Warriors season coming to a close

With only one game left on the schedule, the season is pretty much over. Not sure if it is even worth the effort to summarize what the fuck happened this year but I will. Basically our best player was hurt for a long ass time, we had a tough opening couple months with a ass load of road games and our team crumbled.

The good news, we got to see Randolph get some playing time. The youngest player in the NBA has a lot of growing to do, but he might turn into something special. Anthony Morrow came out of no where to be a legit 3 point shooter. Even when he misses it looks like they are going in. We traded Al Harrington for Jamal Crawford… which didn’t really help and per Nelly, Crawford is gone this off season.

The Warriors are scheduled to pick around 7th in the upcoming draft, but depending on how the ball bounces could move up or down a little. Its unfortunate that every time we suck, there are always some teams that suck even more, thus never letting the Warriors draft any guy that can make a difference. This year, I would have loved to see either Blake Griffen or the Spanish Pistol Pete make their way into a Warrior uniform, however, I don’t think that is going to happen.

Going forward, assuming everyone is healthy, I think we still can be a playoff team. Maggetteis a very good 6 man, if Randolph/Wright can add some weight they could both be highly functional power forwards, our center position is locked up, we have a lot of swingmen, we just need 1 more baller. Either a dope point guard or a monster PF (Griffen).

Well, the season sucked, it was another disappointing year as a Warrior fan, the fakers are still a bunch of fags and their fans are even worse. Now we just gotta wait and see what next year has in store for us.

A’s Swept by the shitty Mariners

Hmm… after a good looking opening series against the Angels, the Athletics were swept by the terrible team from the north. The A’s left 32 on base during the series, which is fucking heart breaking. I can’t count how many times I was on the edge of the couch waiting for that big hit… but it never came. It was a frustrating series, hopefully its something that won’t happen often and it was just one of those series where nothing would go right.

Trevor Cahill making his second MLB start, had a no hitter broken up in the 7th inning. Of course, soon after the no-no was broken up, he gave up a run scoring double, the only run of the game as the A’s lost 1-0. It was a frusterating weekend, I’m a little upset right now and hope they can bounce back.

The A’s open up a 3 game series with the Boston Redsox tonight and I expect big things. 

Slick Predicts:

• A’s win series 2 games to 1
• Holliday finally breaks out, hits 2 Homeruns
• Eveland and Anderson get the W’s
• Ziegler 2 saves

A’s are back baby!

Now we are talking. As customary here at Bay Area Scores, we don’t start writing recaps until they win their first game. So, to briefly talk about opening night, it was disappointing but almost expected. The bad news was, we didn’t score, only had 3 hits and lost the game, the good news is, you knew they were gonna come out and swing the bat on Tuesday.

Swing the bat is what they did. Giambi, Cust, Sweeny all had 3 hits and the A’s finally scored some runs in route to a 6-4 victory over the Angels. Trevor Cahill made his A’s debut and the kid looked a little flustered out there, but who wouldn’t be, friends and family in the stands, first big league game, but hey, he was a battler and got through 5 innings with only 2 ER runs.

The most improved A’s lineup does have a different feeling than years past, when you had to put your hopes and dreams into Jack Cust to make things happen. Last night, as you can see, the A’s have a number of guys that can hit the ball.

I’m excited… I really think this A’s team is as good as the Angels (even more so because all the Angels pitchers are hurt). I think we will be in the hunt for an AL west title this year, especially if we can stay healthy (Holliday sat out tuesday because he is sick… I didn’t realize he was such a pussy). Well, the A’s are 1-1 and have Dana ‘don’t call me fat’ Eveland going for them tonight.

Slick Predicts: A’s double up the Angels… I think fatty Jr. does a good job and the A’s bats continue to swing, A’s win 8-4.

The Dirty Warrior

Goodbye Anthony Randolph, hello Dirty Warrior. We’ve seen impoved play by the rookie forward for the better part of the past few weeks, yet we’ve never seen him put all his qualities on display in one single game. Well, I think last night we got a pretty good glimpse of the total package, which was filthy. Randolph simply kept the Warriors in the game for stretches at a time. His energy, shot blocking and finishing around the rim is really impressive.

There is one thing that is a little concerning however… it seems to me that even though he is a quick jumper (a la lot of blocks), on the offense of zone it doesn’t look like he has much lift? Even his dunks, it doesn’t look like he is really getting up that high. I know a couple games ago we saw him on the break away take off for a dunk and he ended up being like 2 feet short because he had no lift. Maybe he’s tired? Who knows, but hopefully as he gets stronger his jumping gets a little more consistent. A 6′11″ athlete like himself should be skying above the others.

Anyways, the dubs lost, which is fine, I’m more concerned with watching our young guys play anyways so we can access next year. I wish Brandon Wright was around, would love to watch him get a bunch of playing time. Maggette had a good game too, he is a dope 6 man. 6 man of year next season.

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