DLD 10/15/07: First Day of the Offseason

by Apricot on Oct 15, 2006 1:43 PM PDT

No link dump yet? Well, I'm opening today's up. Add links to good stuff preferably not about the Tigers series.

This seems like as good a time as any to start hijacking a few link dumps.

The last two years we followed the Adventures of Diego Chavez. Here is an archive of the last two seasons.

Warning: Some mature themes this season.

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naomi watts

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 Oct 15, 2006 1:47 PM PDT reply actions

Naomi Watts drools on keyboard?

Does she have a cleft palette?

"It's time to blow this team up." - Oaktoon, July 2006

by Ozzz on Oct 15, 2006 8:01 PM PDT up reply actions

Like...

...this?

Tin Roof

by Ice Cream on Oct 15, 2006 8:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Mystery solved!

You chose your user name as a profiteering dentist.

by mikeA on Oct 15, 2006 8:41 PM PDT up reply actions

I had a retainer once.

Now I'm on salary...

"It's time to blow this team up." - Oaktoon, July 2006

by Ozzz on Oct 15, 2006 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions

Thank you

for bringing back the Adventures of Diego Chavez!!! :D

By the way, the first day of the offseason is always the worst. It's worse than the moment when your season OFFICIALLY comes to an end. <Sigh>
It's almost 2 PM on Sunday and we don't have an A's game. Maybe I should just pretend like we are playing on SNB tonight. And at 5 PM, watch a taped game from last season. :(

by AsGirl on Oct 15, 2006 1:56 PM PDT reply actions

Some of us

having been wearing green and gold goggles all season. If you still have your pair handy, you can watch tonight's NLCS game and pretend it's A's vs. A's.

by mikeA on Oct 15, 2006 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions

When you put it that way

I'd rather have sex once every 5 years.

Why yes. I am a ray of warm and fuzzy sunshine.

by grover on Oct 15, 2006 1:57 PM PDT reply actions

But not with a tapir.

Certum est quod certum reddi potest.

by oblique on Oct 15, 2006 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions

I wouldn't be picky

Whatever leads to the year long orgasm.

Why yes. I am a ray of warm and fuzzy sunshine.

by grover on Oct 15, 2006 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions

Good point

but even if it's the last orgasm you ever have?

Certum est quod certum reddi potest.

by oblique on Oct 15, 2006 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Only way that happens

is if my time is up. And if you've gotta go, I can't think of a better way!

Why yes. I am a ray of warm and fuzzy sunshine.

by grover on Oct 15, 2006 4:42 PM PDT up reply actions

That might actually happen

with the tapir. Those things are pretty big...

"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s

by Nick on Oct 15, 2006 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions

I think I nom'd Nico already, but QOTM here too!

by Rickeyfan on Oct 15, 2006 7:07 PM PDT up reply actions

Speaking of which

BBG seems to have slacked off the September edition.

Why yes. I am a ray of warm and fuzzy sunshine.

by grover on Oct 15, 2006 7:14 PM PDT up reply actions

Diego Chavez! Yay!

Now if we have one of those every day, I think I'll survive the offseason.

Maybe.

"He's the heart and soul of the green and gold."

by whiteshoes40 on Oct 15, 2006 2:02 PM PDT reply actions

Part of me is glad that it's the offseason.

Sadly, I like AN a lot more in the offseason. The day-game denizens retreat to their lairs, there are only a few diaries a day, people spend the offseason working on very creative projects that they share with AN. The MaEl H8RZ and the FIRE MACHA NOW and the Chavvy Has no Heart crowds take a break from their cheap shots. I know that I'll probably write about baseball a lot more often since I won't be able to actually watch it.

Without the A's, I'll have a lot more time for working and spending with my wife and lot less stress and aggravation. I'll get to sleep before 1 am and won't have to fall asleep excited about the victory or thinking about the loss. Of course I'll miss watching the Muppets play and win or play and break my heart, but a little time away from the A's is good.

Like, say, two weeks.

Stat Wonk Futurist

by salb918 on Oct 15, 2006 2:25 PM PDT reply actions

hmmm

More time to spend with your wife... Which part of you is it that's glad it's the offseason?

by mikeA on Oct 15, 2006 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions

The tapir.

Stat Wonk Futurist

by salb918 on Oct 15, 2006 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions

AN in the offseason

will your foulmouthed uncle sal still be here?

http://www.athleticsnation.com/?op=search&offset=0&old_count=30&type=comment&section =&string=sumbitch&search=Search&count=30

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 Oct 15, 2006 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions

I hope not.

Stat Wonk Futurist

by salb918 on Oct 15, 2006 5:35 PM PDT up reply actions

Excellent points, all

Sleep and relaxation=good.
Although it is odd to not be watching an A's game, there are other things in life. Such as work.

"Maybe if I lay here in the dirt, nobody will notice I've forgotten how to hit" ~Crosby in ANtics

by streetfan on Oct 15, 2006 7:00 PM PDT up reply actions

<hugs>

"...I say let's get the boys together again and take another shot."

by Jennifer on Oct 15, 2006 3:00 PM PDT reply actions

BTW...

There are some great "Awww! <sob>" stories out there. I'm too lazy to link them.

"...I say let's get the boys together again and take another shot."

by Jennifer on Oct 15, 2006 3:02 PM PDT reply actions

link them!

i'm too lazy to find them on my own.

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 Oct 15, 2006 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions

I like Gavin Newsom

but his ex-wife is quite frightening, and his new girlfriend is a bit shady.

by mikeA on Oct 15, 2006 3:21 PM PDT reply actions

I hate guys

That are ridiculously good looking and ridiculously charming. Puts the rest of us out of a job!

by Amnesiac727 on Oct 15, 2006 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions

Brittanie Mountz?

Really?

Eternal Springs™: The official October bottled water of your Oakland Athletics

by FreeSeatUpgrade on Oct 15, 2006 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions

I have absolutely no idea

what strikes you as unusual about Ms. Mountz's name.

by mikeA on Oct 15, 2006 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Duh. It's a stripper/pornstar name.

by hunter on Oct 15, 2006 8:58 PM PDT up reply actions

what will SF voters be most upset by?

-the mayor dating a girl half his age
-that she's an underage drinker
-that she's a republican

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 Oct 15, 2006 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions

Did you see AN's mention in the Mercury News?

In an article discussing the 25th anniversary of the wave, some freak from AN was quoted as saying,

"The wave is a travesty. Usually started by inattentive, inebriated fans who would struggle to tell you the current score, let alone the situation of the game, the wave violently distracts from the activity on the field.''

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/15763750.htm

More than just ANtics: http://www.louisgray.com/live/

by louismg on Oct 15, 2006 3:52 PM PDT reply actions

The problem with the wave

isn't the wave itself, it's that it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GAME!! I know, this is your point too, but it's just frustrating. If a great play resulted in the fans bursting into a wave, that could actually be pretty cool. But it's more just a narcissistic act on the part of the wave-starter -- look at me, I started the wave! Did you see the wave I started on TV?

Bastards. All of them, BASTARDS!!

Certum est quod certum reddi potest.

by oblique on Oct 15, 2006 4:17 PM PDT up reply actions

Wow, I know a slept a lot last night....

but did I really miss the whole 2007 season???

There's no crying in baseball!

by gigglingone on Oct 15, 2006 4:17 PM PDT reply actions

Yup.

World. Champions.

by mikeA on Oct 15, 2006 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions

Black Sox

Juan Uribe and his brother reportedly shot and injured two men in the Dominican Republic on Friday.

The men who were shot have already been released from the hospital. According to the report, Uribe opened fire, perhaps in self defense, after the men approached his vehicle. An investigation is ongoing. Asked to comment on the incident, Steve Lyons said he wanted all four men searched in case they stole his wallet.

by Zonis on Oct 15, 2006 4:47 PM PDT reply actions

Woo!

If you haven't read it yet, Bruce Jenkins gives the story of the post-game guys in the clubhouse. :-(

Gwen Knapp gives us some Big Hurt love.

When the media entered the room, Thomas was walking toward Milton Bradley's stall, where the right fielder had shrouded his head in a towel. Thomas leaned down, put an arm around Bradley, patted his back and said quietly: "You're a winner."

The real tragedy of the A's not getting out of the second round -- wouldn't you love to see this?

A's owner Lew Wolff was desperately hopeful early Saturday and seemed determined for the series to continue. "If we get back to Oakland," he said with a smile, "I'll open the (upper) deck and sit up there myself, if that's incentive enough." The Coliseum tarps weren't supposed to be removed until the World Series.

And of course the obligatory 'end of Zito as an A' article.

"This must be heaven," he says.
"No. It's Oakland."

by Kyli on Oct 15, 2006 6:39 PM PDT reply actions

i think i have to post this, given my AN sig

CBGB closes:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/461880p-388196c.html

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 Oct 15, 2006 6:57 PM PDT reply actions