DLD 3/28/08 - Preason Seaview
by JediLeroy on Mar 28, 2008 11:50 AM PDT
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PrintIt's that time of year again. The smell of fresh-cut grass, garlic fries and trough urinals is almost upon us. Yes, the A's already opened the season in Japan with a split against the Bostonian juggernaut.
Yes, they will keep this winning streak until at least Tuesday, April 1, when they take on the Red Sox again.
Once again we're left with a patrol-craft-load of questions and hopes:
We know the A's are down with the Brown. But how will he do?
MR. Sweeney is also a giant question mark.
It's important that the A's get a lot out of their third baseman, Chavannrahan.
Was last year's quick start for Travic Buckton an abberation?
Will this be Bonnie Mursby's breakout season?
What of our catcher, Bozuki? Gotta be better than Melson Kendam.
As long as he can stay healthy, Rad Hardin should throw some excellent flames.
Our hefty, hirsute Jona Bleveland's performance is key to a winning season.
Hopefully we won't have to fear when Keiston Feet takes the mound late in the game.
Justan Duchscheree: possible trade bait? Will anyone value him as much as we do?
Will ChriGon adequately patrol the central garden?
Dally Dinarden should give us some decent middle relief.
Ellust should give us good power, defense, and bunch of strikeouts.
Since I'm using this as a DLD, I guess I should provide a link.
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I thought Poppy had a monopoly on Ellust
by green star oakland on Mar 28, 2008 12:11 PM PDT reply actions
that last one was just for Poppy, wasn't it, JediLeroy?
I'm still all bronchial, so I must curse you for making me laugh and cough up both lungs.
As reassuring as Bud's words were, the dulcet tone of his voice and his dashing appearance really sealed the deal for me. ~ GreenNGoldSooner @('.')@
Harden and Ellis always end up as my favorites
Chiba Lotte lost simultaneously in the fighter plane of the Japanese ham.
I only recommended this because it's the DLD... :P~~~
Also, Travic Buckton looks like Bobcat Goldthwait.
"There is an HR in Hanrahan." ~ mikeA
is it just me, or ...
... does Sswweeeenneeyy look an awful lot like Marco Scutaro?
As reassuring as Bud's words were, the dulcet tone of his voice and his dashing appearance really sealed the deal for me. ~ GreenNGoldSooner @('.')@
Bonnie Mursby looks exactly like BoCro to me
His genes must be the stronger.
The candy and the baseball all night long: )
He's got DoMo's eyes, nose, and mouth!
DoMo: Arigatou
Chiba Lotte lost simultaneously in the fighter plane of the Japanese ham.
should we be concerned
that the new A's banner hanging over Gate D at the coliseum reads "Grit is 100% Baseball"?
The image is a close up shot of the ladies favorite flowing honey sunshine.
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
I actually tried to find one!
The banner references a www.onehundredpercentbaseball.com but that's just a link back to the A's home site and they didn't show that image. Sorry!
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
LOL
In the pantheon of batgirlisms, "flowing honey sunshine" might be even better than "Venezuelan man candy."
"There is an HR in Hanrahan." ~ mikeA
You say pantheon, I say lexicon
lets call the whole thing off.
by green star oakland on Mar 28, 2008 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Thank you!
THAT's the word I was looking for. It was on the tip of my brain, where lucidity goes to die.
"There is an HR in Hanrahan." ~ mikeA
Pantheoner!
< /HH >
As reassuring as Bud's words were, the dulcet tone of his voice and his dashing appearance really sealed the deal for me. ~ GreenNGoldSooner @('.')@
to be fair to Jennifer
I obviously only get an assist on that one ;)
You really can't see his face in the banner, just heaps of curly golden locks--it' looks like it should be an O.P. ad or something.
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
An upside of Japan.....
Love this....
What the A's didn't necessarily figure they'd get, but did get as something of a bonus, was a jump-start on the kind of clubhouse bonding that sometimes takes teams a few months to forge.
