12 June 2008 DLD: Links
by andeux on Jun 12, 2008 1:41 PM PDT
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PrintApart from that, as the game starts, much is familiar. The managers do dopey things to remind everyone they exist - like bat their best hitter seventh or bunt the D.H. in the top of the first with runners on first and second and nobody out. There are players who clearly like to get dirty and players who don't. The catchers have the same subtle ability to distance themselves from pitchers in trouble - refusing to make eye contact as they hand him a new ball after a home run. Even the body language is the same - right down to the same startling amount of unself-conscious public crotch grabbing when things go wrong.According to ESPN, the A's may be prepared to outbid "at least seven other teams", including the Yankees, for 16-year old Dominican RHP Michael Inoa. We'll see.
Milton Bradley flipped out:
Milton Bradley stormed out of the Texas Rangers clubhouse after an 11-5 victory Wednesday night over Kansas City and bounded up four flights of stairs looking for Royals television announcer Ryan Lefebvre.And Ryan Sweeney went 3/4 with a HR last night on his rehab assignment with Sacramento. Overall, he's hitting .414 there, and is eligible to come off the DL tomorrow. (DFA Brown). Roster moves coming perhaps? (DFA Brown)
Bradley, who led the AL with a .333 batting average heading into Thursday's games, heard what he considered derogatory remarks made by Lefebvre on a TV in the Rangers clubhouse. General manager Jon Daniels and manager Ron Washington were close behind and intercepted Bradley, who was the designated hitter Wednesday, before he reached Lefebvre.
"I don't want to get necessarily into the details," Daniels said. "He was upset. Someone who doesn’t know him was passing judgment on TV. It was obvious he was hurt by the comments." Bradley never reached Lefebvre, although he was within about 20 feet of him in the TV booth before being led back down to the clubhouse.
"There was no incident," Daniels said.
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Obvious solution
Send Milton to the Cuban gulag.
How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porchlight on?
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Jun 12, 2008 1:55 PM PDT reply actions
belnb
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
Are you saying he'll turn it upside down?
I want an A's-Rays ALCS.
by FormerHuntsvilleStar on Jun 12, 2008 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
that michael lewis article was a great read
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
Howard Dean's next career move
Once he got to be president, Richard Nixon had the nerve to send plays to Washington Redskins coach George Allen, but Allen didn’t pay them much attention. Here you need only to be a local party official and you get to move the first-baseman off the line.
How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porchlight on?
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Jun 12, 2008 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I started reading it this afternoon
and I’m STILL reading it. Sheesh.
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.
I agree
fascinating!
Truly a tale worth telling. Great article.
"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
by One won lost won on Jun 13, 2008 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Do I hear a brown note?
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
Only if they use it inside the hall as well
How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porchlight on?
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Jun 12, 2008 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Get Rich Quick Scheme #3:
Trademark the name “Crap Cannon”.
Results: Pending (subject to a search of all trademarked names beginning with the word “crap” already registered by some guy that goes by the name of M.K. Ball.)
Cotton Candy
Of all the poo jokes flung your way, you decide to take offense at mine? Why?
Forgive me because it surely wasn’t thought of or posted in a mean-spirited way. I thought I’d be adding to the monkeyball “canon” of crap jokes. Obviously, it backfired.
Cotton Candy
sincerest apologies, Ice Cream Man
I didn’t take offense at all, and took your comment as you intended; my intent with the blackboard was to be humorous, but I missed.
If we can’t fix the stupid, can we at least beat them senseless? @('.')@
If he was Emil White, I'd want him keelhauled!
"You have to have a catcher or you'll have all passed balls."- Casey Stengel
by Gaijin_Suketto on Jun 12, 2008 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Looking forward to the outfield of BadSweeney, PtrCrft, and Buck
I feel like calling him bad Sweeney still. Hope he will be a very BAD man to the opposing pitchers.
Vin Scully used to call Hank Aaron
“Bad Henry”.
