CC's One-Hitter Completes Four-Game Sweep, A's Head Home
by baseballgirl on Sep 2, 2010 1:35 PM PDT
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(Top of the 2nd) Mark Ellis singles on a ground ball to right fielder Austin Kearns. None out.
Well, there's your highlight from the game! It was the only hit in Sabathia's 8 innings against the A's (he would walk three). The A's would managed some baserunners throughout the game, even getting a runner as far as third base with one out, but as per usual in this series, the A's couldn't score when they needed to. Or at all.
The game started as a pretty good pitchers' duel, as CC and Dallas battled in a 1-0 affair until Braden left the game with heat exhaustion? cramps? in the sixth inning. The bullpen combination of Blevins, Wuertz, Rodriguez and James gave up four more runs, just so the A's wouldn't lose 1-0.
CC would put runner on in the first, second, third, and fifth, and two on in the eighth, but the A's could do nothing with the runners they were given, very quietly dropping the fourth game of the series.
Let's hope they play better against the Angels. Tomorrow night 7:05.
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Anything will be better than playing 4 games with the silly Yankees
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So Daric pinch-hit for Penny
because he’s been swinging a “hot” bat lately?
Also, I guess a 4-run deficit at Yankee Stadium is a low pressure situation?
Ken said that Pennington has been struggling from that side of the plate, lefty against righty.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Brett Anderson's Fastball: "At first it seemed a little speck, / And then it seemed a mist: / It moved and moved, and took at last / A certain shape, I wist. / A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered."
I think you're right. Ken must've said righty against lefty.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Brett Anderson's Fastball: "At first it seemed a little speck, / And then it seemed a mist: / It moved and moved, and took at last / A certain shape, I wist. / A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered."
YAWN
I guess I’ll still enjoy the fireworks on Friday, esp. if the weather stays nice.
The baseball? Not so much.
What are you gonna do?
The Banks have better players than us, they have more fan support than us, they have a better ballpark than us, and, of course, they have more money than us. Ungrammatical and awkward, but oh so true. So we have to plod on, and I think we will have better days against the Angels, Mariners, etc.—-we even have another shot at the Rangers. But this is what I don’t understand. The Banks have to give all the other teams in MLB money because they pay a luxury tax—-so where does that money go? How much did we receive? What/who did we spend it on? Why does a journeyman like Grandy end up in the Bronx and we end up with….who? Crisp? Sweeney (Erectus?) Davis? It’s ironic that Beane is going to be made into a hero in the upcoming movie (sort of like “Angels in the Outfield”—-the first one, with Paul Douglas, a superb movie BTW), and we’re going to look like moneyball saved us, like the angels saved the sadsack Pirates. It wasn’t that at all—-seems to me the steroids era overlapped the MoneyBall era and that was that! Plus, it just doesn’t work anymore, anyway. Am I wrong? There has to be a way to use the largesse that rains down on us from The Banks in a better way. Four years—-make that 5, unless we get hot again, are enough——enough with the poormouthing, enough with the stadium. We should move the hell out of Oakland—-those empty seats reinforce the idea that we are small-timers—-and go to Sacramento or Oxnard/Ventura or even (perish the thought) Las Vegas. San Jose just ain’t happening. Someplace with money—- a buddy of mine even mentioned Portland, Oregon. A beautiful place with high per-capita income. Any other places the A’s should move to? Let’s face it—-Oakland doesn’t give a damn. Let’s move on, both financially (forget Moneyball) and geographically.
"It's a cookbook!"---The Twilight Zone
YUCK
Well, at least that’s the bad streak, so there’s going to be a good one soon… hopefully
100% Athletics, 100% Baseball. 2009 Athletics, 40% Baseball.
Embarrassed, overmatched, pathetic
I think the A’s came into NY thinking they would lose. The bad fielding, the poor hitting, the only occasional decent pitching. This was a sad performance through and through. And when a kid from 110 degree 209-ville leaves the game because of heat cramps, well you know the team is misfiring on all of its cylinders.
Yes, the Yankees are a better team. But there is no excuse for not playing crisp baseball. Billy Beane thinks managers don’t matter. But when a team goes lifeless like this one does, it’s not just random noise. Too bad it looks like we’ll have to put up with Geren next year.
Epic Fail. Supreme...
