What I don't understand is Oakland/Bay Area fans. They have the 7th worst attendance in baseball this year and the fans never seem to come out for them even though they put out a solid team year in and year out. They're averaging almost 15,000 less people a game than the Giants who are garbage.

THE NEV EPISODE

:cool:

OK . But yah the A's are good.

HEY, FUCK YOU. If anyone should have made this thred it should have been me.

OKAKLAND F'N A'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

You're a horrible A's fan

God, I miss the bay area. I want to go to a game so bad. I think the NL West plays the AL west next year though, so I might luck out if they come to AZ.

And yeah, what Miz said. They will crush the White Sox if they meet them in the playoffs. If it's the Red Sox, then they will probly win the first 2 and lose the last 3. Like every year.

The bandwagon is full Rectal Pertruder. Please leave.

You're just plain horrible. :)

Fuck, I remember when I was a kid and the A's were terrible in the 90's. You could go to a game for something like $8. BART ride, cheap bleacher seats, and maybe a dollar hot dog night and it would be around $8 or something.

It's hard not to like the A's. I've liked them going back to the mid 70's. Expos, Jays, M's, A's. I'd say that would be my order of favourites. Minus the 'sP0s now of course.

Oh shit, something I forgot to mention.

Miz, Huston Street will not be the rookie of the Year. No doubt he's been very good for the A's this year, however:


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Will be the AL RotY

Chacin has been very, very good, but he is a #3 starter on a team that will not make the playoffs. Street is one of the key contributors to the resurgence of a team that most likely make the playoffs. His ERA is well under 2 and he could finish with 20-25 saves. Oakland's pen is arguably the best in the AL and he is the leader of it. Sorry but there is no pressure starting in Toronto on a .500 team. Street is 21 and was brought in to replace Octavio Dotel as the Oakland A's closer and has been unbelievable. Chacin = very good Street = excellent

I say you're wrong, however, we shall see.

The only chance he has of losing it is if his teamate Nick Swisher takes away some of his votes. If by the end of the season his statline looks something like 21/26 sv, 1.85, 70+ ip it will be hard to argue.

Manny bats once tonight. Hits his 30th HR and picked up his 100th RBI

WOOOP

AND THEN GOT INJURED

Orioles fired Lee Mazzilli what the F

Orioles name OF Eric Byrnes player/manager

A-Rod ties it up in the 9th

way to finally start coming through in the clutch

lol. oh god. I couldn't picture him handling a scorecard

GIAMBI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Giambi > You

Balco > Giambi

:lol:

You know though, at least Giambi was open about his steroid usage, all the credit to him for that.

21 non roided homerssssss

And like, 20 in 3 weeks

That's an exaggeration, btw.

yeah, its more like 20 in 4

How do you know they arent roided?

<font color=goldenrod>Was at the Mets game today....pretty upsetting loss, don't know what the fuck Willie was doing putting 40-year old Roberto Hernandez in for a 4th straight game but oh well, they blew it

It was funny, in the 8th my dad and I moved down from the 1st base side upper deck to the 3rd base side mezzanine just in time to see Dae-Sung Koo give up a hit to a lefty, then Willie pulled him and the crowd in the section praised him for it.....only for them to announce Danny Graves as the new pitcher 30 seconds later and they started cursing him again :lol:

Mad crazy scoring though, 36 hits, 21 runs......got to see a Beltran dinger (about friggin time), a Piazza dinger/5 RBI game (memorable since it's probably his last year with the team), and a MAMMOTH Cameron shot that, had it not hit the top of the camera tower, would have gone an estimated 460 feet :eek:

Plus it was the longest 9-inning game in Shea history (4 hours, 9 minutes) so all in all it was still a great time :cool:

SSSSS @ Stros losing to the D-Backs</font>

I guess :-\\

Are you serious?

Before:

http://www.lukereport.com/images/giambi1.jpg

http://sfgate.com/chronicle/pictures...188-giambi.jpg

After:

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...ns_ohtd107.jpg

Oh right I forgot, you can tell if someone is roided or not just by looking at them

LOL get out of my face

I think Ichiro is on roids

Did you think any of these guys were on roids?

Ryan Franklin
Rafael Betancourt
Jorge Piedra
Alex Sanchez
Jamal Strong
Juan Rincon
Agustin Montero

None of them are very big

Even though I am a huge Red Sox fan I highly doubt Giambi is still on 'roids. Not only would he be laughed out of the sport if he got caught again, he also had some serious health issues from steroid side effects.

