DLD 071508: Baseball's Greatest Dicks

by FreeSeatUpgrade on Jul 15, 2008 11:38 AM PDT Comment 128 comments

Apparently there hasn't been an everyday Dick in the big leagues since Dick Schofield pulled out of baseball after the 1996 season. Twelve long, hard years of Dicklessness.

Lest the Golden Era be forgotten, Cam Martin of the Bugs and Cranks blog has erected the definitive All-Dick Team. A's great Dick Green pops up, as does the famously rigid Dick Williams. And no such list would be complete without the legendary Dick Pole (no additional joke required).

In non-Dick news, A’s pitching coach Curt Young gets some props from the Trib’s Monte Poole:

On an Oakland staff rich with luxury cars and sports cars, Young was the beige Camry. Sensible. Reliable. And low maintenance…

His name is Curt Young, and he's the fifth-year pitching coach of baseball's No. 1 staff. Nobody this season has been more miraculous while practically invisible. "I kind of like it that way,'' he says…

Manager Bob Geren offers nothing but praise; then again, he is on a 260-game optimism streak. The pitching staff, to a man, believes in the coach.

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to quote the movie

You just got knocked the fuck out. That about sums up Jose Canseco’s boxing match last night.

Heres the address for highlights, umm lowlight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSodr6K93OU

by A'sfaninNC on Jul 15, 2008 12:03 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

the movie Friday forgot that my bad

by A'sfaninNC on Jul 15, 2008 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Total spam alert

No highlight is worth that much Stephen Asshat. I mean when is somebody gonna knock that guy “the fuck out?”

"Not in your wildest alcoholic nightmare would you ever imagines such events unfolding!" Bill King

by Buck Turgidson on Jul 16, 2008 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Utley to the NY fans:

F* you.

Awesome.

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 Jul 15, 2008 12:07 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

That's just awesome.

by mikev on Jul 15, 2008 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I knew I liked Chase Utley

by drmmerchk on Jul 15, 2008 3:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

A voice for the common baseball fan

Ryan Sweeney: I probably irrationally embraced him before you did.

by Joey C. on Jul 15, 2008 7:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

New nickname for Duke

Skwull

I told them 'My game is like a blog.' Because I don't know what a blog is, but it don't sound good. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jul 15, 2008 12:13 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Not to be confused with

skrulls

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 Jul 15, 2008 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Skrulls are taking over. Trust no one!

A's, baby!

by Coach Cleats on Jul 15, 2008 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

the only thing that can defeat the Skrulls

are the Thrulls.

"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 15, 2008 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And to sum it all up...

It’s the world we live in…

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by Sacpike on Jul 16, 2008 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And these are the hands we're given

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

by 5Aces on Jul 17, 2008 9:17 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

SKRULLS!!

Marvel Comics rule!

Green Hulk Fists

by oaklandSMASH on Jul 15, 2008 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

facepalm.jpg

by Zonis on Jul 15, 2008 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Also awesome:

Remember how Jose Canseco would twitch?

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 Jul 15, 2008 12:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

For PT

Hero. Savior. Defender of Justice. Vanquishing fear and illuminating the yellow brick road to redemption for disillusioned sports enthusiasts across the land.

Yes, that’s right: Josh Hamilton = Babe Ruth, Cal Ripken, and Jackie Robinson combined.

by 74mk on Jul 15, 2008 12:23 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

yeahbut

in that same article

We see an Athletics pitcher named Brad Ziegler come back from two fractured skulls and take a run at the record for most shutout innings to begin a career.

"The Athletics at Fremont" is pretty bad

by ArakSOT on Jul 15, 2008 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, but

That doesn’t come close to compensating for the comically gratuitous hero-worship that permeates the piece. Ziegler seems like a great guy, and I’m happy for him and everything, but he doesn’t “help us remember what we stand for, not against, what we believe, not what we fear”. Nor does he conjure “awe and appreciation” from the depths of my being.

Ugh.

by 74mk on Jul 15, 2008 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Your prose arouses

the same feelings within me. Outstandingly insightful, tinged with just the correct amount of sarcasm. Not quite as bawdy as FSU, but a delight nonetheless. I can always count on the two of you for a good laugh!

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer

by alox on Jul 15, 2008 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ah, the paean to the sanctity of canonization by the low-information ~~voter~~ fan …

I told them 'My game is like a blog.' Because I don't know what a blog is, but it don't sound good. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jul 15, 2008 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

for the love of Ba'al ...

That piece needs a full FJM.

