DLD 4-24-08: Big Hurt returns, promptly breaks AN servers
by Englishmajor on Apr 24, 2008 11:15 AM PDT
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Since I may be one of the few people who has been able to log on today, here are the facts if you have not already seen them:
Frank Thomas has been signed to a deal. Travis Buck goes on the 15-day DL with shin splints, Eric Chavez goes on the 60-day DL with general debilatating allover brokenness recovering from back surgery. Susan Slusser's bloggish story on SFGate
and Official A's Press Release. According to the Star Tribune's Twins blogge r, Frank is taking BP in Oakland even as I type.
The will of the people of the left field bleachers will not be denied! (At least not this time.)
In other news: Rich Harden's sister got roughed up for wearing a Calgary jersey at the Sharks game. She is a true Canadian. Also in that post, Andrew Brown and Huston Street got pwned by the sixth-grade chess champion.
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Did you hear?
woo hoo!!
if i had known thomas was playing, i would have gone to the game today.
is this thing on tv in the sacramento area? i can never find a’s games on tv anymore…
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
No TV today.
"Hasn’t the foggiest inclination toward winning ‘tall. Hates to win. Likes to be buggered."
Sac TV/radio coverage sucks big time
I love you, k^2. -Poppy*
by kaweahkaweah on Apr 24, 2008 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Frank Thomas' rebar...
Shakes internet networks to the core!
We should remind him...
“The baseball, not the server, Frank. Hit the BASEBALL!”
"[Moneyball] is huge [in Japan], I guess, so I'm like a David Hasselhoff type or something..." -- Billy Beane
by FormerHuntsvilleStar on Apr 24, 2008 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions
While I sympathize with Harden,
shouldn’t he (and, one presumes, his sister) be a Canucks fan?
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
I thought 12-21 was more the formative age for sports fanhood
Well, I guess it’s kind of random… and of course my A’s attachment is partly from early childhood too.
Meanwhile, I’m getting all these delightfully ironic mental images of Harden winding up to punch a guy out for hitting his sister, but pulling a muscle before he can even throw the punch.
Speaking of things like that, anyone see what happened to Swisher yesterday? That’s such a vintage Swisher moment.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Harden's sister got hit
Rich gets the black eye and lands on the 60 day DL.
(i should be shot for merely having the thought…)
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
the blog makes it sound like swisher
broke his bat because he’s SO strong. dorks, he cracked it on an earlier swing. you could tell because after fouling one back earlier he smelled the bat (probably because the crack smelled like burnt wood or something), at least that’s what baseball tonight said. makes sense to me. whatever makes you happy though I guess.
A's all the way in 08 . . . oh never mind!
Wow, hostile much?
I just thought it was an amusing story. Swisher swings, strikes out looking.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
I had the same reaction to the "swung so hard" claim
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
as micdog2001, I mean
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
I used the word "dorks" didn't I?
It could (but necessarily should) have been worse. I didn’t mean to come off like such a jerk. I guess I should have put a smiley face somwhere in there. I agree the actual play was amusing but their reasoning was not.
A's all the way in 08 . . . oh never mind!
I guess you'd call it cowardice
But I’m not prepared to go on like this.
by EddieVegas_NRAF on Apr 24, 2008 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I figured out what really broke the servers
Blez and clockwerks were trying to install this for beta-testing at AN.
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
Think of the implications for a porn site!
"He's a misfit. He gets along with everyone." - Reggie Jackson, describing Joe Rudi
Chess
I have to put the chess quote here, I read it to my kids this morning to much giggles…
Daniel Naroditsky, a sixth-grader from San Mateo who is the 12-and-under world chess champion, played A’s relievers Andrew Brown and Huston Street simultaneously and beat both with ease, beating Brown six times and Street four times in less than half an hour.
There was a nest of that spider to that, but it is that.
Harden's Sister
Hopefully it’s just a bruised lat. If they take it day by day she’ll be ready for next seasons playoffs.
I can't believe she shoved the guy down the stairs!!!
So, bring on Bonds! Or, not... then, bring back Langerhans!! -One won lost one
by baseballgirl on Apr 24, 2008 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
CarGon
Maybe I missed it, but was there ever an announcement about the severity of his hand injury?
What about Barry?
"Barry who?" Forst said, and I felt like I was in the middle of a knock-knock joke.
Bone bruise
“Between the index finger and thumb,” whatever that means. (There are no bones between the index finger and thumb.)
I probably don’t even need to say this, but he’s day to day.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Larry Davis
Is he the River Cats trainer now?
What about Barry?
"Barry who?" Forst said, and I felt like I was in the middle of a knock-knock joke.
Daily Breakdown
AN 2.0:VISTA::AN1.0:XP
2 days in a row as I was posting when the ###-#### site went down as I hit the post button.
Blez:, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it , again.
I don't know...
There will always be bugs, but I really like AN 3.0. Once it settles down we’ll appreciate it.
"Billy Beane is a freaking genius"
FanPost on Lookout Landing sums it up nicely.
formerly known as mdl
Eh...
I’ll keep in mind to not wear a Flames jersey in San Jose then.
... but at least it wasn’t Edmonton.
"The hard... is what makes it great."
