DLD 6/23 - I Can See Clearly Now, The Rain is OUCH
by Zonis on Jun 22, 2008 10:24 PM PDT
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PrintFriday, the A's defeated the Florida Marlins in extra innings. My father and I had tickets to the game, and were ready to go, with one hitch: as many of you guys know, last season I won Free LASIK Surgery done by Dr. Gary Kawesch. So I went in, took 15mg of Valium, and almost took 5mg more because it did not kick in at all for a good twenty minutes at least. After all the tests and Valium, they sent me into the room to get the machine, and what happens? The Machine, after getting set up, breaks down. This all unbeknownst to me, as I am laying somewhat dizzy on the chairtable practicing keeping my eyes open longer than 10 seconds with out blinking, unsuccessfully, while trying not to be nervous. Unfortunately, whenever someone puts anything near my eyes, no matter how ready I am for it, I flinch like hell, Valium or not.
So they walk me over to the next room where the machine works, and after much struggling on my part (unintentional, mind you, but I was not really the perfect calm patient for this procedure), the deed a done.
The problem? With all the Valium in my system, all I could do was keep my eyes close and lay in the front seat of the car for the hour trip back to Albany, to which I immediately was led to a bed, put on my goggles, and fell asleep w/o even listening to the game.
I woke up the next day, drove down to San Jose again with my father (an optometrist, so that's a plus), and got my post-op checkup. And the result? Apparently I have now somewhere between 20/15 and 20/20 eyesight!
Now, the $4000 LASIK procedure was covered, but I ended up having to pay $800 ($400 per eye) for Intralase because the doctor said I had steep corneas (when he said the number, even my dad said "WoW!") so it was apparently much easier/safer to use this method than the normal scalpel method (which looking back, might have been even worse considering my inability to stay completely still and keep my eyes perfectly relaxed and open on the table while things and lasers were being stuck in my eyes).
The overall experience was good, and the result is awesome. The staff is very friendly and helpful. The only thing that could be improved upon would be for the doctor to hide a bit better (and he did hide it, but it somewhat leaked out) the frustration of having such a bad patient such as I when on the table, and that he didn't know much about the financial side of the operation (though maybe that's a good thing-that he's focused on the side he's supposed to be on instead of the money, so that might be a plus instead).
But hey, its been only a few days, so we will see how things work out, ne?
Upon leaving the clinic, I received a pair of effective enough sunglasses, and three eye drops which I have to use four times a day each. But I also received two Gift Certificates for $200 off a LASIK Procedure ($100 per eye) that expire 9/30/08.
Well, it happens that I do not really know anyone who both a) is interested in getting LASIK and b) actually has the money to do so (I know a couple who fit a, but not b).
So if anyone on AN is interested in getting LASIK, they can have one of the gift certificates if they want.
Now for Baseball News;
The A's finished the series against the Florida Marlins Sunday, taking two of three with a whomping of the Marlins, 7-1. Geren and Ellis were ejected during the game, and Daric Barton came into replace Ellis, with Murphy going to 2nd and Hannahan to Third, despite a Sore Hamstring.
MLB Trade Rumors reveals a new layout, and Ken Rosenthal speculates that the A's might be buyers at the trade deadline, with Matt Hollday and Jason Bay as possibilities, and even speculation on jumping in on the CC Sabathia deal, possibly as a third team, though who knows if we'd get CC or Not (I'd wager not, but CC is a huge A's fan and a Bay Area native). Rotoworld reveals the much awaited promotion of Jesus Guzman to Triple A Sacramento. Could he be replacing Ellis in 2009?
And in Sad News, one of my favorite Comedians, George Carlin, died Sunday due to Heart Failure at the age of 71.
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Guzman
I saw his stats at Baseball Cube…I see he was originally w/ the Mariners, how did he end up w/ the A’s? Rule 5?
Minor league free agent
And he’s now like the #15 prospect in the organization.
This is why I want the A’s to bribe David Forst to not take any other GM jobs. The guy is a really good talent evaluator.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Forst,
I guess is one the more valuable personnel for the A’s. I remember him being seriously considered for the Diamondbacks and BoSox GM a couple of years back. Beane has done a nice job of churning top-quality front-office people who eventually take spots w/ other teams.
Scuttlebutt is that Beane will be kicked upstairs
in a few years (some kind of “team president” position) with Forst ascending to the GM spot.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
So promote Beane to SGM (SuperGM)
and promote Forst behind him.
In search of a new signature. Say something funny and you may see your comment here!
I often get the sense that Forst
is doing more than half the GM job already and just doesn’t have the title. When Beane moves upstairs in a year or two, I think the transition will have been mostly accomplished already.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
I would love to have Sabathia in the rotation
But I seriously doubt that Beane would give up the required specs to get him.
Blanton, Buck, and Street for Corey Hart and Matt LaPorta? Nah, the Brewers wouldn’t deal LaPorta.
The Brewer's almost have to deal LaPorta
Where’s he going to play for them?
by methodrampage on Jun 23, 2008 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions
re
LaPorta is my dream pick-up for the A’s, but the reports on his defense are good (as in,he should be able to handle the outfield), and the Brewers have been unable to come to long term agreements with Prince Fielder or Corey Hart, so both easily could be dealt. I expect them to deal Fielder actually, maybe at the deadline next year (Mat Gamel makes him relatively expendable twice).
Dealing Fielder makes the most sense for them
But Milwaukee may favor the known quantity (PUN INTENDED) of Fielder while still at a young age, especially if LaPorta can be dealt for more help at the ML level.
Congratulations on your surgery, Zonis.
I saw Carlin back in the mid 70’s at the Circle Star in San Carlos when he was at the top of his game. Not only was the material fresh and funny back then but Carlin’s timing and delivery were impeccable. Like Richard Pryor, he could get an audience laughing so hard, then build upon that with wave after wave until your stomach was hurting and tears were streaming down your face.
Here’s his classic bit on baseball and football.
