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DLD - 5/12/08 One sy lla ble at a time

Zebulon_tiny by JediLeroy on

I need se ven ty five words to be a ble to post a D L D. I found out that you can do one sy lla ble at a time and it counts as a se pa rate word.

I hope you do not have an A M D pro ce ssor and win dows X P S P 3 .

B A R T goes cra zy.

A N Day is co ming.

Dump.

 

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Steak knife tracheotomy

Officer assaulted with 15 MM shells

Chiba Lotte lost simultaneously in the fighter plane of the Japanese ham.

by JediLeroy on May 12, 2008 1:00 PM PDT   0 recs

Whatifyouranallyourwordstogether?

Wouldyouneverbeabletopostadiaryatall?

Secrets of the Angels’ laundry woman


Best sentence that doesn’t unfortunately go where you think it’s going to:

Manager Mike Scioscia is a superstitious sort whose game pants generally let Ford know the outcome from the most recent game.

Here’s the shocking thing: she has been with the team for 11 years, her work is good enough that many other teams commission her to do their alterations and sew on special patches, and she makes….. $10.70 an hour.
“And when you do things for them, you’d think, well, geez, maybe at the end of the year, at World Series time, they’d give you a quarter of a share or something,” Ford said, alluding to the playoff money the teams divide each fall. “But no.”

The candy and the baseball all night long :)

by Englishmajor on May 12, 2008 1:03 PM PDT   0 recs

interesting...
That’s a marked contrast to a typical morning last season, when Ford was regularly stitching up holes in pants and spending countless hours trying to scrub the pine tar from shortstop Orlando Cabrera’s jersey.

Which is why Ford silently approved of the winter trade that sent Cabrera to the White Sox in exchange for a pitcher, Jon Garland. All pitchers are clean, Ford said.

“I wasn’t happy to see him traded because I felt he was an outstanding player,” Ford said of Cabrera. “But in my line of work, he was very difficult.”

"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King

by batgirl on May 12, 2008 1:42 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

MLB continues its innovative quest ...

... to figure out new ways to rip off fans who actually go to games. (Original vomit-inducing corporatist crap article from the Padres.)

We're going to knock balls out of the country's park, for the home team, which is America. @('.')@

by monkeyball on May 12, 2008 1:05 PM PDT   0 recs

Reminds me a lot of vertig0's experience

with the cell phone e-ticket option the A’s put out last year. Yes, you can buy a ticket online which displays on your cell phone. Unfortunately, none of the A’s ticket-taking employees had ever heard of it, and all lacked the equipment to scan it, so your “convenient” paperless ticket ends up forcing you into the slowest, most obscure ticket line possible. A reality you discover only after waiting in several other long lines first.

Paying more for a worse experience is the new way of things. Call it “the Full Selig.”

There is an A in Whimsy.

by FreeSeatUpgrade on May 12, 2008 4:03 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I was trawling for you on Friday to no avail ...

... so I’ll repost (excising my paranoiac/caffeine-deprived speculation):

Lew Wolff: impotent small businessman, buffeted by market forces beyond his control or reckoning

From Slusser’s A’s Notes:

The A’s success hasn’t translated at the box office. The A’s are averaging below 20,000 per game, 26th out of 30 teams, and that’s including two crowds of more than 40,000 at the Tokyo Dome.

"It’s very rough," Wolff said. "We never filled up for the playoff games two years ago, and we didn’t pick up any season tickets the next year. People wonder why we can’t keep our free agents, but where were they when we were that close to the World Series? We have a ballpark issue and we’re the second team in a two-team market. It drives me crazy, but I don’t know what to do besides working on getting a new, modern ballpark. Billy and the guys on the team deserve better attendance for the product they put on the field."

We're going to knock balls out of the country's park, for the home team, which is America. @('.')@

by monkeyball on May 12, 2008 4:08 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I've said this before, but

when Magowan et al bought the Giants the first thing they did was to make Candlestick nicer. They ditched the chainlink outfield fence, added green facades, improved the concessions and generally made the place feel a bit more like a ballpark. At the time Magowan said something to the effect of:

“We need a new stadium. Everyone knows this, and we’re trying our best, but in the meantime it’s stupid to keep complaining about what a shit hole our current park is. We owe it to our fans to provide them a great baseball experience right now. Yes, we’ll try to make it better with a new venue, but until then you’ll never hear me put down our current home and the fans who so loyally support our team there.”

Lew Wolff can’t even conceptualize any words on the subject other than complaints, veiled threats, and more complaints.

