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AN making comeback in Weblog Award

Keep it up, ANers!

In a surprise development, Athletics Nation is staging a stunning comeback in the Weblog Awards.  Blue-Gray Sky is still leading, but not for long.  The "mid-market baseball blog" will pull out the victory!

Keep voting as often as you can from as many computers as you have available.  Voting ends on December 15th, so vote, vote, vote!!!

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I'm not surprised
I sent out a mass email addressed 2 friends y family asking everyone to vote for AN.

Everyone knows I'm an A's fanatic. Got many replies saying they all voted. I also voted several times in my school library. You know I'm a fool to do this during FINALS week.

by sf drift king on Dec 12, 2005 3:48 PM PST reply actions  

3560-3000
Closing the gap.
A Beane in the hand is worth $60M in payroll

by jeepers on Dec 12, 2005 4:04 PM PST reply actions  

the gap between silver and bronze...
is going to be huge by the time voting concludes (it already is).  I think AN has gotten more than 1,000 votes today, so it looks like somebody took Hunter's advice from last thread.  Either that or alleninsf knows a lot of people and goes to a school with a library that would make the compilers of the Yahoo most wired campuses list proud.  I myself can only take credit for 2 votes, I'm usually too lazy to click on links let alone venture into the uncharted territory that Hunter was referring to
See, I'm a murderer, I kill what I eat. I'm a hunter-gatherer, I kill what I eat. I'm a steelworker, I kill what I eat. I'm a bricklayer, I kill what I eat.

by Cutthemullet on Dec 12, 2005 4:07 PM PST reply actions  

it's only going to be...
about 7500 votes. Silver and bronze, that is.

by Jjjsixsix on Dec 13, 2005 8:22 PM PST up reply actions  

also
deleted recommended diaries can move one to tears, even if they were deleted by the author.  I never like to see falls from grace.

Oh, and congrats on little Galt, foolsh.  The checklist was awesome and should inspire any parents who aren't on Texas' top 10 deadbeat dad list (see the Troy Neel comments of the latest wishful thinking trade diary).  You should still consider Roark for little bro, if that's in the cards.  In the meantime, your firstborn is beautiful.

See, I'm a murderer, I kill what I eat. I'm a hunter-gatherer, I kill what I eat. I'm a steelworker, I kill what I eat. I'm a bricklayer, I kill what I eat.

by Cutthemullet on Dec 12, 2005 4:16 PM PST reply actions  

it was deleted for a good reason
and there was no fall from grace that i was aware of in it...
Go A's -- Nebraska

by Ryan Armbrust on Dec 12, 2005 4:18 PM PST up reply actions  

ah
I think I read every post but the last 10 or so, there must have been a late-developing controversy.  And by fall from grace I meant the diary itself, going from most highly recommended to deleted, heh
See, I'm a murderer, I kill what I eat. I'm a hunter-gatherer, I kill what I eat. I'm a steelworker, I kill what I eat. I'm a bricklayer, I kill what I eat.

by Cutthemullet on Dec 12, 2005 4:24 PM PST up reply actions  

i'll just say this
there was no controversy, it was deleted to cover some tracks... evidence and so on.
Go A's -- Nebraska

by Ryan Armbrust on Dec 12, 2005 4:26 PM PST up reply actions  

Thanks, CTM...
for the congrats on little Galt.  Roark is on the list, but probably for middle names.  Dagny is top of the list for a little girl.

