Billy Beane on KNBR now! / Open Thread

by Kyli on Oct 6, 2005 4:00 PM PDT

It's 4pm, and Billy Beane will apparently be up next on 680. Billy Beane! Billy Beane! YAY! Let us worship! ...Okay, I need to take up some more characters.

So. Open thread. Of sorts. Since I'm assuming that the main threads on the main page are already being open threads, since they are....

Oh. My. God. Three hundred characters is a lot. Come on, I just want everyone to listen to Billy Beane.

So... what baseball books are on everyone's offseason reading list? I'm finally, FINALLY reading "Ball Four".

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Thanks Kyli :)

by Poppy on Oct 6, 2005 4:18 PM PDT reply actions

Tick Tock Tick Tock

Comercials...

... and it was at that point that I realized that by thinking outside the box, I had simply walked inside a cube...

by Zonis on Oct 6, 2005 4:19 PM PDT reply actions

um, uh, uh

for those who can't listen, anyone willing to transcript in short anything at all he says?????

"I dont know what I'm yelling about!Loud Noises!" "By the Beard of Zeus!" "I don't know if you heard me counting. I did over a thousand"

by ohad on Oct 6, 2005 4:21 PM PDT reply actions

Ralph asks...

"Spending time at WalMart looking for a new manager?" :P~~

by Poppy on Oct 6, 2005 4:23 PM PDT reply actions

omg transcribing is impossible

the way Ralph rambles.

Billy still repeating that the disagreement w/Macha was based upon compensation (i.e. not personalities). Heh.

by Poppy on Oct 6, 2005 4:25 PM PDT reply actions

and Ralph has nothing original to say

so he keeps reading from Ratto's column

by Poppy on Oct 6, 2005 4:27 PM PDT reply actions

I knew there was a reason

I didn't rush to turn the radio on. Listening to those guys masks the fun of a BB interview.

by Alien @ Athletics Nation on Oct 6, 2005 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions

and Billy is so far just repeating

things we've all already read

by Poppy on Oct 6, 2005 4:27 PM PDT reply actions

(and if anyone else wants to jump in...

...feel free, because I am also still trying to work... :\ ...)

by Poppy on Oct 6, 2005 4:29 PM PDT reply actions

now conversation turning to Zito

and Billy says "What a relief!" (to stop talking about Macha)

by Poppy on Oct 6, 2005 4:30 PM PDT reply actions

Gurth!

... and it was at that point that I realized that by thinking outside the box, I had simply walked inside a cube...

by Zonis on Oct 6, 2005 4:31 PM PDT reply actions

sigh

"subject of Zito is something that will come up this off-season..."

ok, I'm going to wait until something more original or funny gets said.

by Poppy on Oct 6, 2005 4:32 PM PDT reply actions

thanks poppy

really appreciate it.

"I dont know what I'm yelling about!Loud Noises!" "By the Beard of Zeus!" "I don't know if you heard me counting. I did over a thousand"

by ohad on Oct 6, 2005 4:34 PM PDT reply actions

Ralph doesn't need to sound so happy

about how "watching the playoffs without the A's in there must be killing Billy..."

by Poppy on Oct 6, 2005 4:35 PM PDT reply actions

KNBR Rooting for Anahiem

Bastards!

... and it was at that point that I realized that by thinking outside the box, I had simply walked inside a cube...

by Zonis on Oct 6, 2005 4:35 PM PDT reply actions

Tom's an admitted die-hard

Angels fan :\

by Poppy on Oct 6, 2005 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Billy's voice is hot.

"What, now we have the Big One in Zito, and the Bigger One in Joe Blanton?"

Awww. :-( Poor Joe.

"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder

by Kyli on Oct 6, 2005 4:35 PM PDT reply actions

Billy's voice probably wears high socks

;)

by Poppy on Oct 6, 2005 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions

It sooooo does.

"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder

by Kyli on Oct 6, 2005 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions

I am soooo quoting you.