RIP, George.
Spumoni
Me too
I saw him at the Circle Star in the 70s also. He was an incredibly funny man.
Root for the Giants? Not even if they're playing al-Qaeda!
Great stuff
I had a public speaking class in high school and used this routine to show the power of intonation. I read the text and got mild laughs – then I played his version and the classroom went wild. I don’t know if I demonstrated my thesis or proved that George Carlin was a better comedian than I. In the end, it was fun to say some of those words in class without getting in trouble.
Sweet -
inspired my first ever sigline….
"...in baseball you wear a cap." -- george carlin
by Hot Cup Joe on Jun 23, 2008 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh my god... the Circle Star.
That place was kitsch-tastic.
...her cornea was severely damaged in the underwear mishap.
Congrats, Zonis!
Glad you had a positive experience with it. And yes, the scalpel method is a little disturbing, even with the Valium.
I’m sorry to hear about George Carlin—I saw him in 1994 or so, not knowing much about him and not really expecting to enjoy the show. Boy, was I wrong, and I knew it from his opening line (not that I remember what it was, I just remember the feeling of “holy cow…this guy’s hilarious!”).
Apparently the A’s have yet to be paid for their trip to Japan.
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
But what about the Boston coaches?
Don't blame me, I voted for Ice Cream
by Englishmajor on Jun 23, 2008 9:12 AM PDT up reply actions
They were paid in advance.
(actually I have no idea ;-) )
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
Was Lasik anything like this?
because it comes with a lot of anger issues
Green Hulk Fists
by oaklandSMASH on Jun 23, 2008 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I want mine to be like this
Cyclops lazer you eyeballs!!
Green Hulk Fists
by oaklandSMASH on Jun 23, 2008 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions
if it was anything like this, would he even remember?
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
Medicine is barbaric.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
Not that it doesn't work.
It just sounds so…gross.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
You're barbaric.
So there.
Stuck on Buck :)
by GreenNGoldGirl on Jun 23, 2008 8:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Says future lawyer.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
Hey, way to be an ass.
intertubes tuff gye.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Jun 23, 2008 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Are you suggesting
that sal would be a good lawyer?
"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.
I'm told he might be wanting ...
... in the habeas corpus department.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Jun 23, 2008 5:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Are you calling him a half-writ?
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
HA! -- reminds me of a limerick my ol' Dean told in Property class:
An exhibitionist lawyer named Rex
Was deficient in organ of sex.
When charged with Exposure,
He pled, with composure,
de minimis non curat lex. *
- no specific staturary aspersions, express or implied above.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Jun 23, 2008 6:53 PM PDT up reply actions
lol
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
Oh good. It came across the way I meant it.
/ mad at andeux, however.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Jun 23, 2008 5:52 PM PDT up reply actions
It's just guesswork in a white coat.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
IntraLase seriously lowers the barbarity index
Very cool product/process.
How ‘bout "jackass"? Can I still say "jackass"? @('.')@
I plan to get LASIK... after law school
I was advised by my optometrist not to do so before going, as the reading might cause vision changes… and then I’d be out $4000. Or in this case, $3800.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Great idea!
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."
-Charles Manson
by kaweahkaweah on Jun 23, 2008 8:31 AM PDT up reply actions
yeah, my father did not want me to get it before I left school
but since I got it for (basically) free, it was fine. And it turns out that it appears my vision might have stabilized anyways.
Pessimism FTW! ... Wait what?
I've got 20-20 vision
and I’m working at a law firm this summer. My eyes hurt from all the damn paperwork. Remind me to NEVER be a lawyer.
Stuck on Buck :)
by GreenNGoldGirl on Jun 23, 2008 8:54 AM PDT up reply actions
you should have stopped doing something else before...
then you would not have needed glasses.
alaska A
Yeah, and when shaving, you wouldn't nick your palms so much.
Sorry MB—but you still can’t manage the A’s.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Jun 24, 2008 8:59 AM PDT up reply actions
oakland beats SF 7-2
in older oakland shooting news:
Secret video raises questions about bakery leader’s role in Bailey killing
(disturbing video)
journalist chauncey bailey was killed by members of the black muslim bakery last year, the first reporter killed because of his work in the US since 1993. many of us vegetarian-types ate their sandwiches and veggie burgers at the coliseum back in the old days…
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
Ray Ratto has an article about Geren, and I'm not sure if he is praising him,
criticizing him, or not really talking about him at all.
He was slightly worse than Lou Piniella and Bud Black among his 2007 classmates, and slightly better than Fredi Gonzalez, Manny Acta and Ron Washington, plus interim hires John McLaren, Cecil Cooper and Dave Trembley.But in re-examining the manager in his second year, we come to realize that a) he is better at the job than he was a year ago, and b) we’re not sure whether it’s circumstance, maturation or both.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/22/SPNN11DB6T.DTL
Monkeyball should love this one.
actually, I do
A lot of great lines, and Ray is very clever about backtracking on every single possible point and acknowledging that there’s nothing but vapors behind it.
And I especially liked this:
... Beane’s Third Law of Baseball Dynamics, which states that “any cleverly shaved primate can manage a baseball team.”
How ‘bout "jackass"? Can I still say "jackass"? @('.')@
So what's your excuse?
Afraid of clippers?
by methodrampage on Jun 23, 2008 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions
monkeyball's next bday present
MANGROOMER Do-It-Yourself Electric Back Hair Shaver
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
coincidentally, I just broke my shaver yesterday
the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by @('.')@
AN endangered my life
I should have been paying attention to the latest fire reports in my town (Magalia) in the local chat room set up for it. And I was, until someone mentioned how we were being treated like a red headed stepchild. So of course I asked if they were an A’s fan. They had no idea what I was talking about .
A little later someone else said “We’re all gonna die” So I said, then YOU must be an A’s fan.
That’s when I was 86’d from the chat room.
Damn you AN. If I burn up it’s ALL your fault.
