Day Two DLD -- 4/4/2006. Can we call a mulligan?
by Kyli on Apr 4, 2006 6:58 AM PDT
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PrintNew season, time for new things. I'm gonna try my hand at my first link dump! Let's hope this change doesn't bring bad luck to the A's. :-/ Here's to more success in Game 2! We can call it Game 1.5 and pretend yesterday neeeeveeer happened.
Sfgate's recap, where we learn that Billy Beane knows his calculus and Johnny Damon is a tool that deserves to be booed.
Before the game, Damon, who just went through his own high-profile free agency, said of Zito, "We're hoping Barry pitches well -- this season, not tonight -- because he'll be a free agent. He could be here (with the Yankees) or with the Mets. I know he's ready for the New York scene."Yes, Johnny. And I know you're ready to have the collective foot of the Nation kicking you in the head.
The Oakland Tribune's recap fears for Bobby Crosby. As do we all.
Crosby's left index finger was bloodied, but he initially stayed in thegame. He was removed in the fifth and will be examined today by Dr. Jerrald Goldman."It was cut pretty bad," manager Ken Macha said. "He probably will not be able to play (today). Let's hope it's only one day."
Invoking Goldman is a little frightening.
With Beane's comments about calculus and running to class, it sounds like he's a man haunted by that in-class-without-pants nightmare.
The Contra Costa Times is a big ol' pile of depressing.
Frank Thomas is back, and Korach makes me tear up again
"If I start crying, so be it," said Korach on the night that King was honored before the game.
To no one's surprise, baseball ticket prices are up again. Interestingly, the A's are the biggest leap in prices:
Oakland had the highest percentage increase, a 25.2 percent rise to $22.10, followed by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, whose average went up 24.7 percent to $17.09.Thanks, Lew.
Clemens still unable to decide. No one surprised.
Duck! Fan throws syringe at Bonds. It is important to remember two things: A) it is always, always inappropriate and atrocious to throw something at a player.
B) ...Don't miss, dumbass.
Two more years of seeing Slingblade, Lackey gets an extension. He's pitched well against Oakland the past few years, hopefully he'll forget how to do that. Quickly.
Littlefield + Losing, BFF til 2008
Even if our game sucked, at least someone got to watch a good game yesterday.
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Re: Damon
That is the dance he used to do in Oakland:
by saint @ Athletics Nation on Apr 4, 2006 8:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Damon has no soul
In grade-school psychology terms, he is projecting on Zito. Because he is money-motivated, he thinks everyone else should be too.
No link... but that's not surprising.
P.S Frank Thomas is a very large man. I'm going to need a bigger basement.
No mulligans!
Mullets are always
One worthy of flogging.
Speaking of which, hi Jennifer!
Intervention time
by Lafayette Scotsman on Apr 4, 2006 7:43 AM PDT up reply actions
A's ticket price leap
...I totally failed to sit and consider that.
"No. It's Oakland."
Chronicle blogs?
As for last night... I was initially pissed that TiVo taped the blacked-out ESPN broadcast, but after tuning into the game and seeing Saarloos on the mound... well, maybe I don't need to see every minute of this season.
Everything is a "blog" nowadays.
I was in the air all yesterday and arrived home at 12:30 am, thinking I could catch the last bit of the game. Unfortunately for me, I did.
I took a flight yesterday from Dallas to Boston, and I swear that half the passengers were Red Sox fans who had just come back from watching the Sox on opening day in Texas. That's the perfect storm of obsession, money, and unemployment.
bloggity bloggity blog
That's the perfect storm of obsession, money, and unemployment.
Hey, don't knock it. I bet when you are independently wealthy and retired in ten years, you'll fly the whole family out to see the A's home opener in Las Vegas.
<sulk>
It's rained every day in the Bay Area in March. Seattle, I apologize for laughing at you in January, so quit it.
Independently wealthy and retired
I was in Portland last week and thought, "If the A's move here, they'll need to play in macintoshes fer sher.
better working for the man ...
When A-Rod hit that grand slam
When A-Rod hit that grand slam
Welcome home, sal!
yeah
My Blog.
hmmm, ok...
My Blog.
Not A's
Walked out of the tunnel from getting food
Took me 2 1/2 innings to grab a burger from behind the scout seats! The entire food service staff had to have been AARP members (except the young woman who took my money and slowly put it into the register bill by bill).
by JJ on Apr 4, 2006 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Am I going to have to wait until gametime
<barf>
Welcome back Sal
Nice to be wanted.
Poor timing, btw
really?!?
Why not?
by kaweahkaweah on Apr 4, 2006 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
I dunno ...
That's about right...
That's lovely.
good point
Or
by sf drift king on Apr 4, 2006 11:10 AM PDT up reply actions
Why did they
<barf>
Bobby seriously needs a safer profession. I'm thinking department store mannequin.
And he would STILL
Post-game grue...
The Yankees to be spanked
But when the 2nd inning came 'round
'Twas Barry who'd been "yanked".
Ha! Good one. Sad, but true.