I also doubt he is still on roids but to be 100% certain is ridiculous.

Oh well, even steroids can't help him stop sucking massive penis at first base

LOL Derek Lowe is cheating on his wife

gotta story you can post?

LOL been all over the Boston Herald. Also had a huge headline "BOOZE DID LOWE IN WHEN PLAYING FOR BOSTON" on the front page.

What an idiot. At first I read it as Derek Lee. I was thinking "Jesus Christ, a little bit of fame and BAM...." Glad it was only Lowe, sucks for the wife and kids though.

LOL Shea Hillenbrand stole home. Go Yankees!

Damn Twins

Man the Red Sox blew that one. 3-3 game in the 9th, Cuddyer gets a base hit and goes to second on Bill Mueller throwing error, then scores after Mike Timlin throws the ball away after a bunt :o

Man. The Jays just seem to have Randy Johnson's number this year. I LOVE IT

Fucking Sox blew it. David Wells pitched real good too

<font color=goldenrod>:eek: @ how well Jae Seo pitched today...........shame they didn't call him up to replace Ishii in the rotation 2 and a half months ago</font> :(

I wish I didn't hate the Twins, because last nights would have been a good game to watch :mad:

I still stand strong that the White Sox don't have what it takes to win in the playoffs though. Garland will get his shiite rocked, I guarantee it.

They can make it to the ALCS if they play the crappy Angels. Boston or Oakland? No chance

Oakland needs to get out of the ALDS this year, that was rediculous the other year when they were up 2-0 on Boston and then lost. Then before that didn't they lose like three straight to the Yankees?

Oakland is in 1st now. haha.

It's Angles vs Oakland next too. This should help NY

ZAMBRANO VS ZAMBRANO

I was just thinking about how awesome the Yankee rotation would be if it were 1995 and not 2005

1. Randy Johnson: 18-2, 2.48
2. Mike Mussina: 19-9, 3.29
3. Hideo Nomo: 13-6, 2.54
4. Kevin Brown: 10-9, 3.60
5. Al Leiter: 11-11, 3.64

:'(

lol nice

:'( the memories

http://www.onlinesports.com/images/s...95mariners.jpg

The ALDS that year was excellent. Edgar had a walk-off double against Jack McDowell in game 5.

I remember this photo in 2001

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/bas...iano_ap-01.jpg

Some 9th inning walk off by Soriano

but that ALDS thing did make me cry. I remember being in a car listening to the radio when it happened. And then seeing Griffey scoring later on at home from the news :nono:

When the hell did he open up about it? The only two people to come out about Giambi's usage were the guy who leaked the grand jury story and jose canseco.

Giambi held that big press conference to apologize for "something he couldn't talk about"

Yeah 2001 was the Yankees year for walk offs :lol:

Not funny? This guys laughing

http://sportsmed.starwave.com/media/...gonzalez_i.jpg

yea, I can't really say anything more about the M's in the playoffs. Kind of limited here.

The Yankees arent making the playoffs in 2005 so you better get your jokes out while you can

And we're still celebrating, even though we suck SO MUCH ASS.

A'SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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You don't have to be picky about it, everybody knows what he meant.

Everybody else is flat out denying it, and from what I gather everybody believes the excuses. "Latin players can't read bottles" "I didn't know I took it" shit like that, if steroids are such a problem then why are all the people getting caught the ones doing them unintentionally? Giambi didn't make up some bullshit about taking the wrong supplement or anything, and Scot likes that in a man. I'll go along with him.

<font color=goldenrod>LOL, in just 6 games with Triple-A Pawtucket, Mark Bellhorn has a .115 AVG and 9 K's.....Sox would be retarded if they start him over Graffanino or Cora</font>

The key is 6 games. They can leave him in Pawtucket for about 20 more days before they have to cut him. If he's still hitting below Mendoza then than he's gone but I doubt that will happen. Bellhorn is obviously more talented than Graffanino and Cora but at this point they will make a better contrubtion. But Bellhorn is 30 now and if he isn't getting his usual OBP numbers no one will want him

Can anybody be bothered to explain the rules of baseball to me?I tried watching on channel 5 last night and got too confused to be bothered with it.

