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.

FYI - A’s bring back Giambi

I like it, the A’s are usually successful when we have a bunch of steroid toking junkies on our team. Think of the 90’s, when we had a bunch of them, think of the early 2000’s when we had Tejada and Giambi. Steroids build success, enough said.

Go A’S!

A’s trade team for Matt Holliday

The trade has been finalized… the A’s have traded Huston Street, Greg Smith and Carlos Gonzales for Matt Holliday. On one side of the trade, you think, Wow, this could be great, now we have someone that can hit the ball for the A’s. Then you realize… he has only 1 year left on his contract and is going to get paid serious cash flow next year… This is the part where you start scratching your head… I mean, whats the purpose of trading your best prospect plus 2 proven players for a guy that you might lose or trade for more prospects.

This trading for prospects is starting to get fucking ridiculous. How about, sign Holliday for a long-term deal and try and build around him? How about trying to establish ourselves as a contender at some point? So, the A’s gave up 2 guys that are pretty much already replaced (Street and Smith), but losing Carlos is the big gamble, the kid looks like he is going to be the real deal and it will be sad to see him blossum while we rent Holliday for 1 year.

Oh well, Beane usually has a plan, hopefully whatever his plan is works.

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