It sent chills up your spine (esp. because, though I lived in LA, I was a Milwaukee Braves fan)..
(Vin makes the call…)
“Two on….NOOO-body OUT…and here comes baaad Henry!”
"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
by One won lost won on Jun 13, 2008 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
WOOHOO! I'm officially graduating high school today!
Oh, and I can’t wait until Baby Sweeney comes back.
Yep
Oakland Athletics
Draft Philosophy: Stick to what you are comfortable with, and focus on the top college talent.
First Pick: Jemile Weeks, 2B, Miami (12th overall)
How High He Could Have Gone: Certainly no higher than this, and even at 12, this was a bit of a surprise, as most saw him going in the 16-18 range.
Path To The Big Leagues: Much of Weeks’ timetable could depend on his defense, and he has the athleticism to be a very good second baseman, but needs a lot of work on his fundamentals.
Rest of the First Day:
2. Tyson Ross, RHP, California: Did not perform as well as expected this spring, but was up to 95-96 mph by the end of the season; it was a surprise to see him still available.
3. Petey Paramore, C, Arizona State: A solid hitter with excellent plate discipline, but the body and his arm strength are concerns.
4. Anthony Capra, LHP, Wichita State: A solid lefty low on upside, but a strike-thrower with a deep arsenal.
5. Jason Christian, SS, Michigan: A good athlete with plus speed and true shortstop skills, but he’s very skinny and needs to add strength.
6. Tyreace House, OF, College of the Canyons: A burner on the basepaths with a compact frame; some feel that he turned a corner this year.
Best Second-Day Selections:
7. Brett Hunter, RHP, Pepperdine: A first-round talent who went down with an elbow injury at the end of the year. Oakland has to figure out how serious it is to determine how much he’s worth now.
8. Jeremy Barfield, OF, San Jacinto JC (TX): Josh’s brother is more in the mold of his father Jesse, as he’s bigger and has more power.
10. Rashun Dixon, OF, Terry HS (MS): A high-ceiling toolsy type who will need more than tenth-round money to sign.
"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 Jun 12, 2008 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Mark 13
22: For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23: But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
Matthew 7:15
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Jeremiah 14:14
Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries [a] and the delusions of their own minds.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Beane's next innovation?
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
that's more like it
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
Any fellow cornholing enthusiasts out there?
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
Chortle
Cornhole enthusiasts can sign up to play in the singles bracket or team up in the doubles bracket. Governor Strickland will kick off every tournament.
I dunno about you folks, but I’m backing doubles cornholing for Olympic sport status. What I really want to see is synchronized cornholing, but I don’t think the square Olympic world is ready for it.
How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porchlight on?
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Jun 12, 2008 3:01 PM PDT up reply actions
from my understanding, the most recently former Ohio Sec'ty of State was a real cornhole enthusiast
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
synchronized cornholing
Are you saying that square hole isn’t ready for a round peg?
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
Cornhole
I 2 career 4 baggers to my name.
RIVER CATS: AAA CHAMPS!
And
I am apparently am the only cave man cornholer.
RIVER CATS: AAA CHAMPS!
that goes in my potential sigline file
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
I AM CORNHOLIO
I need TP for my bunghole.
(pulls shirt up to top of head)
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
Everyone's laughing, and riding, and cornholing except Buster.
I generally bemoan the profusion of Mr Sabermetric Sporks in the Scrabble ranks who don't know the meaning or usage of 50% of the words they use. -monkeyball
I can't believe people actually call it cornhole
In the Chicago area it’s basically known as “bags” now. Some people try to call it “Bag-O” but they get beaten with a stick for being lame.
http://bocropleasestopswingingatbadpitches.blogspot.com/
by thejd44 on Jun 12, 2008 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
As goes Ohio, so goes the nation
Check out the website of the American Cornhole Association. Stupid work computer won’t let me upload files to photobucket, otherwise I’d post the picture of the GREEN AND GOLD cornhole-themed products they have for sale.
