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5/3: Open Game Thread, Part 4

This game is either going to be a brutal, crushing loss or the best win of the season.

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I vote for brutal, crushing loss
But what the fuck do I know anyways
It's called reverse mojo
It would appear that I'm missing a very interesting game.
New home plate ump?
Nevermind.
No

Dave Sims is crazy

I wonder if an umpire switch has ever been made mid-game that didn't involve injury
I'm sick and fucking tired of Rob Johnson.

This is horseshit. I feel betrayed as a fan. This fuck-suck better get the fucking boot. I hate this motherfucker.

Whoops

There goes my fucking day

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rallypuppy?
New Thread

New Life!

This game ends in the 15th

And no runs for the A’s.

Niehaus sounds tired.
I can't blame him. Not at his age.
He's gotten some time off

He sounds okay to me.

Call up Curto
After 14 innings, the umps start stripping

and then putting on jackets

Shhh

You might give the grounds crew new ideas for their dancing.

Shit

Bad start to the inning

And here we go again
Just a single.
SETTING UP THE DP, I CALLED IT FIRST
Let him bunt before he stills a bag on us
I am deeply impressed by the fortitude of members of this blog.

Generally my heart has exploded by the third extra inning.

I keep a spare oxygen tank in the water heater closet.
We survived last season

It was quite the conditioning

Only the strongest survive?
Oh, there were casualties

But the offseason is the perfect time for a liver transplant

Vargas, where has your control gone?
YES EVELAND WARMING UP
I thought Oakland was just going to sacrifce Gio to the god in the volcano.
I know how this goes!
Lets just bring Felix in and lock these motherfuckers down
This is all because of Lopez's error goddammit.
You can't assume everything works out the same
Where was that
Uh, strike?

Looked pretty close

Is this a record thumber of game threads?
I think it's 6 or 7 IIRC
I think we got up to 7 during SBN 1.0
Has Vargas been throwing all FB?
No, he's flashed some nice looking offspeed stuff.
His changeup looks especially nasty.
No, he has a few other pitches...
So is our plan to win by injuring the rest of the division's pitchers?
It would be cruel and would certainly net us a loss

but I want to see them bring in Silva.

I'd like to have him brought in and do well

So we can keep him IN the bullpen

I like Jason Vargas!
How many people left in the 13th

And wish they hadn’t?

K here. 1 out.

SEE YOU LATER LANDON!
Swinging K #2
STRIKEOUT!
It's Washburn's throw day right?
He pitched yesterday so I'm guessing Bedard.
Holy buckets

Duh

I mean Duh he pitched yesterday so it couldn't be his throw day

I think Matthew’s right on it being Silva

Just use Silva again
I hate Ryan Motherfucking Sweeney.
The tops of these innings are like overtime playoff hockey on the penalty kill.

I just want to curl up into the fetal position for the next two minutes until it’s over.

Kind of like a rash on your ass.....
DON'T YOU DARE
If the mariners win we will surely erupt...
NO SCRUFFY NO
I WILL KILL YOU IN THE FACE
I must have missed this meme...

Thank God.

NO NOT A MEME IT NEVER HAPPENED
I'm a little lost too
Glad I'm not the only one
Be glad you are.
You don't want to know, trust me
I WILL REC YOU
I WILL FEED YOU TO HUNGRY BEARS
It needs to be animated.
Now I'm curious
Rally Rash?
The rash could be barking at silva
Ok I really want to see this actually
I BET JEFF AND MATTHEW WILL REC YOU TOO
WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T ADD A SUBJECT LINE
ABSOLUTELY

THIS MAN IS A ENGINEER LISTEN TO HIM HE IS TRAINED

DO IT PLEASE YOU'RE GAY IF YOU DON'T
...

Because I want to know what this is about…

I almost like the mystery of it more.
I'm lost
I appreciate the wishful thinking for adding "two minutes"

Clearly, you couldn’t have written this while Batista was in.

Keeping it hockey specific.
Please oh please oh please get out of this
DP DP DP DP DP DP DP DP
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
GIDP please.
Jakubauskas started this game?