(sure I’m okay, it’s just an uneasy time here, again)
...being a role model I probably wouldn't recommend eating dirt. But at the same time, I'm not trying to be a role model. I'm just trying to eat some dirt.
Don't blame us, The Rev from HH, must live in Magalia.
by theblackpearl on Jun 23, 2008 9:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Guess you're right...
if he is the anti christ.
Which I suppose he is.
...being a role model I probably wouldn't recommend eating dirt. But at the same time, I'm not trying to be a role model. I'm just trying to eat some dirt.
AN almost killed me too
I was in a game-thread the other day when Huston was sucking and my head was hurting. I blamed the bad angry energy from the thread, but I later found out the gas stove had been on for about 15 hours… probably pretty dangerous.
I need new roommates.
I would characterize most post-Street game threads
as “full of obnoxious, headache-inducing gas”. It’s not even worth going in there anymore.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
hang on a sec
I would characterize most post-Street game threads as "full of obnoxious, headache-inducing gas". It’s not even worth going in there anymore.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
Thankfully the DLD's are not like THAT ;-)
They are chock full of important info regarding everything but baseball. I love it!
Was Black Snake Moan a comedy or a drama?
by ohtobe21likehuston on Jun 23, 2008 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Usually they are sort of OK until one of the following happens:
An A’s player makes an error, or
The opposing team leads by more than 2 runs, or
the A’s blow a lead, or
Huston Street enters the game.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Hey, way to be an ass.
If you’re incapable of actual conversation, why don’t you get the hell out of the DLD?
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
wow that’s ironic
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 Jun 23, 2008 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
WHYAREWEYELLING
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
Mark me down for a CGV.
Non-assholes only in the DLD – you can fuck off, too.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
wow that's ironic
I realize you need to overcompensate for your diminutive stature, I don’t blame you because I pity you, but is dropping “F” bombs really the answer?
by methodrampage on Jun 23, 2008 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Ahh..the old I pity you because you are short.
I pity you because you are a cock weasel.
Bring back Hammer.
by OaktownPower on Jun 23, 2008 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I'd respond in kind,
asking if you’re trying to overcompensate for your lack of intelligence and originality, but reading through your comments makes it clear that you’re not only not trying, but that you probably don’t even realize that you should be trying.
And, hey – eat my shorts, fucker. See, sometimes dropping the “F” bomb is the answer.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
by salb918 on Jun 23, 2008 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
"eat my shorts, f*****"
Intelligent, original and witty.
You never cease to amaze.
by methodrampage on Jun 23, 2008 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
PCGVOTM
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
p?
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
Hey, if it was a joke - and I have no reason
to doubt you – then I apologize. I’m just a little sensitive on PT’s behalf (although certainly not at his behest); I’d prefer that he stick around since I find him interesting and insightful. There have been a number of folks who have made similar comments directed at him, and few who take the time to say, “Hey! I like PT.” So I’ve always been a little afraid that, like Randy Bell, PT would one day disappear from AN. That was my little way of saying, “PT ain’t a bad dude.”
I guess my sarcasm meter wasn’t tuned properly, but hey – what can you expect out of an overcompensating short guy?
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
You'll find that I'm actually one of the anti-anti-PT people
Just thought it was a funny way to complete his list of things that make AN flip out. Clearly I was right.
PT is like sushi...
sort of offensive and vulgar at 1st read or contact…but when you realize that’s really the way he is, you tend to come around and take him for what he is worth: an intelligent and sensible member of AN, even at times asinine. Call me a convert.
see gee vee
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'm assuming this was a joke
in which case, you probably want to make it clearer that you’re riffing.
If it wasn’t, well… we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
In terms of my likely reaction, the latter
That is to say, I will attack his drop zone with my elite troops, steal his supplies and take his soldiers prisoner.
Wait, what?
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
"attacking his drop zone with my elite troops"
I think that has to go in the AN euphemism dictionary as well.
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
{starts writing new Poetic Interlude: BART Bridge Over Turbid Water}
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
Was there once an A's commercial that had kayaks out there in the slough,
... with skeletons in them? In the days of the no splash hits campaign?
Or was it the drugs.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Jun 24, 2008 9:15 AM PDT up reply actions
But there's no A in slough
"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.
OkAy,
... thAt tAinted, contAminAted, AlgAe-lAden, trAsh-scAttered, swAmpy quAgmire of AN estuAry?
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Jun 24, 2008 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions
You mean you're "Helpless?"
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Jun 24, 2008 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Bridges of Madison county
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
Very much a joke
(coming from someone who has seen WAY too many hijacked threads, most for no reason).
The really funny part is now there’s already a semi-hijacking.
That's pretty much my fault.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
I figured as much
since I couldn’t recall you griefing me before now.
Trite though they are, emoticons ( ;-) , for instance) are useful tools…
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
And when they all happen in the same inning...
...it’s time to shut down.
Root for the Giants? Not even if they're playing al-Qaeda!
where is higherpie?
that guy is strange, he provides play-by-play during spring training and then disappears during the regular season.
a few months ago he said he’d look into making the killfile compatible with AN again.
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
Maybe his accidentally killfiled himself.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
whenever an a’s hitter hits into a double play, because they’re the only team to ever do that.
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
Wait the A's still GIDP?
I could have swore Kendall was the only player that did that.
by methodrampage on Jun 23, 2008 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Holy Heck, nice catch, ballgirl!!
A minor league ballgirl makes a ridiculous catch in foul ground, totally showing up the left fielder.
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
I think we should give her a tryout
Don't blame me, I voted for Ice Cream
by Englishmajor on Jun 23, 2008 9:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Aw, Jeez...
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Jun 23, 2008 5:57 PM PDT up reply actions
WMLB?
Great fielding fundamentals and no home runs.
(At least that’s what the stereotype dictates—please don’t kill me)
oaklandSMASH = messenger
Green Hulk Fists
by oaklandSMASH on Jun 23, 2008 6:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, you're right...watched it again.
