Moonlit Jazz

Oakland 4, Chi White Sox 2 at U.S. Cellular Field

Winning Pitcher – Mark Redman (10-10)
Losing Pitcher – Jose Contreras (12-7)
SV – Octavio Dotel (31)

OAK Runs: 4, Hits: 7, Errors: 0
CWS Runs: 2, Hits: 5, Errors: 0

HR: OAK: B. McMillon (3).
Oakland Record: (79-54)

Byrnes getting hit by a pitch… alas!

I was at work while my boys played. Blah! I “watched” a little bit of it while I was at work, then we went to lunch and I didn’t see the end. I remembered after we came back and was happy to see the score. 😀

My work computer DIED. I was doing the CRT ALT DEL to lock it and it just froze. So I turned off the computer and turned it on again. It stopped at some weird screen and wouldn’t go further. Shoot, I was glad it wasn’t my “real” computer! The company bought me a new computer. Yah!

Football woes

The 49ers and the Raiders are playing right now. But not each other. The freakin’ Raiders are tearing up my BASEBALL FIELD! The 49ers are on the sucking badly trip. I think I won’t watch football too much this season. But we’ll see. I must watch the Niners. Through thick and thin, eh? 😉

One more day of work! And will it be a half day? We’ll see…

“Fly with Me” by 98 Degrees
Oakland 4, Chi White Sox 5 at U.S. Cellular Field

Winning Pitcher – Shingo Takatsu (6-3)
Losing Pitcher – Justin Duchscherer (5-5)

OAK Runs: 4, Hits: 11, Errors: 0
CWS Runs: 5, Hits: 11, Errors: 0

Oakland Record: (78-54)

Byrnes, Hatteberg, Chavez, Crosby… oh, and the final score…

So yes, they lost. A little bit of a bummer. I really wanted Zito to get the win. And according to the radio dudes, Barry had it going on. I felt bad for Duchscherer. He got the loss. Alas!

I’m waiting for my postgame alert! Where is my postgame alert?! (Of course, if you’re reading this, the score stuff is already up there. I had to do it myself. Oh, the horror. LOL!)

Anyhoo, Friday might be a short day for me. Woohoo! I know I will definitely want to go home early that day. Shoot, I don’t think I even want to go to work! But isn’t that always the way? 😉

Time for bed!

“How Deep is Your Love” by Take That
Oakland 7, Chi White Sox 2 at U.S. Cellular Field

Winning Pitcher – Rich Harden (9-5)
Losing Pitcher – Felix Diaz (1-4)

OAK Runs: 7, Hits: 10, Errors: 0
CWS Runs: 2, Hits: 6, Errors: 0

HR: OAK: A. Melhuse (9). CWS: C. Lee (25).
Oakland Record: (78-53)

Got home in time to watch the end of this game. 😉 Saw Mr. Melhuse hit his homer. Love the long ones!

Melhuse taking a deep breath during his homerun at-bat, Crosby in the dugout with Mulder approaching, Fellas on the bench, Chavez at the plate…

I took my camera with me today because the moon was bright and full. I wish I had a camera that takes awesome moon shots. Someday!

The moon above, the fields speeding by, a plane doing loops in the sky, the moon over Mt. Diablo…

I was also hoping to catch a glimpse of The Teal Avenger. What luck for us! We were about ten or so cars behind the oblivious lady. When we landed in Clayton, I had my chance to forever immortalize our commute nemesis.

If you can, pass this car at the first opportunity!!!

For lunch we ate at Buffet City, which just opened up last Wednesday. Can I just say that it’s a fine example of wasted potential? Maybe I had much too high hopes from a restaurant boasting Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and BBQ food. Think? Oh well, we had to try it out. 😉 At least it was fast…

I love when Mondays fly and suddenly it’s almost bedtime. LOL!

I still have Gmail invites! Want one? Comment or email me (jazz[at]walelia[dot]com). 🙂

Can you tell that my boys didn’t play today?

