Bay Bridge Showdown
“Many people are saying” that this is the best Oakland A’s team in the Billy Beane era. High praise. I’m not too worried about them tonight because we have our rock going for us. Win day. Johnny C Time. Let’s go!!!!!
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mm could be–likely helped by fact Astros aren’t as good as they have been recent years either so A’s could take division. so far hitting/runs scored is only league average but they whacked around Angels pitching which isn’t very good at all. so could be bad sign as some of their struggling hitters Semien Chapman Olson coming alive.
I think their pitching is at its best too with current roster, though again Angels big guns Trout and Rendon lit them up in recent 3 game series.
That Bay Bridge Series trophy looks like Godzilla ate some metal and shat it out.
lol POTD!
Mac, agree didn’t like LeVert’s last shot. Liked to have seen him take McCollum to the hoop with chance to draw foul or dish if help came. 2 turnovers on previous possessions didn’t help either.
Hope your right with Johnny Shimmy tonight, Flav. When you look at ERAs and Ks for each starter, on paper it does not look promising for the Orange and Black, but that is why they play ’em.
Agree with Zumiee on the BB trophy. That thing is a turd.
Personally, I think it’s awesome…
Well, maybe turd is a bit harsh, but think they could have done better.
Chi, I have Chris Berman story too. Me and 2 friends went to Hawaii (free tickets courtesy of my wife who worked for Continental) to see the NFL pro bowl in 1997. We got there a couple days early and were staying at the Hilton Hawaiian. The 31 story building. One friend crashed out, but me and Dave went down to the patio bar first thing. We are sitting there, and I say to Dave “check it out. It’s Chris Berman.” He was with his wife so we didn’t want to bug them, but she left, and I said “let’s say hi.” Dave’s from Jersey and isn’t exactly calm and collected. He’s loud and in your face. I say “dude, play it cool.” We get up and walk over, and of course Dave’s “Oh my God! It’s Chris Berman!!! SportsCenter! ESPN! The Swami!”
I shrugged my shoulders and say “Hey, you can take the boy out of Jersey . . . . ” and he laughs and invites us to sit down. We sat there for a good 3 hours talking sports, drinking, and hanging out, We of course were in full 49ers gear, and he talked fondly of being at the Catch game and how great Montana was. What really surprised me was he said he wasn’t a very big football fan, but that his whole thing was being a baseball. He fell in love with Willie Mays and the New York Giants as a kid and was the biggest Giants fan around. Had a blast talking about all those 60s and 70 Giants teams, the dark days of the 80s, and the Bonds era that had just started.
Did you take Chris down to the railroad after and show him your padlock trick?
Back, back, back, back….
LULZ!!!!
If there is one guy who could use a high speed padlock to the kisser—it’s Berman.
Great story. Never liked espn much but always thought Berman gave both the Niners and Giants props. Even when we sucked.
Mookie Betts is 27 and he has hit 3 homers in a game 6 times. What a fucking joke. So he must be a better power hitter than guys like Bonds and Mays and Aaron???? This ball and these ballparks are ridiculous.
And from the other perspective…………has anybody besides Pablo and Kevin Freaking Elster ever hit 3 HR in a game in our wacky ballpark? I don’t think Barry ever did—which is wild.
Great trivia question I saw yesterday—who is the last Oriole to hit at least 25 HR’s and steal at least 25 bases in the same season?
Don Baylor?
Brady Anderson?
No and no. Brady was my guess. DId both in different years, but never in the same year.
WillieD is smoking hot with his guess.
Bonds hit 3 homers in a game 4 times. Once at the Stick, twice in Colorado and one time in Atlanta.
Having MLB approved juiced baseball makes that old argument that the records are sacred, kind of moot doesn’t it?
Based solely on your Baylor clue I’ll go with Reggie…
Surprised to learn Berman grew up in New York…never noticed the accent much. Where is Irvington?
I sometimes watch Lone star Law on animal planet, showing Texas Fish/Game wardens. Even within Texas some accents lot more pronounced than others.
Berman is few years younger than I am so he must not have seen Mays til he was in SF. Interesting he developed such fondness for left coast teams/players.
My nephew, known to the family as Scoreboard Junior, had a radio broadcast on his device this morning rather than sports talk. Guy was talking and I asked: “Hey, what’s with the New York accent.” “That’s Bernie,” he smiled. He’s not that much into politics but all his buds are Sandernistas. After how many years in Vermont, Bernie still sounds like he just got off the boat from Brooklyn. Guess you can take the boy outta Brooklyn, but you can’t take Brooklyn outta the kid.