"They could show [Blanton] eating some pregame cupcakes and Zito hiding the milk; and then cut to Blanton with chocolate all over his mouth." -NvrFrgtRamon55

by GreenNGoldGirl on Oct 6, 2005 5:13 PM PDT up reply actions

"Well, I wasn't talking about Gurth"

... and it was at that point that I realized that by thinking outside the box, I had simply walked inside a cube...

by Zonis on Oct 6, 2005 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions

<thud>

by Jennifer on Oct 6, 2005 5:07 PM PDT up reply actions

Ha! Ralph mentions the chair!

"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder

by Kyli on Oct 6, 2005 4:36 PM PDT reply actions

Anyone recording this?

... and it was at that point that I realized that by thinking outside the box, I had simply walked inside a cube...

by Zonis on Oct 6, 2005 4:37 PM PDT reply actions

Might be on the KNBR website later?

"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder

by Kyli on Oct 6, 2005 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions

would be a waste of bandwidth

disappointing :(

by Poppy on Oct 6, 2005 4:40 PM PDT up reply actions

now they're talking about Billy's ass

no, wait, Ralph is just asking about Billy's reputation as a hard-ass...

by Poppy on Oct 6, 2005 4:37 PM PDT reply actions

Ha. Billy says that he'd have no time in the day if he did all the things he's been accused of doing, that it's like Oz where there's the giant head and you pull back the curtain and there's Billy, doing crossword puzzles.

"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder

by Kyli on Oct 6, 2005 4:38 PM PDT reply actions

Ralph thinks the team overachieved...

Though honestly, they were quite a few games below their win expectancy...

... and it was at that point that I realized that by thinking outside the box, I had simply walked inside a cube...

by Zonis on Oct 6, 2005 4:38 PM PDT reply actions

GAH!!!

Stupid webcast just cut Billy off in midsentence as they were wrapping up!!!

}8-[

by Poppy on Oct 6, 2005 4:38 PM PDT reply actions

Billy's question dodging always amuses me.

His claims that everyone's making the Macha situation out to be more than it was made me laugh. He's clinging to that 'too big of a gap' line like Rose to the floating door in 'Titanic'.

He so lied to us though, when he said that he doesn't read the media -- he read Ratto's column today! :-P

"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder

by Kyli on Oct 6, 2005 4:40 PM PDT reply actions

He knows that his heart will go on...

LOL

Yeah, it was definitely a stretch to use the home-buying analogy: "Say you want a house for $50, and someone is asking a BILLION..."

And he really should read Slusser before he reads Ratto...

by Poppy on Oct 6, 2005 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions

actually

given the housing market, that might actually have happened to Billy.

by Apricot on Oct 6, 2005 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions

Who needs a rally monkey..

What we need is Billy Beane singing Celine Dion on the Diamondvision. :-)

Yeah, that analogy was very, very questionable. And he definitely needs help in his reading choices... Ugh. Ratto. Perhaps that's a job for Blez!

"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder

by Kyli on Oct 6, 2005 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions

Doesn't Beane have ...

... Harvard interns he can have read Ratto for him?

The best conkers to play with are uncracked, firm and symmetrical. Make a hole through the middle of your chosen conker.

by monkeyball on Oct 6, 2005 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions

Damn.

It would suck to be Billy's interns if that was the case.

I mean, you go from Harvard level reading to Ratto? That would cause some brain implosions, I think.

"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder

by Kyli on Oct 6, 2005 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions

I'd want to be Billy's intern...

if I didn't want to intern for Susan Slusser or Mychael Urban this badly. :) Besides, I'm not going to Harvard. :)

"They could show [Blanton] eating some pregame cupcakes and Zito hiding the milk; and then cut to Blanton with chocolate all over his mouth." -NvrFrgtRamon55

by GreenNGoldGirl on Oct 6, 2005 5:14 PM PDT up reply actions

Thad, Tripp, and Reginald read Ratto

Thad: "Say, Reginald, couldst thou passeth me yon raggedy broadsheet?"

Reginald: "Yea, verily, I couldst, brother Crimson."

Tripp: "Trolling about the guttersnipe journos again, Thad?"

Thad: "'Tis a tiresome business, I do concede. But this portly Ratto fellow does have an impudent, proletarian quality to him."

Reginald: "He's absolutely Falstaffian!"

Thad: "Quite right! Just so!"

Tripp: "Tut, tut, gents! I find him crude and loathsome."

[Suddenly, a CHAIR flies onstage from stage left, BRAINING Tripp, who falls over, quite dead.]

Beane [from OFFSTAGE]: "Hey, BRAINIACS, have you <censored> finished my <censored> clipbook yet?"

The best conkers to play with are uncracked, firm and symmetrical. Make a hole through the middle of your chosen conker.

by monkeyball on Oct 6, 2005 5:18 PM PDT up reply actions

You're my hero.

"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder

by Kyli on Oct 6, 2005 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions

I have a feeling that ...

... we haven't seen the last of Thad, Tripp, and Reginald ...

The best conkers to play with are uncracked, firm and symmetrical. Make a hole through the middle of your chosen conker.

by monkeyball on Oct 6, 2005 5:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Wha??

I thought I was your hero. Fickle girl.

by ArakSOT on Oct 10, 2005 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions

that was awesome

by rubin sierra on Oct 7, 2005 2:10 AM PDT up reply actions

Decent interview

I like the show, good insight at times but Ralph mentioned ratto's colunm too much and rooting for Anahaeim?

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'.-Homer Simpson

by doublehustle22 on Oct 6, 2005 4:40 PM PDT reply actions

Reading matter

I'd highly recommend Bouton's more recent book, Foul Ball.

by lurkerD on Oct 6, 2005 4:41 PM PDT reply actions

Kyli,

Can I order some Bobby Crosby earrings from you? I'd like to give them as a gift to a friend.

(You are the one who makes the earrings, right?)

by SportySpice @ Athletics Nation on Oct 6, 2005 5:15 PM PDT reply actions

Nope, alas that isn't me!

I'm not that talented. :-) It's lexdevil that you're thinking of.

"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder

by Kyli on Oct 6, 2005 5:17 PM PDT up reply actions

Her earrings are the coolest.

I need to work something out for like, a bag for some earrings, but I'm having trouble from my parents again for the "internet usage". They think I'm having some sort of relationship with random people online. <shudder> That's creepy.

"They could show [Blanton] eating some pregame cupcakes and Zito hiding the milk; and then cut to Blanton with chocolate all over his mouth." -NvrFrgtRamon55

by GreenNGoldGirl on Oct 6, 2005 5:25 PM PDT up reply actions

Silly parents.

Didn't you tell them that you're in a relationship with Zito?

"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder

by Kyli on Oct 6, 2005 5:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Tricks are for the Marlins.

Every time I mention Zito or the A's, they tell be to be quiet. GRR. They think it's weird that I'm a girl that loves baseball. To quote my parents, "Stop acting like a boy. Only boys like baseball and sports that much. You should like something normal, like an actor?"

<rolls eyes> Parents.

"They could show [Blanton] eating some pregame cupcakes and Zito hiding the milk; and then cut to Blanton with chocolate all over his mouth." -NvrFrgtRamon55

by GreenNGoldGirl on Oct 6, 2005 5:46 PM PDT up reply actions

If you REALLY want to freak 'em out

Start getting all gushy over Nathan Lane. They won't know what to think.

The best conkers to play with are uncracked, firm and symmetrical. Make a hole through the middle of your chosen conker.

by monkeyball on Oct 6, 2005 5:50 PM PDT up reply actions

Sorry to hear that. :(

My parents are oddly supportive of my baseball love. They also insist I marry Rich or Huston. I guess I'm lucky. :)

Hopefully your parents will realize someday it's okay for you to be a GIRL who likes BASEBALL. Sheesh.

Street is a friggin physical marvel... -Mychael Urban

by rookieoftheyear on Oct 6, 2005 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions

Girl, I am 24!!

And my parents still get on me about my crazy obsession with baseball! My mom is constantly asking me if I am a lesbian! (not that there would be anything wrong with it if I was) but I am not, so my mom says I must be a boy! Yeah, I'm a boy, that is why I plaster my room with picture of baseball players and their hot asses!! That makes sense!

Just tell your mom, baseball players are hotter than movie stars any day of the week cause they are real and they work hard! And Zito's Curveball is one of the sexiest things on this earth!!!

"We play our best ball when we're goofing around and having a good time" ~Bobby Crosby

by BobbyCrosbysGirl on Oct 6, 2005 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions

Movie stars aren't nearly as hotttttt as

baseball players! ;-)

"I like Band Camp. He hits things." ~ Kyli (9/24/05)

by AsGirl on Oct 6, 2005 7:07 PM PDT up reply actions

Brad Pitt Comes Close...

But not anywhere near as hot as Bobby!!

"We play our best ball when we're goofing around and having a good time" ~Bobby Crosby

by BobbyCrosbysGirl on Oct 6, 2005 7:09 PM PDT up reply actions

Where'd you get the quote?

"Once, when I almost died, it wasn't so cool. But now it's great." -- Barry Zito

by anA on Oct 6, 2005 7:10 PM PDT up reply actions

I got it from an article so long ago!

I think it was when he was doing the whole Ronnie Mac clown thing, but I am not sure exactly.

"We play our best ball when we're goofing around and having a good time" ~Bobby Crosby

by BobbyCrosbysGirl on Oct 6, 2005 7:50 PM PDT up reply actions

Except Johnny Depp.

That's the only guy in the world I would pick over Barry Zito. THE ONLY ONE.

"They could show [Blanton] eating some pregame cupcakes and Zito hiding the milk; and then cut to Blanton with chocolate all over his mouth." -NvrFrgtRamon55

by GreenNGoldGirl on Oct 6, 2005 9:02 PM PDT up reply actions

That is because...

Johnny is a totally different kind of sexy! It is like other worldly or something!

"We play our best ball when we're goofing around and having a good time" ~Bobby Crosby

by BobbyCrosbysGirl on Oct 6, 2005 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Omg.

Johnny is like.... whoaaaaaaa. He's my older-man-that-I-totally-have-no-chance-with-but-still-love-to-covet. I can't wait for POTC 2!!!!!!!

AND OMG did you hear who's playing Jack Sparrow's father in the sequels???????????????

"They could show [Blanton] eating some pregame cupcakes and Zito hiding the milk; and then cut to Blanton with chocolate all over his mouth." -NvrFrgtRamon55

by GreenNGoldGirl on Oct 6, 2005 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions

Of Course!!

At first they said it was just a rumor, then it came out again as being truth! How cool! I can't wait for POTC2 either!!

"We play our best ball when we're goofing around and having a good time" ~Bobby Crosby

by BobbyCrosbysGirl on Oct 6, 2005 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions

I was freaking out.

Like, even more than I would've been freaking out if like, Rich Harden was called to do it. He's a freaking rock icon and he's gonna do the movie with Johnny Depp?!?!?!?! It's the ultimate collaboration. It's gonna rock so freakin' much!

"They could show [Blanton] eating some pregame cupcakes and Zito hiding the milk; and then cut to Blanton with chocolate all over his mouth." -NvrFrgtRamon55

by GreenNGoldGirl on Oct 6, 2005 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions

sooo

Who is playing Jack Sparrow's Dad? I guess I'm out of the loop. lol

We can be considered David, David knocks out Goliath. -Eric Chavez PT-42

by norcaldevilasu on Oct 6, 2005 10:35 PM PDT up reply actions

Kieth Richards

from the Rolling Stones. It is who Johnny Depp modeled Jack Sparrow after. Apperently when he heard this, he thought it would be cool to play his dad in the movie. They said for a long time that this was all just a rumor, but a little while ago I read that it was for sure! Totally Cool!

"We play our best ball when we're goofing around and having a good time" ~Bobby Crosby

by BobbyCrosbysGirl on Oct 7, 2005 7:03 PM PDT up reply actions