…suckitude
Def.:
1. An extremely precise metric measurement of the level of “suck” contained within a person, place, thing, event or action. 2.The quality, attribute, or characteristic of suck. Measured in units of “suck”
1.Jill has amazing levels of suckitude, she bailed again. She’s almost suckatronic!
It’ll take more than a couple of hitters to compete with these elite teams.
Michael Taylor, AAA .265, 5 HR. .238 in August.
Chris Carter, 0-19.
Kurt Suzuki .249
CarWatsEtc. under the Mendoza line.
Carlos Gonzalez .329, 30 HR, 92 RBI, 20 SB
Nick Swisher .295, 25 HR 80 RBI, 83 Runs
Nelson Cruz .313, 16 HR, 66 RBI, 15 SB in 294 AB
Carlos Pena, 142 HR last 4 years.
Just a freakin’ bad day.
Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener. Billy Martin
Ugh...
But for every Gonzalez, Swisher, and Cruz there’s a Quintanilla and Teahen.
Gio’s WAR is 3.0, while Swisher’s is 3.8. So that’s not too bad. Factor in age and contract and that trade doesn’t look as bad as most people would believe.
by Brett Narloch on Sep 2, 2010 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions
And Cruz broke out like five years after leaving the A's
And Pena wouldn’t even improve this years team. But people have every right to be pissed off after last four days.
"Rollins helps them with the small ball when he's not in the lineup." - Joe Morgan
I'm amazed that people are angry at the Swisher trade.
We got a ridiculous haul. Gio Gonzalez, the then-all-minors strikeout leader, who is pitching like a #2 in a #3 spot (and still has the upside of a #1), Ryan Sweeney, who we got some decent production out of (and still may yet), and Fautino de los Santos, a hotshot #1-upside pitching prospect in A-ball.
The only recent trade people should be angry at is
the CarGo trade. MVP candidate, ’nuff said.
I guess CarGo was right when he said the A’s don’t care about winning.
yesh
alaska A currently residing in northern Idaho. --- theme for august = remain calm and try to truly enjoy a .500 team.
The Office?
A's Fan in Sweden
"Sosa had me caught up in the magic, and I feel like an idiot. I don’t say that often, but I feel like an idiot because of Sammy Sosa." -Jay Mariotti
I know the Cargon trade was bad.
But I really don’t believe he’d be putting up anything like what he’s putting up now. I’m pretty sure you’d be complaining about how he was another bust and how we can’t develop hitters. Elcroatia convinced me.
A's Fan in Sweden
"Sosa had me caught up in the magic, and I feel like an idiot. I don’t say that often, but I feel like an idiot because of Sammy Sosa." -Jay Mariotti
He would probably hit like .250
and get all fucked up because he would be instructed to take too many pitches and lose his aggressiveness and be like 90 percent of the A’s hitters and watch those meatballs go by before deciding to swing.
Isn't it pretty well documented that the A's don't teach this approach, they find guys with patience?
And with the A’s, Cargon swung at everything. And on the road his stats are terrible, and he can’t hit fastballs with movement. And…nevermind.
A's Fan in Sweden
"Sosa had me caught up in the magic, and I feel like an idiot. I don’t say that often, but I feel like an idiot because of Sammy Sosa." -Jay Mariotti
You do realize that
a. his piece was not intended to convince anyone of anything, and
b. it, in fact, showed that the unfounded speculations which people had been throwing around were complete nonsense
Right?
His park and league adjusted line says that he would be a stud in 30 of 30 ballparks.
"We don't want our people to be preoccupied with seminude, crazy men jumping up and down who are chasing an inflated object," said Sheik Mohamed Osman Arus, head of operations for the Hizbul Islam insurgent group.
As to b...
I think it showed that some of those speculations actually did have something to them, only the explanations were actually different than expected.
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Yes, I do.
Maybe my wording was bad, but it showed that there was something to the premise that Cargon is a different case.
A's Fan in Sweden
"Sosa had me caught up in the magic, and I feel like an idiot. I don’t say that often, but I feel like an idiot because of Sammy Sosa." -Jay Mariotti
The only thing that pisses me off about the Swisher trade is that dumbass Kenny Williams trading him to the Yankees for Wilson Betemit
I can't see, now I have to pee, and I can't count to three, but I can count to JÄGERMEISTER!
Seriously, let's get a grip people
Getting swept sure brings out all the “the A’s suck, we’re all gonna die, billy bean is a moron!” people.