Same-same was Charlie Okretich, who with his spouse, Dianner (as he called her) invited me over to their house to watch the Royal wedding of Charles and Diana. “Dianner”, of Lithuanian descent, had a more homogenized accent, but Chaahlie, growing up in an Italian neighborhood ,probably after several years living in Northern Minnesota ,was constantly asked the same question by the local lutefiskers, “Where you from, den?”
Yeah it’s funny with accents both my parents were from the south originally, my dad Texas, my mom Tennessee before meeting each other in California and settling down.I never thought they had that much of an accent, but everyone of my friends are friends of my parents said, I love the accent what state are u from growing up?All the way up till they’re passings people would say they sure had southern grace personality’s..
Frank Robinson?
No sir
Accents are interesting. For one thing, the California West Coast “accent” became the national accent for broadcasting. If you want to be a national news anchor or be a national spokesperson for a product, they’re going to be looking for the West Coast accent. (Is there a West Coast accent? What is it?) No southern accent, no East Coast accent, no flattened-out Midwest accent (Chicago pronounced as Chicaahhgo.) No Scandinavian upper Midwest accent, the Sarah Palin accent. Trump has some remnants of his East Coast accent. When he admonished people to wash their hands, he said it as “Wash ya hands.” He pronounces “huge” as “yuge.” None of that is a big deal. It’s too bad there aren’t more regional accents at the national level. I’m not sure why that happened. The West Coast accent is just more plain and generic, I guess.
FDR’s accent (and Katherine Hepburn’s) has come to be known as the “Mid-Atlantic” accent, meaning it sounds like some middle ground between East Coast U.S. and British. The Thurston Howell III accent, that usually means patrician wealth. They created their own accent.
Some years back, listening to Public Radio, there was a discussion of regional accents and otherwise. They noted that the ideal accent for American broadcasters was the totally homogenized, toneless one that is found in a narrow band of a couple northeast-central Iowa counties deep (around Mason City and up to the Mn. border )and a county or two into the same longitude in Minnesota. It seems like the ca 1850’s settlers settled into a compromise, with its blending of middle states Methodist, a fair larding of Germans and Irish and a whole lot of ultimately deracinated Norskies around Albert Lea, Mn.
Gonvick and Gully, my two little hometowns “up nort”, about 87 miles south of the Manitoba boarder and 90 miles east of Grand Forks, N.D., though sprinkled with a few Yankees and a handful of Luxemburger families, was so heavily Norskie, that some folks even gave Swedes funny looks when I was growing up in the 50’s. In fact, one of the 1896 homesteaders there was a gent from the Vasa region of Finland and his homestead included much of the east end of Gonvick (built in 1910 when the Soo Line Railroad came through). The town got named after a Norsk family, the Gonvick’s who had a homestead about a mile north of town, instead of one of its two first settlers, Andrew Soderlund, of both ethnic Swedish and Finnish heritage, who happened to be my maternal-maternal great-grandfather. His name locally was “Andrew Finn.”
Norway had just escaped from under the Swedish Crown in 1905, where they had been stuck for 90 years, when the victors against Napoleon, decided that to the victors belonged the spoils. So there was still some bad blood hanging around. Even the Luxumburgers, staunch Roman Catholics, were more acceptable back in the early settlement years than the Swedes. Of course, physical attraction between the sexes often falls along the lines of opposites attract; so that after a couple generations the area was teeming with that phenomenon called in that neighborhood “mixed marriages”, where Norse boys found Svensk girls attractive and vice-versa.
Though when revisiting Manhattan in the Fall of ’72 I rather readily segued into a Mid-Atlantic accent, to the point where one clubber was curious as to which private finishing school I had attended, returning up “nort” in a couple of weeks I reverted to the local “Scandihoovian Accident” when hitting the neighborhood watering-holes. Now, almost 50 years later, there are only two such hangouts where I can comfortably let it all hang out–mostly to show solidarity with the relative handful who have been faithful to tradition–and in part, to show “dose Junksters a ting or too.”
It’s interesting to me that some parts of the nation pronounce the word “vehicle” with an audible “h” and some leave the “h” silent.
Love that song. 70s funk at it’s finest.
Well, except that it was the 60s and it was a bunch of white guys.
I have a yuge spotify playlist of my favorite 70s funk tunes and this made the list.
