The Kevin Thompson DLD, 10/15

by rubin sierra on Oct 15, 2007 3:15 PM PDT Comment 28 comments

First-time dumper, long-time lurker.

This dump is in honor of the great Kevin Thompson, who the Pirates stole away from us on this sad, sad Monday.

I have a fond memory of Kevin Thompson. I was at the A's game a couple of weeks ago, the last game of the year, when I heard the PA announcer announce the number-nine hitter for the green-and-gold: Kevin Thompson.

"Who's Kevin Thompson?" I asked.

Elsewhere, the Onion reveals some things you didn't know about ESPN's John Clayton and the Red Sux's Curt Schilling.

Busy college football weekend, I didn't see any of the games, but it sounds like they were all good ones. Cal San Jose St. Stanford LSU

Apparently a half an hour till the playoffs start. So dump fast!

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God bless you for starting a DLD

I love you, k^2. -Poppy*

by kaweahkaweah on Oct 15, 2007 3:11 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It's all about Kevin Thompson

Maybe the dark is from your eyes.

by andeux on Oct 15, 2007 3:13 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Not KT!! now I'll be a Bucs fan!

by Hawk on Oct 15, 2007 7:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

STIGMATA!! on St. Curt

by OaklandSi on Oct 15, 2007 3:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Urban on A's/A-Rod fanwanking...

It's beyond stating the obvious that he'd be a great addition, but $30 million a year? The A's? If that happens, I will race Stomper around the bases on Opening Day in a lime-green Speedo.

Second time posting is twice as nice (copied comment from open thread because there was no DLD then!)

KQED Traffic Guy: "Southbound 880 backed up because of an earlier accident, and well...just because."

by pam5981 on Oct 15, 2007 3:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

double ew

by OaklandSi on Oct 15, 2007 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Stomper wouldn't piss on Urban's PC

even if Urban's Microsoft Word Hackcheck extension was on fire.

The smart money lies

by FreeSeatUpgrade on Oct 15, 2007 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Also for all the other grammar/punctuation nerds

out there...

the "blog" of "unnecessary" punctuation marks

"enjoy!"

KQED Traffic Guy: "Southbound 880 backed up because of an earlier accident, and well...just because."

by pam5981 on Oct 15, 2007 3:25 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Thank's

I love you, k^2. -Poppy*

by kaweahkaweah on Oct 15, 2007 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Your welcome.

"Female ass are strange creatures. They come and go as they please." -- Sigourney Weaver

by oblique on Oct 15, 2007 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Moon Unit Zappa loves Mark Ellis

How else can you explain this?

The smart money lies

by FreeSeatUpgrade on Oct 15, 2007 4:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I have a fond memory of Kevin Thompson. I was at the A's game a couple of weeks ago, the last game of the year, when I heard the PA announcer announce the number-nine hitter for the green-and-gold: Kevin Thompson.
"Who's Kevin Thompson?" I asked.

Glad I wasn't the only one posing this question at the game!!!

"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all games and holes are created equal." --George F. Will

by anomaly_kat on Oct 15, 2007 4:48 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Angels' GM steping down!

Stoneman, 62, is planning to move to a consultant's position with the club. His four-year contract expired with the 2007 season but includes a mutual option allowing him to stay beyond '07 as either a GM or a consultant.

Stoneman's replacement as GM was not immediately clear, but it is believed that the Angels are looking at Tony Reagins, currently their director of player development, to succeed Stoneman.

link

by gotgreen on Oct 15, 2007 5:49 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Crap

If the new guy doesn't share Stoneman's prospect fetish, the Angels might actually improve their ball club at some point.

by PaulThomas on Oct 15, 2007 5:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Exactly what I was thinkin

by Hawk on Oct 15, 2007 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

anyone reading angels sites

for their reaction and info on the new guy?

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, 2007 7:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nah ...

I've drank too much lately, I can't afford to sacrifice any more brain cells by reading HH.

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Oct 15, 2007 7:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

A few people there are excited about

Reggie Jackson.

by mikeA on Oct 15, 2007 8:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Reggie

REG-GIE, REG-GIE, REG-GIE!!!

(Unfortunately, No One is that stupid in baseball... Not even Selig)

by Colorado Fan on Oct 15, 2007 9:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

But on the plus side

Now it's conceivable that the A's organization might actually do a trade with the Angels organization.

"Ten times thy self were better than ten Hattebergs" -- Monkeyball, channeling Shakespeare

by iglew on Oct 15, 2007 11:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's really funny

that Stoneman's weakness is supposed to be his prospect fetish. I wonder what the perception of his "prospect fetish" would be if he was a SABR GM.

Also, it isn't as if Stoneman hasn't tried to trade for players like, oh, Miguel Tejada, only to have the trade squashed by the owner of Tejada's team.

Yeah, he refused to overpay for Teixeira, and thus gratify the dreams of A's, Mariners, and Rangers fans. How is that a weakness, considering that Teixeira isn't really all that much better than Kotchman?

On Sunday, Minaya ticked off a list of candidates to join the rotation, and for once this season, none of them was Jose Lima.

by rfloh on Oct 15, 2007 11:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

What?

Kotchman WARP1s over the last 3 years: 1.1, -0.5, 4.8

Teixeira: 8.5, 7.0, 6.1

That's not even close. I'm not saying that the Angels needed to make a trade for Teixeira, but the statement that Kotchman is "almost as good" is just false.

Not sure how whether a guy is a SABR GM or not impacts anything here. Schuerholz was a much better GM than Stoneman, because he found ways to improve his ballclub without expending huge sums of money, and he was certainly no SABR guy.

by PaulThomas on Oct 16, 2007 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

So you believe

FRAA?

But let's assume that WARP1 is not flawed, because of BPro's weird defensive metrics, 4.8 is, to me, almost as good 6.1. Of course, some statheads ignore the fact that Kotchman is younger and had weird physical maladies that cut into his playing time the last 2 years, hence the low WARP over those 2 years. Would you prefer that I say that Kotchman is almost as good NOW, and in the future?

You were repeating mantras that stathead writers who hate the Angels philosophy of "smallbal" chant, regardless of the details. Stoneman HAS shown a willingness to improve the team, without leaning on his farm. He has signed FAs: Cabrera, GMJ are the prominent ones; and tried to trade prospects for veterans.

On Sunday, Minaya ticked off a list of candidates to join the rotation, and for once this season, none of them was Jose Lima.

by rfloh on Oct 16, 2007 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Holding onto prospects is bad?

I think Stoneman did an excellent job the last 5-6 years.

by mikeA on Oct 16, 2007 12:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

In the year 3007, sports blog historians from

the University of Pleasant Hill will decipher the meaning of what had long been considered to be the two most obscure documents in the archive: "the Kevin Thompson DLD" and the one they call LongLiveLangerhans.

"It was OK," Swisher said. "I got the shoulder down, but I didn't wrap. You gotta wrap and drive."

by LAXile on Oct 15, 2007 11:19 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs