DLD 2/26: Bonus, baby!
by salb918 on Feb 26, 2008 7:51 AM PST
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We like to ride on executive planes
We like to sit around and get real paid
A's to get mad money for season-opening trip to Japan.
All players who travel to Tokyo for the season-opening series between Oakland and Boston will receive $40,000, according to Major League Baseball officials, and that figure could rise depending on how much revenue the event creates. Because the two big-league games have sold out, it's likely that the players each will get at least an additional $5,000.
Article also mentions a rumor that the Red Sox players might have held out for more scratch, but confirmation from the league is that players on both teams will get equal cuts.
Also, David Pinto notes that the roster rules will allow for tactical flexibility for both teams. Each team can place 28 men on the roster and designate three inactive players, probably the 3-5 starters, allowing for managers to carry more pinch-hitters or relievers without the inactive players losing service time.
Nick Swisher has never been accused of dogging it...until now.
How serious was White Sox general manager Ken Williams about a seemingly meaningless four-inning intra-squad game Monday?
After Nick Swisher led off with a single, Williams yelled down to his new player, "We run hard to first base in Chicago!"
Williams then paused, turned to the coaching staff and said, "Make sure he (expletive) hears what I said."
Kenny Williams, the Michael Scott of GMs. I can think of one time that Swish didn't hustle: this game, when the A's needed some pop off the bench and Swish hadn't yet been cleared to run after pulling a hammy. And he was specifically told not to run, and if memory serves, his post-game comments indicated that not hustling on that play went against all of his wiring.
But real grinders like Jerry Owens (career minor league OPS: .730) know how to go all out, even in four-inning intra-squad games in late February:
No player took more advantage than outfielder Jerry Owens. He led off the bottom of the first with a perfectly executed bunt to a hole on the first-base side, then scored on a hit-and-run hit by Orlando Cabrera.
Owens singled in his second at-bat before a tweaked groin ended his afternoon.
Emphasis added.
Finally: far be it for me to make light of someone's struggles with substance addiction, but I can't help wondering...did he flip the beer can when he was done?
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Love the Jerry Owens bit
It reminds me of what was written about Aaron Rowand when he signed with the Gnats. The typical line went something like this: "He broke his nose running into the CF wall, and missed two weeks as a result, but he held onto the ball!". What should've been written was: "Just to catch one stinking baseball in an ordinary regular season game, he broke his nose running into the CF wall, and deprived his team of his presence for two weeks as a result."
"Evidently, a large number of people said, 'We really need more vermin at the ballpark, Artie.'" - Nick, 10/7/07
Hmmm...paid charter flight
to Japan, all meals paid for, all hotel expenses paid for....and oh yeah, here's an extra 45K for your trouble. Ah, life in the not so real world.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
and despite all that
the Sox players wanted more money? I just hope it's one of Boston's players that eats the bad sushi this time around.
death to myspace!
Better yet...
bad puffer fish.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
The Red Sox can go fugu themselves
"Evidently, a large number of people said, 'We really need more vermin at the ballpark, Artie.'" - Nick, 10/7/07
Also from the Chron report
General manager Billy Beane, said the A's will not receive a sandwich draft pick for losing free-agent outfielder Shannon Stewart, because Stewart signed a minor-league deal with Toronto rather than a big-league deal. Even if Stewart makes the big-league team, Oakland will not get a compensation pick
stat-addled alien overlord
&^%^*$
Stupid intelligent GMs. Wasn't there anyone out there who still fetishizes batting average?
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
That's crap.
Minor league contract or not, he refused arbitration and signed elsewhere.
I don't like that rule.
I love what AN 3.0 has done with the blockquote!
not
"He's a misfit. He gets along with everyone." - Reggie Jackson, describing Joe Rudi
what about it do you not like?
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 26, 2008 12:34 PM PST up reply actions
Half of the attempted blockquotes...
on here only cover one line. It could be an issue with my server, I suppose, but some of the blockquotes look fine.
"He's a misfit. He gets along with everyone." - Reggie Jackson, describing Joe Rudi
The problem is usually 2 inches from the
keyboard, pal.
by theblackpearl on Feb 26, 2008 2:14 PM PST up reply actions
He's tainted. He touched AJP. I'm OVER him. And he moves slower than a power bar through my colon.
