April 7, 2008. DLD. Everything Sucks.
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 7:04 AM PDT
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I am not typically a negative guy and I am actually fairly optimistic about this year's team but for today, everything sucks. It is my birthday and I am pretty depressed about how things are going. Nobody has even wished me happy birthday yet and given that birthdays at this age are largely about taking stock this is not where I wanted to be at 31.
I have moved back to Canada and this winter has just broken. It has been rough and not only that, I have had major trouble finding a job in my field in a down economy. Given that, I have had to take an entry level job in my field and the prospect of not being able to see the A's at all this year, maybe ever again, is very real. I have not been able to race this year due to not being able to afford to pay for or travel to races. I was going to run this one.
We just had our A's host a three game set in which we did not draw more than 16,384 fans. This of course will ad to the tedious BS that is the wider Bay Area's media support of the Giants, even though we have always had a better product in terms of team success.
In fact, we have only drawn only over 22K once and that was against the Red Sox on opening night with a large number of their fans in the stands. Sigh.......
Its Monday, it is bleak, and this link dump sucks, just like everything else.
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Mondays suck, Birthdays suck, Losses suck...
by Zonis on Apr 7, 2008 7:14 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
And I said,
I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
Ooo! Piece of candy!
by ChickenStanley on Apr 7, 2008 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
well, okay ... but...
that's the last straw.
by phastphill on Apr 7, 2008 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah...uh...Milton
we're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could just go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK?
thanks a lot Milton =)
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
by 5Aces on Apr 7, 2008 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
ah uh I believe you took my stapler....
thats it, I'm burning down the building...
by Zonis on Apr 7, 2008 5:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And, who here
had a case of the mondays??
Ooo! Piece of candy!
by ChickenStanley on Apr 7, 2008 7:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
sucksiness
Well, Happy Sucking Birthday!
Life got so much easier for me in my thirties. The comparing yourself to an arbitrary time frame of where you should be in life loses some of its power. I hope you get some respite from that nasty narrative.
And, actually, the bad economy and bad housing market will be very good for buyers of our age. The generation of boomers needing to sell down and cash out will lead to a healthy supply of houses in all areas.
Something that doesn't suck: the early performances of our minor league pitching over the first series of the year.
Banwart: 7 IP, 5H, 1R, 1 BB, 4 K
De Los Santos: 6IP, 5H, 2R, 1BB, 6 K
Rodriguez: 5IP, 3H, 1R, 3 BB, 8 K
Anderson: 6IP, 3H, 0R, 1BB, 6K
Cahill: 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K
Bailey: 6 IP, 2 H, 0ER, 2 BB, 7K
Mazzaro: 6 IP, 1ER, 1 BB, 4K
Smith: 6IP, 6H, 2R, 1BB, 4K
by jakarta on Apr 7, 2008 7:30 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
My take on the housing market situation
is that basically the only possible way that I could ever afford to purchase anything in the Bay Area is if the market dropped like a lead balloon. Granted, the drop may have come too early, since there's no way in hell I'd be buying anything in the next ten years anyway, but I'll take what I can get.
I have to say, though, it really irks me that the news is so consistently slanted in favor of people who already own homes (or whatever other assets are depreciating). It's as if it never occurred to the media that perhaps the fact that home prices are dropping is not an unalloyedly bad thing. It's always "OMG, foreclosure!"
Or to put it another way, there's all kinds of sympathetic coverage of people who made incredibly foolish decisions to buy houses that they could barely make the payments on-- and no coverage at all of the millions of people for whom home buying isn't even an option on the table because of the costs of homes, not to mention the costs of college (which is now mandatory for a decent job and doesn't even guarantee you'll get one).
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on Apr 7, 2008 8:54 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
my wife and I might be looking to buy
in the Bay Area, in a few more years. I've gone through this once before, when I graduated high school and during college (89-93) I thought that I'd never be able to buy into the Bay Area. But looking back, quite a few people I know got good homes in emerging neighborhoods for good prices. '95-'98 was a very good time to buy in retrospect, especially if one was willing to look at San Bruno, lower Berkeley, Campbell, etc...
And I very much agree with you about the pro bubble slant of news coverage. People on the Housingbubbleblog have been saying for years that home prices falling by 40% was a good thing for the working class, not a bad thing.
Costs of college and health care are linked, and are the symptom that wages have been stagnant at best for the majority of people in this country. Education and health care get less efficiency benefit from technological advances than many other industries, it is absolutely predictable that their costs go up quicker than the C.P.I. or the economy as a whole.
by jakarta on Apr 7, 2008 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I bought my condo last year
And sure, housing prices have gone down some since then (about 7% in my neighborhood, which is not bad at all compared to many other parts of the bay area), but the way I look at it, everyone else has thrown money away into rent for the past year, whereas I have been putting that money into my own equity. Oh, and that whole "tax deductible interest" thing totally rocks. Calculate how much you all paid in rent last year -- and imagine deducting that on your taxes. :) :) :)
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Apr 7, 2008 9:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was basically driven out
of the Bay Area because of housing prices. I got to the point that I really wanted to own a home and realized there was no sane way to do it without resorting to crazy financing. And I have a good job and make a decent, but not astronomical, salary.
Here in Cleveland housing is so cheap it's mind boggling. (Of course it's Cleveland, you say). There are gorgeous homes here that you can buy for the price of a studio in a marginal part of SF. I do miss the Bay Area, though.
Sweating the small stuff
by SportySpice on Apr 7, 2008 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I look at places and prices here
The "expensive" parts of ontario are nothing like California and especially like the bay area for home prices. Even Downtown Toronto is nothing compared to the bay area.
In the town were I am working people complain about the housing prices and I look and kind of smile to myself given were I was living before.
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Thing Is
I've lived in three glamor cities -- NY and Boston and San Francisco -- and I'm just as happy in Cleveland. Actually I'm a lot happier than I was in NY. Basically, you create your world wherever you go.
Sweating the small stuff
by SportySpice on Apr 7, 2008 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Why, but look at the quality of life here!
There are so many more wonderful restaurants that you can't afford to eat in and interesting cultural events that you won't have time to go to!
The candy and the baseball all night long: )
by Englishmajor on Apr 7, 2008 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No
PT, I guess you can sweep it all under the rug of personal responsibility if you like, but that ignores large chunks of the issue -- predatory lending, the social consciousness permeating, central to the American Dream, but ultimately way out of whack ethos of homeownership, the multiple re-packaging of crazy loans (and bits of crazy loans), passing the responsibility for bad bets further and further down the chain, the willingness of institutions such as Countrywide, etc. to keep gobbling these up, despite obvious indications of their flimsiness ... and on and on. To peer into this muck of intertwined malfeasance, and conclude that really it's a bunch of irresponsible speculators who are at fault, and screw them - I'll be nice and term that an oversimplification.
Also: Probably good to remember that while it's easy to derisively exclaim "OMG, foreclosure!", in many cases we're talking about ruined lives here. People who have kids, and whose biggest crime was not being financially sophisticated enough to know they were being lied to by their lender. I know this really isn't the place for moralizing, but have some compassion for crying out loud.
by 74mk on Apr 7, 2008 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
social problems simplified to personal responsibility.
I am always suspicious when wider social problems are explained away as the results of individual responsibility. It is never that simple.
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
and vice versa
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Apr 7, 2008 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
actually, that's not what PT argued
He didn't even get into the issue of speculators/flippers, or of folks who irresponsibly used their ARMs as ATMs with refi on top of refi.
I agree with both of you -- there were massive social pressures and bad actors pushing risky mortgages on whomever they could, and there were a fair amount of people who should have known better than to take out mortgages given their situations.
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Apr 7, 2008 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm just fed up with the notion
that people should be constantly bailed out for making stupid decisions with their money, while other people who didn't do those things get hosed in comparison. It bugs me even more on the corporate level, for whatever that's worth-- the government spends billions bailing out hedge funds and airline companies, while it can't be bothered to pay for health care for the millions of Americans who can't even afford to go to the doctor's office.
Look, it's not that I don't care about people who get foreclosed upon. It's just that I'm getting really fed up with all the coverage going to people who got spectacularly screwed by the system thanks in part to their own decisions, and none going to people who get nickel-and-dimed by it constantly through no fault of their own. Given the choice between sympathizing with people who were borderline-unbelievably naive and got screwed, and people who did the right thing and got screwed anyway, I'm going with the latter group.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on Apr 7, 2008 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Fair enough.
I agree with most of that.
I'd quibble with the "borderline-unbelievably naive" characterization, as we're talking about a sizable swath of the populace, and a belief system (built around the power and goodness of funny money) that is endemic rather than relegated to a collection of knuckleheads ... I'd go with "bought into an insane notion that's been sold as reasonable by way of, as monkeyball put it, 'massive social pressures'".
by 74mk on Apr 7, 2008 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Size doesn't matter.
From my experience, it's very possible that a sizeable swath of the populace acted borderline-unbelievably naive. On a day-to-day basis I meet almost just as many dumbasses as I don't.
by methodrampage on Apr 7, 2008 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That sounds like a true A's fan
ESPN & Fox focusing exclusively on the "problems" big clubs like NY & Boston while ignoring the "problems" of other clubs like the A's. All the people that are suffering should get exposure/help, but sadly, the other people aren't preceived to be relevant let alone beliefed to even exist at times if you only follow their coverage.
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by DMOAS on Apr 7, 2008 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
MLB takes action to reduce TV blackouts
"Hi, I need to... uh... determination..."
by Jennifer on Apr 7, 2008 7:34 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
And Unfortunate Facial Hair...
Ex-A's edition:
"Hi, I need to... uh... determination..."
by Jennifer on Apr 7, 2008 7:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well let's just say
The cuffs don't match the collar. My wife's comment: "What is on Nick's face?!"
by Mark H on Apr 7, 2008 7:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
When I saw it on Saturday, I thought it was a bandage
Now, to realize he did it on purpose...he looks like an idiot.
Signatures? We don't need no stinking signatures.
by jubjub on Apr 7, 2008 8:15 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hardly his first crime of fashion.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Apr 7, 2008 8:48 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Anyone else notice....
Did anyone else notice that while Swish has the dark hair and that god-awful blonde beard, his former roommate & BFF Joe Blanton has the crap-tastic blonde hair & dark brown beard? They must have planned it...or they're both that stupid. =)
by littlemsbaseball on Apr 7, 2008 5:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Really?