Don't blame me, I voted for Ice Cream
by Englishmajor on Jun 12, 2008 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
when I was in college, my friends had a band ...
... called “USA America Cornhole.”
This time, I’m not kidding.
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
that's a good one...
my new band is called
“The Pilots Dared Me To Die!”
and we play escaped mental patient electronic jazz
with just a hint of Martian Gospel,
and of course we’re heavily influenced by The Shaggs.
"You have to have a catcher or you'll have all passed balls."- Casey Stengel
by Gaijin_Suketto on Jun 13, 2008 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
man, the Shaggs are amazing
Unlistenable (in the conventional sense), but amazing.
Are you hep to the Zagmen, and/or Reagan’s Polyp?
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
no, but I'm taking note
and will be looking them up shortly
"You have to have a catcher or you'll have all passed balls."- Casey Stengel
by Gaijin_Suketto on Jun 16, 2008 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm very disappointed in you all
The correct response is:
Christ, what a cornhole
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
Ass, what a Christhole!
"He's a misfit. He gets along with everyone." - Reggie Jackson, describing Joe Rudi
I haven't seen it on the A's site, but they have signed #2 pick Tyson Ross
The Oakland A’s have signed their second-round draft pick Tyson Ross, a local product who attended Oakland’s Bishop O’Dowd High School and became a star pitcher at Cal.
So far the A's have signed 16 of their picks
I’ve compiled the names into a nice list from the two press releases on the A’s site:
RHP Tyson Ross (2nd round, California)
SS Jason Christian (5th round, Michigan)
OF Jeremy Barfield (8th round, San Jacinto College)
C Mitchell LeVier (9th, Fullerton College)
OF David Thomas (14th, Catawba College)
SS Nino Leyja (15th, Houston Christian HS)
RHP Matthews Fitts (16th, Lewis-Clark State College)
RHP Michael Hart (19th, Texas State)
3B Rodney Rutherford (20th, Columbus State)
RHP Mathieu Leblanc-Poirier (21st, Ahuntsic College)
RHP Kenny Smalley (24th, Delta State)
LHP Trey Barham (25th, Virginia Military Institute)
RHP Ryan Doolittle (26th, Cumberland County College)
2B Kevin Jernigan (30th, South Alabama)
RHP Mickey Storey (31st, Florida Atlantic)
RHP Shawn Haviland (33rd, Harvard)
http://bocropleasestopswingingatbadpitches.blogspot.com/
by thejd44 on Jun 12, 2008 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Hooray for Nino Leja!
I just love that name!
If he doesn’t end up a star, I’ll eat my hat!
(The preceding message was brought to you by Sausage Hat, a new fast food concept from the makers of Hamburger Helmet!)
"You have to have a catcher or you'll have all passed balls."- Casey Stengel
by Gaijin_Suketto on Jun 13, 2008 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Any affiliation
with Hats of Meat?
"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.
This thread is a few days old, but to update
The A’s have signed two more picks, bringing the total to 18:
C Petey Paramore (3rd, Arizona State)
OF Rashun Dixon (10th, Terry HS)
http://bocropleasestopswingingatbadpitches.blogspot.com/
by thejd44 on Jun 15, 2008 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions
this thread is a few days old, but to update
Sausage Hat has no affiliation with Hats of Meat, and is planning on suing them for stealing our fucking idea!
"You have to have a catcher or you'll have all passed balls."- Casey Stengel
by Gaijin_Suketto on Jun 16, 2008 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions
for those of you into fantasy baseball
and the stock market, here’s a pretty cool site to check out:
http://www.protrade.com/FansLanding.html
looks like some A’s fans have already caught on to it.
wow, I'm surprised
by how many ANers think Brown should be DFA’d. I would think that either TBuck or Rajai Davis would be the outfielders in jeopardy of losing out.
Why does it surprise you?
