DLD 2/22- Staying in one place
by stormtown on Feb 21, 2010 11:54 PM PST
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Anyone who missed Susan Slusser's request yesterday (and her repeated request downthread) should read it here.
Lots of the baseball sites are making the same spring training joke about players being in the best shape of their lives, but South Side Sox has the longest headline.
As our Olympic threads reflect our game thread culture, so do Lookout Landing's reflect theirs.
Royals Review has an article on pitching with one's hair on fire.
Drays Bay wrote an annual, and Talking Chop an iPhone app. Showoffs.
Rich Harden as a Ranger video. Whatever. Our pitchers are less healthy than your pitchers!
Graham at Lookout Landing is doing a series of Sabermetrics 101 posts.
Did you know the Dodgers site has a fan fiction section? It doesn't feature Kirk, Spock, Draco Malfoy or Edward the sparkly vampire. The owners' divorce filings are juicy.
The Tiger Woods blog (a whole site about one man and his waitresses!) has the clip of the Golf Channel guy crying after Tiger's pretend press conference. They don't have any fanposts yet.
At the cycling blog Podium Cafe I learned about Amsterdam pressing for male greeters in the Giro d'Italia's opening stage. More lurid intrigue happens in one week in cycling than in an entire season of baseball.
Speaking of intrigue, I like the name Addicted to Quack, the Oregon blog. Nothing to see there, because it's covered much more thoroughly at Oregon State's Building the Dam.
There's a Gal's Guide to MMA (surprise, it's pink!) with an interesting post about getting punched in the groin.
Clips Nation? Sure, if by nation you mean Andorra. Anyway they write farewell poems about trades that don't happen.
EDSBS has their guide to spicy living, featuring caffeinated maple bacon lollipops.
This is so Portland.
And this is so Halos Heaven. Wankers. Just die. I mean it.
What's your favorite non-A's SB*Nation site? Post it below. Remember, if you subscribe to a site, it will show up under My Blogs forever and you may have to explain to your children why you're a member of an Angels site.
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They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
Dodger Cougers.....
are dangerous indeed.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
This is the best thing I've seen in the last couple of days
metal + swedish ladies curling = super
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
The ninth fastest thirty year old in San Francisco
that really is fantastic
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
I'm especially a fan of the end sequence
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
The ninth fastest thirty year old in San Francisco
Swedish ladies = always a win
That is one good looking curling squad
If Pennington manages 17 HRs, I’ll vow to consume an article of clothing to achieve a humorous effect --Joey C.
I promise that my next link dump will feature Swedish ladies.
Swedish ladies AND funicular railways.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
This is me excited
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
if you include
Brezeln and Weisbeir, I’m gonna lose it.
If Pennington manages 17 HRs, I’ll vow to consume an article of clothing to achieve a humorous effect --Joey C.
by cityplANner on Feb 22, 2010 11:49 PM PST up reply actions
yay DLD
Remember back when these were daily?
My favorite SBnation site (other than AN) is Beyond the Box Score. It’s pretty nerdy (of course).
As an example, here is a post comparing players with astonishingly similar career wins above replacement.
oh, I meant to include them!
but then I got distracted reading about wrestling. That’s a very good site.
Lookout Landing
is the only other SB Nation blog I visit much, though I’ll occasionally follow a link from here to a post on Beyond the Boxscore or the minor league one.
In defense of Halos Heaven, you did look at the poll results, right? The response of an overwhelming majority of readers to that wanker guy’s idea was “WTF”. So evidently it really isn’t “so Halos Heaven”
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I haven't read anything on HH in years
Not worth my time, not worth any potential dollars they get from clicking on their site.
"To tell the truth, I'm not excited to go to Cleveland, but we have to. If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying" - Ichiro
by Philip Christy on Feb 22, 2010 11:10 AM PST up reply actions
I thought they were wtf because they didn't support his choice of Lindsey Vonn
but you may be right, I shouldn’t assume they’re all terrible.
