Yard Work on Billy Beane
by Dan_Honolulu on Jun 25, 2007 9:35 PM PDT
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"The World Series victory of the 2007 Oakland Athletics in six games over the Atlanta Braves is sure to go down in history as the unlikeliest championship of all time, making last year’s fluke 83-win St. Louis champs look like a sure thing of Calvinistic proportions. It isn’t simply that Beane has assembled a championship team with the lowest payroll of any team playing today; he pulled off the feat with the lowest payroll in recorded history—in the ballpark of negative $7 million—thanks to some creative dealmaking that had several players paying the team out of their own pockets for roster spots."
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Michael Lewis
the author of Moneyball wrote that?
it's fantastic. Especially Beane's pet, "Catteberg."
Yeah, and I'm guessing Billy's a dogs* guy.
*not meant in a tabitha kind of way.
by The Dogfather on Jun 26, 2007 8:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Suddenly popular GIS query:
"Tabitha Soren" (you're on your own for any further search terms)
Yes, it IS probably pretty good to be Michael Lewis.
As opposed to being The Loneliest Monk
(please tell me you've heard of that)
Does it have something to do with ...
... a Bill Clinton sax act?
by The Dogfather on Jun 26, 2007 7:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Funny that nothing in that thread actually
explains the joke... ;)
Okay Poppy, howsabout this from the El Lay Times:
Tabitha Soren
Joining the tireless Kurt Loder as the second face of MTV News, Soren performed her duties with a healthy sense of red-haired gravitas. However, she may be best known for her 1992 interview with Bill Clinton where she asked the candidate on a "Choose or Lose" special, "Who's your favorite musician?" When Clinton replied, "Thelonious Monk," Soren responded, "Who's the loneliest monk?" Since her time on MTV, Soren has dropped out of the public eye, free to ponder such Zen-like questions.
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I will say I'm just as glad the cameras weren't following my every move in 1992 (or now, either, he said, scratching where it itches).
by The Dogfather on Jun 26, 2007 8:31 AM PDT up reply actions
Aye Lass, how's THIS for a fun scratcher?
May not be quite SFW--turn down sound first.
by The Dogfather on Jun 26, 2007 8:48 AM PDT up reply actions
*snerk*
Shouldn't that have gone with the sporran story from yesterday?
"Lad, Aye dunno whaer ye bin ...
... but Aye see y'uv won faerst proize!"
by The Dogfather on Jun 26, 2007 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
milfs are undervalued
omg naked photo of tabitha soren here!
LOL! Thanks for posting this!!
"Yo! I got mad skills since the '89 World Series! I'm banging on yo door with straight sabermetric theories!"
As Jim Bouton said......
.....at the beginning of Ball Four, "Ah, the dreams."
I have one question
Why is Chavez taking cutoff throws?
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