We’re a small market team. We are not going to make the playoffs every year. Only 4 teams in the AL do. Do you know how many teams have longer playoff droughts than us? 13 teams! Almost half of the entire MLB. And 3 more teams last went to the playoffs in 2006 – the same year we last went. Personally, I’m excited that this team has managed to get back to a .500 team so quickly, and I think we have a legitimate chance next year to be a contender. There are a lot of other teams’ fans that wish they could say the same.
"I'm a Golden Gopher, this means I'm a golden soldier/The competition is dirt, and I'm a bulldozer." -St. Paul Slim
"I'm not going to lie. I try to hit home runs and that's it." -Matt Stairs
by Where's My Burrito? on Sep 2, 2010 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Cannot agree
There is a lot broken. Positional player depth and skills, attendance (small market drawing like small rest area), unknown future home and a pretty silent leadership group. We do kinda suck right now as we have for several years.
Baja been here
we are so close to taking this division
literally 2 non-replacement level bats away. orlando hudson instead of ellis and crawford in LF make this team contenders.
Id love to get rid of Suzuki though, Ive never liked his approach at the plate and hes a really overrated defender, he’s young enough to improve though but he has been simply atrocious this season. everyone else is okay…
-Yeah, I just posted that, but my opinion is apparently "wrong" a significant portion of the time though, so take it as you will.
The A's ARE NOT A SMALL MARKET TEAM!!!
The A’s owner want you to keep believing that ("Its not a lie Jerry, if you believe it’s true-George Costanza).
The population in the Bay Area has increased since the Haas family owned the team and for a time, (Canseco, Rickey, Sierra, etc) we had some the highest paid players in baseball.
What we do have is a cheap owner, who takes the welfare money that MLB dishes out, and he pockets it, refusing to invest back into the team. The Pirates were recently exposed for this, and most of the “Wahhhhh, I’m a small market” owners are pocketing the money as well.
If Mark Cuban, Eddie D, or Larry Ellison bought the A’s, do you think that they’d be whining about a “small market team”.
Well, fine were in a big market
But the last time I checked, that market is not full of A’s fans. If it were, attendance wouldn’t be a problem – and don’t say it’s just because we’re losing, because even when the team is good the stadium rarely sells out.
To me, playing in a area of large population does not make a team a “big market” team. It’s about how much revenue you generate (after all, it’s the revenue that allows you to spend more than the other team, not just playing in a large population area). According to Forbes, the A’s are 3rd to last in revenue (the Giants, who take away a large part of “our” market, are 8th). Not surprising.
Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought the Haas family operated the team at a loss.
"I'm a Golden Gopher, this means I'm a golden soldier/The competition is dirt, and I'm a bulldozer." -St. Paul Slim
"I'm not going to lie. I try to hit home runs and that's it." -Matt Stairs
by Where's My Burrito? on Sep 3, 2010 5:33 AM PDT up reply actions
my walk up tickets to game one of the 2003 ALDS agrees with you
the question is always, how are the A;s going to grow the brand loyalty?
"The ego, the super-ego, and the Ed" - dannycakes
Yes, our cheap ass owner who spent $80M on payroll 3 seasons ago.
What a cheapskate.
Pam liked my old sig better.
The reference to market size isn't about how big the entirety of the market actually is
It’s about how much of the market you control. In this case, because it’s a big market but also a shared market, looking at overall population size doesn’t do you any good. The Giants control the majority of the overall market and the A’s actual hold of what’s left over isn’t that big. And yes, they could spend more, but they’re spending enough to turn a profit and not take on debt.
Choosy Feebas choose Leopold Bloom nipples
Daring. Sensual. Invigorating. Squirrel.
BLOOM. For men.
If the eggs actually hatch I made more than a mistake, I made some scientifically impossible crime.
Ugh
Just. Finish. The. Season. At. .500 and I’ll be thrilled.
"It's never 'just a game' if you're winning" - George Carlin
and there in lies the problem
the A’s players, much of the fan base and probably ownership would/will be happy and thrilled finishing .500.
I’m sorry but this is absolutely terrible – everything and everyone except the starters.
Everybody wants to play us these days.
