DLD 7/10: Rich Harden
by salb918 on Jul 10, 2008 10:48 AM PDT
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PrintI used up all my words on this subject over at THT.
7 IP, 1 H, 3 K, 1 BB, A's win 16-0
9 IP, 2 H, 8 K, 0 BB, 86 pitches
7 IP, 4 K, 2 BB, 15 GB outs, one very memorable pickoff
8 IP, 4 H, 8 K, 2 BB, an awesome ending
Good luck Rich. See ya 'round.
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Sexson Released and Bedard to DL
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3481747
A little plumbing! Got to plumb! Plumb the depths! The depths of hell! - Larry David, CYE
by Swooney's Left Foot on Jul 10, 2008 11:06 AM PDT reply actions
and the miguel cairo era begins
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
and the Joel Cairo era begins
... arousing men to burst the chains under which monkeyish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves ... @('.')@
You... you imbecile. You bloated idiot. You stupid fat-head you.
not you, Monkeyball, Spade!
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth."- Ted Williams
by Gaijin_Suketto on Jul 10, 2008 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I wonder if the A's would have any interest in Sexon?
A change of scenery may do him well; he could split time with Barton and the A’s could use a RH power hitter. His .218 Batting avg. would fit right in with this team. They would be able to sign him for a pro-rated minimum salary, like the Big Hurt. Bankston is probably fine, but it would be interesting.
"just a beating heart ... plasma that we'll put into our uniform." - Billy Beane
by athleticsBB4life on Jul 10, 2008 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
I don't really want him
but he joins Barry Bonds and Matt Murton (and probably several other free or cheap options) on the list of available players who are pretty obviously better than Emil Brown.
"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.
This DLD is kind of boring
It needs some pictures or something.
Don't blame me, I voted for Ice Cream
That picture has too many stats
Don't blame me, I voted for Ice Cream
by Englishmajor on Jul 10, 2008 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
I wish I were going to the game today instead of being at work
by Englishmajor on Jul 10, 2008 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions
But if you go
Just remember:
Don't blame me, I voted for Ice Cream
by Englishmajor on Jul 10, 2008 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
why isn't the banjo guy
in any of these ads? Krazy George has one big moment – but the Banjo guy has been an institution for years….
because crazy george is elsewhere
but the banjo guy still roams the Coli…and evokes Fidel Castro, among other images.
Most fans give the banjo guy the same avoidance and absent eye-contact as they do for street-panhandlers. Not exactly “promotion magic”.
"I never predict anything, and I never will." Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
by One won lost won on Jul 10, 2008 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Apparently
Banjo man invented the twirly beanie he wears. Dont know if that’s true though.
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
by Helloooo 1st on Jul 10, 2008 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
He makes them
I don’t think he invented them - I remember them in MAD magazine when I was a child - but he is a major player in the propeller-beanie industry. Whirling through the world of propeller beanies
Don't blame me, I voted for Ice Cream
by Englishmajor on Jul 10, 2008 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions
damn you, evil dr. stat!
Trying to quantify what percent of dominance is baseball! (or is it that 100% of baseball is dominance?). All I need to know if whether dominance feels baseball in his gut.
When's this guy playing?
"just a beating heart ... plasma that we'll put into our uniform." - Billy Beane
by athleticsBB4life on Jul 10, 2008 11:29 AM PDT reply actions
Murton's only been in the organization a couple of days,
and Ellis is letting him ride his unicorn already?
That’s awesome!
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth."- Ted Williams
by Gaijin_Suketto on Jul 10, 2008 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
ouch, be nice
"just a beating heart ... plasma that we'll put into our uniform." - Billy Beane
by athleticsBB4life on Jul 10, 2008 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
sorry
I’m a visual person—I need pictures if there’s gonna be a RH-themed dump. (okay, that sounded weird.)
by whiteshoes40 on Jul 10, 2008 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
You're okay.
I was partially kidding.
Mark Ellis: sent down from Heaven to rob Evil of hits and hand out rainbows
Rich Harden sucks
... arousing men to burst the chains under which monkeyish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves ... @('.')@
Slurps
Don't blame me, I voted for Ice Cream
by Englishmajor on Jul 10, 2008 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I wonder, when players get traded
do they just have to get rid of all of their ex-team’s wardrobe that’s not official uniform related? Rich looks perfect in his camouflage A’s t shirt. I hope he keeps it.
Nature's first green is gold...
It's going to be a long time
before this doesn’t really hurt like a samurai sword in the side.
In news of the obvious, the gals at BleedCubbieBlue quickly decided that Rich is a “hottie” and “adorable.”
