Tigers vs. a's ALDS Game Thread 2 Oct. 7

[Mitchrapp]

"Koho sandwich" is a hockey term. "Koho" is (was) a brand of wooden stick that was more popular 20 years ago.

Ah..

 

[grandy]

You can't do anything anymore as a player that shows some sign of disrespect..lol. You can't wear your hat this way, your pants are too baggy or too tight. Shut up already. He kissed the ball...so fn what? It's more goofy than anything. He was excited, he got his job done. People need to chill the fuck out when it comes to shit like this.

The A's will be chilling out on the golf course this weekend. Then Reddick can whine about the unfair pin placement.

 

[Thumb]

It's why I like baseball. And hockey. You show up the opposition and you eat a Koho sandwich.

But that's just as bad. Some pitcher gets whiny because he thinks a hitter admired a HR a little too much, so he drills him later.

Wanna get him back, strike his ass out, don't resort to being a little bitch. (Weaver)

Nothing wrong with what Al did, and if there is, it's only as bad as Reddick chucking his helmet and bat like a primadonna. That's supposed to be an ejection.

The only guy with a right to even be upset about it is Cespedes, and he can get back at Al like he said, get a good hit then kiss the bat.

Hockey is different, fighting and retaliation are expected and even encouraged, ESPN knew years ago that either McCarty or Maltby was going to pay back Claude Lemieux for the hit on Draper, they even advertised it.

 

[jas5lf]

I think it's time for Al-Al to bean someone. Hopefully it's Reddick or Cespedes.

 

[kalinecountry]

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=25362051&c_id=mlb&topic_id=vtp_manager_postgame
Webvideo Leyland on Alburquerque.
Tigers manager Jim Leyland discusses Al Alburquerque kissing the baseball before getting the out in the ninth inning of Game 2.
from the Tigers official site

 

[drivergreg]

I lost it when he said he'd have hugged it first.

 

[byco42]

But that's just as bad. Some pitcher gets whiny because he thinks a hitter admired a HR a little too much, so he drills him later.

Wanna get him back, strike his ass out, don't resort to being a little bitch. (Weaver)

Nothing wrong with what Al did, and if there is, it's only as bad as Reddick chucking his helmet and bat like a primadonna. That's supposed to be an ejection.

The only guy with a right to even be upset about it is Cespedes, and he can get back at Al like he said, get a good hit then kiss the bat.

Hockey is different, fighting and retaliation are expected and even encouraged, ESPN knew years ago that either McCarty or Maltby was going to pay back Claude Lemieux for the hit on Draper, they even advertised it.

My point appears lost: I like baseball and hockey because it places certain guidelines to celebration that football does not. I like that these guidelines are unwritten and interpretive and invite debate like this, and that the players even the scoresheet on their own and without serious injury. I like that certain players stretch the limits while others play with the emotion of a sleeping Calvin Coolidge.

IMO, Al went over the line. Unintentionally, though. Reddick and the other A's commented. It's this spice that adds to the drama of a series like this, and the Tigers and A's have a history of animosity that dates back to the 1960s.

 

[@Stakesarehigh]

for the record I don't agree with what al said and if this was the only chattering the A's had done all series it wouldn't register as much with me but this combined with the strike zone talk it's all coming off as if the A's are the Yankees or Rangers and not just a team who scrapped together an unlikely (albeit impressive) run with a bunch of cast offs and rookies.

 

[byco42]

The sad part is that many of these players will be on other teams several years from now.

 

[kalinecountry]

My point appears lost: I like baseball and hockey because it places certain guidelines to celebration that football does not. I like that these guidelines are unwritten and interpretive and invite debate like this, and that the players even the scoresheet on their own and without serious injury. I like that certain players stretch the limits while others play with the emotion of a sleeping Calvin Coolidge.

IMO, Al went over the line. Unintentionally, though. Reddick and the other A's commented. It's this spice that adds to the drama of a series like this, and the Tigers and A's have a history of animosity that dates back to the 1960s.

"It's this spice that adds to the drama of a series like this, and the Tigers and A's have a history of animosity that dates back to the 1960s".


I hated these bastards ever since f'n lew krausse broke Kaline's arm in summer of '68 with a deliberate fastball.
All hell broke loose right after too iirc jack aker threw at Northrup's head?

 

[Mitchrapp]

The A's as much as they won their division should be a easy win. They have good defense, now (they didn't at the start of the season) but as far as hitting goes, they have just as many slugs as we have without the star power of a Miggy and Fielder.

Our SP is better. They have a BP, that's their strong suit and we busted it in game 2.