Baja been here
Yeah he wasnt thinking that in April
He was probably quietly confident like most of us were. Texas overplayed this year and arent as good as their record, in fact, they are only as good as Josh Hamilton makes them, pretty much. One man doesnt make a team, but when he’s a 7+ WAR guy, he kinda does.
-Yeah, I just posted that, but my opinion is apparently "wrong" a significant portion of the time though, so take it as you will.
This.
That was a pretty demoralizing series, honestly. :o(
"It's never 'just a game' if you're winning" - George Carlin
by bluelightrain84 on Sep 7, 2010 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
must be nice to be a Yankee fan
boo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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I don't understand that statement...
Again, the A’s won the WS in 1989. They had a very high payroll and an owner willing to invest in the team.
Wouldn’t that have made us the same as the Yankees are now?
So if someone would have said “must be nice to be an A’s fan (with all those great players) -only if you don’t value your soul…” it confuses me.
There's a big difference between having the highest payroll
and having a payroll so high that it dwarfs even the second highest payroll on top of having multiple individual players who make more than the total payrolls of multiple teams.
Choosy Feebas choose Leopold Bloom nipples
Daring. Sensual. Invigorating. Squirrel.
BLOOM. For men.
If the eggs actually hatch I made more than a mistake, I made some scientifically impossible crime.
I doubt it. The A's didn't have the high payroll year after year after year after year.....
If they had, then sure. They’d be the same as the Yankees. But you know that the Yankees can afford that payroll because they live in a market that has way more people, play in a city that many visitors see as “the” American city, a city that paid for their stadium, have a lucrative cable TV channel, and merchandise that virtually craps dollars into their account.
Oh, and check out the 1989 player salaries. Highest Oakland A’s players? Henderson at #15 (also played with NY that year), Canseco, at #38. Lansford at #59. Their average salary was $475K, compared to the average MLB salary of $490K. I guess that means they weren’t a high paid team after all.
by LoneStranger on Sep 3, 2010 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions
("Their" average salary is the team average, not those three players.)
by LoneStranger on Sep 3, 2010 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions
advertising on NY TV is way more than anywhere in the country
"The ego, the super-ego, and the Ed" - dannycakes
Mine was not a serious statement
tilde, italic, bold, block quote.
AND ALL CAPS.
Too bad blink tag is dead now, or I would have done that too.
Here's what I would like to see after the AAA playoffs
Crisp CF
Barton 1B
Suzuki C
Cust DH
Kouzmanoff 3B
Ellis 2B
Taylor RF
Davis LF
Pennington SS
6-man rotation adding ClayMort
Call up Carter (i know he’s injured) to simply watch on the bench and hopefully learn a few things
Powell starting twice a week
No more starts from Gabe Gross
and finally, one, and only one, at-bat for Chavez during the final homestand
Shaking up the lineup
I caught a game against the Royals from ’02, where they overcome a 5-0 deficit. Kind of makes you want to cry…
Durham 2b
Hatteberg 1b
Tejada SS
Chavez 3B
Dye RF
Justice LF
Hernandez C
Ellis 2B
???? SS
Fail
OF course SS was Tejada, and 2b was not Ellis — our old scapegoat Terrence Long was in there too. I had had a couple of beers.
by SteveMcPhatty on Sep 2, 2010 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
My Yankees fan friend has been taunting the * out of me. This has been a rough week. The best comeback I could come up with is “Rooting for the Yankees is like pulling for OPEC.”
Hey, that's pretty good!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Brett Anderson's Fastball: "At first it seemed a little speck, / And then it seemed a mist: / It moved and moved, and took at last / A certain shape, I wist. / A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered."
"Rooting for the Yankees is like Rooting for U.S. Steel" is the original quote.
The Baseball Alamanac gives comedian Joe E. Lewis for the line “Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.” But the attribution is really more complicated than that:
Baseball writer Jim Murray, in Life Magazine in 1950, compared the Yankees with U.S. Steel and General Motors, noting that ""For my money the Yankees were and are super-champions for the same reasons General Motors or U.S. Steel or Standard Oil are super businesses. They have more fans paying more money than any other club in the history of the game."
Murray later adds, “I would as soon feel sorry for Standard Oil because it was getting slightly the worst of it in a marketing fight with an independent gas station in East Podunk.”
