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Oakland Athletics (22-15) @ Texas Rangers (17-20), Saturday, May 10, 2008, 8:05pm

OAK: Dana Eveland (24, LHP, 3-2, 3.05)
TEX: Kevin Millwood (33, RHP, 2-3, 4.94)

The Primer Chimp Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:00 AM | 42 comment(s)
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1. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 07:23 PM (#2776203)

C  This obviously is not working®          .275  .340  .328
1B Neither is this®                        .238  .342  .331
LF Skylab...it crashed to earth, see?®     .253  .423  .411
DH Odessey and Oracle®                     .271  .407  .354
RF I hate this fuckin' guy already®        .274  .301  .385
SS Porcelain Mormon®                       .246  .318  .366
2B Oedipus®                                .228  .315  .359
3B Burned up on re-entry; no free tacos®   .225  .379  .350
CF Animal Mother®                          .275  .337  .350



P  Eveland Incarnate®

2. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: May 10, 2008 at 07:38 PM (#2776209)

Based on these numbers, Hannahan should be either first or second. I'd like to bat Brown somewhere other than fifth, but he has the second best SLG in the lineup. Basically everyone should bat in the bottom third, but that's not possible.

3. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 07:43 PM (#2776213)

Buck's 3-5 yesterday (bunt, line drive to center, homer to center) provides a glimmer of hope.

4. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: May 10, 2008 at 07:58 PM (#2776225)

Rotoworld says Buck has been activated and optioned to AAA because:

"It was a given that manager Bob Geren was going to keep Emil Brown in the lineup regularly, so if Buck was going to play, it would have been at the expense of Jack Cust or Frank Thomas."

That's just wrong. Very wrong.

5. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 08:02 PM (#2776228)

You've gotta be shitting me.

6. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 08:04 PM (#2776230)

The good news is that he's not wasting time in the minors on rehab when they could be saving major league service by optioning him. And that's the extent of the good news.

7. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 08:26 PM (#2776251)

Aww, Jesus fricking Christ, how about keeping the ball out of the middle of the plate?

8. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 08:34 PM (#2776258)

I can't stand the roving interview-the-yokels guy.

9. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: May 10, 2008 at 08:36 PM (#2776261)

I don't know. I wouldn't mind being interviewed on TV. Especially by Jaymee Sire.

10. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 08:38 PM (#2776264)

No, you don't need to put out a "Nerd Alert\" if you're going to start talking about All-Time Best Batting Average In a Given Park. Nerds know that doesn't mean anything.

11. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 08:39 PM (#2776269)

I would have to call attention to her ridiculous name. It wouldn't end well.

12. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 08:42 PM (#2776275)

Yeah, why would you want to keep that guy from playing center for you most days.

13. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: May 10, 2008 at 08:44 PM (#2776278)

I bet you could come up with something clever yet non-insulting about her name.

14. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: May 10, 2008 at 08:44 PM (#2776283)

I have to think Denorfia is still not healthy. I see no other reason to keep Sweeney in the majors.

15. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: May 10, 2008 at 08:58 PM (#2776298)

Yea! A run. Emil is indeed clutch.

16. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 08:58 PM (#2776299)

Brown padding his RISP stats with an infield hit that had no hope of scoring a run.

17. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 08:58 PM (#2776300)

Anyway, thanks for the gift, Ian.

18. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:08 PM (#2776316)

Gah, Connect Four.

19. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:13 PM (#2776324)

Hey an OF who can hit...wonder whether they'd consider trading him

20. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:14 PM (#2776328)

Perhaps for a very tall relief pitcher...

21. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:17 PM (#2776336)

Like a Soyuz capsule...

22. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:23 PM (#2776346)

Soon-to-be-31 Brandon Inge is not a young player, it just seems like he should be because he wasn't remotely useful until 2004.

23. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:28 PM (#2776351)

I can see the Tigers trading Guillen for pitching though.

24. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:30 PM (#2776353)

Esasky was traded for Benzinger.

25. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:32 PM (#2776355)

It's a good thing he got his big payday right before the vertigo ended his career.

26. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:34 PM (#2776357)

He was pretty good in '89 though.

27. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:37 PM (#2776367)

That he was. Had kind of a Saberhagian alternating thing going on.

28. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:38 PM (#2776368)

Saberhagean, maybe.

29. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:39 PM (#2776369)

GA pinch hitting for Rivera with the bases loaded?

30. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:41 PM (#2776371)

Three cheers for Carlos Pena, and three more for Mike Scioscia.

31. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:45 PM (#2776377)

Upton never sacrifices against us!

32. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:51 PM (#2776396)

Ryan Sweeney has more RBI than Evan Longoria

33. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 09:56 PM (#2776413)

Huzzah-by-proxy.

34. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 10:17 PM (#2776419)

What happened to the dadgum jetstream?

35. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 10:38 PM (#2776430)

And Jairo is vincible after all. Or at least Embree is.

36. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 11:00 PM (#2776441)

Good to have you back, Keith. Pfft.

37. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 11:01 PM (#2776442)

And, of course, Brown contributed by kicking the ball around, proving once again that he's entirely worthless in every respect.

38. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: May 10, 2008 at 11:05 PM (#2776445)

This makes me think about how Bill King used to hate Texas.

39. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 11:14 PM (#2776451)

The decision to pinch-run in the seventh never comes back to haunt a manager.

40. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 11:17 PM (#2776453)

Thanks for showin' up, Emil.

41. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: May 10, 2008 at 11:18 PM (#2776454)

I wouldn't have given Cust much chance against Wilson either. Anyway...ugh. A loss.

42. Greg Maddux School of Reflexive Profanity Posted: May 10, 2008 at 11:20 PM (#2776457)

Cust had at least an 80% chance of perhaps drawing a walk, possibly.

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