Game #149: A's 2, Indians 7
September 18, 2006 | A's vs. Cleveland
Oh, well.Jake Westbrook outpitches Danny Haren. The Indians score runs like it was going out of style.
The A's magic number remains at 7. And I did make a mistake. The Angels didn't play today so even if the A's had won, they still couldn't clinch until Friday. We'll see how this goes. I don't do very well with this type of prediction!
Good news: Rich Harden comes back. He starts Thursday, the rubber game against the Indians.
Better news: Barry Zito starts Friday. I'm going to the game on Friday which also happens to be a fireworks night. This is likely Zito's last regular season home game in the A's uniform.
(Game experience: First couple of innings on radio, the rest on TV)
A's record: 86-63 | streak: L-1 | magic number: 7 | well-A-meter: 5.00
posted by blank book at 10:16 PM
4 Comments:
Tanner Boyle's question yesterday about which exchange you would rather make: Santana for Saarloos or Jeter for Crosby/Scutaro was interesting on more than one level. Either choice would be an obvious upgrade.
Suppose you tweak his question to make it effective for the next 5 years. And the field is open to exchange any A's player for any other AL player at the same position.
Would it be Mauer? Morneau? Teixeira? Young? Santana? Liriano? Papelbon? Hafner?
I guess I'd lean toward Teixeira or Young because that would weaken a division rival as well as strengthen the A's by exchanging either Johnson or Crosby.
Wonder what the general and Tanner would do?
I'd trade Bobby Kielty for Bobby Abreu.
A-Rod's probably a very good choice, but I just have a thing about him and the Yankees. About him: I liked the Seattle team with Junior, Edgar and Tino. But I didn't like A-Rod (even then).
Then he takes the money and goes to Texas, then cries about being on a last place team. What the __? Did he mistakenly think he walked on water at some point?
The two teams he's abandoned have both improved measurably in the win-loss column the year after he left. (more about this below)
And he sure hasn't put the Yankees over the top. So I'll give you that A-Rod is a good choice. I just can't take it on an emotional level.
And the other reason is this: I really, really REALLY hate the Yankees. And if A-Rod left, the A-Rod effect (measurable improvement in the W-L column) would be impossible for me to stomach. I want A-Rod to be a Yankee for life, thus ensuring that they never win anything.
There's nothing rational about this, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
No, Al, there's nothing rational about it, but we've got to have our fun sometimes.
I, too, subscribe to the Curse of A-Rod which pretty much goes, "Whichever team A-Rod joins will have increasingly lower chances of making it to (much less winning) the World Series."
The only other fate I'd wish on A-Rod is for him to join the Red Sox, possibly the only other team that can afford him these days.
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