ALDS: Oakland A's vs. Detroit Tigers

[35Knucklecurve]

For lack of a better word, it sounds like your cable provider(s) su*k!! I have every channel that I need/want and about 300 that I don't.

Yeah, in this part of the state, we only have one choice. It makes a big difference living in a rural area. I think we have something like 60 channels.

[MoVaughnEatsAlot]

Coco Puffs just made a pretty amazing catch.

[Pasco08]

Coco Puffs just made a pretty amazing catch.

Indeed what a pick me up playing at home will do for ya.

[sweet_lou_14]

Let's go, Oakland. Push this series to five games.

[teknetic]

Anderson is a stud.

[hardrain]

Keep it going Oakland -- drive it to 5

[sweet_lou_14]

Fielder is at the plate as the tying run with one out in the 9th.

[sweet_lou_14]

... and hits into a game-ending DP. Nice job A's.

[teknetic]

I normally hate every team not named the Yankees, but I have a hard time hating against Oakland. Hoping this goes five so we don't see Verlander until game 3/4 of the CS.

[DiMaggio5CF]

I'd like to see Oakland advance or at the very least take it to five games to make Verlander pitch again... but right now I'm just stoked to have four ballgames to watch tomorrow.

[aeromac76]

I normally hate every team not named the Yankees, but I have a hard time hating against Oakland. Hoping this goes five so we don't see Verlander until game 3/4 of the CS.

I'm hoping it goes 5 and Oakland wins so (if we win) we won't see Verlander until 2013.

[jcarey]

I'm hoping it goes 5 and Oakland wins so (if we win) we won't see Verlander until 2013.

Hate to say it, but I think Scherzer closes it out tonight. Hope I'm wrong.

[THEBOSS84]

I normally hate every team not named the Yankees, but I have a hard time hating against Oakland. Hoping this goes five so we don't see Verlander until game 3/4 of the CS.

I agree. Cespedes has been really impressive to me. At the plate and in the field. Looks like a hard-nosed gamer.

[Yankee Tripper]

I agree. Cespedes has been really impressive to me. At the plate and in the field. Looks like a hard-nosed gamer.

He makes some bone headed reads on balls that make granderson look like gold glover but the dude does go all out and has an absolute cannon of an arm. I think he actually plays a better left field than center field which was supposedly his natural position in Cuba.

At the plate, how could you not be impressed. The sound off his bat is one of those special sounds that most hitters can only dream of.

[Yankee Tripper]

Hate to say it, but I think Scherzer closes it out tonight. Hope I'm wrong.

I agree that smart money would be on this but in one game - as Juaquin Andujar was wont to say - "One word, youneverknow."

Griffin has been dreadful of late. He started the final v Texas and had to be pulled early after the A's were down 5-0 but if he picthes like he did when he first came up, he can be lights out. I would guess Blackley would be up at the first sine of early trouble much like how Bochey went throu 4 picthers by the 4th inning today.

It will be interesting to see how Sherzer's shoulder responds tonight. I have to think if he was a 100% he would have gotten the ball in game 3.

[Pasco08]

Wouldn't mind the A's forcing it to 5 games.

[Yankee Tripper]

Wouldn't mind the A's forcing it to 5 games.

I think that is the sentiment of every Yankee fan. Second only to the Yanks, actually beating Baltimore.

[Yankee Tripper]

ba, Drew got greedy there

[CoyoteYankee]

ba, Drew got greedy there

That was pretty stupid in an elimination game, down by 1, with no outs.

[sweet_lou_14]

What a night this could end up being.

And watching this ass-clown Valverde give it up would be an amazing dessert for the main course served up by Ibanez.

[pleasepassthesoup]

Wow. What a night for baseball.

[awy]

valverde crash and burn would be perfect

[DiMaggio5CF]

Wow. Down by two entering the bottom of the ninth, a single and two doubles off Valverde, and the A's have tied the game and have the winning run on second with no outs.

[awy]

boom ahahahahaha

[DiMaggio5CF]

Can't believe they didn't bunt there.