DLD - 4/3/2009 TGIF, too bad it's not even 1PM yet.
by micdog2001 on Apr 3, 2009 12:58 PM PDT
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MLB.TV free preview Friday and Saturday.
Too bad it's for the NY games, but it is the first game in the new stadiums.
Ichiro on DL for the 1st time in MLB career
He had a bleeding ulcer, ow, sounds painful
Some Fantasy Baseball managers might find this interesting
Mauer hitting off tee, no return timetable though
I already posted this in the 4/2/09 DLD but it is too good not to post again.
Pittsburgh Pirates lose to community college team
The Pirates fielded a team of mostly minor leaguers but still.
I saw this on Opening Day preview on the A's site.
This will be Chavez's 12th season in an A's uniform, moving him into a tie with Mark McGwire for second on the franchise's all-time list. Rickey Henderson played 14 years with Oakland
I guees the A's have historically never had long tenured players?
A's have Plenty To Prove Against Angels
Not April Fools’: 49-1 blowout in college baseball
According to the NCAA, it would have set the Division I record for the most-lopsided victory, but Kentucky State is in Division II. The biggest rout in Division II history was a 71-1 victory by St. Francis over Robert Morris in a game between Illinois schools on April 2, 1996.
I was going to post something about ER but most people on AN last night did not care or like the show (except englishmajor, who might have taped it).
Dump away my friends!
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ER
I DVR’d it.
I started watching it when I had pneumonia a few years back. I was so dead I really couldn’t even change the channel, So I watched TNT all day. After two weeks (2 episodes a day) I was more or less hooked. What I liked about it then was it never went very far into anyone’s “story”, either the doctors or the patients. Most shows go off in to the peoples personality, ER always kept things back, you don’t get to “know” these people, know what happened. they come and they go.
Enjoy the game
I watched it from the beginning years ago
but when anthony edwards was killed off, it just didn’t have the same draw…..and once I was in college, I had other things to do on Thursday nights….
There's no crying in baseball!
nice find
Geren is amazingly organized. He has a board in his office on which he has three weeks of games planned out, and what pitchers the A’s are going to face. He is a real student of the game, and big believer in the statistical end of the game, some of which he gets from a book called “The Book.” He knows, from reading, that over the course of the season, a No. 3 hitter is going to get 15 more plate appearances than the No. 4 hitter.
“If you have a strikeout guy, sometimes it’s best to hit him second, not fifth,” Geren said. “There are more productive outs at the fifth spot. And did you know that the No. 3 spot in the order comes to the plate with no runners on base more than any spot in the batting order?”
So that is why Holliday is 4th and not 3rd? More RBI chances?
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"If you have a strikeout guy, sometimes it's best to hit him second, not fifth," Geren said.
If you believe that Geren, then bat Cust second!
I am Ray Fosse's infatuations with Clay Wood and high-definition television.
Seriously!
It really bothers me that Geren has read The Book, and even cites it, yet puts Cabrera out there in the second spot of the lineup. It makes no sense.
I think the writer truncated the title...
It was The Book of Conventional Baseball Wisdom" by Joe Morgan
Enjoy the game
I feel very certain that
Geren will try batting Cust at #2 before the end of the month.
Once it happens, I hope he sticks with it.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers."
he was hitting seven yesterday
behind bobby crosby111!!!!11
what have i got myself into this time... http://damiansthirtyyearchallenge.blogspot.com/
by alea iacta est on Apr 4, 2009 8:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Also of note...
against a difficult lefty, Geren has toyed with the idea of playing Crosby in right
(………) Insert Shock and Horror here
Enjoy the game
Sportsline article about the stadium issue
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/11587508
The Oakland Slumdogs!
We could...
…see some very odd lineups and positions this season, esp. in Lefty/Righty situations. And if Holliday were to be traded midseason it would only get weirder. Lots of two-position players on this team.
Enjoy the game
Any comments on the shootings in NY?
Still trying to figure out what the hell happened. Something like 12 dead, + the shooter who shot himself on the head. Seemed planned, as he parked his car infront of the back exit so no one could get out. CNN has a lot of info on it.
Chicago. Where the Dead can Vote. Where the Voters of Tomorrow are found in the Obituaries of Today.
