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3/6: Open Game Thread

Listen live at 12:05. Baker's blog will have the lineups. It's set to be Tyler Walker's Cactus League debut. It'll be interesting to see if he gets the same reception that Griffey did.

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Morrow scratched with the flu

won’t pitch again until a week from today! That seems like forever.

Baker has the Oakland lineup:

Oakland A’s (3-4-1)
11 Rajai Davis CF
24 Kurt Suzuki C
5 Matt Holliday LF
16 Jason Giambi 1B
3 Eric Chavez DH
7 Bobby Crosby SS
57 Aaron Cunningham RF
21 Joe Dillon 3B
26 Corey Wimberly 2B
Starting pitcher — 59 Edgar Gonzalez RHP

I totally forgot that Eric Chavez was still alive!

I wonder how well Holliday will end up doing with the A's

His splits were pretty insane at Coors, but…if he does anything close to his previous years, they have a legitimate middle-of-the-order.

And of course.

Gameday.

Gameday is late better off listening to radio if you can though...
Terrible fielding.
Off the glove of Morse!

HE’s worse than Tui! And they gave him a hit?

More bad fielding.
Oh Washburn, you tool.
Haha

Even Dave is talking about how we didn’t lose enough to get Strasburg.

They joked about it quite a bit at FanFest...

Wak got a bit of flak for it…

Thanks for the reminder, Neihaus

Screw you, A’s.

HOT DAMN GUTI!
what happend, great catch?
Yes it was headed toward the gap and Guti came and caught that sucker.
Sure sounded like it.
Drat.

Wish we had video.

This is awesome

Morse at third and LaHair in LF behind Washburn. He’s gonna get killed.

It's cool

Gootch can cover left and center.

Gootch

I hope that sticks

Personally I'm planning to Google "gay porn stars" when I get home and go with the name I find most hilarious.
Safesearch- ON!
Hah, that chin patch was terrible! Too bad he didn't keep it, Area 51 in RF and The Landing Strip in CF.
Well that would severely limit my optins now wouldn't it.
Tillman just pitched an inning, looked pretty solid.
Yeah, and he's 20

I love it.

And by love it, I do mean hate my life.

Damn

No free internet audio today, and I forgot my radio once again.

Regression to the Mean time.
Wait

Morrow has a tight fore arm? So it’s not just the flu? FUUUUUCK.

Tightness came before the flu

And it’s tightness of the forearm. Nothing to worry about.

Morrow needs to hire someone to jerk him off

Can’t get hurt doing that!

Tightness of the forearm

With pitchers tends to come from putting too much pressure on pitches by squeezing the ball too hard.

A few advil and a looser grip and he’ll be fine

Washburn is in mid-season form!
Jarrod Washburn is still awful
Dammit Washburn,

Posted March 3rd:

This spring, thanks to a minor hip alteration during [Jarrod Washburn’s] delivery suggested by pitching coach Rick Adair and bullpen coach John Wetteland, his fastball may have more movement than ever.

“It was something simple they suggested,” Washburn said, being purposefully vague. “It allows me to get out in front farther.”

That gives the ball a tad more whoosh as it gets to the plate.
“It adds some life,” said Washburn
And, ST being what it is ....

he may have spent the whole time throwing nothing but fastballs, to get the Mystery Movement down

That's what he said in the post game interview.

Blowers was buying the excuse and saying that hitters also know that pitchers throw mostly fastballs at this time of the spring so they have it easier. I might start to buy that if it wasn’t for Mr. Bedard.

I think they meant..

“a tad more whoosh as it leaves the plate.”

The more movement appears to be in the other direction after a hit.

"...more movement than ever."

It’s straight, not very fast and typically up in the zone over the middle of the plate. Sometimes it can be tricky to analyze processes and outcomes for pitchers. In Jarrod’s case it’s pretty easy.

And he spells his name incorrectly thus imparting negative karma on himself.

Wooo Rob Johnson pickoff.
I know spring training isn't going to win him a job

but Rob Johnson’s doing all he can. I’d like to think this doesn’t affect Clement in any way, but at some point it might.

Especially if he keeps hitting .000 this spring
Well, he's not, so there's no chance of that.

Is there some sort of joke I’m not getting?

He's talking about Clement.
Washburn 4 Cy Young
“Well, I got my work in,” he said. “I don’t think it was really as bad as it looked.”
At least he didnt.... um.. walk anyone?
One more year!
Giabmi has been beaned in 3 straight ABs.
Crosby getting Beltre'd
Dave compared Yuni to Pablo Sandoval

ahahahaha BURN

Please leave Giambi alone
Spring Training or no

This is sort of deressing. It’s a nice day in Seattle – there should be some winning to go with it. That’ll learn me to be happy there’s a game on!

We've been winning enough, anyway.

Time for some regression.

Yeah, I suppose you're right

Might as well lie back and take it….

RRS

for 5th starter.

It's funny listening to KJR sports radio.

They are completely convinced that the M’s are going to just flat out cut Wash and put RRS in the rotation. I support that, but it’s not likely to happen.

I was listening yesterday

and Groz and Gas really thought that RRS was the hands down no. 5 guy. I am over at CWU so I don’t get KJR very well other than on the internet, and sometimes I forget how terrible/weird/different it is.

11-1 A's

Oh well.

Dave

Seems to have completely abandoned the game at this point…

Can you blame him?
Not one bit

That was wicked lame.

"Sloppy ballgame, bad baserunning and most of all bad pitching."

You’re sure right Dave…

HBP: Giambi (by Washburn), Giambi (by Washburn), Giambi (by Aardsma).

Good times…Giambi must have bulked up a bit.

Well, he's back to his unshaven Oakland look ....
I'm Jason Giambi, and I have the diabetes.

It frightens me.
That Aardsma one must have stung.

Good thing Washburn softened him up first.

I love this.

From the box:

HBP: Giambi (by Washburn), Giambi (by Washburn), Giambi (by Aardsma).

Wow, check this out:

HBP: Giambi (by Washburn), Giambi (by Washburn), Giambi (by Aardsma).

Hahaha:

HBP: Giambi (by Washburn), Giambi (by Washburn), Giambi (by Aardsma).

Wait...

Did someone get hit by a pitch?

I herd u lik HBP

so I put a HBP in your HBP

Yo dawg

(forgot that part)

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