A's One-Hit, Lose the Four-Hitter
by dwishinsky on Aug 21, 2011 3:51 PM PDT
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One pitch a 3-2, the 10th of the at bat, a hanging slider to Jose Bautista was the difference in this game. That's it. I could end this summary right there because I have just given away all the scoring. That's all the difference in this game that the A's lost 1-0 to the visiting Toronto Blue Jays.
Guillermo Moscoso on the hill for Oakland deserved the win. He pitched brilliantly, not something I say often about Moscoso who I've always felt relies more on crazy luck than on being an amazing pitcher. In eight innings he struck out seven, walked one, allowed only three hits except that one of them was that aforementioned home run to Bautista.
On the Jays side of the ledger their pitching too was impressive and ultimately more so than the A's as Luis Perez, perfect through five innings and Casey Janssen combined to hold the A's to one hit - a single to Jemile Weeks - and three walks while striking out nine. Janssen got a three-inning save, pitching three hitless innings, and accounting for five of those K's.
Defensively for the A's the sunlight caused misses by Brandon Allen and Scott Sizemore in foul ground and turned a routine out into a triple against Coco Crisp. Fortunately at a little over two and a half innings, this forgettable game for A's fans, didn't waste too much of our afternoon.
The A's head to New York to face the Evil Empire Tuesday...
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You couldn't blame a guy for moving to a new city with a young team that's vying for the playoffs,
to think about leaving his childhood team, right?
"Caring about stuff binds us to the other people that care about stuff, and that creates the communities that makes life worth living."
that's called a "bandwagoner"
but hey, it’s your choice…
by OaklandSi on Aug 21, 2011 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
can and will
"BA doesn't stand for Batting Average. It’s Brandon Allen, as in the percentage of a hitter’s worth compared to Brandon Allen. Ted Williams, at his best, was only 4/10th of the hitter Brandon Allen is today." - YonYonson
I don't know who you are anymore.
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by player20 on Aug 21, 2011 5:26 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
you can step out with another team, but you know who you're true love is
"Once you go Bed....everything else is dead." - Bed
"So you're saying we should skin the Rangers and wear them as uniforms? I’m down." - Kyli
by cuppingmaster on Aug 21, 2011 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions
it depends...
would you be moving just to root for a new team? After all, I know plenty of ppl who move for quite good reasons and end up “adopting” the local team there… but if you’re talking SF… it’s a bit close for that scenario to be legit. :p
My own experience with “rooting” for another team for awhile—I found that I was really only a fan of “winning” (not the 2nd team itself), although when I “switched back” to my first team (which I never really left in my heart), I found that the other team had grown on me a bit, even if I still wasn’t really a true fan of them.
but yeah, sarcasm is acceptable, I guess (I wasn’t being sarcastic, but thought you might be).
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Which clearly makes it impossible to root for the A's.
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At ASU I think it's rooting for the T&A's
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by mikev on Aug 21, 2011 8:23 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Ian Krol doesn't seem to think so.
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You can root for the D-Backs without leaving the A's
I know I am pulling for them.
Bring back Hammer.
by OaktownPower on Aug 21, 2011 7:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Seriously. How does one affect the other?
They’re not even in the same league, and I don’t expect they’ll be meeting in the World Series.
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Well obviously in 2012. Duh.
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Arizona always has won World Series' in years ending in "1"
So no: 2021 DUH. How could you be so STOOPID?
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There's no 1 in 2021, moran.
Except at the end obviously.
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As long as he's still an A's fan
that occasionally supports the D-Backs
by Rebuilding Season on Aug 21, 2011 8:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Everyone has that other team they watch
For whatever reason mine is the Padres. I don’t really care if they win or lose, but theyre almost always my first choice of something to watch if the A’s arent on.
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Sadly,
mine in the Yanks and Red Sox.