Whoa.

Ryan Sweeney really knows how to ruin a party
Good thing:

Felix and Bedard are going the next two days. That’s a chance for the bullpen to rest up.

Would feel better if they werent going against Texas
Also, not that true with Bedard.
Setting up the triple play. Oh wait.
Why is everyone worried? If the A's score here we'll just get the run back in the bottom of the inning.

Enough to tie it again, but not to win.

Oh fuck not O-Cab
And yet somehow I'm still more comfortable with Vargas

than I am with Batista

Batista is proven to suck

Vargas is still an unknown

Batista did ok, all things considered.
I'm not too disappointed
You're clearly grading on a curve.
That change is just silly.
Ah, our beautiful centerfielder has that
That was scary
JUST ONE MORE.
That was a longer flyball than I care to handle at the moment.
That looked like a scary out on gameday...
It was hit well, not too deep though
Off the bat it was a little scary.
Last One Always

The hardest out to get.

Wait, is Barry Zito good again? Good for him.
I doubt it.
FUCK YES NICE FIELDING
FUCK YEAH VARGAS
Yea Vargas. Nice hands!
Holy shit, that was a good shot
::Beams::
I LOVE YOU JASON VARGAS
Vargas can field, too? Rad
YES YES YES YES

SOMEBODY SCORE A FUCKING RUN NOW

::breathes sigh of relief deeply from oxygen mask::
only #&$^ innings to go...
Shades of Frank Booth, there.

DON’T LOOK AT ME!!! DON’T EVER LOOK AT ME!!! MOMMY!! MOMMY!!!

We need some Wak ball this inning
Felix better throw a CG tomorrow
42 outs

So what?

Try 45
I meant for the offense

It was a weak “joke”

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
We're going to get to see some Denny Stark tomorrow

w00t

We should send down some of these guys after the game, and call up some fresh arms
Stark, Lowe, Kelley, Aardsma and White should all be good for 1 inning

and Felix is starting

We’ll be fine

Lets go offense. We can't rely on Vargas to throw too many more scoreless frames
HIT A SALAMI, FELIX!
I would actually prefer they pinch-hit Felix for Johnson or Yuni

then let them swing away. Somehow I trust Felix with his eyes closed more than those two with their eyes open.

Jason Vargas did that with some swagger.

He just turned his back and stood there for about two seconds before throwing.

Gutz has three walks today? Wow.
Eveland. Good hitting
This worked to rally the Brewers today, maybe you can use the help as well?

SMALLER SMALLER
SMALLER!
Smaller

And next time no guys with their shirts off!

Gotta make it smaller here at LL.

Also, “Fuck you Jobu! I do it myself!”

Sorry

Didn’t know this was a small image blog. My apologies.

Bogs down gamethreads that get this big

no worries

Well I say, "Fuck you, Jobu."
SMALLER YOU FOOL
THIS GAME IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE LENGTH OF THIS GAME
I believe there's a problem with its largeness.
SMALLER, BUT IT SEEMS TO HAVE WORKED

SO CREDIT WHERE IT’S DUE.

THIS WAS THE TURNING POINT LET'S KEEP IT
Glad I could help
YOU JACKASSES I CANT LEAVE WORK UNTIL THIS IS OVER AND I WANT TO GO HOME
If it helps..

I just got in from a night out

The game started as I went out, I’ve seen four bands, got a tny bit drunk, missed a train, got my train and sobered up.

Come on Ms!!

I WILL KILL FOR A HOMERUN RIGHT NOW

I HAVE THE CLAW-HAMMER AND EVERYTHING

Haha I can't belive this game it still going
We have 4 players with .230 WPA or more tonight

and five with -.150

I am running out of beer. Hurry up game.
DANA EVELAND IS BAD AT THROWING STRIKES

TAAAAAAKKKEEEE

J/K DUDE NICE HIT
Could Silva time be coming up?
GUTI!!!!!!!!
Ichiro ftw again this inning
Na, he'll get the IBB
Wow, what a game.

I hope the M’s wear out the A’s for the Angels tomorrow.