Josh Hamilton turned the page in his life, and Monday night he helped baseball begin the long, dry healing process of turning the page on the Dark Ages.

I told them 'My game is like a blog.' Because I don't know what a blog is, but it don't sound good. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jul 15, 2008 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh, they'll get there,

Monkey—they’re busy sifting through three to four hours of a announcing booth of nine for last night’s HRD. It may have caused some of them to bleed from the ears…

I’d still rather have Street on my team than K-Rod, just because I hate douchebags. -Taj Adib

by Leopold Bloom on Jul 15, 2008 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

bleeding from the ears, long dry healing process ...

We’re gonna have scars.

I told them 'My game is like a blog.' Because I don't know what a blog is, but it don't sound good. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jul 15, 2008 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Scars make the body more interesting,

or at least that’s what I’ve heard…

I’d still rather have Street on my team than K-Rod, just because I hate douchebags. -Taj Adib

by Leopold Bloom on Jul 15, 2008 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Long dry heaving process is more like it

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 Jul 15, 2008 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think you're overreacting a little

While histrionic, that piece was not a canonization of Hamilton. Certainly it’s far from the worst I’ve seen. He’s arguing that Hamilton is a great story (which he is), not that he’s a great person (which, in my opinion, he isn’t).

And I have to admit, the absence of the “Hamilton=Christian=wonderful” angle instantly makes it about 10 times more palatable to me.

Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.

by PaulThomas on Jul 15, 2008 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And

there is something to be said for turning your life around after you’d sunk so low…but spotlighting recovering people does tend to overlook all those who never got hooked on smack to begin with…dunno.

I’d still rather have Street on my team than K-Rod, just because I hate douchebags. -Taj Adib

by Leopold Bloom on Jul 15, 2008 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Meh.

The talented person, once in (lots of) trouble, now finding success and redemption, fulfilling his promise and potential, is a standard trope, a standard (stereo)/(arche)type, a standard cliche.

It might not be “fair” to the people who never got into trouble in the first place, but the way Hamilton’s story is being reported is really nothing new. It’s how Hamilton type stories have been told for thousands of years.

ZIPS: Milledge: 466 HR, 485 2B, 2282 hits, 278-379-524

by rfloh on Jul 16, 2008 1:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

1. Well, some of my hyperbole was (perhaps unsuccessfully) employed in an attempt to elicit a laugh or two.

2. But you’re right. I am overreacting a bit.

3. However: It’s the godawful syrupy language and absurd pedestalization that has me in a tizzy:

“After the strike that canceled the 1994 World Series and led to the coldest winter, along came Cal Ripken, the dignity and might of the Joe Torre/Derek Jeter/Mariano Rivera Yankees …”

“we are watching the unfurling of two dramas we have never before seen in our lifetime, and may never see again”

“Our heroes can be flawed. The Babe certainly was. Hamilton never stops reminding us that he, too, is flawed and that he’s not ashamed to admit it and never will stop fighting.”

“It is unbelievable what he has done, and now the nation knows it. Hamilton matters …”

“These are not the best of times in America, but we look at baseball and see Ankiel.”

And so on.

I mean, really? I’m surprised Gammons didn’t hyperventilate to death as he outdid his own gushy oblivious exaggerations in sentence after overheated sentence. This need to heighten sports into some kind of mythical Gods-walk-among-us drama aggravates the hell out of me, and is, I think, actually quite insidious. Most of the time, I cope with its ubiquity by rolling my eyes, but occasionally I’m confronted with something so drenched in cliche and utterly lacking in perspective that – just for a minute – I feel a little embarrassed to be a sports fan.

by 74mk on Jul 15, 2008 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

After the 1994 strike

I thought it was the McGwire/Sosa home run chase that saved baseball. Oops.

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

by andeux on Jul 15, 2008 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Shh...

We’re gonna pretend it was this something over here cause those fellers there might not’ve been exactly what you’d call (looks left, then right, then left again) “clean”.

I’d still rather have Street on my team than K-Rod, just because I hate douchebags. -Taj Adib

by Leopold Bloom on Jul 15, 2008 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah

but neither was Hamilton.

Maybe Big Mac can go clean and become a compelling story again. Imagine his heroic battle to regrow his shriveled “jewels.” If that doesn’t get ESPN going maybe Favre can un-retire again or something.

by nevermoor on Jul 15, 2008 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

In fairness, though, a little gushing is due after last night

Which was one of the most impressive baseball moments I’ve seen, non-playoffs edition (even if, yes, the environment was contrived).

