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Friday, October 06, 2006

ALDS Game 3: A’s (2-0) at Twins (0-2) - 4:05 pm EDT on ESPN

MIN: B. Radke (12-9, 4.32)
OAK: D. Haren (14-13, 4.12)

NTNgod Posted: October 06, 2006 at 03:03 AM | 316 comment(s)
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   1. Danny Posted: October 06, 2006 at 08:27 AM (#2200379)
Yes, please.
Thomas gets offer: The A's have made a two-year contract proposal to designated hitter Frank Thomas, according to a team source. The deal could be worth up to $15 million with incentives, which are not a large percentage of the offer.

Thomas said a report out of Minnesota that he is looking for a three-year deal is inaccurate; he would accept a two-year offer.
   2. oaklandgabe Posted: October 06, 2006 at 09:23 AM (#2200411)
I just paid 220 dollars for 2 seats on the 3rd base line, row 17. Now I can't sleep. Let's Go A's! That is the real chant, by the way. The "Let's Go Oak-land" is only to be utilized when playing the Red Sox or Yankees and their fans begin their chant.
   3. oaklandgabe Posted: October 06, 2006 at 09:23 AM (#2200412)
I just paid 220 dollars for 2 seats on the 3rd base line, row 17. Now I can't sleep. Let's Go A's! That is the real chant, by the way. The "Let's Go Oak-land" is only to be utilized when playing the Red Sox or Yankees and their fans begin their chant.
   4. Dig!!! JMM Dig!!! Posted: October 06, 2006 at 09:42 AM (#2200426)
Given everything he's been through since being hit by the bus and how he was supposed to be Soriano first, there would be something particularly terrific about Jimenez being the hero today.
   5. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: October 06, 2006 at 11:48 AM (#2200523)
This has to end today. It's not even about winning anymore; it's about getting thousands of lazy, untalented people to stop beating this "clinching games" ######## into the ground.
   6. oaklandgabe Posted: October 06, 2006 at 12:23 PM (#2200554)
HEAR HEAR!
   7. Ivan Grushenko of HK in Tokyo Posted: October 06, 2006 at 02:27 PM (#2200714)
I'd rather give Thomas the chance at more years and more money and make more of it incentive based. His 2006 was basically a best case scenario with his health.
   8. TFTIO Posted: October 06, 2006 at 02:27 PM (#2200715)
I just hope Bradke has a good game. He can delay the inevitable or not; mostly, I want my last memory of him in a Twins uniform to be a good one.

And, needless to say, the winner of this series is the team to root for from here on out.
   9. Sam M. Posted: October 06, 2006 at 02:44 PM (#2200740)
And, needless to say, the winner of this series is the team to root for from here on out.

Hey!!!!! First of all, Tigers' fans might just have some reason to object to that, dontcha think? And second, some of us do have an actual rooting interest in one of the other, more objectionable teams left alive . . . .
   10. Vaux, A.B.D. Posted: October 06, 2006 at 02:47 PM (#2200744)
I think TFTIO is assuming the inevitable when it comes to the other ALDS.
   11. TFTIO Posted: October 06, 2006 at 02:49 PM (#2200749)
I'm all about yielding to the inevitable these days.
   12. Cris E Posted: October 06, 2006 at 02:53 PM (#2200754)
I think the Twins will get up for a Radke start. I'm not so sanguine about Game 4, to say nothing of 5, but I think they'll show up today.

I wonder what sort of base Frank ends up with. He's the sort of guy I offer half the base and twice the incentive to, so if he plays he makes more than he's worth. I have the feeling that as good as his health was this year one of the next two will be equally bad for him. Also, why would Beane let negotiations hit the paper one day after Frank hits two post-season HRs? Kind of puts him on the spot, no?
   13. The Jerry Royster Experience Posted: October 06, 2006 at 02:57 PM (#2200759)
I think TFTIO is assuming the inevitable when it comes to the other ALDS.

I'm no Yankee fan, but I think I'd root for them to beat the Twins.
   14. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: October 06, 2006 at 03:01 PM (#2200763)
Unsuspecting Pedestrian®, C
I miss two-hole Swisher®, CF
The Void®, RF
Odessey and Oracle®, DH
The Chasm®, 3B
Jay Payton has no cryptic nickname®, LF
General Burnside®, 1B
Porcelain Mormon's Stand-in®, SS
Untitled (How Does It Feel)®, 2B



"Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher®" only works in the third game of a series against the Twins®, P
   15. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: October 06, 2006 at 03:04 PM (#2200765)
If somebody with keys would be so kind as to edit a non-breaking space into that, my OCD and I would be very appreciative.
   16. Joe Bivens, Ditch Digger Posted: October 06, 2006 at 03:38 PM (#2200785)
I suspect the Yankees are in twubble. That's why I am predicting a big win for them in their game chatter.
   17. Cris E Posted: October 06, 2006 at 03:50 PM (#2200798)
Lineup
L. Castillo 2B
N. Punto 3B
J. Mauer C
M. Cuddyer RF
J. Morneau 1B
T. Hunter CF
R. White LF
J. Tyner DH
J. Bartlett SS



Tyner at DH again. My head hurts.
   18. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:00 PM (#2200812)
No! No! They all picked Oakland! No!
   19. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:04 PM (#2200820)
The Yankees will always have their 2006 AL East Championship banner
   20. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:04 PM (#2200821)
Ack! Ack! The game's starting & I can't find my glasses!
   21. Danny Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:04 PM (#2200823)
Blind squirrels.
   22. Bob Koo Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:04 PM (#2200824)
Any playoff team that starts Jason Tyner at DH does not deserve to win. That is all.
   23. TFTIO Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:04 PM (#2200826)
Tyner at DH again. My head hurts.

What are the hell?
   24. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:05 PM (#2200827)
How come no one does real time chatter?
   25. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:06 PM (#2200830)
Duke Castiglione. ESPN is officially bringing nothing to the table.
   26. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:06 PM (#2200831)
Have you noticed Morgan praising the A's all the time?
   27. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:08 PM (#2200834)
How come no one does real time chatter?

I, for one, am too stupid to figure it out.
   28. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:10 PM (#2200836)
I'm going to reiterate something I've been wondering since game one: Why the hell isn't Steve Stone on my television?
   29. Cris E Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:10 PM (#2200840)
Kubel must be too slow to be a tiny fish. Sheehan made a good point the other day about him: if you won't DH him, you won't play him in the field, and he can't PH in the ninth down by three then why is he on the roster?
   30. Padgett Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:11 PM (#2200842)
Throw strikes, Haren.
   31. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:12 PM (#2200844)
How about picking one camera angle to follow the pitches? Can you do that?
   32. The Jerry Royster Experience Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:13 PM (#2200845)
if you won't DH him, you won't play him in the field, and he can't PH in the ninth down by three then why is he on the roster?

Ron Gardenhire = Dusty Baker?
   33. Craig in MN Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:13 PM (#2200846)
I'd rather have Tyner at DH than Punto batting second.
   34. Padgett Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:14 PM (#2200848)
What's the weather like there?
   35. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:15 PM (#2200853)
Ron Gardenhire = Dusty Baker?

Ron Gardenhire > Dusty Baker, but just barely.
   36. Cris E Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:16 PM (#2200857)
I'd rather have Tyner at DH than Punto batting second.

amen brother
   37. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:16 PM (#2200856)
They better really #### Radke up is this is what Haren's bringing to the table.
   38. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:16 PM (#2200859)
The A's collapse begins.
   39. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:17 PM (#2200861)
The Chasm. Thank Christ.
   40. Cris E Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:18 PM (#2200863)
GDP?!? whodathunkit?

They do seem to do tht a lot, and it hurts me.
   41. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:18 PM (#2200864)
What's the weather like there?

Crappy.
   42. Bob Koo Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:21 PM (#2200871)
Sutcliffe's voice is truly insufferable.
   43. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:22 PM (#2200872)
The ESPN gun has Radke throwing 90. That's gotta be fiction, right?
   44. Cris E Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:22 PM (#2200873)
What's Radke's velocity at? When things really went to h*ll on him it was low 80s, but last outing it was a normal 85-88.
   45. Padgett Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:22 PM (#2200874)
Sutcliffe's voice is truly insufferable.

That's why I have the volume on "4" -- just loud enough to hear the crowd noise if something good happens.
   46. Cris E Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:25 PM (#2200876)
That must be a Fox!Fox!Fox! gun. If tihs is a sign of things to come Haren should be throwing 105mph by the third ining.
   47. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:25 PM (#2200878)
I'm not sure if the yakking about Hunter is better or worse than the coffee business.
   48. dreamydave Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:25 PM (#2200879)
how does radke look today?
   49. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:29 PM (#2200885)
I was at the game the last time the A's had a 2-0 lead in a division series. A lonely Yankee fan amidst 35,000 execrable mass-holes, rooting for the A's just to be a dick. Maybe my bad Karma cost them the game...that or the comically unbelievable sequence of retarded baserunning gaffes.

I was right over the right field bullpen, and in the 9th inning watching Harden warm up I was quite impressed by this "hisssssssPOP!" of his pitches. I remember thinking, "The Sox won't hit this phenom."

