Redemption?
I gotta admit, Dusty’s Astros are starting to grow on me a little bit. I like people/teams that overcome adversity. And all the A’s do is strikeout. Who doesn’t still love Dusty? At this point I can confidently say I am no longer rooting AGAINST the Astros.
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We are probably the only two outside of Houston, but I’m with ya.
Dusty looked good in that orange top uni too with wrist bands. Hey if you’re the A’s and don’t like Astros then go out and beat them straight up and stop whining over shit from 3 yrs ago. It’s f-ing tired. Oakland handled regular season series against them 7-3, yet with everything on line came up ant small yesterday.
Yep.
Dusty making all right moves so far juggling his pitching staff to knock out Twins and stifle A’s yesterday after Oakland got lead off McCullers. Hey this is who A’s wanted. so put up or shut up. No trash cans or video feeds yesterday. Houston raked bombs off SP and pen, and got big rally when given opportunity.
Yanks have been scary good so far. They hammered Indians pitching, among best in AL and whacked bombs off Snell yesterday. Frazier smoked a high hard one and Judge crushed a hanging breaking ball. That one got out in nano second. Their lineup is solid and #9 guy homered too.
Pads are good story so far, but if they are down an SP or two I can’t see them getting past LA. um, I can see where this is headed for near unwatchable WS.
“Unwatchable”. Anybody got a vomit bag handy?
Whenever some crime or scam is solved or uncovered, I always imagine the countless others that haven’t been. That’s kind of how I feel about the Astros. They just got caught.
I’m all good with Dusty…
Easy to be magnanimous with 3 trophies…
Perhaps Dusty has learned a thing or two since ought-two about managing his pitchers.
And he’s added to his disaster list since.
Between him and Mauch for most snakebit manager ever?
Lureano should be randomly banging a dugout trash can lid when Houston’s AB. Rile things up.
But I also was surprised to feel no animosity toward the Asterisks yesterday. I even liked the in game interview with Dusty. Oakland misses Chapman but this still should be their semi demi quasi “year.”
I am over the Stros sign-stealing shenanigans of ’17 and ’18, and will always appreciate Dusty. I am pretty indifferent on this series, but find myself pulling ever so slightly for the A’s. And yes, they seriously pissed down their leg, yesterday.
I actually would like to see the Rays get in and represent the jr. circuit. Ideally, I want to see the Rays-Friars. Again…new blood.
I can’t get over the Asstros scandal and they’re pompous attitudes of “We against the World BS”
This team ends up catching a huge break with the pandemic and no fans in the stands to give them the wrath they of shit they deserved. I can give Dusty slack because he wasn’t involved in this despicable organization, but I can’t stand looking at those smug faces of Bregman&Altuve,Springer&Correa knowing they disgraced the game! Fuck those guys and the horse they rode in on!!
1 game doesn’t win a series as the A’s proved against the Chicago Whitesox’s down 1-0 to win the next 2, so they can do it against this cheating bunch in a best of 5 starting tonight.
Don’t sugar coat is Kat…tell us how you REALLY feel. 😉
2020 can fuck right off
Fuck… that SUCKS! Damn…FUCK YOU 2020…FUCK YOU ALL THE WAY TO HELL.
Anyone heard from essential worker Sarge lately? I think he said he was an ultrasound tech at Highland Hosp. here in Oaktown. Most of the non MDs there are planning to go on strike this week. Odd time for managing corporations to squeeze med workers.
Hey Xoot. I’m still kind of around. I haven’t been on the flap much lately, got a lot BS going on right now. Yes we go on strike starting tomorrow. Been negotiating for 9 months and they haven’t budged on anything. Lots of takeaways, no compromises.
Good luck, man. They should be giving all of you big-time raises, imo.
Best of luck to you Sarge!
And I agree with Xoot wholeheartedly that raises are certainly justified in this pandemic world where people like you and your co workers put your lives on the line without wavering! You people are true heroes and management should recognize that and do the right thing!!
Well said, Kat.
I appreciate the well wishes everyone. Thank you.
Eddie Van Halen dead???
No sugar coating this “2020 does SUCK!”
Incredible Guitarist , in an incredible band that I must of seen a half dozen times
always a brilliant show!
RIP Eddie🎸🎸🎸🎸taken way to young!
That really sucks. 2020 just keeps on kicking us in the oblongs. My wife grew up in the LA area and she saw them 4-5 times before they made it big. Eddie gave her brother one of his guitars. I saw them at a day on the Green in ’78 when they just hit it big. Great great show.
Ozuna and d’Arnaud with key hits again as Braves have taken lead after trailing 4-1. 2 run HR from Swanson and it’s 9-4.
If I were a key position player with a name that began with d’ I think I’d quietly change it to D’.
Fun fact:
Uniform manufacturers use an upside down “P” for the lower case “d”…
Maybe not that much fun…
Dusty started the runners on 1B and 3B and turned a DP grounder into a RBI.
Who got the game ball?
ah, man, let it go. he doesn’t even have a toothpick these days — mask and all
The Astros sure like playoff games at the Latrine.
Ha good one Mac! Dust has them up 2 zip. and unlike 2012 doesn’t have to go back home to Cincy.
Clevinger supposed to start tonite for Pads…see how that goes
Eddie Van Halen dying today was the single worst day of 2020 by far for me. I’m devastated.
Losing Christo and Fred Willard did it for me months ago, long ago. My memories of EVH are bound up with vicious fights that left huge bloody scalp ripped hanks of long hair and lost teeth littering a Watsonville lumberyard driveway. Long story. But I never warmed up to VH after that.
with the cig clipped on…..
I’d never heard of Arozarena before last night, but I’ve sure heard of him now.
Eddie said his lung cancer which eventually spread recently to his brain and even though he was a heavy smoker might of been caused by his metal guitar pick which he constantly had in his mouth while performing..
Nice to know ex wife Valerie Bertinelli and there son Wolfgang were at his bedside along with his current wife to the very end..
I’m going with the smokes. This really stinks. Another reason to shitcan this entire year.
Can we just hibernate till spring? FUck this shit.
Go Friars! BEAT LA! BEAT LA! BEAT LA!
San Diego needs a crooked number here….
shoot only 2 pitches into 2nd Clevinger has to come out. Fastball topping out at 91. not good
replaced by Pierce Johnson, guy that had 5.50 ERA for Giants back in 2018. yikes
I vaguely remember him.
Not sure if he lasted long enough to get a derogatory nickname…
Good luck to Sarge, BTW.
A’s cratering again.
Gotta hand it to the Gyros 2010-2014.
When they were in the hunt, there was no sphincter puckering.
All the close games they played in regular season tightened up the D, and they let the other team make the mistakes…
Can someone pls hit the ball? Pads finally do after 8 Ks and score first.
In this la pads game I’m really enjoying the announcers’ debate about players’ hairstyles.
It’s depressing me to see how much talent these two teams have compared to the Giants. My goodness. Studs on top of studs on top of studs.
Love what we did this year, but man we gotta hit on some draft picks…
Pads young pitching is amazing. Weather’s looked really good supposed to SP too.
I had never heard of him. He’s filthy. That Morejon guy from Cuba is a LH badass too.
Rays bullpen shuts down the Yanks, even with a very shaky closer in the 9th, and the series is tied.
Pads are walking a ton of guys tonight.
Man, what a show this was . . . AC/DC and VH kicked ass. By the time Aerosmith was done, 90% of the crowd had left. Aerosmith was awful. The few folks that were left were laughing at them. Saw the Stones there 3 days later.
Fucking Padres.
No shit. Lucky it wasn’t worse.
Bonehead throw by 2nd basemen he had Bellinger easily.Then again even Hosmer should of bailed him out and dropped it..Like Mac said Fucking Padres..
At least the no-hitter’s intact…
Can’t help but like Dustin May…
Lux sure has that clown 🤡 hair look.If he wasn’t such a good pitcher he could always get a job in the circus 🎪
Damm my bad I thought that was Lux and it’s May duh 🙄
It’s getting worse. The Tingler gets tingled.
Pads can’t keep walking guys ahead of Dodgers better hitters, recipe for disaster. Betts just made them pay and now ump tosses Tingler, not good.
Revolving door of Padres pitchers and they still can’t get the 3rd out..
Wow. These guys look like a clown show.
SanDog’s 8:50 is a real wake-up call.
Goodnight…
Definitely. You said before how playing Dodgers was a reality check. Both of you are right.
Is it really gonna be the fucking Lakers AND the fucking Dodgers this year?
Even more reason to believe 2020 is the year from hell.
Acuna and Ozuna set the bar this morning and it’s been downhill since. Of course, I have tomorrow to wake up to. Strange PS.
As in recent years, though, I hate to hear the networks, tonight it was fsn, play jack white’s weak imitation of the Blasters great cover of Little Willie John’s I’m Shakin. Here’s what we should be hearing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hB2kogSjyQU
I read where Van Halen, when he was “Van Halen” at the height, took a few guitar lessons from …
Glen Campbell. For what, I dunno.
But, I believe it. I think Campbell could play Van Halen stuff pretty well if he had to, but Van Halen play country or other rock or blues just as well as his style? Not sure about that.
On guitar, Glen Campbell was an absolute badaaasss…
Played Hot for teacher for some co-workers today. Love the opening!Too young for them to know his greatness. Pads and A’s chunking. Grr
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/thundertrain_the_band_that_was_hot_for_teacher_before_van_halen
I was so disappointed when I found out Van Halen’s wasn’t a cover. One of the treasures in what’s left of my collection of 45s. And since Little Willie John got a shout out earlier …