The long flight, language barriers, body-clock battles and close quarters brought the A's, a young team with many new faces, together in a way that they hope will pay dividends back in the United States.
"I think it was a really good trip as far as that goes," said second baseman Mark Ellis, the longest-tenured Athletic who made the trek to Tokyo. "It kind of forces you to get close real quick, and that's great, especially for this team. We've got a lot of young guys and new guys, and I think everyone got to know each other a little better here."
First baseman Daric Barton, the most heralded of Oakland's four rookies and the youngest member of the team, wholeheartedy agreed.
"The camaraderie we got from being here, I don't think you get that at Spring Training or on a normal road trip," said Barton, 22. "At Spring Training, everyone kind of goes their own way at the end of the day, especially the guys with wives or girlfriends. There's some wives and girlfriends here, too, but here we all go back to the same place, the hotel.
"So you see each other a little more, and you start hanging out with different guys. Last year, when I got called up [in September], I didn't really talk to many people, except [third baseman Jack] Hannahan. Now I feel like I know everybody, and everybody seems to get along with each other."
Geren said he hadn't thought about the bonding benefit of the trip until it was mentioned to him.
"But now that I'm thinking about it, I have noticed a lot of [players] doing things in larger groups," he said, adding that he's seen 10-12 of his charges at the same restaurant. "A lot of teams use the first two months of the season to jell together, but an event like this ... kind of speeds that up a little."
Bring back Hammer.
Geren's noticed players doing "things" in larger groups?
Like what?
Going to the bathroom together?
Playing Hopscotch?
I love you, k^2. -Poppy*
by kaweahkaweah on Mar 28, 2008 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Dan Johnson: day to day with an "eye ailment"
Chiba Lotte lost simultaneously in the fighter plane of the Japanese ham.
Favorite quote from "Run, Fatboy, Run"
"That was the second most disgusting fluid I've ever had in my eye."
"I have a strange urge to make copies." JediLeroy
I heart youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYt28vX954w
"I have a strange urge to make copies." JediLeroy
28 A's, 1 plane
As reassuring as Bud's words were, the dulcet tone of his voice and his dashing appearance really sealed the deal for me. ~ GreenNGoldSooner @('.')@
Angel fan sentenced to 30 days...
for throwing a water bottle at Mike Piazza. 30 days in the hole!
Go A's!
4 free tix to tonight's game on craigslist
I'm a cheap bastard, but I'm not this cheap a bastard.
As reassuring as Bud's words were, the dulcet tone of his voice and his dashing appearance really sealed the deal for me. ~ GreenNGoldSooner @('.')@
Wish I'd known about that sooner!
Like, say, Hallowe'en 2006:
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
Well, the COLORS definitely are VERY wrong!!
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
Venezuelan Magic
Scutaro's voodoo doll is working
Jay's Rolen Likely to Miss All of April .
Infielder will need up to six weeks to recover from fractured finger
At the bottom of the article:
Rolen's absence throws the spotlight on utility fielder Marco Scutaro, another off-season pick-up. He will inherit Rolen's spot at third for most of April and possibly beyond.
Scutaro has hit .333 this spring, with one home run and a team-leading nine RBIs.
Sweating the small stuff
Venezeulo-Canadian Man Poutine
As reassuring as Bud's words were, the dulcet tone of his voice and his dashing appearance really sealed the deal for me. ~ GreenNGoldSooner @('.')@
Wow, Scoot's gonna have to throw it all the way across the diamond?
"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
I never thought it would be possible
but I think Zito knows more about music than Mayer knows about baseball.
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
I like the count of "yellow and blue for Dustin"
As reassuring as Bud's words were, the dulcet tone of his voice and his dashing appearance really sealed the deal for me. ~ GreenNGoldSooner @('.')@
did I honestly just hear
a Shane Co. ad with Tom Shane assuring me that his salespeople wouldn't be "all up in my grill" while I shop?! Who is writing their ad copy now, Jim Rome?
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
I might take Rome
over the person who writes those creepy Shane ads that make women out to be a guy's spoiled, pampered pet.
Sweating the small stuff
Gotta give a good luck shout out to my boys
Here's hoping for some RoLo afro mojo!
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
Through gritted teeth, the Old Blue said,
"I'd probably like to see the Pac-10 get two teams into the Final Four...although, ugh, why does it have to be fUCLA and the Furd?"
Is that a Sue Kiger Matryoshka doll?
Chiba Lotte lost simultaneously in the fighter plane of the Japanese ham.
LOL
As reassuring as Bud's words were, the dulcet tone of his voice and his dashing appearance really sealed the deal for me. ~ GreenNGoldSooner @('.')@
Oh man..about to start...
Cmon Tree!!!
Bring back Hammer.
by OaktownPower on Mar 28, 2008 4:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Sigh...
I would suggest not becoming an augur or a medicine man.
Team picked a nice time to play their worst game of the year (OK, second-worst-- but that game at USC was understandable).
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Muncie!
Man gets trashed.
As reassuring as Bud's words were, the dulcet tone of his voice and his dashing appearance really sealed the deal for me. ~ GreenNGoldSooner @('.')@
I had a candidate for dumbest person of the day
but I think GarbageMan>Cell Phone Lady for that award. Here was my candidate:
OAKLAND — A woman reaching for her cell phone drove her car into the Oakland Estuary near the Fruitvale Bridge early Thursday morning, police said.
...
Officer Robert Cooper said the woman told police she was driving west in the 3200 block of Alameda Avenue at 4:50 a.m. Thursday when her cell phone rang.
As she was reaching for the phone on the floorboard, the car swerved into the eastbound lane, through a cyclone fence, down a 20-foot embankment and into the estuary, police said.
The tide was in at the time and the car floated about 200 feet west, where it ended up in pilings under a house in the 3200 block of Alameda Avenue.
I saw a follow-up to that story
that claimed she managed to escape from the car with her travel mug of coffee intact.
The candy and the baseball all night long: )
by Englishmajor on Mar 28, 2008 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
sounds like indiana to me
but that's ball state area, not IU
President of the Joey Devine fan club as of 1/15/08. Accepting applications for other positions. "He has no equivalent." -Paul DePodesta on Jeremy Brown
So I've been away a bit lately
Have we had a definitive "Guess the Season Wins" thread yet? I'd like to extend my crack prognostication streak another year.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Mar 28, 2008 8:16 PM PDT reply actions
there was the...
Some were bold enough to post their prediction for season win totals in there. I was not among them.
Go A's!
by FoolshGame22 on Mar 28, 2008 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions
crack prognostication
Thankfully, Larry's promotion makes it unlikely we'll see his as he bends over to attend to another fallen A this year.
As reassuring as Bud's words were, the dulcet tone of his voice and his dashing appearance really sealed the deal for me. ~ GreenNGoldSooner @('.')@
Just so it's down in print
I'm calling 75 A's wins this year. Much as I'd love to succumb to the infectious enthusiasm running around these parts, I don't think the good news we've heard all spring is compelling enough to change the bottom line.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Mar 31, 2008 9:18 AM PDT up reply actions
what if the A's give a commando performance?
As reassuring as Bud's words were, the dulcet tone of his voice and his dashing appearance really sealed the deal for me. ~ GreenNGoldSooner @('.')@
Well, supposedly they *are* playing naked these days
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Mar 31, 2008 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions
OT: Tiger attack victim allegedly lifts Wii/Wii.
Paul Dhaliwal arrested as theft suspect.
Lawsuit expected to claim walls surrounding video game controllers weren't high enough to prevent "selecting and concealing".
Guiness Stout
that's what happens when you name it "Chavez"
As reassuring as Bud's words were, the dulcet tone of his voice and his dashing appearance really sealed the deal for me. ~ GreenNGoldSooner @('.')@
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