Chron (John Shea) has an article about DJ's uncertain future.

He gets a little carried away in the first paragraph:
Dan Johnson used to be Daric Barton. The first baseman of the future, a left-handed hitter, right-handed thrower, someone who would man the bag, put up big offensive numbers and play every day, the first permanent and prominent first baseman for the A's since Jason Giambi.

... Not good when you have to pull this one out:

Of course, Johnson has no answers. It's management's call. There's only one thing he wants to say about 2008.

"I can say I'm due," he said, "due for a big year."

Well, that's enough baseball.

Amsterdam red light district partially closing". Amsterdam is as good a city as there is, but the women-standing-in-the-door thing is pretty creepy.

In unsurprising news, MIT chemical engineers are inept.

...<link dumping verve rapidly waning>...
Here's a picture of Mark Ellis.