It’s only natural that the gushing focuses on his story, since he’s got an interesting one (love picking the Legion guy to throw). It’s unfortunate that the NYY got a shout out, but I’ll give Gammons a pass on that one. ESPN probably edited it in to increase the page hits.

by nevermoor on Jul 15, 2008 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sorry, my aneurysm is too far along to accommodate perspective.

"These are not the best of times in America, but we look at baseball and see Ankiel."

How do you

a) write that in the first place?
b) not immediately retire in shame after writing that?
c) not submit an embarrassed self-flagellating retraction after seeing it in print?

by 74mk on Jul 15, 2008 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

lol...stop it!!

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer

by alox on Jul 15, 2008 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sports has long been

heightened into some kind of mythical drama. Athletes have long been idolised as heroes, even gods among men, dating back to the ancient Greek Olympics, and the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.

ZIPS: Milledge: 466 HR, 485 2B, 2282 hits, 278-379-524

by rfloh on Jul 16, 2008 1:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Come now Paul,

Redemption is as much as part of American as…..well, baseball. It is a great story, if an old one. True, it’s repeated on a smaller, much more anonymous scale everyday, but at least this one had a culmination on such a grand stage. Face it, the last season in “the house that Ruth built”, with such theatrics? Hard to script something better. To top it off, he even had the good graces to loose the contest.

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer

by alox on Jul 15, 2008 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Gaads....

I really need to use the preview function…..should have read, “as much a part of Americana”.....

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer

by alox on Jul 15, 2008 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't know about you ...

... but I’ve had my fill of redemptive hero worship of American men who overcame substance abuse problems after relocating to Texas for quite some time, thankyouverymuch.

I told them 'My game is like a blog.' Because I don't know what a blog is, but it don't sound good. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jul 15, 2008 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yes....

but did Hamilton have a “C” average?

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer

by alox on Jul 15, 2008 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

where does Texas figure into this?

Were I to have a substance abuse problem (and it must be noted, I’ve studied hard for that exam), it seems as if being situated anywhere in the state of Texas would make it worse, not better.

I’d still rather have Street on my team than K-Rod, just because I hate douchebags. -Taj Adib

by Leopold Bloom on Jul 15, 2008 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's why he has the designated friend that follows him around 24/7

by nevermoor on Jul 15, 2008 10:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Because Texas is vile and nasty

and essentially the worst place on earth?

I’d still rather have Street on my team than K-Rod, just because I hate douchebags. -Taj Adib

by Leopold Bloom on Jul 15, 2008 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yep

by nevermoor on Jul 16, 2008 6:35 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

...

...do all Texans get a designated friend?

I’d still rather have Street on my team than K-Rod, just because I hate douchebags. -Taj Adib

by Leopold Bloom on Jul 16, 2008 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

No, well if you count my pit bull, Koby, then Yes!!

AHHHH! I left the stove on!!!
********OaKlAnDaThLeTiCs********

by LiZaRdReVoLuTiOn on Jul 16, 2008 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It depends

At the same time you’d have had to also serve in the military without setting foot on a base, grown wealthy while running a failed oil company, governed a perennially losing baseball team, and, I dunno, perhaps been elected to public office along to way.

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

by FreeSeatUpgrade on Jul 15, 2008 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have no idea what you're talking about

I told them 'My game is like a blog.' Because I don't know what a blog is, but it don't sound good. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jul 16, 2008 9:24 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Read his lips

by theblackpearl on Jul 16, 2008 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Having an unusual and interesting

method for pronouncing “nuclear ” might come with that as well.

I’d still rather have Street on my team than K-Rod, just because I hate douchebags. -Taj Adib

by Leopold Bloom on Jul 16, 2008 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Redemption is as much part of Western

culture, as sports. Not just Americana.

And since I’m a Hamilton fan, I have no problem with the gushing ;)

ZIPS: Milledge: 466 HR, 485 2B, 2282 hits, 278-379-524

by rfloh on Jul 16, 2008 1:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Speaking of dicks...

Alicia Milano swears off baseball players:

But, after dating Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Brad Penny and Atlanta Braves star Tom Glavine, she’s determined to court more mature men, like her current mystery beau, known only as “David”.
Milano says, “They are grown men playing a little boy’s sport. That makes them childish.”

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 15, 2008 12:23 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I don't play baseball

But I’m still childish. Does that disqualify me? Does “childish” really mean “cheats on me every night they’re on the road”?

These are the questions I need answers for.

by nevermoor on Jul 15, 2008 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Alyssa Milano probably has a lot to say about baseball's greatest dicks.

