GREAT win for us! We needed to win real bad and we got one and we killed 'em! This is the kind of win that needs to be our turning point, our spark that just sets our team on fire for the rest of the season! Tomorrow's game is all that more important now. We win tomorrow and the message is sent--just like Dallas Braden said after the game: WE WANT TO PLAY BASEBALL IN OCTOBER!
We're 8.5 games back tonight, we play the Rangers 5 more times this season, and theres still more than a month left in baseball. Technically, odds are still long, but bigger deficits have been overcome. The A's could get hot and it very well could have started tonight! Oh how I hope it does! Tomorrow's game is huge! We gotta win it to take 2 outta 3, to go up 1 game in this series. Thats the funny thing about the 3-game series I was thinkin about just yesterday: In a 3 game series, you either go up OR down 1 OR 3 games on the team you are playing. You cant go up or down just 2 games and you cant break even. Ya gotta win. Thats what makes sweeps so huge really, especially against division rivals.
This win is huge, but it will only REMAIN huge if we win tomorrow. Thank you, thank you so much Dallas Braden for pitching like a friggin' beast tonight! And all the A's pitchers have really been doing outstanding. What we need is hitting, at least as good as it was tonight. Did you know that in the month of August, if the A's had scored just 4 runs every game (and managed to win it in extras if that created a tie) we'd be on a tear to the tune of 22 wins and 3 losses?? What does that say? It says our pitching staff is lockin it down every damn day and all we need is 4 effin runs! This lineup has some pop in the bats of Barton, Suzuki, Kouz, Coco, and Cust and the best speed in the league (most SBs since the All-Star break) by the likes of Rajai, Pennington, and Coco that we should be able to put up 4 runs almost every night!
Another fun fact: the Rangers are only 22-18 since the All-Star break! Hardly impressive! We can catch these guys!
I'm tellin you, it could start now! And I mean now! Now, as in tonight and tomorrow night and get on a freakin roll and win some ball games! I'm goin to the game against the Angels on Friday the 3rd (we so better win--I hate the Angels more than I can express) and I'm goin to the game on Friday the 24th against none other than the Texas Rangers and that game better mean somethin! If we start winnin some ballgames, that night's gonna feel like playoff baseball right there and I am pumped man!
LETS GO A'S!!!
Thanks for reading.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Goal accomplished.
I just realized its been like a month since I wrote in this but I had to put up some ranting I wrote just moments ago. I'm "friends" with the Oakland A's on Facebook and the latest news today is that Rosales is out with a stress fracture in his ankle. Out at least 4 weeks. Probably shut down for the season. Unless he can help the River Cats in any postseason efforts they have, whatevs. But I got into it with a few A's fans on the comments to that news who still think that its just "bad luck" that the A's have led the league in DL usage for the past 4 years. My comments to these other fans went like this:
Sean Thomas @Christopher I honestly think its becuase these last 4 years we've had a group of 1-2 yr guys and players that are way over there hill.
Overall though, despite shitty circumstances like this, the A's have done well. We have climbed back to .500, managed to stay a little above it and we were even ahead of the Angels the other day. May pass em up again too. Kinda cool, but meaningless in the big picture since the Rangers are as good as clinched. That Cliff Lee deal worked out just how they needed it to. Even fantasy baseball has confirmed he's been the most valuable pitcher in the last 30 days. They are as good as clinched. So yeah, a winning season, maybe finish ahead of the Angels, 5 games over .500 and no more injuries would be nice. I'll take that into next year with a smile.
They were talkin in the A's radio pregame show the other day about how amazingly lucky (see: not lucky, Billy Beane's genius at work) to have so many young AND outstanding arms in our starting rotation. Most teams would kill to have the likes of Cahill, Anderson, Gio, Braden, Mazzaro, and even Outman fighting for a spot in the rotation next spring. They're all studs with wicked stuff. If Carter comes around with consistent power like we hope, perhaps Taylor as well, we could have a shot next year. If the A's acquire one nice bat in the offseason (someone like Adrian Gonzalez, Jose Bautista, Joey Votto, Paul Konerko, Carlos Gonzalez, Adrian Beltre, Adam Dunn, or Andre Ethier) I think we could be in contention for playoffs next year.
