Official Oakland Athletics 2012 Season Thread (94-68) AL WEST CHAMPIONS

[jumpmanfromdabay]

 

[urb]

It's sad seeing Brett still on the DL 

 

[grusumm18]

at least he's in shape (best shape he's been in in years)



good read on tjs if u missed it before

http://espn.go.com/mlb/st...nical-flaw-espn-magazine

 

[wearinthefourfive]

Devine says Dr. James Andrews is looking at his MRI. Best case: more flexor tendon tendinitis. Worst case: flexor-tendon surgery. #Athletics

Season hasn't even started yet; first Sizemore now this.https://twitter.com/#!/search/#Athletics

 

[smokey1212]

Cespedes with 2 doubles tonight off the highest paid righty in the L?

BOSS

 

[grusumm18]

i get why sfg did it, but im not a fan of the move
kills future will tim
buster and madbum are gonna have to get paid

their farm blows...need a bat via fa (belt is not enough)

but it was refreshing to see one local squad pay/keep homegrown talent...

fwiw, cesp hit one double, most 3b make that play...he was safe at the plate too

 

[smokey1212]

I agree on Cain, but I'd rather sign him than Lincecum. He's more consistent.

And I dunno if most 3b make that play, the ball was smoked. Plus, Sandoval is a pretty damn good fielder at the corner.

 

[grusumm18]

http://www.fangraphs.com/...eams-may-regret-trading/

 

[johnson1]

^ very nice, hope Parker makes it up here sometime this year along with Brett Anderson

 

[grusumm18]

ba
ajc
parker
tm

not a bad foursome for the future
plus pea, sonny, krol, griff

tyson is not a starter, and it sucks to type that...

 

[urb]

Tyson Ross gets snubbed again! 

 

[grusumm18]

dont let the era fool ya

dude was gettin lit up this spring...hardly any mvt on his slider

 

[jumpmanfromdabay]

Anybody going to the first 2 games. Got Tix for Saturday

 

[shaunhillftw49]

ill be there, trying to persuade a friend to go to the Sat and Sun games though

 

[jumpmanfromdabay]

 

[jumpmanfromdabay]

That HR by Cespedes

 

[eagle 0n]

Damn, Yoenis smashed that $!@%$ 

down 7-2 tho

 

[madj55]

Went an estimated 462 feet

 

[jumpmanfromdabay]

Originally Posted by madj55

Went an estimated 462 feet

 

[wearinthefourfive]

That game last night was so bad, I was drunk off my $$% by the 5th inning.

Comcast isn't even showing tonight's game, so I can't even watch our own stream.

Speaking of which, you don't know how much work I had to go through last night trying to get a stream...I couldn't find a normal stream anywhere, all I kept finding were "stream torrent" ones, and they don't have stream torrent for mac. I ended up downloading "virtual box" so I could run a micro windows XP, so I could get stream torrent so I could watch the stream....Then the game ended up being terrible.

If Donaldson and Kila are starting today, I don't even want to watch.

 

[red is on nt]

The ball just jumps off of Cespedes' bat.

Dude has been amazing so far.

 

[bigbrandon]

Been here both nights in a row. Not much to cheer for besides Yoenis. At least it's close tonight. Getting me a Yoenis Cuban Missle Crisis jersey made up first thing Monday! Love this guy already.

 

[Johnny_Cakes]

Yoenis is nuts with that bat. Don't want to get too excited yet, but could 30 HRs be a conservative figure for him?

 

[bigbrandon]

I think 30 could be very conservative. Of course he won't keep up this pace but just like the big hurt did a few years ago I could see him hitting 40 plus big flys. 3 in 4 games to start the campaign is nuts!

 

[jumpmanfromdabay]

Was at the game. That HR got outta her in a hurry.