None of the fun sfgate commenters has weiged in on SuSlu's wrap of the A's huge victory last night. Perhaps they should bring Urban on board?
Interesting fact:

Tampa Bay's Jason Hammel has made 16 major-league starts and he has yet to win a game he has started - that's the longest such streak since Oakland's Mike Mohler was winless in all 20 of his career starts from 1993-1997.

Sometimes wins can tell you a little something.

Marco was "feeling woozy" yesterday, symptoms apparently reminiscent of Dan Johnson's '04 vertigo. Do you remember the Wooz, that maze thing in Fairfield? I thought that was pretty cool back then. Also, Vertigo is a great movie, though it can only be appreciated by the higher primates.

The Chron also have an article about Cal's big upcoming game against Tennessee, but I'm not going to either read it or link it.

Efforts to eradicate the occult iM Salem back in the day were apparently unsuccessful. Raccoon parts left on doorsteps in Salem:

A witness, Richard Watson, told police he accompanied Graham, Purtz and other people when they put the raccoon remains on the doorsteps. He said Graham hoped to frame a Wiccan businessman who had fired Graham from a psychic telephone business last spring.

Firing psychics is risky business.

Mark Cuban says the internet is dead and boring.  I sort of like that guy.

Honestly, none of these links have a damn thing to do with each other. No theme could possibly connect them. Y'all are just making me look bad.

SPOPS!

...by teenager.  I'm sure he's a bright kid, but he's probably not fully mature:

Hotz heads for college on Saturday. He plans to major in neuroscience — or "hacking the brain!" as he put it to the newspaper — at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/69...

"The monkeys grab their breasts, and gesture at us while pointing at their private parts. We are afraid that they will sexually harass us," said Mrs Njeri.

Vintage baseball

I would never go to this place even if I ate meat and even if the food was good (which it apparently is) on general obnoxiousness grounds. Does this sort of thing bother anyone else or just me?

for "Face of the Franchise"

link

Beane the only finalist from the front office; other non-players include two managers (Cox, Leyland) and one broadcaster (Scully), which makes me miss Mr. King. Miggy is the face of the Orioles, which just seems wrong. Also wrong is Vlad as the face of the Angels, as Vlad is actually likeable. Lackey is clearly the face of the Angels.

Now you can vote for your favorite franchise face on ESPN, but the idea seems so pointless to me I'm not linking it.

Does anyone here know how to find out what rookie has the lowest ERA ever? I have looked in reference books and almanacs and can't seem to find the answer...but I am not good at that sort of thing...so any suggestions where to find the data? It's for a bet.
Thanks to anyone who can offer a reference or totrivia buffs that might know the answer.

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1. I can't stand people using the word "gem."  Check out this gem from FJM...it's not a gem if you find one every f---ing day.  Same goes for pitching performances.  Every goddam day someone describes an 7 IP 5 K 2 BB 3 H 0 R performance as a gem.  Either our standards have dropped or gems are no longer rare things to be treasured.  Want a gem of a pitching performance?  Here.  That's a m-----f------ gem.

2. I hate it when people use the word "piece" to refer to an article.  I just wrote a piece on DIPS or Check out this gem from Slusser's thursday piece.  Drives me insane.  Why?  Don't we have better, more descriptive words? The word "piece" should be reserved for firearms or phalli.

Attention RAF cinephiles/Sovietologists: fascinating double-feature program tonight at the PFA in Berkeley. Your simian correspondent will likely be there, by way of enticement/warning.

Damn.

Braves DFA Wickman one day after he gives up a walkoff homer.

I know he was considering retirement in the offseason.  It would be a real shame if last night's appearance was the last game of Wickman's fine career.