[clears schedule]
"Hi, I need to... uh... determination..."
by Jennifer on Apr 7, 2008 9:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was thinking the same thing
It is? I need to drive home like lightening fast.
by jeffro on Apr 7, 2008 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Happy dance!
Although Peter Angelos will probably find some way to keep the O's and Nats blacked out here in N.C. The punk.
"[Moneyball] is huge [in Japan], I guess, so I'm like a David Hasselhoff type or something..." -- Billy Beane
by FormerHuntsvilleStar on Apr 7, 2008 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
May I offer you a cake?
I'm here to talk about the past.
by 67MARQUEZ on Apr 7, 2008 7:38 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
thanks
that is an awesome cake.
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
how many A's cakes do you have in your arsenal?
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
by batgirl on Apr 7, 2008 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
the one above plus
the one I posted of the playing field
plus these two
I'm here to talk about the past.
by 67MARQUEZ on Apr 7, 2008 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
where did you post the playing field one?
I missed it and it sounds cool.
by jeffro on Apr 7, 2008 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes, but if you lived in Texas, life would be just a little bit better.
The First Amendment, is there anything it can't do?
Thank a Founding Father today. If none can be Found, a Dogfather will do.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Apr 7, 2008 7:49 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
question for dish RAF fans
a friend of mine in Oakland has the dish instead of cable, and doesn't know where to find the A's broadcasts (the ones formerly on Fox Sports Net Bay Area, now Comcast Sports Net Bay Area). If anyone has that information and can pass that on I'd appreciate it.
by OaklandSi on Apr 7, 2008 8:29 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
The dish?
Dish Network or DirecTV?
Bring back Hammer.
by OaktownPower on Apr 7, 2008 8:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If it is DirecTV...
The two Bay Area channels are 654 & 655
"The disjoint ravings of Boston homers desperate to rid the team of an albatross contract are of no relevance here." - PT
by AthleticsPTBNL on Apr 7, 2008 8:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dish Network
has the games in the same place it did last year, channel 409 or 410. Same spot, new name.
"Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain." - George McFly
by GreenAndGoldFish on Apr 7, 2008 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
thanks to all of you
I asked in a vague way because I don't know which service it is....but you gave me the answers to both, so I'll pass it on!
by OaklandSi on Apr 7, 2008 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Happy Birthday, even if it sucks
I hear you regarding the measuring your life against objectives. I have found that over the last several years (since about 27 or so) the main goal of life seems to be to take every one of my preconceived notions about what "should" or "should not" happen, especially by a certain point in time, and dash them to the ground with as little sympathy as possible.
Everyone's path is different, and not many peoples' paths are what they want it to be. Mine sure as hell isn't; sounds like yours isn't either. What truly sucks is that you're being kept away from your passions. I hope that changes, sooner than later, and I hope that some interesting opportunities come up, even if they're not what you're expecting. If they do, my unsolicited (and free, which makes it worth...nothing) advice is to take them.
In the mean time, I'm rooting for more attendance figures that are exact powers of 2.
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on Apr 7, 2008 8:34 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Well, 65536 would be a little tough...
and let's hope that they don't drop down to 8,192...
32,768 seems perfect.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on Apr 7, 2008 8:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Good point...glad we weren't going for powers of 3!
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on Apr 7, 2008 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
thanks
The thing is, I am educated enough to know how to poke all sorts of holes into the discourse that describes what we "ought" to be and the goals that we "should" have yet I am still caught judges myself by those standards. What keeps me sane in that is my passions, which I am in part being kept from right now. I really fear that this might be the first year that I won't be able to race since I was 13 years old and had not started competing as a runner yet.
I still have my wife and son. Those passions certainly don't suck.
AT least at this point in my A's fandom, being limited to reading Athletics nation and looking at the box scores, it does not take up that much time. No more long trips to ball games or three hours not doing anything else..... sigh.
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's really interesting...
you're 31 with a wife and son, and I'm 34 and a bit envious. Meanwhile I'm running a race in < 2 weeks, which I'm dreading (haven't had time to adequately train for, and I'm not nearly as passionate about running as you are) but I imagine might stir some envy in you.
I know what you mean about the education/discourse vs. practice/self-standards thing. If only thought had greater impact over feelings and reaction. If so, I could probably be brought to agree with the "Sign Bonds" people :-)
Well, since this is a link dump, here are some great things about 31:
* It supports commerce AND education!
* Where's Ice Cream when we need him?
* Not sure this place would be much better....
* But this one would be if you're into inhospitable conditions!
And, if you're dreading your next birthday (not that you would, since it'll put you at an exact power of 2, which seems to be a theme this morning), just start counting in hex, and you'll be 20!
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on Apr 7, 2008 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I may just start counting in hex.
What race are you running?
The funny thing is that I am great running shape. I have run a few time trials lately and I have run very well. I am been averaging over 60 miles a week all year and I hope that I can maintain this until I can race but I don't know when that will be.
My wife and son are really beautiful... I just wish that I could do more for them..... Yet another item in which there is a dissonance between my intellectual understanding and my emotional reaction.
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wow, that's awesome.
I'm dreading ~18 miles over three legs of a 199 mile relay :-) I'll be fine, I just may not feel great doing it.
It's this race: http://therelay.com/ and I'm runner #11 on the team.