"wither fair monkeyball?" ~fsu
Susan Slusser, getting it right
Still more from the SuSlu piece salb linked:
Braden has tweaked the grip on his sinker, rather than his changeup, as reported Sunday. He thought he was throwing through the sink at times last year, leaving it flat.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 26, 2008 8:37 AM PST reply actions
What's your...
secret? Non-use of multiple lines in your blockquote box thing like this here post that I'm posting right now on AN 3.0, is that whatcha done, Wally, izzit, huh , izzzit?
"He's a misfit. He gets along with everyone." - Reggie Jackson, describing Joe Rudi
Oh, screw me...
secret? Non-use of multiple lines in your blockquote box thing like this here post that I'm posting right now on AN 3.0, is that whatcha done, Wally, izzit, huh , izzzit?
"He's a misfit. He gets along with everyone." - Reggie Jackson, describing Joe Rudi
I wonder if Kenny Williams
is just pretty stressed about the Swisher deal because he essentially gutted all he had left in his system to get Swisher.
Regardless, it seems pretty idiotic for a GM to be screaming at a guy in late February when they haven't even played a spring training game yet.
by Tyler Bleszinski on Feb 26, 2008 9:41 AM PST reply actions
What Williams did was idiotic.
He's the freaking GM. He should act like it. If he has a problem with Swisher, he should have taken it up with Guillen instead of making an ass out of himself.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
Kenny Williams is an ass.
One of the GMS I like the least. As for him yelling at Swish like that...it feels almost like he's yelling at a family member. Swish will always have a place in my heart...I think they did the right thing in trading him, But as an Oakland A he was a terrific kid with lots of spirit. So tell that mean man to leave Swish alone! ;-)
If things get out of hand
one of the lawyers here can work on getting you girls out of jail-
Meanwhile I will be laughing and screaming "oh my god-they killed Kenny!"
Winner of the 2008 "find grover a new sig" contest.
Hey who wants outta jail?
Sitting around having meals delivered and resting up doesn't sound so bad to me.
aint that the truth
I have actually watched the nightly news and thought to myself for a second 'man, maybe some small white collar crime could get me a week or two to rest and catch up on some reading".
Winner of the 2008 "find grover a new sig" contest.
Not likely
in a women's jail ward. Anyway...Poppy would have my back. Oops that doesn't sound so good does it?
Actually....it happens.
There are some mean ass East German hammer thrower types in there....with the facial hair to prove it.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
Uh-oh. Next time I go to the Coliseum ...
... I'm not sure if I should use the trough urinals.
Someone is wrong on the Internet. @('.')@
All I can say about that guy:
I don't believe he's been to Germany. If he thinks women can't pee standing up, he's never been in a European highway rest stop or campground.
Anyone worth hurting is worth hurting well.
Are you referring to
East German hammer throwing women? If so, I have little doubt that they can pee standing up. And that they can "stream" farther than I can.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
Throwing hammers of course.
What else would they be doing?
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
Bill James no longer wants to bear Biggio's children
And here's why!
http://www.slate.com/id/2184797/nav/tap3/
I love you, k^2. -Poppy*
rotoworld
According to the Daily News, a major leaguer has informed congressional investigators that Roger Clemens often joked in the clubhouse about a memorable account at a party thrown by Jose Canseco — a scene in which Debbie Clemens and Canseco's ex-wife Jessica compared the results of their surgical breast enhancements.
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
He must misremember...
it was Jose and Roger comparing drug-enhanced pectorals and cranium sizes.
I am Ray Fosse's man crushes for Clay Wood and Jason Kendall.
by franks a lot on Feb 26, 2008 11:21 AM PST up reply actions
Related: SI photos of Johnny Damon's wife
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2008_swimsuit/athleteswives/michelle-damon/08_michelle-damon_1.html
I love you, k^2. -Poppy*
by kaweahkaweah on Feb 26, 2008 11:29 AM PST up reply actions
Kazmir: MRI
"I was warming up, feeling great," said Kazmir, who was 13-9 with a 3.48 ERA last season, when he led the AL with 239 strikeouts — one fewer than major league leader Jake Peavy. "On my last warmup pitch ... I just kind of felt a little discomfort."
stat-addled alien overlord
Isn't it already woeful...
just being a healthy Ranger pitcher?
I am Ray Fosse's man crushes for Clay Wood and Jason Kendall.
by franks a lot on Feb 26, 2008 11:25 AM PST up reply actions
Article also mentions a rumor that the Red Sox players might have held out for more scratch...
SHOCKING
She posts!