The first use of the quote is from the Sporting News during the World Series of 1953: "Give or take a syllable or two, the most significant quip to come out of the World Series press box during the late departed classic was: “Rooting against the Yankees is like rooting against U.S. Steel.” The author could scarcely have called upon a more powerful simile."
by richwol1 on Sep 2, 2010 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Tonight's River Cats lineup
1. Corey Wimberly, LF
2. Eric Sogard, SS
3. Tommy Everidge, 1B
4. Matt Watson, DH
5. Anthony Recker, C
6. Corey Brown, CF
7. Jeff Baisley, 3B
8. Michael Taylor, RF
9. Adrian Cardenas, 2B
Starter: RHP Clayton Mortensen
Sadly, I think this lineup might have actually gotten more than one hit off CC
taylor 8th?
yikes!
If he wants to run across the pitcher's mound, tell him to go do laps in the bullpen - pepe
River Cats Magic Number is 2
Cats magic number for fifth straight PCL Division Title is 2. A class organization!
And the Just-Average number for Oakland is 16
With 29 left to play.
.550 baseball might be tough for this team. But I rather see the SP get more rest, and some callups.
100% Athletics, 100% Baseball. 2009 Athletics, 40% Baseball.
Today we fielded a starting lineup with 1 player with an OPS of over 700.
How on earth were we not no-hit? Why on earth are we even bothering showing up to play these games?
The day Sweeney went down for the season and was replaced by the AAAAMatts and not a player via a trade, was the day my patience as an A’s fan was tested. Make no mistake, we could have won this division this year had Beane not sit on his hands. Just a really frustrating season to watch. So close, yet so far.
-Yeah, I just posted that, but my opinion is apparently "wrong" a significant portion of the time though, so take it as you will.
plus the whole foxchavez over cust decision
we simply would have won more games with a full year of cust and a better than replacement level COFer
-Yeah, I just posted that, but my opinion is apparently "wrong" a significant portion of the time though, so take it as you will.
luckily we wont have to worry about Chavez wasting everyones time.
-Yeah, I just posted that, but my opinion is apparently "wrong" a significant portion of the time though, so take it as you will.
Honestly, at this point,
it wouldn’t surprise me if BB brings him back on a minor league contract if he “proves” he’s healthy.
Beane’s love for Chavez and Ellis are not helping this team.
I totally understand your frustration,
but the logical person in me can’t let this go. What exactly do you think Beane could have done, mid season, to gain a playoff birth?
A's Fan in Sweden
"Sosa had me caught up in the magic, and I feel like an idiot. I don’t say that often, but I feel like an idiot because of Sammy Sosa." -Jay Mariotti
continuation of the Chavyfox, cust-less for some dumb reason
start of season blues.
Eh, ya.
That was bad.
A's Fan in Sweden
"Sosa had me caught up in the magic, and I feel like an idiot. I don’t say that often, but I feel like an idiot because of Sammy Sosa." -Jay Mariotti
No decisions and bad decisions
I’m less pissed off about the Chavez thing because the intent was to use him as a back-up infielder. But instead, not only was Cust kept in the minors and Chavez used as DH, but the A’s filled out the roster with Fox and Patterson, and kept them both long beyond it became clear neither was any good. In fact, people here were complaining on a daily basis that the front office had fallen completely asleep. Still, the pitching kept the A’s in the race … and the best the team could do was pick up Conor Jackson, who spent virtually the entire season on the Disabled List.
This season was lost in its first three months. After that, they were playing catch-up.
It's always a tough day when you go up against...
ANGRY SABATHIA!!!!!!!
That rug really tied the room together...
by Streams Of Whiskey on Sep 2, 2010 4:58 PM PDT reply actions
I think that's how he looses the excess heat
100% Athletics, 100% Baseball. 2009 Athletics, 40% Baseball.
Maybe he's doing his best Sloth impression from the Goonies.
That rug really tied the room together...
by Streams Of Whiskey on Sep 2, 2010 6:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Two teams in two different directions
NickSwisher Great game today. Big C doing the thing. And C Grand coming through big time. Let’s keep the roll going.
BrettAnderson49 Anything going on tonight?
Hey Billy Hey Bob
"Hey Billy, how’s it going?"
"Hey Bob. Fine. I can’t complain. Sorry I didn’t make the trip to New York, but it was such a pain thinking about giving my short pants and flip flops, which make working for the A’s such a great job!"
"Yeah. Sort of know what you mean. I’ve been thinking about something pretty important now for awhile and have finally come to decision."
