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I thought it was a promotion for a new Terminator movie, lol.

Hungry fans may purchase a $35 game ticket for unlimited All-You-Can-Eat items. These items include hot dogs, nachos, peanuts, popcorn, Pepsi soda products and ice cream. Sections 316, 317 and 318 are available to fans on an individual game and discounted group ticket basis. All-You-Can-Eat items are available when the gates open through the end of the 7th inning. Oakland A's promotion If they did some more packages like that with the upper deck tickets, or put them in combo packs where the parking price was included with the ticket and food, then by disguising the high individual, one-time cost for parking, fans (imo) would be much more likely to attend games, and it would keep the upper deck vendors much happier with more tips and less staff being sent home early every night.

Mitchell 2 for 5 with his NINTH triple of the season, .290, 34th rbi. Just to mix things up, they tried Jose Martinez leading off...and he had a solid game. KWJR with a career game, 3/4, all the way up to .213, haha.

Amazing finish to the Tigers/Yankees game. Two Cabrera homers to take leads. Papa Grande gives up a HBP, walk to Jeter, three total stolen bases in one inning, somehow retires Granderson, hits A-Rod to load the bases, Cano also amazing pops up with 1 out and bases loaded, walks TEX to tie the score 3-3....Ibanez was retired but the catcher dropped a foul pop-up and he eventually was retired on a groundout. Feels like one of those season-changing games no matter which way it ends up.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 07:09 PM) He also should have knocked down the double. Was the balk call legit? I was sitting a couple rows behind the Mariners on deck circle, you could hear Robing yelling the call was "bulls***". If it was, it was such a close call that no other MLB umpire would possibly have called it. Thankfully, that run didn't score at least.

Happy for Gordon to play this well in front of his parents. Really hope he's finally turned the corner. Have to throw out mad props to Dayan Viciedo and Nathan Jones, those two guys are the ones that have been among the most fun to follow this year. DeAza has just been super steady, the definition of consistency...same with AJ's overall season so far. And you knew Dunn and Konerko were due to have a cold spell. Heck, Alex Rios is dangerous, from 1-7, pretty awesome line-up, and Alexei's at least been dangerous. And it's nice to be "upset" with the offense when they're putting up 8 runs and losing, shades of 2000 offensively (and pitching-wise, too).

FWIW, Simon Castro is pitching very well (going tonight, no hits given up yet) and has limited RHB's to a .180 average. Darn. Twins blow an early 4-0 lead in CLE, tied 4-4 now. That Kipnis is a pain in the damned butt. Pretty impressive they're still well over .500 without Santana, Hafner and Sizemore, with Jose Lopez as their clean-up hitter. Lowe has been the key to stabilizing that starting rotation.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 06:48 PM) Hudson's error in that inning was pretty big. In the 6th? They didn't score that inning, although it was extended through Stewart and Santiago. But not stopping AJ's throw (in the 8th) turned out to be huge, because we could have had a tie game going into the bottom of the 8th instead of the 1 run deficit that Dayan tied up against Pryor.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 07:46 PM) Yeah, it's not as much that Quintana would be the 5th starter, but you're putting a lot of faith in Axelrod to step up when one of the starters hits the DL/hits the wall Or Castro. Although Dylan definitely is 1A because of his experience.

If Soler's in the $20-25-30 million range, you have to pass. However, if they could sign him to a similar deal to what Viciedo got (and between $12.5-$17.5 million)....where they control his rights well beyond the first four seasons in the majors (like Cespedes and the A's), then you have to think about it seriously.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 07:32 PM) Why not? Would you prefer prospects from some team? As bad as Floyd has been recently, there's a 90% chance that he would be better overall than Quintana in terms of giving us the best shot in the 2nd half to win the division...simply because we know eventually he'll go on another hot streak, he's just completely erratic, but it will turn again. Youkilis being picked up would be out of the same playbook as signing Manny Ramirez. He's creaky at best down at 3rd these days, which is why they still prefer to play the error-prone Middlebrooks down there.

5-6 in one run games 13-14 at home 1-3 in extras 9 blown saves Lots of room for improvement there. Game should have been over when we were up 7-5 in the 8th, but Crain just wasn't able to hold it. Some really bad defense from AJ/Hudson...bad baserunning from DeAza getting deked by Ryan into thinking he might drop it, you have to get back to first and prevent the double play there. At worst, it's a forceout and there's a runner on 1st for Dunn, although with the way Adam hit in this game, maybe it wouldn't have even mattered. Key hit of the game was obviously the Ryan double. Still, great to to see more homers from Viciedo (one of the most impressive of the entire season) and Beckham's hot streak (9 games with at least one hit) continues.

15-2 run against the Mariners at home was just unreal. We all thought this game was in the bag when we went up by 2, but not so much today. The M's beat the Rangers 2/3, so it's not a complete surprise. And Floyd just hasn't been pitching well. Career-wise, his results against the Mariners were great...and he sucked again, yet was in position to get the win again somehow.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 07:13 PM) Quintana is in? I thought we needed him to start. Yeah, if Danks still isn't ready.

Why are you throwing change-ups to a guy hitting .180 in Figgins? Oh, well...just seemed like that ball that Konerko hit was our best shot. But still not over yet. Quintana in. Not sure if you can go back to Reed again tmrw, but Monday's an offday.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 06:46 PM) Who do Mariners have left in their pen? Shawn Kelly (Kelley?) and their little-used Japanese reliever

This is it. Score here. Don't or can't force Nathan Jones to go three innings, can we? Reed's the only one left in the pen. Guess they'd probably go to Quintana if they had no other choice.

QUOTE (MAX @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 06:22 PM) All three of those semen aren't ready for the bigs. Imagine if Marcus Semien played for the Mariners, Harrelson would blow out his aorta.

Well, purely for entertainment value, no fan who attended the game today could say they're leaving without getting their money's worth.

99 mph high cheese takes out Montero. Be careful with Smoak, he's the most dangerous hitter in their line-up the last 20 games. 7 homers in that time frame.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 06:15 PM) Whatever that pitch was, it was 88 mph and wound up almost being hit backwards in time. 122 MPH contact speed to tie Stanton? Who measures that? Is it picked up on the radar gun incidentally going out the other way, or is someone specifically timing bat head/contact speed off the bat?

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 06:16 PM) TANKKKKKKKK MERCYYYYYYYYYY How do you guys think Tank would fair in the HomeRun Derby? He would fare fairly well at the World's Fair. LOL.

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 06:16 PM) TANKKKKKKKK MERCYYYYYYYYYY How do you guys think Tank would fair in the HomeRun Derby? He would fare fairly well at the World's Fair. LOL.

Why would anyone in baseball throw a slider to Dayan Viciedo, even at 90-92 MPH? Haha. 414 feet to straightaway right. Hitting a ball over the bullpen in RF. Wow. He almost hit one to the fence earlier to the game on a checked swing.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 06:11 PM) Be nice to get a few runners at least to guarantee 3/4 bat next inning I'd be happy with Beckham getting a shot at this point. Gordon has a 700+ OPS for the first time in ages.