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
Yeah
Isn’t that one of those energy drink commercials?
Root for the Giants? Not even if they're playing al-Qaeda!
The Dropped Third Strike Home Run video
was also pretty good. Search for “the walk of NO shame” video its funny
Never underestimate the power of superior hydration.
It’s a gatorade ad.
Too bad, it was fun. For me the biggest giveaway is that the ball girl is way too cute.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
Wait -- those are the guys who prescribe your glasses, right?
Or do they do the glaucoma test? Apply braces? Manipulate your bones? Study birds? Fold paper?
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Jun 24, 2008 9:05 AM PDT up reply actions
WTF? MLBTR says we're after Brian Fuentes too?
I mean, Fuentes is nice, but do we really need a 32 year old reliever making 5 million dollars?
Wait, does this mean Embree is on the way out?
how reliable is mlbtraderumors?
what a’s moves have they correctly predicted?
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
MLB trade rumors is extremely reliable
at reporting what anyone and everyone is saying.
Whether what everybody is saying turns out to be accurate, or some journalist’s lame fantasy, or a crafty GM blowing smoke up someone’s butt … well, that’s another matter.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
I had ASSIK surgery in the offseason
I now have 20/20 hindsight.
How ‘bout "jackass"? Can I still say "jackass"? @('.')@
BBBBZZZT!
I’m sorry, wrong answer.
Thank you for playing “Easy setups to respond with ‘Christ, what an asshole.’”
Johnny, what kind of parting gifts do we have for Mr. Cream?
How ‘bout "jackass"? Can I still say "jackass"? @('.')@
More props for Cahill
From BP’s “Monday Ten Pack”
“Trevor Cahill, RHP, Double-A Midland (Athletics)
The mid-season point makes for a lot of player movement, and one of those moves was Cahill’s advancing to the Texas League, where he allowed one run on two hits and struck out six over six innings in his first outing. The minor league strikeout leader with 109, Cahill doesn’t seem to be getting the kind of attention his statistics deserve, and that might be because he doesn’t really stand out in a crowd. He’s not massive, but at 6’3” and 195 lbs., he’s plenty big enough. He doesn’t have top-notch velocity, but his fastball is above-average in terms of both velocity and movement. It’s not a Barry Zito curve, but it’s an above-average pitch. It’s not a crazy changeup, but it has plenty of deception and fade, and while his control is not exactly Maddux-esque, he throws plenty of strikes. That’s the thing with Cahill—he has no glaring weaknesses, but pretty much everything about him is good, and that goodness could be lined up for a September look.”
http://baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=7704
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."
-Charles Manson
I think he's going to be really good for Oakland
People forget, when they’re trying to compare prospects, that skills don’t exist in a vacuum. They’re useful (or not) because of the other players you have on your team. Cahill has the potential, because of his skillset, to a. virtually eliminate the home run as a weapon against him, and b. play into the historic strength of the A’s defense, the middle infield.
So even if he doesn’t have “ace stuff,” he has the potential to put up ace numbers in Oakland.
That said, I don’t think we’ll be seeing him in September. I’ll outline this in a fanpost later this season, but there’s a severe crunch coming for spots 35-40 on the A’s 40-man roster. A metric ton of prospects are about to hit the point where they need to be protected from Rule 5. Just off the top of my head, Cliff Pennington, Ryan Webb, Aaron Cunningham, Gio Gonzalez, DLS, and Jesus Guzman are all going to claim roster spots. The team cannot afford to put any unnecessary players on the 40-man roster. Anybody who gets put on has to be either a prospect who’s going to need the spot anyway (eg one of the above) or someone expendable.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
The reason people forget
that skills don’t exists in a vacuum is that it’s very difficult to expect what other skills happen to be around at the same time.
Yeah, sure, the Oakland middle infield is strong now. What about in 2 years time?
ZIPS: Milledge: 466 HR, 485 2B, 2282 hits, 278-379-524
I predict that it will remain strong
I don’t know this for a fact, obviously.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
That's a good point about the 40-man crunch
I’ve wondered about that, but I haven’t done the work to see what it was going to look like.
That reminds me, however, of another of my objections to those who want to turn anyone and everyone on the roster within 3 years of free agency (Harden, Blanton, Ellis, Duchscherer, etc.) into “prospects”. Regardless of short-term impacts, there are limits on how many prospects and quasi-prospects an organization can effectively absorb. Since the trades contemplated tend to be one-for-multiple trades, they tend to add to the crunch of players who either now need protection or are added to the pipeline to need 40-man protection in the future, and that leads to a certain amount of waste: either you lose people to the Rule 5 draft, or you try to package them in deals that aren’t likely to yield equivalent value. This isn’t in itself a reason not to make these trades, just one non-trivial fact to take into consideration.
It's an issue
Exactly how much of an issue, I haven’t figured out yet. If the marginal guy is Jeff Gray, eh. If it’s Dallas Braden, I have more of a problem with it.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
i still don’t really know who this jeff gray fellow is or what he’s doing on the 40 man roster.
would some other team actually claim him?
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
Jeff Gray
Gray gives every appearance of being a AAAA pitcher at best. He was a 32nd round pick in 2004 who attained age 27 in November. He was placed on the 40-man roster because…. uh, because…. Okay. I’ve got nothing here.
If someone else were to claim him, we should be happy because he might go to an organization where he has a chance to reach the majors. That orginzation isn’t the A’s (unless he hired Jason Kendall’s hypnotist).
Root for the Giants? Not even if they're playing al-Qaeda!
Jeff Gray must be a favor to the mob bosses
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
Agree
It’s doubtful Cahill makes the jump all the way up from A-ball in in one season. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him pitching in the PCL playoffs, though.
If asked early in the season if I thought there was someone at Midland who might get a call-up in September, I would have answered James Simmons. He seemed to be on the fast track. But the dead arm he experienced last month likely put the breaks on his quick advancement. He skipped a couple of starts and he certainly hasn’t rebounded in June.