5 hour game!!!
YESYESYES GUTI GUTI GUTI
Had to join for the end.
GUUUUUUUUUTZ
BLOOOOOOOOP
Gutierrez is good at being awesome.
Oh God does this mean that Silva might come in for us?
OH FUCK HERE COMES A YUNI BUNT
Rally Killer coming up!
Okay Yuni, you ding dong.
Cum on feel the noize!
eveland

shows up as D Eveland in gamecast.

Devil-Land.

DEFENSE YES!

Probably the greatest album cover ever
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Reminds me of the home opener...
YES

This is almost as good as those Franklin turtle pics.
I just thought of a great gif idea.

Stay notified over the next week.

YESY EYASEYHHAHAAHAHAHAH EVELENAD
This game ENDS RIGHT NOW!!!
YUNI'S BUNTS INDUCE THROWING ERRORS
YESYESYESIT'SLIKEOPENINGDAY
Terrible bunt. Fantastic result.
YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!
FUCK YUNI'S SUCK IS SO AWESOME!!!
It's contagious!
YEsssssss
GO ICHIRO GO
Horrible bunt.

BUT IT WORKS!!!

NOW KILL THEM ICHIRO
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU FUCKED THAT UP HUH?????????
WE CAN DO IT.
Yuni FAIL... Eveland FAIL
Yuni/Frabkin powers unite!
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

THREW IT AWAY OH FUCK YES WE'RE GONNA WIN
Holy crap that went from

Extreme FAIL to Extreme WIN

Haha your name is Dana and you threw like a girl

Deal with it!

Does any team get more horrible pitcher throws on late-inning bunts?
The 2001 Yankees?
What a terrible bunt.. hahahaha
SHITTY BUNT POSITIVE RESULT
That was such a horrid bunt
SQUEEZE!!!!!
Hooorah for extra innings throwing errors!
Ichiro IBB...
HOLY CRAP ALL WE NEED IS A SAC FLY
LOPEZ TIME. WHAT NOW!
Walking Ichiro

The only way you don’t win is an unassisted triple play.

This is the Mariners

I trust their ability to lose in new and interesting ways.

Strikeouts?

Infield fly rule?
So many possibilities for failure.

SQUEEZE JUST CAUSE IT WOULD BE FUN
SQUEEZE JUST CAUSE IT WOULD BE FUN
Lopez for the win - unironically!
Man if we can't get it done here...just fucking forget it.
Lopez has been so much fail tonight.

Shit.

It's going to be Lopez again.

Hilarious.

Bases loaded no outs

We better fucking win this

SAC FLY WINS IT YES ESY YES
A double play still scores a run doesn't it?

So why?

Ichiro is good at hitting
So if Lopez wins this he'll have the craziest +/- WPA combo
WOW

THIS GAME MIGHT END

SQUEEZE DAMN YOU
If we can't do it here, we are truly sad.

I think we’re better than that, though.

Time for the good ol triple play...

Fuck you, Lopez.

I feel like we're going to screw this up
No Taylor no!
Right stay positive!
Hooray!
END THIS NOW LOAFIE
If Lopez hits a grand slam right now... well that would be unlikely.
TAKETAKETAKETAKETAKE
I PREDICT A LOPEZ WALK
Did you bet on Friesan Fire?
That's a silly thing to do
REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY
IT WORKED!
SQUEEZE FOR THE WIN
Everyone ready for another 15 pitch AB
All he needs is to get a flyball

seems easy, right?

Ah you just took a meatball
Lopez Walk!
i want guti's penis in and around my mouth, multiple times
Don't mince your words now tell us how you really feel.
DO THE RALLY MONKEY YUNI
You're the one I'm living for and feed all the time

With your dreams, all the time

COME ON YOU BASTARD
94% win expectancy

WE LIVE IN A SIX PERCENT WORLD

We had 3% before our half of the 13th
Oh no.. Please Jose, get your shit together
THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS YOU CAN END THIS BALLGAME LOAFIE
A walk for the win would be great

I would walk Lopez to take it really, really slowly, just sunday stroll to first.