I want a finder's fee
Brainless Automaton #439
by rubin sierra on Feb 26, 2008 1:08 PM PST up reply actions
I was going to try to answer that question
But the cursor in the box in which I try to "Post A Comment" has suddenly gone totally and completely haywire; the cursor is nowhere near where the letters are appearing; editing my own text has become impossible ... WTF! CLOCKWERKS!!
Brainless Automaton #439
by rubin sierra on Feb 26, 2008 4:35 PM PST up reply actions
P.S.
I AM IN FIREFOX 2.0.0.12
Brainless Automaton #439
by rubin sierra on Feb 26, 2008 4:35 PM PST up reply actions
I'm unable to recreate that behavior
has that ever happened to anyone else?
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 26, 2008 5:25 PM PST up reply actions
It appears
Sorry to cry for you like a baby ... I'm now at home working on a PC and it doesn't seem to be happening; was happening earlier today on the Mac at work. I'll report back tomorrow.
Brainless Automaton #439
by rubin sierra on Feb 27, 2008 12:05 AM PST up reply actions
Now back at my work computer and having taken deep breaths and regained perspective ...
Here's what's up. The problem of having a cursor that's displaced by a few positions is nothing new for me at this computer, and maybe at others as well. I dealt with it at AN 2.0 and I've dealt with it on my own webmail. It's not much of a problem until I try to go back and edit my own text within the text window; going back and deleting text sometimes has strange results. Sometimes the deleted text does not disappear from the text window even though when I eventually click preview, it hass actually been deleted ... sometimes this ghost deleted text appears to overlap with the text that I type over it.
What compounded my frustration yesterday was two things: 1) all of the above was going on in a more extreme fashion; the cursor was displaced by 6 or 7 positions instead of 1 or 2; the amount of ghost text was more than usual; and 2) I was trying to post a link, and this became extremeely hard, especially using the link button, because it was nearly impossible to highlight the text I wanted to link with the cursor displaced . I guess the old-fashioned method of linking still works, except with brackets replacing greater-than/less-than signs?
Brainless Automaton #439
by rubin sierra on Feb 27, 2008 12:07 PM PST up reply actions
Okay, here is what I was going to say yesterday:
I think this is the part of the conversation wherein I suggest that you (caggrl) are, in fact, actually A's middle reliever Dallas Braden.
Brainless Automaton #439
by rubin sierra on Feb 27, 2008 12:26 PM PST up reply actions
a very low-priority problem for the AN tech guys ...
If you follow the link, the long AN thread being linked to becomes illegible on the bottom-right side of the page ... this doesn't happen on the new pages because they've been fixed, but enjoyment of certain archives is definitely disrupted at the moment.
Brainless Automaton #439
by rubin sierra on Feb 27, 2008 12:30 PM PST up reply actions
thanks for reporting that
I'll definitely log a bug so we don't run into anything like that in future threads
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 27, 2008 12:56 PM PST up reply actions
BA Top 100
Baseball America's Top 100 Prospects is out. A's on the list:
22. Carlos Gonzalez
26. Gio Gonzalez
36. Anderson
48. Barton
60. De Los Santos
"Tomorrow it may rain." - Leo Durocher
Well that sucks
Not one of those guys was drafted/signed by the A's.
The monster at the end of this blog.
whoa, what a crazy coincidence!
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
Travis Buck would be on there
if he wasn't already in the majors...
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
I've always liked
Gred Oden because he said his childhood dream was to be a dentist, which is awesome.
The A's colors are green and gold.
One letter off
in honor of you getting your old screen name back.
The A's colors are green and gold.
isn't that sweet?
these AN 3.0 tech guys are pretty cool
Brainless Automaton #439
by rubin sierra on Feb 26, 2008 1:24 PM PST up reply actions
who is Clockwerks...
I was wondering that myself. I was almost tempted to write a diary FanPost about it. He probably introduced himself in one of the earlier "conversion" posts, but I was otherwise engaged at the time, so I missed it.
Go A's!
by FoolshGame22 on Feb 27, 2008 12:26 AM PST up reply actions
brief introductions
at the risk of just repeating my sig line, I am one of the team of people who worked with blez and the bloggers from all our other SB Nation blogs to design and develop the new blogging platform that serves what everyone around here knows as AN 3.0 and eventually the entire network of blogs.
The other guys from our crew you may see answering questions in the threads are lovitt, sixfoot6 and odacrem.
and because AN is our beta site, we're also the ones listening to your feedback and working daily to incorporate that into the platform. basically if you have any questions, problems or feedback ask for us.
