4/2 Sox at A's

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

World Champs looking like World Chumps right now.

[DontCallMeUncleRico]

We need to hurry up and get home.

[TylerD]

Are you kidding me?!?!?!?!

[Jasonbay44]

I don't even really know what to say anymore

[DontCallMeUncleRico]

They're going to stay with the call in the field only to uphold a great defensive play. To heck with these guys.

[TylerD]

Another close call but not enough evidence to over turn.

[moonslav59]

Back to dumb mistakes.

 

You can't hez like that....twice: a long hez out of the box and again rounding 2nd.

[Jasonbay44]

There is no way that will ever be overturned. Offense has been awful so I don't really have a problem with the aggressiveness.

[Jasonbay44]

Back to dumb mistakes.

 

You can't hez like that....twice: a long hez out of the box and again rounding 2nd.

 

Yeah that is the issue, not that he went for three, but he thought it was gone, then hesitated.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Umpiring in MLB continues to be a disgrace.

[moonslav59]

Yeah that is the issue, not that he went for three, but he thought it was gone, then hesitated.

 

Just sickening!

 

It's the freakin' ninth inning in a one-run game -- for the love of GOD!

[moonslav59]

Umpiring in MLB continues to be a disgrace.

 

Not surprising.

[DontCallMeUncleRico]

Sometimes I wish managers in baseball were like football coaches. It seems Baseball managers manager their players with kid gloves.

 

You see let up more often in baseball and I guarantee you Bill Belichick would have a field day with Xander not hustling on that play.

[TylerD]

We suck. See you tomorrow.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

The poor beat the rich. In real life that never happens, but in baseball a different story.

[d-money]

Cora needs have a talk wit these guys. Early but it bothers me that this team has had this type of start to this season.

[d-money]

So when does it start getting a little tough? 1-10? 1-11?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

If this is still a hangover, then I would recommend Bloody Mary's for the whole team.

[DontCallMeUncleRico]

So we just gave a large extension to a guy that doesn't have his elite fastball anymore? Why?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

So we just gave a large extension to a guy that doesn't have his elite fastball anymore? Why?

 

That's a great question. I'm gonna have to get back to you on that one. Don't call me, I'll call you. But I won't call you Uncle Rico.

Edited April 3, 2019 by SPLENDIDSPLINTER

[DontCallMeUncleRico]

That's a great question. I'm gonna have to get back to you on that one. Don't call me, I'll call you. But I won't call you Uncle Rico.

 

I'm the total opposite of Uncle Rico. So yeah, please don't call me that.

[vegasbob]

Time for the horseshit hitters to wake up. The pitching was no problem but no one can get a key hit. Complacency, slow Spring progressions, WS hangover, whatever. Show some spark and attitude before getting your extension done. Sale, as last year , deserved a win here.

[Oscars]

Time for the horseshit hitters to wake up. The pitching was no problem but no one can get a key hit. Complacency, slow Spring progressions, WS hangover, whatever. Show some spark and attitude before getting your extension done. Sale, as last year , deserved a win here.

 

Yeah the hitting has been abysmal.

There are 6 starters from tonight’s game hitting under .223 and 4 hitters under .175

[jung]

Well we got beat by another junk baller in game 6 of the new season. There is a shocker for ya'. We have been getting beaten up by junkers throwing stuff that crawls up to home plate for about a decade at least.

 

We looked like we were swinging at whiffle balls Tuesday night.

 

You would think we would keep one or two of these guys around just to keep them out of circulation around the league for us to have to face, but NO! Even when we get one, we jettison him about as fast as we can.

 

It is kinda' interesting how teams tend to gravitate toward junkers and other teams do not like them on their staffs at all. A's have always had at least one junker in their rotation and sometimes two.

[redsoxrules]

So we just gave a large extension to a guy that doesn't have his elite fastball anymore? Why?

 

I've been asking the same thing. His fastball this game was actually weaker than his first game. If he has to pace himself because of last year than hes not worth what we paid him. with the extension he got if he can't go Cy mode than the contract is garbage

[Northern Star]

Just from reading this thread makes me concerned about the Sale and Xander extensions. How do you extend a pitcher if his shoulder is such a concern that he's going easy in early April?

 

Odd how the offense has been shut out 2 games after scoring nicely in the first four. That's baseball, I guess.

[Northern Star]

I've been asking the same thing. His fastball this game was actually weaker than his first game. If he has to pace himself because of last year than hes not worth what we paid him. with the extension he got if he can't go Cy mode than the contract is garbage

 

When will Ben rip off his DD mask and laugh maniacally?

[Slasher9]

someone check the record books...

has the reigning World Champion ever been booed at their own ring ceremony? we just might see it......

[Bellhorn04]

Worth noting that the 2018 Red Sox, in a dream season, were 3-4 in their games at Seattle and Oakland.

 

This was the toughest possible start that could have been devised for the team.

 

It's gonna get better.

[Bellhorn04]

someone check the record books...

has the reigning World Champion ever been booed at their own ring ceremony? we just might see it......

 

Anyone that does boo at the ceremony should be slugged.

 

So maybe there will be some fights.