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.

by pam5981 on Jul 15, 2008 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

"Alicia"?

I told them 'My game is like a blog.' Because I don't know what a blog is, but it don't sound good. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jul 15, 2008 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

oh buzz off

I’m busy doing big important things, I grace this DLD with my presence, and this is the thanks I get? ::goes back to snacking on cashews::

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 15, 2008 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Silverstone...Milano...

It’s hard to keep the aging jailbait straight.

I’d still rather have Street on my team than K-Rod, just because I hate douchebags. -Taj Adib

by Leopold Bloom on Jul 15, 2008 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Are you talking about this jailbait?

by Hang Man on Jul 15, 2008 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Second one: uncool. Deleted.

I told them 'My game is like a blog.' Because I don't know what a blog is, but it don't sound good. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jul 15, 2008 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It musta been a doozy to be worse than the underage shot above.

Were animals involved?

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

by The Dogfather on Jul 15, 2008 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It wasn't too bad.

It was a little cold in the studio at the time, though.

Mark Ellis: sent down from Heaven to rob Evil of hits and hand out rainbows

by Jennifer on Jul 15, 2008 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

she would have gotten around to Scutaro eventually

she’s such a huge fan of the sport, she dreams up game scenarios when she’s trying to get to sleep.
She adds, “My stress reliever is usually baseball. In fact, sometimes when I can’t sleep – because my mind is racing – I close my eyes and think about being at the stadium. I create game-winning situations.
“I think of the sound of the bat cracking. And you know what? It usually works.”

I told them 'My game is like a blog.' Because I don't know what a blog is, but it don't sound good. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jul 15, 2008 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

When he has sex,

are there three or four people on the side of the bed, chanting and clapping, “Marco!”?

I’d still rather have Street on my team than K-Rod, just because I hate douchebags. -Taj Adib

by Leopold Bloom on Jul 15, 2008 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Right number of people

but you forgot that half have to be on the other side of the bed yelling “Scutaro!”

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

by 5Aces on Jul 15, 2008 4:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

She had me all Paradise by the Dashboard Light ...

... until she talked about cracking the bat. Yeow!

Now I won’t need the ‘62 Yankees anymore—I’ll just think of bat-busting “Alicia.”

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

by The Dogfather on Jul 15, 2008 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

"David" is

“More mature” and not (currently) playing baseball?
I think it must be Wells.

by Englishmajor on Jul 15, 2008 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wait wait wait…. she dated Tom Glavine?
I thought it was just Pavano, Zito, Penny, and Martin… Glavine too?

by drmmerchk on Jul 15, 2008 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

She dated a few pitching coaches too.

AHHHH! I left the stove on!!!
********OaKlAnDaThLeTiCs********

by LiZaRdReVoLuTiOn on Jul 16, 2008 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ok, NBR, but it does have

balls

Stomper is a badass!

by lynnzgal on Jul 15, 2008 12:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

good stuff, maynard

"The Athletics at Fremont" is pretty bad

by ArakSOT on Jul 15, 2008 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

There is so much good

sig line material in that!

Stomper is a badass!

by lynnzgal on Jul 15, 2008 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Great stuff.

Mark Ellis: sent down from Heaven to rob Evil of hits and hand out rainbows

by Jennifer on Jul 16, 2008 6:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

No link but...

The coliseum is killing Ellis this year:

home: .181/.292/.293/.585
road: .314/.386/.507/.893

by totoum on Jul 15, 2008 1:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I just read that it's because unicorns and rainbows aren't allowed at the coliseum . . .

by oaktownmario on Jul 15, 2008 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Management insists that all rainbows be red, white and blue.

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

by The Dogfather on Jul 15, 2008 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

So that's why Murton looked off

by nevermoor on Jul 15, 2008 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

please direct all questions to the Vice President for Magickal Phenomena

I told them 'My game is like a blog.' Because I don't know what a blog is, but it don't sound good. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jul 15, 2008 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Had not seen this before

so I apologize if it was posted elsewhere, but here is a link to a story about Ichiro’s traditional pre-All Star Game speech to the AL players. A must read.

by AsFanInLA on Jul 15, 2008 1:33 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

that is really funny

Jeez I’d love to hear that.

"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King

by batgirl on Jul 15, 2008 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The story is good

but it is also a big teaser because it tells us absolutely nothing about what Ichiro actually says. Not one thing. And while it’s interesting that it tells you it’s an Earl Weaver tirade coming from Ichiro, it left me feeling upset at not knowing . . .

by oaktownmario on Jul 15, 2008 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

+1

by mikev on Jul 15, 2008 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hilarious!

Someone needs to get us a bootleg of this.

"I hope he arouses the fire that's dormant in the innermost recesses of my soul. I plan to face him with the zeal of a challenger." Ichiro on Matsuzaka

by almostreggie on Jul 16, 2008 8:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Promotional Dick

I’ll admit I was skeptical at first, but the Dick Williams Bobblehead is actually really cool looking. Love the uni and pose.

As a side note, can someone more web savvy tell me how all of you post pictures so fast? I find that if I want to post a photo I have to go through this really time consuming process of saving it to my computer, then uploading it to photobucket, then posting the photobucket link here, which half the time gives me an error code anyway. Is there a faster way that I’m too clueless to know?

"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King

by batgirl on Jul 15, 2008 1:35 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

if it's a photo that lives online, you can skip the middleman ...

... and just post the URL of the photo in the dialog window after clicking on the tree/pic icon.

There’s also a way to upload photos to AN as SBN assets, but (a) I forget the exact chain of how to do that, (b) I’m not sure if you can do that without making a separate FanPost/-Shot, or© if that’s an admin-only privilege.

I told them 'My game is like a blog.' Because I don't know what a blog is, but it don't sound good. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jul 15, 2008 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh, cool

I thought we had to put them on photobucket too, in case there was a bandwidth issue. Maybe that’s just at the Orange.

by Englishmajor on Jul 15, 2008 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

ok, let me try that

"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King

by batgirl on Jul 15, 2008 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

holy crap it worked I am so excited--

thank you monkeyball

"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King

by batgirl on Jul 15, 2008 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

We've created a monster

by nevermoor on Jul 15, 2008 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

or a superheroine

I told them 'My game is like a blog.' Because I don't know what a blog is, but it don't sound good. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jul 15, 2008 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Don't tell Josh Hamilton.

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

by The Dogfather on Jul 15, 2008 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Michael Lewis is only interested in

big swinging Dicks.

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

by iglew on Jul 15, 2008 2:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Rich Aurilia?

Ryan Sweeney: I probably irrationally embraced him before you did.

by Joey C. on Jul 15, 2008 7:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

KNBR was freaking out

Apparently, Tim Lincecum had to be wheeled out of the hotel on a stretcher and will likely miss the ASG.

by lerei on Jul 15, 2008 2:21 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Dehydration

Might as well Jump! - Van Halen

by sprtsnwyn on Jul 15, 2008 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Boy, do I know that.

I thought I was dying this weekend.

Mark Ellis: sent down from Heaven to rob Evil of hits and hand out rainbows

by Jennifer on Jul 15, 2008 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

SI

sez flu-like symptoms. Poor widdle guy.

I’d still rather have Street on my team than K-Rod, just because I hate douchebags. -Taj Adib

by Leopold Bloom on Jul 15, 2008 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Isn't that an euphamism....

for really bad hangover?

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer

by alox on Jul 15, 2008 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

How did he get a hangover?

Didn’t he get carded, like, everyplace he went in NYC?

Green Hulk Fists

by oaklandSMASH on Jul 17, 2008 3:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

same symptoms duke had?

is there a N. CA conspiracy afloat?

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

by 5Aces on Jul 15, 2008 4:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Canadian gamblers must be in town

I told them 'My game is like a blog.' Because I don't know what a blog is, but it don't sound good. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jul 15, 2008 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Handy dandy thingamajig from sal here:

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/is-this-guy-for-real/
allows you to get up-to-the-previous-day projections for players. I have not had the heart to use it for any of the A’s. Would be even better if THT just published it on the player pages…

The A's colors are green and gold.

by mikeA on Jul 15, 2008 3:09 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

We're working on that last one.

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 15, 2008 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Murton: .285/.354/.437

Emil: .263/.323./402

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 15, 2008 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Does it league/park adjust?

The A's colors are green and gold.

by mikeA on Jul 15, 2008 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nope.

Marcel doesn’t know anything about parks, minor leagues, platoons, injuries, etc. It only knows three things: what a player has done, what his leaguemates have done, and how hold he is.

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 15, 2008 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Marcel is kind of limited in its value for the A's

Very few of them have enough of an MLB track record to actually make it a worthwhile exercise. Street, Blanton, Ellis, Chavez (sort of), Crosby, Embree… that’s about it at this point.

Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.

by PaulThomas on Jul 15, 2008 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs