Comments on: And That Happened: Thursday's Scores and Highlights

By: APBA Guy

APBA Guy — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:25:40 +0000

The A’s looked weak and pathetic against the Cubs, dropping 2 of three from the moribund Northsiders. Wells kept the ball low for the most part yesterday, but in true A’s style, his occasional mistakes were missed by the A’s hitters. Still, the key sequence of the game was Bob Geren bringing in Bailey in the 8th but instead of double switching, he left Bailey in the pitcher’s spot due to lead off in the 9th. Sure enough the Cubs tied the game and Geren pinch-hit for Bailey.
The real problem for the A’s is two fold: 1) the offense cannot score effectively against competent pitching 2) the bullpen leaks too many runs. Last year’s bullpen was a thing of beauty, but this year, nagging injuries and the failure of anyone to emerge as the set-up go-to guy has cost the A’s a couple of games, including this one. Michael Wuertz is definitely not what he was, with only flashes of his devastating sinker. When it doesn’t sink, it’s a middle-middle pitch that gets hit hard.

By: Jonny5

Jonny5 — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:11:39 +0000

LMAO!! He does look like a Gigantic Fat toad… too funny… Well Len, At least your Bombers got a win over Halladay. That’s a plus I guess to losing the series.

By: YankeesfanLen

YankeesfanLen — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:42:33 +0000

Was certainly hoping no one would mention The Fat Toad in my presence today.

By: Jonny5

Jonny5 — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:36:31 +0000

Well, It seems We got the “good Kendrick” Last night. He can pitch. Or he can’t. Glad to see the bats waking up from their loooongggg slumber. I’m going to a Cleveland game next week, and i’d hate to see them get scalped by them. Placido Polanco looked like an all-star third baseman last night. I think I need to go Phill out some more all-star ballots right away. As far as what Ben S mentioned, i think Valdez snuck in under the tag, that’s how I saw it anyways. Not that it would have made a difference after the Phils ninth inninng rally. Did I ever mention how much I like Joba C. ? Yeah, like that kid, he’s got Balls. How else do you describe one daring enough to walk out of the bullpen in NY and just get absolutely no outs???? That takes balls and a couple hits. The Phillies have awakened, let’s hope….. Then order will soon be retaken in the NL East. Which seems to be a pretty darned good division afterall. Besides the Feesh and all…. Sorry Gator.

By: ben s

ben s — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:37:27 +0000

You forgot to mention that there was also a majorly blown call in the Yankee game where Cervelli threw out Wilson Valdez by a mile, but the ump called him safe. There was also another odd play in that game where the ball hit off Ibanez and on a groundball to Jeter at short that then when into the outfield. The umps spent like three minutes conferring and eventually must have decided that the ball did hit Ibanez (they previously had not ruled this) because Jeter couldn’t have misplayed the ball that badly or that Jeter wouldn’t lie or something along those lines. Very weird play.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:56:26 +0000

I’m back out in the savage mountains of northern New Mexico this week, mostly cut off from wi-fi and (blessedly) cell phone access, so I only get to check what’s been happening on the occasional run into a Starbucks in Bernalillo or Santa Fe. What I checked today was more than enough to send me running back to my bass lakes and trout streams, burping up carne adovada tinctured methane from the indigestion my Feesh’s performance of late has caused.
The Feesh are playing their worst baseball of the season and, unfortunately, it’s looking more and more like their baseline performance. I love this team despite how its ownership shits on and strangles it but folks, it’s time to start mulling the noxious prospect that this may be about as good as this team really is. Scrooge McLoria is getting precisely what he refused to pay for when he decided not to go after any boolpen help that would cost him more than a few cents – he needs that cash to build fish tanks at the rapidly rising Macondo Banana Massacre Field – all the while comically insisting that the team was already a contender.
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The brief spell of errorlesseness, or at least nonfatal error-proneness, of the week before last looks more like it was just a statistical glitch than a harbinger of improved team fielding. The boolpen remains a shambles, with Renyel Pinto designated for assignment after coming off the disabled list and throwing a gopher to the first lefthanded batter he faced, and Tim Wood summoned back from New Orleans just in time to throw batting practice to the Rangers. Ricky Nolasco sabotaged his own game with a horrendous throwing error that led to a couple of unearned runs, and the guy who started off the season throwing unhittable hooks and BBs now looks like he’s throwing whiffle balls and beachballs towards the plate. Former SEYP Cameron Maybin, after filling his ass with splinters on the Feesh bench for two weeks watching Mike Stanton check in with a bang and then begin flailing like a wind turbine, gets sent down to AAA to work on his swing yet again while Mike Lamb, flying below the Mendoza line all season, gets sent back up as if a .125 hitter would be more useful to Fat Freddi than Maybin’s .225. The Feesh have been looking especially clueless with RISP. They can’t seem to cash in on many opportunities. Maybe the Greek fiscal meltdown has affected the conversion rate.
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Having been swept by the Rangers, the Feesh now face one solidly pissed off team of Rays, who were made to look pretty bad by the Feesh last week. I probably won’t get to check in again till Saturday evening, if that, and I seriously wonder if I even want to look anymore.
No more reCaptcha, so I’ll just make up my own goofy dyads from now on and invite everyone else to do the same: recalcitrant salmonids.