60 miles a week is beyond anything I could imagine! Very cool that you can do that.
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on Apr 7, 2008 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
IS that race new
For all of my years of running in NorCal and I had never heard of that race.
Relays and team events tend to be a lot of fun. I remember being on relays for Eppies that were an absolute blast. More fun than PRs...... All about the goof jokes with teammates and the post race group fun.
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Looks like it's been around a while, but not really sure
I'll try to concentrate on the social aspects of this one :-)
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on Apr 7, 2008 10:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm running the Relay!
What team are you with, Oblique? I'm with the Iguanas and I'm running legs 10, 22, and 24. They're described as the "longest, hardest" legs. Yikes! And I'm the oldest person on the team.
Sweating the small stuff
by SportySpice on Apr 7, 2008 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
that is awesome
I have often wondered how many other ANers are runners also
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Awesome!
I'm with Xpresso Xpress and running 11, 23 and 35 -- looks like I'll just miss you :-) I'm assuming you meant 34 vs. 24....yeah, we put our youngest guy on that set of legs!! You must also be the strongest runner if they're subjecting you to that.
Have you run The Relay before?
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on Apr 7, 2008 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No, but I've run
Hood to Coast in Portland twice. Lots of fun, but be prepared to be wiped out for two weeks afterward.
You're right, I'm running leg 34. I'll look for Xpresso jerseys or shirts. Our tops are mostly red with some black and say "Iguanas" on them (clever, huh?) . (We're an all-women team.)
Sweating the small stuff
by SportySpice on Apr 7, 2008 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nice!
I'm not sure how identifiable we'll be, but I can send you a note when I have more info (we're a corporate team, and as with most things corporate I have very little idea what's going on :-) ).
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on Apr 7, 2008 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
my buddy did this run last year
and it nearly killed him. just kidding -- it kicked his ass, but he had a blast. good luck!
by phastphill on Apr 7, 2008 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Recommended reading on this topic
"Stiffed," Susan Faludi
"Generation Debt," Anya Kamenitz (also, iirc, developed into a PBS miniseries)
As for the "societal standards" thing, I've solved that by just not giving a crap about what anyone else thinks. (Some people on this board may have observed this already...) You do what you have to do. If someone acts dismissive of you because you've moved back home after college, or whatever, the correct response is not "gee, I'm lame," it's "f*** you, you're an a**hole."
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on Apr 7, 2008 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You are correct
The thing is, I can understand that intellectually but I can't make myself BELIEVE it. What makes it worse is that I am living with my in laws, not just my parents. I feel like I am a burden on them because I chose to get educated in something that does not directly lead to a career......
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I will look for those books though
"Generation Debt" sounds particularly interesting.
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
myspace....................
welecome, Mrs. Kiger.
by Zonis on Apr 7, 2008 9:01 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
something that doesn't suck
I just signed up for Extra Innings, so I'll be able to watch A's games all season long. Except that my girlfriend is a NRRSF (Non-Resident Red Sox Fan), so I'm going to be stuck watching a bunch of Boston games. That sucks!
by colin on Apr 7, 2008 9:11 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Better than
your GF being an Oprah fan.
Bring back Hammer.
by OaktownPower on Apr 7, 2008 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'd rather the Oprah fan
1) No time conflict in programming
2) No rooting-interest conflict
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Apr 7, 2008 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I have been wondering for some time
I have been wondering for some time, which would be worse; being close to a red sox fan or a yankee fan. I stopped thinking about it because it made my head hurt.
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
most of my family are from boston, and are red sox fans
Until they won the world series, it was no problem. It was always "how will they blow it this year?" Now, not so much.
I have many friends who are Yankees fans. I try not to bring up baseball with them.
by phastphill on Apr 7, 2008 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
So instead of a "en-raf" she's a sneeze?
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by DMOAS on Apr 7, 2008 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This doesn't suck
Today is the 75th anniversary of the modification of the Volstead Act.
APRIL 7, 1933: The modification of the Volstead Act allows beer to be sold once again. The modification changed the allowed alcohol percentage of a beverage from .05 to 3.2 allowing beer to be served once again. Over 1.5 million barrels of beer was consumed during the first 24-hours after the modification of the Act.
FDR led the nation by quaffing a 3.2 beer in the White House. Three days later, Michigan became the first state to ratify the 21st Amendment.
Numerous breweries and brewpubs across the country are holding celebrations today.
by Soaker on Apr 7, 2008 9:26 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Wow
How many aspirin were consumed in the second 24 hours after the act and how many babies were born 9 and a half months after the act?
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 9:29 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This was on uniwatch today
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 10:04 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
here is the explaination
I know I’m breaking the "one basic rule," but this isn’t really a uni-mashup, it’s a logo-mashup.
I’m from the East Bay and I love the A’s, Raiders and Warriors. So, I made a logo that represents all of them. It’s easy to tell wear the shield, eyepatch and elephant come from. The font is the one used by the Warriors in the 70s and 80s. The stars represent the 7 titles collectively won by those teams, while they called Oakland home.
Way too much time on my hands.
comment number 7 on today's uniwatch.
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Me, too.
In my mouth, that is, not yours.
"There is an HR in Hanrahan." ~ mikeA
by Poppy on Apr 7, 2008 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, that would be weird.
