By The Anti-Blez on Thursday, June 30, 2005

Oakland goes for a series sweep. Too bad it's against the Submariners, one of only three teams in the AL whose records are even worse than the AAA's.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Amazing.

Oakland has won 19 of its last 27 games--AND THE TEAM STILL HAS THE FOURTH-WORST RECORD IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE!

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Oakland opens a 3-game series against the Submariners today, with Jamie Moyer on the mound for the Seamen, and Barry Zito going for the AAA's.

Moyer owns the AAA's. Zito owns a 3-8 record.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Sunday, June 26, 2005

Oakland looks to sweep the GiAAAnts and clinch the season series against their cross-bay rivAAAls.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Saturday, June 25, 2005

Do you think the San Francisco GiAAAnts signed Alex Sanchez (the first major-leaguer to be suspended under baseball's new steroids-testing policy) so he can keep Barroids company when the latter is activated from the DL?

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Friday, June 24, 2005

Oakland begins a three game series with the Bay Area's other triple-A team, the San Francisco GiAAAnts.

The GiAAAnts actually have a record that is WORSE than that of the AAA's. And all Oakland has to do is win one of its next three games to maintain its edge.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Thursday, June 23, 2005

Oakland, proving yesterday that it can still come up with new and interesting ways to lose ballgames, wraps up its series against the Mariners.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Thursday, June 23, 2005

Ken Macha has been selected to be a coach on the American League All-Star Team.

Which means Oakland will be represented in the midsummer classic by:

a) A moron (Macha); and

b) A "mercy" pick (probably one of the relievers)

Beaned again!

By The Anti-Blez on Wednesday, June 22, 2005

The AAA's have a chance to climb out of last place (by a few percentage points) tonight.

Unfortunately, they also have Barry Zito (3-8, 4.66 ERA) on the mound.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Rich Harden returns to the Oakland rotation tonight, and in the spirit of Asslickers Nation, we're going to pretend as though we are old-time, hardened baseball insiders and refer to Harden numerous times as "the kid."

For instance:

Harden has been on the disabled list since May 14. The kid was suffering from a strained left oblique muscle. Let's hope the kid has fully recovered and can return to his early season form. The kid is a key piece in the AAA's march back to mediocrity. If the kid can win 15 more games this season, the team will have a real shot at finishing no fewer than 20 games under .500. The kid makes more money in a single game than a T-shirt salesman will ever earn in a lifetime of selling T-shirts and running a network of baseball fan sites on the Internet. Here's looking at you, kid.

OK, OK, enough of the kidding around. But am I really the only one who has noticed that the T-shirt salesman refers to various Oakland players as "the kid" at least once per blog entry? Does he really want to "belong" that badly?

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Monday, June 20, 2005

Oakland opens a four-game road series against Seattle.

Consider this: If the AA's win three out of four, THEY WILL STILL BE IN LAST PLACE!

Let's Go AA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Sunday, June 19, 2005

Oakland looks to win its series against the Phollies.

Win or lose, the Moneybawlers will still be way, way under .500.

Let's Go AAA's!

P.S. Is is just me, or is Nico a waaaaayyyyyy better writer than the T-shirt salesman?

By The Anti-Blez on Saturday, June 18, 2005

Three months into the season, and Oakland is still looking for its 28th win.

Billy Beane is a fucking baseball genius.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Friday, June 17, 2005

Barry Zito will try to put his wannabe rock star guitarist career on hold for a few innings today and give the AAA's one of his trademark "quality starts" (5.1 innings, 5 BB, 2 K, 6 H, 2 HR, 4 ER).

That way, he'll be just good enough to lose the game and fall to 3-8 on the season.

Let's Go AAA's

By The Anti-Blez on Thursday, June 16, 2005

The last-place team in the AL West faces the last-place team in the NL East in the third game of an interleague series that nobody cares about.

Except for the T-shirt salesman and his nation of Asslickers.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Will Oakland climb to 10 games under .500?

The tension is unbearable.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Pitching coach Rick Peterson is back in Oakland!

