We have often wanted a time machine. We would use it to do all the regular stuff: stop Hitler, buy Google stock, keep our preteen selves from getting perms. But the last few games have made us want a different kind of time machine. We want a cut and paste time machine. Here's why. Rickey Henderson day on Saturday was amazing. Rickey's speech was perfect ("Rickey have tears in his eyes, Rickey have love in his heart..."). Rickey holding up a golden base was perfect. Rickey wearing a vest straight out of the Arsenio Hall show was perfect. And the fact that it was an extremely enthusiastic sold out crowd made things so fun we could hardly stand it. It was a reminder of what it was like back in the days when the A's went to the playoffs and the stadium wasn't always 2/3 empty. Even the game was exciting -- until Ryan Sweeney didn't swing at a single pitch in the bottom of the 9th and the A's lost in the most anti-climactic, disappointing way. So that is what we would do with our cut and paste time machine. We would take the ending from Monday night, with the incredible Rajai walk off triple, or we would take all of the awesome offense from last night, and paste it on to Saturday night so we can have one perfect, glorious A's memory from this season.
Go Oakland!
Go Oakland!
I concur! That game was so fun aside from the ending! Geren should have just let Mark Ellis hit. Righty, lefty, WHATEVER. Ellis is reliable.
Posted by: Anna | August 05, 2009 at 05:06 PM
The A's seem to be "teamy" again, to use your word, and they're pretty fun to watch, and they're .500 since the break so far... so, maybe they'll be worth watching the rest of the season? I hope so, anyway, because I have a lot of tickets left.
Posted by: Jason | August 13, 2009 at 12:56 PM