I mean, I don't really know you that well.
by mikev on Apr 7, 2008 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
2 logos, 1 cup
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Apr 7, 2008 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Poor Kermit ...
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Apr 7, 2008 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Man.
That sucks.
"[Moneyball] is huge [in Japan], I guess, so I'm like a David Hasselhoff type or something..." -- Billy Beane
by FormerHuntsvilleStar on Apr 7, 2008 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
ahhhh man
I screwed up the block quotes badly.
I will try again:
I know I’m breaking the "one basic rule," but this isn’t really a uni-mashup, it’s a logo-mashup. I’m from the East Bay and I love the A’s, Raiders and Warriors. So, I made a logo that represents all of them. It’s easy to tell wear the shield, eyepatch and elephant come from. The font is the one used by the Warriors in the 70s and 80s. The stars represent the 7 titles collectively won by those teams, while they called Oakland home. Way too much time on my hands.
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 10:14 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
and I screwed up the reply
sigh...
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
there's a good chance you didn't screw up the block quote
I've found the blockquote function to be really wonky--especially if there is a return in the middle.
Oh, and by the way, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
by batgirl on Apr 7, 2008 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
thanks!
Thank you bat girl.
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The candy and the baseball all night long: )
by Englishmajor on Apr 7, 2008 10:21 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on Apr 7, 2008 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The candy and the baseball all night long: )
by Englishmajor on Apr 7, 2008 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
What sucks
After nearly freezing in the stands on Friday, I relished sitting in the sun yesterday....but of course, since it was cloudy and cool when I left the house, I forgot the sunscreen. Ow ow ow.
Duke will miss his start in Toronto but Gaudin will probably get it.
And it's no longer adequate to scrub and mop for spring cleaning: you need to cleanse the house as well
The Isis Metaphysical Book Store clerk organizes, cleans, vacuums and dusts about once a week. But whenever she feels drained, she completes a full ritual with uplifting sounds (bells, drums or chanting) and aromas (incense, candles and herbs). "Every inch of my home that hasn't been looked at in months gets a metaphysical cleansing," Payne said. "I'm usually exhausted when I'm done, but I'm much more at peace.".
Do NOT come to my house, lady, you'll die. Metaphysically speaking.
The candy and the baseball all night long: )
by Englishmajor on Apr 7, 2008 10:41 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
when my little brother was a kid
He would get sun burned a lot. He would pull the skin off as it pealed and... EAT IT...
When he gets married I am telling that story at the reception...
Before you think that is mean I want you all to know that he is a giants fan.
Rickey Henderson: 35, 24, hall of fame!
by Athletics fan and runner on Apr 7, 2008 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The story of how Jennifer and her friends got skin cancer...
I once sat outside at a track meet with two of my friends from 8:00 to 4:00 PM. We had no idea how burnt we were getting. We ended up getting sun poisoning... chills, fever, and nausea. It was miserable.
Friend S missed an entire WEEK of school because her eyes were swollen shut. Her face was a mix or bright redness and green puss oozing out of brown spots (think Alien Nation). It was nasty.
My right ear received 95% of the sun and the skin would peel off in whole sections. All us looked like we had leprosy.
"Hi, I need to... uh... determination..."
by Jennifer on Apr 7, 2008 11:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
wow
When I was 12 I spent all day out at an NCAA Baseball regional. Sat through the entire day with my legs up on the seat in front of me. Did not end up with the fever and nausea, but I couldn't walk normally for 3 days, and I can still see the spots on my legs where I burnt.
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
by 5Aces on Apr 7, 2008 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ha!
When I was stationed at Fort Ord (all of 18 years old), I took my sweet little MG-B, parked it on a cliff next to a beach, and lay down to get a suntan (that wasn't considered suicidal in those primitive days of the 70's). I then fell asleep on my stomach. In the sun. For 6 hours (11 to 5). When I got up, I thought, hey, my back is a little tingly.
Remeber that sweet little MG convertible? You know the one with the leather seats? The leather that had been sitting in the hot sun for 6 hours? The leather, that, after I sat down on it, the skin never came off of, again. You could smell the frying skin.
I also got hit with an article 15 (35?) for destruction of government property when I couldn't work for 4 days.
by As Fan in the Bronx on Apr 8, 2008 9:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nerd Handbook
Your nerd has built an annoyingly efficient relevancy engine in his head. It’s the end of the day and you and your nerd are hanging out on the couch. The TV is off. There isn’t a computer anywhere nearby and you’re giving your nerd the daily debrief. "Spent an hour at the post office trying to ship that package to your mom, and then I went down to that bistro — you know — the one next the flower shop, and it’s closed. Can you believe that?"
And your nerd says, "Cool".
Cool? What’s cool? The business closing? The package? How is any of it cool? None of it’s cool. Actually, all of it might be cool, but your nerd doesn’t believe any of what you’re saying is relevant. This is what he heard, "Spent an hour at the post office blah blah blah…"
You can be rightfully pissed off by this behavior — it’s simply rude — but seriously, I’m trying to help here. Your nerd’s insatiable quest for information and The High has tweaked his brain in an interesting way. For any given piece of incoming information, your nerd is making a lightning fast assessment: relevant or not relevant? Relevance means that the incoming information fits into the system of things your nerd currently cares about. Expect active involvement from your nerd when you trip the relevance flag. If you trip the irrelevance flag, look for verbal punctuation announcing his judgment of irrelevance. It’s the word your nerd says when he’s not listening and it’s always the same. My word is "Cool", and when you hear "Cool", I’m not listening.