Buck is a young player with a ton of potential. Davis brings speed and defense that are useful in key situations. Brown has been bad at pretty much everything, and he doesn’t have much of a future with the A’s anyway.
http://bocropleasestopswingingatbadpitches.blogspot.com/
by thejd44 on Jun 12, 2008 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Brown's just been lucky,
and his luck ran out.
Unless we’ve got the second coming of Herb Washington waiting in the wings, I like Davis off the bench in late game situations. He’s good at his role, and we can afford to use the 25th roster spot on that luxury at this point in time.
"You have to have a catcher or you'll have all passed balls."- Casey Stengel
by Gaijin_Suketto on Jun 13, 2008 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Hi my name is Milton, how do you do?
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —Texas Rangers outfielder Milton Bradley said Thursday he wanted to “introduce” himself to Kansas City Royals television announcer Ryan Lefebvre after some negative comments made on the air.
Milton wanted to "introduce" his fist to Ryan's face.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
EOTM
(euphemism of the month)
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
for nico
relatively cool judge assigned to bestiality video case busted for posting photos containing nudity and bestiality on his website:
link
Kozinski’s Web site contained material that included a video of a half-naked man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal…
They show them this animal pornography.
Really kinky stuff like two dogs making love with a cat…
or a bat and a pig.
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
source for my current sigline
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
Sean mentions his brother getting drafted, and childhood days
A little irony … growing up he was always the catcher and I was the one who found myself doing the pitching. He also pulled double duty and pitched at times but made a name for himself in high school and on the college recruiting scene as a catcher, the way I was recruited largely as a left-handed pitcher. Now the roles have reversed and I’m the everyday player while he’s the one on the bump. Needless to say, it was a special experience for us and I am already looking forward to following his career as he gets started.
I'm afraid of the day ...
... Beane drafts a cornhole enthusiast, and we find out who grew up playing catcher.
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
Pretty sure that will end up being a good pick
even if Ryan never does a thing in his pro career.
Blood, as they say, is thicker than water.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
nothing about Duke showing up Cust (or not?)
I’d be very surprised if it was aimed at Cust, but I guess its possible
Let's have our Piazza and eat the Cust too - SPWC
see Susan Slusser at www.sfgate.com
in her June 13th article she says Duke was not showing up Cust at all.
No way.
"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
by One won lost won on Jun 13, 2008 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Freakonomics: no one should bother doing anything.
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
again: that is dubner the journalist, not levitt the economist.
also again: economist article on local/organic/fairtrade food.
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
I can't imagine an easier strawman argument to knock down
than the suggestion that everyone should produce everything they use themselves. Any reasonable definition of localvore would allow me (a Chicago resident) to take advantage of the food growing expertise of my nearby Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan farmers.
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
No comment
“The columnist David Brooks, who is writing a book about the brain…”
"Tomorrow it may rain." - Leo Durocher
I'm always disappointed when I go to Applebee's that they don't have brains in the salad bar
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
umm, monkeyball,
...that’s not cauliflower!
"You have to have a catcher or you'll have all passed balls."- Casey Stengel
by Gaijin_Suketto on Jun 13, 2008 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions
ha-HA!
Applebee’s doesn’t have a salad bar!
Wait. Where was I then?
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
for "elder hot" obsessed monkeyball
She was 82. He was 95. They had dementia. They fell in love. And then they started having sex.
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
SEATTLE—Claiming that Mariners whiffers have not been swinging wildly or embarrassingly enough, GM Bill Bavasi fired team whiffing coach Jeff Pentland Monday. “Our guys have simply forgotten the basics—flailing, guessing, just standing there like a statue as a perfect pitch comes sailing right over the plate,” Bavasi said. “Sure, we’ve excelled in areas such as hitting soft fly balls directly to the left-fielder and grounding weakly into double plays, but that only gets you so far. We need to get to a point where our team is able to whiff with the game on the line.” Bavasi, however, once again reserved heavy praise for the team’s sucking coach.
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
Chortle!
How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porchlight on?
