It's a Perfect Sonny Gray Day!

Tonight could be epic.

In Oaktown, it's the kid vs. the veteran. It's Moneyball vs. the Hired Guns.  It's two pretty evenly matched ball clubs, battling it out for a little piece of immortality!  It is the joy of victory and the agony of defeat. Tonight indeed could be a classic.  For the A's this game could be a springboard to something to something absolutely spectacular, or another in a series of heart-through-the-throat defeats.  If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best, so as the people at Budweiser like to say, "Here we go!"

Some thoughts from the Get Down Lounge:

*Will BoMel get Albert Callapso's bat in the lineup?  Would he sit Reddick to start, and save his glove for the late innings--the mass media has failed to notice that in August, when the A's rolled in and took 3 out 4 in Detroit, Reddick was hurt.  I can envision Seth Smith in right field, and Big Al DHing.  It would be a gutsy move, but this is a winner take all evening!

*Which begs the question, are the A's really in it to win it, or simply in it for an outside chance to win it?  Jake Peavy would have looked great in this rotation, in fact, I would have loved to have seen him on the bump Tuesday in the Motor City.  Regardless of how the A's do this fall, the team could use an Ace and one more power arm or two in the pen.  This a team pretty much in it's prime.  Here is hoping tonight is the start of something BIG!

*Good old Bud Selig, geesh.  Why do you let fans sit where they can disrupt the game?  It happened in Yankee stadium years ago, and it happened in Detroit.  I think Bud likes controversy--it keeps his sport in the news.  In no other major profession sport, do the fans have an opportunity to interfere on a great play.
Only in Bud's game.  You must be proud Bud, you must be proud.  Wail until it happens to the Brewers Bud.

*The O.Co will be rocking.  The SF Chronicle has an interesting story today, that winning can fuel a push for a new stadium.  Humm....kind of hard to imagine life without the Oakland Alameda Coliseum--could this be her final moment in the spotlight?

*Who will rise to be the hero today?  My money is on Cespedes--that is if Verlander will throw to him.  Eric Sogard has been pretty quite all series too;  then of course, there is always Stephen Vogt--a big knock and he is a folk hero forever.  Even Reddick, he of the wild swings, could square one up and be the difference maker.

On a crisp, cool, autumn Northern California Day, the stage is set:  get those drums ready (and guardian angels too!),  today appears to be a perfect Sonny Gray Day!

(***Remineder, Pink has a cocert this evening in the Arena--nice scheduling huh?  Arrive early!)