DLD 1/9/08 - 50 Car Dump-up
by McFood on Jan 9, 2008 9:07 AM PST
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Katrina victims are making claims for damages they suffered. Three quadrillion is a nice, round number.
Fog and brushfire smoke blanketed a highway in Florida and a 50 car pileup resulted.
A cloned pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green has passed on the trait to its young. If only those 50 cars in Florida had had one on board.
Mom sells son's car after finding booze in it. If only the moms of those 50 drivers in Florida had found booze in their cars.
Two men wheeled the corpse of a friend through the streets of New York in an office chair to a check cashing store to try and cash his social security check. Luckily, it didn't cause a 50 car pileup in Florida.
Hunter dies after being shot by his dog. The man had left a loaded shotgun in the back of his pickup truck and his dog stepped on the trigger, causing the gun to fire into the passenger compartment and cause a 50 car pileup in Florida.
University of Antarctica vies for the title of Best Party School in the World. Highlights include a groping Santa, a drunken car chase, a fistfight and 50 snowmobile pileups in Florida.
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yaaaay 1st?
this is all I got
http://www.amazon.com/Bash-Brothers-...
and I think I saw it here yesterday
I wanna know who voted for Stottlemyre
Another example of how HOF voting is a crock. Todd Stottlemyre. Career league-average pitcher. We should find out who voted for him and Shawon Dunston and immediately take away their vote.
Some Yankee beat writer
probably made a promise to his dad.
Okay, fine. I'll post a link.
Some snippets about the corners from Mychyeayl Uyrbyn.
Geren on Barton:
Geren: "There is no doubt in my mind at all. He's not only ready to play at this level, but to succeed at this level. He's an extremely advanced hitter for his age, and he looked great out on defense, too. He's a complete player."
Defense? Really?
On DJ:
"Dan's a very good player," Geren said. "He's actually one of the better hitters in our organization. He can flat-out hit, and he's definitely going to be in the mix to get playing time in some way, shape or form. He's definitely going to get his at-bats.
Okay, Bobby. You've now lost all credibility.
He might as well say this about Crosby:
"The guy can rake. He's the best hitting shortstop in the league. I mean, we're talking one-day MVP of this league. We'll definitely find ways to cripple our organization by giving him playing time."
Geren just seems like the kind of guy
who will never say anything bad about one of his players. Nice guy to have watching your back publicly, but a dull interviewee.
Well...
..we found out about the dull interviewee thing when he did his first AN interview.
Blez: You mentioned Rich Harden. Can this team survive if Rich Harden only starts a few games?
Geren: It would depend on who took his place. I don't want to talk about that. I want to stay positive. Rich is healthy and he's going to be healthy (laughs).
Dull AND wrong!
I usually laugh too...
when I say, "Rich is healthy and he's going to be healthy."
HAHAHAHA!
by franks a lot on Jan 9, 2008 10:48 AM PST up reply actions
as you gently stroke your Abyssinian?
I was thinking more...
Selkirk Rex than Abyssinian.
by franks a lot on Jan 9, 2008 11:23 AM PST up reply actions
Another snippet from the Urban article
How much the A's still like [Dan] Johnson, 28, is unclear. His name has been mentioned in a variety of trade rumors, and the emergence of Barton and Cust leaves him as the odd man out. Johnson batted .234 in 2006 and .236 in 2007, but he posted on-base percentages of .381 and .418, respectively.
Actually, Mychael, those are his slugging percentages, not his OBPs. Makes a bit of a difference, doesn't it? I mean, ugh.
but, but, but...
Dan Johnson posted on-base percentages of .381 and .418, in '06 and '07 respectively!
Gotta love Mr. Urban.
by WhiteElephants on Jan 10, 2008 12:16 AM PST up reply actions
50 car dump up, you say?
OK...
Your vote counts! Go here to make your pick for Jalopnik’s Hoon of the Year Award. You want wacky pileups, crackups, and other forms of hoon-ish automotive behavior? This is the place for you! Swedes driving Ford Escorts to the sounds of Hayseed Dixie’s cover of "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"! Qrazy Qataris driving an SUV on two wheels in city traffic! Assorted US rednecks attaining their life’s ambition with muscle cars, alcohol, and trailers in need of rapid demolition. Or my favorite: The Indian Wall of Death!
For the untutored, wikipedia defines Hoon as any young male or female who drives in a manner which is anti-social towards the standards of modern day society.
2007 AL Gold Gloves
BTF defensive metrics edition!
Love for MaEl:
The LWZR GG goes to Mark Ellis of the A’s. He was head-and-shoulders above the other AL second basemen with 24 DRS. Aaron Hill, the top 2006 fielder, finished a distant second at 11 DRS, just ahead of Robinson Cano.
Chavvy can still pick it a little:
The top LWZR third baseman in 2007 is the Tigers Brandon Inge. Inge was outstanding at third, just as he was in 2006. He isn’t getting noticed, but he posted a 15 DRS mark, and that’s a strong showing. He was followed by Melvin Mora, Mike Lowell, Eric Chavez and Adrian Beltre, all within a run or two, but 10 DRS behind Inge.
Crosby ain't totally useless:
McDonald’s performance, 13 DRS, was impressive mostly because he saved those runs in a bit over half a season (800 IP) at short. Maybe his chances were easier in that half season, but it’s not easy to compile numbers that high at any point in the season. Bobby Crosby was a close second with 11 DRS, also in ~800 IP.
Oh, Shannon:
Speedster Carl Crawford lapped the field in LWZR with 18 DRS. The runner-ups, Craig Monroe and Shannon Stewart, were barely above average at 2-3 DRS. It is no big surprise; Crawford finished second last year to KC’s Emil Brown. For interested parties, Brown only played 500 innings in left, but had 3 DRS in that playing time.
Ran into Billy Beane
while I was at breakfast this morning. Say what you will about his trades (I defend them), but you can't deny his charisma. Class act.
Seeing the opportunity to say a few words to him, I decided to run up and bother him by saying hello, and that I was excited to see the young talent over the next few years. He wasn't particularly busy, so he stopped to chat for about 5 minutes.
Specific quotes I remember (paraphrased slightly):
"We didn't break up the '27 Yankees."
"We're just trying to get back to 1999, 2000. Teams that are gonna get better, not worse."
"Everytime we [the A's] do this, we get columnists and pundits saying, 'Oh, they don't care about winning. They just care about profit. They can't hold on to their players. Well, who do you want back? Giambi?" I interject, "Tejada? Mulder?" Billy replies, "Exactly, Zito? For $126 million? It's crazy." I say, "You really don't want to go out and sign a bunch of 31 year olds to 4/5 year deals and watch their performance decline. It's always better to get the young guys up, making the league minimum. Better than loading a rotation with the Gil Meches and Jason Marquis's of the world." Billy says, "Yeah, paying for a guy's 28 year-old performance and getting his 33 year-old performance is stupid. We call it the Loaiza Factor." That part made me laugh.
Eventually I just told him that if he needs a 21 year old righty, I'm his man. To which he laughed and said, "This year, I might have to take you up on that." Black humor for the A's fan.
He clearly had better things to do with his time than sit around and talk to my dumb ass, though, so I let him go (although I'd say he appreciates the recognition. Who wouldn't?). He's in the middle of rebuilding an organization, plus I think I overheard him say that his wife just had twins, so I imagine he's got a full schedule. So Beane gained some personal respect from me today, taking 5 minutes out of his busy life to discuss the state of the A's with some guy he doesn't know. Solid guy.
And even if he had told me to get lost and go to hell, he'd still be better than Sabean.
oh man...
"Yeah, paying for a guy's 28 year-old performance and getting his 33 year-old performance is stupid. We call it the Loaiza Factor."
i'm still laughing
Ice Cream only gets <i>Good</i> Humor
AN scares him.
Or...
I've made him a slave and he's in the basement making cookies with Mo Vaughn. Do you want me to tell him hello?
What a great morning for you
thanks for sharing your experience
by kaweahkaweah on Jan 9, 2008 11:57 AM PST up reply actions
awesome story
Can I just guess which city this breakfast was in?
I'm going with Walnut Creek.
by popcornjames on Jan 9, 2008 11:59 AM PST up reply actions
You're close.
It was in the East Bay.
I prefer to leave that detail open-ended, though, Sopranos style.
Katy's Korner?
by The Dogfather on Jan 9, 2008 1:09 PM PST up reply actions
awesome mini-interview
thanks for sharing
That's what was cool.
To hear BB in his non-Politician mode. He'd never say on the record (like to a reporter, or even at a casual event like AN Day) that Loaiza was a pure salary dump. He'd say, "We wanted to give him an opportunity with another organization, and we wish him the best." Or something equally bland. I don't have a press pass, I'm but a lowly banker/student who happened to run into him at breakfast, who also happens to occasionally post on an A's related blog. He can say whatever the hell he wants to me. Essentially, he was saying what we all know. That the 2007 team was bad. That the farm system was weak. That he wouldn't touch Tejada with a yardstick. That money wasn't the only reason he didn't sign Giambi long term. That the majority of public opinions on his moves are misinformed and irrelevant. He even seemed a little frustrated with all of the "the A's don't care about their fans" crap.
by BWH on Jan 9, 2008 3:34 PM PST up reply actions
Sometimes women exasperate me....................
.....
most women don't like to deal with men and periods at the same time....
You'll go blind if you exasperate too much
That's a fact!
by kaweahkaweah on Jan 9, 2008 12:45 PM PST up reply actions
if you're an ex-aspirator, you're already dead
Like being a dis-articulator?
by The Dogfather on Jan 9, 2008 1:13 PM PST up reply actions
is dis articulate nuff for yuh?
So are you going to give us the juicy
details or just cry on our collective internet shoulder? (Bonus: don't change names to protect the innocent)
we're on different pages
uh, so to speak.
"The Queen bedded-down with a good book,
... while her maid servant settled for one of the pages."
by The Dogfather on Jan 9, 2008 1:12 PM PST up reply actions
but mattD told me ...
... the Queen bedded down with her maid servant.
You know what mikeA?
Here's the thing: [pithy observation about the difference between men and women]. So don't sweat it, you know? [General conclusion about relationships]. And that's the bottom line.
why are you all pithy today, Thal?
Title of the Song?
by The Dogfather on Jan 9, 2008 2:02 PM PST up reply actions
Women are like street cars...
And when it gets there, don't get in its way or you'll be run over and killed, just give it your money, sit down and shut up.
You see how easy it is? Problem solved.
you think the government should provide women?
< /LowcountryJoe >
mikeA's friend made a girl cry
Then all the girl's friends got mad at mikeA's friend, so they decided they didn't like mikeA's friend any more.
...he said, half in ernest.
by The Dogfather on Jan 9, 2008 1:45 PM PST up reply actions
Hey sal, is it really this bad?
by The Dogfather on Jan 9, 2008 1:52 PM PST up reply actions
Miss D's roommate at MIT
is implausibly hot.
a) I'm happily married and have no knowledge
of the singles scene.
b) The comic is totally unrealistic; a girl would never have problems finding a date.
c) If she can't find an acceptable dating partner, maybe she should quit fishing downstream of the reactor.
d) Maybe celibacy is a good idea some of these people.
Went to a tech school...
The cartoon exaggerates, but not my much. There is not a whole lot of time left after work, eat, and sleep. And, there are plenty of things that are fun to do with what little time is left, so it entirely depends on whether dating is a priority.
There was an old saying in Ann Arbor that ...
... nine out of ten women in the Big (then)Ten were good-looking,
...and the tenth one went to Michigan.
Yes, I do recognize that we were no prizes, either.
by The Dogfather on Jan 9, 2008 3:57 PM PST up reply actions
no, only after resting his arm for 3 days
That's nuthin'. His Daddy could go six ...
... straight days without rest.
by The Dogfather on Jan 9, 2008 2:07 PM PST up reply actions
/sidles away from monkeyball...
... just in case all those Old Testament types are right.
by The Dogfather on Jan 9, 2008 2:25 PM PST up reply actions
How do they treat your abyssinian?
by The Dogfather on Jan 9, 2008 1:07 PM PST up reply actions
"50" ways!?!
Turn your smile up and get in a pileup.
Hey, McFood
Is the number "50" written on your hand or something?
Thank jeebus it wasn't a 666 car pileup
a's-related stuff from btf
All-star catcher enjoys pounding the skins to hard rock
Don't read too much into the A's offseason
Billy Beane is just a guy trying to run a baseball team. There are 29 others out there like him. But when it comes to Beane, it always seems to come back to adulation or disdain. Call it the curse of Moneyball. Thanks to that book, Beane can never simply act like any other general manager. Every trade, every signing, every draft pick -- things GMs do -- winds up in a Moneyball context.
good quote there
it's an irritating phenomenon.
So, I wonder which twin is pencilled-in ...
... for Centerfield?
Braves interested in Kotsay...
according to the Rotoworld sidebar update found on the homepage.
Don't look for a quick deal
Oakland needs to send a scout all the way out to Turner Field first. They'll need to check the clubhouse and see if there's a spare bag of used baseballs.
3 hits, 10 ABs, reinjures back, retires
Newbs on AN post laughable pro-Kots comments
...and the Gods of Small Sample Size rejoice as they haven't done since the 'why'd we trade Ethier, he's hitting .310' days.
charles thomas
Kotsay
should follow E-Lo's exit.
BB should just take the savings here. 8 mil off the books.
by sf drift king on Jan 9, 2008 2:09 PM PST up reply actions
he tried, but E-Lo was going too fast
Please please please please
In all the "who's next" speculation, Kotsay is at the top of my "wish" list, and the bottom of my "probable" list.
Maybe we could work it into that old joke: "Kotsay moved from the A's to the Braves, and in the process raised the team BA of both teams!" Meh, probably not, for the Braves, but who gives a rip about them. Ours would certainly rise at least a bit.
Dan Johnson moving to San Francisco
would probably raise the team OBP of both teams...
Oh please.
Please please please.
ROTFLMAO
I had precisely those words going through my head.
Strangely, begging looks SO attractive on him.
help with 1st graders home work questions
I feel bad for asking this but I cannot come up with anything. My bosses daughter was assigned some homework and cannot figure it out. The daughter cannot figure it out, my boss cannot figure it out, and our office cannot figure it out. I thought I would ask the great minds of this website who I am sure will come up with an answer in 30 seconds and make me feel really dumb, but so be it.
I need to find two different words, one word needs to end with scle but cannot be muscle and the other word needs to end with cter but cannot be character.
Thank you all for your help!
an appropriate question for the dld...
sphincter
I thought of that
but I dont think the teacher would find it to be appropriate
by shooting4life on Jan 9, 2008 3:02 PM PST up reply actions
you should have tried google
arbuscle
corpuscle
crepuscle
muscle
outmuscle
- abstracter
- affecter
- afflicter
- attracter
- azotobacter
- campylobacter
- character
- compacter
- concocter
- connecter
- constructer
- contradicter
- correcter
- depicter
- detecter
- directer
- disconnecter
- distincter
- distracter
- effecter
- erecter
- exacter
- expecter
- impacter
- indicter
- infecter
- inflicter
- multicharacter
- neglecter
- noncharacter
- obstructer
- perfecter
- predicter
- reflecter
- rejecter
- respecter
- specter
- sphincter
- stricter
- subtracter
- succincter
Consulting Google to find the answers to a
1st grader's homework. Truly the Golden Age of education.
Also, I wish I had been born 15 years later.
by BWH on Jan 9, 2008 3:08 PM PST up reply actions
those damn teacher
warped my brain with math and some crazy science
by shooting4life on Jan 9, 2008 3:11 PM PST up reply actions
Thank you all for the information
I hope it gets me a raise.
by shooting4life on Jan 9, 2008 3:27 PM PST up reply actions
If so, please give mikeA ten dollars.
by The Dogfather on Jan 9, 2008 3:54 PM PST up reply actions
Not sure what your Google scheme is
Some character with a popsiscle?
by The Dogfather on Jan 9, 2008 3:09 PM PST up reply actions
Pop...
Hammer and siscle?
Popsicle! Connecter.
Or is it "connector"?
tonight I watched a Venezuelan League game
among the players I saw were Marco! (Scutaro! his hair is very short and he's playing second base and batting .333, which is what he usually does in Venezuelan League baseball) -- and Miguel Cabrera. The new Detroit Tiger looked noticeably slimmer. Also playing were Alberto Callaspo (who Arizona just dealt to the Royals) and Edgardo Alfonso (who at least looks very good in the winter league).
oh, I forgot
Seattle's top prospect Adam Jones also played. He looked good, both at the plate and in centerfield.
I read in MLB.com trade rumors that Mariners inquired about Blanton, but the A's want Jones, and Seattle doesn't want to trade him within the division.
Rightly so
Seattle doesn't have the prospect depth to get Blanton without Jones, I think.
Well, they do, but not unless they really want to go out on a limb with something like Triunfel/Clement/Tillman. Other than Jones, their chips don't match up real well with Oakland's needs.
That didn't stop Beane trading for
a bunch of corner OFers and a 1B.
...and five pitchers
Triunfel seems like a decent fit for us
But when they're that many years away it's about overall supply in the system, not our immediate needs.
I see him at 3B ultimately, not SS.
I'm not sure how 2 of those 3 ...
don't make the beginnings of a very well matched up package ...
SS I think it's safe to say we need, a high upside pitcher is always worthwhile and, while we have a young, ML ready catcher ... Clement is just flat out better than Zooks ... the only problem there is that Clement may be too ready ... we'd probably rather he be 1-2 years away.
saw somewhere
Duke agreed to terms, avoiding arbitration.
Duchscherer agrees to one year deal
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/s...
JD Pruitt hitlist.
A few days back there was discussion on whether JD Pruitt was 'gaming' to break the NWL record for being hit by pitches.
He was hit 34 times in short season ball, breaking the old record of 22 quite easily. He also set a college record, being hit 22 times at Montevallo University, for a total of 56 in the season.
But was he 'trying' to be hit?
According to the Vancouver Canadians website, it seems unlikely:
JD was hit 22 times in the back, twice on the head, once on the neck, five times in the thigh and four times on his front elbow that eventually led Pruitt to invest in a elbow protector for his final few plate appearances.
Shots to the back are tough to avoid. Ditto the neck, thigh and head. You could argue he should be able to get his elbow out of the way, but that's still a whole load of HBPs that were earned the hard way.
Stick all those things out there!
The easiest way
Also, players would much rather get hit in the back than the elbow (more flesh=less pain).
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