Hey, I just happen to like to watch good baseball teams. So sue me. Though I alwyas root for them to lose, even when they play each other.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
When I'm not watching the A's
I just follow my favorite player. So for a long time I watched the White Sox and was fortunate enough to follow him when he came to Oakland. Guess who?
Now I follow Pujols.
Q: Who is playing you in the movie about the ESPN book? I think it should be Adam Sandler — you both peaked 12 years ago.
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by Dr. Handsome, D.D.S. on Aug 21, 2011 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I suppose I'm the reverse.
I watch these guys becaue all my favorite ex A’s players seem to end up on either team. So at least I know some of the players. Which is okay I suppose. It’s hard to root against Swish or Scoot. Nice thing about watching them. I can root like hell for a loss, but not at the expense of ex A’s. And for some reason I happen to like Wakefield a lot. Never want to see that guy lit up unless the A’s are doing it….which aint freaking likely.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
It depends on the player for me.
I turned on Giambi in a heart beat, but not on Tejada.
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by Dr. Handsome, D.D.S. on Aug 21, 2011 10:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Eh, it was easy to turn on him.
It ain’t like he didn’t do it first. Wish we would have stuck with thim though. The old boy still seems to have a litlle left in the tank. The A’s seem to be moving towards a “meritocracy” style of play. Something I approve of wholeheartedly, but I think a DH/1B Giambi could have been a driver on a successful team.
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So you're a blatant Sweeneyholic, huh?
No, I’m just kidding, you big Frankazoid
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Aug 22, 2011 6:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Well I am a big Swingles fan as well. ;-)
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by Dr. Handsome, D.D.S. on Aug 22, 2011 6:31 PM PDT up reply actions
This man makes the most sense.
We should all listen to him and do what he does.
"Never have a motto, that's what I always say" - Me
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I just wish they'd fire their manager
would make it a lot easier to pull for them.
by longtimeasfan on Aug 22, 2011 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
When I moved to Seattle in 2004
I expected I would gradually turn into an M’s fan. Especially since they were already like a 2nd favorite team to me. As it turned out, that never happened. I stayed just as true to the A’s as ever. That wasn’t a deliberate choice or a matter of principle; it was just how I felt and continued to feel.
The M’s remained like a 2nd favorite team for a while, and when I had time to spare I would follow them a little bit. But for the past year I’ve been mostly oblivious to them except when they’re playing the A’s.
Being wrong about something you’ve worked on is a blessing, not a curse, and people are so invested in being right that that gets lost. —Graham MacAree
Pretty much how I felt when I moved there in 2000
I enjoyed going to Safeco and watching the games, especially during the 114-win season. It was just a fun team to watch. But I still rooted for the A’s when they were playing the Mariners and when it was the Ms playing another team, I still watched the out-of-town scoreboard obsessively to see how the A’s were doing.
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by PDXAthleticsfan on Aug 23, 2011 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
With apologies to The Boss
Hey Coco, did you see them?
Those balls hit the track with such a beautiful thud.
I wonder if you saw them,
Or were they just lost in the sun?
Hey man, did you see them?
Those fly balls were sure fucked up.
I wonder what you were thinkin’ about,
Or were they just lost in the sun?
beautiful day at the coliseum today
for me “the game” was loading up the bases in the bottom of the ninth with one out and a scoreless game, and failing to score at least one run. (besides Coco’s GIDP Suzuki’s bunt was less then impressive.) I just kind of had a feeling that the Jays would score in the top of the seventh.
Still, there were some nice things about the game today. For me (besides sitting in MVP seats and the beautiful weather), they were Moscoso and (of course) Brandon Allen at 1B.
You wrote that standing on your head, huh
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DURRRR THEY’RE TOO OLD, BABIP IS TOO HIGH, TOO MANY Ks, DURRRRRR
You'd think she'd have at least noticed that the "th" was upside down.
Very careless indeed.
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Is there a stat that measures how often a team scores in the next 1/2 inning after the opponent blows a major chance in the previous?
Because that sure does seem to happen without fail.
by AsFan72 on Aug 21, 2011 4:35 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
lol
"BA doesn't stand for Batting Average. It’s Brandon Allen, as in the percentage of a hitter’s worth compared to Brandon Allen. Ted Williams, at his best, was only 4/10th of the hitter Brandon Allen is today." - YonYonson
Regarding Moscoso, while I'm inclined to continue seeing him
as ideally only a “long reliever / fill-in starter,” the one thing which could signal actual improvement is the addition of the cutter. Any time a pitcher adds a pitch successfully to his repertoire, the potential is there for real improvement over whatever he was before.
So I suppose I won’t give up on him entirely as a SP, though I’d still really like to see the A’s ultimately have him in the bullpen, ready as a great #7 SP when a couple others go down.
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get those Yanks.
A series win against them would be awesome, now that the losing streak thing is over (sorry for the optimism, lol).
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(answers hands)
“Hello?”
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That's what happens when you pound the percocets up and snort them.
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Aug 22, 2011 6:29 PM PDT up reply actions
We get to face Jered Weaver for 5 more years!
Woohoo.
by player20 on Aug 21, 2011 6:51 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Well, the way I look at it (though I think this is a perfectly good signing by LAA)
is that spending so much on Vernon Wells and Weaver is what takes them out of the running in the sweepstakes for real studs like Pujols (and before him, Crawford, Beltre).
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They have the potential to get a lot of talent via trade
By dealing Morales or Trumbo
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No doubt. I'm not saying they're totally stuck
But the Wells deal really constricted them this past off-season, thankfully. And the Weaver deal will at least tie up a fair amount of payroll this off-season.
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You read the very interesting article at True Grich?
Interesting.
A bit odd that he characterizes the 2011 season as a failure, though, when they’re clearly in the race.
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Its a few days old from when they looked finished
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Yeah, but they've never been out of it
At worst they were 7 out, and overall they’ve hung in there better than many thought they would.
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Psychologically they were
I never felt they were out of it out of it
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I often feel out of it.
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Per SuSlu
Susan Slusser
Landon Powell tells The Chronicle he has been sent down to Triple-A Sacramento. #Athletics
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Hmm...
Neither Recker nor Donaldson is in the lineup for the Rivercats tonight
by Glorious Mundy on Aug 21, 2011 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I can see where you'd have to call them both up to replace Powell.
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Maybe they're signing Scott Hatteberg to a minor league deal
and reverting him back to his catcher days.
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by Dr. Handsome, D.D.S. on Aug 21, 2011 8:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Probably.
Usually when you trade your starting catcher is when you send down your backup catcher.
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Maybe they're thinking of trading Suzuki in the offseason
And they want to audition Donaldson for the job.
by Glorious Mundy on Aug 21, 2011 8:29 PM PDT up reply actions
My bigger fear is that they WON'T call Taylor up on 9/1
because Sacramento’s in the playoffs. SAC’s tradition of winning hasn’t translated in any way shape or form to winning in OAK, so while I can appreciate “not wanting to mess up the AAA team for the playoffs,” SAC is there to feed OAK and the A’s need to find out what Taylor can do. I’d have liked to see him up now, even if at the expense of DDJ’s playing time, since it looks like DDJ won’t qualify for Type B status anyway (is that correct?).
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He's still type B right now, but he's been falling down the chart.
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Hmm. Well, sitting him against LHPs can only help!
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Susan Slusser
No corresponding move yet – Powell demotion has not even been announced. Josh Donaldson is the only other C on 40-man roster. #Athletics
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Personally, I think that's good if Donaldson is being called up
I’d like to see what he can do. If he were to be comparable to Suzuki, and the A’s have a chance to get a young 3B or SS back for Suzuki this off-season, the A’s could get better this way. But if Donaldson were to be a real dropoff then you’re really just trading one problem for another and now you need a catcher.