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 27, 2008 7:12 AM PST up reply actions
Congrats rubin
on being you again...but identity theft victim was growing on me. It was a great name!
I heard over the weekend
a story about a dentist named "Mr. Pain."
That was his literal last name. Pain. Not even Payne, or Paine, or something.
As if that wasn't bad enough, he apparently groped his female patients.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Could be
I heard the somewhat garbled end of the story... so I suppose it might have been fictional.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
As a kid
I alwasy wondered why my mom busted up laughing when we past this Dr's office. It was only as I got older that I appreciated the humor of a proctologist named Dr. Rhamahol.
Winner of the 2008 "find grover a new sig" contest.
Well in a response that
could be considered too much information I will mention that my Father was a hemorhoid sufferer. He finally decided to get them operated on and he went to a Dr. Named Clack.
So of course my siblings and I would go around the house teasing him by saying" Dr. Clack is going to fix Dad's crack". Mom did not approve.
Top Ten ST Lies
By SI.com's Tom Verducci. How many of these do we keep hearing?
"Evidently, a large number of people said, 'We really need more vermin at the ballpark, Artie.'" - Nick, 10/7/07
"I'm in the best shape of my life"
Said by each and every A on the team... usually before a fabled Larry Davis press conference announcing another trip to the DL.
~Cue the episode of the Office where Michael (Larry Davis) has a press conference and Some random customer (Rich Harden) does not accept his (LD's) apology and large check.
No Harden and No Chavez make the A's go, something something...
omar vizquel
Veteran shortstop Omar Vizquel has torn the medial meniscus cartilage in his right knee and is expected to miss four or five weeks.Vizquel, who will turn 41 in April, was flying back to San Francisco on Tuesday to meet with Dr. Ken Akizuki, a Giants team physician.
In Vizquel’s absence, Kevin Frandsen will take over primary duties at shortstop, which in essence ends Frandsen’s competition with Ray Durham at second base.
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
"eerily regular"
Somehow, I don't think that'll be used to describe the Onion staffers for the next couple of days.
Someone is wrong on the Internet. @('.')@
IM4Oakgal, you're swearing a lot today.
For some reason, I'm disconcerted.
"I've got a lot of wins waiting in these white shoes." -Dan Meyer
Not on my account!
I'm disconcerted, yes, but also amused. It's cute.
"I've got a lot of wins waiting in these white shoes." -Dan Meyer
She's going to be a grandma!
She just wants to be one of those cute cussing grandmas... ;)
Anyone worth hurting is worth hurting well.
Oh man...
This kid's only been in utero for a couple of weeks...just imagine how much you're going to spoil it once it's actually born...
"I've got a lot of wins waiting in these white shoes." -Dan Meyer
She will be the most spoiled
little girl ever. Bank on that. Or boy if we don't get our girl. (we had 3 daughters...we're partial to little girls).
Heath Bell - RP - Padres
Okay, so I'm preparing for my fantasy draft and I stumble across this guy's stats. I realize he's a middle reliever - and therefore much less scrutinized by the common fan or the media - but does this guy's 2007 look like one of the biggest outliers you've ever seen, or what?
His numbers last year are incredibly out of line with his career prior to that point.
29-30 years old is very late for a pitcher to suddenly break out of his AAAA shell and become one of the most dominant relievers in baseball.
Did he add a new pitch to his arsenal? It can't all be attributed to the switch to PETCO. That '07 stat line is the pitcher equivalent to a 50-homer Brady Anderson campaign.
"I still say put Jack Cust on some roller skates, arm him with a squeeze tube of epoxy, and let him loose in CF...righteous!" -MRod
by notsellingjeans on Feb 26, 2008 3:07 PM PST reply actions
Hey, c'mon
I'm not here to talk about the past.
"I still say put Jack Cust on some roller skates, arm him with a squeeze tube of epoxy, and let him loose in CF...righteous!" -MRod
by notsellingjeans on Feb 26, 2008 3:13 PM PST up reply actions
Maybe his wife got injected
but not Heath.. I mean c'mon now. It worked for Roger. A lot of folks seem to believe that McNamee was in the bedroom with Roger's wife with her pants down, and yet only she took the shots not Rog.
Then you're obviously...
misremembering.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
true
the hrs are way down, but he did move to PETCO, and actually they were almost as low over the last few years in AAA.
considering he's a RP, i don't think this is the pitching version of brady anderson...