About to slink off to work
But does it like company?
Well everyone is jumping off the bandwagon,
Rob Neyer: (12:06 PM ET ) Sure. Except now I've got them at 92 instead of 93. True, if Zito gets hammered every start between now and July, the A's have a problem. But he should be at least decent this season (even though I still think the A's should have traded him this winter).
El Cheapo Opening Day
I'm sure glad
Blech...
Hmm, maybe that purple blob will move North enough?
And then there's this map...
I hate rain.
it's true, apparently!
(Strangely, there are also Rockies fans in the A's offshore radio-coverage sweet spot.)
Awww...C'mon
Jason Jennings looked really sharp, holding Arizona to 1 run in 7 innings. (at COORS FIELD!). When you balance how many games they play in their division, I could see this year the Rockies finishing no less than 5 games outa first. (But since this is the NL Worst, that could still be sub .500 ball)
<looks out the window>
"No. It's Oakland."
What are the odds this game will be played?
All you Bay Area folk, what does it look like outside?
And if they end up doing a double header, will Halsey have to make a start at some point?
by nycfan @ Athletics Nation on Apr 4, 2006 9:49 AM PDT reply actions
Not because of the rain, exactly...
Much pointier.
"No. It's Oakland."
and if Beane starts a steakhouse franchise ...
And if the 1972 Reds are invited to
"No. It's Oakland."
maybe Paul Lynde will show up
weather forecasting in the Bay Area
<thunk>
Obviously, he ain't gonna pitch this poorly all season (though he may all April), but I'm with Neyer: Beane probably shoulda cashed him in this winter.
not unless
We've got 6 ML starters who aren't in the rotation
Kennedy
Saarloos
Dominguez
Chacin
and potentially Meyer
It's not like we don't have options...
But what would we hope to get in return for Zito?
Just prospects? The depth chart is pretty full right now.
other starters
maybe ONE of them will be able to do so in 2007 when they replace zito, but i see no reason to expect any of them to perform that well THIS year.
and we don't have chacin, he's on the blue jays.
Sorry
I'm just pointing out that to expect a 5th starter to put up 200 innings seems a little rediculous to me.
The A's have 5 guys who have started to some degree of success on the major league level, who are either in the bullpen or at AAA. I would be suprised if not one of them could put up league average numbers.
Cmon, one bad start
by OaktownPower on Apr 4, 2006 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Welp
Carroll on Crosby:
KrAzEe Anna Benson unfiling for divorce...
Later on, she plans to re-file for divorce, move to Utah, marry the '69 Miracle Mets, immaculately conceive their children, divorce the Mets, then give birth to 9 children which will become the roster of an expansion team to be located in Las Vegas, then marry Mini-me, adopt Flava-Flav and Vanilla Ice, and take over the world.
I think her and Dennis Rodman would get along swimmingly, for some reason.
Flava flav.
Well she never really said she was getting divorce
by theblackpearl on Apr 4, 2006 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions
<shoots Jennifer>
Sometimes I forget that
Yikes.
And I thought my mom was embarrassing...
if you act like Anna
Wait a second.
I meant the part...
Wait a second.
oh never fear
"prancing around in a Santa outfit"
If you ever have children...
whoa whoa whoa WHOA
o_O
Now... I'm personally no uptight-mom type... I'm currently laughing myself silly over a flurry of outrage that's being generated by the PTA of my son's high school who are horrified by the proximity of an adult bookstore to the school (across the street and one block over)... maybe because I'm also a lot younger than most of my son's peers' parents, I don't know. Maybe because that adult bookstore was thriving there when I went to that high school, and nobody ever made noise about it.
But I can't really get my head around how you would explain to your children why you told the world that if their daddy ever cheated on you, you would screw all his teammates...
Anna Nicole Smith is a mom too.
I'm proud to say
que?
"So tell me, Ralph ..."
Bill Simmons watched last night's game
by spal on Apr 4, 2006 1:39 PM PDT reply actions
seems fine to me for the most part
Vivid hand-injury metaphor alert!
He didn't think the round was live?
Then he used it to squash a bug? Wow.
Now he's just a shell of his former self.
I know, I know...
They're not booing, they're shouting "Don't blow your damn hand off with a paperweight, you moron!"
Can you imagine how he'd feel...
by spal on Apr 4, 2006 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions
he clearly ignored this sign
My Blog.
someone give that sign to Vucinich
Glenn Dickey: Mr. Coletti, computers aren't bad
That is one GREAT opening sentence
From RotoWorld.com
Athletics acquired RHP Kazuhito Tadano from the Indians for outfielder Ramon Alvarado.
And we thought Tadano would catch a break here. Instead, he goes to perhaps the one team with less need of him than Cleveland. He'll likely report to Triple-A Sacramento, and after a couple of months of solid results, it'd be no surprise to see him included in another deal. Alvarado, 20, hit .296/.412/.497 in the Rookie Arizona League last season. He's several years away, but he was one of the A's better prospects in the low minors. Apr. 4 - 8:00 pm et
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