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6/30/08 DLD: "Playing for Peanuts"

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Happy Birthday to FSU and GNGG!

Star-divide

While trying to figure out how the heck Jon Zeringue spells his name (for my TLAS Game post), I came across Playing for Peanuts, a blog about a television show about a team (follow?), the South Georgia Peanuts, in the first (and quite likely, only) season in the South Coast League. After being released from the Diamondbacks and signing with the A's, Jon played 26 games under Wally Backman for the Peanuts.

This sounded interesting to me, and I've spent much of the last 24 hours visiting the production blog.

The blogmaster is having a heckuva time getting the show out, to make a long story short.

The DVD can be pre-ordered right now for $9.99. I emailed John Fitzgerald this morning and he let me know that the DVD is supposed to be out in September.

Visit the site; there are videos up, photos, whatnot.

Cecil Fielder makes an appearance, too.

And that is all. Visit the site if you like. Join the mailing list. Adopt a minor leaguer. Eat a cupcake. Bring links.

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I thought you meant these Peanuts

Although that could have been Joe Blanton yesterday.

by theblackpearl on Jun 30, 2008 1:16 PM PDT   0 recs

Lucy is SUCH a bitch

A little plumbing! Got to plumb! Plumb the depths! The depths of hell! - Larry David, CYE

by Swooney's Left Foot on Jun 30, 2008 1:31 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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facepalm.jpg

by Zonis on Jun 30, 2008 5:31 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Classic

I miss Shultz

Green Hulk Fists

by oaklandSMASH on Jun 30, 2008 3:10 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Anyone been to the Schulz museum?

Baseball as Allegory exhibit:

by cagrrrl on Jul 3, 2008 1:05 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Moe...is that short for moenkeyball?

Famed chimp Moe is on the loose in the San Berdu forest. You might remember Moe from such horrific stories as “My owners were forced to move me to a chimp facility, and when they came to give me a cake for my birthday two other chimps tore off and ate one of my owners’ face, foot, and testicles.”

Now Moe’s on the lam. Run, Moe, Run!

How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porchlight on?

by FreeSeatUpgrade on Jun 30, 2008 1:43 PM PDT   0 recs

There's no crying in baseball!

by gigglingone on Jun 30, 2008 1:53 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

sigline!

Does this make Moe the chimp Eric Rudolph?

He's a very personable, sweet, nice chim. He's not going to be aggressive unless he's provoked. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jun 30, 2008 1:56 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

chim?

"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk

by iglew on Jun 30, 2008 2:18 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

damn AN 3.0 and its preservation of siglines-in-time!

He's a very personable, sweet, nice chimp. He's not going to be aggressive unless he's provoked. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jun 30, 2008 2:23 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Chim, chimpanzee, chim, chimpanzee

chim-chim, cheroo

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

by JediLeroy on Jun 30, 2008 2:31 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

brown stuff will be tossed

when I fling things at you.

"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty

by 5Aces on Jun 30, 2008 3:53 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I hate every ape I see

from chim-pan-A to chim-pan-Z.

"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk

by iglew on Jun 30, 2008 6:20 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

{ahem}

He's a very personable, sweet, nice chimp. He's not going to be aggressive unless he's provoked. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jun 30, 2008 6:29 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Moe resents that remark

I’d say if he’s tall, skinny, left-handed and not-NBA-ready, then Moe is the chimp Anthony Randolph.

Brainless Automaton #439

by rubin sierra on Jun 30, 2008 3:18 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

power rankings

for both ESPN and SI seem to have A’s at #5. Seems pretty high to me

Let's have our Piazza and eat the Cust too - SPWC

by closetasfan on Jun 30, 2008 1:48 PM PDT   0 recs

My new favorite South American soccer team


Atletico Nacional

I wonder if somewhere out there, an El Blezico runs their fan site.

Green Hulk Fists

by oaklandSMASH on Jun 30, 2008 2:04 PM PDT   0 recs

for those of you who read John Sickels from time to time

please see this link. seems he has a family emergency going on

http://www.minorleagueball.com/2008/6/28/560693/family-news#comments

Let's have our Piazza and eat the Cust too - SPWC

by closetasfan on Jun 30, 2008 2:04 PM PDT   0 recs

OK, sal, now you can crap in your own darn pants

He's a very personable, sweet, nice chimp. He's not going to be aggressive unless he's provoked. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jun 30, 2008 2:04 PM PDT   0 recs

I think someone from Adult Swim beat you on that patent

The Poop Tube

No real poop was used in the filming of this commercial.

