Two Bad Days in Oakland: Peter

Well, the past two days across the Bay have been upsetting, to say the least. Friday, we've got Bucky, leading the league in ERA, going against the best of Oakland's good staff, Cahill, each after his 16th of the year. Bucky has what is definitely his worst start of the year! In an inning plus, he allows nine batters to reach base! Not a good way to win a game. In fact, we don't. We lose by five zip, which is the score when Bucky leaves in the 2d with no outs. The pen did an excellent job thereon with few baserunners at all. But the damage was definitely done. Too bad too as the Stripes lost. Could have picked up a game. Am I sounding like a never say die fan, or what?
Yesterday, Sara and I were going to go the the game, but tickets were unavailable, so we decided to watch on the 48" screen at La Maison Richmond--right here in the media room. Game's supposed to be on the air, but ten mins before game time, we find out that as it's a Comcast broadcast, you don't get it if you don't have Comcast. Folks like us on Direct TV have to miss it. So, our revised plans of peanuts, dogs and drinks (just like the ballpark, but without any obnoxious A's fans) falls apart. We're reduced to watching occasional updates on Direct's MLB channel. This, of course, gives your father, Jenn, the chance to watch his second fave old movie (behind Casablanca, of course) in between the updates. For the record, that's Cagney in White Heat. "Top of the World, Ma!" Great flic!
Anyway, the game. As we see from the MLB updates, Scoot leads off things with a shot into the cheaps and it's Sox, 1-0. Stays that way for a while until we get another run. So now, it's Sox, 2-0, and I'm making the mistake of hoping. Lackey's pitching as well as any time this year. Unfortunately, in the 7th, it all falls apart and with a collection of hits and walks, he gives it all away. By the time the smoke clears, the A's have the lead, 3-2, later to be expanded to 4-2 against Bard, and the game is gone. We do pick up a run in the 9th with two gone, but it's too little, too late. Another loss, even though the Stripes lost again.