As for the fall from grace...  all for a good cause.  ;-)

by FoolshGame22 on Dec 12, 2005 4:27 PM PST up reply actions  

you're welcome
I think you've got a clean slate here now that you've posted those pictures, you can't hold all the Byrnes debates against the proud father
See, I'm a murderer, I kill what I eat. I'm a hunter-gatherer, I kill what I eat. I'm a steelworker, I kill what I eat. I'm a bricklayer, I kill what I eat.

by Cutthemullet on Dec 12, 2005 4:43 PM PST up reply actions  

lol
if the pace of the last half hour keeps up AN will look like Reggie Bush when voting closes
See, I'm a murderer, I kill what I eat. I'm a hunter-gatherer, I kill what I eat. I'm a steelworker, I kill what I eat. I'm a bricklayer, I kill what I eat.

by Cutthemullet on Dec 12, 2005 4:45 PM PST up reply actions  

Or like another Bush of note
Katherine Harris and the Florida recount experience.  Great beat, I coulkd really dance to it, I give it a 9.
Beat the Angles (they're obtuse!)

by FreeSeatUpgrade on Dec 12, 2005 4:58 PM PST up reply actions  

heh, good call
also, I have been successfully turning away potential weblog award voters in inner city districts, most of whom tend to vote Blue-Gray Sky.  ISP registration drives in these same areas have also been thwarted.
See, I'm a murderer, I kill what I eat. I'm a hunter-gatherer, I kill what I eat. I'm a steelworker, I kill what I eat. I'm a bricklayer, I kill what I eat.

by Cutthemullet on Dec 12, 2005 5:08 PM PST up reply actions  

wow....
thats all i can say, we were down by 2 g's
"Baseball is like church, many attend, few understand" - Leo Durocher

by gWiLiKeRzZz on Dec 12, 2005 4:48 PM PST up reply actions  

and now we're up
by about 200
Go A's -- Nebraska

by Ryan Armbrust on Dec 12, 2005 4:49 PM PST up reply actions  

lol
   you people have no lives : ) not saying i haven't done my part.
Ron Burgundy: Brick, where did you get a hand grenade? Brick Tamland: I don't know.

by Kratos on Dec 12, 2005 4:52 PM PST up reply actions  

hey now
i have a very nice life. at least that's what i keep telling myself.

i'm just doing my part for AN

Go A's -- Nebraska

by Ryan Armbrust on Dec 12, 2005 4:55 PM PST up reply actions  

And
Thank you for that!
"If I'm not having fun, then I am not playing well" ~Bobby Crosby

by BobbyCrosbysGirl on Dec 12, 2005 4:57 PM PST up reply actions  

I can't help but think
of the episode of Sports Night where one sports anchor out-polls the other in an Internet poll by something like 2,500,000 to 567.

by Apricot on Dec 12, 2005 5:00 PM PST up reply actions  

and...
we've passed the 4000 threshold
Go A's -- Nebraska

by Ryan Armbrust on Dec 12, 2005 5:01 PM PST reply actions  

4043-3605
Well I voted for AN. I guess I'll have to wait another 24 hours before I can vote again! ;)
Go A's -- Nebraska

by Ryan Armbrust on Dec 12, 2005 5:04 PM PST reply actions  

4124-3616
Democracy in action is an amazing thing.
A Beane in the hand is worth $60M in payroll

by jeepers on Dec 12, 2005 5:20 PM PST reply actions  

They're making a run
Really picked up for them recently. 4417-3791, or 111 votes in the last 55 minutes.
A Beane in the hand is worth $60M in payroll

by jeepers on Dec 12, 2005 6:29 PM PST reply actions  

Do we have the mafia voting for the A's?
"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder

by Kyli on Dec 12, 2005 6:33 PM PST reply actions  

i am
i mean... i did. once per 24 hours... ;)
Go A's -- Nebraska

by Ryan Armbrust on Dec 12, 2005 6:35 PM PST up reply actions  

4481-3815
Go AN!!!!
There's no crying in baseball!

by gigglingone on Dec 12, 2005 6:39 PM PST reply actions  

wow
that's what i get for voting, reading, then posting! * sheesh *  I'm already out of date!! ;)
There's no crying in baseball!

by gigglingone on Dec 12, 2005 6:40 PM PST up reply actions  

its the war between mid market and mid america
lets show them that we are number one!
"Baseball is like church, many attend, few understand" - Leo Durocher

by gWiLiKeRzZz on Dec 12, 2005 6:46 PM PST up reply actions  

true
but it is, after all, a silly site that simply has awards to drive traffic there and get ad imprints and pageviews. the award is meaningless by design.
Go A's -- Nebraska

by Ryan Armbrust on Dec 12, 2005 7:01 PM PST up reply actions  

then why care?
if the award is meaningless?
"Baseball is like church, many attend, few understand" - Leo Durocher

by gWiLiKeRzZz on Dec 12, 2005 7:05 PM PST up reply actions  

...Because it's the offseason?
"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder

by Kyli on Dec 12, 2005 7:45 PM PST up reply actions  

way to hit it on the head....
im on this site way more in december then i am In August...
"Baseball is like church, many attend, few understand" - Leo Durocher

by gWiLiKeRzZz on Dec 12, 2005 7:48 PM PST up reply actions  

Truth.
Plus, and I'm making a somewhat bold prediction here...

Headline:
AN Winning Weblog 'Wards Will Walk Wathletics to World Weries in Two Thousand Six.

by Alon on Dec 12, 2005 7:51 PM PST up reply actions  

It would be funny
if so many votes got canceled from both AN and BGSky that Baseball Crank was given the award.

by devo on Dec 12, 2005 8:58 PM PST up reply actions  

I am not an A's fan
but I read this blog a fair amount, because, well, it's pretty damn good.

I don't post often, because I feel a little out of place cross-posting, but out of respect for AN, the A's, Billy Beane and also because I get so damn sick of Notre Dame, I went and voted for AN.

The question needs to be asked: should a blog about football-- a game so ultimately and fundamentally inferior to baseball, a game with so little charm, so little rhythm, so little beauty, a game so devoid of analysis beyond wondering which team will stay injury-free longer than the others, a game so protean, onanistic, and puerile that its fans appear half naked at games in subzero temperatures with crude lettering painted on their chests-- actually be considered for some kind of an award?

I think not.  Good luck with the contest.

by spengler on Dec 12, 2005 8:46 PM PST reply actions  

What is with this blog
and the word onanistic?
Copernicus felt the same way about the geocentric crew.

by salb918 on Dec 12, 2005 8:52 PM PST up reply actions  

well technically you've used that word
4 of the 6 times it's been used.
"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." - Yogi Berra

by vignette17 on Dec 12, 2005 9:11 PM PST up reply actions  

Hm.
You're right.  My fault, I guess!
Copernicus felt the same way about the geocentric crew.

by salb918 on Dec 12, 2005 9:18 PM PST up reply actions  

what's with YOU
and the word onanistic?  
wait, i probably don't want to know the answer to that....
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05

by xbhaskarx on Dec 12, 2005 9:13 PM PST up reply actions  

AN and BG Sky
both have individually surpassed the total number of votes cast last year (3418) when AN finished second.

http://2004weblogawards.com/archives/000069.php

by devo on Dec 12, 2005 9:04 PM PST reply actions  

well, you know
blogs are a lot more popular now...
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05

by xbhaskarx on Dec 12, 2005 9:11 PM PST up reply actions  

Wow!
How the hell did we make that big of a jump THIS LATE AT NIGHT?!

by Devyn on Dec 12, 2005 11:47 PM PST reply actions  

lots of a's fans in asia
because of yabu
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05

by xbhaskarx on Dec 13, 2005 12:10 AM PST up reply actions  

could be...
I remember someone making the argument on here last year about the Yabu signing, saying that $500k for him was totally worth it, even if he did nothing for us as a team, due to the revenue he'd bring in from the Asian market.  Who knows how much it actually helped, but I personally thought it wasn't a bad assessment, and maybe, just maybe, Yabu'll help us win this weblog thingy.  
"You can't get any more 'Oakland' than the Coliseum. Get any more 'Oakland' and you're in San Leandro!" -Random Drunk Bum at Game

by rungood on Dec 13, 2005 2:30 AM PST up reply actions  

i did my part
sorry i couldnt continue on my path of clicking i had a doctors appointment. only Nebraska and i and possibly apricot know the truth as to how we made so many votes. hehehehe (evil laughing). Aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi
Billy Beane and Eric Bischoff twins? Ive never seen them in the same room together.

by garryg33 on Dec 12, 2005 11:54 PM PST reply actions  

great.
so how many votes are going to be thrown out?

by Jjjsixsix on Dec 13, 2005 12:00 AM PST up reply actions  

Nearly even again
AN leading 4759-4708.
A Beane in the hand is worth $60M in payroll

by jeepers on Dec 13, 2005 9:21 AM PST reply actions  

BG Sky is up nearly 100
"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other." - Jack Handey

by JJ on Dec 13, 2005 9:52 AM PST reply actions  

urgent urgent
Blue Gray Sky has recaptured the lead by 140 votes. Can someone re-post how to do "the thing" again so i can get my share in? Thanks.
RIP Bill King "By the Beard of Zeus!" "I don't know if you heard me counting. I did over a thousand"

by ohad on Dec 13, 2005 10:03 AM PST reply actions  

votes by...
"the thing" get disqualified.

Voting on school libraries.

by Jjjsixsix on Dec 13, 2005 10:15 AM PST up reply actions  

well
they haven't done anything about "the thing" yet...
RIP Bill King "By the Beard of Zeus!" "I don't know if you heard me counting. I did over a thousand"

by ohad on Dec 13, 2005 10:39 AM PST up reply actions  

hey ohad
i just sent you an email
Go A's -- Nebraska

by Ryan Armbrust on Dec 13, 2005 12:40 PM PST up reply actions  

don't worry ohad
seriously, don't worry about it.

check your email

by jakarta on Dec 13, 2005 10:57 AM PST reply actions  

thanks
but i already voted earlier today so i gotta wait until tomorrow :(
RIP Bill King "By the Beard of Zeus!" "I don't know if you heard me counting. I did over a thousand"

by ohad on Dec 13, 2005 11:16 AM PST up reply actions  

Some blogs (inlcluding AN and BG-S)
had votes taken off?  Yikes.  I noticed late last night that we had over 6000 votes and when I voted this morning, it was 5000 something.  

I wasn't around much yesterday, but I guess I missed a lot.  Not that I wanted to know how to cheat.  I did remember to vote, though.

GO AN!

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

by AsGirl on Dec 13, 2005 11:29 AM PST reply actions  

I vote for us voting fair and square
and screw it if we lose. What do you expect when you have a sports blog faceoff during the baseball off-season and the football on-season?

by Apricot on Dec 13, 2005 12:19 PM PST reply actions  

It's not just that
Shouldn't there be some sort of criteria and a committee to decide this sort of thing?  You couldn't determine who did the best heavy metal album by popular vote, otherwise Jethro Tull would have beaten Metallica in 1989.

What's that?  Ah, crap.

Copernicus felt the same way about the geocentric crew.

by salb918 on Dec 13, 2005 12:50 PM PST up reply actions  

except that AsGirl is not correct
neither blog has had votes removed thusfar...

And we have more eyeballs coming to this site by far than they do, EXCEPT on some weekends (duh), so we should win a popularity/fanaticism contest even during our low time and their peak.

and yes, the whole thing is just a lark

by jakarta on Dec 13, 2005 12:28 PM PST reply actions  

Seriously?
I swear I saw over 6000 votes for each blog last night and when I voted this morning (didn't cheat), the total votes were fewer.  
And I wasn't even drunk.  :-/
"I like Band Camp. He hits things." ~ Kyli (9/24/05)

by AsGirl on Dec 13, 2005 2:17 PM PST up reply actions  

my take
is that the entire idea of a vote to determine the best blog is faulty and ridiculous by design. if votes get tossed, they get tossed. it's meaningless. i still want to win, but if votes get thrown out, that just means the foolish loophole that was designed into the awards has still not been fixed.
Go A's -- Nebraska

by Ryan Armbrust on Dec 13, 2005 12:40 PM PST reply actions  

When I was in High School
oh so many years ago

I took this psychology class.  It was a free A type of class, not really about psych at all...

