DLD 5/10/07: Münchausen Syndrome!
by LAXile on May 10, 2007 8:47 AM PDT
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PrintBitching, kvetching, internecine snarking, and posting pix of a disgruntled Larry Davis are some of the ways that the A's faithful have expressed their befuddlement at the seemingly endless string of injuries this season. But until now no one has offered a convincing argument about why so many players have gotten injured. I have taken my own pet theory for a mental test-drive through the twisted and often washed-out highways of my mind, and I'm now ready to present it to the public in today's DLD.
The simple answer is Münchausen Syndrome , or more accurately, Münchausen Syndrome by proxy, a psychiatric disorder where a person, usually a parent, deliberately falsifies illness or injury, or deliberately sickens another person in order to keep that person close to them. You might be familiar with this disorder from the film The Sixth Sense, in which a mother puts cleaning fluid into her child's food. In case you find this theory far-fetched, not to mention "paranoid," here's a photograph of the Baron Münchausen riding an elephant. It just makes sense.
In a related story that might have been taken from Larry Davis's childhood, a kid grows pot on police chief's property .
Yes, yes, that's all fine and good, LAXile, you might be thinking at this point, but what does any of this have to do with reality? (Yes, that is the wikipedia link for "reality.") My answer: in a world where Jason Kendall goes 3 for 4 and still can't help the A's win, what does "reality" matter?
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I concur with your diagnosis.
But I don't care much for reality.
Reality check:
you might want to cancel your trip to the giraffe resort.
I've hung out with kudus...
but I think I'd rather be sober before saying hello to something as large as a giraffe.
We know who the münchees are...
But who is the müncher?
by kaweahkaweah on May 10, 2007 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions
i really hope
next episode is game over for a certain character. and i'm not worried about you-know-who from this last one, he's definitely not a tired act.
We're all going to die
NASA study suggests extreme summer warming in the future
So, they can't predict the weather in 2 hours, but the 80-year forecast is spot on.
It's not so bad
They can all just go to the beach, which will be so much closer!
NASA = Beane
Long term forecast pretty good, but ultimately their shit doesn't work in the playoffs, er next 2 hours.
that would mean
that Bobby Crosby's performance in 2005 was Beane's fake moon landing? It was all an illusion. He even convinced Gammons that it was real, but then Gammons learned the horrible truth and Beane had him silenced with a stroke. He should have been wearing his tin foil.
Coincidentally...
...Alyssa Milano's next baseball merchandise design will be made of tinfoil.
that's funny
I would have thought she was would have chosen silicone
When designing for A's fans...
Hospital scrubs are coming.
"Tipoo Saib" is Swahili for "Salb is drunk".
btw...
You only check your email about twice a year, don't you?
That one, yes, 'cause I can't access it from work
I'll send you my work one, that I check every weekday.
Baron Munchausen
could just drop his free throws down into the basket from atop that elephant.
By 'awesome' I meant the kind of 'awe' you feel
when a player who can hit a half-court shot at the buzzer misses a crucial FT. If it was 'funny' it was funny in the same way that global warming is funny -- "Hmm, that's funny...I don't remember there being a beach here..."
It would be funny
if Cisco Field was suddenly flooded during a Giants game and Bonds's syringes all washed up through the dugout onto the field.
and the only Giants fans left alive are those
assholes in the kayaks
i hate you Tracy McGrady
HOW DO YOU LOSE A GAME SEVEN AT HOME?!?!?!?!!
freakin Jazz..
by fadedash on May 10, 2007 9:40 AM PDT reply actions
{experiences horrible flashbacks}
{curls up in fetal position}
Just repeat this to yourself..
He slid... He slid... he ran back and touched homeplate... he kept running to home and waited till after the play for interference... he threw a changeup... he didn't pinch hit melhuse... he.. aw fuck, this is too long...
I dropped to 3rd place in my fantasy league.
I blame Jason Kendall. He's not on anybody's team (not even mine, thankyouverymuch), but I blame him anyway.
will Zito chicken out?
Zito is scheduled to pitch on Saturday the 12th, and therefore, should have his next start on the 17th. However, the Giants have an off day on the 14th, so he might get pushed back one day, to the 18th..which is Game 1 vs the A's.
Will they pitch Zito on regular rest and have him go the 17th, or take an extra day and face the A's? Hmmm
BTW, if Zito does pitch the 17th, that sets up a Cain vs Haren matchup for the Saturday 6pm game.
by fadedash on May 10, 2007 10:08 AM PDT reply actions
Kuiper said last night
that he's scheduled to pitch that night, but I'm not sure if he knows anything more than you do looking at the schedule.
