I too am prone to insomnia. I too used it to my advantage last Monday night/Tuesday morning and created my first DLD.

You, alas, have better luck than I do. Right, as I went to post my DLD, my Firefox window abruptly shut down. I was able to restore the session, but all of the text that I had entered into the window was gone. Needless to say, I was a tad bit peeved. The fact that the A’s had had the day off then too and as such, most of my links revolved around evidence supporting the sports media’s East Coast bias eventually helped me to calm down.

ANYWAY, http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/bird-land/bird-land/2008/06/tale-of-the-take-the-mulder-swap/
following the link above will take you to a nice piece from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Cardinals blog regarding the Mulder trade. There’s nothing terribly new in the piece, but it does do a solid job laying out just how lopsided the deal has proven to be. In light of Mulder being scratched from his rehab start last night, on the same night that Haren shut down the Bo Sux, it’s all the more noteworthy.

I’ve always been the guy who has a tough time falling asleep, but still able to wake up in the morning, making me drag all throughout the day. During the summer days, I would be the one to fall asleep at 5am and wake up at 12pm or 1pm.

Let it be known, ladies and gents, that I have now put this insomnia to good use. I will now work the night shift as an ER Nurse hahaha

Hence my insomnia.

The zombie hours were always the best hours for me to get work done.

As did the entire lookout landing community.. to the tune of 1000+ very unhappy comments.

The lesson here is.. don’t mess with Felix Hernandez.

I’m close to according the site a prized slot on my quick link bar.

I was insomnia-plagued for several years, though I think it was mainly attributable to the obscene volume of caffeine I ingested during that stretch of time. And in any event, all those sleepless nights dovetailed with my residence on the east coast, meaning that I was wide awake for 1-2 am EST finishes to weeknight A’s games.

So if this is true, why is it that we’re so eager to DFA/trade/castigate “our” players? Shouldn’t we be evolutionarily predisposed to overvalue Huston Street?

Lastly, two slightly divergent takes on last night’s Nats-Angels debacle, specifically the Felipe Lopez error that allowed the tying run to score …

First, Manny Acta:

“I’m not going to overanalyze it,” Washington manager Manny Acta said. “He should have had the ground ball and he didn’t catch it.”

Next, a disgruntled Nats-fan friend of mine via email:

Dude, I was at the game last night. I was about to go on the field and give Felipe Lopez a beat down. He can’t hit, he can’t field and his attitude blows. As I told my friend Steve awhile back, I say trade Odalis Perez, Paul LoDuca and Lopez for anything they can get for them, even if it’s a microwave burrito and a couple of old Hustlers. At least Stan Kasten could then use the Hustlers as evidence of sexual harassment to fire Jim Bowden.