"What’s that Bob?"
"Here, it is my resignation. It is all written out and final as far as I am concerned."
"Whoa now Bob. I know you are the lowest paid manager in the majors, but as soon as we are mathematically out of the g.d. race, we are going to convene our Personnel Evaluation Committee, and I am sure you would be in line for a raise for the outstanding job you have been doing. God Bob, I have been telling anyone who will listen that you have been doing a super-human job. I really have!!"
I know, I know…… Billy, and I appreciate your good words……but I really do need to stand up and take responsibility for how the team has been playing. It is not just the losing, but the uninspired play too. It is up to me to take the hit, you and the rest of ownership have been doing your best and have been giving me enough tools to get the job done…..but…"
"OK OK Bob!! But I am just going to sit on it for awhile before we go public….also would appreciate your input into who you think we should put on our interview list."
Not Carney for one thing!! He has this ridiculous notion that the Bay Area is one of the biggest markets in the U.S., and not the small market all of know it is, he would be pushing you too much to go out and get big market type players."
is this an excerpt from the screenplay of "Moneyball II:The Luxury Tax Years?"
you’ll be eating your words when Beane signs Landon Donovan and a rejuvenated Freddy Adu to hit 3-4 in 2011, bub.
Why, I can already hear Dick Callahan in my head:
“Now batting, the second baseman…. Roberto…. Carlos!”
Silence s'il vous plait!! Vous ne voyez pas que je suis en train de se masturber?!?
oh a classical reply fail to robertmelvin
robertmelvin is awesome, btw, one of my favorite ANers.
Silence s'il vous plait!! Vous ne voyez pas que je suis en train de se masturber?!?
by emperor nobody on Sep 2, 2010 7:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Actually an excerpt
from a semi-dream I had last night after the game as I tried to get to sleep in my hotel bed here in Vientiane, after listening to Ken K. on mlb/radio as I watched the ESPN International feed out of Hong Kong (YES Network) with the volume turned off. Actually the dream was a bit longer and went into the job Billy offered Bob for next season. Which as I recall was the Roving Game Managing Specialist for the A’s organization; to go from minor league team to minor league team next season explaining how to set up a Left – Right – Left – Right line-up card; how to alway continually juggle the lineup and put the “hot” players near the top of the order; and how to keep patting the butts of players, and offering unbounded encouragement no matter what!!
Thank you
Thank you, Salbando6 and rovingralph. I don’t really care much about what the other teams do or don’t do. All i care about is the A’s and we did not play up to the level of our somewhat limited capabilities. We may have been swept anyway, but we obviously sucked in the last series. Just not acceptable. And as for “Moneyball”, our past success in that era may be more correctly expained by steroid use and the “big three”. Hopefully we can turn it around tonight.
Let’s go Oakland
Really? Steroid use?
I forget, were we the only team using steroids from 2000-2004? And as for the Big Three, our pitching this year has a 3.56 ERA (ERA+ 114) and our pitching in 2002 (when we won 103 games) had a 3.68 ERA (ERA+ 118), so our pitching is nearly the same, maybe a little worse but certainly not the difference between 80 wins and 100. The difference is our offense in 2002 was average to above average instead of a joke.
"I'm a Golden Gopher, this means I'm a golden soldier/The competition is dirt, and I'm a bulldozer." -St. Paul Slim
"I'm not going to lie. I try to hit home runs and that's it." -Matt Stairs
by Where's My Burrito? on Sep 3, 2010 7:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Hmmm. Being swept by the Yankees is no fun.
"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."
I am shocked.
"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."
Not in the slightest. Don't get hangovers.
It’s a gift.
"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."
I hope the lack of farewell doesn't mean that Billy will bring him back.
A's Fan in Sweden
"Sosa had me caught up in the magic, and I feel like an idiot. I don’t say that often, but I feel like an idiot because of Sammy Sosa." -Jay Mariotti
Salary Cap!
It’s never been more obvious than when watching the Yankees. Swish goes out? No problem, put in Granderson. Or Berkman. Or Thims. Or any other all star. Meanwhile, Coco goes out. Um. Gross? Yes. Gross it is.
Sure, there’s a Padres or Rays or Reds every now and then, but noone can compete with the Yankees.
Shut the game down and fix it. Worked for the NFL. Cap and floor. No brainier.
"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." -Jessica Rabbit
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