Discerning students of AN history (and those who can spell in reverse) may recognize the author of this letter to the Chron Sports editor in yesterday’s paper. The author distances himself from the Rickey bandwagon, on cancerous teammate grounds.

according to devil_fingers’ analysis over at Driveline Mechanics.

He has an open request for A’s-fans-in-the-know to help try to explain how our two Jacks wound up at the top of his chart. As a NRAF-out-of-the-know, I’m personally unqualified.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3844193

Adam Melhuse has signed a minor league contract with the Rangers.

For those keeping track, he’s now gone from the Rockies (2000-2001) to the Cubs (2002) to the Rockies (2002) to the A’s (2003-2007) to the Rangers (2007) to the A’s (2007) to the Rangers (2008) to the Rockies (2008) to the Rangers (2009).

I think that makes it our turn again next.

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/998/story/449843.html

Interesting note:

“We’re in Boise, and I said, ‘Rickey, you’re on your own to run. You’re fast. I want you to be aggressive. I want you to be fearless. I want you to be really confident in what you are doing.’ "
" ‘OK, OK, OK,’ Rickey said to me," Trebelhorn added.
"So he’s not running," Trebelhorn continued. "Finally I said, ‘Rick, why aren’t you running? And he said, ‘Well, you know I really need the sign to go.’ "
At this point, Kennedy begins to chuckle in the background.
"All right, I’ll give you the sign,’” Trebelhorn said.
“So he gets on first base and I go through the whole signs,” Trebelhorn said. “At the end, I take all the signs off — and he steals second.
"So I said (to Henderson), ’All right. Watch. Look at me,” Trebelhorn said. “I give him the same signs again, and I give him the ‘take off’ sign. I take EVERYTHING off. Nothing is on. He steals third.”
Kennedy chuckles some more.
“I said, ‘Rick, god dang it. Back to back pitches this is what I want you to do on your own, but I didn’t give you the ‘steal’ sign,” Trebelhorn said. “You don’t even know the signs.”
“And (Henderson) said, ’Man, man, Treb, man. I know the signs. Rickey knows the signs. Rickey knows the signs.”
“So I said, ‘Well, what’s the sign then?’ " Trebelhorn said.
Henderson then tells Trebelhorn, "Man, it’s the ‘take off’ sign. So I ‘took off’ to second, and I ‘took off’ to third!”
The punch line brought hearty laughter from Kennedy and applause in the studio from Sims.

TLR came to give a speech at my High School many years ago where he related that story, with the setup that it happened when Rickey returned to the A’s in ’89 and talked about wanting to follow the signs to be a good team player.

Does anyone know of a way to watch A’s games from the early 2000’s. I want to watch the big 3 pitch again, relive the 20 game win streak, and deal with the pain of the “flip play”.
If anyone has copies of any games or knows of a web site where they can be viewed that would be amazing. I am really having baseball withdrawls right now.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb

Filip finds no solace in that. He started making bats for himself as a hobby, then sold some to friends. His business boomed on eBay and picked up when Eric Chavez started using them.

I couldn’t link the actual article for some reason but it is on the front page.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb

Filip finds no solace in that. He started making bats for himself as a hobby, then sold some to friends. His business boomed on eBay and picked up when Eric Chavez started using them.

I couldn’t link the actual article for some reason but it is on the front page.

That is all.

but alas, it’s not this. damn!

(I’m not sure since I’ve been having computer problems since the beginning of the new year, and so haven’t been visiting here much.)

Anyway, “Batting Stance Guy” has a video imitating the batting stances of many A’s past and present.

He looks like a certain drug-crazed homeless guy I see around who is often carrying around a brick somewhat menacingly. Good pitcher, though.