Yeah, we know.
by SportySpice on Jul 10, 2008 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions
some people might find this interesting
being owners of baseball franchises with a pack of baseball cards and you play against the machine or other people
if enough people are interested in making an AN league, I’m in.
article about it
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/02/baseball-boss-if-you-dont-love-baseball-yet-you-will-now/
Let's have our Piazza and eat the Cust too - SPWC
Hey sal:
Is there a statistic that measures hitter streakiness?
Seems like a difficult thing to nail down, and perhaps fundamentally arbitrary (i.e. what qualifies as a “streak”?), but … I’m skeptical of the notion that some players are inherently more streaky than others, and I’d love to be able to consult historical streakiness leaderboards (or something) to test my skepticism.
I found this, but it appears to deal more with the (non) relationship between prior streakiness and future performance; I’m more interested in streakiness as it relates to particular players or batter skill sets (if it does). I want to see if Player A was highly streaky one year, not so much the next, if high strikeout totals correlate to excessive streakiness, etc.
Not that I know of.
The big issue, as you allude to, is the definition of “streak”; where do you draw the endpoints? When does a streak become a change in true talent level?
I, too, am skeptical that some players are streakier than others and haven’t seen evidence supporting this contention. To do this study, you’d need to evaluate a player’s true talent at any given moment in time (like here) and then define a metric like “rms derivative.” Way too much trouble.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
I'd like to see someone do a power spectrum analysis
like I described here.
And by someone, I mean not me.
Corey Patterson's brother
"just a beating heart ... plasma that we'll put into our uniform." - Billy Beane
by athleticsBB4life on Jul 10, 2008 11:35 AM PDT reply actions
Are there any other
defensively challenged 2B younger brothers of major leaguers that Billy can go get?
A little plumbing! Got to plumb! Plumb the depths! The depths of hell! - Larry David, CYE
by Swooney's Left Foot on Jul 10, 2008 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
sean looks weird in his roster photo....better shot
"just a beating heart ... plasma that we'll put into our uniform." - Billy Beane
by athleticsBB4life on Jul 10, 2008 11:39 AM PDT reply actions
a candid shot
What does not kill you makes you stronger.
by Pa on Jul 10, 2008 6:26 PM PDT up reply actions
... arousing men to burst the chains under which monkeyish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves ... @('.')@
when I was recently in Dallas
I saw the strangest billboard telling kids to pull their pants up. Looks like it’s a whole campaign.
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
Many municipalities
are passing laws against wearing your pants in the above fashion (Atlanta is another). That’s all I can say on the matter without risking a CGV.
"PECOTA can pretty much kiss my ass."-Nico
where's LCJ, to tell us ...
... that government shouldn’t even mandate that we have to wear pants in the first place?
... arousing men to burst the chains under which monkeyish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves ... @('.')@
I still contend that covering one's genitals with mud and leaves
should count in a court of law as “pants.”
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth."- Ted Williams
by Gaijin_Suketto on Jul 10, 2008 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I see your "strange billboard" and raise you 1000
In Africa, they’re trying to emphasize that rich people masturbate (as an anti-AIDS campaign).
Probably NSFW
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm50/nevermoor/masturbation.jpg
And after we make 'em pull their pants up
we’re gonna get ‘em off my lawn!!
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
I like how the URL for this diary
refers to “Rich Haren.” Which geeky programmer is trying to rub salt in the wound?
"PECOTA can pretty much kiss my ass."-Nico
After you save or publish a diary...
the URL won’t change if you edit the title. So, either the diary was titled something different, or it’s an error by the author.
Mark Ellis: sent down from Heaven to rob Evil of hits and hand out rainbows
Well, this author *never* makes mistakes.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
New article on A's homepage
A’s don’t want to tamper with Cust
Yeah, let’s please not change anything.
Might as well Jump! - Van Halen
for all the Jane Lee H8 (I'm lookin' at you, bbg), that was a nice metaphor in the lede
Cust’s new alternate nickname: “Rochambeau”
... arousing men to burst the chains under which monkeyish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves ... @('.')@
That's pretty good
Or should we, instead of HR-Walk-K go Rock-Paper-Scissors during game threads?
Might as well Jump! - Van Halen
Yeah but she blows it shortly later
Trying to show Cust as a Three True Outcome hitter yet using AB instead of PA to get a whopping 70% TTO.
by TimLincecumIsGod on Jul 10, 2008 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions
ouch
Three true outcomes writer
... arousing men to burst the chains under which monkeyish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves ... @('.')@
Any verification...
to yesterday’s telecast where they said Harden was going to be shutdown until post ASG?
