Bay Bridge Series: SF Giants (20-20) vs. Oakland A's (20-20)

Post #1 » by **FNQ** » Fri May 18, 2007 5:42 am

It's that time....

THE BATTLE FOR THE BAY!

Do you roll with the #1 squad in the Bay???

Or do you follow this guy?

Sorry Barry... no splash hits here, but we're not as hospitable as the SD fans, find your own needles!

But there's more...

Another underlying story to the series, the return of Barry Zito...

Couldn't be reached for comment, but did respond when asked on a scale of 1-10, how bad he wished he still played for the A's:

Oh it's true!

And now... YOUR

Projected Batting Lineup:

Shannon Stewart, LF

Nick Swisher, CF

Eric Chavez, 3B

Dan Johnson, 1B

Jack Cust, DH

Bobby "Beards make me hit better" Crosby, SS

Travis "Possibly Stoned" Buck, RF

Jason Kendall, C

Mark "My Yahoo! picture kinda makes me look like a sock puppet" Ellis, 2B

And then those guys we're playing :blank:

Randy Winn, RF
Fred Lewis, CF
Ray Durham, 2B
Barry Bonds, DH
Bengie Molina, C
Pedro Feliz, 3B
Omar Vizquel, SS
Rich Aurilla, 1B
Dan Ortmeier, LF

FRIDAY, MAY 18th

Barry Zito (3-4, 4.29 ERA)
vs.

Chad Gaudin (2-1, 2.93 ERA)

SATURDAY, MAY 19th

Matt Cain (2-3, 3.18 ERA)
vs.

Dan Haren (3-2, 1.64 ERA)

SUNDAY MAY 20th

Matt Morris (4-1, 3.27 ERA)
vs.

Joe Kennedy (1-2, 2.53 ERA)

Forecast calls for a lot of

thanks to

LETS GO OAKLAND!

oakfanintheeast · Post #2 » by **oakfanintheeast** » Fri May 18, 2007 8:57 am

durham's hurt.

Post #3 » by **FNQ** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:52 am

oakfanintheeast wrote:durham's hurt.

He's played in all 40 games... he strained his groin yesterday but should be fine.

Post #4 » by **HMFFL** » Fri May 18, 2007 5:44 pm

It should be a very close game tonight I would love for us to give Zito a L.

UKF · Post #5 » by **UKF** » Sat May 19, 2007 2:22 am

3 balls 2 strikes, cmon Cust! take him yard!

UKF · Post #6 » by **UKF** » Sat May 19, 2007 2:24 am

walk...hey brings in ribby

Scott T · Post #7 » by **Scott T** » Sat May 19, 2007 2:26 am

Crap, I thought it was starting at 7:30... I missed what must have been an awe-inspiring bases loaded walk for Jack Cust.

I'm not used to rooting against Zito (he's one of my favorite players), this is weird.

UKF · Post #8 » by **UKF** » Sat May 19, 2007 2:26 am

wow zito is blowing it!

Post #9 » by **FNQ** » Sat May 19, 2007 4:23 am

9-3 A's in the top of the 7th... looking prettty good, but now I'm seeing Jay Marshall, and I don't like it... probably the worst arm in our depleted bullpen...

oakfanintheeast · Post #10 » by **oakfanintheeast** » Sat May 19, 2007 5:17 am

marshall owns lefties.

Post #11 » by **HMFFL** » Sat May 19, 2007 5:46 am

Nice way to start the off the series and I'm shocked that we blew this game open. Cheers!

Post #12 » by **FNQ** » Sat May 19, 2007 10:12 am

oakfanintheeast wrote:marshall owns lefties.

Yes he does, thats why he shouldnt be facing Ortmeier, Winn, and Frandsen... Marshall is a Mike Myers, so why are we using him like he was last year's Kennedy?

TSC25 · Post #13 » by **TSC25** » Sun May 20, 2007 3:28 pm

510Reggae wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Yes he does, thats why he shouldnt be facing Ortmeier, Winn, and Frandsen... Marshall is a Mike Myers, so why are we using him like he was last year's Kennedy?

We have to remember he has never pitched above class A ball,and since he's a rule 5 draft pick we might as well see what all he can do,since we cant send him down,without the chance of losing him back to the White Sox.

oakfanintheeast · Post #14 » by **oakfanintheeast** » Sun May 20, 2007 6:31 pm

i highly doubt that a's would send him down considering he's way higher on geren's totem pole then dinardo.

Post #15 » by **FNQ** » Mon May 21, 2007 2:19 am

What was shocking to me was him being in there instead of Embree... until I saw that Embree will likely be closing games for us now.

Post #16 » by **FNQ** » Mon May 21, 2007 7:31 pm

Well we couldn't close out the sweep, but we took 2 of 3, and that's good enough... on to the next series.