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I agree. Donaldson might also bring a smaller upside to Recker
with better defense and is 2+ yrs younger (their career slash lines are really similar). Not to mention he can fill in at both corners and possible 2B (2 games at Sac this year) whereas Recker seemingly can only handle 1B. Plus Donaldson got what all of nine starts in he brief cup last year during that horrendous road trip.
And he HRed off of Hall of Famer Dana Eveland!
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Don't feel bad for him
He’s going to a playoff team!
by Glorious Mundy on Aug 21, 2011 8:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Should be
He was in AAA and on the 40-man for parts of 2008 and 2010, if I’m not mistaken.
by Glorious Mundy on Aug 21, 2011 8:41 PM PDT up reply actions
The Rivercats being beat up by Tucson pitchers....
literally beat up, with 3 HBP in 1 inning, that already caused 1 casualty (Jai Miller)
did he swing at the pitch that hit him?
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you are not supposed to look here
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The plot thickens: Donaldson pinch-ran for Jai Miller a few minutes ago.
Meaning that Donaldson hasn’t already gotten any call-up, and that Miller is obviously on his way to OAK to be the new backup catcher. ;-)
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Actually felt bad for Miller
I watched the HBP, and he felt to the ground inmediatelly and was replaced by Donaldson. Unfortunately, the broadcast only provides 1 single angle and no audio, so I don’t know where the pitch hit him
I think the most likely conclusion is that Powell was lying to Slusser
Now you only lie to someone because you’re cheating on them, so then I conclude that Powell was cheating on someone with Slusser, and is now cheating on Slusser with someone else, probably a man.
You know I should probably make a front page post about this.
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Why am I getting all these private emails
from someone calling themselves “Ms. Slusser’s counsel” and what the heck is slander?
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BARELY KNEW HER
Susan Slusser
I am hearing indications that it will, indeed, be Anthony Recker taking Powell’s spot, though he is not on the 40-man roster. #Athletics
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It's possible
that the Yankees or Red Sox have a structure in place for Harden, and Recker takes Harden’s spot on the 40 man.
Good point.
Hey, maybe Harden will pitch against himself on Thursday!
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Although that wouldn't really explain why you'd have to swap Powell for Recker on the big league roster.
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No
that’s not it. You wouldn’t burn an option when you’re trading someone away the next day. Also, nobody wants Landon Powell.
Whereas it's my understanding that half the population wants Recker.
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Maybe they've wanted to do it for a while
but couldn’t find a 40-man transaction to make it possible, unless they were prepared to release Powell.
Slusser pondered in her Drumbeat post that it may be service time related.
Doing a quick look at the projected cutoff, the 11 days may keep him under the threshold.
and probably a players union grievance.
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I don't see what the upside would be to this kind of move, anyway
Sure, you might get another pre-arb year out of the guy, but at the cost of burning a ton of goodwill with Powell and possibly with other players who see the shabby way the team is willing to treat marginal players. If he’s not worth paying an arbitration salary to, just non-tender him in the offseason. He’s the backup catcher, for pete’s sake.
by Glorious Mundy on Aug 22, 2011 9:59 AM PDT up reply actions
that's a good point but if you non-tender him will he even get a major league deal from any team?
I don’t see a sub-.200 hitting catcher with health issues getting anything more than a minor league deal + spring training invite. I imagine if he is not a Super 2 they will just keep him on the A’s roster.
I would have sent down Powell a while back to get a look at Donaldson and/or Recker but yes, doing it right now, at the last possible moment, to save on service time is pretty petty.
I agree that it is treating him poorly, but in the end it could turn out better for Powell.
by Billy Frijoles on Aug 22, 2011 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
That's what I mean
If he’s not a super two, keep him. If he is, non-tender him. But there’s no point in pulling a petty move just to keep him from getting Super 2 status.
by Glorious Mundy on Aug 22, 2011 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions
yeah they should have been thinking about this at the beginning of the season and sent him down earlier if they were that worried about it.