And I always loved hearing Kennedy say “Cuber”
Though not accent, per se, rather linguistic sloppiness, the vast majority of Americans pronounce the second month as Feb-you-ary instead of using an elided “r” which is barely detectable in very slightly enunciating the correct usage/spelling.
Then there was Madame Toots, from Rockwell City,Iowa, which proudly advertises itself as the Belt Buckle of the Corn-belt, who really enjoys “warshing” clothes and every now and again, phones her cousins in the State of “Warshington”.
The eliding of letters is likely more common than adding a letter to a word–particularly outside of the South. One such, which really confuses other folk, is the elided “H” in Thor or Thursday (Thorsdag in the Scandinavian tongues). To lazy or uninitiated ears, when properly pronounced, Scandies may sound like they are simply saying “Tor”– to a discerning ear, the elided “H” is detectable.
We Scandihoovians may sound crude to the unilingual ear, but there are certain subtleties in our ways, though they are probably not as consistently evident as French pronunciation–as in “Bon Jour” which comes out more like “Bowzhoo”…both nasal and elided, to be sure. And don’t even get me started on “Baahstin” when it comes to nasal inflections/infections? Maybe its the foggy climate.
I recently saw an interview with Paul McCartney, and with his regional accent from a particular part of England, at the end of words with an “ng,” he pronounces a hard G. When he says “song,” it comes out “sahn-guh,” sort of two syllables.
The things that fascinate me! 🙂
Paul Blair?
Loved that guy he was a remarkable center fielder!
He once said the only way a ball gets over my head in CF if it’s a HR!!
Another good guess, but no.
Again, WillieD was red hot with Don Baylor…..
Doesn’t sound a bit like Punter Hence playing left-field.
Ken Singleton?
No. Good guess. Good under the radar player.
Jenkins said according to Baer Giants will have names of back of uni next season. Also not yet committed to closing off portholes in RF next season.
So 11 home games next 2 weeks–like to see if SF LHs can take some advantage, or not.
What’s Baer uni say “Oh my god,Help” cries from Pam a hysterical wife..
Eddie Murray?are Bobby Grich?
No and no, but I dig the guesses.
Mark Belanger?Don;t remember him being much of a power guy tho.
Yeah, that’s a reach Chuck. I doubt Belanger (who I always dug for some reason) hit 25 dingers in his career.
(I’d set the over/under at 14.5 fyi)
Yeah, the prototypical slick fielding light hitting SS. Liked him as a kid as well. That would leave Brooksie out as well.
Reggie Jackson.
We have a winner! Nice pull Bozo. I would have never guessed that in a million years and the O’s were my mistress team growing up in the 70’s. (Since replaced by the Mets)
I was going to say Rufus T. Firefly…
Dude, I completely forgot Reggie played one year with the Birds. You gave up the Baylor clue who did it in 75. So I cheated using the juiced clue and some banging noise from a trash can and looked at the 76 roster.
Wow. Just watching Jackson coming up with the A’s I followed his career pretty closely but the Oriole season i don’t really remember.
C’mon Loo………..I know you know the answer to this.
say it….Say It……SAY IT! (Sam Kinnison ala Old School voice)
I nailed it a few minutes ago up above before I got down this far.
The Kinison scene is outstanding!
20 career dingers for Belanger fyi, who I had forgotten has long since passed away. Died in 1998 at age 54.
“Only the good die young” echoes the soon to be 76 Y.O.–that is, if the rains don’t come heavy and the crick don’t rise, said hopefully.
My Singleton guess wasn’t much better, he had 21 career stolen bases!
I remember Reggie with the O’s, but I thought it was only for a half-season, didn’t know he was there for a whole season.
Always loved this scene:
Damm I had a brain fart, I forgot Reggie even played a season in Baltimore!
Good job Clown 🤡
And nice trivia? Dog!
Ripken
Guess I need to update the page more often
Just now coming in over MLBTR: Mets pull Jacob de Grom from tonight’s start because of a “Hot spot on his right middle-finger.” Inquiring minds might wanna know of the situation which incurred that owwie.
Now I’m seeing “stiff neck.” That’s something Pads’ Paddack should have from all the bombs he gave up last night.
These new juiced balls are fucking with pitchers. Wasn’t it Cueto who said the stitching was lower or tighter?