There is an A in Whimsy.

by FreeSeatUpgrade on May 12, 2008 4:27 PM PDT to parent up   1 recs

Better yet

Lower the prices for a place they claim isn’t that good. Really. They don’t draw at one price, based on supply & demand, you’d expect they’d lower their prices. Do they? Nope, raised them yet again. Is it on par with the league, probably, but is it a good idea to bring more fans to park, nope.

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by DMOAS on May 12, 2008 4:48 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I agree

I was surprised by the $2 price for tickets vs Baltimore May 8th. There was little promotion of the low price, and only 15,300 attended. The “green tarps” seemed like a good idea at the time they went in, but they give that psychological effect of “this place is so bad, it’s best to tarp it off.” The “all you can eat” area looked sparsely occupied.

In my humble opinion…no matter WHO (alameda county, or Oaklandathleticsbaseballclub, someone has to take it upon themselves to
paint
the
concrete
white

All the gray concrete is gloomy, cheap-looking, and “ware-house-like”.

If the A’s simply get the white paint on the place, the attendance goes up 200K, I’d wager. Esp. if you add “group promotions” at cheap prices (e.g. $1 per seat, group of ten, and they all have to show up..no “empties” or the price goes to $8 per seat.)

"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer

by One won lost won on May 12, 2008 8:56 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

+1

"This must be heaven," he says.
"No. It's Oakland."

by Kyli on May 12, 2008 6:34 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Sal over at The Hardball Times

White hot and ice cold

“Regression to the mean is the statistical equivalent of a wet blanket.” is sig worthy, imo

"The Athletics at Fremont" is noxious

by ArakSOT on May 12, 2008 1:08 PM PDT   0 recs

I'm still morbidly disappointed that no one likes my ...

“Dialectical materialists always regress to the means of production”

We're going to knock balls out of the country's park, for the home team, which is America. @('.')@

by monkeyball on May 12, 2008 1:29 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

"morbidly"??

so… the end is near.

No one likes Marxist jokes any more. It’s like “leisure suit” jokes…too 1970s.

"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer

by One won lost won on May 12, 2008 9:00 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

In 1970s, leisure suits Marxist YOU

wait…...

The A's colors are green and gold.

by mikeA on May 12, 2008 9:09 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

MLB All-time All-scandal Team

Gallery

"Evidently, a large number of people said, 'We really need more vermin at the ballpark, Artie.'" - Nick (AN), 10/7/07

by doctorK on May 12, 2008 1:26 PM PDT   0 recs

a number of ex-A's on that squad

but that’s quite a “bench”

"The Athletics at Fremont" is noxious

by ArakSOT on May 12, 2008 1:32 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

and nice of them

to find a picture of Ty Cobb while he was with the A’s. It isn’t like he played for another team for 15-20 years or so…

"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty

by 5Aces on May 12, 2008 2:18 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Re: LoDuca
...tawdry tales of him playing slap and tickle on the side with a pair of 19-year olds.

This is a bad thing?

It's Rhodes Scholar Night at the Coliseum tonight.

by Scottbass on May 12, 2008 4:30 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

When you're married, yes.

formerly known as mdl

by iglew on May 12, 2008 5:50 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I want to see a cage match between Buzz Bissinger and ...

Carlos Delgado’s agent

We're going to knock balls out of the country's park, for the home team, which is America. @('.')@

by monkeyball on May 12, 2008 1:30 PM PDT   0 recs

This is disappointing
Fallon is succeeding Conan O’Brien as the host of NBC’s “Late Night” sometime in the middle of next year. NBC on Monday made official a plan that’s been talked about since 2003, when a network executive first broached the idea of doing a talk show with the former “Saturday Night Live” star.

link

stat-addled alien overlord

by salb918 on May 12, 2008 1:39 PM PDT   0 recs

wow, NBC just went down the shitter

Didn’t they realize that NO ONE LIKES Jimmy Fallon?

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

by Zonis on May 12, 2008 1:47 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Craig Ferguson will always be my frisky little pony.

"Hasn’t the foggiest inclination toward winning ‘tall. Hates to win. Likes to be buggered."

by Jennifer on May 12, 2008 3:31 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

::makes whip sound::

by drmmerchk on May 12, 2008 5:52 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

at least, Craig is funny

Foolsh, the most insane regular poster on AN since oaktoon left - salb

by FoolshGame22 on May 12, 2008 8:44 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I like Craig

but he uses the same jokes every single night . I still have watched his last 6 shows though. Maybe if I wait a couple days the jokes wil change.


