The Official Oakland Athletics 2014 Season Thread

[mirrf]

Originally Posted by mirrf

I'm hiding in the bathroom until everything is a-ok. Of course, I haven't come out for 2 weeks now.

Pokes head out of bathroom.....

"Is it safe to come out yet? No? Ok."

Enters bathroom, closes and locks door.

[Green & Gold Heart]

Not watching this **** show has been relaxing. Still seeing the final scores after games are done pisses me off but at least it's not drawn out over hours of wasted time.

[mirrf]

Here's my newest theory. For 2 1/2 years, the A's have been striving to be the best baseball team. -Loosing in the playoffs wasn't acceptable.

I guess they grew tired of that. So now they're trying to be historically good at being bad.

[Green & Gold Heart]

Beating Felix was supposed to be the turning point! But nope, this season is doomed. D-O-O-M-E-D DOOMED.

mirrf, I hope you have food and water in that bathroom. You're going to be in there until next spring!

[mirrf]

Originally Posted by mirrf

I'm hiding in the bathroom until everything is a-ok. Of course, I haven't come out for 2 weeks now.

Originally Posted by mirrf

Pokes head out of bathroom.....

"Is it safe to come out yet? No? Ok."

Enters bathroom, closes and locks door.

Originally Posted by Green & Gold Heart

Beating Felix was supposed to be the turning point! But nope, this season is doomed. D-O-O-M-E-D DOOMED.

mirrf, I hope you have food and water in that bathroom. You're going to be in there until next spring!

Billy Beane is banging on the other side of the door with an axe. I'm slumped on the floor, clutching a kitchen knife ready to slash at anything that pokes in.

I'm pretty sure he'll eventually make a hole, stick his head in, and yell "Here's Johnny".

[Green & Gold Heart]

Originally Posted by mirrf

I'm pretty sure he'll eventually make a hole, stick his head in, and yell "Here's Johnny".

Spelling correction: "Here's Jonny" as in Jonny Gomes, the guy he traded Cespedes for.

[Green & Gold Heart]

In all seriousness, Cespedes couldn't have saved this team. Unless Billy Beane could have figured out a way to clone him at the deadline, and replaced Moss & Norris with additional Yoenises.

[mirrf]

Even though I'm locked in the bathroom until further notice, I still get more bad A's news. It's official, the Giants stole the River Cats from the A's. The new AAA affiliate for the A's is in Tennessee.

Maybe I should flush my phone down the toilet so I don't get any other news.

[Green & Gold Heart]

Well at least the Nashville Sounds just got a new stadium, so in a roundabout way the A's got a new stadium????

[Lafayette53]

In addition to skipping more games I've almost had to turn off the push notifications I get with MLB AB. Almost.

[Lafayette53]

Originally Posted by Green & Gold Heart

In all seriousness, Cespedes couldn't have saved this team. Unless Billy Beane could have figured out a way to clone him at the deadline, and replaced Moss & Norris with additional Yoenises.

Agreed. The issue is the other hitters coming down to earth not the loss of Yoenis per say. Leave figuring out whether the loss of Yoenis had anything to do with the other offensive players decline to the psychologists and the already written retrospective articles on an epic collapse of a season.

[mirrf]

Originally Posted by Lafayette53

Agreed. The issue is the other hitters coming down to earth not the loss of Yoenis per say. Leave figuring out whether the loss of Yoenis had anything to do with the other offensive players decline to the psychologists and the already written retrospective articles on an epic collapse of a season.

As the season progressed, it seemed like Bob Melvin platooned less and less. Moss & Vogt were in there against everyone, right or left. Although it wasn't the complete factor, I think Cespedes' departure contributed to that. It reduced the amount of depth the A's had, forcing the "big bats" to not be platooned.

Oh. And Callaspo sucks as a ballplayer. He's not a good fielder and he's not a good batter. He's just bad. His only positive is that's he's versatile and we played him 34 times this year as a DH. DH Right there, wasted ABs.

[Green & Gold Heart]

Originally Posted by mirrf

Oh. And Callaspo sucks as a ballplayer. He's not a good fielder and he's not a good batter. He's just bad. His only positive is that's he's versatile and we played him 34 times this year as a DH. DH Right there, wasted ABs.

And it's strange because Callaspo was a really good hitter as recently as last season. I seem to remember he was one of the toughest guys to strike out in the American League and was one of those versatile, grinder type hitters.

I also remember being mad that BoMel didn't pinch hit Callaspo for Reddick in Game 4 of the division series, that infamous at-bat in which Reddick struck out swinging at ball four in the dirt with the bases loaded. Callaspo pinch hit for Sogard two batters later, when there were already two outs. He roped a ball down the left field line juuuust foul, and then roped a liner right at Austin Jackson for the final out. Soul crushing but I wasn't mad at Alberto.

[Green & Gold Heart]

What a freaking bomb by Donaldson, and an even better bat flip. Mariners lost again so magic number is 6 with 7 to play....

[rudel.dietrich]

BP has the A's playoff chances at 91% as of today. I think they are good. It will be a tough AL WC for me as I would like to see the Royals succeed.

Meanwhile the Braves over the last 7 days lost pretty much the last 12% chance they had of making the playoffs. **** my life

[rudel.dietrich]

Also, of the possible WC teams, the A's have the highest probability of winning the WS at 8.2%

Also, using sims for the final week of the season, no team is expected to win 100 games or lose 100. It has been a season of relative parity.

[Green & Gold Heart]

Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich

BP has the A's playoff chances at 91% as of today. I think they are good. It will be a tough AL WC for me as I would like to see the Royals succeed.

Meanwhile the Braves over the last 7 days lost pretty much the last 12% chance they had of making the playoffs. **** my life

Royals have to take care of business against Cleveland as that team is not dead yet and could pass the Royals with a sweep.

I'm hoping the Mariners just lay an egg against Toronto and play themselves out as I'm not confident the A's can roll against LAA and TEX. They've been teasing us for two months with these big wins. We think they've finally got some momentum and then they come up with a whole bunch of pfffffft. Since August 22-23, the A's have only won back-to-back games once. ONCE. And they followed up that W2 streak by getting swept at home by Texas.

[CONN CHRIS]

We are all hoping the Mariners lay some eggs this week.

[mirrf]

Originally Posted by Green & Gold Heart

What a freaking bomb by Donaldson, and an even better bat flip. Mariners lost again so magic number is 6 with 7 to play....

Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich

BP has the A's playoff chances at 91% as of today. I think they are good.

Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich

Also, of the possible WC teams, the A's have the highest probability of winning the WS at 8.2%

Also, using sims for the final week of the season, no team is expected to win 100 games or lose 100. It has been a season of relative parity.

No, I won't come out of the bathroom yet. You can't make me.

[Green & Gold Heart]

Originally Posted by Green & Gold Heart

I'm hoping the Mariners just lay an egg against Toronto

There's one egg, scrambled with a side of bacon and pancakes...

A's magic number is 4 with 6 to play.