Having been away from the scene for nearly four years,I hadn’t caught up on the juiced balls until getting hold of some of MadBum’s stats. Biggest difference for him, for Cahill, for Smardj and many others has been that aberration that baseball’s PTB instigated at least partly because “chicks love the long-ball”. That may be true with a number of demographics, particularly youngsters of both sexes, but in words reminiscent of our late, belatedly beloved and ever irascible Twin, it was a stoopid move.
The subtle inner beauty of baseball is the harmonics of balance. Juiced balls take even more balance outta the game than even the Dink Hitter Rule which has been swabbed over the National League. Call me a traditionalist and even an old fogie, but a game that loses its sense of balance ultimately collapses from its own dead weight.
Well said, Stix. They think this is what their target demographic wants to see.
Are they right?
Look at what they’ve done to basketball with the 3 pointer. Same shit…
The stitching on the ball is lower because of being tighter now. And many pitchers are saying the ball itself is harder. So, to dig their fingers in for breaking pitches, they are having to press their fingers harder than they used to, and it’s causing more finger problems. And if you press a finger, you feel tendons straining all the way to your elbow.
The yarn is thinner, probably changed material, so it’s lower and pulls a bit more tightly on the hide. A retired nuclear physicist who disassembled a number of pre-2016 and post-2016 baseballs found that couple years back. (Luckily, mlb certifies many baseballs by date hit or date hit out, etc.) Maybe other changes have occurred since. Pitchers developed blisters early on from the lower profile stitching. The same people stitched the baseballs in Costa Rica by hand before and after 2016.
Musta been great talking Giants with Berman, but for me nothing compares to finding someone who fluently speaks the foreign language of horse racing…
Yeah, I think “warshing” is used a lot in the U.S. I’ve heard it over the years.
I’m fascinated by how some people say “important” with a barely heard first “t” and some people really hit that first “t” and say “imporTant.” Or a hard “d” on “coulDn’t.” I say those two words with the first “t” and “d” the soft way, and whenever I hear it the other way, it always kind of jumps out at me, and I wonder why there’s the difference.
My first thought is to think: well, my way is the right way. But neither way could be better than the other. It makes no real difference which way they are said.
I have a horrific Brooklyn accent.
People from out of town are kind of amused by it.
No matter where you’re from, I think “twenty” is very tough to pronounce.
I’ll never get past twunny.
Except to get to twunny one…
The word “masks” is not easy. If I try to say it several times in a row, it turns to gibberish.
I tend to word sentences in a way that I can use “mask,” singular.
BF’s use of the phrase in quotes “Many people are saying” is a reference to one of Trump’s gaslighting tactics. Trump will say some slanderous lies, but first use the phrase “many people are saying” as a way of giving himself cover. He puts the slander and lies out into the public sphere, then kind of sits back and sees if it gets traction. If he gets called repeatedly on a lie, he just coyly says “some people are saying it.” He’ll never say who is saying it, because it’s usually from a right-wing rat-hole somewhere.
And by the time the media has debunked the lie completely, he’s already told ten more lies. It’s all part of the gaslighting strategy of wearing the public down.
I lived in San Luis Obispo until I was 8, then moved to Woodland, just outside Sacramento. Right away I noticed the “warshing” machine pronunciation you’d hear in Woodland from time to time Always struck me as odd.
Later I dated a girl who claimed my friends and I had a “Woodland accent.” which we thought was hilarious. She claimed we all had an odd way of saying the word “tennis.”
There are some holdover language things from the Grapes of Wrath migration to the California Central Valley.
My dad was from Arkansas originally. He didn’t have any trace of a southern accent, by the time I knew him; but every once in a great while a different pronunciation would come out. Instead of saying “ruined” he would say “ruint.”
my dad moved to California in 1961 after living his entire life in Virginia. People say, to this day, he still has a thick southern accent even after all these years in Ca. I honestly can’t hear it he sounds like he’s from California to me. San Dawg has met him maybe he can shed some light on this.
I never got pronouncing the ‘t’ in often. Yuge drives me nuts. Even before the commander in thief came around.
And one thing people always seem to miss is Trump saying ‘bigly.’ He’s saying ‘big league’ the baseball term.
As a kid it was always funny to me to visit the cousins in Chicago and they all that had that flat midwest twang.
Al Michaels must drive you crazy too, cuz he really does that yuge thing. “Kenny Youston with the interception for the Redskins”
Yup!!
Let’s knock-out the Fucking A’s!