Root for the Giants? Not even if they're playing al-Qaeda!
Doesn't appear to be that big of a problem.
Mark Ellis (Free Agent)
Mike Sweeney (Free Agent)
Big Hurt (Free Agent)
Emil Brown (Free Agent)
Keith Fouke (Free Agent)
—-—-—-
Jeff Gray (who and why?)
Dan Meyer (Can we end the misery?)
—-—-—--
Javier Herrera (Dude can’t stay healthy)
Richie Robnett (Would anyone notice?)
-—-—-—-
Rajai Davis (Might come sooner than one thinks)
There seems to be more than enough space for most of our “True Prospects”.
by Colorado Fan on Jun 23, 2008 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Goldstein's Ten-Pack also had an encouraging bit on Chris Carter
“Chris Carter, 1B/OF, High-A Stockton (Athletics)
If there is one word to describe Carter’s season, it’s “streaky.” After opening the season with 13 homerless games and a .163 batting average, he hit six home runs in five games. He had an 18-game streak without a home run as part of a miserable May, but then hit three more long flies in two games, and now he’s on fire again, going 7-for-14 in his last three games with a double, triple, and four home runs. Carter leads the California League with 20 homers in 264 at-bats, and he’s improved his walk rate dramatically this year, so despite a .242 batting average and 82 strikeouts in 74 games, he has a 902 OPS thanks to a .364 on-base percentage and .538 slugging. It’s kind of Jack Cust-esque all of a sudden, no?”
Difference between Jack Cust and Chris Carter:
Cust’s LD rate is 20.4%. Carter’s was, last time I checked, about 8%. Put that up in the majors and you will, I guarantee, be hitting below the Mendoza line.
Carter obviously has huge potential given his strength, but he does not actually know how to hit yet.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
You Think Ellis Getting Ejected is Bizarre
How about an organist getting tossed by an umpire?
His crime?
a perfectly timed rendition of the Mickey Mouse Club theme ("M-I-C-K-E-Y, M-O-U-S-E") after a controversial call 20 years ago
{adds "organist tossed by umpire" to AN euphemism bestiary}
How ‘bout "jackass"? Can I still say "jackass"? @('.')@
I guess they had to do an organist transplant
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."
-Charles Manson
by kaweahkaweah on Jun 23, 2008 9:46 AM PDT up reply actions
I miss trumpet guy playing Three Blind Mice from the second deck.
Toss that, Ump.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Jun 23, 2008 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Cazart!
How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porchlight on?
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Jun 23, 2008 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Crosby is 3rd in the bigs in doubles
who would’ve guessed
"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other." - Jack Handey
I can't even get the little puff of air in my eye
at the doctor without freaking out. I think I’m going to wear glasses forever, well, because I can’t handle contacts or surgery.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
I was fine when they checked the thickness of the cornea (they use a little instrument and put it against your eye)
but anything larger than it (and yes, there was one test where they use something a bit larger) I had a LOT of trouble with.
Pessimism FTW! ... Wait what?
You know. It's funny when you mention something specific
that sounds eerily familiar to everything else.
Jennifer = Problems = Medication = Basement = Bobble Heads = Glitter = hates O2B = BITCH
Was Black Snake Moan a comedy or a drama?
by ohtobe21likehuston on Jun 23, 2008 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
I am just like you.
I’ll never do contacts. The eye doctor always has to wrestle with me, to varying degrees of success. Last time I was there, he was using that little light to look at the back of my eye. We wrangled for almost 20 minutes. Finally, he took me to a back room and asked me to look into a black box and stare straight ahead. Without any warning – FLASH! – they took a high-resolution digital picture of the back of my eye, which the doctor then looked at leisurely. That seems like a lot less work and a lot easier than shining a little light into somebody’s eye and getting a short glimpse of the anatomy back there. Why didn’t they just take the picture in the first place?
Oh, that’s right, doctors are sadistic barbarians.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
lol its probably because its a lot faster and cheaper to do it with the light
I mean, it only takes like 5-10 seconds when they do it normally.
Pessimism FTW! ... Wait what?
I take it that Sal, Jr. was delivered in a peaceful meadow, surrounded by bluebirds and gentle beasts of prey
the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by @('.')@
Seriously!
The last time I’m there, the nurse has the nerve to say this to me:
“You know, every time you blink I have to reset the machine.”
DON’T TAKE TEN MINUTES THEN! This isn’t a staring contest! And the thing is hitting my eyelashes! How am I not supposed to blink!? Isn’t that what eyelashes are for? And it’s like I know when she’s going to squirt the air.
She gave up after the first eye.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
And while I'm at it...
how hard is it to change the freaking letters on the thing? It’s ridiculous! I’ve been going to the same guy since I was in fifth grade, man! I have the line memorized!
They should make it all numbers. I don’t think I’ve guessed (yes, guessed) a single number correctly in all those years.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
I know they're trying to trick me.
“One…or two? One…or two?”
I know they run it in circles until I contradict myself, then the doctor just writes down the same prescription anyway.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
My guy says this:
“Which one is BETTer or worse.”
[click, click]
“Is this BETTer or worse? Mmmmkay. BETTer or worse? And now? BETTer or worse?”
I like to add dramatic pauses and then say, “Uh… can you go back to one?”
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
If you haven't seen this, you must
Brian Regan on visiting the eye doctor
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
Wow. Amazingly accurate.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
They pass....NOW! ...NOW! THEN!
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
UC Berkeley Eye Clinic
has an unforgettable number on campus:
642-2020.
If you think Dr.s are slow, the student doctors are even more deliberate, because they’re learning. But I have fun there, as my prescription hasn’t changed since 1992, and they
cannot
believe it! And, I can see fine without any glasses, as I’m far-sighted in one eye, near-sighted in the other, so they compensate.
"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
by One won lost won on Jun 23, 2008 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Me too
Anisometropics of the world, unite!
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
unlike the explanation of anisometropia
which explains it as a serious problem for children, I had 20-15, maybe 20-16 vision when I was a teenager.. By the time I was forty, too much computer work had screwed them up a bit (cathode ray tube flutter). Then I discovered I had one really myopic eye just by accident. I’ve had glasses ever since, but I seldom wear them. Good for night driving, though. Helps with focusing in dim light.
"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
by One won lost won on Jun 23, 2008 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Before I got my glasses, I would sometimes
cover my right eye when I needed to see something far away. My right eye is the nearsighted one, and it leads.
When I first got my glasses (about 15 years ago) it took me several days to learn to put the two images together, and when I did it was like being in a freaky 3-D movie. For years I had just been seeing with one eye or the other and never both together. (Which is one reason why I was terrible at sports that required precise depth perception….)
Now I usually wear my glasses at the computer or while driving, and usually don’t wear them when doing anything else (including reading from a book, which is better without them). The last time I had my prescription checked, the doctor made it weaker. Apparently my eyes are gradually fixing themselves.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
I'm with you on eye sensitivity
Commercials on tv for contact lenses make me tear up.
Whenever I get my vision tested, by the end of the better/worse thing, I’ve got a headache, tears are pouring down my cheeks, and I’m crosseyed. I end up with wrong prescriptions every time.
the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by @('.')@
I know why they do one eye at a time....
but they expect my script to be right after that one eye has been covered for 30 minutes? I’m focusing too hard!
Then I have to PICK OUT glasses? I’m lucky to make it out of the office in under two hours.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
The eye Dr. is easily the longest visit in the check up world.
My Dr. insists we do the drops to check for whatever the hell they check for each time. So I get there, wait half an hour, go in for 5 minutes, wait another 30-45 minutes for my eyes to dilate, then finally get in to finish the appointment.
I have never seen my eye Dr. and had it take less than 3 hours, and of course that is in the worst lobby I have ever been in. I feel like it’s a sitcom set for a Dr’s office-nothing but bad and super old magazines.
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
weird, my father is an Optometrist (as said above) so I've had my eyes checked a lot
and seen others getting theirs checked while waiting for him in the break room, and they usually take anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes, mainly depending on how cooperative the patient is, if they can speak English or not, and if there are not any big problems that turn up.
Pessimism FTW! ... Wait what?
i think it really is just an issue with this Dr
My guess as I have finally grown the hell up and started thinking about it and not just whining to Mrs. Aces is that they just overbook.
Last year I had to see a different Dr. because I needed an appt right away. It was the best appt I have ever had. While I have been too lazy to officially change, I think I have a new Dr. (the wife and kids were already so sick of it they went somewhere else entirely and had a similar much better experience…)
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
My doc doesn't even have magazines!
I have to stare at the ONE fish in the fish tank. Like, yeah, you and me both, buddy.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
I can't figure out why eye docs don't understand
that the severe myopes among us have basically had thick pieces of plastic or glass sheltering our delicate eyelids from the outside world since we were three or four years old, so even having the glasses off without any drops or puffs of air feels scary and unnatural.
Don't blame me, I voted for Ice Cream
by Englishmajor on Jun 23, 2008 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I always ask mine "did you become an eye doctor because you like to count?"
Every day is just a little worse than the previous, that means every day is the worst day of my life.
by shooting4life on Jun 23, 2008 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
And they never tell you whether you got anything right!
“That’s an S… or it could be a 5… S I think”
Well, which was it (if either)? Do I get partial credit for 5? If it really was S, do I get docked for being uncertain? What’s my score? I hate getting stuff wrong.
Then of course there’s always a line at the bottom that’s only there for when the local eagle family comes in for a check-up, and to make the rest of us feel blind.
Sometimes Doctor will forget to reset
the machine from the person before me… Then I’m like, AHHHH!! I’m blind! and start panicking.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
It's not a test where you want to get them right.
I can always memorize every line quickly, and I can usually guess the bottom line by the general shapes even if I can’t truly make them out.
But the purpose of the test is to get the best prescription, not to get the answers “right”. If I can’t clearly read a character, I say so honestly. I’ll say, “Well, I know that’s an R because I remember it from last time, but I can’t really make it out now.” If you cheat, you’re only cheating yourself.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
Guess I needed to throw an emoticon in there somewhere
But I thought my tongue was clearly enough in cheek without that.
Well if you look at some primates, you could have your tongue
between your cheeks.
by theblackpearl on Jun 24, 2008 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
They don't need the puff of air thing anymore
I didn’t mind it, but my optometrist had replaced it with some newer technology that’s even less obtrusive for the sake of you freaker-outers.
Oh no! God just got arrested. Extra. Extra.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080623/ap_on_fe_st/god_arrest
Was Black Snake Moan a comedy or a drama?
by ohtobe21likehuston on Jun 23, 2008 11:58 AM PDT reply actions
Man, He got Game, huh, oh yeah
that was Jesus
by theblackpearl on Jun 23, 2008 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by @('.')@
and Jesus was way cool.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
Following the continuing saga of Josh Hamilton and the runaway millions
IIATMS has a full interview with Matt Sosnick, his former agent. It’s not really about Hamilton—a couple questions relate to the incident, but a lot of it is just about “the biz.”
From it we learn a few things:
1. Sosnick wasn’t Hamilton’s agent during the initial “descent” period of his career. So while Hamilton’s decision was still irrational and questionably ethical, it at least removes the tint of ingratitude from the whole situation. Hamilton looks a little better now.
2. He likes the A’s and has had good dealings with them.
3. Dontrelle Willis has the firm logo tattooed on his pitching arm. So apparently someone’s a fan. And he must be pretty decent at his job, to have gotten Willis that albatross contract this offseason.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
I've heard
dontrelle’s mom describing how the guys in that office have kicked ass & taken names on her behalf as well as dontrelle’s, maybe in thanks for the tattoo?