You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}

by micdog2001 on May 13, 2008 12:45 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

AN 3.0 search function: kicking ass and taking names

via McC

# Improved UI: clean, open search page designed for ease of scanning results and to quickly find what you’re looking for. # Comments are searchable again. # With one search you can view the number of results for all content: front-page stories, FanPost, FanShots and comments. One click to view those results. # Relevant excerpts with highlighted keyword matches are displayed with every result # You can sort by date or by relevancy # Pages for matching players, events and teams, including quick links to stats, rosters, news and schedule are displayed in results. # Power search allows you to fine tune your query, show more results per page and filter your search by user or date. # Easily increase the scope of your search by including results from the league or the entire SB Nation network with the tabs at the top. # If you’re looking for something posted by a particular user, just click their name anywhere on the network and use the search box on their profile to automatically filter results by their name.

stat-addled alien overlord

by salb918 on May 12, 2008 1:40 PM PDT   0 recs

It IS a beautiful thing.

I was messing around with it yesterday and it worked great.

pam5981: Patience is a virtue that I do not possess.
ohtobe21likehuston: But you're good at drinking and cussing. Two out of three ain't bad.

by pam5981 on May 12, 2008 1:44 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I'm impressed!!

"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL

by oblique on May 12, 2008 1:46 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Wait, what?!

How did this not merit a whole fAnPoSt of its own… or a front page story?!

HALLEFREAKINLUJAH!!!

If only I’d known a few hours ago, I wouldn’t have had to use google to find (with much difficulty) Laptop In the Bathroom for McFood…

I have [null set] to say.

by Poppy on May 12, 2008 3:47 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

That is hilarious.

pam5981: Patience is a virtue that I do not possess.
ohtobe21likehuston: But you're good at drinking and cussing. Two out of three ain't bad.

by pam5981 on May 12, 2008 4:04 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Also,

Blue Oyster Cult parody in the middle of the tapir obsession. The tapir meme was one of my faves.

stat-addled alien overlord

by salb918 on May 12, 2008 4:25 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

It works! My God, it works!

And I can finally prove that I made Hezbollahpalooza comment which some skeptics questioned.

There is an A in Whimsy.

by FreeSeatUpgrade on May 12, 2008 3:57 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

you forgot the most important one:
The search results will also retrieve a LOLcat or motivational poster relevant to the search term you enter.

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 May 12, 2008 4:02 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Fail

I can’t seem to get the Lolcat function to work. :-(

formerly known as mdl

by iglew on May 12, 2008 6:03 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

that's a bug

I’m logging a ticket

I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation

by clockwerks on May 12, 2008 6:05 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

just want to say

much of what we built into search was based on feedback y’all gave us here at AN early on – so many thanks

hope y’all like it

I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation

by clockwerks on May 12, 2008 6:07 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

It's great stuff

Our (-Poppy) patience was rewarded!

The A's colors are green and gold.

by mikeA on May 12, 2008 6:15 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Trust me...

that was patience.

I have [null set] to say.

by Poppy on May 12, 2008 8:06 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Oy vay.

And I thought I was impatient.

pam5981: Patience is a virtue that I do not possess.
ohtobe21likehuston: But you're good at drinking and cussing. Two out of three ain't bad.

by pam5981 on May 12, 2008 8:08 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh, you are.

;)

I have [null set] to say.

by Poppy on May 12, 2008 8:13 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Sigh.

I know.

pam5981: Patience is a virtue that I do not possess.
ohtobe21likehuston: But you're good at drinking and cussing. Two out of three ain't bad.

by pam5981 on May 12, 2008 8:34 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

THANK YOU! :)

I have [null set] to say.

by Poppy on May 12, 2008 8:04 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Yes, it really, really works!

For kicks I decided to find a moment from a game thread (towards the end of 2005) when I asked Blez to get me a pizza because I was hungry. The discussion deteriorated from there. It took about 5 seconds to do the search and find the comment.

Yay AN 3.0!!

"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s

by Nick on May 12, 2008 6:28 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

At 27.0 years, Oakland has the youngest pitching in the league.

With a .700 defensive efficiency, the A’s are the sixth best defense in the AL.

Oakland it playing as the most pitcher-friendly park in the AL in 2008.

At 24-15, the A’s have the best Pythagorean record in the league.

Oakland pitchers have racked up the second most strikeouts in the AL.

The A’s have drawn the most walks in the league, and the the gap between Oakland and the number two team is bigger than the gap between the number two and the number 7 team.

Oakland has had by far the clutchest bullpen, with 3.05 WPA. Number two: Tampa bay at 2.33.

By RZR, Oakland has by far the best defensive infield in the AL.

stat-addled alien overlord

by salb918 on May 12, 2008 2:09 PM PDT   0 recs

are you going somewhere with this?

