I suspect Brown can expect a pair of size 42's hanging in his locker when he shows up in toronto.

While searching for news on the Angels, I came up on this article in the LA Daily News.  I don't know what happened - or if it will be fixed by the time you guys click the link - but the article was full of typos:

I made no edits to that, folks.

The article does say that the Angels are looking outside the organization for offensive help right now, which is kind of funny in three ways:

1. They didn't see this coming?  Almost every observer pegged the Angels as having a poor offense this year, and for all the talk of depth, the Angels just don't have it.  Their "depth" is in their prospects, not major-league ready replacement talent.  They've got the Kendricks and Woods, we've got the Kieltys and Perezes.  Their future is bright, but there is value to having slightly above-average replacement guys hanging around.
   
2. Stoneman doesn't know how to make a trade.  If I'm not mistaken, his last two trades were the dumpings of Ramon Ortiz and Jose Guillen (he did get value for Guillen, though).  The last in-season trades were the Schoenweiss trade of 2003 (!) and the Alex Ochoa trade of 2002.  In other words, Stoneman doesn't target guys and pursue them via trade, so I'm interested to see how it works out for thim this year.

Yay for Jeremy Brown!

Here's to hoping he works out better than our last Jeremy.

Do you think they'll play "I Like Big Butts" when Brown walks to the plate?  

This is off-topic, but since most of our playing days were limited to two dimensions, did anyone see that the PS3 will be $499-$599.  
Apparently, the $499 lacks most of the good features, so $600 for a game console.  Yikes!  Throw in $60 a game and I'll have to cut my 401(K) contributions to afford one.  

This should be fun!

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2006/05/09/SPGDOIMMOO1.DTL

In the midst of a generally inoffensive yet uninformative column today on Jay Payton, the Chron's Gwen Knapp offers the following simile:

Watching [Frank Thomas] in A's green and gold seems like a mirage placing the Golden Gate Bridge in Manhattan.

C'mon, Gwen, you're better than that. First of all, "Manhattan"? Frank, as you point out, was a career-long White Sock. Why not "Lakeshore Drive" or "the Midway"? Second, "the Golden Gate Bridge"? Relevance to Oakland?

OK, now that I've started, I can't help myself.

... even if [Thomas] doesn't deliver for the A's this year, they haven't lost much. His salary of $500,000 defined his time in Oakland as an experiment.

Uh, Gwen, there's a little thing called an "incentive clause." A little, up-to-$3 million thing.

And does anyone want to try parsing the logic of this next one?

As an offensive player, [Jay Payton] doesn't have a strong defining characteristic (one stolen base since July 2004 and 26 home runs over the last two seasons), but he is one of those quietly dangerous hitters who helps good teams advance to greatness.

suspended 50 games!

Brown's being called up?

three years ago in toronto.  Will I get to see brown's this week?

From an article today in the S.F. Chronicle by Science Writer Carl T. Hall:

Photo link.

Did you know it's been almost two years since the last no -hitter? Just a thought to ponder...

but still no source/link.

I'm waiting for the elevator patiently - one of the two at work is broken - and chatting with my friend when who should appear before me?  The Honorable Samuel Bodman, Secretary of Energy of the United States.  I am about to ride in an elevator with Secretary Bodman and his entourage of Secret Service agents and press secretaries!  When the elevator finally comes, one of his assistants turns to me and says, "I think we're going to fill this one up, why don't you wait for the next one."  Bodman and his posse file into the elevator - half empty - and my friend and I have to climb four stories.  On the way, we realize that we were barred from the elevator because of capacity, so we figure that one of the agents must have targeted us as security risks.

Being a grad student is so weird.

I was thinking...  BoCro would be a really great 3-hole hitter...

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=rotowire-asonendalleadytoerve&prov=rotowire&type=lgns

because of mono! that's a new one.

Called up to Boston from Pawtucket.