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Apr 7, 2008 11:05 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Cool link, Sal
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Apr 7, 2008 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pole taxes
This doesn't have anything to do with baseball. It's not even particularly interesting. It does, however, contain perhaps the most amusing at-first-glance non sequitur in the history of news reporting (or at least since like 2002 or something):
There is no evidence that combining alcohol with nude erotic dancing causes dancers to be uninsured.
by 74mk on Apr 7, 2008 11:46 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
And the next sentence was?
"But, we did massive amounts of research on it anyway, just to be sure"?
The candy and the baseball all night long: )
by Englishmajor on Apr 7, 2008 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Happy Birthday, AF&R!
I've never been hindered by any "milestone expectations" for myself, so I don't really give a rat's ass about things like age... I also will never be able to afford a home within 500 miles of the hometown that I love, and since I'm unemployed I'm about to return to school with a new major (might as well, since essentially-single parenthood left me about 20 units short of my original academic intentions, on three separate attempts spanning two decades) in a desperate starting-from-scratch bid to finally earn a degree, any fucking degree, before I'm too old in employers' opinions for it to matter. If I'm not already.
"There is an HR in Hanrahan." ~ mikeA
by Poppy on Apr 7, 2008 12:05 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
all right now
baby it's all right now
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
by batgirl on Apr 7, 2008 12:21 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Will we be able to watch them and the A's consecutively on Tues evening?
Stanford looked a lot more versatile than the either team in that toe-to-toe slugfest that followed. And they look like they play for the joy of it. Candice Parker is one gutsy player, but it'll surprise me if she can hold up against Appel and Peterson down low.
And now I've gone and jinxed them. Anyone know what the line is on the Final?
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Apr 7, 2008 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Tennessee is favored by 1.5
Bring back Hammer.
by OaktownPower on Apr 7, 2008 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Great -- another shoulder factor (department of chips) .
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Apr 7, 2008 5:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yay!
Haven't watched much of the Cardinal here out East, but caught a bit of last night's game and was impressed. And I like any team that shuts up Geno Auriemma.
"[Moneyball] is huge [in Japan], I guess, so I'm like a David Hasselhoff type or something..." -- Billy Beane
by FormerHuntsvilleStar on Apr 7, 2008 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Possible Christmas in April
If Stanford were to shut up Auriemma and Summit in consecutive games.
"Evidently, a large number of people said, 'We really need more vermin at the ballpark, Artie.'" - Nick (AN), 10/7/07
by doctorK on Apr 7, 2008 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No kidding -- I have rarely seen anyone look so often like s/he has a turd stuck sideways.
The difference between the programs seems pretty stark.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Apr 7, 2008 5:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Stanford
Normally Standford along with UofA are the only pac 10 teams I won't root for....but I'm making an exception for this game. Plus I'm attracted to female athletes so I don't mind watching.....its a nice change of pace from listening to my female roommate comment on Jack Hannannannanan's forearms.
by capper3 on Apr 7, 2008 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Your DLD just cheered me up.
Thanks for cheering me up. I thought I had it bad. Just kidding! Happy Birthday! My advise for what its worth, is to go take a nice, long run somewhere. Your brain might need some fresh air. I cannot count the number of times I felt like crap, & after taking a quality run, felt better.
There's an old saying that tough times never last, but tough people do. I probably screwed it up. Anyway, Cheers.
by alpine26 on Apr 7, 2008 12:51 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
What really sucks
is that I log on to Athletics Nation to read about the A's, just to be confronted by a nice little ad for Red Sox gear positioned just above the fan posts section. Seems like I can never get away from the Red Sox and/or Yankees obsession.
"Put some ice on it. After that, there's nothing a few beers won't take care of. " -Pink
by OrlandoAsFan on Apr 7, 2008 12:57 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Bob Dylan wins a Pulitzer Prize!
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Apr 7, 2008 1:00 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Your gravity fails, and negativity don't pull you through
... would have been an appropriate title for this DLD.
I love that CNN felt compelled to append a three bullet "highlights" snapshot to a 140 word summary piece. All that page needs is a bottom-of-the-screen scrolling string of snippets from the highlights of the summary (preferably with lots of CAPS and exclamations and timestamps), and I'll feel just like I'm in the Situation Room.
by 74mk on Apr 7, 2008 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Welcome to my world bro.
My birthday was yesterday. I had the pleasure of laying in bed with strepthroat and watch Cliff Lee 4 hit our A's. I still feel like shit but Mondays blow anyway.
by asfaninpismobeach on Apr 7, 2008 1:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
fellow Aries here
Mine was Saturday (which was also the 28th anniversary of a certain event).
Hope you're feelin' better.
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Apr 7, 2008 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
useless A's info
Since being in Oakland the A's record on the following dates:
April 5: 10-6 (incl 5 in a row)
April 6: 10-10
April 7: 9-14
Happy B'day all.
I'm here to talk about the past.
by 67MARQUEZ on Apr 7, 2008 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hey, things could be much worse
We could be Giants fans! Home opener score is 2-0 San Diego in the top of the first. Although I love the Bochy Gamethread Comix at MCC.
