I sure did.
I mean, why stay up? Yanks were down 2-0 after the 1st, 5-1 in the 8th. No SNL. No Colbert. Not even Benny Hill. Not gonna lie. I took the snap, surveyed the rush, and punted. Straight to the Land of Nod. Or the state of New Jersey. Wasn't gonna watch.
Turns out, the A's did everything possible, short of bringing in Neville Chamberlain, to give the game away. Four straight walks, three with the bases loaded, following a razor-thin strike call challenged by Goldy. In the end, we refused their magnanimous generosity. It shouldn't have been close, and my hope is that all of you doused the lights to avoid getting your blood pressure tazed. This is how it ended. And I can't even blame Jazz for swinging: On a 2-2 count, he had no choice but to guard the plate.
Oh well... Tampa and Toronto lost. We're still three games out. Today's game is at 4:05 p.m. Monday begets June and the days are still getting longer. Sacramento! We're coming for you!
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It wasn't just this game. It's the culture and the organization. Believe me when I say that I used to stay up for EVERY GAME, every season, for years. I'd listen to the commentary on the radio before and after for every game. But this was when they used to put a compelling product - we used to call it "team" - out on the field. I was hooked in. Missing a game was unimaginable. I used to carry a small radio around with an earpiece. In other words, I used to be a rabid fan. Now - and this is aside from the infirmities of age and general cultural exhaustion - I just get into bed and fade off. If I'm lucky.
Yep. Slept through it.
There's a term for last night's debacle...FUBAR...
Three free runs. And one hit woulda done it on top of that.
Boone silently wishing for seven Volpe clones so everywhere he'd look, there'd he be. Sad.
Pimento.
Was out. Didn’t see it. Didn’t miss anything important, apparently.
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Wavering
They almost came back. My surprise was that "Mr. 50-50" Chisholm, did not swing at the first pitch. He actually had a good atbat.
I was up working, but saw they were down 5-1 and never turned it on. This is not a team that stages a lot of come-from-behind rallies.
All right, the A's threw their best pitcher, and Weathers wasn't awful, just made a couple mistakes. But Bitty is right. It's the whole organization...
I mean, we're over one-third of the way into the season, and our starting catcher has 7 RBI. 7. Remember how outraged we were back in 2013, when Cashie decided to leave Chris Stewart as the start for the whole year? Well, right now Wells is behind Stewart's total of 25 ribbies on the year, and just 3 points ahead of Stewart's .566 OPS.
I never thought I'd be longing for the days of Rick Cerone and Brian McCan't behind the plate...
The lack of clutch hitting is simply astonishing. Yanks had 6 hits and 9 walks, and the A's made 2 errors...but we got 4 runs?...
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