Life can't stay a ridiculous terror show forever, so the A's held serve and delivered a horrifically garbage performance in response to the White Sox effort Tuesday night. I don't pretend to be deeply invested in A's roster affairs, and can't even guess what brought them to the point of giving recently acquired rookie reliever Cody Martin his second career MLB start.
Read MoreAfter having a day to ruminate, Collin, James, and Nick joined forces to mull over the recent pitching additions, and what it means for the franchise.
Read MoreApparently we need to strike while Matt Adams is hot, and respond to these Samardzija-to-Chicago, Justin Masterson-FA-signing rumors
Read MoreAbreu hit a bomb, so who cares about war?
The White Sox are a messy team, besot with injuries, cycling through bad contracts they'd clearly just as soon dump if given the right opportunity, and finding just...dudes to pitch their games these days. And Jose Abreu is a messy player--big and hulking, clumsy at first base and prone to big, waving strikeouts--but with such a pure and overwhelming power stroke that everything gets wiped away and made to be the foreshadowing and the denouement of his big moment.
Read MoreNick is always chiding me to write shorter and simpler recaps. If he had his way, we'd post: "Quintana was sharp, offense didn't help, Ventura's a dingus" and just update the links to the box score until someone complained.
But the reader, the customer deserves more for this game. They deserve more than "Carroll not sharp, offense didn't help, Ventura's a dingus" for this 11-0 late-night loss in Oakland that no one in their right mind watched all the way through. They deserve a wave of synonyms for painful aggressions acted upon them.
Read MoreThanks to some recent franchise luck, the White Sox 5-1 loss suffered late, late, late on what always seems like a dark night in Oakland, was only the team's sixth-consecutive defeat in Oakland Coliseum.
Oakland is not one of America's ritzier metropolises. The fans, are few, but dedicated, such that their loopy and tongue-in-cheek heckling is audible throughout the frequent silences in the broadcast, and the frustrated profanity of Sox players is unmistakable. You could even hear John Danks curse as he gave up a go-ahead fifth inning two-run home run to Josh Donaldson; the 2013 MVP finalist posed after he whipped a low-and-in cutter that both lacked perfect placement and the old velocity that would have covered up the mistake.
This place is like a dream.
Read MoreWest coast games are hard. They start so late and when things aren’t going the way you want them to the Siren’s call of sleep begins to lure you away and before you know it you’re stirred awake by a “this ball game is ovah” of a tone so telling that you won’t even need to look at the score to know the result. Oh it’s hard on the players too. You know, all that flying and actual participating in baseball games.
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