I feel good about this.
Healthy fly ball
LOPEZ!?!?!?!?!?
VICTORY!!!!!!!!!1

HAHA FUCK YES DEFENSE
Well that was interesting.
WE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UNBELIEVABLE!
HOLY FUCK!
BALLHAMEEEE!@
YES THAT WILL DO IT
WHAST THE FUCK?!
LOPEY!!!!!!!!!!!!1
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
OIH MY GOD WE WIN
Oh my fucking god
NOT SHALLOW ENOUGH
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
HOLY SHIT!!!
WHAT A FUCKING FLUKEY WAY TO WIN!!!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
A's are fucking incompetent
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!?!
UGLIEST WINNING INNINGEVER!!!!!
AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN

WINNY WINNY WIN WINNY WINNY WIN WINNY WINNY WIN WINNY WINNY WIN WINNY WINNY WIN

LOPEZ! MARINERS! FINALLY! EPIC WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PUPPY DID IT AGAIN!
Um, I mean,

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PUSSY HIT WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
WAY TO PLAY IT, FUCKO!

WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN!!!!!!

YES THANK FUCKING GOD
All I'm sayin'

Is that Big Jobu worked :)

MY WSWEET DICK!!!!
IT'S ABOUT BLOODY TIME
HOLY FUCING SHIT YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I can't imagine how annoyed I'd be if I were an A's fan right now
You're a Mariners fan.

It shouldn’t be that hard to think of something comparable.

WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN
Somewhere the A's pitcher just cries....
Just remember, the real winner in this is game

is Dr. James Andrews, who will be expecting a call from Gio Gonzalez shortly.

DAVE NIEHAUS IS FLIPPING OUT!!
Dave's sheer incredulity at the inability of the A's outfield to catch that shallow can of corn is making him laugh his ass of.

“It was a ROUTINE POP-UP!” — and his voice cracked with disbelief like an adolescent!

He's as delirious as we are.
How marvelous.... I can almost hear it.
It was cute in an old man sort of way.
That was Rizzs going "teehee" in the background.
No, you could most definitely hear Dave's voice actually crack a bit with the combination of enthusiasm and WTF-ness.
No doubt

I think they both were.

Shit, I was.
I AM SO HAPPY
DEFENSE WINS THINGS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OH GOD!

Gio Gonzalez = Cry about it.

So what's our record in 8-7 games?
TEABAGS ALL AROUND

FUCKING FUCK YES FUCK

No politics!
OH GOD THAT WAS RETARDED!!!!!!!
WE'RE ON A MOTHERFUCKING BOAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GRAB AN OAR, BUDDY!
EVERYBODY LOOK AT US WE'RE ON A MOTHERFUCKING BOAT
FUCK TREES WE CLIMB BUOYS MOTHERFUCKER
THIS AIN'T SEA WORLD THIS IS REAL AS IT GETS
WOOOOOOO WINS ARE FANTASTIC
Silva took the punching of Lopez too seriously.

did you see silvas face when he was punching? angry

LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE

LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE LOAFIE

THAT WAS FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE
Hot sexy fangraph

Yayeah

"Wak ball comes through again"

How is that Wak ball? A terrible error and a terrible defensive read by the CF

Well, a bunt was key to the victory.

Good things happen when you bunt.

I am going to get a PIZZA!
Lopez is my favorite all star!
Total contribution by opposition shot up this inning!
I'm pretty sure the opposition contributed pretty much 100% to this game.
Twice in three games for Lopez

Pretty good week for the kid.

I do feel sorry for Gio
But he plays for the A's.
I don't.

Fuck that guy

A New Day

A New Fucking Lucky Ass Way

I can finally go to the bathroom!
Yay! You get a gold star!
Ichiro tried to jump onto Loafie's back.
I wish I caught that
Hahaha! Wish we had footage of this.
This will be an entertaing WE chart
Spoiler

here.

Given Jeff's lack of appearance in this thread, I speculate this will be the actual WE graph
Yep

I'm happy Yuni gets a spot.

Appropriate that it says ERROR next to his name.
Also, that’s the closest Betancourt has been to 2B all season.