"...in baseball you wear a cap." -- george carlin
zack greinke interview for all my fellow royals fans.
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
buddy of mine hereabouts went to HS with him
used to play on the same team. some other MLer, also, whom I forget. Plays for the Brewers, iir.
"The Athletics at Fremont" is obscene
More options should Fremont never materialize
My favorite floating-ballpark idea—perhaps feasible?
How about a real island instead—with no corporate taxes!
We can probably rule out: Tijuana, Guadalajara, Nuevo Laredo, Merida, Nogales, Mexico City, London, Toronto, Nassau (one other island option gone), and Hong Kong (yet another island off the list)
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
has anyone ever considered the possibility ...
... that Stomper may be a robot underneath that furry suit?
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
Did you have a 'bad experience?'
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Jun 23, 2008 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Stomper
should be a robot!
He should be an inflated elephant with a titanium skeleton, 30-40 ft tall. Capable of jumping out from behind the centerfield fence, doing backflips all the way to the mound, then turning around and dancing all the way back to the CF fence and diving over it.
Screw the fuzzy Philly Phanatic and other such bums in costumes!! We need maximum animatronics, being so close to Intel, et. al.
"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
by One won lost won on Jun 23, 2008 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions
this might work
Youtube: The Sultan’s Elephant
The elephant is made mostly of wood, and is operated by over ten puppeteers using a mixture of hydraulics and motors. It weighs 42 tons, as much as 7 African elephants.
by SwisherThresher on Jun 23, 2008 9:20 PM PDT up reply actions
while interesting in and of itself
a bit slow and unyielding for a mascot. Maybe it could be used to herd Red Sox fans in the parking lot.
btw, the use of “Sox” instead of “Socks” was a newspaper invention, to enable publishers to use bigger and fewer letters in the headline.
"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
by One won lost won on Jun 23, 2008 10:38 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
But could you imagine that thing appearing out of the tunnel, looming over the center field wall? Whoa.
Oh well. At least we get a so(ck) puppet.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Jun 24, 2008 9:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Anyone noticing the Political ads on AN are increasing recently?
Especially he Anti-Obama ones. Which is sort of ironic, if it is aimed at specific Blogs and not SBNation as a whole, because AN, being a Bay Area/California blog, is not going to vote McCain any time soon. We don’t have nearly enough dehydrated babies for him to send bottled hot water to.
And its kind of funny (especially after taking a Hist of the Cold War class) to see one of the attack ads is “is it alright to talk to anti-american foriegn leaders” and I actually would say “Yeah! Maybe we should try that instead of just bombing them right away. Hey, it worked in Cuba!”
Pessimism FTW! ... Wait what?
I've seen plenty of Pro-Obama ones, too
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 saw that ad and thought:
would it be violation of the no-politics CGV for me to note my annoyance at that ad and how it appeals to prejudice, fear, and a few other of our baser instincts?
Brainless Automaton #439
by rubin sierra on Jun 23, 2008 7:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Sounds like a game thread.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
Dude
Blez made it clear that ads and content are two different worlds. The ads pay the rent, so if political campaigns are going to buy them, AN will take their money, regardless of what side they’re on. Personally, I don’t like the political ads, but it’s Blez’s business and that’s his call.
I know they’re provocative and it’s tempting to comment on them, but it’s our job to resist that temptation. You may think your remark is innocuous, but I guarantee you someone else out there has to struggle to resist the temptation to respond to you. Every time you give in, you make it harder on the next guy, and if enough of us give in, it explodes into a political argument.
So bite your tongue and don’t go there.
So don’t make it worse than it already is.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
Yes, I saw the "poll"
and the “Should a Candidate STOP robbing banks, or continue?” -type of ‘query’. That’s the problem with advertising: you have to take the good with the bad, if you cannot afford to “choose”.
I see McCain is offering to promote electric car battery development. But no advertising same on SBNation.
"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
by One won lost won on Jun 23, 2008 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions
My coworker just paid $9 for a $6 burger at Carl's Jr.
Something is definitely wrong.
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
They had to see that name was going to bite them in the ass eventually
Heck, it’s been over $6 at the Ontario Airport CJ’s since at least my sophomore year.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
LASIK
My sister had it and couldn’t see for about a week afterwards (crazy blurry I guess.) It resolved but while she was going through that, besides being terrified for her, all I could think was how much I don’t mind wearing glasses to use the computer. I’ll probably need them full-time in the future, but I don’t think I could ever have anything done to my eyes.
Congrats though. Kind of wish I was ballsier.
Orioles putting APB out to their scouts: Find a Short Stop, Any Shortstop
Maybe this is the opertunity to sell high on Crosby? Regardless of whom we got back, we could put Petit and/or Murphy at Short for the time being, or even call up Cliff Pennington (whom I’m sure can be just as bad as Crosby is).
Then, perhaps if we deal Blanton, Street or another Reliever later on, we can pick up a shortstop then, perhaps in a deal with the Cubs, who are out looking for pitching.
Pessimism FTW! ... Wait what?
it'd be funny as hell if they re-acquired Tejada at the deadline
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
Please, please, please, please
please, please, please trade Crosby.
Please.
With sugar on top.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Hmm
Here I was in a snit for a few days at your flippancy toward my remarks and now I love you again.
Maybe you aren’t the fickle one…maybe it was me all along…our mutual distaste for the 2004 RoY has healed old wounds…
Florida ain't no place for a self-respecting A's fan.
by Leopold Bloom on Jun 23, 2008 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Readers Digest seems to have gotten hold of this thread.
and yanked out all the good stuff.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
Some Joy at LL
Felix hit a grand slam off Johan Santana with the first pitch he sees.
First HR ever by a Mariners pitcher.
Very funny.
My boss just came in to tell me that
My first thought was, “Are you fucking kidding me?”
My second thought was to see if it got mentioned on AN yet.