Not to be cold about it all, but it is the world that we live in now.
Older than you, already on Soc Sec, would never have conceived such happening back in the old days…
Now seems to happen about once a year or so just because someone does not want to be part of society and thus goes bonkers, indiscriminately killing as they go. Need to send them to Nam or Afghanistan and let em kill there.
I think I saw the motive for this one based on initial reports and where things happened. Too many illegals in this country and Nancy Pelosi wants to keep them here. Enough said I suspect. Expect it to happen more and more frequently as folks are out of work.
Charlie Brown GO A'S WIN
by Charlie Brown on Apr 3, 2009 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
If they followed news like this on Mexico
then the country would only watch this type of news all day all week.
Dale Mexico
Clear its radiance shine...
Please don't play politics with this tragedy...
I know that probably isn’t your intent, but blaming Nancy Pelosi for America’s immigrant problems seems ridiculously simple and guaranteed to get people upset. I look elsewhere for my political discussion and urge all ANers to do likewise.
by Keze on Apr 3, 2009 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
agreed
it may be a DLD but it is still a baseball site. Lets not have another AN blow up.
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clarification
Isn’t a comment like Charlie Brown’s CGV territory? Whether it is or not, it is certainly in poor taste.
it definitly is deep in CGV territory
but I think it only goes to the moderators is enough people “flag” it.
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Aren't you justifying...
…what happened? Sorry, but this is far beyond justification.
by Chilango on Apr 3, 2009 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
… would never have conceived such happening back in the old days
The primary difference between now and then is information technology. The reason you didn’t conceive it back then is because you didn’t have a 24-hour worldwide news network poised to bring any tragedy anywhere directly to your face as soon as it happens.
Senseless violence is not new. The world and the nation are actually less violent now than they used to be. But what violence does exist is far more likely to be brought to your attention.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers."
What Good Old Days is he talking about though?
The 10’s, 20’s and 30’s? Massive Mafia Violence.
The 40’s? World War II.
The 50’s and 60’s? Protesters and Civil Rights stuff happening all the time, all the stuff going on in the south with race riots, lynchings, etc…
The 70’s? Vietnam and so on.
There’s always been these violent outbursts, its just we hear about them live, instead of not at all.
Chicago. Where the Dead can Vote. Where the Voters of Tomorrow are found in the Obituaries of Today.
Not to mention the 80's
Cyndi Lauper and Boy George. What an outrage.
I'm here to talk about the past.
Hard to argue with what you're saying....
but the violence today has one component lacking from days of yore. Today’s random acts of violence somehow seem more pointless. Someone gets mad, falls off their nut, and shoots a dozen people. When I think of nostalgic violence, I tend to think of armed men going up against one another for a specific reason, albeit a stupid one. And at least both sides of the equation were armed and each had a fighting chance. Today, it seems like attackers want to murder as many innocents as possible just for spites sake.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
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
Perfect.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Apr 4, 2009 7:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Speaking of sheffield
This looks ilke a screengrab from the balco instructional dvd. And the effect WAS eyepopping!
"...in baseball you wear a cap." -- george carlin
is the striped shirt a fashion choice
or is the jail bringing it back?
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Wow, I thought he was wearing a catchers chest protector, or the old 1980's Umpires
outside chest protector
by theblackpearl on Apr 3, 2009 4:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Look! He still has the whole from where the Alien popped out of his chest!
Chicago. Where the Dead can Vote. Where the Voters of Tomorrow are found in the Obituaries of Today.
Hello my baby, hello my honey
Hello my ragtime gal
by EddieVegas_NRAF on Apr 6, 2009 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions
They lost to Manatee?!
Oh, that’s right—ST in Bradenton, which is just so fucking sad. Oh my. Poor little Pirates.
"If I told you once, I told you a thousand times: get yourself a hacksaw and a roll of duck tape, and attach your ankle-bracelet monitor to the leg of a gator." -lemurspoker
by Leopold Bloom on Apr 3, 2009 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I go to school in Tampa and we play Manatee CC for preseason...
and for a CC program, they are REALLY REALLY good. Granted not pro-level good, but beating the Pirates is, do-able.
If you want results, press the red button. The rest are useless.
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
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