DLD 5/16/08 Miscellany
by mikeA on May 16, 2008 12:31 PM PDT
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1. Greg Smith With 6 pickoffs (next best is 3), he may have some chance at the single season record. The most since 1992 was 12, and 9-10 typically leads MLB. I don't know what the record is though.
2. Ziggy I think there's a very good chance we'll see Ziggy up with the A's pretty soon (when Petit goes back down, or Ellis is DL'd). They tried to turn him into Bradford, and his stats have been remarkably and uncannily similar to Bradford's. He's getting a ton of ground balls, dominating right-handed hitters, and has yet to give up a home run since going side-arm. He would be worth using as a roogy or a rtoogy in high leverage situations, and is fairly likely to be better than Andrew Brown generally.
3. Today's link o' horror I'm moving to Seattle.
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salb918 shit list, 5/15:
1. signal-to-noise
2a. iTunes “shuffle” feature
2b. Peter Frampton
3. Mark Kotsay
4. Rain on a goddam May weekend
5. Sharon.
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on May 16, 2008 12:40 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
So you're not on board with the
The A's colors are green and gold.
by mikeA on May 16, 2008 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
F--- you and your AN search function, okay?
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on May 16, 2008 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
your problem re 2a. and 2b. is misdiagnosed
shit list item #2 should more properly be identified as “sharing an iTunes library with someone else”
We're going to knock balls out of the country's park, for the home team, which is America. @('.')@
by monkeyball on May 16, 2008 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Someone told me it was a classic!
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on May 16, 2008 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I can't remember the last rainless weekend
it’s uncanny
"The Athletics at Fremont" is noxious
by ArakSOT on May 16, 2008 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Our first softball game is next week, and we won't
have a chance to practice!
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on May 16, 2008 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Here's whatcha do...
Buy a 6-pack of beer.
Open 4 of the bottles and put them in the corners of a room.
Jog around the room, stopping at each corner to drink the bottle of beer there.
When you get back to “home” corner, open and drink the remaining 2 bottles of beer.
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
by Nick on May 16, 2008 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
at least rain cools things down
if you had 105 degree heat your list becomes-
2a and b. leaving the ipod in the car so it wont turn on because as soon as it does it overheats.
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
by 5Aces on May 16, 2008 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
BOOOOOO!!!!
"I almost landed in some lady's lap, which was kinda fun.'' -- Swish
by Sharon on May 18, 2008 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Jason Giambi says that he wears a tiger-striped thong whenever he needs to break out of a slump.
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 16, 2008 12:45 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Portfolio Magazine, via Deadspin:
He shares his slump-busting thong with teammates in need.
Over the years, the 37-year-old All-Star has left the “golden thong” in the lockers of slumping teammates Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Johnny Damon, Robin Ventura, and Robinson Cano.“All of them wore it and got hits,” he reports. “The thong works every time.”
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on May 16, 2008 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
this is troubling.
"The two of them deserve each other. One's a born liar, the other's convicted."
by SwampyD on May 16, 2008 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
mental image I did not need
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on May 16, 2008 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Slump is ending soon, we are no longer #1 in ESPN Power Ranking
by theblackpearl on May 16, 2008 12:47 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
The curse is over, hallelujah
"RIP: UserID: 517"
by Masaryk on May 16, 2008 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
we're number 5.
"The two of them deserve each other. One's a born liar, the other's convicted."
by SwampyD on May 16, 2008 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
wha't ridiculous
is how low the Angels are ranked. But that’s fine.
"The two of them deserve each other. One's a born liar, the other's convicted."
by SwampyD on May 16, 2008 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Agreed
But I do enjoy going over to Halos Heaven, and reading the bellyaching posts about how ESPN hates them and how biased ESPN is toward east coast teams (which we all agree is accurate) despite Peter Gammons being in love with how they play the game.
It is just funny to me how placing the A’s on top of the power rankings last week was a manufactured slight to the Angels.
Green Hulk Fists
by oaklandSMASH on May 16, 2008 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Fascinating article on horse breeding practices
and the culpability of modern breeders in the breakdown of Eight Belles at the Derby. Veteran horse writer William Nack explains that, because the primary goal of horse breeding now is to drive foal sales prices, horse appearance now trumps physical soundness as the major factor in plotting bloodlines. By contrast, in the old patrician era, it was all about your farm breeding a faster horse than the farms of your fellow Jockey Club members….didn’t matter so much whether it looked good on the sales floor.
Very interesting piece, worth the long read.
Tomorrow’s Preakness might be a good day for the bridge jumper special wager—everything you own at short odds on the sure thing Big Brown. It’s like adding half again as much to your total net worth for free! You can’t lose!
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on May 16, 2008 12:56 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
horse breeders are selling jeans?
We're going to knock balls out of the country's park, for the home team, which is America. @('.')@
by monkeyball on May 16, 2008 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
with me, Big Brown is always a sure thing
We're going to knock balls out of the country's park, for the home team, which is America. @('.')@
by monkeyball on May 16, 2008 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
To Vacafan, Emil Brown is always a sure thing
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on May 16, 2008 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Which one?
"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 16, 2008 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
We're going to knock balls out of the country's park, for the home team, which is America. @('.')@
by monkeyball on May 16, 2008 1:07 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
"The company might as well call themselves Slutbucks."
