includes oakland rally day, alds pre-game one, alds game one, alds pre-game two, alds game two, alds pre-game three, game three, oakland workout day, alcs pre-game one, alcs game one - in that order.

break out the champagne, kids ...we're going to the alcs! i have a paper to write, but as soon as i get done with it, i'm going to take plenty of screen caps of the game and edit them into this post.

by the way, i rescind my comment to cookie2697 ...i'm so bummed you didn't get to see the game four though!

edit at 6:05 a.m.: okay, all done, finally. i hope you guys enjoy them =) they certainly took long enough and i'm hoping this will make up for the lack of material i normally have to contribute lol this is a huge post and is not dial-up friendly whatsoever. if that's a problem for anyone, let me know and i'll split them into two separate posts. and for the love of god, please, please, please ask me before re-distributing these anywhere. they took forever to make and i'd really rather not see them popping up all over the place.

in honor of the alds, there's a new layout in the community. speaking of which, how many of you lucky bastards are going to attend/have attended a playoff game? also, for those that aren't aware yet, barry zito is maintaining a post-season blog over here.

i know everyone has already seen these, but i have a terrible time loading mlb.com photo galleries (yay for dial-up), so i'm going to archive them in here. besides, clubhouse celebration photos never get old.