"The Athletics at Fremont" is noxious

by ArakSOT on May 12, 2008 2:14 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

the playoffs!

The A's colors are green and gold.

by mikeA on May 12, 2008 2:19 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

The bafroom!

"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

by kaweahkaweah on May 12, 2008 2:50 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Mark Ellis leads all of Major League Baseball

in fielding Win Shares.

As good as he was last year, this year he’s bettered it. He’s on pace for one of the great fielding seasons of all time.

This is why I think re-signing him would be a good idea—even if his glove declines, it’s got a long, long way to go before it becomes a liability.

Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.

by PaulThomas on May 12, 2008 3:04 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

+1

also, as a fan, I really really like rooting for the Lovely Smoothness

stat-addled alien overlord

by salb918 on May 12, 2008 3:18 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Sounds like a Nair commercial.

I have [null set] to say.

by Poppy on May 12, 2008 3:42 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

A friend told me this weekend her ex-boyfriend naired his privates.

Seriously.

"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

by kaweahkaweah on May 12, 2008 3:53 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Who wears short shorts?!

"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King

by batgirl on May 12, 2008 4:13 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Wait...

How does she know about her ex-boyfriend’s privates?

Or are you saying the ex naired when he was still current, in which case maybe that’s why he’s an ex?

formerly known as mdl

by iglew on May 12, 2008 6:06 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

The latter :-)

"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

by kaweahkaweah on May 12, 2008 7:14 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Plus, who doesn't like unicorns?

"This must be heaven," he says.
"No. It's Oakland."

by Kyli on May 12, 2008 6:36 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

ironically, yesterday's bonehead play

was by Ellis, when Suzuki threw to the empty space behind second, and Kinsler went to third (and scored later). Ellis owned up to the non-coverage. I was guessing it was Ellis who failed to cover, as I watched him on the replay. He didn’t look at Crosby, he just gave enormous body-language statement that said, “DAMmit!!! Whutthefluckwas I..DOING!!!“

Everyone agrees he is the best 2nd baseman the A’s have seen in a long, long time (Dick Green? 1970s). Fosse suggests they sign him “to a fifty year contract” because of his baseball smarts.

"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer

by One won lost won on May 12, 2008 9:12 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Everyone knows fielding stats are, while useful, quirky

Guys who rate highly in one system will rate badly in another, seemingly with no pattern. A player’s results will vary wildly from year to year.

And yet every fielding system I have seen, virtually without exception, that is based on objective data has Ellis way out in front of everyone else. It’s amazing. He’s so far out in front of the pack that even the extreme random fluctuations of fielding stats can barely close the gap under the most charitable of circumstances.

Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.

by PaulThomas on May 12, 2008 10:21 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Park factors compare every team’s output in a given park to the output of that same team in other parks.

They don’t involve any comparison of one team to another. The park factor is just the weighted average of a bunch of individual ratios produced by different teams in a given park.

Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.

by PaulThomas on May 12, 2008 6:08 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Park factors are subject to skewed results

due to weather and day/night breakdowns. As the weather warms up (and if the ratio of day to night games gets higher) the Coliseum will become a less extreme pitcher’s park. I’d also imagine that the horrible football-season condition of the field itself would tend to increase runs a bit in August and September.

"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s

by Nick on May 12, 2008 6:34 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

It depends on whose park factors you're using

the simplistic ones, which ESPN used to use, not sure if they’re improved it, actually do get skewed if the home team is very good / bad at pitching / hitting.

ZIPS: Milledge: 466 HR, 485 2B, 2282 hits, 278-379-524

by rfloh on May 12, 2008 11:59 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

This year's park factor is not very relevant one way or another

(except that we should trade all of our hitters to GMs who only look at OPS+)

The A's colors are green and gold.

by mikeA on May 12, 2008 6:17 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

hmmm...Oakland and Tampa Bay...

didn’t I pick them to win their divisions? Oh, yes, I did…

Foolsh, the most insane regular poster on AN since oaktoon left - salb

by FoolshGame22 on May 12, 2008 8:47 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

JediLeroy? JediLeroy!

I can’t hear you! You FanPost keeps breaking up!

"[Moneyball] is huge [in Japan], I guess, so I'm like a David Hasselhoff type or something..." -- Billy Beane

by FormerHuntsvilleStar on May 12, 2008 3:44 PM PDT   0 recs

goose attacks dog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OStX_wrWGg

i would embed the video but sbnation will now allow it (my new campaign now that the search function is 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 May 12, 2008 4:22 PM PDT   0 recs

sorry

you’re all out of feature request tickets

no video embed for you

I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation

by clockwerks on May 12, 2008 6:03 PM PDT to parent up