"Twenty minutes," says Jack Sr. "Thank god for Billy Beane."
Some minor league transactions
Eric Patterson is now on the Sacramento roster. Matt Murton isn’t, which could mean a number of things (he’s coming to Oakland, he’s part of another trade) or could mean nothing at all.
Josh Donaldson, also obtained in the Harden trade, who was hitting poorly for Chicago’s low-A team, has been placed on the high-A Stockton roster.
And Corey Brown has also been promoted to Stockton. Brown was hitting .270/.358/.483 which is excellent in a very tough league for hitters, but was also striking out in nearly a third of his at-bats, which is not.
"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.
I think sending Donaldson to Stockton is a good move
It’s a tougher league, but it’s also a hitter’s league (so he might end up putting up similar numbers with similar play) and perhaps even more importantly, just a DIFFERENT league (as opposed to a different Midwest League team). And he needs to make progress if he’s going to stay any kind of prospect.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Also, it's just the right timing for someone with his expectations.
Sometimes you just have to ignore results—What better way to boost a kid’s confidence than to let him know that even though he’s had a rough two months, you still fully believe in his pedigree and go ahead and promote him. It’s not like he’s going to bigs or AAA or something. Just because he’s not hitting doesn’t mean he hasn’t made progress, etc.
Jeremy was safe. He jumped over the tag.
The game thread is too big for it to work on my computer.
WOOOOOOO!!! Kurt!!!
Mark Ellis: sent down from Heaven to rob Evil of hits and hand out rainbows
Found this on the Cub's MLB homepage:
Acquired Tuesday from Oakland along with reliever Chad Gaudin for four players, Harden will make his Cubs debut on Saturday in the second game of a three-game series against the Giants. The right-hander already has a win over San Francisco during Interleague Play this season. On June 14, he gave up one hit and walked two while striking out nine over six innings in the Athletics’ 4-0 win.
So looks like Harden is a go on Saturday!
Harden getting acclimated to NL life
"Twenty minutes," says Jack Sr. "Thank god for Billy Beane."
While on this subject, let's play...
CAPTION THIS!
"Twenty minutes," says Jack Sr. "Thank god for Billy Beane."
by ST on Jul 10, 2008 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions
So um, Rich, "here" we like the throw the ball that way, towards the plate.
In search of a new signature. Say something funny and you may see your comment here!
Rich: I don’t care what your hallowed Wrigley Field traditions are—I am not rubbing that ivy all over my body before my first start.
Don't blame me, I voted for Ice Cream
by Englishmajor on Jul 10, 2008 6:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Coach: Ok, Rich! Now that you’re in Chicago we want to keep you healthy and well rested for your debut as a Chicago Cub! There’s a bed over there in the clubhouse for ya and you can take a nap till the game starts. Don’t worry, we have an alarm clock and everything to wake you up when its time to go!
facepalm.jpg
Coach: Is that your sister over there? She’s hot.
... arousing men to burst the chains under which monkeyish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves ... @('.')@
Have we actually obtained a picture of Miss Harden?
I don’t recall seeing one.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
I haven't seen any
I was just riffing on The Sister Incident, and the look on Rich’s face in the photo.
... arousing men to burst the chains under which monkeyish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves ... @('.')@
That picture stings like hell, but your caption IS really funny.
There's no textbook for how to treat a geriatric tapir.
I wasn't
ready to see that :-(
(Formerly Nobody Girl)
"We are a complete freak show." -- Billy Beane
Cutting your own hair in the mirror is the new market inefficiency
How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porchlight on?
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Jul 10, 2008 6:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I will give you Duchscherer and Street for your hat.
A little plumbing! Got to plumb! Plumb the depths! The depths of hell! - Larry David, CYE
by Swooney's Left Foot on Jul 10, 2008 6:59 PM PDT up reply actions
WINNER
... arousing men to burst the chains under which monkeyish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves ... @('.')@
Usually, I don't try to fleece anyone in a trade.
Until just now, when I traded my hat to the Metro Networks reporter for these magic beans. These magic beans are my greatest acquisition ever.
Brainless Automaton #439
by rubin sierra on Jul 10, 2008 7:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow his wife must have been really pissed at the Harden deal...
late night hair cut, got revenge for all of us.
facepalm.jpg
Look at the finger. Barf.
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/00Tj8eifSu0RD/610x.jpg
Mark Ellis: sent down from Heaven to rob Evil of hits and hand out rainbows
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