The candy and the baseball all night long: )
by Englishmajor on Apr 7, 2008 1:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
some of those are really good
I just went through half the pictures in that user's Photobucket account and did a lot of chuckling.
by colin on Apr 8, 2008 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Loaiza v. Haren
"Looks like you brought two too many."
by BWH on Apr 7, 2008 2:11 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Did anyone see Haren's commercial
during last nights Tigers/CWS game? :(
"Hi, I need to... uh... determination..."
by Jennifer on Apr 7, 2008 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No
Did he bash Oakland?
The candy and the baseball all night long: )
by Englishmajor on Apr 7, 2008 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No.
It was really cute.
It was for the Boys and Girls Club.
"Hi, I need to... uh... determination..."
by Jennifer on Apr 7, 2008 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well, that's all right then
It's sad he's gone....but he has to do things for his new team and community.
The candy and the baseball all night long: )
by Englishmajor on Apr 7, 2008 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It made me miss him.
It was Dan talking to a little girl [insert motivational stuff] and the girl shoots back something about giving up 26 homeruns in 2005. I forgot. I was just so excited to see him on television (where was his commercials while he was on the A's?) I forgot what was said.
"Hi, I need to... uh... determination..."
by Jennifer on Apr 7, 2008 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
he
said that it was ok to fail at any one time then asked rhetorically "do you know how many home runs I gave up in 05?"
She answered. He gave her a funny look. She then said but you had X stikeouts"
Then Haren smiled, looked directly into the camera and declared cancer "bad" and tried to convince us that throwing the mike marshal way is the wave of the future and we should all get on board.
by Future Ed on Apr 7, 2008 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I just remembered something new and annoying
about this season in the stadium:
Walks (earned by A's players, not given up by A's pitchers) are now sponsored by FlyClear so you can walk through airport security. Barf.
The candy and the baseball all night long: )
by Englishmajor on Apr 7, 2008 2:27 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding.
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Apr 7, 2008 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I wish I were
The candy and the baseball all night long: )
by Englishmajor on Apr 7, 2008 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I find that corporate relationship far more alarming ...
... than the possibility that Lew might put in pay toilets.
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Apr 7, 2008 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
actually, now that I think about it ...
... Lew could combine the two, and offer tiered subscriber urinal access.
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Apr 7, 2008 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
thus bringing
trickle-down economics to the ballpark?
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
by 5Aces on Apr 7, 2008 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I used to work
for the guy that founded that company. One of the bigger jerks on earth.
Sweating the small stuff
by SportySpice on Apr 7, 2008 4:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Apr 7, 2008 5:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Forget urinal troughs, the new park might not even have bathrooms
of the style and manner to which most of us sports fans have become accustomed. No, if Lew reads this deadspin capsule of Milwaukee's potty entrepreneurs there's no telling where we might, um, end up.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Apr 7, 2008 2:46 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Which team are you picking tonight?
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Apr 7, 2008 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think AN should move the Saturday Front Page series...
to Monday. That way, there's new front page content on days that commonly don't have a game...
"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
by Elvez on Apr 7, 2008 3:02 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
And weekends usually aren't that busy.
"Hi, I need to... uh... determination..."
by Jennifer on Apr 7, 2008 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
First place in the AL west
If expected wins were the wins that mattered, the a's would be in first place.
by Future Ed on Apr 7, 2008 3:03 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Yabu just pitched a nice inning for SF
although they're still losing 5-1. Gambatte Yabu-san!
The candy and the baseball all night long: )
by Englishmajor on Apr 7, 2008 3:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Tigers fans agree:
"There is an HR in Hanrahan." ~ mikeA
by Poppy on Apr 7, 2008 3:36 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Scott Spiezio pleads guilty
to DUI and stuff. But they left "having stupid facial hair" off his rap sheet. Had to be an oversight.
"There is an HR in Hanrahan." ~ mikeA
by Poppy on Apr 7, 2008 3:59 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Hey, Sox fans ...
Want to reduce blackouts?
Perhaps you should cut back on your drinking:
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Apr 7, 2008 4:30 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Update: My puppy, Ellie.
She's 10 days old.
"Hi, I need to... uh... determination..."
by Jennifer on Apr 7, 2008 5:12 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
My god -- her eyes aren't quite open! You can almost smell the puppy breath.
Is she a lab? Do you have her litter, or visiting privileges?
Deets, girl!
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Apr 7, 2008 5:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
We own Mom and Dad...
Dad is a chocolate lab and Mom is a yellow lab. Eight black females in the litter, but one baby died soon after they were born. Daddy is a large, lovable lab with a blockhead and a thick tail, and they all look like him. They are BIG girls. Poor Mom doesn't have a chance when they get older. :) I love them. One sleeps with her tongue hanging out all the time... I'm unofficially calling her Huston, but we only get to keep one, Ellie.
"Hi, I need to... uh... determination..."
by Jennifer on Apr 7, 2008 5:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Aw so cute
I have a black lab now and recently raised a 2nd black lab. I'm totally biased, but I love the black color. We knew the breeder family of the 2nd we raised (who is now a deaf asstance dog) so we got to visit her from 5 days old. It's so incredible to see them grow from looking like little guinea pigs to big puppies. Keep posting pics of Ellie (I assume that's a tribute to the A's "Ellie...")
