A's @ Royals AL Wild Card Game Thread

[Average Reds]

Good to see that TBS is using audio equipment from 1985 as well.

 

[Harry Hooper]

In Little League it was called get into a pickle. Let the other team throw it around, score the run.  

 
 
Looks like it wasn't, just Butler had so many wheels turning in his head that he forgot to check what the pitcher was doing.

 

[glasspusher]

It's going to take more than this game for me to root for James Shields

 

[Papo The Snow Tiger]

It's kind of nice to watch an inning of baseball without hearing the name Derek Jeter.

 

[Average Reds]

It's going to take more than this game for me to root for James Shields

I'm with you. Can't root for Shields.

 

[E5 Yaz]

I'm with you. Can't root for Shields.

 
Root for the uni
 
Go Royals!

 

[loshjott]

It's kind of nice to watch an inning of baseball without hearing the name Derek Jeter.

Thanks. I'd almost forgotten about him.

 

[BornToRun]

Ump has money on KC.

 

[glasspusher]

that was generous

 

[Greg29fan]

That was a gift and a half

 

[Harry Hooper]

Can't be a strike. There will be no offense in MLB with that zone.

 

[Savin Hillbilly]

The Beane-Cherington negotiations for Ross must have been intense

 
Ben: We'll give you Lester and Gomes for Cespedes. If you throw in Donaldson we'll also give you Ross.
Billy: WTF? You're kidding, right?
Ben: In a couple of months you're going to be sorry you didn't say yes.
Billy: Bite me.

 

[ThePrideofShiner]

The ump has a huge zone tonight.

 

[Kilgore A. Trout]

It's kind of nice to watch an inning of baseball without hearing the name Derek Jeter.

Can we all refrain from mentioning him until the inevitable statutory rape case occurs?

 

[Al Zarilla]

Come on Melvin, have to bitch more about bad calls. 

 

[E5 Yaz]

That was a gift and a half

 
That was in retaliation for Soto turning around to argue on the time out

 

[Lowrielicious]

It's kind of nice to watch an inning of baseball without hearing the name Derek Jeter.

Would have been nice not to read it too.

 

[glasspusher]

 
Root for the uni
 
Go Royals!

I can still remember Brett's HR off of Gossage in the 1980 ALCS like it was yesterday

 

[BornToRun]

 
Ben: We'll give you Lester and Gomes for Cespedes. If you throw in Donaldson we'll also give you Ross.
Billy: WTF? You're kidding, right?
Ben: In a couple of months you're going to be sorry you didn't say yes.
Billy: Bite me.

This is good.

 

[Al Zarilla]

This A's lineup...weak. 

 

[Kilgore A. Trout]

I had no idea the A's are starting my sixth grade science teacher.

 

[Harry Hooper]

I can still remember Brett's HR off of Gossage in the 1980 ALCS like it was yesterday

 
It may have been in the Toilet, but THAT one was a tape-measure shot.

 

[glasspusher]

 
It may have been in the Toilet, but THAT one was a tape-measure shot.

No joke. Upper deck. 

 

[Harry Hooper]

 
Ben: We'll give you Lester and Gomes for Cespedes. If you throw in Donaldson we'll also give you Ross.
Billy: WTF? You're kidding, right?
Ben: In a couple of months you're going to be sorry you didn't say yes.
Billy: Bite me.

 
 
How about a coda?
 
cellphone rings
 
Billy: Hello?
Ben: <laughter>

 

[Kilgore A. Trout]

I can still remember Brett's HR off of Gossage in the 1980 ALCS like it was yesterday

Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBVd0UcTQwo

 

[BornToRun]

That's the exact kind of inning that he needed. Pitch count just north of 30.

 

[glasspusher]

didn't these guys face each other last year in the playoffs? Nice inning, Jon

 

[shawnrbu]

Lester made Infante look stupid on that swing.

 

[Savin Hillbilly]

OK, that was dominant. Two popups and a falling-down K.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Lester's "ahead" on pitches, 32 - 45.

 

[glasspusher]

Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBVd0UcTQwo

 
very cool! IIRC, the guy who caught it was from NJ, and waited after the game to give George the ball.

 

[InsideTheParker]

Right now on my public TV station Henry Gates is telling Jeter that DNA evidence proves that one of
his great grandparents was a slaveowner. I knew we weren't thru w/ DJ so easily.

P.s. go As!

 

[bankshot1]

They made the Ross trade!!!

 

[InsideTheParker]

Lester just fire Soto?

 

[E5 Yaz]

That was unusual

 

[Harry Hooper]

Lester "accidentally" spiked Soto's hand in the dugout.

 

[Average Reds]

Ben might be on the phone again just to cackle in Beane's ear.

 

[Harry Hooper]

They made the Ross trade!!!

 
awesome

 

[glasspusher]

Sam Fuld, the Stephen Drew of the OF

 

[Al Zarilla]

Just an FYI, Vogt is a competent catcher if anything were to happen to Norris. Hell, Donaldson used to be a catcher too. 

 

[BornToRun]

Lucky sonofabitch.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Big luck James. 

 

[Greg29fan]

freeze on a line drive Fuld

 

[Harry Hooper]

Fuld in a different area code.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Jemile Weeks is feeling like a trendsetter now

 

[Savin Hillbilly]

Sam Fuld, the Stephen Drew of the OF

 
A little unfair to Drew, who has occasionally been an effective offensive player.

 

[scotian1]

Baserunning errors on both sides now.

 

[glasspusher]

Fuck you, shift!

 

[E5 Yaz]

Whoa, Lester got the catcher changed

 

[Orel Miraculous]

Yost infection.