Green Hulk Fists

by oaklandSMASH on Jun 30, 2008 3:05 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

This needs to onto

The Poop Report

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 Jul 1, 2008 8:29 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Kristin Harden update

From yesterday’s Chron:

Rich Harden said his sister, Kristin, finished first in her age group in the nonwetsuit division of the Alcatraz Sharkfest Swim on Saturday, and she was in the top 20 overall in the 1.5 mile event from the island to Aquatic Park.

Man gets struck by lightning while installing gazebo, lives to tell tale
Man had previously mistakenly been shot by his friends while duck hunting, fallen through ice into a frozen lake, and received electrical shocks six times while welding. Man sensibly married a trauma nurse.

Don't blame me, I voted for Ice Cream

by Englishmajor on Jun 30, 2008 2:36 PM PDT   0 recs

{tapes "LI-LYERD" to back of jersey}
Lilyerd was carrying a nickel and a round of ammunition in his pocket when he was hit. The former was charred black; the latter exploded without harming him.

Hm. There’s a storm a-brewin’, with high winds and lightning. Now’s the perfect time to … repair the roof of a lightweight structure. Whoops! Almost forgot my lucky bullet!

He's a very personable, sweet, nice chimp. He's not going to be aggressive unless he's provoked. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jun 30, 2008 2:51 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

That has to be Florida...

Florida ain't no place for a self-respecting A's fan.

by Leopold Bloom on Jun 30, 2008 11:11 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

steel-toed boots, too.

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 Jul 1, 2008 8:32 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Why is his sister swimming in the Bay?

I thought she hated the Sharks.

Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.

by PaulThomas on Jun 30, 2008 3:04 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

white esurance sign behind home plate..oh so that’s why durham is an absolutely terrible defensive second baseman.. - xbhaskarx

by BigTuna on Jun 30, 2008 3:07 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

And I thought my neighbors were animals....

Helpful Giraffe

the animals wandered in a group through a nearby neighborhood for several hours after their 5:30 a.m. breakout.

There's no crying in baseball!

by gigglingone on Jun 30, 2008 2:43 PM PDT   0 recs

SI covers youth violence and sports in the East Bay

Current issue has this article about guns claiming the lives of youth, with the theme that where once athletics offered a safe harbor from violence, that’s not so true nowadays. Covers the 2004 murder of University of Oregon-bound football player Terrance Kelly of Richmond, among many others.

Article is strangely dispassionate for the subject at hand, almost as though the author, like so many youth he interviews, has given up hope. He could’ve talked with guys like Leon Powe of the Celtics or Quentin Thomas of North Carolina, Oakland guys who are doing quite well.

How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porchlight on?

by FreeSeatUpgrade on Jun 30, 2008 2:43 PM PDT   0 recs

he shoulda interviewed some nice young boys from Fremont

He's a very personable, sweet, nice chimp. He's not going to be aggressive unless he's provoked. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jun 30, 2008 2:47 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I'm a nice young boy from Fremont

although…i’m not young…which means i’m no longer “boy”

and i’m completely on the fence if i’m nice…

...but I’m from Fremont!

white esurance sign behind home plate..oh so that’s why durham is an absolutely terrible defensive second baseman.. - xbhaskarx

by BigTuna on Jun 30, 2008 3:08 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I was a nice boy in Fremont

who grew up into a crazy person in San Jose!

Interview me!

Green Hulk Fists

by oaklandSMASH on Jun 30, 2008 3:10 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

we should start a gang!

only instead of guns and knives, we’ll use those swimming floaty noodles…green and gold colored, of course

white esurance sign behind home plate..oh so that’s why durham is an absolutely terrible defensive second baseman.. - xbhaskarx

by BigTuna on Jun 30, 2008 3:11 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Please, floaty swim noodles are for wussies!

Foam swords are for real Fremont gang bangers!

Green Hulk Fists

by oaklandSMASH on Jun 30, 2008 3:29 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

oh you've just promoted yourself

to President of our Fremont Gang

white esurance sign behind home plate..oh so that’s why durham is an absolutely terrible defensive second baseman.. - xbhaskarx

by BigTuna on Jun 30, 2008 3:53 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Gangs have Presidents?

I guess that’s why Bush runs the country like a mob family.

Green Hulk Fists

by oaklandSMASH on Jun 30, 2008 6:49 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

RIP TK

I still remember hearing about that. All I could think was, damn, we just graduated a while ago. He had a great life ahead of him, but I guess someone else thought otherwise.

JLaff.com
My blog

by JLaff on Jun 30, 2008 4:45 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Not to be confused with TerrEnce Kelly

leader of the awesome Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir.

"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk

by iglew on Jun 30, 2008 6:28 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I thought "Playing for Peanuts"

is an upcoming expose on Stomper by Mychael Urban.

Oh the tangled web we weave…

Green Hulk Fists

by oaklandSMASH on Jun 30, 2008 3:07 PM PDT   0 recs

any update on the Stomper job?

I met someone over the weekend who was extremely interested in it

Brainless Automaton #439

by rubin sierra on Jun 30, 2008 3:12 PM PDT   0 recs

{snerk}

“Stomper job”

He's a very personable, sweet, nice chimp. He's not going to be aggressive unless he's provoked. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jun 30, 2008 3:23 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

ouch!

Green Hulk Fists

by oaklandSMASH on Jun 30, 2008 3:32 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

huh?

Brainless Automaton #439

by rubin sierra on Jun 30, 2008 5:24 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Playin' for peanuts is all very fine ...

...but he can show you a better time.

The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus

by The Dogfather on Jun 30, 2008 4:10 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Your friend better check out the ratty-ass uni.

Stomper went by us on Saturday evening, and was dressed more raggedy than banjo-man.

Who the fark is in charge of these things?

The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus

by The Dogfather on Jun 30, 2008 4:08 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

prolly the same guy who's hoarding the kraut

He's a very personable, sweet, nice chimp. He's not going to be aggressive unless he's provoked. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jun 30, 2008 4:16 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

If Rich continues his superstring of infinitely awesome pitching

I think we should petition to change his name to Rich Hadron. Nickname "Large." Of course, then his cosmic awesomeness might destroy the Earth.

(Note: This was by far the less objectionable of the two obvious puns to be made from "Large Hadron.")

How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porchlight on?

by FreeSeatUpgrade on Jun 30, 2008 4:07 PM PDT   0 recs

three

But did Ron have Large?

He's a very personable, sweet, nice chimp. He's not going to be aggressive unless he's provoked. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jun 30, 2008 4:17 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

when Harden reinjures himself ...

... I think his nickname should be “hot dead clump.”

He's a very personable, sweet, nice chimp. He's not going to be aggressive unless he's provoked. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jun 30, 2008 4:28 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

concur

Florida ain't no place for a self-respecting A's fan.

by Leopold Bloom on Jun 30, 2008 11:12 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I have a friend working on this.

She likes the attention.

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 Jul 1, 2008 8:34 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

In NHL news.

The Sharks resign Jody Shelley. Two years @ $625,000. I guess that means Brad Stuart won’t be back in SJ anytime soon.

by SwisherThresher on Jun 30, 2008 4:36 PM PDT   0 recs

Odd decision

Opting for the player with 2 girls names over the one with 2 boys names.

A little plumbing! Got to plumb! Plumb the depths! The depths of hell! - Larry David, CYE

by Swooney's Left Foot on Jun 30, 2008 5:30 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Hockey is a sport that involves ice

And fighting is allowed.

That’s all I know.

by nevermoor on Jun 30, 2008 6:17 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

UFC on ice

would be cool

Green Hulk Fists

by oaklandSMASH on Jun 30, 2008 7:06 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Baseball blogging on NPR

Blog Fans Gather For A Day At The Ballpark
I was unhappy when I heard this story—it ruined my chances of successfully pitching a piece on AN Day 5! The blog looks pretty dull but apparently they have hundreds of comments in their game threads.

Don't blame me, I voted for Ice Cream

by Englishmajor on Jun 30, 2008 5:13 PM PDT   0 recs

maybe you should follow the lead of Jason Kendall and Barry Bonds ...

... and choke up on the pitch.

(Yes, I will beat this joke into the ground … much like Jason Kendall.)