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
by batgirl on Apr 8, 2008 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
There is one puppy that's a little different color than the rest...
like she's going to end up chocolate, while the others are sleek black. One has pink pads on her back paw, but other than that there aren't any distinguishable features they have right now. Her front paws are black, legs and feet are black, pads are pink.
I just like large dogs. Altogether we have a male chocolate lab, a 10yo female chocolate lab we adopted, the yellow lab, and a large 15yo beagle who fakes injuries so she can come inside and sleep in the recliner.
"Hi, I need to... uh... determination..."
by Jennifer on Apr 8, 2008 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
and yes....
Ellie is after Ellie.
"Hi, I need to... uh... determination..."
by Jennifer on Apr 8, 2008 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
We're probably keeping the foster kitten...
but I can't call him by the name Poppy Jr.'s friend originally gave him ("Richard"). So I renamed him, after a different athletic Ellis -- one who, like the cat, is fast and frequently airborne -- Monta.
"There is an HR in Hanrahan." ~ mikeA
by Poppy on Apr 8, 2008 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
ZOOK!
(Courtesy of Deadspin.)
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Apr 7, 2008 5:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Thanks Jennifer -- all females? The odds of that are, what -- 1/256?
We had a BC litter four years ago -- ten pups with one stillborn and a fade. It's hard not to mourn the ones who don't make it, but that may be a reason there are so many in the first place.
Actually, they were half-BCs -- Mama was preggers in the shelter, and not house-trained. We think she was popular in the 'hood, as the puppies were variously colored, although all about the same size and shape.
We kept the girl on the left -- one in the middle has gone on to fame-n-fortune in the agility game.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Apr 7, 2008 6:01 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
thought this was kinda neat
the rockies had joe kennedy's 16-month-old daughter throw out the first pitch at the game on friday.
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
by flipgatey3 on Apr 7, 2008 6:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
the link didn't show up...
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
by flipgatey3 on Apr 7, 2008 6:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Very cool
(except that Joe's daughter is still in utero... it was his son, Kaige, who threw out the pitch...)
"There is an HR in Hanrahan." ~ mikeA
by Poppy on Apr 7, 2008 8:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Some press reports
(the New York Times, in fact) referred to Kaige as a girl, which will piss the poor kid off no end when he's 12 and reads the clippings.
The candy and the baseball all night long: )
by Englishmajor on Apr 7, 2008 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Who had "Two starts" in the pool?
SuSlu: Harden scratched, no reason given.
Gaudin will now come off the DL to start the game...
While I doubt it, I hope it's just that Harden got stopped in customs because of the lethal weapon he has (hopefully still) attached to his right shoulder.
by calgbear on Apr 7, 2008 6:48 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
don't spend that $20, mikeA
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Apr 7, 2008 6:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Too late.
I used it to buy a custom authentic Harden jersey at the ballpark last week. It was 90% off....
The A's colors are green and gold.
by mikeA on Apr 7, 2008 6:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
you paid more than the Yankees will
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Apr 7, 2008 7:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Harden has a right shoulder?
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on Apr 7, 2008 7:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
just in time
to be included in the Everything Sucks DLD
Brainless Automaton #439
by rubin sierra on Apr 7, 2008 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
hey, clockwerks ...
Interesting bug (mayhap someone reported this previously; I canna recall): the "recent posts" box at top-R on the home page doesn't seem to track the auto-generated game threads (it only tracks the manually generated extra "cont'd." game threads).
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Apr 7, 2008 6:53 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Paraphrasing Orel Hershisher from the Yanks-Rays game...
"Jason Kendall's brought some real veteran leadership and now the Brewers are leading the NL Central. Wow."
"Looks like you brought two too many."
by BWH on Apr 7, 2008 6:56 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
It takes real leadership
to bat behind the pitcher.
by methodrampage on Apr 8, 2008 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
As much as you might mock him for being the one put in that position,
a number of studies have indicated that it's actually the correct strategy to bat the pitcher 8th. And not just when it's Micah Owings or one of the Giants pitchers (hey, they can't be worse than that lineup, can they?).
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on Apr 8, 2008 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
NCAA final just went into overtime
pretty amazing game
by OaklandSi on Apr 7, 2008 8:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
No victory squat for K-Rod tonight!
Walk, double, double, walk and he limps off on the bad ankle.
by Soaker on Apr 7, 2008 9:48 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Joe Borowski outsucks Rodriguez/Shields though
Barf.
by Soaker on Apr 7, 2008 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Since it's late...fantasy question anyone?
Give up: Derrek Lee
Get: Nick Johnson, Dan Haren...
Thought it was particularly interesting to post here because of the inclusion of Haren, whom I didn't follow through spring.
by RenoTy on Apr 7, 2008 9:52 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
{head explodes}
You are asking for tolerance without reciprocating with civility.
And what did we do once we discovered a rift in the fourth dimension? We launched a monkey into it. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Apr 8, 2008 9:41 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I have not gone to HH more than once or twice
but if they always have that many posts to talk about "cyber-farts" I don't think I ever need to go back again.
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
by 5Aces on Apr 8, 2008 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Whoop, irony black hole.
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Apr 10, 2008 9:44 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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