And how many games do they play a season? Wait, wtf am i doing asking about baseball..

162 games over 6 months

Holy shit. 162 games?How do they have enough time for that amount?And how do they stay fit?Oh yeah that's it, steroids!

yea, every player takes steroids.

I wouldn't doubt that atleast half of them do. But seriously, do they play a game every day or something?162 games is alot to fit in 6 months.

They play every day, 2 or 3 off days a month

You are smart.

Usually Mondays are days off. Not always, but yeah...

Those Carribians who hack at slop all night long sure do suck.

Vladdy is smacking around the A's. Fuckin A right.:y:

He's the man.

<font color=goldenrod>AGFDNGJDGDSGNJLGNF @ that play David Wright just made :eek:

Pretty much a guaranteed spot on the Sportscenter top 10</font> :eek:

Yeah, WTF. A's :(

Too bad the Angels still aren't very good

LOL you fucking see that kid that fell into the net at Yankee Stadium? hahaha he fell from the upperdeck

Best team in the AL, dont care what anyone else says, cuz I am correct.

Kenny Rogers suspension shortened to 13 games by an arbitrator. I skimmed through the article, but I agree with what Selig said.

I don't know what would warrant shortening the suspension, and to make matters worse I bet The Miz is pissed off now too.

I am sick of hearing about it honestly. Also Bud Selig is never right - lets get serious haha

No. Their starters overachieved mightily the first few months and are now starting to pitch as good as they are. Colon is good yes, but very erratic and gets shelled more than most aces. Their offense is very, very overrated. Vlad is excellent but past that it's very shaky. You never what you will get from Anderson and Erstad; and Finley flat out sucks, period. He's done. They don't know who is going to DH. They don't know who is going to play CF. They have way too many question marks right now to be considered an AL favorite. The Red Sox, A's, and White Sox are all clearly better right now. They have a mental advantage over Oakland and Chicagi will probably choke in the playoffs but if they face Boston at all they are done, 4 games at most.

Also I could care less about Kenny Rogers, the additon of him turns the Rangers pitching from awful to very very bad. The Rangers aren't contenders anymore (well they never were but people get boners over their home run hitting) so it doesn't matter.

Renteria made 2 more errors tonight but came through with the game winning hit. I don't know what his deal is in the field, my brother brought up Knublock (sp?) :| :| I hope not..

I know.

I hope the first pitch Kenny Rogers pitches is hit straight up the middle and hits him in the head, ala Matt Clement. That way, I would know the Karma machine isn't broken.

<font color=goldenrod>Yeah.......it made #1

If you haven't seen it yet, I'm pretty sure there's a vid on Mets.com or MLB.com of it, I'm still like :eek: just seeing it</font>

Felix Hernandez is the greatest pitcher in the history of the world

The Twins are just awful too though. Its stupid because coming into this season, they were supposed to be the best team yet. Two ace pitchers, no real holes in the batting order, all that. Even into midseason they were standing strong, our record was better then last years up even until near the all-star break. The whole breakdown of this team was mental, the White Sox were so far ahead, everybody even here gave them wildcard at best chances, and confidence fizzled. Once Morneau cooled off it was basically over, and Johan was pretty much a choke after about a month into the season.

Thats not trying to give an excuse for Hernandez though, the Twins obviously still have a potent enough lineup to beat the average rookie pitcher, but he completely shut them down. He deserves the credit up to this point.

The Twins suck major penis, but there's nothing else to get excited about up here.

Felix = Bartolo Colon, except Felix is not a huge ugly bastard.

The Twins have to buy a veteran for next year. Losing Corey Koskie shouldn't be that detremental, he was like a 270 hitter with 20 homers and 30 missed games. He was simply a locker room presence, but his absense seems to be the biggest reason for our collapse.

Jacque Jones is basically not coming back, plain and simple. He was going to be traded before last year until the outfield prospect who was to take his place ruined his knee for the year. Now he is going to walk as a free agent and Torii and Shannon will be the only players with experience. If we don't sign a good shortstop, thirdbaseman, or right fielder, things aren't going to get any better next year. Damn.

Sox and Tigers are teams to beat in the central in '06 IMO. That is if the Tigers can get any pitching past Bonderman

Yeah Bonderman has been pretty sick, but don't forget about Cleveland either

Manny is so rediculous, two men on and of course he jacks it