It makes sense
Unless there's a postponed game or health issue, it doesn't seem like they would change the rotation in the next week. The pitchers in line to be skipped by the off day would be Morris, Lowry and Lincecum. Morris and Lowry have pitched fairly well, and I imagine they want to keep giving Lincecum regular starts.
OT: salb918 s--- list
- Science
- Work
- Fetuses (feti) that kick for their mothers but not for their fathers
- Skipping breakfast, then lunch
- Relying on food at meetings for sustenance
- Missing the link dump
- Mike Sweeney
- Basketball teams that lure you onto their bandwagon only to break your heart
- Sports
- Science
#3
multiple??
#8: when the warriors were ahead late in the 4th quarter, i IMed warriors fans and told them i was off the bandwagon. i won't root for the jazz, but i just can't root against deron williams and kirilenko. i've been a fan of both for many years, whereas i don't really care for any of the individuals on the warriors. <ducks>
they need to dump pietrus, that guy should be on your list. even in the mavs series, why was he taking so many threes? dude, you're not davis/jackson.
and baron davis, on the road, tie game, final shot, you're going to get the ball with 2.3 seconds, dribble away from the basket and shoot an off-balance three? really?
Pietrus is a good 3-point shooter
from the corner. He made them all year. His 3-point % is significantly higher than baron/jackson. That was a perfectly fine shot for Baron to get with 2.5 seconds left. Better to get a clear look than have to shoot really high into the air from closer.
as already mentioned
Pietrus is a better 3pt shooter than Baron or Jackson. As far as Baron's last shot, you can only take what the defense can give you. I'm sure he would have preferred to shoot an easy, uncontested layup, or a nice little runner like Deron's game tying shot, but he didn't have enough time to get open like that.
by fadedash on May 10, 2007 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions
If you are taking what the defense gives you...
Why do you give it to the guy who has one of the best on ball defenders in the NBA on him to try and get a shot with seconds left. Fisher abused Baron on D the last 40 seconds of that game and forced the turnover that changed the momentum of the game.
I said it at the time so it is not hindsight....I thought J Rich HAD to get the ball at the end there as he could elevate against someone and get a better look or you kick it back to the inbounds guy (S Jax) right away as that guy often can get open. To have Baron shoot it just because he is Baron was wrong....Just my opinion, but I really didnt like his chances of getting off a decent shot against D Fish.
by OaktownPower on May 10, 2007 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions
it just seems to me
like whatever percentage chance of that last shot going in is essentially the warrior's chance of winning the game, and an off-balance three pointer (when any point will win the game) seems like a low percentage shot.
#5
that crappy Bertucci's pizza that seems to be at every meeting?
and #3...there are multiple fathers..and mothers? What hath you created in your science lab of sin?
Maybe Mrs. salb918 could kick you.
"Here, this is from the baby..."
get used to it Sal
sal 2.0 is going to love mama a lot more than papa for the first couple of years.
Not true in my experience with my daughter,
but that doesn't mean that sal won't get kicked.
On the positive side
You can add:
Crowd at symphony so hip they have fistfights!
Boston Pops gig halted by men fighting over relative coolness/lameness of Ben Folds. With video!
by FreeSeatUpgrade on May 10, 2007 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
This'll teach ya to clap between movements!
by Englishmajor on May 10, 2007 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
clap between movements?
{snerk}
Ssssshhh...
There's some question of the paternity...
sal c?
will he emerge from the same freezing lighless mud as sal a and sal b?
A typical example comes from freezing, lightless mud 1,000 metres (3,000-odd feet) below the surface, the home of the microbes from which salinosporamide A is extracted. Though not yet licensed, Sal A, as it is dubbed, may be a potent anti-cancer drug. Its patent-holder, Nereus Pharmaceuticals of San Diego, is running clinical trials.
Interesting article in today's NY Times
I had no idea the Yankees used chains to keep fans from moving to the concession areas when the national anthem and 'God Bless America' are played. Also mentions that the A's have their ushers restrict crowd movement when the anthem is played.
by coffee roaster on May 10, 2007 10:54 AM PDT reply actions
I think restricting the buying and selling of
hot dogs is unpatriotic. There, I said it.
When I have to stand on the concourse...
while my garlic fries get cold, the terrorists win.
Well if garlic fries were outlawed
only outlaws would have bad breath, and the vampires would win.
by kaweahkaweah on May 10, 2007 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions
groan
not that i approve of any of it, but it's one thing to "ask them to stop" (i'm assuming that's what happens here), chains would definitely be taking things too far.
One time I moved anyway
when an usher asked me to stop. I normally don't move, but you know, it gets a bit overboard when management hires people to tell me not to move so I have to participate in a ceremony when frankly, I don't always feel like participating in a forced show of patriotism.
by kaweahkaweah on May 10, 2007 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions
I just thought it was an interesting concept...
