DLD–3.21.2007–My First Dump.

but it was just the old screen without all the other buttons.

sorry for the no links, but the quotes are all over the CC Times and SF Chronicle.

Chavvy still has forearm issues?

"Periodically,'' he said. "This week was tough, because the chiropractor was closed on the weekend and I couldn't get adjusted. It comes and goes.''

Asked if he considered the forearm tightness to be a chronic condition, Chavez said, "I used that same term yesterday. I said, 'Is this going to be around forever?' It kind of seems like it. But at least I know how to solve it when it happens.''

Crosby getting a start tonight.

All spring, Bobby Crosby has waited to see his name circled on the A's spring-training billboard, the sign he'd be playing the next day.

Finally, on Tuesday, there it was. The list for the bus to tonight's game in Surprise included Crosby, a big loop around his name.

"That's a beautiful thing," the A's shortstop said.

2005 White Sox reunion?

''Those ceremonies -- 'Oh, let's bring back those guys from 2005,' we're all crippled and [messed] up, pushing wheelchairs, kids crying because his dad was on the ballclub -- [forget] that,'' Guillen said. ''I don't need that bull. A bunch of fat guys, another one is broke. 'Hey, where's your ring?' 'Oh, I don't know, I sold that son of a [gun] two years ago.'''

Said Sox vice president of communications Scott Reifert: ''I guess we can scratch the reunion off the list.''

Kiss my ass,
Jennifer

whilst trying to connect to dg.specificclick.net

http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/sf/fan_forum/asg/sunday.jsp?partnerId=2007hp_clubpromo_sf_sunday& amp;affiliateID=2007hp_clubpromo_sf_sunday

"The Futures Game steadily has grown into a prominent date on baseball's annual calendar. Launched in 1999, the seven-inning affair has become a stepping stone to Major League stardom for many players, including Cincinnati's Adam Dunn, Cleveland's C.C. Sabathia, San Francisco's Barry Zito, Milwaukee's Prince Fielder, Boston's Josh Beckett, Minnesota's Francisco Liriano, Toronto's B.J. Ryan and the Chicago Cubs' Aramis Ramirez and Alfonso Soriano. Alex Gordon, projected to be the Next Big Thing for the Kansas City Royals at third base, played in the Futures Game just last year in Pittsburgh."

article on fair use of copyrighted content.  Looks like the NFL overstepped its bounds:

It's no secret that some content owners don't seem to understand how the DMCA works—that, or they simply don't care when sending mass takedown notices. This seems to be the case with the recent saga of legal maneuvers between the National Football League (NFL) and Brooklyn Law School professor Wendy Seltzer. The two have been going back and forth with DMCA-related "requests" since early February—with YouTube stuck in between—and in the process, the NFL itself appears to have violated the DMCA.

"The camps' name honors Erin Metcalf, a young woman the Moyers befriended who died of liver cancer in 2000. She was only 17. Jamie said Erin would always express concern over the well-being of the other children in the hospital, and after her passing the couple thought the camps would be a great way to remember her."

As seen on The Griddle the Extra innings PR war heats up.

Note that MLB had demanded that The Baseball Channel be part of the basic cable package that all subscribers to these cable systems (somewhere around 50 million, as far as I can tell) would get, while the cable companies are still only offering to make it available only to as many as would get it on DirecTV (around 16 million).

Sports Illustrated's pre-season predictions are out...they're calling an all-LA World Series with the Angels winning it.  While I too think the A's are a bit below d'Anaheim on paper, there's a lot to question about these rankings.  The Cards and Dodgers better than every AL Central team?

I also take solace in the knowledge that SI's predictions are pretty consistently wrong.  Haven't they called the World Series for the Cubs like three times in the last ten years?

The Angels won't win the West. Why not? Because they suck! That's what the article says anyway.

but Jered Weaver is starting the season on the DL

Link

...a straw poll of the Baseball Prospectus staff, asking for their off-the-cuff instinct about what name they first associate with a stadium.

OAKLAND

Oakland (Alameda Cty) Coliseum 9
Network Associates Coliseum    3
McAfee Coliseum                2
The Coliseum                   1

Note to software and Internet companies: your products generally aren’t sexy enough to have cachet in the eyes of baseball fans, not even in Silicon Valley.

Over lunch I was reading the Chron's Chavez piece (new stance, old forearms) and this bit jumped out at me:

(Chavez') only concern is that he feels that when crouched (in the new stance), he misses some pitches up in the zone--and he loves to hit pitches up in the zone.  So he straightened back up a bit in his final at-bat Monday.

I understand that my high school catching skills are 25 years and many orders of magnitude removed from those of a big leaguer.  But when I caught I would sure as hell notice when a batter took a different stance, and I'd call for a pitch location based on what I thought the batter was looking for.  Is this not a concern for Chavez when he straightens up, looking for a high strike?

100+ comments on you first sortie

There's a banner ad for Hilary Duff's MSN homepage.

which appears on Yahoo Sports tells us what we already know.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb
He looks good, has the league's best stuff, needs to stay healthy.

"He might have the best right-handed stuff in the league," Konerko said.

It's the lead on the page though.

pick up some cash,

Lieber to start season in Phillies' bullpen

"I'm disappointed," Lieber said Wednesday. "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't. I think I can still start."

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring...