Tigers vs. athletics Game Thread August 29

[manchild98]

Max said give them credit, they were swinging the sticks as hot as any team he's ever seen swing it.

 

[spockmaster]

im so fucking jealous, my mom just told me that my dad and brother were at the game today.

edit: my brother just texted me that it was hotter than the devil's anus and that it sucked for 8 1/2 innings, but the ending made it all worth it.

 

[manchild98]

im so fucking jealous, my mom just told me that my dad and brother were at the game today.

edit: my brother just texted me that it was hotter than the devil's anus and that it sucked for 8 1/2 innings, but the ending made it all worth it.

I was thinking of going today but I can't sit there when it's hot like that. I had a few friends posting on facebook from the game saying it was hot. I highly doubt I would have stayed for the entire thing after seeing what happened the previous 3 days.

 

[kalinecountry]

Props to Putkonen, Veras, and Benoit for keeping the game within reach.

4 innings 4 hits 4 K's that was maybe the only 4 straight shutout innings the 4 games, sure seemed like it.

 

[kalinecountry]

Miggy says he is ok and plans on playing Friday,

 

[spockmaster]

i really want mlb to post dickersons call really soon lol

 

[kalinecountry]

i really want mlb to post dickersons call really soon lol

I'm puttin' off my TigersVictoryCigar for his call.

 

[kalinecountry]

IdahoBert ‏@IdahoBert
@Dan_Dickerson Any way you can post a link to your call of Hunter's HR, Dan?

Dan Dickerson ‏@Dan_Dickerson
@IdahoBert Should be posted by tomorrow morning - I'll post link as soon as I have it...

that name is from motownsports

 

[coulomb]

Miggy says he is ok and plans on playing Friday,

How 'bout that pinch runner from the batters box like they did for ruth in his latter years?

 

[manchild98]

4 innings 4 hits 4 K's that was maybe the only 4 straight shutout innings the 4 games, sure seemed like it.

I looked earlier just to check the series for hits. Veras is the only Tiger pitcher not to give up a hit. Al Al and Bonderman each gave up 1 hit. Everyone else gave up at least 2 hits. I can't ever recall seeing a team beat up an entire pitching staff (especially a great starting staff like ours) like that for a 4 game series.

 

[kalinecountry]

I looked earlier just to check the series for hits. Veras is the only Tiger pitcher not to give up a hit. Al Al and Bonderman each gave up 1 hit. Everyone else gave up at least 2 hits. I can't ever recall seeing a team beat up an entire pitching staff (especially a great starting staff like ours) like that for a 4 game series.

This is what made me and a few of you question the ethical integrity and honesty of the a's.
No way they clobber every Tigers' pitcher without some help.

 

[byco42]

Drew Sharp is a (sic) idiat (sic). A tweet from today.

Drew Sharp‏@drewsharp
Leyland should consider keeping Hunter in sixth spot in batting order, compensating for Peralta loss.
Worse, some people agreed with him.

"TOTALLY AGREE"

"would you put Infante in the 2 hole? I like the thinking but don't like Andy in the 2."

Some liked the idea but had a question:

"would work except no one capable on the team to bat second"

Some were not that supportive:

"Yeah, ya f**ing moron, let's take away at-bats from a guy who is the team's second best hitter. Just f**king take an acid bath"

"Stick to what you know. Which is criticizing things you don't know about. Dumbest. Idea. Ever. Since the JOA."

 

[bdemil1]

This is what made me and a few of you question the ethical integrity and honesty of the a's.
No way they clobber every Tigers' pitcher without some help.

Kaline,
I know I'm a homer fan but I was thinking the same thing, r they stealing our signs . If Cleveland gets us I will start to worry.

 

[Thundercats]

Sharp is right. Hunter is a better run producer than Dirks, while Dirks' numbers in the top 2 spots of the order are actually pretty good. It would give Prince even more protection, and Dirks would have the protection of Miggy. It would also allow us a R-L-R-L-S-R top 6, which would devastate opposing managers late in games on how to manage their pens. It would be the perfect move. If your number 2 hitter has 70 RBI in late August, it's time to move them to a run producing spot in the lineup.

 

[spockmaster]

Sharp is right. Hunter is a better run producer than Dirks, while Dirks' numbers in the top 2 spots of the order are actually pretty good. It would give Prince even more protection, and Dirks would have the protection of Miggy. It would also allow us a R-L-R-L-S-R top 6, which would devastate opposing managers late in games on how to manage their pens. It would be the perfect move. If your number 2 hitter has 70 RBI in late August, it's time to move them to a run producing spot in the lineup.

No. You dont move a better hitter down in the lineup and replace him with a much worse hitter (because Dirks' small sample size numbers in the 2-hole need to be ignored, just like all small sample sizes like that). And for what, MAYBE a few extra RBI chances? That will be evened out by the fact that Dirks will be on less in the 2-hole. And ordering a lineup like that just to mess with an opposing manager is pointless. Its an awful idea all around.

Also, protection is a myth. Its been disproven time and time again, could someone throw a link in again on one of those articles? I dont think I ever bookmarked one.

 

[kalinecountry]

Kaline,
I know I'm a homer fan but I was thinking the same thing, r they stealing our signs . If Cleveland gets us I will start to worry.

or how about what the a's do against the rays pitching which is real good too.

 

[byco42]

Don't want to vacate what's not broken if it's not necessary. It puts Miggy up more often with no one on base. It gets fewer ABs for Hunter. It vacates a productive 2-spot, because I can't trust that Dirks's numbers will sustain.

 

[kalinecountry]

I just trolled balfour on twitter.

one of these years I'll grow up.

 

[tigermud]

They won? Sweet! I'll have to catch the reply now, I still want to know just how it was those a's from 1 to 9 were able to rank our staff over the coals like that, it still stinks to high heaven

 

[byco42]

I just trolled balfour on twitter.

one of these years I'll grow up.

Not, soon, hopefully.

I could not resist, in response to this tweet from yesterday by Balfour:

Balfour: HUGE win!! Hell Yeah!! Going for the SWEEP Thursday! Bring the brooms blokes!! #LetsGoOakland #Athletics #BalfourRAGE

Me: "Wow. The opposite of prescient. O Henry never conceived of this richness of irony. I wonder if Torii knew what was coming."