not if it’s grover

And The Chicago Manual of Style says, “…a name beginning with a lowercase letter should not begin a sentence; if it must, it should be capitalized.” But I agree with colin. You’re just asking for trouble when you write “Grover.”

Great interview.

but I’ll mention it again.

Why is the MLB Dugout Heroes ad a picture of a Giant? I’m on an A’s fan site, and I live in Los Angeles. It’s bugging me, although it probably has no right to do so.

it’s a minor league deal. The Padres pay only $400,000 of the more than $2 million that Gaudin will be getting this year (the Cubs are on the hook for the rest). Although I had earlier supported bringing him back, it seems that ever since he tripped on a curb and hurt his back when he hit the dumpster his pitching has also been in the dumpster. Hopefully he’ll be able to recover and work out whatever pitching issues he has…I wish him well.

Also, the Giants signed former Angels prospect Dallas McPherson to a minor league deal. He has big time power, but has not yet impressed at the major league level….and by the way, former A’s third base prospect Jesús Guzmán is playing first base for the Giants’ AAA club at the moment – they have a player named Ryan Rholinger playing third base there.

Standing firmly on the pro-Grover side comes Idris Mercer. Enjoyable if long-winded rant on the subject, from whence came this gem:

But I would draw the line if Kathryn made a point of saying she preferred “kathryn” to “Kathryn”. To my mind, such a request would be asking for a fundamentally different kind of treatment from the ordinary courtesy we extend to somebody who changes their name or prefers to use their middle name. The spelling or pronunciation of your name is a feature of your name, but capitalization of proper nouns is a feature of the surrounding language.

By a twist of cosmic fate there exists in the blog sphere a copy editor who shares names with a certain legendary 49’s coach. Perhaps the similar merger of sports and grammar on his blog and ours has swayed my opinion favorably, but I’m agreeing with his outlook.

Walsh’s theory approaches the issue by differentiating names used brand versus those used for the person representing said brand. There is the musical persona k. d. lang, but the Canadian lady behind the brand is still K. D. The theory led me to an insomnia induced rant epiphany.

An internet handle has two functions. One is a moniker through which at set of opinions and beliefs are given a distinct brand. The other is an alias representing a real-world individual. By Walsh’s logic, the choice to capitalize acts as a sign indicating which function of the handle one is referring to. Example:

1) Handle as brand: grover’s work on Oakland’s future cap space shows that it is quite feasible to retain Matt Holliday’s services for over $20 million yearly.

2) Handle as person: Grover lost his voice cheering for the A’s at the last homestand.

If we were in France I’ve no doubt this rule would be strictly enforced to maintain the language. However, this being America, free will and free press shall rule the day. If the people want lower-cased names at the beginning of a sentence, we’ll darn well have them.

because it had a few funny recorded activities. I asked if the NPD ever had to do any real police work (as a joke, not a shot against them), and while this article says it was the Marin County Sheriffs department’s bust it still shows that some stuff goes down in Novato.

Bicycle Thief Busted in Costco Parking Lot

What a day/week for MLB. :-(

Found passed out in broadcast booth

I will always remember him as the voice on my Dad’s 49ers camphionship videotape.

Bad week for Baseball, man.

They have been added to the original fANpost.

With a fancy table!

Congratulations to Angry Sean, who got the best score. However, micdog2001 still holds the lead in total points.