheets midway through the 1st inning Monday afternoon.
It all started innocently enough, with a couple of defensive flubs by Jake Fox (Fox is now, officially, on the run after a truly lackluster Spring so far) and the usually-as-solid-as-granite-from-South-Dakota Mark Ellis... but by the time it was over and Sheets was taken out, the game was essentially already decided and I was free to go pay my phone bill and eat lunch.
Athletics OF Jake Fox, exploring alternative career options, works the crowd at Cobb's Comedy Club in SF
The A's did chip away a bit in the 3rd, getting doubles from Zook and the torrid Daric Barton, who is now officially hotter than the cute geeky guy I am liking on gay.com, DB's propensity to dive into empty swimming pools notwithstanding. Kevin Kouz and Raj also had RBIs in that inning, which saw our guys put up a nice crooked 4-spot off Reds starter Mike Lincoln. Adam Rosales also knocked in a run in the sixth (he had 3 hits vs. his ex-team) and looks better and better to me as the SS to start the season, unless Cliff Pennington wakes up tomorrow morning and looks in the mirror and finds that he is suddenly Bert Campaneris at age 25.
Well as I sit here, KenKo has just given the word that the Mariners have announced their Opening Day starter for April 5th in Oakland... it's Felix Hernandez!!! So it's Sheets (who will hopefully not give up double figures before I get to my seat) and King Felix, just a couple of weeks away!! In other news, apparently Cliff Lee was ejected for throwing at Chris Snyder today, as the M's and D-Backs round into midseason headhunting form LOL
And I shall slay thee, verily, with my Magical Wooden Sceptre!
There's no game tomorrow (*hands you all hankies to dry your eyes*), but the A's are back in action in Phoenix on Wednesday vs. Los Gigantes de San Francisco, so we'll see you all front & center for that one ;)
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yAY!
Um, wait, we just got our ass handed to us in a to-go bag. That’s not good.
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 15, 2010 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Jesus
Reading this post was like watching a David Fincher movie.
Drinking so much that you forget your name is like trying to cure cancer, it might not be possible, but you should never stop trying.
The fox head made me think more David Lynch.
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 15, 2010 4:03 PM PDT up reply actions
(throws Spree at 67M's head)
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 15, 2010 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Why you gotta be like that?
He’s just looking for you to have his back.
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 15, 2010 4:04 PM PDT up reply actions
That's all he ever calls for.
Not to share green chili enchiladas, I’ll tell you that much.
I'm here to talk about the past.
well, I guess that would get annoying.
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 15, 2010 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
(returns to throwing Spree at 67M's head)
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 15, 2010 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
All in all, you're just another prick in the hall.
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 15, 2010 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
how can you have any pudding?
if you didn’t eat your meat?
Hey, I just bought the team from Lew Wolff... who wants to play third?
by emperor nobody on Mar 15, 2010 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Mommy!
This paperclip’s doing bad touch!
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 15, 2010 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Love Pink Floyd
"The A's get some action but they do not score..." -Glen Kuiper
"Anyone who calls themselves the Angels Angels should have to start over and ride the short bus." -timmeh from McCovey Chronicles
Been listening to them again lately
Going back and getting some records too.
Last of the Ninth - Photography
Make sure to check out early Floyd too
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn + the Works compilation
"Cheese is the fruit juice nature intended."- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Mar 15, 2010 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions
my personal favorite of late
Hey, I just bought the team from Lew Wolff... who wants to play third?
by emperor nobody on Mar 15, 2010 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I've always held that Wish You Were Here is a stronger album than
any of the three other “classic era” albums. Shine On Your Crazy Diamond? It’s could be a winner for that track (ok, two) alone.
Taken down with hearts alive, our hearts alive.
Funny thing about Pink Floyd...
…is they were the second band I ever saw live, and that was when I was around ten years old.
My father worked for the company that built the set for their Momentary Lapse of Reason tour and we got to see the concert for free when they played in the Coliseum Arena. We were off to the left but pretty close in the elevated seating on the lower level.
It was very impressive and I remember the big lights that would flash at the front of the stage, the drum set, the laser lights, the big round screen and the disco ball egg the best, but I didn’t really remember any of the actual music at the time aside from maybe one or two of the more common songs and I did have a few nightmares from some of the imagery. Just a little too young to really appreciate it back then. A lot of the stage I remember shows in the Pulse DVD.
As of a few years ago I started listening to a bit of their music and found myself liking a good deal of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Momentary_Lapse_of_Reason_Tour#Set_list
Last of the Ninth - Photography
I wish I could've seen them live
Impossible now that Richard Wright passed away.
"The A's get some action but they do not score..." -Glen Kuiper
"Anyone who calls themselves the Angels Angels should have to start over and ride the short bus." -timmeh from McCovey Chronicles
i saw roger waters a couple years ago
closest i’ll ever get to a floyd show. he did dark side for the second set. the whole thing was amazing. such a spectacle.
BK: This guy is on fire, he is really smokin'.
KenKo: Oh yeah, Bill? What's he smokin'?
I would've liked to be able to see them when they were full Pink Floyd
I saw the reunion for Live 8 when it happened and just watched it again the other night. Comfortably Numb in particular is so much better with Waters and Gilmour singing their respective parts.
Last of the Ninth - Photography
Let me quote from Jayson Stark (via twitter).
ESPN Stats & Info guru Mark Simon reports no pitcher in modern era has ever done what Sheets did — give up 10 runs without getting an out.
Taken down with hearts alive, our hearts alive.
to be fair
there were 4 or 5outs in that inning had the defense not been a total fail.
"The ego, the super-ego, and the Ed" - danmerqury
I would rather see Sheets give up 10 runs without
getting an out than have him weigh 260 pounds like Pablo Sandoval. I’m not sure how the two are related but I’ve been reading the Chronicle recently you see, and I understand Sandoval’s weighty predicament to be the worst that could possibly befall a team.
He could easily eat a key reliever.
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
I've no idea how he can let himself get that big.
Some motherfcukers are always trying to ice skate uphill - Blade.
He's on the Bartolo Colon diet.
You know which one I’m talking about…I’m just sayin’, there hasn’t been a confirmed sighting of Colon in awhile now…
There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
Thats way better than my comment.
But unless you’re Pablo Sandoval, I’m not sure we can rule out the possibility.
Either that, or he’s just taking his team name a little too literally.
There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
Home espresso makers!
A Ballade [for the Angels Fan], by Eustache Deschamps: "We are cowardly, ill-formed and weak / Aged, envious and evil-spoken. / I see only fools and sots / Truly the end is nigh / All goes ill."
sex
Leopold Bloom on why he loves Mr. Peter Gammons, his best buddy:
"Peter Gammons systematically ignored and/or ran down the A’s in the pages of Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News for a good ten year stretch in the late seventies and early to mid-eighties. Trust me, the c**ksucker hates our team."
I disagree.
If sex hadn’t been invented, we would have nipped this little incarnation problem in the bud right from the beginning.
"Cheese is the fruit juice nature intended."- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Mar 15, 2010 10:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I am more grateful for A/c than the rest of you combined.
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 15, 2010 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Without it, you'd either melt or have to move
I don’t bitch about A/C anymore now that I’ve gone to Burning Man a couple of times.
I heart fans and trees.
"Cheese is the fruit juice nature intended."- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Mar 15, 2010 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions
emperor and danmerqury
Thanks guys for leaving me the fifth spot in the rotation. You suck.
:)
I'm here to talk about the past.
You’re the mop-up guy
Know your role bitch!
don’t feed the trolls, they’ll multiply like a wet Gizmo.....Mr Tea
At least you weren't sent down to AAA like Good Don...
Two players… two cities… one body…
A logistics nightmare.
"Cheese is the fruit juice nature intended."- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Mar 15, 2010 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions
the massacre started just after someone wrote on the Game Thread
about how awesome the A’s had been lately…
Me neither
oops
"Tonto think Billy Beane need to make team full of squirrels and bears."
by OptimistPrime on Mar 15, 2010 5:40 PM PDT up reply actions
it was prime optimism
you are forgiven
Hey, I just bought the team from Lew Wolff... who wants to play third?
by emperor nobody on Mar 15, 2010 5:40 PM PDT up reply actions
It's fun in a meat and American violence R GRATE! kinda way.
So, you know…not really for you two…
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 15, 2010 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
bah! love the image. big fan of weegee here. love how nobody’s clothes seem to fit them once they’re dead.
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Mar 15, 2010 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I like that you pointed that out about the clothes.
Very cool.
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 15, 2010 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
it ain’t stealing if you ask.
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Mar 15, 2010 4:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Dead??
I don’t think anyone’s clothes “hang well” when they’re face down in the dirt, dead or alive.
Awaiting the start of the 2010 season!
by One won lost won on Mar 15, 2010 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions
yup.
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 15, 2010 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Well... the captioned helped, of course.
Pitching and defense wins pennants, but offense sells tickets.
You know I've been waiting for the A's game wrap up
that had pictures of mob violence and Peter Gabriel….thanks emperor
looks like i picked the right day to have a tremendous deadline at 4pm.
so, those who listened to ken or were there, any indication as to what happened to sheets?
don't care if i ever get back.
He told Baun that he felt good so you can't be too down
He couldn’t get the curveball working, hitting 90-92 on the fastball, and there was really bad defense behind him. Not too much to get worked up about.
"The ego, the super-ego, and the Ed" - danmerqury
thanks, nico below too.
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Mar 15, 2010 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Eyeballing it in Goodyear, it looked like Sheets
was throwing about 90MPH (later he reported 91), which is still 3-4 MPH below where he usually is for the regular season. His curve was up and was easy to recognize early.
My bottom line is health and Sheets said repeatedly afterwards that physically he felt good. That’s better than throwing 3 shutout innings and feeling some pain.
But still. Good grief!
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
did you stick around to the end?
Vince mentioned that “flyballs would be an adventure.” was it bad there?
"The ego, the super-ego, and the Ed" - danmerqury
Yes. Only Fox had an adventure, though, the whole game.
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
so are you gonna go sit in with Asia or any Progressive Rock legends tonight?
Please post pics ;)
Hey, I just bought the team from Lew Wolff... who wants to play third?
by emperor nobody on Mar 15, 2010 4:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I would rather see Sheets
hurt and throwing his fastball slow than have a player of such gargantuan proportions as the Kung-fu Panda of China Basin, whose unseemly weight is most ignoble and tragic for the sport.
Didn't he dodge a tagging 2Bman last season
Kung-fu panda style?
100% Athletics, 100% Baseball. 2009 Athletics, 40% Baseball.
Sheets fastball
Nico, didn’t his fastball even hit the high 90’s before the injury. I’m going off of memory and a few online none pay scouting reports but I though he had some pretty good heat back in the day. It seems like a pretty dramatic change to go from 95-98 to 90 MPH.
"-i never said half the things i said." --Yogi Berra
I think it was more like 92, IIRC
but mostly I heard the A’s liked what they saw. Guys aren’t throwing 96 in Feb — maybe he was throwing 90-92 and that seemed “right on schedule” to the scouts.
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
Thanks bro
That makes me feel better for sure. To be honest I haven’t paid a whole lot of attention to Sheets over his career but I was a bit worried if the discrepancy was 8 MPH. You think there is cause for worry at this point or do we just need to give him a few months to hit his stride?
"-i never said half the things i said." --Yogi Berra
He has always sucked in ST
never anything as epic as this, but still bad. He’ll come out opening day and pitch 7 or 8 innings and give up a walk, a solo homer and a single sprinkled in somewhere.
Hmm...Not to my eyes
Mid 90s, maybe.
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
vince said 100
and others in the high 90s
he was watching the scouts guns behind the plate. For what its worth.
"The ego, the super-ego, and the Ed" - danmerqury
Guns vary a lot
He wasn’t throwing 100.
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
2005 Brewers 66.6% (93.2)
2006 Brewers 54.2% (92.6)
2007 Brewers 65.3% (92.9)
2008 Brewers 61.8% (92.6)
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
Thanks X
It doesn’t get more precise then that!
"-i never said half the things i said." --Yogi Berra
sirbed, you like it when Spot there rubs up and down on your leg?
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 15, 2010 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
RIP
Roger, Roger. What’s your vector, Victor?
Hey, I just bought the team from Lew Wolff... who wants to play third?
by emperor nobody on Mar 15, 2010 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
wait… dead? impossible!
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Mar 15, 2010 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
dan, have you ever seen a grown man, naked?
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 15, 2010 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
The way I see it, the A's won 5-3 in 8 innings.
"Cheese is the fruit juice nature intended."- The Reverend Billy Lard
In other news...
…our bullpen was awesome.
Pitching and defense wins pennants, but offense sells tickets.
nine really
sheets didn’t get an out.
8 because they didn’t pitch the bottom of the ninth. Have I complained this year about that? whats the point of exhibition games if you cut it short by half an inning?
"The ego, the super-ego, and the Ed" - danmerqury
Hey, I still don't understand why AL teams have pitchers bat in spring training games
Could anything be a bigger waste?
www.zekeishungry.com
by thejd44 on Mar 15, 2010 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Should point out that they rarely, if ever, actually bat
But they’re in the lineup, and that’s just annoying.
www.zekeishungry.com
by thejd44 on Mar 15, 2010 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions
I just got my census form
I want to be my own congressperson, so I am going to report 45,000 people live at my house.
"The ego, the super-ego, and the Ed" - danmerqury
why write that on the Census form?
45,000 dependents baby! EIC bonanza!
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
Everything is better with bacon.
by cuppingmaster on Mar 15, 2010 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Start a cult and you could actually have 45,000 people living with you.
And, like, 500 of them could be your wives.
www.zekeishungry.com
by thejd44 on Mar 15, 2010 8:36 PM PDT up reply actions
As a Census worker in 2009 and hopefully 2010
I want to remind everyone that all the information you pass back to the Census is 100% confidential. Personal information (e.g. your name and all the names you list) go to no other government agencies, whatever, whoever, wherever, until seventy (70) years have passed.
As Census workers, we were not allowed to pass on any personal information we took in while in the field, even to other census workers, and could not even report a crime while on the job.
In 2009, the Census merely went around looking for all potential living quarters. No names, no counts, (except potential number of residents, in group homes) just looking for places people might live, or could be living, in 2010. April 1 is the start of the official “counting”.
The first census was in 1790, so they’ve had a LOT of practice, and they know what works: confidentiality. So if you’ve got an illegal in-law apartment, the Census doesn’t care …they just want to count count count.
Everyone.
Awaiting the start of the 2010 season!
by One won lost won on Mar 15, 2010 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Fight the power!
2010, a number, another summer…
"Cheese is the fruit juice nature intended."- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Mar 15, 2010 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
You gotta fight the numbers of Sheets
Yeah, boy.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
unclear reference
who is “they”, and what is meant by “know”, and shiiit means..???
Awaiting the start of the 2010 season!
by One won lost won on Mar 24, 2010 7:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Are there more than one form?
I just got one that asked the basics (name ethnicity etc) I seem to remember one that had more info.
"The ego, the super-ego, and the Ed" - danmerqury
They certainly make sure you know about it...
I’ve seen a million commercials (those insufferable ones with Ed Begley, Jr.) and got a letter in the mail the other day saying “watch for your form in the mail!”
Bring out the black helicopters, but...
…I don’t believe anything is truly confidential if somebody else wants the info bad enough. And in a general sense our gubment has a poor historical record with the whole confidentiality concept.
Having said that, I support the census and it’s purpose… I’m just not buying into the 100% confidentiality part.
Pitching and defense wins pennants, but offense sells tickets.
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