AN Day 4: AN'ers Gone Wild!
by McFood on Aug 7, 2007 9:19 PM PDT
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PrintA very large "Thank you!" to Blez, BBG and the entire AN community for showing up and making AN Day 4 another fantastic experience. Once again, the best part of the whole thing, for me, is just getting to hang with familiar AN'ers and meeting LOTS of new ones. Clan McFood had a grand old time, and we got to watch a win too! The A's are now 3 for 4 on AN Days. An extra thanks goes to xbox for giving his BBQ voucher to one of my daughters, as we were unable to purchase extra ones on short notice. I never did get to buy you a beer, but I owe you one! The pics will tell a better story than I could, so peruse with your peepers, people:
This has nothing to do with AN Day, but I liked my daughter's cake, and it's my diary, so...
The Father, the Son, and The Holy Toledo!
AN'ERS ASSEMBLE!
Zonis, aka "Mr. Lucky"
Rickeyfan, front and center
Various AN'ers, please identify yourselves! Thanks!
MikeHeath, Sal, and Apricot all sporting the original AN ringer tee, except MikeHeath accented with a Holy Toledo patch. Sal, Apricot, you just got fashion PWNED!
Some like sun, some like shade, but nobody likes Sinead O'Connor
A sea of green, I love it!
Some people, with faces, and...stuff. Nico's hat still has that "new car" smell.
I'm digging Nick's old school A's cap in the lower left.
Melody, grover, Louis & Bear88. xbox practices his scowl in the background.
AlleninSF & Devo
Sal & McFood. You would think a college grad would know better than to fall for the old "pull my finger" trick, but you'd be wrong.
OH MY GOD! Poppy was standing right next to me when this pic was taken! But when I got home and downloaded the images... <cough>succubus<cough>
Devo & Brad, or Buzz...or something.
Robb, Ohad & friends, I think.
Melody tossing her cookies, GreenNGoldGirl rockin' the high socks, grover offering a rebuttal whilst monkeyball lurks behind.
Back Row: sslinger's SO, sslinger, ohtobe21likehuston(I think) Front Row: McFood, monkeyball O'Town stylin his $5 BART Bridge hat
Clan McFood
McFood & Ice Cream stage an impromptu gun show. Easy, ladies, they're taken. Or should that read, Easy Ladies, they're taken.
Hopey plays hide 'n seek with Mrs. McFood. Cuter than that is NOT possible.
The Midwest AN Travel Squad, in formation. Hmmm...we seem to be missing the queen bee.
Batgirl wins "Best of Show" in the cutest hat competition with a sparkly number. Who can resist sparkly things?
xbhaskarx, monkeyball's sun tan lotion covered elbow. Can you tell them apart?
AN rises to its feet with two outs in the ninth and the A's clinging to a one run lead!
Embree readies for the delivery!
We're on the verge of victory!
One more strike will do it!
The batter digs in!
Three outs, we win, and Nick trumpets out our victory cry!
Ok, I'm hella tired, so that's all folks!
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We werent there
so that pic is not me and ohad.
Looks fixed to me!
Just dial 1 800 Geek Squad.
"Where's my $100.00?"
Ooh, byrned!
lol
by FoolshGame22 on Aug 7, 2007 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
No. I stayed out of that mess.
nico
NICO FAN CLUB!
Nice pics Mcfood.
See you on the 28th.
Good job!
I love your camera... and, clearly, it loves me. Can I have it? I'll trade you a T-shirt for it...
great pics, McFood
My thoughts...
1. devo is way cooler than I thought he'd be... kewl blue fashionista!
2. Nico went for that cool Dallas Braden hat style (so, he could get that good peripheral vision thingie that Dallas sold Fosse on, no doubt).
3. I don't think anyone that I owe money to was there... I should have come. ;-)
Who doesn't have an A's hat ...
to match every outfit?
I'll cop to being down the road from Dallas ...
... in the "some people" pic. The wrong half of Dogm... err, Sue and I was facing the camera.
dammit
I need to learn to be less photogeneric
Am I the only one who can see Poppy in that
"succubus" picture?
I can't see Ice Cream, either.
by The Dogfather on Aug 8, 2007 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions
LOVE the cake!!
And I am in one of those pictures, but it isn't cute, so I won't say which one!
Great pictures, by the way!!
by BobbyCrosbysGirl on Aug 8, 2007 11:53 AM PDT reply actions
Good stuff, McFood. I really enjoyed the pics
and am looking forward to finding time to post mine soon. Great looking family if you could "Poppy" yourself out of the picture. J/K.
As sslinger said above... that ain't me! I ain't no Senator's son. Not quite sure how I missed "Hopey" but she is an absolute angel. I still can't believe how many people I didn't meet on Saturday. Luckily I ran into you on the way out the door.
BTW... is Nico playing PSP at the game?
by ohtobe21likehuston on Aug 8, 2007 11:54 AM PDT reply actions
Nico *never* watches the games.
If you don't believe me, check out his write-ups.
by The Dogfather on Aug 8, 2007 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
no he's controlling the game
the power source for the device is hidden in his hat
no, *I* was hiding in his hat
After the game, we flew to LaGuardia.
That's my transistor radio--
Without Ken Korach, there IS no game. I have never played any baseball video game and never will--which is why my top score remains "zero".
looks fun...
one of these days i'm gonna make it.. one of these days.
by ConditionOakland on Aug 8, 2007 2:53 PM PDT reply actions
MISSED everone this year :(
Thanks for the photos, C.McFood - makes me less sad that I missed my first AN day since I knew about them.
~~ Emily (formerly "Baker")
you're welcome
and no need to buy me a beer, i don't drink.
it was good to see you again, i think we're two of only five folks who have attended all four AN days, unless i miscounted (blez, baseballgirl, bear88).
of course baseballgirl still screwed up my name tag....
"i forgot what letter goes on both sides"
uhh, X, obviously!
I enjoyed meeting those of you I met...
but I mostly hid out.
I enjoyed watching the first half of the game with "InBillyWeTrust" until my girlfriend's pale complexion demanded we head for shadier seating.
Ever since I read the Chinmusic magazine article where Johnny Ramone interviewed Billy Beane and vice versa, I wanted to turn Mr. Beane on to Guided By Voices, and I was happy to find he'd already found their triumphant garage rock stylings to his liking.
Now, I realize what I should have been worrying about is turning Monkeyball on to Guided By Voices. I'd love to hear a triumpant A's oriented parody of "Demons Are Real" or "I Am A Scientist."
by The Pilots Dared Me To Die on Aug 9, 2007 9:50 PM PDT reply actions
and one more thing...
I perused all the photographs from all the AN day posts, and I only found myself in one photograph, way in the corner where nobody would be looking anyway. That made me so happy. I was trying to look nondescript and not attract any attention.
Rock on, beautiful people!
by The Pilots Dared Me To Die on Aug 9, 2007 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions
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