He's a very personable, sweet, nice chimp. He's not going to be aggressive unless he's provoked. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jun 30, 2008 6:10 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Pitch/write it anyway

Your idea is different enough from this that you should be able to sell it. Make it a personality profile—or several personality profiles. Good writing with covered ground beats bad writing on original ground, just ask Shakespeare. All that anxiety of influence is unhealthy preoccupation.

Florida ain't no place for a self-respecting A's fan.

by Leopold Bloom on Jun 30, 2008 11:18 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Buck off of DL (for Sacto, not Oakland)

The River Cats activated Travis Buck after the latest of his endless string of injuries (for those keeping track, this one was a concussion).
Also they re-added Chris Denorfia to their roster on his rehab assignment yesterday, but (somewhat oddly) he didn’t get in the game.

Despite Buck’s numbers in Oakland being the worst in a collection of (apart from Cust) bad performances from our outfielders, I still think he has the best shot of being good in the second half. I hope he starts mashing in Sacramento and gets promoted quickly, before he collides with any more walls.

"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.

by andeux on Jun 30, 2008 5:47 PM PDT   0 recs

Travis Buck's next injury:

Snakebite.

I honestly have never seen someone with as bizarre a succession of injuries as he has had over his career. It’s not just the number of times he’s been on the DL. It’s the fact that most of the injuries bear no apparent relation to any of the previous injuries.

Have they checked out his mitochondria?

Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.

by PaulThomas on Jun 30, 2008 5:53 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Lets see... what have they been thus far?

Groin injury, Wrist injury from being hit by a pitch I believe, then injured his other wrist while diving into a wall, then injured his elbow, then shin splints, and now a concussion.

Did I get everything?

facepalm.jpg

by Zonis on Jun 30, 2008 6:01 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Bone spurs

Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.

by PaulThomas on Jun 30, 2008 6:22 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh, and a pulled hamstring

Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.

by PaulThomas on Jun 30, 2008 6:22 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Dude can't even approach Dan Johnson's track record

He's a very personable, sweet, nice chimp. He's not going to be aggressive unless he's provoked. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jun 30, 2008 6:11 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

That depends

If you’re judging by quality, it’s hard to compete with vertigo and suntan lotion in the eye.
But I think Buck wins for quantity, with somewhere from 9 to 11 distinct injuries in about 2 years:

groin strain/sports hernia (2006) -DL
both wrists (5/2007)
? hamstring (5/2007)
right elbow (5/2007)
right thumb (6/2007) -DL
left forearm (7/2007)
? elbow (8/2007)
left hamstring (8/2007) -DL
shin splints (4/2008) -DL
concussion (6/2008) -DL

"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.

by andeux on Jun 30, 2008 6:47 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

others

Rich’s alarm clock and Frank Menechino running up the dugout steps. Those are a couple more oddities.

"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin

by Helloooo 1st on Jun 30, 2008 9:53 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

DJ had to have a hole drilled. In his head.

Buck is just fragile.

He's a very personable, sweet, nice chimp. He's not going to be aggressive unless he's provoked. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jun 30, 2008 11:51 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Somehow I missed the trepanation.

"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.

by andeux on Jul 1, 2008 9:57 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

aw, nertz

Almost had to have a hole drilled in his head. (I suppose I could parse my own statement to mean that doctors said he had to, even though he ultimately opted not to.)

Still trumps Buck, though.

He's a very personable, sweet, nice chimp. He's not going to be aggressive unless he's provoked. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jul 1, 2008 10:38 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

hate to be a noob

but this is the place to ask…

what the heck is pitch f/x? what does it mean? inches of…..downward break?

Let's have our Piazza and eat the Cust too - SPWC

by closetasfan on Jun 30, 2008 6:05 PM PDT   0 recs

I believe the term is bitch f/x

And it’s why I sleep on the couch 4 nights a month.

A little plumbing! Got to plumb! Plumb the depths! The depths of hell! - Larry David, CYE

by Swooney's Left Foot on Jun 30, 2008 6:08 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I'd like to gently request that you ease up on your use of the b-word

He's a very personable, sweet, nice chimp. He's not going to be aggressive unless he's provoked. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jun 30, 2008 6:12 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Understood

A little plumbing! Got to plumb! Plumb the depths! The depths of hell! - Larry David, CYE

by Swooney's Left Foot on Jun 30, 2008 6:15 PM PDT