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Jun 12, 2008 9:17 PM PDT up reply actions
papelbon
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
Do we have to choose?
Why not just an awesome d-bag?
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
Please DFA Brown
That guy started hot but is now ice cold. Thus The A’s don’t need him shorting the game by 4 to 5 outs.
Lets go A's
Ryan Braun in an A's uniform
Ahh, what could of been.
Gas to Chicago- $23.87 A's/White Sox Tix- $28 Watching the A's whipping the Sox in July 05'- Priceless
< drool >
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
Eight-year-olds, Dude
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
Put 40 years on Jered Weaver.... it would be the guy on the right.
Aw.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
Get with the program, batgirl!
True stalkers fans can keep track of players’ babies, too!
Speaking of which, what time does the wives’ softball game start tomorrow?
AN 3.0's Search Function is *hawt*!
or perhaps Leather Tuscadero?
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
NO ANGELS PICTURES! What the hell?!?!
"He's a misfit. He gets along with everyone." - Reggie Jackson, describing Joe Rudi
New AN didn't show my little "action" quotes which said
“charges up four flights of stairs to “introduce” myself to Jennifer, but collapses, out of breath, after three”
New AN fails again.
"He's a misfit. He gets along with everyone." - Reggie Jackson, describing Joe Rudi
The words that enraged Milton
Deadspin excerpts this Jason Whitlock column, which in turn quotes the words of KC broadcaster Jim Lefebrve which so angered Milton Bradley:
"Here’s a guy, with all the troubles he’s had, has shown that if you work at it, you can get your life back in order," Lefevbre said on the telecast Wednesday, referring to Hamilton. "And that would be a pretty good role model for Milton Bradley, who clearly has no control over himself, because it’s the same thing year after year. This game, this country, really if you follow baseball, has really embraced Josh Hamilton. I think they’ve wanted to do the same with Milton Bradley, but Milton Bradley has refused to allow himself to be put in that position."
Whitlock seems to think it’s understandable that Milton took offense. I do not agree.
How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porchlight on?
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Jun 13, 2008 12:29 PM PDT reply actions
interesting
He’s not, however, going to tolerate being told by someone he’s never met that Hamilton should be his role model. That’s a bad joke. It’s an unintended insinuation that Bradley’s moodiness is related to a chemical dependency.When I heard about Lefebvre’s comments, I immediately called two friends and asked whether Bradley had a drug problem.
When I heard the comments, I in no way thought that Lefebrve was insinuating a drug or alchohol problem. Did anyone else make this connection?
and BTW, thank the heavens I don’t have to put “Lefebrve” into my scorebook—that is one seriously hard name to spell. I don’t even think I’m spelling it correctly now. I think I’ve seen it spelled several different ways.
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
Lefevbre's comments were moronic and biased
Isn’t that sufficient reason to take offense? (Note I said “take offense,” not “publicly charge up to the broadcast booth.”)
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
I'm with you on this
I love Milton Bradley, and really, really want to see him succeed (in life—and in baseball being part of his life), but to react as he did over that?
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
Must be that time of the month for him.
He’s on the rage.
"He's a misfit. He gets along with everyone." - Reggie Jackson, describing Joe Rudi
Reminds me of my favorite Simpsons line:
“Aw, I’m a rageaholic… I’m addicted to rageahol.”
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
in case it hasn't been posted elsewhere
SuSlu addressed the Duke/Cust thing:
Some viewers of Wednesday’s game apparently interpreted Justin Duchscherer’s gesture of disgust at Jason Giambi’s seventh-inning double as directed at left fielder Jack Cust, though the A’s were playing Giambi in an exaggerated shift. Duchscherer said he was reacting because Giambi has his number, adding, “Jason was 9-for-9 off me (5-for-7 actually), and I finally get him to pop up and we’re shifted the other way. And I would never show up Jack – he’s huge.”
