Comments on: Game 101, A’s at Mariners

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:04:01 +0000

Just seeing that one move that indicated a willingness to acknowledge SOMETHING about the problems…

A direct result of Dave Cameron’s Friday spot yesterday with The Groz, no doubt.

By: John in L.A.

John in L.A. — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:48:45 +0000

196 – That’s certainly true after a 7 game losing streak, for sure.

But, I think that you’ll notice that the positive attitude started before we were winning tonight. I think there were two reasons, both of them big:

1. Felix was taking the mound. That means most of us start at a much more positive place… I mean, win or lose, watching Felix is more fun than watching not-Felix.

2. The big one for me, and I said it in the first two or three comments in this thread, is that I was happy to see Beltre batting 4th, and Raul moved down.

Just seeing that one move that indicated a willingness to acknowledge SOMETHING about the problems, made me ten times more positive.

I think you would be surprised how happy people would be regardless of results, if good, solid decisions were being made by management.

Losing doesn’t frustrate me nearly as much as playing stupidly.

I play a lot of poker and results based emotions will kill you. I am much more unhappy when I play poorly, win or lose, than when I play well and lose.

Because over the long haul playing well will get you good results, and playing poorly will ultimately get bad results.

By: Paseman

Paseman — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:58:26 +0000

Haha agreed… Let me know and I’ll make ya an officer of your choosing

By: seattlesundevil

seattlesundevil — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:28:56 +0000

Bavasi seems hip to the times… Johnny Mac not so much – he hits Ra_l in the three hole because that’s the way it always has been, I see him more as a myspace guy. Even though it is completely useless nowadays and facebook is the new wave. MySpace = Ra_l in the three hole Facebook = Adam Jones.

By: Paseman

Paseman — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:04:29 +0000

You think Bavasi or McLaren have a facebook?

By: seattlesundevil

seattlesundevil — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:02:27 +0000

Beautiful.. just joined the Free Adam Jones! group

By: CSG

CSG — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:09:49 +0000

Yeah, Felix was about 97-98 for the most part on the stadium radar. And he looked very good, barring the Swisher home run; a lot of ground balls, and he really cranked it up when he was in a jam. Also, Oakland’s offense is horribly awful. But I also thought the pitching was very good.

And the City of New York v. Homer Simpson is probably the greatest Simpson’s episode ever.

By: billd

billd — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:18:39 +0000

As a newbie it is interesting to see how positive the posts are now as opposed to the past week. It is indicative of how contagious success or failure can be, especially in this game. Nice win boys, let’s build on it! By the way, go Bonds!

By: Mr. Egaas

Mr. Egaas — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:20:27 +0000

Also, his fastball was 94-98 on the stadium radar, roughly the same as Felix.

I think FSN cranks theirs up a bit when Felix starts. It was saying 100 when Blow was saying 98.

By: Paseman

Paseman — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:06:03 +0000

I started that group, and invited a few of my buddies… good to see someone noticed it, feel free to join anyone and if you’d like to be an “officer” of some sort feel free to let me know