...to use chains to celebrate freedom.
by coffee roaster on May 10, 2007 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
freedom isn't free
Freedom costs a buck-oh-five.
I'll laugh at that pun...
if you can convince me it was intentional.
For the first time a few weeks ago
I was barred from walking into the tunnel on the 2nd deck concourse (the one that heads towards the Westside Club) while the anthem was playing. I wasn't buying anything, or even entering the seating area, just walking. Sheesh...
by FreeSeatUpgrade on May 10, 2007 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
I would have tasered and cuffed you...
because God hates commies.
Oh wait, there is no God.
I guess it's just me then.
that wasn't because of the anthem ...
... it was because you've been secretly RFID'ed by the Tarp Police.
Either that, or by the Phone Cops.
Quite possibly
Since I was characteristically nowhere near the location stamped on my ticket.
Hey, is your email working? I'm getting oddball bouncebacks and no replies. I chalked it up to Homeland Security hauling you away, but lo, here you are posting.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on May 10, 2007 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
sent you a response a little while ago
I will see you on Saturday.
where are you guys going?
If it's in the evening, can I come? I have to work during the day.
And, for the sake of dumpage, here's a link I came across today. Supposedly a good blog on the goings-on in the world of L.A. journalism, in case that's a world anybody here is interested in.
by rubin sierra on May 10, 2007 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions
A little out-of-the-way place no one ever goes
with up to 35,077 of our closest friends. Starting at 1:05 pm.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on May 11, 2007 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Right on
by rubin sierra on May 11, 2007 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Is it true?
from Rotoworld,
That Cust makes Manny Ramirez look like Andruw Jones on defense and has the base running aptitude of a wounded mammoth
I haven't had the pleasure of seeing Cust play but it does sound like it would be pretty entertaining.
by braek462 on May 10, 2007 11:30 AM PDT reply actions
If you want entertaining
go look for the video from a few years back when Cust was playing for the Orioles against the Yankees.
entertaining
like pulling-the-wings-off-a-fly entertaining
All the more reason
to bring Durazo back. With Cust on 2nd and Durazo roping a double into the gap it would almost be a Discovery Channel special watching a T-Rex chase a wounded wooly mammoth around the base paths.
by braek462 on May 10, 2007 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions
That's QOTM to me.
Most excellent dump, LAXile
I concur, Larry Davis always hurts the ones he loves.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on May 10, 2007 11:56 AM PDT reply actions
Correction...
Larry Davis always hurts the ones we loves.
McFood, WTF happened last night?
We go to the trouble of sacrificing a painful loss for the A's and are rewarded with that crap in Utah? WE HAVE A DEAL!!!!
I KNOW!
I think basketball is the sport where the home team benefits the most from the home town bias of the officiating. If we get the same bias at home there's NO WAY we lose.
Oakland A's sign Fremont land deal
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...
The owners of the Oakland A's announced today that they have signed a contract to buy 168 acres for a proposed ballpark development in Fremont.
Lew Wolff, the team's managing partner, said the deal will allow him quickly to submit an application to the city for a roughly 32,000-seat stadium, surrounded by housing and high-end commercial development.
I'll believe it
when ground is broken.
by Englishmajor on May 10, 2007 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Let's Go Earthquakes!
...errr...
[ducks and covers]
by popcornjames on May 10, 2007 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Worst Case Scenario
Wolff owns 168 acre parking lot, which he can then dub himself the mayor of?
by braek462 on May 10, 2007 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
F*CK
BJ ryan out for the year, TJ surgery
I feel your pain.
I picked him in the 6th round in my draft. Oh f**king well.
by Philip Christy on May 10, 2007 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Good thing Frank Thomas signed with...
the team that gives him the best chance to win a World Series and not just the team that offered him the most money.
Oh, please excuse all the monkeys flying out of my butt.
Ouch
Anybody see Italiano's line from last night?
1.2IP 10H, 10R, 10ER, 4BB, 2K
I hope he's not hurt....
your buddy oaktoon
was banned again.
http://www.athleticsclubhouse.com/vi...
i know the sn says oaktone, but he verified himself as oaktoon from AN.
by fadedash on May 10, 2007 12:42 PM PDT reply actions
What's odd is that it doesn't sound like oaktoon
"No commentary offered here. We've had enough of that, right?
