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.

1. pam claims (I do mean claims) to have started several dlds in the past only to see someone else post one.
2. gaijin suketto’s diary.
3. pam posts first dld.

I would like to be able to pitch in Oakland, the stadium I have seen so many games in, before the team moves to the new location in Fremont.

Gotta love this kid.

He’s a lover, not a fighter. But he’s also a fighter, so don’t get any ideas.

Try harder next time, Pam.

Well A’s fans…in effort to sell more tickets, you can buy 4 plaza level tickets for $40 (a $54 savings) at Costco for non-premium dates. I’m not sure when this started but I suppose this is a good way to get people to A’s games and sit in the crappy plaza level.

As previously mentioned, apparently Barton isn’t that bad at first:

"Even the first six weeks of the season, when Barton made more mistakes than he has the past two months, he was rated as baseball’s best defensive first baseman, according to John Dewan of the Fielding Bible."

I’m not sure who this Dewan guy is…perhaps the rest of AN has heard of him…any insight?

G likes Barton too. I think he’s trying to make up for the "I’ve always wanted to be a Yankee" b.s.:

"He looks good, he has a lot of talent, a lot of tools,” Giambi said when the Yankees were at the Coliseum earlier his month. “People take first base for granted, they think it’s easy and it’s not, especially with as much foul territory as there is, you’ve got to pick the ball or you’re going to be running a long way. He’s going to do well there."
“Barton also takes a good at-bat. He puts the ball in play, he drives in runs and he’s got some pop.”

J. Weeks should be in the mix soon:

"We just started speaking,” A’s general manager Billy Beane said. “We’re not anticipating that it will take very long. I can’t imagine we wouldn’t come to an agreement.”

As if 16-yr olds aren’t big headed already…the Inoa watch continues:

Beane said he might return to the Dominican Republic next week as the A’s try to woo 16-year-old phenom Michel Inoa, who is allowed to sign any time from July 2. Beane already has visited the 6-foot-7 right-hander twice, and owner Lew Wolff accompanied him on one trip. “We anticipated that there would be a lot of competition, and we’ve been pretty aggressive,” Beane said. “He’s still very young, but he’s very talented.”

Fresno St. needs to win to stay alive after they lost 7-6 Monday night:

Four Cal/Stanford basketball players should get drafted for the first time since the NBA draft downsized to two rounds:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=2

It contains the following paragraph:

One morning, after she was awakened by her bedside alarm, she sat up and, she recalled, "this fluid came down my face, this greenish liquid." She pressed a square of gauze to her head and went to see her doctor again. M. showed the doctor the fluid on the dressing. The doctor looked closely at the wound. She shined a light on it and in M.’s eyes. Then she walked out of the room and called an ambulance. Only in the Emergency Department at Massachusetts General Hospital, after the doctors started swarming, and one told her she needed surgery now, did M. learn what had happened. She had scratched through her skull during the night—and all the way into her brain.

Jose Garcia. He is an intriguing player.

Nigel Dickie

Ever.

I think Ziggy would look awesome on this.

It’s been getting way to much media coverage today but here’s the story:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3458377

The first time I heard the recording I thought for sure he was negatively associating black players as being more prone to being arrested. After hearing his explanation of the comment and I can see where he could have been defending them. Either way, I did some research and found this site listing player arrests from the NFL:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/nfl/arrests.html

Now, my counting may be a little off because I havn’t had too long to research, but I believe only 2 of the 40 players arrested in 2008 have not been of African American decent. It seems to me it’s about time people should stop complaining about racism and start looking at the facts….

When making a comment, how do you put in a link where it has a phrase or word in place of the actual address? When I make a new fanpost I can just hit the little link picture and it asks for the word and address, and it is added to the post no problem. When doing it as a reply when I hit the link button it just asks for the address, but doesn’t give a place to put in a name description for it.

the Temescal Street Cinema is showing Touching Home on Thursday, July 17th. I haven’t heard of this movie or heard anything about it, actually, but it looks good. (such a resounding review, I know)

This week they’re showing Girls Rock! which is supposed to be awesome.

Anyone else been out there for a movie yet?

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/basketball/womens/news/story?id=3457654

Watch the video on the page.

Anyone know where I can a jersey like this:
http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1790057&cp=717873.1671828.1671862

Preferably something cheaper than $325.

Don’t really need a name on it, no numbers or name would be fine.

http://www.hbo.com/events/george-carlin/tribute.html?ntrack_para1=feat_main_image

that some wild-eyed middle-aged woman stormed the Registrar’s office at San Jose State while shrieking “DON’T FUCKING PUT ME ON HOLD AGAIN!!!” in an insanely piercing voice… yeah, that’ll be me.

7-1 win. He had 2ks with no walks.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-shaq-kobe-rap&prov=ap&type=lgns

Video mentioned in article:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eLJ65×0mbv0

Best thing about the NBA finals was Shaq maintaining his ring lead over Kobe.