Comments on: Settling the Score: Saturday’s results

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:40:23 +0000

Oops, you’re right. Guess the Rays need a little help, eh?

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:07:11 +0000

Thanks, I’ll check it out. I’m a Flogging Molly fan, so they might be to my liking.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:49:08 +0000

The band was Celtic Mayhem: http://www.celticmayhem.net/ They’re an Irish offshoot of a Macondo area band called Three Jacks, which does medieval, renaissance and victorian British and Irish high octane folk in the manner of Steeleye Span or Fairport Convention.

They’ve got a performance of “Whiskey in the Jar” on YouTube someplace. And yeah, they really do look like that. FYI their “Whiskey” is right up there with the Grateful Dead’s version, except the Dead had no fiddle that night and Celtic Mayhem never unleashed a pennywhistle that I can recall, And the fiddler is ackcherley a marine biologist from the Virginia Key marine research center. He specializes in something weird, like sulfur metabolism in deep ocean vent worms or what have you. Hellish fiddle player, though.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:11:45 +0000

What’s the band?

By: natslady

natslady — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:51:41 +0000

Yeah, but Kimbrel is still THAT good. There is no 9th inning when he goes out there.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:44:05 +0000

This is clearly not the time for any more slippage on the Hayward Fault. The brilliant Lew Wolf is in real estate, right? Just tell him to give his piledriver crews the next few weeks off.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:40:49 +0000

Brie, like the cheese. Yep. The Lissome One looked especially fetching in her steam punk post-pre-William Gibson nineteenth century industrial sprawl dish-abille with Borg goggles, H. G. Wells alien planet backpack and torn fishnet stockings. Since she is, ethnically, Brazillian-Irish (unholy, that), she fit in at every level.

By: clydeserra

clydeserra — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:33:13 +0000

By: APBA Guy

APBA Guy — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:07:53 +0000

Greatest A’s game in 6 years. Speechless. Spectacular. 21,000 sounded like 101,000. Four more to go, the A’s need to win 2.

By: kiwicricket

kiwicricket — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:46:45 +0000

Was Bree working??

By: randomdigits

randomdigits — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:49:54 +0000

Hate to tell you this, but you are four behind.

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:44:10 +0000

The Rays do still control their own destiny, but I’d feel better if the A’s and Angels would stub their toes a few times too. The odds are long, but it’s still fun watching the end-of-season dog fight.

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:41:16 +0000

Unless of course some voters get a wild hair and think that the #2 in batting average, who happens to be a far better fielder and a far better base runner, is more deserving.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:11:17 +0000

Seriously?

By: gotampabay52

gotampabay52 — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:09:37 +0000

Wish the Red Sox would try a little in september to finish strong. O’s watch your selves the last three games and we are three behind watch yourselves

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:47:10 +0000

I was contemplating the genius of Peter Angelos during a steam punk acoustic celtic band performance at the good ole Luna Star Cafe last night while watching between tunes on my cellphone video as the Feesh and Feelies dragged their game along for over four hours to its more or less inevitable conclusion. The genius of Angelos has a timeless quality that made the perpetual monotony of the Feesh game irrelevant. Only the Iron Giant''s π inning popup that landed by the Budweisass sign in deep center field ruptured the ennui of watching Ricky Nolasco's evil pod twin gag up a four run lead and then watching the boolpen take eleven parsecs to pad the agony. Time and space: that dilated temporal duration on that little, retina-detaching screen. Ah, but what of that. I do love discussing the Babbage difference engine with marinated barmates to rollicking old Irish folk songs, though, and I hope to live long enough until someone composes a second tune. Meanwhile, did you know that the theme song to Gilligan's Island was a madrigal? No? Well, it is. Humm it slowly to yourself.

By: gpatrick15

gpatrick15 — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:27:05 +0000

Shhh! Didn’t they tell you home runs, RBI, and batting average don’t matter anymore, despite the fact that most of the leagues elite players hover near the top portion of each category? It’s all about those newfangled sabermetrics, ya hear?

By: rockthered1286

rockthered1286 — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:19:14 +0000

LET’S GO O’S!!!!

Machado… What can you really say about the kid?! Unbelievable talent and a class act. Not the best start from Stevie Johnson but quite the lockdown job by the pen. All tied up in the AL Beast. Love to get some separation heading into the final series!

By: kiwicricket

kiwicricket — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:12:09 +0000

Davis and Duda make plenty of pitchers look unhittable

By: dondada10

dondada10 — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:04:14 +0000

I didn’t realize Craig Kimbrel was that nasty. I mean, I saw his stats and knew what he was up to. But when he had two on, he threw several untouchable pitches to Ike Davis and Lucas Duda.

He was literally unhittable.

By: legacybroken

legacybroken — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:02:46 +0000

Miggy also tied Hamilton for the lead in Homeruns putting him Triple Crown position which along with making the playoffs which should rightfully nab him the MVP.