Linkdump funf, 12 April 2007
by andeux on Apr 12, 2007 10:49 AM PDT
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PrintThe A's offense gets off to a good start for once, scoring three runs in the first inning off of Mark Buehrle, but then returns to hibernation, and the bullpen will blow it late in the game, as the A's will lose 6-3.
Milton Bradley missed the game, with a slight hamstring strain but Bradley and Crosby should be back in the lineup on friday, while Shannon Stewart might get the night off.
In the battle of overhyped pitching phenoms, Felix Hernandez got the better of Daisuke Matsuzaka, pitching a complete game 1-hitter spoiled only by a J.D. Drew single in the 8th inning. Matsuzaka seems to be the real deal as well, and won the side battle of overhyped Japanese stars as Ichiro went 0-for-5.
And in Shea Stadium, a woman was injured when a 300-pound man fell on her from higher in the stands. Christ, what an *.
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Juliet, o Juliet
Wherefore art thou Juliet?
Best of the season I thought....
So much cool stuff. The TV stuff in the bunker was awesome.
How bout the Lounge where she drank the OJ. Herarat Avaiation?
Her a Rat.....
by OaktownPower on Apr 12, 2007 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Great line..
Although counting Hurley twice for 3 men and a baby was the best line of the night.
by OaktownPower on Apr 12, 2007 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Do I have ADD? Oh, it's in the tags...thank
CHRIST for tags. LOST. Ok. I'm not INSANE.
I don't know.
This is Slaughterhouse Five, not Marathon Man.
What is funf?
Am I missing a reference?
by Philip Christy on Apr 12, 2007 10:59 AM PDT reply actions
Slaughterhouse Five reference. German for 'five'.
IRC.
MLBrumors.com is looking for an A's writer
I saw a post on mlbrumors.com that they're looking for someone to cover the A's.
- I have no affiliation with them, just thought some of you might be interested
MLBrumors.com?
Which is required: Fact finding or fact creating?
by FormerHuntsvilleStar on Apr 12, 2007 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
fact-creating, apparently
if you try going there, you'll see there is no such site. Is that ironic?
by rubin sierra on Apr 12, 2007 11:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Middle of the 5th
Angels can't score, Indians can't score. Heck, if the Indians can't hit Dustin Mosely, maybe the A's hitters ain't that bad either...
by Philip Christy on Apr 12, 2007 11:11 AM PDT reply actions
Except the Indians scored 7 on Contreras...
And well.....
by OaktownPower on Apr 12, 2007 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Of all the luck, the woman is a lawyer!
Massey, who is a lawyer, is scheduled for surgery on a vertebra on Friday.
Let the jokes begin:
Q: What do you call a 300lb man falling out the stands onto a lawyer?
A: A good start!!!
by LawDaddy on Apr 12, 2007 11:15 AM PDT reply actions
Foul balls are one thing
but I never thought that tumbling men would be a potential ballpark hazard.
And then for him to just get up and leave? Christ, what an asterisk, indeed.
A's Calendar for Mac users
Someone created a shared iCal calendar for the A's 2007 season. If you click on subscribe, your calendar will get updated with scores and show winning pitcher etc stats.
Very cool!
http://icalshare.com/article.php?sto...
awesome! thanks
Penguin aphrodisiacs: getting their rocks ON
Chicago penguin keepers want their charges to do the spring thing and feel the love. The solution: Just add rocks!
This also sheds light on the rumored liaison an Angel pitcher had with an enthusiastic fan under their centerfield rockpile.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Apr 12, 2007 11:37 AM PDT reply actions
Neil Diamond, BABY!
"Love on the rocks..."
A writeup on Harden
Just trying to get more column writing experience... let me know what you think.
Note, "Bleacher Bum" is not part of the headline, but the name of my column.
Go journalism majors.
As a freshman, though, I'm going to mind my place on this one and refrain from a critique of any sort ;-)
by walk off bunt on Apr 12, 2007 6:22 PM PDT up reply actions
And
The first letter of the article (of course) is A. It's a web mistake, not copy.
So it goes
Kurt Vonnegut is what I want to be when I stop growing up and manage to pull free of the muck of all these granfalloons.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Apr 12, 2007 12:08 PM PDT reply actions
great writer
i remember when i first discovered one of his books on the family bookshelves (it was either player piano or deadeye dick) and then started reading all of his stuff obsessively.
i think vonnegut is actually underrated as a sci-fi author.
I had a similar period
where I discovered him and read a whole bunch in a row. Brilliant stuff. One thing he wrote has always stuck with me, and I think it was in the acknowledgements in the beginning of one of his books: Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail.
Me three. Are Vonnegut fans a karass or...
a granfaloon?
Royals Review has an "encomnium"
to the days of yore, when players were selfless, dedicated to their teams, passionately involved with the fans and disinterested in money ;)
From their views on the traitor Paul Bako
it reads more like a meconium on such players.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Apr 12, 2007 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
what do you mean?
i was just outside and the weather's great!
if, like Ziggy, you call it a ''Wintry Mix''
than it doesn't sound as bad. almost like an air-freshener scent.
you're wicked smart
It's because wherever one goes in Beantown...
one is always encountering blowhard Sox fans.
April 25th
Last final. 26th is the move out day.
(And then I'll be back in August, where I'll feel fantastic until November. And then resume hating all existence.)
Real excited for when the A's come in September, though.
by walk off bunt on Apr 12, 2007 6:25 PM PDT up reply actions
You're cRAZY!
It hasn't snowed in the Bay Area in YEARS!!!
