DLD 2/25/08 Two Links Say it All
by mikeA on Feb 25, 2008 12:30 PM PST
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PrintAmong the gadgets the A's purchased at the behest of new head trainer Steve Sayles are a shockwave machine, a cold laser machine and a SABA explosive pulley system, which, for instance, third baseman Eric Chavez uses for rehab after back and shoulder surgeries.Dear God. And: Kendall to bat ninth? Due to his OBP skillz supposedly. haha.
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Glad about the upgrades
But the words 'Eric Chavez' and 'explosive pulley system' in the same sentence leave me a little apprehensive.
coughpeterprinciplecough
Sayles, who moved up to head trainer when Davis' new position was created, was instrumental in getting the new machines (he did all the research) and adding Nishio to the staff. Sayles and Davis made the recommendations to Forst, who helped present the requests to GM Billy Beane and A's President Mike Crowley. They got all they wanted.
Someone is wrong on the Internet. @('.')@
Don't you mean the Dilbert Principle?
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Cupcakes killed a man in Swansea ...
(I know what you're all thinking. No, the suspicious name of the establishment does not mean I had anything to do with this. We I will not be distracted.)
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oh shut your fairy cake hole
I don't get it
He is thought to have agreed to take part at around 2am to help clear up leftover cakes.
They couldn't just throw the extra cakes away?
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and HUGCK! KHA! -- GET THIS FOCKING CAKE OUTA ME THROAT -- UGKH!! (Dies)
"wither fair monkeyball?" ~fsu
by LAXile on Feb 25, 2008 2:54 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Henry Kissinger, Man On the Go
I really want to see that movie.
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Especially if he went to the men's room
by Englishmajor on Feb 25, 2008 1:57 PM PST up reply actions
And took a wide stance
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 25, 2008 2:30 PM PST up reply actions
The screwball exists!
I think this is the first time that I've seen 1) official confirmation of Braden's screwball, and b) official confirmation that it's been shut down as an injury risk.
Concerned about injury, the A's don't want him using the screwball, but Young likes the action that Braden is getting on the changeup.
Damn it.
Braden spent the offseason working on his changeup, and he has changed his grip, adding some of the action that he used for his once-upon-a-time screwball. Concerned about injury, the A's don't want him using the screwball, but Young likes the action that Braden is getting on the changeup.
In the THT season preview, I wrote:
Braden sported an ugly ERA last year, but his fielding-independent numbers were pretty decent. The Oakland defense, a pretty good unit, allowed a .343 Batting Average on Balls in Play behind him. So was his poor debut a matter of luck? Perhaps, but it is worth mentioning that Braden was seen as a trick pitcher in the minors. Despite an unimpressive repertoire, Braden struck out loads of batters in the minors with an outstanding screwball. But when he arrived in the majors, he rarely, if ever, threw it.The rumor was that management put the kibosh on the screwgie due to concerns about his health. If he is allowed to throw the screwball, he may yet turn out to be a useful pitcher.
stat-addled alien overlord
Gee
it would be a travesty to jeopardize his very very promising screwball-free career...
The A's colors are green and gold.
The irony being,
his screwball-free career ain't that promising.
by Philip Christy on Feb 25, 2008 1:26 PM PST up reply actions
just get him
to put his hat on straight and stop looking like the kids who shop at demo and I'll be happy.
death to myspace!
Not sure what the reaction here is about
Braden appears to be a good, not great, candidate as a left-handed reliever-- probably the #2 lefty in someone's pen, with a ceiling as a setup guy. He still has some chance at the rotation. He struck out 17 batters in a AAA game without the screwball.
If throwing it really is mechanically awkward, it would seem advisable to have him concentrate on the changeup and controlling his fastball.
It would be more fun to see him throw the screwball, but as fun as seeing, say, Rich Harden break out a knuckleball would be, I'm not actually hoping he does it from the standpoint of the team winning ballgames...
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Curt Young and the screwball
It sounds like Young wants Braden to throw the kind of changeup that he used to throw. Here's the story of how Young developed his own change, as I remember it from over 20 years ago:
In Spring Training of 1984, Dave Kingman saw Curt Young warming up and suggested that his chageup would be more effective if he turned it over a little bit like a screwball. Kingman, who had pitched in high school, showed Young how to do it. Young tried it, his change became his best pitch, and he pretty quickly became one of the better young lefties in the AL.
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
BOOOO!
"screwgie"?
Google gives a more-than-tenfold advantage to "scroogie."
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Idea Man. Creator. lnnovator. Cerebrator.
Manager Ned Yost has said for a week that he has a brain-full of ideas when it comes to his batting order, but it is way too early to commit to any one of them.But one of the most interesting of possible orders would have Ryan Braun batting second, a pitcher batting eighth and catcher Jason Kendall batting ninth. This idea isn’t set yet, and it may not ever be used. It is just one of a flurry of ideas whizzing around inside the skipper’s head.
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congratulations kid, you've outdone yourself, you've reinvented the wheel
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
If this can be Street's entrance music
while in Oakland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IliwQImJrYE
"Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies."
I'm pretty sure he doesn't mean "politically"
since Dan Fox's blog is on that list, and he's a self-described conservative.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
He lists team-specific blogs
for 20 out of the 30 MLB teams, but two of the missing teams are the Dodgers (2nd in attendance in MLB in 2007) and the Angels (5th).
I'm particularly frustrated at the lack of a quality Angels site. I'd enjoy seeing the sort of commentary about our Southern California rivals that USSM and LL provide about the M's.
That would require the Angels
actually having intelligent, statistically conversant fans.
I'm pretty sure anyone of that nature who somehow ended up rooting for Anaheim would have their brain explode in short order from all the cognitive dissonance.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Good Angels blogs
Not a contradiction in terms, though these are traditional blogs (i.e. one person's thoughts) rather than the AN/LL type:
Chronicles of the Lads
Anaheim Angels all the way
6-4-2 (Angels and Dodgers)
The first two are both good sources for advanced defensive stats.
For the Dodgers, Dodger Thoughts over at the Toaster is a good and very active site.
"Tomorrow it may rain." - Leo Durocher
Though I will say that the
seemingly mild-mannered ticket philanthropist skwid has a hearty pre-game "OH NO!"
The A's colors are green and gold.
"Crowd composition affects the size and the direction of the bias"
So if the crowd is wealthier and less unruly...
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 25, 2008 3:20 PM PST up reply actions
x axis and Y axis
the crowd's proximity to the field is related to the quality of refereeing
So, the worse the refereeing, the closer the crowd gets?
Someone is wrong on the Internet. @('.')@
That's exactly how I read it...
"There's no real reason why a flight in which one flies naked should be more expensive than any other."
along those lines ...
The happier you are, the more cookies you will get.
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*snerk*
It really does suck when you're the only person on the planet that hates cookies.Posted by: soullite | February 25, 2008 5:15 PM
That's not mikeA, is it?
Anyone worth hurting is worth hurting well.
mikeA's personal-ad closer: must love clowns
(NB: I left a comment in there.)
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I try not to
poison my tounge with the foul taste of sugar (true).
The A's colors are green and gold.
"tounge"?
Rhymes with "lounge"?
"He's a misfit. He gets along with everyone." - Reggie Jackson, describing Joe Rudi
Mmmmmmm
I'd do anything for a cookie and my friends exploite that often
by ChickenStanley on Feb 25, 2008 8:35 PM PST up reply actions
Speaking of crowd bias
Anyone else watch last night's Stanford-Cal game? The Stanford student section had a particularly inspired heckling performance last night...
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
"You wear make-up"
I'm afraid my junior high heckling squad rejected that one for excessive lameness.
The A's colors are green and gold.
You're right...
... it is lame when someone wears make-up on the basketball court.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
by RickeySteals on Feb 25, 2008 4:36 PM PST up reply actions
Here's a "New AN" question
Where are the links to the other SB Nation sites? I enjoy checking up on other teams' fans from time to time (although I refuse to visit HH anymore). Now I can't even find them. Help, anyone?
Yikes
The names of those machines scare me.
shockwave machine, a cold laser machine and a SABA explosive pulley system
They each sound like they could hurt someone bad.
If they fell into the wrong hands
[takes out hit on Larry Davis' hands]
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 25, 2008 3:21 PM PST up reply actions
Aww...they're not so bad.
Here's Travis Buck using the cold laser machine on his gimpy wrist. Unfortunaley, premature aging is a side effect.
Here's a shock wave machine. It should prove useful for the unicorn on the team.
And ummm ... the SABA explosive pulley system will be instrumental in preventing injuries to players with new wives when they kick their husbands for swinging at sliders low and away.
Orange Pineapple
Strike "with" in that last sentence.
BTW--I really like the new editing feature on fanposts on AN 3.0...
Orange Pineapple
"On his gimpy wrist", perhaps
but what about his wimpy grist?
by Englishmajor on Feb 25, 2008 6:30 PM PST up reply actions
when you're dead, you stay dead, just ask bobby crosby
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
{Aloysius scrapes "Bobby Crosby -- Starting SS" off of locker door}
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The SABA explosive pulley system has got to be better than the SABRA explosive pulley system
Is just like SABA guts! Is best explosive pulley system! You like disco?
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
Tim Goodman on the Oscars
A blah column for a blah telecast.
Tim, baby -- no elder-hot props for our favorite, Helen Mirren? Best dress of the evening, best-looking female of the evening.
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I dunno
I think Diablo Cody was my favorite. Got the name, got the tattoo. I'm good
by ChickenStanley on Feb 25, 2008 8:40 PM PST up reply actions
I watched part of the show with my two daughters.
I was surprised at how few nominated movies and performances were familiar to me. I need to get to the movies more often.
Question
What does DLD stand for? Thanks.
I'm paying taxes no matter who the president is, just please god not hillary. --BGL
Tony Kornheiser
hates us and everything we stand for.
It is worth noting that Tony Kornheiser presumably cannot name 2 members of the Oakland Athletics, and probably no more than 10 members of the AL West as a whole.
Also, he doesn't know what OPS is.
Bloggers should be embarassed that they're not professional enough to dress up like Miss Cleo and debate college basketball rankings.
Formerly known as hward86.
Calling Clockwerks and Lovitt!
Why does it say on my recent activity that I recommended Dork's Sarcasm Fanshot? If someone flags a comment it should not show as if they recommended it.
that's no good
we'll get working to fix that right away
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 25, 2008 9:59 PM PST up reply actions
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