Too bad its just for a trip with the Mutts and more interleague nonsense.

Let's Go AAA's

By The Anti-Blez on Sunday, June 12, 2005

A couple of my friends have ordered tickets for the BBQ Plaza "event." (I asked them to, as I want to make sure I have bodyguards with me!)

My two friends and I will be easy to find among the sea of "In Billy We Trust" T-shirts. We'll be the ones who aren't wearing them.

See y'all real soon! Can't wait to eat!

By The Anti-Blez on Sunday, June 12, 2005

How about that? I forget to open a thread for the game, and the AAA's pull off a laugher.

Let Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Saturday, June 11, 2005

Oakland will try to remember what it's like to win back-to-back ballgames.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Friday, June 10, 2005

Oakland begins the series 13 games under .500.

At least they won't have to face Hudson.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Thursday, June 09, 2005

The Montreal Expos of Washington, D.C., looking for a three-game sweep.

The Oakland AAAthletics looking for their bats.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Wednesday, June 08, 2005

The Montreal Expos of Washington, D.C., are in first place.

The Oakland Athletics are in last place.

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Oakland takes on the Montreal Expos of Washington, D.C.

Interleague baseball.

Don't you just love Bud Selig?

Nah, neither do I.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Sunday, June 05, 2005

The tickets we ordered (from "ANother" site) arrived in the mail this past week. Can't wait to meet y'all in the BBQ Plaza on August 13!

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Sunday, June 05, 2005

It's hard to be down on the team after a performance like that on Saturday night. Let's hope it was a sign of things to come.

Oakland will try for its sixth victory of the week as it wraps up the series against Toronto this afternoon.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Saturday, June 04, 2005

Blanton on the mound for Oakland. Lilly on the mound for Toronto.

All bets are off.

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Friday, June 03, 2005

No, we're not talking about the AAA's four-game win streak, which came to a screeching halt on Friday night.

We're talking about Oakland's five-year stretch as one of the top teams in not only the AL West, but all of baseball. They reached the playoffs every season from 2000 to 2003. (They failed to make the playoffs last year, but only by a game.) During that period, they posted a record of 483-326--an incredible 157 games over .500.

This season, they're on pace to finish 36 games under .500.

The T-shirt salesman who runs the Asslickers Nation website won't admit this (since it would hurt his sales), but longtime, real Oakland fans know the truth:

The AAA's are truly pathetic this year.

Beaned again!

By The Anti-Blez on Friday, June 03, 2005

The AAA's, whose four-game win streak makes them the American League's hottest team at the moment, face the league's hottest pitcher, Roy Halladay, who is 4-0 in his last four outings with an 0.55 ERA.

Tonight's game will be a real test. Does Oakland have what it takes to be a .500 club this season?

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Thursday, June 02, 2005

Oakland looks to extend its three-game win streak when it takes on the Moneybawl team from up north.

Why is it I have this feeling that when all is said and done this weekend, we'll be singing the lyrics to the South Park classic "Blame Canada"?

Let's Go AAA's!

By The Anti-Blez on Thursday, June 02, 2005

A couple of weeks ago I decided to forgo my share of the profits from "In Billy We Trust" T-shirt sales and make a clean break from our sister site, Athletics Nation.

At the time, the AAA's were in the midst of their second eight-game losing streak of the month. I announced that if the team could somehow manage to string together three consecutive wins, I would consider shutting this site down.

Well, the Tampa Bay Dreg Rays* (3-21 record on the road this season) came to town, and the AAA's captured that elusive trio victories.

So, now I must decide whether to retire Pathetics Nation.

Hmm, let's see...

Hell no!


*Nickname courtesy of signrickey

By The Anti-Blez on Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Oakland looks to win three games in a row for just the second time this season.

The last time Oakland won three straight, the team was a game over .500 (at 8-7). The A's looked promising.

That was only six weeks ago.

Today, they are 13 games under .500 (at 19-32). The AAA's are pathetic.

Lucky for us, the Devil Rays came to town.

Let's Go AAA's!