2006 OPS:
Teahen: 874
Crosby: 636
Difference 238
2007 OPS:
Teahen: 837
Crosby: 596
Difference 241
Number of saves Octavio Dotel has recorded for any team since 2004 season: 7
Number of outfield assists by Mark teahen so far in 2007: 6 (highest in baseball)"
Something doesn't seem right.
trust me
that was after about a month of analyzing the A's offense based on two or three weeks performances, accusing the reason why the A's bullpen is so bad is because Geren takes his starters out too early, and about 3 or 4 different conversations regarding Chavy v Tejada v Crosby v Teahen.
u can do a search for all his posts if you'd like and i'll think you find it to be him.
in fact, the way i discovered it was him was by mistake. i replied to one of his posts and subconsciously wrote "oaktoon" and he replied with something like "damn, i've been figured out..yes, its me"
by fadedash on May 10, 2007 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions
hmm...
"We have a plan B if we run into certain things," [Wolff] said. "[But] our goal is to be in Fremont and stay in Alameda County."
(link)
Plan B
sounds like it's not in California.
:-(
by popcornjames on May 10, 2007 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Along those lines
I had thought "DJ sucks" was a much bigger explanation for his struggles last year than the eye thing, but maybe it really was the eye thing.
up until the end of last year ...
... I had been a staunch DJ believer -- and then I gave up on him.
Prematurely, as it turns out.
Yeah, you're gonna win that one, mikeA.
But (even with today's blowout) I'm still feeling pretty confident that the Giants offense will outperform the A's.
it's fairly close right now
and the a's have had like a thousand injuries, and the giants haven't had very many.
have the giants even played on the road outside of the NL west yet?
a few long road trips and those 38 year olds will start dropping like flies.
of course
a big part of his prediction was that the A's would have a thousand injuries.
yes, but
the giants will have their fair share of injuries as well, they've had none so far.
it's already starting: dave roberts will have surgery on his elbow. it's only a matter of time with durham. i bet either bonds or vizquel get injured this year as well.
"fairly close" ...
... with the A's featuring a DH and the Giants' pitchers hitting.
And if you go with my "qualified" prediction of Giants-vs-NL-median vs A's-vs-AL-median, it's looking even worse for the A's.
do a comment search for
Dan Johnson??????
bj ryan
also a three league disaster.
no, i'm not
that was another three team disaster, as was loewen. maybe i need to diversify my fantasy portfolio, but it's tough when you place certain values on players and then they're available.
I (foolshly) predicted Niekro would outhit DJ
and that's *not* a typo in the parens
that wouldn't surprise me, actually
It was really hot.
And sunny.
gameday (i just liked the colors)
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...
great story about pitching
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slu...
I see dead people
equating Sixth Sense to the A's injury situation is sheer genius on par with the swede...bork bork bork
Signs of exam fatigue:
you get to the end of your exam, and start ranting about how it would suck if Ruper Murdoch bought the WSJ. It was sort of on topic though.
Where's today's dump?
<low-grade panic>
That has nothing to do with anything at all.
Anywhere.
I have no idea what you're talking about. . .
. . . so here is a picture of my cat with a pancake on her head.
awe how sweet
[shares meds]
MLB has a link for you, Poppy.
http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/mlb...
awwww
too bad there isn't a new DLD for this to have been posted in. Nobody's gonna see it here.
You two were the ones
who sat in your lawn chairs outside watching my house burn down.
Sorry about that.
I thought about calling 911
but I couldn't be bothered
It wasn't my house.
I would have gone for help
but someone had to keep the marshmallows from burning.
That's not my fault.
Reaction #1: Aaaaaaw!
Reaction #2: WOW, mom's short! LOL
That was my exact reactions.
He has to be standing on a box or something.
She looks like Ellis' wife
His sister! His wife! His sister! His wife!
</Evelyn Cross Mulwray>
by FreeSeatUpgrade on May 11, 2007 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
it's oaktown
you're posting just like an oaktownman
the oaktownman is NOT the issue here!
No wonder he didn't win the Gold Glove last year:
he's a momma's boy! Grudzialanek would never write a sentimental message like that to his mother. Oh, and, hi mom!
NO 5/11 DLD?! =P
some player appearances during this homestand:
- sat 5/12: Nick Swisher at Crogan's in Walnut Creek (after game)
- thurs 5/17: Marco Scutaro at Hooters in Fremont (after game)
- sat 5/19: Adam Melhuse at Sporters in Pleasanton (12:00 pm)
I thought you were
pretty much guaranteed to see a bunch of A's players at Crogan's Walnut Creek no matter when you go.
5/11 DLD
halladay appendectomy, out 4-6 weeks. that explains his last two starts.
will ricciardi flip out again?
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/...
Disaster!
First Carpenter, now Halladay. That's what I get for drafting pitchers early.
hey, at least you still have dan johnson
Ha-ha! Brad Lidge!
Sorry. Old habits die hard.
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