Comments on: A’s-Yankees pre-game notes

By: Larry

Larry — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:22:17 +0000

Billy Beane is a joke. A’s suck. There I posted. Happy now?

By: Bee Hylinski

Bee Hylinski — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:40:14 +0000

I agree, Scott No2, about Gaudin. I was appalled that they traded him.

I worry about Bailey and Breslow too, A’sGirl. Now that you mention it, wouldn’t it be better to bring up another reliever and let the starters go only 5 innings. We should get Dallas Braden back before too much longer, and I still think that Duke belongs in the bullpen. I still wonder what “non-baseball reasons” are. Sounds fishy to me. Everyone would be better served by letting the fans know what is going on, unless they are getting ready to trade or unload him (a la Giambi), or he’s injured again and they don’t want to say so, or he flunked a drug test and they are covering it up (really stupid idea), or he has a family emergency, etc. If the latter, just say so and stop all this speculation.

By: A'sGirl

A'sGirl — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:16:08 +0000

I will say that both Casilla and Marshall had extremely good moments withe the club when they first came out of the bullpen. I truly believe it was mismanagement of their arms that has caused a lot of the problems for them. I worry about Bailey, Breslow and Wuertz and how they will perform next year after all the extra innings they have pitched.

But what do you do when you have young pitching that can just now barely make it to 6 innings, sometimes? I am not sure I can put the blame solely on Geren, but I will try anyway!

By: Bee Hylinski

Bee Hylinski — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:04:27 +0000

Would someone please tell me why the A’s keep bringing up Jay Marshall? He, like Dana Eveland, can pitch well at Triple-A but can’t translate that to the Majors. The A’s should release him, and Eveland, for that matter. And Casilla isn’t doing us many favors either. Let’s hope that next year none of them are on the 40-man roster. And let’s keep Jeff Gray who has translated his success at Sacramento into success in Oakland.

By the way, Joe, when I look at the list of recent comment to the right, it’s all you and me. Pretty sad that no one else seems to be commenting anymore. Come on people, don’t lurk, post a comment. I’ll start a question: How many of you would go to the games if the A’s moved to San Jose?