Then those free coupons they have on BART sometimes would really be worth redeeming!
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on May 16, 2008 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Rubenesque?
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on May 16, 2008 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If Susan and Travis had kids (and I'm NOT suggesting that they do or will) ...
Slussbucks
We're going to knock balls out of the country's park, for the home team, which is America. @('.')@
by monkeyball on May 16, 2008 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Give me a break
for some, I guess it won’t be a coffee break.
Green Hulk Fists
by oaklandSMASH on May 16, 2008 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
How long until the players become walking billboards?
Women’s National Basketball Association players will wear McDonald’s golden arches on their jerseys for each team’s season opener as part of a marketing alliance between the women’s pro basketball league and the fast food giant this season.McDonald’s is posting up as presenting partner of the WNBA tip-off games on May 17 to push a new Southern Style Chicken Biscuit and Sandwich. In addition to the season openers, the red-and-yellow logo will be on jerseys during two national telecasts: the Sacramento Monarchs-Seattle Storm May 20 match-up on ESPN and the May 24 San Antonio Silver Spurs-Seattle Storm contest on ABC.
...
The league would entertain the prospect of a full-season sponsor logo on its jerseys, according to [WNBA Commissioner Donna] Orender, who thinks the WNBA’s uniforms are among its most valuable marketing assets.
I’ll guess that, within 5 years, advertising logos on MLB uniforms will be as ubiquitous as rotating billboards on the backstop.
by Soaker on May 16, 2008 1:57 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
We had advertisments on our uniforms this year during the Japan series actually
but MLB has had a longstanding policy of no ads on clothes.
Then again, now there are ads on Bases, and so on, so who knows.
But the MLB is slow to change. Then again, this involves money.
by Zonis on May 16, 2008 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
AN Immortal
I just received Sports Illustrated’s coffee table Baseball Book for my birthday. It goes by decade, and one of the recurring features for each decade is player nicknames. On the list for the 2000’s is Joe (Cupcakes) Blanton. Didn’t that nickname originate on this site? It’s one for the ages now.
"If you make up your mind not to be happy, there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time." -Edith Wharton (The Last Asset)
by Oakville Athletic on May 16, 2008 2:19 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Darn. I was hoping it wouldn't catch on that much.
Because it’s such a lame nickname. Yeah, I said it…then and now!
"[Moneyball] is huge [in Japan], I guess, so I'm like a David Hasselhoff type or something..." -- Billy Beane
by FormerHuntsvilleStar on May 16, 2008 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pistorius wins appeal against Olympic ban
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 16, 2008 2:49 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
So maybe now I can do that movie, even though I have a prosthes...
oops, wrong site.
by theblackpearl on May 16, 2008 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Atlanta TV
Wasn’t there a cable station that shows all Braves games?
I went looking for it in my local (Seattle) listings, and I don’t see it anywhere.
formerly known as mdl
by iglew on May 16, 2008 3:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
TBS used to.
"Hasn’t the foggiest inclination toward winning ‘tall. Hates to win. Likes to be buggered."
by Jennifer on May 16, 2008 4:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
TBS abandoned nat'l Braves telecasts this season
The only out-of-market local games I get are Cubs and White Sox games on WGN.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on May 16, 2008 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
SORRY if this is a repeat post
I’m on limited time at work…browsed MLBtraderumors.com and saw that Rosenthal had an article about Matt Holiday and possible trade candidates.
witty remark
by dtownmbrown on May 16, 2008 4:38 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Anyone remember a few weeks back when I was saying
that Ichiro deliberately gives up walks to up his hit count?
It’s down about 2/3 of the way through the article.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on May 16, 2008 5:25 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
The issue of contention
was your claim that Ichiro is a selfish primadonna.
ZIPS: Milledge: 466 HR, 485 2B, 2282 hits, 278-379-524
by rfloh on May 17, 2008 7:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well, I suppose it's possible he's just an imbecile
but I’m going to give him credit for actually knowing something about how to play baseball.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on May 17, 2008 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ichiro: Christ, what an asshole!
Wait, are we not allowed to say that anymore?
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on May 17, 2008 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I tell you what: when Nacho Runs hits its expiry, I'm outta here
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all you in the peanut gallery, quit yer cheerin’.
We're going to knock balls out of the country's park, for the home team, which is America. @('.')@
by monkeyball on May 17, 2008 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Chavy
went 2-2 with an RBI and a run scored tonight in Sac but came out in the 3rd inning.
:-/
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 16, 2008 8:57 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Chavy's gay?
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on May 16, 2008 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Chavvy: not gay enough, either
Wait, are we not allowed to say that anymore?
We're going to knock balls out of the country's park, for the home team, which is America. @('.')@
by monkeyball on May 17, 2008 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
A’s third baseman Eric Chavez, in the second game of his rehabilitation assignment following offseason back surgery, had two doubles in his only two at-bats. Danny Putnam pinch-hit for him in the third inning.
Chavez had tired legs, Steverson said.
“That’s only his second game since mid-July or so,” Steverson said of Chavez, who led off as the designated hitter for the second consecutive game.
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 17, 2008 2:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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