It was with two outs, too. Awesome.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
Not so funny to me.
Oh, at least the runs were unearned.
[breathes fantasy sigh of relief]
"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.
5 manly ways to go green
Plenty of sigline-fodder here.
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
Wild pitch, Beltran slid in with Felix covering
and his left ankle is messed up. He was assisted off the field, limping badly.
For fans of pitchers’ wins, too bad for Felix; he has to leave with a 5-1 lead and 2 outs in the 5th.
God really hates the Mariners right now
The only thing they had to feel good about just limped off the field.
It might be a seattle-wide epidemic
Reasons:
1.) The mariners fell off the baseball map.
2.) Starbucks sales are declining despite throwback cups.
3.) Microsoft Vista disappoints and constantly gets bagged on by Justin Long in Apple commercials.
Yeah, it sucks for them.
Green Hulk Fists
by oaklandSMASH on Jun 23, 2008 6:03 PM PDT up reply actions
It continues...
4.) Sonics attempting to leave for Oklahoma City
Yeesh -- that'd be like losing your team to, I dunno, Fremont?
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Jun 23, 2008 6:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm sure seattlites might have a tad more difficulty driving to OK city
Than Oaklanders getting to fremont.
Apples and oranges, dude.
Green Hulk Fists
by oaklandSMASH on Jun 23, 2008 6:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Sorry -- I was trying to flex that brain muscle of which Poppy is fond.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Jun 23, 2008 6:57 PM PDT up reply actions
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/6/23/557477/6-23-open-game-thread-part#comments
The A's colors are green and gold.
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/6/23/557477/6-23-open-game-thread-part#6937739
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
Well...there was nothing dirty about Beltran's slide
it was just a case where Hernandez had his foot planted directly in the path that Beltran had to use to get across the plate.
If Hernandez were to go on the DL as a result of this, the first day he would be eligible would be July 8, which is the third game of the Mariners’ four-game series in Oakland.
Yeah... just got to see the replay.
Barf.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
Aw.
LL is going nuts. It is sad, but really cute. CAPS LOCK
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
THOSE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN SEEM UPSET ABOUT SOMETHING!
"...in baseball you wear a cap." -- george carlin
What a beautiful and moving tribute to George Carlin
Don't blame me, I voted for Ice Cream
by Englishmajor on Jun 23, 2008 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions
You don't mess with the Johan
"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.
by andeux on Jun 23, 2008 6:06 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Oh Inoa?
More teams piling into bidding war for Michel Inoa.
It’s going to be interesting seeing how this shakes out. I do hope that the A’s have some secondary targets for their $$ in case Inoa signs elsewhere.
The comments thread is amusing, as ESPN’s population of racists makes its voice heard.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
If the A's
are in a bidding war with the rangers and the reds is this like when a high school football player is being vigorously recruited by Cal, and then Rutgers and Idaho State decide to get in the mix?
"...in baseball you wear a cap." -- george carlin
BYU Hawaii pities the fool!
Green Hulk Fists
by oaklandSMASH on Jun 23, 2008 6:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Kevin Youkillis
hit in the right eye while warming up the infield is now out of the game. Brandon Moss is now playing 1st, as Sean Casey is serving his suspension.
Apparently, i think it was lowell who threw it, it was a one hop to 1st (keep in mind, this is warm ups) and while youkillis tried to play it on the hop, it bounced off his glove and hit him in the eye. Now he’s got a huge shiner
white esurance sign behind home plate..oh so that’s why durham is an absolutely terrible defensive second baseman.. - xbhaskarx
Damn
I just picked up the Greek God of Walks on my fantasy team.
Does he get negative points for fielding like a turd?
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by oaklandSMASH on Jun 23, 2008 6:19 PM PDT up reply actions
It sort of reminds me of that scene from The Sandlot where the kid catches the fly ball with his eye and not his glove.
Why so many eye posts anyway? Put one lasik DLD in and it just keeps on coming.
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by oaklandSMASH on Jun 23, 2008 6:45 PM PDT up reply actions
What a crappy day
The Nats lead the Angels all game, blow the lead late.
Fresno State leads Georgia late, blows the lead.
And, of course, the D-Backs are busy trying to blow Haren’s lead and give the Sox a win.
To cap it all off, the A’s didn’t even have a game.
To add to the crappiness, Gio Gonzales threw 81 pitches in 2.2 innings, so I bet you can
guess he didn’t have a very good game.
6 runs on 7 hits, and gave up 2 hr’s
by theblackpearl on Jun 23, 2008 7:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Saves:
Angels have 33.
Opponents have 14.
That’s f*ing ridiculous. They are now 17 games over .500 with a +14 run differential.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Que?
A team with a 47-30 record is 17 games over .500. N games over 500 means, if you lose your next N games, you will be at .500. That’s what the sentence means.
They would have an 8.5 game lead over a .500 team...
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Cuteness overdose.
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.
Imagine SIX of those little things running around.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
Are the cuddly?
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 don't know if cuddly is the right word.
They lick and drool. But they are damn cute.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
Did your missing dog ever come home?
Don't blame me, I voted for Ice Cream
by Englishmajor on Jun 23, 2008 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Trying so hard to catch Jennifer's reflection in Ellie
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
Whoa, that posted without me telling it to
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
Hm. Leaving the bases loaded in the top of the 9th.
Sounds like US!
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.
Woohooo, Dbacks!
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.
The Arthur Rhodes Experiment
has sprung to life again, just like Michael Myers. He-who-will-not-die pitched a perfect 2/3rds an inning tonight for his first save of the year…which leads me to my next search…yes, JJ Putz is on the 15-day DL…I wonder if those two things are related…
Florida ain't no place for a self-respecting A's fan.
whuh?
No, this isn’t me. Though I guess it perhaps could or should be?
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
Ok, ok, I apologize
I never would have made the bet if I’d known you’d have to go to those lengths to raise the money.
The A's colors are green and gold.
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