Marcum Down: Zombified A's Get One Hit and Lose Again, 3-1

Since I put down my deposit for 2011 season tickets, right when DB CG’ed Seattle, the A’s have not won a game…Don’t give up!

[shakes fist]

The A’s are comprised of a bunch of 7,8,9 hitters not many, if any of these AA Ball players would start for any other team…..Billy Beane must be taking aft Al Davis, cause if you want a new stadium you better put out a professional product, and neither are. They may not lose 100 games it will only seem like it.

when the offense is there and all the pitchers are on the field during practice. It would be a mercy killing.

And it would save some salary for players who can actually hit come 2011.

By the way, what is Travis Buck still doing in this organization? What will he suddenly show that he hasn’t over the years?

Just got back from the game. Wretched experience. The only hit came from a guy who by all right should’ve been removed from the game after his gaffe. I have no idea what the radio or TV people were saying, but Kouzmanoff did not even LOOK to see what was going on behind him for the longest time, during the period when Jackson was having his time-out.

I’ll say it again: ten years of a organization-wide hitting system, and what we’ve got to show for it are two statistical oddities, Cust and Barton. If this is what statistical analysis bring us in the way of hitting attack, drafts, trades, and teaching, then give me some stinky old geezer with a squashed cigar, porkpie hat, a stopwatch and sixty years’ experience instead.

after attending the Rivercats game and seeing the highlights of the A’s game, I’m guessing there was better attendance in Sacramento. Chris Carter made an appearance BTW, pinch hit with the tying run on 2nd in the 9th inning-struck out looking. Heard a lot of moaning after that at bat…

to get me to watch.

I turned on the game in the fifth and saw the A’s didn’t have a hit and were down three runs. That guaranteed a loss. But I stuck around to see if the team would be no-hit, because this offensive ineptitude is historic.

After Jackson homered, I changed the channel and watched a movie with my daughter. I didn’t check to see if the A’s came back and won, because I knew that was out of the question.

Maybe there is a good reason. Maybe the powers-that-be decided he’s really in way over his head and needed to go back to Sacramento immediately while the AAA season is still going. It’s better to admit a mistake than crush the kid’s confidence, blah blah blah.

But if the team planned on calling up Jackson to play left field full-time, what was the point of calling up Carter in the first place? Was that the plan? Did it become the plan after Carter looked horrible for a week?

The whole handling of the situation doesn’t seem right. They don’t play him in left field until recently, then suddenly decide to promote him when he’s learning a new position. And then, after he looks crummy and doesn’t get a hit for a few days, he’s dumped back to the minors.

For this, the A’s started his service clock? What if he turns out to be really good in a few years?