I'm goin to the game a week from today, Friday night game against the Rays. You know I love watchin the Rays and hey, last time I saw them, Braden tossed a perfect game. :)
Thanks for reading.
Christopher Ady The A's have used the DL more times than any team in baseball the last 4 years (I believe--read it when Sheets went down). Huge red flag! We need a revamping of our training and medical staff ASAP!
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Sean Thomas @Christopher I honestly think its becuase these last 4 years we've had a group of 1-2 yr guys and players that are way over there hill.- Christopher AdyReally Sean? Heres the most glaring examples in my mind of ongoing issues. Likely not all of them could be prevented by the best care and treatment possible, but I think many would have been.
Duchsherer: cant stay healthy because they only ...did surgery on one of his hips when the problem was in both.
Anderson: Pitches great, goes to DL, comes back too soon, goes back to DL.
Braden: Lack of detection of injury or rash to his foot and he's out for hella long, then back and has no feeling in his toes. Pitches horribly in pain soon after his perfect game. Finally goes to DL.
Crisp and Suzuki: experience intercostal strains within weeks of each other.
Ellis: Resting pulled hammy, tries to come back to soon, on to the DL. Devine: It shouldnt take this long to rehab him. After Tommy John, tendinitis develops.
Chavvy: no chiropractic work could have helped his neck/back? No expert could set up a successful plan to let his shoulder heal an rehab it correctly?
Connor Jackson: Injured hammy 10 days after we get him.
Your eyebrows arent raised by any of this? Full confidence in our medical and training staff? I didnt even mention Rosales until now--stress fracture to his ankle? Was there any pain or "stress" detected in his ankle that could have been dealt with before it FRACTURED? And you know this is just a fraction of the injuries the A's have dealt with for the past 4 years.See Moreabout an hour ago · · 1 personLoading... · 
Arturo Donovan Gutierrez The medical staff can not prevent injuries from happening on the field.....we will be fine....and be better if Carter realize he is in the big leagues and starts hitting....otherwise its going to be another year at Sacramento.about an hour ago · ·
Christopher AdyI said medical and TRAINING. That means proper conditioning, proper stretching, monitoring the amount of weight lifting, reducing inflammation of sore joints with ice and cortisone or whatever, chiropractic adjustments, massages, etc., doin...g all these things any good trainer at this level should be on top of. These players are being paid millions! No one is ever to blame when the A's miss out out on these investments?? I'm not saying no injuries should happen, but what are the medical and training staffs doing on the clubs that use the DL the least? Why cant we have people like that?
Overall though, despite shitty circumstances like this, the A's have done well. We have climbed back to .500, managed to stay a little above it and we were even ahead of the Angels the other day. May pass em up again too. Kinda cool, but meaningless in the big picture since the Rangers are as good as clinched. That Cliff Lee deal worked out just how they needed it to. Even fantasy baseball has confirmed he's been the most valuable pitcher in the last 30 days. They are as good as clinched. So yeah, a winning season, maybe finish ahead of the Angels, 5 games over .500 and no more injuries would be nice. I'll take that into next year with a smile.
They were talkin in the A's radio pregame show the other day about how amazingly lucky (see: not lucky, Billy Beane's genius at work) to have so many young AND outstanding arms in our starting rotation. Most teams would kill to have the likes of Cahill, Anderson, Gio, Braden, Mazzaro, and even Outman fighting for a spot in the rotation next spring. They're all studs with wicked stuff. If Carter comes around with consistent power like we hope, perhaps Taylor as well, we could have a shot next year. If the A's acquire one nice bat in the offseason (someone like Adrian Gonzalez, Jose Bautista, Joey Votto, Paul Konerko, Carlos Gonzalez, Adrian Beltre, Adam Dunn, or Andre Ethier) I think we could be in contention for playoffs next year.
I'm goin to the game a week from today, Friday night game against the Rays. You know I love watchin the Rays and hey, last time I saw them, Braden tossed a perfect game. :)
Thanks for reading.
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