DLD 11-11-08: For all your non-Holliday linkage needs
by Englishmajor on Nov 11, 2008 12:12 PM PST
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PrintThat cute kid from across the Bay won the Cy Young.
Preacher Roe died at the age of 92.
“It never bothered me none throwing a spitter,” he said. “If no one is going to help the pitcher in this game, he’s got to help himself.”
Doug Glanville writes about what players do in the off-season. I liked the alpaca farm.
A student at my alma mater really, really wanted to get out of going to class today....so she made up a story about scary black people and bombs. Next time, stick with "food poisoning" or "unplugged the alarm clock by mistake" , okay?
Kindly do not scalp your tickets for the Inauguration.
Missing 150-year-old tortoise is back home. All together now, please: "You come push it. Push it real good!".
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Next time, stick with “food poisoning” or “unplugged the alarm clock by mistake” , okay?
Or even “injured shoulder by turning off alarm clock.”
(Sorry, Rich).
Harden misses first start of '09 due to "terrorists attacking his elbow"
Did you overpay for those eggs? @('.')@
Hey, schmifty!
I got the magnets in the mail the other day… well, I guess it was a while ago now… anyway, thanks! They’re awesome. And you rock.
by whiteshoes40 on Nov 11, 2008 5:25 PM PST up reply actions
I got mine too!
I love it! Thanks for sharing. Now I have a little bit of love on my fridge to look at every morning!
39 remarkable innings.
Aw yay! :) I'm so glad you like them!
I have mine by my desk and on my file cabinets. Coworkers thought they were stickers and got a little nervous.
I am saddened by the lack of madonna jokes following the trade
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
Dude, wrong thread
The title says NON-Holliday.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
I'm trying to figure out
why sell so much in 2008 and buy in 2009. Wouldn’t the team look better with Swisher, Blanton, and especially Harden? Haren too although his pieces got used to get Holliday
Let's have our Piazza and eat the Cust too - SPWC
the farm system would look a lot worse.
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
I think the consensus on AN was that Smith and Sweeney made the team look a lot better.
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
Lincecum
From the sfgate link:
In balloting announced by the Baseball Writers Association of America, Lincecum won in a landslide. He garnered 23 of 32 first-place votes, seven second-place votes and one third-place vote, for a total of 137 points.
It looks to me that there were 32 voters for the award. 23 firsts, 7 seconds, and 1 third add up to 31. What I want to know is, which moron baseball writer left Lincecum off the ballot all together?
"However, at Elias, I think they keep track of the amount of sunflower seeds spit in a dugout each night." - Brad Ziegler, 8/7/08
Here's the one:
Chris De Luca, national baseball writer of the Chicago Sun-Times.
De Luca had Brandon Webb first, Brad Lidge second and Johan Santana third.
groan
“It’s funny because toward the end of the season, in early September, I was thinking Lincecum would be in my top two,” De Luca said. "I thought Webb’s victories (22) stood out to me more than anything, and Lincecum didn’t have the victories. Twenty victories was a big deal. We had a stretch there where no one was hitting 20.
“Santana (undefeated after June 28) stood out because there was so much pressure not just being in New York, but to be who he is. With Lidge being a perfect closer (41-for-41 in save chances), that was a tough pick for me, not to pick him No. 1.”
To recap:
Webb had more “wins” than Lincecum. Does he not know that Lincecum pitches for an abysmal team with a radioactive bullpen?
Santana pitched in NY, so that automatically outshines any accomplishments in California.
Lidge was perfect in “saves”, so I guess a WHIP of 1.226 in only 69.333 innings is superior to a WHIP of 1.172 in 227 innings.
Stuff like this makes me despair.
"However, at Elias, I think they keep track of the amount of sunflower seeds spit in a dugout each night." - Brad Ziegler, 8/7/08
seriously, how is that guy paid to write about baseball?
I like 20 win seasons too but how can you pick a guy with a higher ERA and less strikeouts?
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
It's not just that he did it in NY, it's because he's Johan Santana!
It's not the results, it's how you look going about those results -- Tim McCarver
by WaddellCanseco on Nov 12, 2008 2:54 AM PST up reply actions
glass mostly full
31 out of 32 didn’t overvalue wins and saves.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
damnit, i really wish sabean had traded lincecum for alex rios
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
hahahah
So you read Kawakami’s blog??
that and the ‘Trade Marleau now’ bit… hmmmm
The "Marleau sucks" crowd has to be eating a big plateful of crow right now...
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Doug Wilson knows what he’s doing and probably ought to be given some degree of deference when he makes a move.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Thanks Englishmajor!
I am all Hollidayed out!
And I am very happy for the cute kid from across the Bay. Too bad we just shipped another cute kid out….oops!
39 remarkable innings.
You gotta wonder how any times security stopped him when he got to phone booth park
Get outta here, ya bum!
Play more Conan!
by oaklandSMASH on Nov 12, 2008 1:02 AM PST up reply actions
Hopefully they were more polite than your sig line when they stopped him
It's not the results, it's how you look going about those results -- Tim McCarver
by WaddellCanseco on Nov 12, 2008 2:56 AM PST up reply actions
I'm making a gut-based snap-judgement that your riposte was funny.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
I read that earlier today and sent this email to my brother
“And then there are the math geniuses who, as anyone can’t help noticing, are disproportionately Asian. Citing the work of an educational researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, Gladwell attributes this phenomenon not to some innate mathematical ability that Asians possess but to the fact that children in Asian countries are willing to work longer and harder than their Western counterparts. That willingness, Gladwell continues, is due to a cultural legacy of hard work that stems from the cultivation of rice.”
Uh… maybe….
The A's colors are green and gold.
Both of you appear to be channeling deep reservoirs of disdain for Gladwellian Counterintuition Gimmickry, yet both of you also appear to have taken the time to read this lengthy profile (complete with staged pictures of Gladwell seated at his laptop in pensive frizzy-haired contemplation, bare table, bookcase in the background, light and shadow canvassing the frame just so … blech).
Though possibly monkeyball just passed along the link from Sullivan’s blog without reading the piece. But you … you read it. And you will never, ever get that time back. It’s gone. Poof. Vanished.
In the words of Don Draper: Always move forward. And moving forward definitely does not include reading odes to Malcolm Gladwell’s supposed chic geek pop star whateverness, even if you approach said reading as an exercise in irony, with the express intent to mock, and nothing but snark in your heart. I consider those wasted minutes a criminal affront to the fleeting accident of consciousness called “you”.
I am telling you this for your own good.
Can I get a copy of your book?
Or is this the only place I can read your stuff?
As for Don Draper, I guess he would hate my sigline.
I'm here to talk about the past.
I felt like it was the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country
The A's colors are green and gold.
nymag: Gladwellian!
me: gladwellball
i like mine better.
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
respect -1
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
I like his basketball columns as well.
Not only that, I regularly listen to his podcast.
I have to confess, though, that typing those two sentences has made me queasy with spasms of unwanted self-examination. I am now significantly less optimistic about my place in the universe and the purpose of my existence.
I listened to one of his podcasts because it was with Bill Walton, and I was not disappointed
That guy is hilarious. Among other things, he gave a long monologue about some concert he went to in the early 80s.
The A's colors are green and gold.
Did anyone watch Top Chef?
One of the cheftestants appears to be Malcolm Gladwell in drag, channelling Edina Monsoon. (She gets her culinary inspiration from spirit guides.)
by Englishmajor on Nov 12, 2008 11:17 PM PST up reply actions
anyone who expects a tipping point belongs front-of-the-house, not back
Did you overpay for those eggs? @('.')@
Did anybody make the "Holliday in Cambodia" joke yet?
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
Yes
You did, in 2006, and then again in May.
Oh, you mean today? Yeah monkeyball is on it, of course.
Thanks for tomorrow 'cause I've had enough
Excellent.
Of course it’s an obvious one, but when there’s occasion to use…
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
quick informal poll questions
Title: “Holliday in Alameda” or “Holliday in the Coliseum”?
Bridge vocal: “Ball bat ball bat ball bat …” or “Bill Beane Bill Beane Bill Beane …”?
Did you overpay for those eggs? @('.')@
A and A
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
Ah...
I L’dMAO when I first heard this 22 years ago, too…
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
Lol!
That was much, much funnier than it had a right to be.
by whiteshoes40 on Nov 11, 2008 8:36 PM PST up reply actions
You gotta love Dutch rappers.
While looking for a Dutch car to ghostride, I found this fun video. My favorite is the cop scene.
And yes, as a matter of fact, I am procrastinating…
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
That was special.
I’m pretty sure all cop cars should be that small and silent and efficient and have a bipolar battery and hold a dozen full-grown men in the back… just as long as the battery doesn’t die during a high-speed chase.
by whiteshoes40 on Nov 11, 2008 9:29 PM PST up reply actions
I also enjoyed the random placement of New Order music in the middle of the soundtrack.
Of course, the whole soundtrack was pretty random…
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
Oh my god.
I’m both old enough to remember, and too old to remember correctly. Kill me now.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
Poppy…
…were you thinking Depeche Mode (“Enjoy the Silence”), instead?
by PositionPlayerProd on Nov 11, 2008 11:21 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, I was.
It hit me half an hour later while I was making dinner, so there I was in the kitchen, going “Oh my god! F^! What the F^!!!”
Very upsetting, really… Also scared the cat. Made it harder to get him into the microwave.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
Sheesh, even I know the difference between New Order and Depeche Mode
but only because I learnt it from my dad.
:hides!:
I use borderline personality as a defense for battery.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
I know you are but what am I?
(Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
by whiteshoes40 on Nov 11, 2008 9:46 PM PST up reply actions
I keep seeing the diet ads in which
some unknown Jessica lost a pound per day, apparently with no effort at all… and then I wonder if maybe the magic is in the name, and I will suddenly start shedding weight simply because my name is Jessica. And no, I have not gotten much sleep lately… why do you ask?
{changes name to Jessica}
Oh my God, it’s working!
If you look around the celeb industry, there is magic in Jessica…Alba, Biel, Simpson. Not that I pay attention to such things.
Sleep…I don’t know what that is.
I'm here to talk about the past.
I see no magic in your Jessica sample.
1 hot, 1 meh, 1 icky. Averages out to typical celebrity.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
Now we've gone to "averages"
for Jessica’s too? There’s no escaping the stats, is there? ;)
At least share who you view as hot, and so forth. Or was it in the order that I named them?
I'm here to talk about the past.
Great,
now we are going to start an argument over the relevence of VORJ. And we are gonna get someone on here mad because, they have worked with young Jessica’s for 35 years, and you can’t tell me that these averages really tell you how good a Jessica is.
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
I'd like a Holliday with Alba, personally
Yes, thank you, I’ll be here all week.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
This discussion is starting to disturb me.
I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know where I would fit in on this scale of Jessicas…
by whiteshoes40 on Nov 12, 2008 2:19 PM PST up reply actions
Your standards are way out of whack.
Meh and icky…would not be the way most men would describe those ladies. They are way above average.
my standards for feminine pulchritude are always fully in whack
Did you overpay for those eggs? @('.')@
I've always thought that the definition of "pulchritude" does not match the way that it sounds
and what one would think it would mean. In other words, “pulchritude” and its definition are way out of whack.
by whiteshoes40 on Nov 12, 2008 6:40 PM PST up reply actions
I guess that means PT should avoid breaking out the Latin around you
Did you overpay for those eggs? @('.')@
He's gonna "Brad Lidge" it
watch
Play more Conan!
by oaklandSMASH on Nov 12, 2008 1:03 AM PST up reply actions
I'm tempted to make a "goodbye" fanshot
but I fear it would invite a high percentage of “good riddance!” responses
Do it!
I was considering doing the same thing, but I’m sure you’ll do it better.
by whiteshoes40 on Nov 12, 2008 12:39 PM PST up reply actions
Aw, it can be communal :)
I’ll start one off, and people can add whatever they want.
My contribution mostly just has to do with pics, anyway.
Will there be hosts and wine, too?
Oh, communal.
Hey, I am going to miss Huston; I won’t lie. Maybe not for the same reason as others, but I’m not saying it’s not the reason either. (Did that make ANY sense?)
I'm here to talk about the past.
"Did that make ANY sense?"
Umm, it’s kind of twisting my brain.
Are you saying you may miss him because of his ass? Because that’s what I’m getting out of that.
I'm not saying that
I’m just saying maybe it’s that. But don’t worry; it’s not.
Shit, I am not even sure I convinced myself on that one.
I'm here to talk about the past.
That link took me to my gmail inbox.
Do I have a hidden email with pics of Ryan or something?
by whiteshoes40 on Nov 12, 2008 7:07 PM PST up reply actions
ALKFJDSKJFSLKJFLDS
This totally makes up for my insanely shitty week.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, KIMBERLY!!!
However did you find it?! I hereby bow down to your stalkery.
I just MSN image searched his name
but it seems like the pic isn’t coming up anymore… I was kinda curious to see the site it came from, hmm.
In former Soviet Union, beefcake photos search for *you* online
Did you overpay for those eggs? @('.')@
Oh goodness.
Where in the world did you find that? He looks like he’s about 15 years old… with a nice farmer’s tan.
by whiteshoes40 on Nov 12, 2008 7:16 PM PST up reply actions
One afternoon, I get an email telling me
to search Ryan Sweeney on MSN images. I scroll down a couple of row and the rest is history.
Alright, this has sent me a-stalking
Check out RyRy circa 2005… awww
http://www.lrmemo.com/product_p/rs-gu-cleats.htm
He really looks like Mulder in those old photos.
I think it’s the high-school-jock hair that does it.
I like this pic:
by whiteshoes40 on Nov 12, 2008 10:36 PM PST up reply actions
That's exactly what I thought!
That Ry looks like Mulder in those pics. Thanks for confirming that I’m not just batty.
Good thing it's not his jock.
Buy it now! It’s Gamey!
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Nov 13, 2008 7:58 AM PST up reply actions
Oh my goodness.
I feel dirty for looking at that. Not the good dirty, either. Chris Hansen dirty.
But he came back. And there was much rejoicing.
How come I'm the only one who didn't even notice how young he is in that picture?
Distracted by V-lines… sigh.
Well that's awfully presumptuous of you
You don’t see me claiming that I mister baseball.
Did you overpay for those eggs? @('.')@
How did you not notice?
I forgive you for being distracted. There was a lot there to be distracted by. But that baby face…wow! But it also proves my point from earlier…born hot! Need more shirtless photos of the guys…
39 remarkable innings.
Hey man, sweet ride.
Thanks dude. I got an awesome deal on it. I’m so going to cruise for chicks in this thing.
Yeah, well good luck. Check out Angel. That dude’s way better-looking than you, has more money and he’s got a nice car, too. And he’s looking into pimping his ride out – rims and everything!
Maybe I’ll pimp my new ride, too.
Listen homey, I got a better idea. You should totally sell your new car.
F—- off.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
I thought this was a non-Holliday thread
In search of a new signature. Say something funny and you may see your comment here!
To paraphrase ... ... somebody (remember, I'm older'n Poppy, even):
“Doesn’t anybody say ‘fuck’ around here, any more?”
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Nov 12, 2008 1:23 PM PST up reply actions
I watched my cousin's youngest son today.
He looked just like the choppa baby:
But he came back. And there was much rejoicing.
Aw. That's nice.
I’m okay, thanks for asking. Still breathing. Still without a job. Still stalking Swooney.
But he came back. And there was much rejoicing.
I hope you and RyRy are taking care of our good friend Mr. Stapleheadandhip.
And speaking of Danny Haren (wait, we weren’t? oh well), he and his wife and kid were back in my neighborhood visiting their old house. Of course, I never find out about these things till after the fact, but apparently they miss California and don’t like living in Arizona all that much. I want them to visit again so I can stalk meet them.
by whiteshoes40 on Nov 12, 2008 10:55 PM PST up reply actions
Rotoworld sez:
Athletics claimed infielder Yung-Chi Chen off waivers from the Mariners.
Chen hit .249/.309/.329 in 69 games before missing the second half of the season with another injury. He was limited to seven games in 2007. He looked like a solid second base prospect prior to that, but he’s now 25 and he seems like a long shot to have a career in the majors.
Sweet?
We now have two Eric Pattersons.
"Loyal? I'm the most loyal player money can buy." - Don Sutton
wow, enough sorta 2b prospects yet?
seems like a vote of no-confidence in Ellis.
I just watched some Holliday abs on youtube and made a profoundly disturbing discovery:
His pre-AB music is by…. this clown
The A's colors are green and gold.
yikes--that's bad
BTW, I thought it was the job of the AN ladies to check out Holliday’s abs.
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
8 minute abs?
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
Matt at 4:30 per Barbieri. Billy just off. Only caught tail-end (so I don't know).
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Nov 12, 2008 3:56 PM PST up reply actions
I only caught the last half as well
but I did hear Billy say that Cahill and Anderson were never in the discussion for Holliday and that teams have been told they are untouchable.
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
Did you know that the author of "Strange Fruit" adopted the Rosenberg orphans ?
Me neither.
by green star oakland on Nov 12, 2008 7:25 PM PST up reply actions
actually, I did know that
No cheating with Google: Meeropol (I forget his first name, and his nom de plume)
Did you overpay for those eggs? @('.')@
OK - how about that Billie Holiday's record label (Columbia) wouldn't record it
but Billy Crystal’s uncle got her a one-session release to record it with Vocalian.
by green star oakland on Nov 12, 2008 7:39 PM PST up reply actions
No, no, Mike Piazza already retired
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Best trade of names ever?
Braves might get Peavy. If it goes through as speculated, I’ll consider it quite possibly the best name-trade ever.
Peavy for Yunel + Gorkys + Charlie + Jo-Jo + BB.
au contra ire
Then do we get Khalil
on the “anything is better than crosby” theory?
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want" -Bill Watterson
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