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
heath bell
So the question is has he always thrown that hard?
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
His babip and hr% dropped precipitously ...
but he also induced a lot more ground balls ...
I'd say he was almost assuredly pitching over his head last year. The home runs may have been attributable to Petco but the babip will probably increase. Expect a whip about 10 points higher, an era around 3 and an extra HR or three ...
"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback
Starbucks 3.0
Will they call their new-method espresso pulls "fanshots"?
Someone is wrong on the Internet. @('.')@
attn clockwerks
the search function is still absolutely useless, far worse than it was before the switch to new AN.
any idea when that may be fixed?
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
by xbhaskarx on Feb 26, 2008 6:47 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
search feedback
we do plan make changes to the search based on the feedback we've heard so far, so if you have any specific ideas or problems to report that would be helpful.
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 27, 2008 7:15 AM PST up reply actions
We need to be able to search
diaries, front page stories, comments, etc for specific words or phrases. There needs to be an advanced search feature that allows you look for comments by a specific user. I can't tell you how important this is.
stat-addled alien overlord
current search
allows you to search front page stories and fanposts for specific words and phrases. have you had any trouble with that?
and it sounds like the primary issue is that we currently don't allow you to search comments, including the ability to filter by specific users.
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 27, 2008 7:47 AM PST up reply actions
"allows you to search front page stories and fanposts for specific words and phrases"
but even with that, you can't ONLY search front page stories or fanposts.
"it sounds like the primary issue is that we currently don't allow you to search comments, including the ability to filter by specific users."
YES.
also, it would be nice to be able to restrict the search to a specific time period.
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
Search within results!
This was the weakness of the old 2.0 search system. There, you could search by user, by Diary, by Front Page story, by comments, etc. We need that, but what we also need is, once you have your Phase I results (for example, Diaries whose text includes "Lew Wolff"), it would be great to refine further (for example, of those Diaries, search for ones which also include "heartless bastard"). Or if you prefer, search I for "DLDs," and search two for "Puppies." Any examples will do.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 27, 2008 9:04 AM PST up reply actions
We need Boolean search!
If it's good enough for Lexis/Nexis.....
by Englishmajor on Feb 27, 2008 11:36 AM PST up reply actions
Disregard my response in the other thread.
I hadn't seen this subthread yet.
Anyone worth hurting is worth hurting well.
The way the previous search feature
was set up was good, but needed tweaking. The way it's set up now is completely worthless, as it's far easier to just use google. I would guess that the vast majority of searches are for comments, so there has to be a good way of doing that. I used the old search feature hundreds of times, and was searching for a "story" or "diary" in about 1% of those. A search within results/by user feature would be great. My biggest problem with the prior system was that I couldn't search for "comments by X" and then search for particular words. I either had to search all of some poster's comments, or search just with the words I was looking for.
The search needs to be able to distinguish screen names from text, which it does not do now. That is crucial.
The A's colors are green and gold.
"worse than it was before the switch"
I would have said that wasn't possible, but you're right.
Also, the Fanshots recommend system ain't right (though the value of the whole fanshot function escapes me).
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 26, 2008 6:57 PM PST reply actions
we need a front page with heart
And the whole idea of the fanpost thing can put it there!
Someone is wrong on the Internet. @('.')@
the recommended FanShot thing is a bug
thanks for the report, we'll get working on it right away
the idea behind FanShots was to address the issue of short diaries in many SB Nation communities where someone just wanted to post a link, photo, quote, video, etc, but didn't want to write a big analysis or anything. in many cases they would just fill up a diary by cutting & pasting the same phrase over and over to meet the minimum word requirement. that was really junking up some blogs. so we tried to embrace the need and find a cool way to handle it. I think that DLDs have addressed that need here, but those are unique to AN. additionally, we created the bookmarklet so it would be easy for people to send those little things they found about the team to the blog without having to come back and post here. the bookmarklet lets you do it from whatever website you're on at the time.
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 27, 2008 9:37 AM PST up reply actions
TOO CUTE!
Another spring sighting: Mike Sweeney's young daughter, McKara, dragged her father to the 'opposing' dugout during the game so she could say hello to Emil Brown. She jumped into his arms.
McKara?
Dulce? What is up with these guys naming their daughters all sorts of strange things?
"I've got a lot of wins waiting in these white shoes." -Dan Meyer
You should see what Ken Tremendous named his son
McCarver FRAA Tremendous. Don't it just roll off the tongue?
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
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