5/18/09: Stress Relief DLD
by gigglingone on May 18, 2009 11:04 AM PDT
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PrintThe biggest event of my job is tomorrow, and I'm at the point now where I'm not sure what I have left to do, but I'm certain there's something I should be doing, but I can't figure out what, so I'm creating a DLD. Wear it.
Typos at work are a bad thing. Or maybe they can work out for the best....
When changing your name, be sure to include all proper punctuation and spaces.
If you are going to mess around at work, don't do it in view of the company web cam...
This is one of my most favorite comic strips ever. And my work nightmare for tomorrow. If there is a sudden freak snowstorm in the Bay Area tomorrow, you'll know that it's all my fault.
And now I have to get back to work and try not to fully panic before tomorrow. But use this for your dumping purposes. We need something to do besides think about those games this weekend.....
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Calvin & Hobbes
was the MAD NOTE, yo!
…how come it feels like we just banned PT again?
Define "succeed." --Poppy
Agreed, C&H is one of, if not the best, comic strips ever.
For anyone who loves it, here’s a searchable archive of the strips.
I like important stuff just as much as the next guy, but please, for a little while, deliver us from meaning, baseball. That's your greatest glory, and we thank you for it very, very much. -- Craig Calcaterra
DAMN YOU.
I have work to do.
Define "succeed." --Poppy
by Leopold Bloom on May 18, 2009 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Very unusual occurence
D-Rays pitcher bats 3d in game, in place of DH, and goes 1-3 with a double.
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I never knew the DH was actually optional.
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."
-Charles Manson
Ooops, botched the url
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."
-Charles Manson
by kaweahkaweah on May 18, 2009 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
*cough* it's linked up above *cough*
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on May 18, 2009 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
i suck
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."
-Charles Manson
by kaweahkaweah on May 18, 2009 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Service-y service fee survey
for all those games we’re not going to.
AN was so much better before I got here.
that seems like a weird fit to me
but it reminds me of when Bruce Jenkins called his persona “the angry, angry golf pro” and that’s my favorite thing Bruce Jenkins has ever written.
AN was so much better before I got here.
I bet he does really well on MNF.
I liked Tony, though.
Define "succeed." --Poppy
by Leopold Bloom on May 18, 2009 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions
It'll be interesting to see.
He can be a little manic, which is great on the field. Not so sure about the booth.
I think it'll translate real well.
The thing is he will be less manic because he’s not going to be as personally invested.
Define "succeed." --Poppy
by Leopold Bloom on May 18, 2009 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions
sitting at home on the floor watching the movers
take my stuff away. Stress relief is reading AN while this is going on. Two more days of being a Colorado resident.
alaska A residing in colorado. (soon in Idaho)
strange...
my monkey is moving to Colorado, and is probably about two days out.
(I just talked to him—he’s in New Mexico, wasting time)
Is there just a quota for people in Colorado and is he taking your spot?
Define "succeed." --Poppy
by Leopold Bloom on May 18, 2009 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions
yes, he could be very well taking my place in Colorado
The transponder in my car will go dead once I cross the Wyoming line and he will cleared to enter.
alaska A residing in colorado. (soon in Idaho)
Rays
The unplanned lineup change didn’t hurt the Rays in the fourth inning, though. Sonnanstine came to the plate with Michel Hernandez on second and two out and lofted a double over Cleveland left fielder Ryan Garko’s head to give the Rays a 7-3 lead. It was Sonnanstine’s fifth career hit, and his first for extra bases.
Can we sign Sonnanstine? We could sure use a hitter.
Enjoy the game
Micah Owings is the guy then
He could probably hit 3rd for the A’s and pitch in the rotation.
Don't sweat it. I'm illiterate.
by methodrampage on May 19, 2009 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
I just keep repeating to myself, Tuesday at 4pm. Tuesday at 4pm. Tuesday at 4pm.
Why the heck isn’t it Tuesday at 4pm yet?!?!!?!!?
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on May 18, 2009 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
And by that point, they'll be through here!
Define "succeed." --Poppy
by Leopold Bloom on May 18, 2009 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Where's option 4
“Bang head on metal door”
:(
by ElQuesoCapitan on May 18, 2009 12:41 PM PDT reply actions
option #4 is watching baseball
I think that’s been the same thing lately…..
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on May 18, 2009 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I found a few links
A’s-related. Sorry to be so boring.
Kurt and Renee Suzuki raising money for survivor of Adenhart crash
As if we could love Kurt more!
Willie Brown thinks he knows where the new A’s stadium will be
Hmm. This seemed to be completely random until I read this from Marine Layer.
Speaking of Oakland stadia, a former city official who lobbied unsuccessfully for one has a nice new job.
I read it as more of a dig at suburbanites scared of downtown Oakland.
Define "succeed." --Poppy
by Leopold Bloom on May 18, 2009 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Yuo would certainly know more than me.
all of you would.
Define "succeed." --Poppy
by Leopold Bloom on May 18, 2009 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions
The A's radio home
So, has anyone noticed that the new 860 Xtra Sports has a new color motif?
I say we start emailing for local shows instead of the syndicated stuff that is going to eb played now.
AN Radio on Sundays?
A soccer show on the weekends to rival Hooked on Golf?
Inside Baseball with Marty Lurie, daily…
What else?
My guess is that they are already looking for local programming
but they need the syndicated stuff to get started.
Don't believe in yourself.
Believe in Me who believes in You.
Dan Giese on DL
Great.
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."
-Charles Manson
by kaweahkaweah on May 18, 2009 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Gio will be better anyway...
Hopefully Gio will do some starting too.
