Uniform Stats, Because...Why Not?

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Impressive

I think I’m going to be purchasing my first current A’s jersey (I have two throwbacks).

FIRE GEREN, and sign Juan Uribe, Magglio, and Big Daddy Vlad…

After accounting for home/road performance, the clear winner is the gray away jerseys.

I’m too new school, but I liked the black jersey tops a lot. The hunter green tops was acceptable as well, but gold/yellow? Ewwww……

Please don’t ever bring them back. The A’s don’t look like the A’s in them.

Gonzalez doesn’t like white or gray at all!

The current green is still far and away my favorite jersey. And despite it’s success the black is still an abomination that shouldn’t be allowed to exist and should be erased from history for being too close to the hated Giants and Raiders primary color.

And 70’s Graphics.

gray and yellow? Similar to this cap design….Fresh and bright…I can dig this…

Heck, I think i’ll buy the cap now! ;)

These numbers are obviously telling us something, but what? One possibility is that the black uniforms make the A’s players play better, but we have to dismiss that because … well, come on, that’s just ridiculous. But there must be some explanation for the correlation.

I think the answer is mojo. We don’t understand very well how mojo works. We know that some players have it, but we don’t know where they get it or how it works. My theory is that mojo has to obey laws of conservation just like any other universal property. You can’t just draw more and more mojo endlessly. If you concentrate a lot of mojo in one player there must be some anti-mojo effect elsewhere to counter it.

I think that’s what the black uniforms are about. Take a look at the pitchers who choose black. Those are all pitchers with mojo, and the ones with the most mojo wear black the most. I think they wear black because they have to to balance out their mojo.

To illustrate, consider Gio Gonzalez. Gio is smoking hot. He’s dreamy and he has that cool ojos locos commercial. If he were a crappy pitcher, he could get away with that, but now this year he’s suddenly become awesome. How can he do that? How can he balance that much mojo? He doesn’t have nipple rings or ugly facial hair, and he doesn’t pose with dollar-bill-loving floozies or write inane Twitter messages. So he has to wear black.

Whether it’s a conscious decision or not, Gio knows that in order to pitch that well he has to balance it by wearing black. And the better he pitches, the more black he has to wear. With those dreamy eyes, if he were to continue pitching as well as he did and not wear an ugly black uniform, he would spontaneously combust. And similar logic for the other pitchers who wear black.

So in a sense, the uniform color really is connected to performance, but it’s not simple causation. It’s just like rain and umbrellas. It’s far more likely to rain when people are carrying umbrellas, but the umbrellas don’t actually cause the rain. The people instinctively sense that the rain is coming, so they (sometimes) remember to bring an umbrella just in case. Likewise, Gio has a sense of when his mojo is on, so he chooses a black uniform to protect himself against it.

sf has everything illuminated in orange for you know who, very halloween

Who’s excited about the potential of a long term FA add?

Just think, if we net Crawford on a 5 year deal, that’s 5 years of guaranteed star A’s player rooting interest. We haven’t had it this good since Chavez.

CSNAuthentic The Word on the Street: Cliff Lee at Home in Game 1? Piece of Cake- http://bit.ly/bCF5oH #WorldSeries #Giants #TexRangers

Is just crying out for a cake gif.

Is better than Pam’s from above

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Melissa Lockard
Not sure why Bengie Molina is “lucky” to get a ring either way. If SF wins, will he really want that ring? I wouldn’t. (I’d keep the $ tho)

Great analysis, and easy to understand.

BTW, would you agree the Raiders are much better when they don’t wear pink shoes?

I love the black alt. jerseys. I have a black alt. jersey and a green alt. jersey. I know black isn’t part of the A’s official colors, but I think they look great in them.

i personally dont have a problem with the current black alts. but i liked the early 2000’s blacks with the green script.
but i not gonna lie i think gold tops would be frickin sweet.its new with a hint of the A’s history.

but I think they were used too often. I really like the green alternates but I really really like the idea of a once a week throwback gold night with a jersey similar to the gold one used on a turn back the clock night this season.

I don’t own one of the current black jerseys but I do have the one from 2000.

I like the idea of the current black hat being worn with the green jersey and then the old black hate (from 2000) being worn with the road gray. It really makes the green in the “oakland” script pop out.