And a little sidenote:

I really do appreciate the visits to this site and I love the comments and the Tags. But I would really like to steer clear of the personal lives of the players, especially in the Tags. Okay? Okay!

Bedtime!

“Cadillac Dress” by soulDecision
Tampa Bay 6, Oakland 9 at Network Associates Coliseum

Winning Pitcher – Octavio Dotel (4-5)
Losing Pitcher – Danys Baez (3-3)

TB Runs: 6, Hits: 12, Errors: 2
OAK Runs: 9, Hits: 12, Errors: 0

HR: TB: A. Huff (23), J. Cruz, Jr. (19). OAK: B. McMillon (2).
Oakland Record: (77-53)

Chavez, Mulder looking down, Mulder checking out the field, Chavez and Melhuse

Once again, Mulder did not have his best stuff. What’s going on with him? But he left the game with a two run lead and was in line to get his 18th win. Then at the top of the ninth Dotel gave up two homers to tie the game. Bottom of the ninth, Billy McMillon hit a three run homer to win the game. Twas exciting! 😀 Gotta love the walk-offs.

All Mulder…

Yes, I had fun taking pictures of my television. Goofy, eh?

“Drowning” by Backstreet Boys
Tampa Bay 4, Oakland 5 at Network Associates Coliseum

Winning Pitcher – Tim Hudson (10-4)
Losing Pitcher – Dewon Brazelton (6-5)
SV – Octavio Dotel(30)

TB Runs: 4, Hits: 5, Errors: 0
OAK Runs: 5, Hits: 8, Errors: 3

HR: OAK: E. Chavez (27), E. Byrnes (19).
Oakland Record: (76-53)

Hudson ready to throw one, Dye waiting for the sun to set, Chavez at third, Mulder and Scutaro on the side…

It looked like Hudson was just going to cruise along, then he had an interesting inning. 😛 But he managed to hold on, as did the bullpen (though Dotel made it a bit exciting). Good times, good times.

Hudson sets, Miller sucks on a tootsie pop while Mulder speaks, Chavez on first next to Martinez, Crosby hoping to advance a base…

It was Fireworks night at the Coliseum, so the stadium was filled even in the 9th inning. I’m sure while they were cheering on Dotel, the crowd really wanted the game to end so that they could watch the fireworks. 😉

Hudson in the dugout, Melhuse at the plate, Zito looking natural, Byrnes and Ellis in the dugout…

Right, I took lots of screenshots. I’m getting addicted. LOL! 😀

“If I Fell in Love with You” – Maroon 5

I was awake so early today. I didn’t do that sleep-until-9am thing that I wanted to do. Ah well!

This Week in Baseball was on 9:30 am here because FOX always freakin’ plays the Giants game if they are one of the FOX Saturday games. Do they ever play the A’s games? No. Why? Because FOX sucks. (I do not include Fox Sports Network because they were Sports Channel before.) Anyhoo, because they were showing the early Giants game, TWIB was on in the morning instead of 12:30. Grrr.

But who cares about that? I’ve got some screenshots!

TWIB: Mulder edition – The Housemates (Mulder, Crosby, Harden, & “Mr.” Melhuse), Keith Foulke the former closer, Crosby striking a pose next to his ride, Mulder in mid-sentence…

Someday I will burn the ep to DVD and I will do proper screencaptures. 🙂 Until then, you must all suffer through me taking pictures of my television with my digital camera. LOL!

Mulder victimized by bubblegum, checking out the neighborhood, again in mid-sentence, realizing that he got bubblegummed…

I always like seeing the ballplayers outside of the ballpark and in regular clothes. And the Boys always have a nice looking house. Oh, and nice cars too. 😀 They also featured Keith Foulke on the show and I realized while I was watching that I’ve never really heard Foulke talk. He’s cute. 🙂

The game is on tonight. Wish I could be there!

Gmail…

I’ve still got some invites if anyone reading this 1) wants a Gmail account and 2) doesn’t have one already. Comment or send me an email if you’d like to try it out…