"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did." -Yogi Berra
word
I wouldn’t mind a near-future rotation of Duke, Braden, Outman, Anderson and Gio. Gallagher gets some long-relief (real, Dan Giese sans-injury style long relief. Not that fake “Bob Geren hates Sean Gallager” long relief he did to start the season). Eveland stays in AAA, joined by Cahill so he can work on keeping his pitches down AND for strikes.
Hmm, that rotation might stand a chance.
Geren just said on the pregame show
that Gio would be used as Giese was, and as Gio himself was earlier this season. Geren said that Gio can “throw up to 100 pitches, like he did in Seattle.”
The answer to our SS woes?
I’m not going to hold my breath, but one NY columnist has postulated about the Mets trading Jose Reyes if they don’t make the playoffs this year. Rob Neyer links to the column and discusses the merits of the idea.
I don’t think this will actually happen, but if it did I think this is the kind of trade BB should explore. As noted in the article Reyes is 26 so he’s entering his physical prime. His current deal pays $9M for 2010 and an $11M club option for 2011 ($0.5M buyout). With all the money coming off the books after the next 2 years, the A’s should be able to afford to re-sign him which would take care of that position for the next 5-6 years or so.
I like important stuff just as much as the next guy, but please, for a little while, deliver us from meaning, baseball. That's your greatest glory, and we thank you for it very, very much. -- Craig Calcaterra
Unlikely that the A's could afford him
It looks like a good trade idea, but man, it would probably cost a fortune in prospects.
Don't believe in yourself.
Believe in Me who believes in You.
I've seen that
other writers think that Reyes is one of the cornerstones that you just don’t trade. They think that if the Mets get broken up the older players will get traded first.
There's such a dearth of SS talent that it'd be pointless to trade Reyes.
They just need to stop making him such a focal point of the offence – he’s a very good defensive short stop. It’s not like they don’t have the money to bring in players around him, Wright and Beltran.
Yes. There are very few good SS's available, as we have seen all over, especially when it comes to acquiring one when you are desperate
They have a Good SS, for a good price, at a time when most teams would settle for “terrible” at SS.
This isn’t the late 90’s, early 00’s. We no longer have Jeter, ARod, Garciaparra and Tejada manning SS as young, strong superstars. Now we have an injured ARod playing 3B (but still very good), Jeter who can no longer handle the position (though thats been true for a while), Garciaparra who can’t stay in the field and can’t hit anywhere close to his prime, and Tejada, who is staying on the field but lost most of his skill. Each player, besides ARod, are seeing the end of their careers in sight within the next few years, and possibly as soon as next year, none of them will be at Shortstop. Even Michael Young.
Now we have Reyes, Ramirez and Tulo. Then it falls off considerably.
There are some good or decent SS’s coming up. Escobar(s) and Andrus come to mind. But none will be Superstar level players.
That leads to two things. First, they should lock up Reyes long term. Second, if they do trade him, they will get a massive haul.
I just hope that one of Leyja, Coleman, Christian or Cardenas can become good SS at the MLB level. Cardenas already looks like he won’t be able to man it defensivly. Christian has been moved to 3B, not because he’s a bad SS, but because the A’s believe he can play 3B and it seems they want to keep him with Coleman, who also plays SS (presumably better). But Leyja is an unknwon defensivly, is still very young, and hasn’t even gotten out of extended Spring Training yet.
Don't believe in yourself.
Believe in Me who believes in You.
The question is, how much does Minaya know this?
Obviously he knows that Reyes is a valuable player to trade, but does he view him as a Manny/Holliday/Bay type or a Haren type when it comes to a trade? If he thinks of him as a Haren type then there’s no way the A’s should trade for him. But if the recent trades for star players are used as a guide (as NateHST has been discussing in his FPs) then a deal becomes more possible from the perspective of what the A’s might be willing to give up.
Pretending for the moment that a deal for Reyes would require prospect + pieces as recent deals have, would Anderson or Cahill + 2-3 lesser players/prospects be worth giving up to get Reyes? I’m no good at judging the relative trade value of players versus keeping them, but I would assume that one of those 2 pitchers would have to be included. I would guess the Mets would want a potential SS in return (Cardenas) and maybe a 1B (Carter or Barton if he has a bounce back year in AAA) with the question marks about Delgado’s health. Would Cahill/Anderson + Cardenas + Carter/Barton be too much given everything else Oakland has in the system? I understand it would be tough to give up those guys, but those are the positions that the system has some depth and they’d be getting back a superstar in his prime at a position of need.
I like important stuff just as much as the next guy, but please, for a little while, deliver us from meaning, baseball. That's your greatest glory, and we thank you for it very, very much. -- Craig Calcaterra
hot hitting Giants prospect
Jesus Guzman (who last year was a hot hitting A’s third base prospect) may be making his major league debut when the Giants play in Seattle next weekend.
Makeup double-dip in Texas next Friday.
Must have missed seeing that. Cool.
I'm here to talk about the past.
I know I will get in trouble for saying this,
but I can’t believe no one made the most obvious suggestion to the “What’s your favorite form of stress relief?” poll.
Nico: Okay. We have twelve hours to make a really big pickle.
Drink a few beers.
Watch something you find very funny.
Have a freshly-made doughnut.
Sleep late.
Things will be better tomorrow.
Define "succeed." --Poppy
by Leopold Bloom on May 19, 2009 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Okay, that was not me being suicidal. LOL
That was me saying I’ve lost the will to read any more A’s news or watch games.
"Smells like summer camp!"
I was telling myself the same thing for the past week. I'm done. I quit. Look what its doing to my life and health.
But each time I end up either in front of the TV watching the game or listening it on the radio.
Isn’t that a sign of addiction?
by LoneStranger on May 20, 2009 8:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Addiction or masochism.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
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