"Betancourt has been to 2B all season"

This is true in every sense.

"true in every"

I need to learn to cut entire quotes.

From AN:

fuck me

and shoot me in the head now

by Wreckonized on May 3, 2009 6:10 PM PDT reply reply actions actions 0 recs

I would hate to be on their side right now.

But then again, we’re the Mariners and we’ve experienced that in excess, so fuck ’em.

I almost feel bad for them...

…because the AN folks are good people, for the most part.

But yeah, we’ve been on the shit end of the stick countless times, so I’m not too sympathetic.

Maybe we should make them a GIF batch of cookies.

A’s fans do not deserve to lose like this.

I'm speechless. Unreal.
I'M TELLIN YA

WE'RE ON A BOAT!!!!!!

BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY I FUCKED A MERMAID!

Still awesome.
I still marvel at how perfectly his expression fits the caption
It's almost like he's warning us to get out of the way, because the boat is comin' on through.
I would seriously not be surprised if Ichiro has indeed had sex with a mermaid.
I would not be suprised if Ichiro created mermaids by having sex with fish.

His ways are not our ways.

So Geren is really bad at his job.
Why can't Beane seem to stick with a good manager?
Jose Lopez's WPA

went from something like -36 to -26, weird that it didn’t go more positive.

Bases loaded no out, needing one run, chances of scoring one super high already
Logically it makes sense

but it still seems wrong.

His clutch will go up.
That ending was fucking awesome. I'm watching it again.

I mean, just the last at bat. I’m not insane or anything.

Vargas looks kind of like a young Al Capone

Even more so when I can get a screen cap of todays game.

Oh shit. AWESOME.
And a nickname is born...
I wonder often a player who has a walkoff hit also has a WPA of -.260
!!!!

This gif is fantastic
Somewhere, I like to think

Gio Gonzalez is still pitching….

RIP, little buddy

I can't believe I stayed on this entire thread from start to finish.

Wow what an anti-waste of time!

They won without Krueger's keys to the game?

IMPOSSIBLE!

It appears Lopez sort of moonwalked after he hit that ball.
Best game of the year hands down.
I really, truly love seeing Ichiro mixing it up in a smile pile like that.
Yes, that was one of the best parts of the game.

Happy Ichiro is an amazing thing to see.

Ahhhhhhhhh yeah.

I need a cigarette.

Jack Cust would have caught that.
Remember: Rajai Davis was inserted in the 8th inning as a defensive replacement.

IRONY WRIT LARGE.

LETS GET DRUNK LETS GET DRUNK LETS GET DRUNK LETS GET DRUNK LETS GET DRUNK
Ohhh yeah.

15-10 feels so much better than 14-11.

And Oakland is not a team we can afford to give away games to, either.
I bet Fogel wishes he had his own name back.

But I think “One of the Many Fans of Jose Lopez” is still available.

God

I hate the new Pepsi Max commercial even more than the last one. “MEN GET WHAT MEN WANT.” Misogyny anyone?

Hmmm....sounds almost like you're some kind of skirt-wearing WOMAN to me.
He probably drinks Diet Pepsi
I, in fact, dislike cola of all varieties

Mt. Dew or Root Beer for me!

I have been known to wear a skirt though, sometimes, during Ultimate games.

I find the grating voice in the old one to be worse.

Old one also makes me like bacon a little less.

The Pepsi ads are awful ... but the Schnauzer Sirloins are my favs.

Yippie-ay-yay, miniii sirloiinn burgerrzzzz.

Sweeney On TV states the obvious.

“If we hadn’t won this game, it wouldn’t be so sweet.”

I like that the Soggy Bottom Boys are playing in the clubhouse.

Yuni's suck is just spectacular. Just the best pile of suck ever.

Rarely does suck translate into wins like it does with Yuni. Outstanding.

Wow Defensive Fail

on that last play by Davis. Raul Ibanez would have made that catch.

Let's not get too ahead of ourselves here, shall we.
What would Raul be doing in shallow center?
Running in from the outfield wall on Opening Day?

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