Next thing you know, Milton Bradley will have something to say.

No grudges there. Nope. No sirree.

than Byrnes.

trading RJ, and Curt Schilling, they did the EXACT same thing the A's did, but they spent a lot more money for one year before they blew it up.

...when he failed to touch home plate.

You're dead to me, Byrnsie!!!!

obviously there was no way byrnes would steal 50 bases on the a's, but still, chip on his shoulder or not, i can't disagree. i like the haul for swisher but i still don't see any reason why wolff will spend any more money when fremont rolls around. i just don't want it to be the same old.

Byrnes had issues with Ken Macha, not necessarily Beane. Byrnes was traded because he and Macha wouldn't stop taking jabs at each other in the media and it became a distraction. I wish he was still an A, Byrnes is a catalyst type player who helps a team win a la David Eckstein. I used the picture of Byrnes tearing the drunk guy off the fence as my screen saver for a long time.  

But the more I see him in the media the more I don't like him.  He seems kind of rude on The Best Damn Sports Show Period.  Plus his commments during the playoffs last year weren't enduring.  Oh well, he ain't an Oakland A anymore so whatever.

I think Byrnes feelings about Beane have been expressed on the radio before. I once heard him say that he would argue with Beane about getting on the field and Beane would tell him his OPS sucked, etc. I think he is no fan of Beane because Byrnes didn't fit into the plan as far as the type of player the A's valued.

That said, all the crap I heard o the radio by Byrnes was about as insightful as what I have heard the few times I have listened to Jim Rome. That is to say, not very insightful and more meant to be imflammatory. I found it odd that Byrnes speaks in the same clipped tones that Rome speaks in.

Who am I to judge if Byrnes wants to play Jim Rome for a few hours. Rome is obviously pretty good at attracting listeners and Byrnes appears to want to one day be a sports show jock.

I wanted to call in and ask, "why the hell didn't Art Howe pinch run for Jeremy Giambi before the flip? Why the hell weren't you already around the bases and sitting in the dugout after tying the game?"

Instead I listened to him bag on Miami, "praise" Oakland and stay pretty neutral about what he thought. Saying several times he could see all perspectives. One time saying he took Billy's side and then changing his mind... meanwhile uniformed sports fan blow hards called into the show attributing the move to everything from pay roll cutting (which it decidedly isn't) to whatever other wild theory they had.

Just like on the Jim Rome show. I don't think it was a coincidence.

from work last night...

When Byrnes kept trashing Florida, I was screaming at the Radio...TWO WS in the last ten years! And they just hauled in a boatload of prospects in a division of aging teams....

Byrnes might have worked his way off of my MVP05 roster.  I had been using him as a pinch runner and sometimes RFer against lefties.  
He may have to go to Arizona now.