Trot Nixon proved me wrong, yet again.
   50. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:30 PM (#2200886)
They keep talking about the Hunter play, and they're ignoring the most salient fact: He's lost a step, but he's trying to play like he hasn't. It's a sad thing to see, but you can't just ignore it and hope it will go away.

Anyway, I was trying to rank Rick Suttcliffe on my list of Least Favorite Baseball Morons on ESPN. I think he comes in just behind Morgan and ahead of Berman. If we include FOX, he bugs me less than Tim McCarver and more than Thom Brenneman, but it's close. So, the complete list goes like this:

1) Tim McCarver
2) Joe Morgan
3) Rick Suttcliffe
4) Chris Berman
5) Thom Brenneman

Those are the five guys who could drop dead tomorrow and I wouldn't shed a tear.

In fact, I'd be happy -- I might get Steve Stone. How do you employ the best color man in all of sports, and during the playoffs you stick us with all your biggest morons? It boggles the mind.
   51. Cris E Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:30 PM (#2200887)
"Sacrificed" like long fly ball or like bunt?
   52. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:33 PM (#2200889)
There is absolutely no reason ever not to throw Tyner a strike. Haren throws hard enough to knock the bat out of his hands.
   53. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:33 PM (#2200890)
Walking Jason Tyner is not recommended.
   54. Joe Bivens, Ditch Digger Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:34 PM (#2200891)
Trot Nixon proved me wrong, yet again.

Well, you're used to that, so it's no biggie.
   55. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:35 PM (#2200892)
That was a mean pitch.
   56. The Jerry Royster Experience Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:35 PM (#2200893)
In fact, I'd be happy -- I might get Steve Stone. How do you employ the best color man in all of sports, and during the playoffs you stick us with all your biggest morons?

Steve Stone might be the greatest genius in baseball history, and I'd never know. His voice is so terrible my brain automatically shuts down when he starts talking, and all I hear is a faint honking.
   57. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:37 PM (#2200897)
Bivens, wasn't that the exactly the point of the words "yet again."
   58. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:38 PM (#2200899)
His voice is so terrible my brain automatically shuts down when he starts talking, and all I hear is a faint honking.

I kind of like his voice. I find it . . . soothing. He does sort of honk, though, doesn't he?
   59. Dig!!! JMM Dig!!! Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:40 PM (#2200902)
CHASM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
   60. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:40 PM (#2200903)
Big hitter, the Lama. Long.
   61. Danny Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:40 PM (#2200904)
Chasm!
   62. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:40 PM (#2200905)
We had the Jeremy Giambi non slide, the Eric Byrnes non-touch of home, and the Miguel Tejada "stop running" play. It seems that if the A's can make it through this Game 3 without doing anything comically stupid on the base paths, they could win.
   63. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:40 PM (#2200906)
I think that's going to be a problem all game. That was a crap pitch, and Radke's been building up to it for a while now.
   64. Joe Bivens, Ditch Digger Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:42 PM (#2200908)
Bivens, wasn't that the exactly the point of the words "yet again."

I don't know how hard you take being wrong all the time. I'm trying to help here.
   65. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:42 PM (#2200909)
Hey, D'Angelo Jimenez is on the A's? How did that escape my notice?
   66. Padgett Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:42 PM (#2200910)
In no universe was that a strike.
   67. SugarBear Blanks Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:43 PM (#2200911)
Any network that would play Rick Sutcliffe over Steve Stone in the analyst's chair deserves to have the rights to baseball unilaterally snatched away without recourse.

Under what possible criteria does one ask and answer oneself thusly, "My choices are Rick Sutcliffe and Steve Stone; I'll choose ... Rick Sutcliffe"?
   68. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:43 PM (#2200912)
He keeps getting it up. The pitch to Chavez was up, and he's missed high twice to Swisher. That's a bad idea if you're topping out in the high 80s.
   69. The Jerry Royster Experience Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:44 PM (#2200914)
Hey, D'Angelo Jimenez is on the A's? How did that escape my notice?

He started the season on the Rangers, they cut him, and the A's picked him up I think sometime in June.
   70. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:46 PM (#2200916)
Under what possible criteria does one ask and answer oneself thusly, "My choices are Rick Sutcliffe and Steve Stone; I'll choose ... Rick Sutcliffe"?

I'm pretty sure there's a conspiracy involving ESPN and FOX. They're attempting to collect all of the most irritating ######## who are willing to broadcast baseball, and put them on the air. This is in service of driving viewers away from MLB, so the league will fold and the NFL can institute a 45-game, year-round schedule.
   71. Banta Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:46 PM (#2200917)
Under what possible criteria does one ask and answer oneself thusly, "My choices are Rick Sutcliffe and Steve Stone; I'll choose ... Rick Sutcliffe"?