Um
Wesley Snipes is going to prison for three years. Is it me or does that seem excessive and/or vindictive?
Florida ain't no place for a self-respecting A's fan.
Anyone who claims that they don't have to pay taxes
when they’re making like $10 million a year deserves all the excessive and/or vindictive sentencing they get.
I can deal with people who are rich or people who are cheap, but people who are both rich and cheap really irk me.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
finally, common ground between you and FSU!
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
I don't think our philosophical positions are actually that far apart
He just happens to think Wolff is cheap, and I don’t.
If you asked the two of us our opinions about, say, Loria, I think they would sound pretty much identical.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
whereas I am a big Jeff Loria fan
I have a certain appreciation for naked, F-U, Gekkoesque greed. It’s honest.
Whereas Seligula and his kraven kronies …
(Loria’s with them but not of them.)
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
+1
he deserves it. Jerks who make tons of money should be forced to pay taxes. why should the “little guy” have to keep the country running?
A's all the way in 08 . . . oh never mind!
BTW
I’m saying he is a jerk because of what he is trying to pull NOT because he makes a lot of money.
A's all the way in 08 . . . oh never mind!
can I use that as my sig line?
I’ll give you credit ; ) : ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
A's all the way in 08 . . . oh never mind!
A good portion of people become rich BECAUSE they're cheap, though.
I mean, not Snipes, and I think he deserves it.
I’m just sayin.
I was really hoping the reason for AN's little vacation was...
the installation of a particularly awesome, state-of-the-art search function.
I have [null set] to say.
nope: boob job
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
Seems smarter too...
somehow…and more interesting!
Florida ain't no place for a self-respecting A's fan.
by Leopold Bloom on Apr 24, 2008 7:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Is that why my back hurts?
"Hasn’t the foggiest inclination toward winning ‘tall. Hates to win. Likes to be buggered."
Boog Powell consorts with stripers!
For shame!
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Apr 25, 2008 7:28 AM PDT up reply actions
nice decoupage
< / flashback >
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
Viagra be damned -- Frank has already won Comeback Player of the Year.
Ahhhhh…. 
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
Except the bubble in his mouth...
it needs to be a puppy… or a child.
"Hasn’t the foggiest inclination toward winning ‘tall. Hates to win. Likes to be buggered."
I think it actually
is a virgin who is blowing a bubble. We can only see the end though.
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
A virgin with a Boog job.
"He's a misfit. He gets along with everyone." - Reggie Jackson, describing Joe Rudi
i was forced to read other a's blogs yesterday because AN was offline
is the elephants in oakland guy the biggest d-bag in the a’s blogosphere? (“twinfan” doesn’t count because he roots against the a’s)
I am not a fan of the move to bring in Frank Thomas… I would much rather see the A’s go with Todd Linden
Please, stop talking about Billy Beane. David Forst is the one making the moves. Beane hasn’t been involved in day-to-day activity with the A’s in almost two seasons.
Posted By: EiO | April 24 2008 at 10:58 AM
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
Of course David's the new HMFIC.
He appears regularly on Extra Innings
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Apr 25, 2008 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions
There's no better person at collecting lots of useful data
and then using it to come to totally, utterly, almost bafflingly wrong conclusions. Particularly anything to do with the farm system.
He just has a rabid hatred of Beane and will latch onto any evidence at all that seems to support it.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
BIG NEWS....
I changed my sig line!
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
--Bilbo Baggins
Frank McCourt loves the earth
$500 million to staple a “grand entrance”, some landscaping, and a couple of giant parking towers onto Dodger Stadium.
It also includes a “green necklace” of new landscape elements and twin nine-story parking structures buried into the hillside—along with terrifically vague ideas about connecting the stadium to public transit.
It’s going to be a “year-round destination”, apparently. Which strikes me as a disappointingly unimaginative euphemism for “tacky outdoor shopping mall with a ballpark tucked in the corner”.
[T]he stadium will feature preferred parking for alternative-fuel vehicles. The Dodgers are also encouraging the use of public transportation.
Press release-ish item here.
The renovations call for planting trees around the ballpark and a focus on conserving water as well as promoting recycling and other environmental initiatives. The Dodgers will use the latest technologies to save millions of gallons of water each year. Recycling measures include post-consumer waste recycling, and recycling materials that will be removed throughout the building process. The Dodgers will use native or drought-resistant plants for landscaping and, where possible, energy efficient bulbs in all ballpark and scoreboard lighting. Other environmental practices will include installing energy efficient appliances in all kitchen and concession facilities, and purchasing building materials and items used in concession kiosks that are made from recycled or quality, durable products.
Note that the nine-story parking garages are sure as hell getting built, but the transit connections … well, they’re encouraging them. But hey, they’re gonna plant trees and recycle! And, “where possible”, use energy efficient light bulbs.
Ah, well – just the latest iteration in a long history of condescending corporate olive branches to green sensibilities, I suppose.
I can’t find anything relating to the financing details, but possibly I just don’t know where to look. Can someone point me in the right direction?
"post-consumer waste recycling"
Never. Eat. A Dodger Dog. Again.
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
$500 million for a green necklace?
Southern California is the center of the porn industry, they can get a pearl necklace much cheaper.
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