Silly rabbit!
pronk was last year
a-rod wasn't so bad in 05
and this year
he may not be the best hitter on his own team
Ha ha ha, Hafner just homered,
a three-run job, making it 4-2 in the bottom of the eighth. Three cheers!
by Philip Christy on Apr 12, 2007 12:31 PM PDT reply actions
Okay!
Travis Hafner:
Fart Vanisher (!!)
Revarnish Fat
Enravish Frat
Fresh Variant
Havarti Ferns
Rat Fish Raven
After Varnish
Shiver, Art Fan!
Van Is Farther
His Tavern: Far
Vast Fern Hair
There's so many good ones!
by Philip Christy on Apr 12, 2007 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't feel that way.
Unless it was your idea to feel unoriginal. In that case, yes, keep up the good work.
the indians really can't find a better closer
than joe borowski?
He doesn't normally
It's because it's the Indians playing in Milwaukee, which is where "Major League" was filmed.
Interesting standings anomaly
Mariners and Angels have the same winning %, but the M's are a half game back.
OT - but not that T
Cheechoo maybe out for the post-season!?! I curse you, Hartnell!
wasn't he wearing a giants uniform
at pacbell just a few days ago?
Cheechoo? Really?
Hard to tell
Its the playoffs, cant believe anything.
I thought Mulder was going to come back in the 2003 playoffs to be a super reliever in the bullpen.
by pickinmachine on Apr 12, 2007 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Day-to-day
MRI showed it is only a sprain. Doubtful for Game 2, but the final decision will be made Friday
by twinkle toes on Apr 12, 2007 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Imus Be Crazy
Don Imus apparently is done apologizing for his recent remarks.
Meanwhile, sponsors of his program were quick to bail.
The disparaging remark prompted eight companies to pull their ads from Imus' show: Staples, General Motors, Sprint Nextel, GlaxoSmithKline, Procter & Gamble, PetMed Express, American Express and Bigelow Tea.
Also, in an effort to distance themselves from the firestorm, Hostess Cakes scrambled to rename their most popular snack (not named Twinkies or Ding Dongs)--
"Rutgers Women's Basketball Treats".
I guess the CBS Radio delay and bleep button...
...were not enough to prevent this unhappy situation from occurring. But thank goodness we A's fans are protected from hearing Ken Korach injecting anything stronger than a "gosh darn" into his commentary.
All this Cleveland talk
Makes this a good spot to mention this famous day in Cleveland Indian history. On April 12, 1982, Cleveland managed to amass all of two hits in its doubleheader against Boston. The Chron tells me that this remains the record for the fewest hits by one squad in a doubleheader.
Amusingly, they got no-hit in the opener, yet still won 2-1. They managed two hits in the second game, but still lost to Roger Clemens.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Apr 12, 2007 1:57 PM PDT reply actions
I think you mean 1992
Clemens was still in college in 1982
You are correct, sir
Of course, Clemens could probably have two hit Cleveland then, too.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Apr 12, 2007 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
good lord, they made one of these?
no wonder the talentless twit keeps on going Sanjaya war dialer
Sanjaya
Rulez!!! Sanjaya on the AI World Tour!!!
American Idol Ratings in February - 36.0
American Idol Rataing last week - 26.0
...and falling.
by Colorado Fan on Apr 12, 2007 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
As passed along by deadspin
This blog tells the story of the ever-so-brief tenure of Kurt Vonnegut at Sports Illustrated.
''The horse jumped over the fucking fence.'' Truer words were never typed.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Apr 12, 2007 4:27 PM PDT reply actions
great story
i'd like to see a front page game recap that pithy:
"Duke and Street fail to throw fucking strikes."
On Jason Kendall:
"Can't fucking hit."
by walk off bunt on Apr 12, 2007 6:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Has anyone ever homered for the cycle ?
Jimmy Rollins already has a (leadoff) solo and a 2-run shot in the first two innings against Glavine.
by green star oakland on Apr 12, 2007 5:05 PM PDT reply actions
well %$^%#^
First, my cell phone won't make local calls this evening. (Does fine on calls out of the area, but can't get squat locally) Now, I finally get home, and my #$%#$% cable is out. I picked up my cell phone to call Comcrap and complain, but the #$%#$(*%@#$(*&%@#(*% phone won't work!!!! ARGH!!!!!
Thank goodness there's no A's game tonight, otherwise I'd be really pissed.....at least right now I'm just missing the crap that's on tv on Thursday nights....
You're not alone
Something wacko's going on with AT&T. My boss tried to call my cell, and couldn't reach thru, so he called the house. In response, I try my phone - house line to cell did not work, cell to house line did not work, and my cell to mom's cell did not work. Same with my buddy, who's also Cingular/AT&T.
Weird thing, though, was that my cell was able to call my buddy's cell, and my brother's cell seems to work just fine (my family is on the family plan).
Caught a short news bulletin on the chinese news (KTSF 26) earlier, and they said AT&T is working on the problem, but had no idea as of that moment what the root of the issue was. SOmething like hoping they will have the problem resolved in 24 hours.
odd....
and I talked to Comcast about the cable problem, and they are just stupid. No big surprise there. Cable should be back tomorrow. :(
by gigglingone on Apr 12, 2007 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Funf? Deutsch?
by secret ASian man on Apr 12, 2007 8:58 PM PDT reply actions
Rest in peace, Mr. Vonnegut.
You were a single, unwavering band of light.
Is AN a karass or a granfallon?
It's appropriate
that you like that book and live in Livermore, since there's about a 50/50 chance that some failed experiment in Livermore destroys the entire universe.
LLNL's Nuclear Research Facility is actually...
closer to Sunol, so, nothing to worry about then!
I'll assume that's snark,
but it doesn't bode well for the general public's understanding/acceptance of scientific research.
I've seen the petri dish you use for a coaster.
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