A's Photo Day photos!
by gotgreen on Feb 25, 2008 8:58 PM PST
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- Carlos Gonzalez #28
- James Simmons #71
- Jack Hannahan #22
- MaEl #14
- Cupcakes #55
- BoCro #7
- 5% fat guy Jerry Blevins #13
- AN's very own Brad Ziegler! #47
- Utter Hotness aka Huston Street! #20
- Mike Sweeney! #5 It is VERY strange seeing him in the green & gold.
- Daric Barton! #10 yay!
- Harden! #40 What an awkward looking picture.
- Who is this stranger and WHAT is that on his arm??
- Chris Denorfia rockin' the high socks! yay!
See the rest of the pictures at the Getty Images site!
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Based on that 'stache
and the high socks, I'm jumping on PT's Denorfia enthusiasm train.
The A's colors are green and gold.
I was on the Barton train this year (as my favorite player)...
but, after seeing Denorfia's throwback 70's fu manchu, I'm having second thoughts.
Go A's!
by FoolshGame22 on Feb 25, 2008 11:37 PM PST up reply actions
I think they should all grow them...
'cept most of 'em can only manage peach fuzz.
Go A's!
by FoolshGame22 on Feb 25, 2008 11:39 PM PST up reply actions
I might be jumping off of it...
Ouch.
Bright side: unlike Mark Kotsay's back, it's nothing that five minutes with a razor can't cure.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
"That's a big word, for a 10-year-old!"
"I'm going to take a camera crew and march into Billy Beane's office and demand to know why instituting his newfangled cost-saving measures means that the run manufacturing plant had to get shut down." FJM
This FanPost made me so excited
I had to go put on an A's hat. Seriously. I'm sitting here on my couch watching reruns at 11:43 with a bright yellow hat on. I'm such a nerd.
Love Cupcakes' picture. MaEl looks...uncomfortable. Harden looks like he's posing for a dating site profile picture! Chavy...well...yeah - no comment necessary!
"I've got a lot of wins waiting in these white shoes." -Dan Meyer
Mike Sweeney just looks like an Oakland A
I predict great things for him this season. Kinda a shame BB didn't get him 5 years ago, but we all know why that didn't happen.
Go A's!
Where these pictures taken
by a blind four year old? Maybe its just the photog in me but those pictures are TERRIBLE! I dont even know what they where going for there but geeessh they missed the mark big time.
I'm surprised there aren't more
Jack Hannahan fans (Hannafans?), based on that picture....or perhaps I'm not the greatest judge of what constitutes a good looking guy?
[ a.k.a. mkt a.k.a. whiny douchebag ]
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
Thank you both
for the validation....I think....
[ a.k.a. mkt a.k.a. whiny douchebag ]
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
Gee.
I wish I could SEARCH COMMENTS to find the "FIM" one.
Anyone worth hurting is worth hurting well.
Poor substitute for an ACTUAL SEARCH FUNCTION ON AN, WHICH WOULD BE REALLY, REALLY NICE TO HAVE.
Anyone worth hurting is worth hurting well.
i'm a hannafan
but huston makes it hard for any of the other guys to get any attention. just look at those eyes.
by whiteshoes40 on Feb 26, 2008 10:39 AM PST up reply actions
I think Harden's picture was probably posed while he was lying in his hospital bed.
The PhotoShopping is brilliant! It really looks like he's ready to play baseball, and not in a coma!
Anyone worth hurting is worth hurting well.
He looks like he was filming that car insurance
commercial, when they were in the small house
by theblackpearl on Feb 26, 2008 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
Chavvy
I want to see more of Chavvy's tat. *off to hunt for a pic while I laugh at his future daughter's name*
We need a translation too.
Any guesses?
"I've got a lot of wins waiting in these white shoes." -Dan Meyer
It appears to be Japanese
but it's half-obscured. And the half I can see doesn't make sense to me. (For those who know it-- it looks to me like "chi, small i, e" in katakana, which is gibberish.) It may be a (possibly misspelled) tattoo of his name.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Seriously though...
I lived there for a year, and for all their vaunted efficiency, how in the hell did they end up with three separate alphabets?
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
Path Dependency 101, I think
How did we end up with the Qwerty keyboard?
Still, I find it genuinely astonishing that a country as centralized as Japan has never managed to make a top-down switch which would have as much of a positive impact as shifting to one writing system would.
I suspect that that single issue, alone, cost me three tenths of a point off of both my high school and college GPAs.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
which issue? unclear reference
Japanese, or QWERTY?
QWERTY, of course, was designed to enable the mechanics of typewriters to withstand the increasing speed of digital (read: fingers) input, which inevitably grew higher as familiarity grew with practice. Early layouts invariably had the "e" and "a" and "i" keys jammed together, as one mechanical arm, with one letter, could not impact the ribbon and leave an impression, then retreat faster enough to avoid being hit by the next incoming mechanical arm. So they laid out the keyboard to give the more frequently-used keys to weaker and less coordinated fingers.
"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
by One won lost won on Feb 28, 2008 9:08 AM PST up reply actions
Japanese
How would QWERTY cause my grades to drop?
And yeah, I know there was a reason for it to exist once upon a time (just like there was a reason for Japan to use Chinese characters once upon a time), but there's clearly no reason why it should continue to exist today other than the temporary inconvenience of switching.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
No, no, no
First, there are two syllabaries (not alphabets), which consist of one mora (close to our syllable) each. Aside from these are Kanji, which are the often intricate symbols that can consist of more than one mora.
The reason there are two syllabaries is so that people can know whether a word is Japanese or foreign. I'm sure you already know this, but Katakana is for borrowed words, while Hiragana is for Japanese words. Kanji themselves represent certain semantic values, but also have phonetic equivalents, which can be expressed in Hiragana. Hiragana is also used for functional words and morphemes, and is also often seen written above Kanji (this is known as hurigana or furigana).
It may seem pointless to Westerners to have more than one "alphabet". If we adopt a word from another language, we typically spell it the same as long as it is from a language with our same alphabet. Another alphabet actually adds a neat level of functionality in Japanese. In addition, the vast amount of available Kanji is so expansive that there is really no way that people can know them all. It's essential that they have some other way to write it out. Eliminating Kanji doesn't solve the problem either, because of the space necessary to write everything out in Hiragana.
The end.
I'm rooting for Buck to be a star, and if all it takes the cost of a drink, then it's worth it. -Salb918
What vaunted efficiency?
What is efficient about having a white-gloved parking attendant on each floor of a parking garage, waving you on to the next floor??
Expensive roads to nowhere, in the middle of nowhere? With bridges??
A person on foot continuously patrolling each mile of high-speed rail track?
"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
by One won lost won on Feb 28, 2008 9:12 AM PST up reply actions
I note there are no Kendall or Kotsay photos here...
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Suddenly the A's pictures seem a whole lot better ...
"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback
Wing either came from Chicago, or
Toronto, or I have no clue what I'm talking about. I'd vote for the latter
by theblackpearl on Feb 26, 2008 4:18 PM PST up reply actions
I answered my own question on accident
I was looking sfgate.com and found this article.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/24/SPFQV797P.DTL
both Wing and ROGOWSKI (spelled it wrong last time) were signed to minor league deals and used to play for the White Sox.
A's all the way in 08 . . . oh never mind!
Wing put up some good #s last year
I'm guessing he's the New Ron Flores.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
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