You need someone to finish a whole keg of beer and you're running out of time?
   72. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:46 PM (#2200918)
Anyone ever have chicken and waffles? What a crazy dish!
   73. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:48 PM (#2200920)
That pitch was up, too. Luckily, Marco Scutaro sucks.

So of course, someone on ESPN just called him an "unheralded MVP" of the A's. My ass. My ass, my ass, my ass!!!!

GRRRRRRRRR.
   74. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:49 PM (#2200921)
Mar·co!
   75. Dig!!! JMM Dig!!! Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:49 PM (#2200922)
SCUTARO!!!!!!!!!!
   76. Danny Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:49 PM (#2200923)
Scutaro!
   77. Padgett Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:49 PM (#2200924)
Payton + Scutaro = awesomeness.
   78. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:49 PM (#2200925)
Scutaro!
   79. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:49 PM (#2200926)
So now he makes me look stupid as I'm posting. #### you, Scutaro.
   80. The Jerry Royster Experience Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:49 PM (#2200927)
I'm pretty sure there's a conspiracy involving ESPN and FOX. They're attempting to collect all of the most irritating ######## who are willing to broadcast baseball, and put them on the air.

You know that the second that David Wells retires, he'll be in a booth somewhere.

I don't mind irritating loudmouths doing sports talk. I get that they improve ratings. Just keep them out of the booth during games, please.
   81. Joe C isn't Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:49 PM (#2200930)
That pitch was up too.
   82. Urban Faber Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:50 PM (#2200931)
Has Radke's arm fallen off yet?
   83. Cris E Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:50 PM (#2200932)
How's Radke looking? Let me know when someone gets up in the pen.
   84. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:50 PM (#2200933)
Man, the A's are gonna do it. Good for them.
   85. Srul Itza Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:50 PM (#2200934)
Get angry at him later. He got the hit when it was needed here.

At the rate this is going, the bull pens are probably going to decide this game.
   86. Dig!!! JMM Dig!!! Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:52 PM (#2200938)
the A's picked (Jimenez) up (in) think sometime in June.

And he has spent most of his time in the organization in Sacramento.


Scutaro has a RBI double in every game so far.
   87. Padgett Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:52 PM (#2200939)
Man, the A's are gonna do it. Good for them.

Your anti-jinxes won't work in these parts.
   88. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:53 PM (#2200940)
So is this one of those games where Haren struggles early, only to find his release point and retire 17 in a row?
   89. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:54 PM (#2200943)
I'm not anti-jinxin. I was actually rooting for the A's.
   90. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:55 PM (#2200945)
How's Radke looking? Let me know when someone gets up in the pen.

He looks awful. He's been up in the zone -- the homer to Chavez, at least two, if not three, pitches to Swisher, two pitches to Scutaro, the second of which went fot the double. He's also thrown about a zillion pitches through two. I think Guerrier will be in this game by the fifth, if not earlier.

Luckily for Minnesota, Haren hasn't looked good either.
   91. Dig!!! JMM Dig!!! Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:55 PM (#2200949)
Retiring the first batter of the inning: it's a good thing.
   92. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:56 PM (#2200950)
The A's have so much hair. It's like 1973 out there.
   93. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:57 PM (#2200951)
The one time falling off the mound ever worked out for him.
   94. Padgett Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:57 PM (#2200952)
I'm not anti-jinxin. I was actually rooting for the A's.

Just makin' sure.

Credit to Haren for not overthrowing there to beat Punto.
   95. Dig!!! JMM Dig!!! Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:58 PM (#2200954)
1-2-3 shutdown inning: it's a good thing.
   96. Urban Faber Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:58 PM (#2200955)
The A's have so much hair. It's like 1973 out there.

Except that they're running out of second basemen. That never would have happened back then.
   97. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: October 06, 2006 at 04:59 PM (#2200957)
I am terrified that my head will soon be orange and have thick black lines all over it.
   98. Dig!!! JMM Dig!!! Posted: October 06, 2006 at 05:00 PM (#2200959)
So is this one of those games where Haren struggles early, only to find his release point and retire 17 in a row?

From your fingers to whoever's ears....
   99. The Jerry Royster Experience Posted: October 06, 2006 at 05:00 PM (#2200960)
Except that they're running out of second basemen.

I'd make another Dusty Baker joke here, but two in one thread that has nothing to do with him seems a bit much.
   100. Padgett Posted: October 06, 2006 at 05:01 PM (#2200961)
Except that they're running out of second basemen. That never would have happened back then.

With Campaneris out there, they pretty much couldn't have run out of anything.
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