If it is a transparent move to keep him from Super 2 status…not too classy (but could work out better for him in the end).
by Billy Frijoles on Aug 22, 2011 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
You know, on second thought, I really doubt it's service time related.
At least, not primarily. Is an extra year of a 34-year-old Landon Powell in 2016 really worth anything?
Could it be because of the potential Super 2 status?
by Billy Frijoles on Aug 22, 2011 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
I was hoping powell would become super at some point
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by Future Ed on Aug 22, 2011 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Or a non-tender and re-sign later at a more reasonable price
when no one wants to sign him
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STILL FUNNY
I wonder what the timing of this is about. It’s not like it’s so crucial to change backup catchers in mid-August when you’re 15 games out of first place. Or maybe it is.
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less at bats for suzuki
would be a good thing. May as well give the other ab’s to a prospect and see what he can do.
slide! jeremy slide!
Serious side rant here....
I am fucking through with Aramark at the Coli. I just came back from watching a two game set against the Jays….the two we won fortunately. If any of the shit heads that run aramark read this blog, I want you to understand something. I WILL NEVER buy a FUCKKING thing from your piece of shit company that requires I stand in a line of more than one person. I went with my kids ( over 21 now) and missed three innings of their company because of your piss poor customer service. So if you’re one of the ass hat managers of this company at the coli…..know this. I am fucking through with you. I will eat before I come to the game, I will bring my own drinks in, and I don’t give a fuck in you offer two dollar beers. I won’t participate.
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by alox on Aug 21, 2011 10:50 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I always bring my own food
Pathetic customer service notwithstanding, who would want to eat that crap anyway?
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In fact, that's their slogan.
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Except they replace "might be" with the more forceful "is"
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that's marketing 101 is what that is.
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Let me put it this way
A friend of mine wrote:
Grilled cheese is a fine addition to the Oakland Coliseum concessions menu. I’ve had it three times this week.
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it's surprising that aramark won't even get a credit card receipt printer at each counter
Each booth shares one printer. Which, with the slow, leisurely waddle to the reader and back, wastes a ton of time…
by Billy Frijoles on Aug 22, 2011 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Someone's gotta be DFA'd, since all of our 15-day DL guys don't plan on staying there for much longer (Magnuson, Wuertz).
Who’s it gonna be? Couple candidates, looks like:
Billings (not likely)
Blevins (possibly more likely, but LHPs don’t grow on trees, and he’s halfway decent)
Figueroa (very blah numbers in AA, he’s already 24…)
Godfrey (doubtful)
Still fairly certain him and Doolittle are locked on the roster until the season is over
or until they get activated of their respective DLs. My guess if Recker is the call is Powell or Blevins (again, but for real not the procedural DFA)
Other possibilities:
Someone could be traded, say Harden, then they could replace him with someone already on 40 man (Outman, Godfrey, etc).
Powell could be DFA’d/outrighted if already cleared waivers.
Makes the most sense to me
To see Barton transferred to the 60. Problem solved.
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is there a minor league 60 that has the same effect as the Major league one?
We yet enjoy little to be envied, but endure much to be pitied.-Thomas Dudley
Hey guys, not exactly A's fan here.
But your pitching killed our offence. Or maybe your ballpark. I’m not sure. Anyway, it was a good hard fought series, and good luck on your next one.
Once over the hill, you pick up speed.
Very classy, Streaky. Your pitching (and McDonald) severely injured OUR offense.
I can accept the split as an amicable resolution to this series. I’m glad that the games didn’t result in an international incident of some kind. Please assist in knocking out Boston. Best of luck.
by player20 on Aug 22, 2011 3:04 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I didn't see the game, but I have to question the premise that
holding the A’s to one hit is “more impressive” than holding the Jays to four hits.
Being wrong about something you’ve worked on is a blessing, not a curse, and people are so invested in being right that that gets lost. —Graham MacAree
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