“A’S SWEEP : BEANE’S SHIT FINALLY WORKS IN PLAYOFFS”
(Nick Swisher, right, with the A’s batboy. Bad grooming starts early in the East Bay)
A’s 8, Twins 3 (A’s win the series, 3-0)
“Did you ever think you’d hear a crowd chanting for Marco Scutaro in the playoffs?” asked Gary Thorne.
“I don’t think Marco Scutaro ever imagined such a thing,” replied Steve Stone, who’d be a huge improvement on virtually every TV mouthpiece working these playoffs for Fox and ESPN.
Though 4 unearned runs for Oakland in the 7th make this appear like a laugher, for Minnesota fans there was nothing funny about Torii Hunter being called out at the plate in the visitors’ 6th. Even Lt. Dangle would have to concur Milton Bradley made a brilliant throw after scooping up Rondell White’s single.
from The Royal We, with regards to his/their/its live blogging the A’s / Twins game:
Pregame
We’re going to try something different today, basically because we’re still going to be doing this live blog at 6:30 p.m. on a Friday night when hardly anyone will be reading. (Also, we have barely slept.) We’re not going to listen to the announcers. We’re gonna to hit the mute button, put the iPod on shuffle and pretend that Kurt Cobain and Bob Dylan are our announcers. That sounds much more fun.
No disrespect to Brown Cow or Robert Zimmerman, but muting Steve Stone is a disservice to the ears, no matter who’s on your fucking iPod.