1. Mike Yastrzemski (L) CF
2. Donovan Solano (R) 2B
3. Evan Longoria (R) 3B
4. Wilmer Flores (R) 1B
5. Hunter Pence (R) RF
6. Darin Ruf (R) LF
7. Pablo Sandoval (S) DH
8. Chadwick Tromp (R) C
9. Mauricio Dubon (R) SS
No Belt in the 4 hole…hell, no Belt! No Craw. No Pence. Boom!
I can’t remember if it was voice, mannerisms, or the strong resemblance to Bobby Bowden—probably a combo of all 3—but yeah, I got a strong southern vibe from your dad.
And if you repeat any word over and over it turns to gibberish. Went to Boston years ago, and it was crazy how many different versions of their accent there was.Very few pepole hwoever spoke with the stupid-thick retaaahded ones.
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/donnies-party/n36921
We have some great family memories of going to visit our cousins in Iowa. Yes, there were some voice and vocabulary differences, but mainly they were tough dudes who kind of looked at us like candy asses from California whose mom made us wear black shoes and button down shirts to church on Sunday. Those guys all joined the military and chose situations that gave them a chance to see combat action.
One time my mom brought a quiche to a family gathering and one of them announced “I ain’t gonna eat no egg pie,” which has since become a legendary line in family lore.
I tell you what though—if I would have ended up in a foxhole, I would have loved to have one of those Iowa cousins in there with me.
That egg pie line belongs in a movie…
You are the egg man. I am the walrus.
Another annoyance is people that don’t pronounce the g in words ending in ‘ing’. Standing becomes standeen. Walkeen. Walkin’ is fine. walkeen? Right out.
One of my favorite scenes from fellow Joiseyan Joe Pesci:
Yeah I cracked up be time when Pesci said youts and Herman Munster come sack and says what word did you say, and Pesci says what word? And Herman says what is a yute? I meant to say youth judge..
Baseball’s should be flying out of Oracle tonight. 102 degrees right now where I live in San Carlos, a cool 93 in SF. I will say 5 Bombs minimum leave the yard..
with the wind tunnel shut and the wind coming from the west, bombs will burst, except for those that land in the cove. But the water around them briefly will boil.
Oakland’s core African American accent reaches across generations to Texas. You hear it most often when someone pleasantly says: “Have a gut won.” Oakland slang is famous — not just hyphy and hella but the cuts. That’s a gut won.
yes lot of black Texans whose families migrated West for jobs WW11.
Hank says Slater has flexor strain in elbow. Might be able to DH but not play OF.
Put Slater on the 10 day to heal properly and bring up Davis!!
Hence and Ruf in corners could be interesting. maybe Dubon moves to CF at some point and at least one can be replaced. Like to Ruf show some power.
my grandfather who was in SF during the “fire and quake” as he always put it used to pronounce name of the City something like “SAMP-en-CISCO.” Also used to use vaguely German idioms I never heard elsewhere, such as when grandma was being a little skittish and he’d wink at me and say, “take it easel. don’t get excitel.”
Both of my parents were native German speakers who learned English as adult immigrants. I guess it’s a typical phenomenon, but I could not hear their accents unless I forced myself to listen very closely. And I can even mimic Sergeant Schultz pretty good.
Pence, Ruf, and Tromp; and take a domp.
The guy drafted right after Bart just got his first big league RBI for the Phils…
Wow, did you see the misplay by the Philly CF?
How many AAA ABs does he have?
None, Highest was AA, 270 PAs.
Frankie Montas has been scratched for tonight’s game due to upper back tightness. Jesús Luzardo will start in his place.
Don’t fuck with the Jesus
Phillies outfield, OMG 😲😲😲…
“if I would have ended up in a foxhole, I would have loved to have one of those Iowa cousins in there with me.” Not me, I’ll take Kapler and his effete analytics everytime over a bunch a dumbass midwest hicks.
Kapler might be too afraid of getting some dust on his peaking biceps in that foxhole. Don’t underestimate the resiliency of the midwest hicks. Those fuckers take it to the death on the mat…..
Yeah, in an actual foxhole I might be grateful for SD’s anti-mask cousins, assuming I wasn’t the target of their sharpshootin’ ways . . . .
this dude is one of my all time top 25 fav Giants. I couldn’t tell you why. Anyway, this move is a baller move on his part, fuck this shit, tap out if you’re a Cardinal with underlying conditions.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29663900/cards-coach-willie-mcgee-opts-season-st-louis-gets-6-doubleheaders
good for him, stay safe. Very cool player, played HS ball in Richmond, drafted by Yanks traded to STL after few seasons in minors. Rest is hist.
on wiki is great pic of him in Yanks Nashville Sounds uni, batting RH.
Looks like the Giants screwed up trading Burch Smith to Oakland. The guy has been unreal retiring 31 of 36 batters, ERA .000 10 innings pitched 10 K’s and only 1 walk as teams are batting .114 against him. Would of been nice to still have in are SHIT BP.
Birch Bayh was a very cool senator…
He hits a Longo one.
Mets down 5-4 in 8th, BHam as pinch-runner steals 2nd, balls gets loose in front of base, BHam takes off for 3rd and gets thrown out.
Longo going Longo!!
1st of many tonight!
That’s some nice longo legs 🦵
Not a dry seat in the house.
Simply Indispensable!
Pence would miss that pitch 500 out of 500 times…
That’s why I’ve taken to calling him Punter Hence. If he has a future in pro-sports, it should be in football…henceforth a punter.
Cueto’s trade value is definitely on the rise.
Pitchers are dropping everywhere…
Exactly. He’s off tonite though. shouldn’t take that many pitches to handle Murphy and Kemp their 2 worst hitters.
The a’s need a pitcher like Cueto
Braves make sense for Cueto.
They’re SP has been banged up.
Tromp still clueless behind the plate, never drop to one leg with runners on base.
Guess the Giants are giving up on that point..
Krukow’s given up. He spent a lot of time praising Tromp’s low pitch framing.
Baggs had whole tweetstorm over that. According to Eno Sarris Giants have gotten most strikes out of pitches ot of zone due to their framing and way Kapler’s teaching Cs to position themselves.
Pavlovic had a long piece about it too
He shimmies and he shakes, but Johnny the C. sure squeezed his way outta that jam. Good thing he wasn’t facing Daryl Strawberry from back in the day.
Barrels could be on his death bed and still come out and get a hit! 16 game hitting streak now..
Holy shit #2.
Punter!
Pence re-pays Cueto!
Pence! Not a HR last year? Hell, not a HR last night.
OMG!!! So much for Pence’s football career as a punter. Give him a couple ducks on the pond and he’s a new man. A’s fans must be holding their heads and moaning “oh Jesus.”
I can’t believe what I just saw!
Pence takes on CF and delivers!
Yes he will be seeing more AB’s now unfortunately..
Would that have been out pre-bullpen?
No
Did K & K notice or are they relying on senile Brooklyn drunks for insight?
they’re waiting for the in-house statcast confirmation. I’m relying on my experience. I’ve stood at that exact angle many times before a day game watching batting practice while my son leaned over the fence joking with the Giants shagging flies.
Well, that would make it kind of historic…
are you callin me senile?
right Baggs and others said not in 20 years.
Baggs said no way it’s a HR “in 20 previous seasons in this ballpark.”
After sweating his half of the third with very little breathing room, all Cueto has to do now is keep from getting sloppy–to give a nod to Pence for his act of contrition and nevertheless keep an eye on his fielders.
you guys Pence isn’t even in the same conversation as Pablo and the Bore Core. This guy came here to face LH pitching and he really hasn’t gotten a chance to do that. And many of his out have been hard. I’ve been saying this all season PENCE ISN’T DONE…..
Uh . . .
Flavor said, on July 21, 2020 at 7:03 pm
Pence rejuvenating his career in Texas, man I don’t get it. He looked exactly the same as I remembered I’m in that at bat: done and terrible
MacDog ketches Flavor in an awkward moment.
Well I’ll say it, he is done!
A lucky at bat once in a great moon doesn’t qualify as a player that’s still has something left in the tank..
man RH lineup tearing the kid up.
even with Pablo in there
Hey, Longo finally realized the season is underway.
Wasn’t expecting the Giants hammering Luzardo around to the tune of 6 runs and 9 hits in 3 1/3 innings. Nice job!
we’re still looking for a few more HRs
Funny thing too—kuiper just after saying Longo’s first AB how he went 4-33 on road trip then he homers.
Now he gets 2 run single.
last year splits:
at home 6 of his 20 bombs .231 BA ..660 ish OPS
on road 14 bombs .507 slugging .870 OPS
I said earlier in response to Loo Cueto was “off tonite.”
Well twice through A’s lineup he’s allowed 1 hit no runs 2 BBs 4 Ks. 76 pitches
El Gordo needs 10 days on the fat farm
I thought I heard the gaiters are useless – maybe even harmful to the wearer…