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
Guy who he should have been showing up:
the outfield coach…
There’s rarely a good reason to shift your outfield in the pull direction.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
I didn't even see it.
That’s what I get for trying to work while watching a game.
AN 3.0's Search Function is *hawt*!
{throws hands in air, shows up Poppy}
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
so long as he didn't put the moves on
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
He's a shifty bastard.
"He's a misfit. He gets along with everyone." - Reggie Jackson, describing Joe Rudi
No, xbx is shiftless
Shift-key-less, at least.
How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porchlight on?
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Jun 13, 2008 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Grover is occasionally shift-key-ful.
He’s more frequently other-stuff-ful, though.
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
Full of shift?
Eh, shift happens.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
oh, fark it
How did I miss either of those pun options?
Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life. @('.')@
I think I missed something.
WTF?
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
What the F!@# happened to the anti-cussing thread?
And btw, if you see Kay, tell her “Hey!”
"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
I don't usually post links in day-old dumps...
“Oh, yeah. Definitely,” Zito said Thursday when asked if he feels any extra motivation.
Excellent. I want to see him get on base just so Smitty can pick him off.
AN 3.0's Search Function is *hawt*!
Bring it on Barry
"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 Jun 13, 2008 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Sweeney activated; Buck to AAA
I don’t get it. Unless it’s a health or mechanical issue, Buck has nothing left to prove in the minors. He’s also vastly better than Davis and Brown.
I get it
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Had your chance…...muffed it!
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by One won lost won on Jun 13, 2008 3:01 PM PDT up reply actions
I guess it is the path of least resistance
Any other move would have required some sort of permanent decision (burning an option year, DFA, etc).
I don’t know if I think it is the right decision, but I guess it is the decision that puts off doing anything major for another week or so at least. (the hopefull side of me wants it to be because we have a deal in the works and just need to buy a few days until it goes down.)
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
I don't really get it either
The best I can come up with is that they want Cust/Sweeney/Gonzalez as the starting three during interleague play, and they’d rather have Buck getting at-bats every day in Sacramento than sitting on the bench in the majors. But that’s still pretty weak, and unless someone else gets injured, Buck will be stuck in the minors for an extra three games after the A’s are finished with their games in NL parks.
Brown and Davis are pretty much the definition of replacement-level players. I can’t see why Beane would worry about losing one of them on waivers.
"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.
I don't think it has anything to do with interleague play, really,
since in interleague and after, the problem is only two OF spots for PC/Sweeney/Buck, so one of those three would have to be a bench player. Obviously, Buck is better than Brown and Davis, but aside from the issue of getting him regular pt, it’s not clear that he’s a better bench player than either (or that PC and Sweeney are.) Davis has a good amount of value as a replacement for Cust that no one else has, and Brown may be a better bet than any of the three against LH starters.
Basically, I think it’s not really an easy call, whether between Buck and Sweeney/PC, or between Buck and Brown. I would have dfa’d Brown, though…
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Another possibility...
If they keep him down for another 2-3 weeks, he probably won’t become a Super 2 anymore.
Only justification I can think of
is basically what the Buck thread said-that Buck needs to remember how to hit, and for that, needs regular PT, and work in the minors. He needs to start swinging at his pitches instead of chasing pitches and crapping out.
Still, I’d rather EMail be gone.
Pessimism FTW! ... Wait what?
Red Mahogany Paneled Cubicle with Dark Cherry Hardwood Floor...
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not only that but they're safer, too.
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Has a blog. I’m sure this has been mentioned before. In his latest entry he talks about the Padres draft picks:
http://itmightbedangerous.blogspot.com/
He also links to AN at the top of his list of “Favorite Sites.”
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--Bilbo Baggins
Is there no end to the madness?
First it was Oakland declaring Joe Morgan Day. Then they named a street after him…what used to be Coliseum Way. Ugh.
And now this. Thanks a lot, Cal State East Bay.
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by FreeSeatUpgrade on Jun 15, 2008 10:10 AM PDT reply actions
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