In this class, every semester, was the cheating test.  You were supposed to cheat, in fact the test was nigh impossible without cheating.  

We were given long columns of numbers, that was it. You had something like 15 or 20 minutes to reproduce the entire list of numbers on your sheet of paper. Trust me, you couldn't memorize the thing, you had to find some way to see or hear the answers.  You also had to reproduce the list perfectly, no mistakes.  

The teacher would prowl the aisles trying to bust us, we all had feints and ruses.  It was very difficult to do it though, maybe four people succeeded.  

One of the best solutions someone in my class came up with was to take a polaroid of the numbers, and then replace another photo that was on the wall with that one of the answers.  No one noticed at all.

Point being, many years later I can remember all the things I thought of to beat that test, the creative juices and the thrill of it all.  

'Getting away with things' must be an under-capitalized field of investigation in education and motivation.  

by jakarta on Dec 13, 2005 1:01 PM PST reply actions  

How did nobody notice
A new picture on the wall of the answers?
"If I'm not having fun, then I am not playing well" ~Bobby Crosby

by BobbyCrosbysGirl on Dec 13, 2005 1:36 PM PST up reply actions  

there were lots of photos up already
In that area was a photo of each person in the class.  Take one of those down, replace it with a photo of the answers, and nobody looks closely enough at that area to notice.  When I glanced in that direction (I could have seen it from my vantage point, but wasn't in on it), nothing unusual regestered.  My eyes looked, sent the image to my brain which said "photos", made me realize how rarely I actually NOTICE things, instead of just letting images wash over me because my filter didn't catch it.

by jakarta on Dec 13, 2005 1:52 PM PST up reply actions  

Wow. That's pretty brilliant.
"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder

by Kyli on Dec 13, 2005 2:29 PM PST up reply actions  

Beane does his part
Billy made the Bradley trade just to get more traffic to this site and increase our vote total!

by Larry E on Dec 13, 2005 3:43 PM PST reply actions  

Just voted again...
5786-5749 AN leads.  
"I like Band Camp. He hits things." ~ Kyli (9/24/05)

by AsGirl on Dec 13, 2005 7:03 PM PST reply actions  

I'm at home now
and maxed out my votes. Fingers crossed, Let's go AN, I hope we can pull it out.

by sf drift king on Dec 13, 2005 8:14 PM PST reply actions  

Ouch we are down again....
5944-5859
"While I was there, it didn't always seem perfect, but when I look back on it I just might think it was perfect." -- Eric Byrnes

by smith1051 on Dec 13, 2005 8:49 PM PST reply actions  

6007-5864.
damn, they're on a run.

Someone's in a computer lab.

by Jjjsixsix on Dec 13, 2005 8:58 PM PST up reply actions  

whoa
we fell behind in the past couple hours

by kvn on Dec 13, 2005 9:15 PM PST reply actions  

oh yeah!!!
holy toledo! we are up 6470-6145.  Keep those votes coming!!!!
ohio roots

by nickatt7 on Dec 14, 2005 1:42 AM PST reply actions  

Looks like Milton drew...
some Dodger fans to AN and now they're voting for us.  And, the Yabu vote is keeping us afloat.

by FoolshGame22 on Dec 14, 2005 1:52 AM PST up reply actions  

I didn't read everyone's post
what do you mean by the Yabu vote. How did we get Yabu votes, he's no longer with us.

by sf drift king on Dec 14, 2005 10:24 AM PST up reply actions  

yabu
i suggested AN gets a lot of votes late at night because of "the yabu vote" from asia.  
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05

by xbhaskarx on Dec 14, 2005 11:01 AM PST up reply actions  

Side note:
I can't wait till Jan. 2 to see "The Ohio State Buckeyes" crush the Irish.  Go Bucks!!!!
ohio roots

by nickatt7 on Dec 14, 2005 1:55 AM PST reply actions  

Ohio State?
Hell, is that who they're playing? NS is gonna get stomped.

by hunter on Dec 14, 2005 10:25 AM PST up reply actions  

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