9/17/07 DLD: Weekend Wrap
by Jennifer on Sep 17, 2007 8:22 AM PDT
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Normally all milk and cookies, Mark Ellis tells us how he really feels about Padilla:
"[Padilla] is not even worth talking about," Ellis said. "He has a bad reputation around the game. He could be a good pitcher if he wanted to be."Swish also critiques his form on the take down:
- Jim Thome hit his 500th HR!
- The 756th HR ball sold at auction. The winning bidder paid $627,056 to Matt Murphy and 20% to the auction house. The total: $752,467.
- Jerry Blevins was called up.
ANer skigurl sat near Mom Blevins this weekend and shares a cute story. We need more moments like that.
- In the same SuSlu link above, we get news on BoCro.
- To make room for Blevins on the 40-man roster, shortstop Bobby Crosby was placed on the 60-day disabled list, and though he would be eligible to come off Sept. 23, Crosby said he won't play again this season because of bone edema in his left wrist.
- Update on Kiko Calero via MLB.com:
- Righty reliever Kiko Calero, who hasn't pitched since Aug. 25 because of tightness in his throwing shoulder, said that he will not pitch again this season.
"The only thing that's going to make it better is rest," Calero said.
The good news for Calero, whose 5.75 ERA is by far the worst of his four-year career, is that an MRI of the shoulder didn't reveal any structural damage. He's been playing catch in the outfield, but he doesn't plan to throw off a mound until the offseason.
"After the season, I'm going to go home to Puerto Rico, rest for a month and start working out again," he said. "Hopefully, it's OK by then."
- OPEN WIDE! YOU WILL LIKE THE YANKEES AND RED SOX!!
- The birthday boy faces Miguel Batista tonight at 7:05 p.m. PT. Bay Area people can see the game on KICU, while EIers will get FSNNW.
Dump!
Wow. He owns a lot of Seinfeld DVDs.
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Just call him OBFotOA for sort, Po.
No doubt. I guess I'm off the hook.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Sep 17, 2007 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey Swish
I learned this in my one year of Pop Warner football, surely you did too: Always see what you hit.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Sep 17, 2007 9:00 AM PDT reply actions
I hope everyone had a happy Ganesha Chaturthi
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Sep 17, 2007 9:04 AM PDT reply actions
Thanks Jennifer. Happy Birthday Danny Boy!
As for edema, I know it's swelling (retaining fluids, etc), but edema of the bone? Is a big head caused by edema of the skull?
A tear.
He stuffs so much chaw into his lip that tobacco juice has made its way into his tearducts.
They give those to West Virginia newborns
before they leave the hospital.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Sep 17, 2007 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Has anybody noticed that his hair is flawless?
very nice part to the side....only he can come out looking like that after a full on tackle and subsequent dog pile.
by athleticsgirl24 on Sep 17, 2007 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Seperated at...
Once every few months
I read Miss Manners in the Chronicle, and I always conclude that she would get Swisher'd if she followed her own advice.
LOL
Third baseman Jack Hannahan, on the A's just one month after his acquisition from the Tigers, made a flying leap onto the scrum, prompting teammates to call him Superman.
Inserted an "ot", did ya'?
The internet is dangerous
The 30-year-old man fainted at a cybercafe in the city of Guangzhou on Saturday afternoon after he ha been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported.
The game is unknown, but I suspect he was either trying to win the WS in Pinch Hitter 2 or parking cars.
not a gaming binge
an art binge:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...
Haren B-day link
But these relationships aren't always portrayed in a positive light. Terms like "cougar" (slang for an older woman seeking a younger man) depict the woman as a predator, rather than an empowered, independent and loving person.
I don't think it's that derisive.
I wonder what I'd have to do to get myself described in the media as a "self-styled dating impresario."
Sleep with the reporter.
Don't forget the catnip, I hear she's pushing sixty.
Seeing as how the A's are playing the M's tonite:
As an example, let's look at what happened in the AL West. Here are the standings since Sheehan's column ran:
On July 19, 2007
Team W L pW pL RS RA
Seattle 53 39 47.0 45.0 456 445
Oakland 45 50 48.7 46.3 402 391Since July 19, 2007
Team W L pW pL RS RA
Seattle 25 31 24.3 31.7 270 311
Oakland 29 27 27.0 29.0 299 308Wouldn't you know it? The A's have gained four real games on the Mariners since then and have played almost three games better in the Pythagorean world. Furthermore, Seattle's record is just under its Pythagorean projection. Whatever enabled the Mariners to outdo their Pythagorean record earlier in the year seems to have worn off in mid-July, despite Sheehan's observation that "the Mariners are the better team and will continue to be so."
Shameless self-promotion!
Good job!
Nice article, by the way. I read it and even though a lot of it went over my head it was interesting nonetheless! I'm learning!
Are you a dad yet? Come on already!
Sal nailed it.
Both then and now. Nice article.
To be fair to Sheehan, as the article points out, the Mariners' underlying performance changed significantly as well - specifically their bullpen went from being a major strength to a liability. Had this not been the case, they probably could have continued playing at least .500 ball, though of course the difference also would be reflected in their RS/RA as well.
Nonetheless, Sheehan's original piece was extremely weak, and it's worth pointing out the flaws in the sort of lazy half-assed analysis from someone who should know better.
I outsmarted Pythagoras
by drawing my triangle on a curved surface. You should have seen the guy. He was irate!
I drew mine
while travelling at the speed of light.
by LawDaddy on Sep 17, 2007 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Which reminds me of the limerick:
There once was a woman from Bright
Who traveled much faster than light
She left yesterday
(In a relative way)
And arrived on the previous night!
I had a class in college
where the professor showed a clip of Back to the Future to demonstrate an inaccurate depiction of time travel, and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey to demonstrate an accurate depiction. Back to the Future is way better, though.
Heard this one on CarTalk (so it's Bostonish) ...
... The limerick is furtive and mean;
You must keep her in close quarantine,
Or she runs to the slums
And promptly becomes
Disorderly, drunk, and obscene.
or
The lim'rick packs laughs anatomical
Into a space economical.
It needn't be lewd,
Nor remarkably crude,
But the clean ones so seldom are comical.
by The Dogfather on Sep 17, 2007 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions
accelerating?
If you are traveling at a constant velocity near the speed of light, your triangle spatial geometry is still Euclidian, so a stationary observer would still find that the angles of your triangle sum to 180 degrees (but the relativistic boost would make the triangle look very long and skinny). However, if you were accelerating while drawing it, then you could find yourself in a curved geometry. Alternatively, draw the triangle while falling into a black hole.
Congrats...
This one was even picked up by Rob Neyer:
As Sal Baxamusa notes, when you try to outsmart the Pythagorean method, it's at your own peril. It's great that we're all talking about run differentials. Should have happened a long time ago. Now we need to stop making excuses for it.
A damn good article (yours... Rob's was more of a collection of links).
by RickeySteals on Sep 17, 2007 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey, neat!
Rob is a good friend to THT (and I nice dude the one time I met him). I didn't know he linked it since I don't subscribe to Insider. Thanks for letting me know.
Gotta say
I love that Danny boy is a Mac user.
Swisher's charge was pretty sweet
but next time an Athletic chagres, he should pull one of these and just confuse everyone:
by GusanoQuemador on Sep 17, 2007 11:39 AM PDT reply actions
I still can't figure out what it was all about
maybe you've had too much to fast
by GusanoQuemador on Sep 17, 2007 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
*barely* legal
no, but seriously....
"We’re a Christian family and Cheyenne has had trouble with unchristian desires although at heart we know she's a good Christian girl. She needs a husband with STRONG Christian values who will provide her a STRONG Christian home and help her to live a godly life."
"Marissa likes to put on airs and thinks she’s better than all of us here and who knows maybe she’s right. She’s looking for a smart, sophisticated man who knows "art" and "culture" and "style" and who can understand her better than we can."
this has got to be a joke, right? right??
i want to believe it's a joke
but I also want to believe that my puppy rufus went to live on a farm with other puppies.
Oh lord.
I hope so. Anytime you still feel it's necessary to put the 1/2 year in your age (as in, Kyra A. is Fourteen! And a half! Because the half somehow makes it better?) that can't be real...right?
Try switching to sensimilla
vote on 756 ball
From SF GATE
12:51 PDT SAN FRANCISCO - The man who bought Barry Bonds' record-breaking home-run ball is giving the public a chance to brand it with an asterisk and send it to baseball's Hall of Fame - or to blast it into outer space.
Marc Ecko, a fashion designer with a history of coming up with stunts, says it's not a joke.
After paying $752,467 for the ball at an online auction that wrapped up Saturday, Ecko said today that he is taking votes at a Web site - www.vote756.com - and giving people three choices:
-- Send the ball directly to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
-- Send it to Cooperstown after branding it with an asterisk that would acknowledge the public's suspicion that the Giants slugger used steroids to boost his strength.
-- Put the ball on a rocket ship and launch it into space.
or option "D", shove it straight up his...
How YOU doin'!
Here's me putting the "post" in post-mortum
because apparently the medical examiner couldn't be bothered to wait. A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Sep 17, 2007 2:33 PM PDT reply actions
Health news from all over
Apparently, Kos is getting his medical care from Larry Davis.
Small children are having their toes ripped off by Crocs. Not crocs, Crocs.
However, when you take the kiddos to get their pain prescriptions filled, now they can choose from 19 disgusting flavors.
Perhaps not on a par with last week's scientific discovery that men prefer hot chicks, but research now confirms that men don't wash their hands enough. Especially Braves fans. Apparently they can't do the Chop as well without a couple of layers of grime.
And in non-health news, the Mariners had rookie hazing dress-up day. No pics in this story though, and LL doesn't seem to have them yet...probably too busy continuing the search for the evil bobblehead thieves.
kids are having their toes ripped off by Cros?
Now that's what I call bone edema!
(And, yes, if Cros is ripping anyone's toes off, it's likely due to his swinging at sliders low and away.)
kos
"Righty bloggers acting like fangirls in a meeting with Bush at the White House. These kinds of things are pretty silly, which is why I skipped the "blogger meeting" with Bill Clinton. I had better things to do with my time."
you've been to two or three AN days, i seriously doubt you have better things to do with your time than meet the president of the US.
Spending time with your wife
is more fruitful than receiving stupid sound bites from an ex-president (although I had a college class where we met with Mr. Clinton, which was quite exciting if not edifying. Six years on, the charm has yet to wear off.)
Moderating a blog full of insane people on the other hand....
(Pretend I didn't say that, please.)
<names south carolina airport
after thurmond>
i don't think it's really a choice
between meeting the president and spending time with your wife. one could find other ways to free up a few hours. don't sleep in on saturday, don't play golf that week, don't watch "deal or no deal", don't read newsweek or some novel, don't post as much on your favorite blogs that week, etc.
Is it just me...
...Or is Dan Haren the star of the new "Cavemen" series?
Red Sox have creative rookie Hazing
BoSox dress Dice-K, rookies in costumes on flight to Toronto
The Boston Red Sox didn't need an interpreter for this: With one quick wardrobe change, Daisuke Matsuzaka went from star pitcher to Teletubby.
Where's the new DLD?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to SAL!
Happy BARTday, Slabby!
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