Yeah, this being forever tied to HH after leaving one comment is bogus
Can I impeach myself as a member of it?
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
OH HAI GRIPE ABOUT SBN I'VE HAD EVER SINCE THE NEW SB3.0 ROLLOUT.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
shut it, Cardinals fan.
… and therein lies the tension between discouraging free rodent upgrades and relying on random walkup business. LB, you should tarp your kitchen. And move to San Jose. -mb
by Leopold Bloom on Feb 22, 2010 4:23 PM PST up reply actions
Nice DlD stormtown.
I would link, but since I spend all my time here, there’s no time to read anything else.
DlD
Is a DlD what s0sNe@kYbUtY would post?
Or is that a dLd?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
You must earn some kind of points for using "surreptitious"
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
you think she owes you syrup?
or you wish to get paid in blueberry pancakes?
WHAT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!!!
… and therein lies the tension between discouraging free rodent upgrades and relying on random walkup business. LB, you should tarp your kitchen. And move to San Jose. -mb
by Leopold Bloom on Feb 23, 2010 1:10 PM PST up reply actions
boobies!!1!
I believe is what iglew was trying to point out. Well, singular. Which I suppose is why the blank space has an alt-text of “fill in the blank” instead of “fill in the blanks”
Sigh. You all.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Nice work, stormy
EDSBS is required daily reading for me. And Addicted to Quack has had its work cut out for it lately.
I’ll contribute this link for the sophomoric comic book nerds among us. With special emphasis on this abomination:
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
all clowns are the minotaujr.
it will never be your birthday again.
What a happy thought.
… and therein lies the tension between discouraging free rodent upgrades and relying on random walkup business. LB, you should tarp your kitchen. And move to San Jose. -mb
by Leopold Bloom on Feb 22, 2010 5:14 PM PST up reply actions
Also
Jane Lee on the A’s official site sez Sheets has bought Sweeney’s jersey number (15). A cursory glance at the 40-man shows Sweeney is gonna rock #21 this year.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
Possibly
It was also his # in Milwaukee
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
Further proof that Jim Bowden is an ass.
Bowden tries to understand sabermetrics, but gives up because he’s too distracted by the hot blonde nearby. I can’t believe anyone ever put this guy in charge of anything.
by LongLiveLangerhans on Feb 22, 2010 1:56 PM PST reply actions
Oh jesus, I had to turn that off after 30 seconds.
Painfully embarrassing. For everybody involved.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
The last five seconds are the best/worst part.
by LongLiveLangerhans on Feb 22, 2010 3:13 PM PST up reply actions
Hahahaha
That was better than I could ever have imagined. That good ol’ boys network in baseball sure is effective!
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
by Helloooo 1st on Feb 22, 2010 5:19 PM PST up reply actions
Oh wow. I knew Fox Sports was bad, but
that is really really bad. I’m not even opposed to loading up television with pretty women just for the sake of looking at pretty women. But that’s just awful.
Jim Bowden certainly doesn’t redeem himself there, but I still blame the writers more than I blame him.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I think the original title of the series was going to be
‘Dayton Moore – why I’m an ex-GM’
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
The ninth fastest thirty year old in San Francisco
try this
http://msn.foxsports.com/video/shows/gm-corner . I had to sit through a Geico ad first but it’s there.
Holy crap...
WHY did this guy have to get fired! WHY!!!! WHY!!!
There were so many more bad trades he could have made to hand us the farm! All we had to do was make him think Strasburg was a pussy and we’d have got him for Rajai Davis (Cuz he’s a grinder!).
I'm now disappointed that it wasn't done en español
But nice that we can add another person to the Spring Training “I’m in the best shape of my career” list.
Leopold Bloom on why he loves Mr. Peter Gammons, his best buddy:
"Peter Gammons systematically ignored and/or ran down the A’s in the pages of Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News for a good ten year stretch in the late seventies and early to mid-eighties. Trust me, the c**ksucker hates our team."
Spanish Batman!
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Sí!!
Leopold Bloom on why he loves Mr. Peter Gammons, his best buddy:
"Peter Gammons systematically ignored and/or ran down the A’s in the pages of Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News for a good ten year stretch in the late seventies and early to mid-eighties. Trust me, the c**ksucker hates our team."
Flip your keyboard upside-down
while typing regular ones.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
okay, that's fucking scary.
… and therein lies the tension between discouraging free rodent upgrades and relying on random walkup business. LB, you should tarp your kitchen. And move to San Jose. -mb
by Leopold Bloom on Feb 22, 2010 11:10 PM PST up reply actions
No more drinks for him
And no more nicknames either. Here, have a piece of candy instead.
Leopold Bloom on why he loves Mr. Peter Gammons, his best buddy:
"Peter Gammons systematically ignored and/or ran down the A’s in the pages of Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News for a good ten year stretch in the late seventies and early to mid-eighties. Trust me, the c**ksucker hates our team."
Ooo! Piece of candy!
Ooo! Piece of candy!
by ChickenStanley on Feb 23, 2010 12:49 AM PST up reply actions
Not in the face!
Not in the face!
Ooo! Piece of candy!
by ChickenStanley on Feb 23, 2010 11:47 AM PST up reply actions
Richard Alpert!
Stewart: "What really needs to be clear is it wouldn't have mattered if there was an earthquake or not. We were going to beat the Giants.
My alma mater is now letting applicants
submit videos, which are posted to you youtube. Even the NYTimes is in on this. Take that, Harvard!
If Pennington manages 17 HRs, I’ll vow to consume an article of clothing to achieve a humorous effect --Joey C.
ok, I wish the Line Graph girl was a little bit older
as I am now in love with her.
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
The ninth fastest thirty year old in San Francisco
Is that a good thing?
One of the reasons I didn’t apply to Cal Tech (besides the complete lack of females), was because one of the application pieces was to submit a piece of paper that you had creatively filled with reasons why you love math and science. My buddy that got in filled the page with math puzzles that created letters in the form “I love Physics.” I decided that my time was better spent applying to ivy leagues and UCs.
As if there weren’t enough pressure on high school kids applying for college already – Hey, go produce a video about yourself!
I was thinking how it matches what this generation does.....I work at a high school and those videos would be a piece of cake for most of the kids I know.
This is just what they do!! You tube, posting video to facebook etc. For me? It would be a big deal! I think it’s one good way of a college really getting to know who the kid is versus what they can see about a student on paper. The personalities and a student’s creativity (or lack of) shine through. Way more interesting than an essay!
beane wearing a cisco systems hat and a celtic football jacket today
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
Tonight's Olympic opening is the stupidest thing I have ever seen
A plane! That can land on water! Is there anyone who doesn’t know these exist?
Where I grew up there were lots of planes
that didn’t land anywhere except on water.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Took more than 5 minutes for them to do it.
Seriously ridiculous waste of time. I didn’t bother watching after a couple flip overs.
Leopold Bloom on why he loves Mr. Peter Gammons, his best buddy:
"Peter Gammons systematically ignored and/or ran down the A’s in the pages of Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News for a good ten year stretch in the late seventies and early to mid-eighties. Trust me, the c**ksucker hates our team."
AN is by far my favorite blog in SB Nation as far as number 2 goes....
I’m on the Raiders site and there are a some good people over there but it’s not well run as you often get 14 fanposts about the same thing and many of them are not well thought out.
RRS does a lot of good work on the site but I don’t notice many other names from AN over there.
I guess I would ask if you’re a Raiders fan here on AN and you haven’t been to the Raiders site why don’t you come on over and maybe we can get some of the same smart,funny stuff that is on AN.
I've tried.
They just blink at me over there.
cyber blink.
… and therein lies the tension between discouraging free rodent upgrades and relying on random walkup business. LB, you should tarp your kitchen. And move to San Jose. -mb
by Leopold Bloom on Feb 22, 2010 10:21 PM PST up reply actions
It's kind of sad but I've read better posts about the Raiders on AN DLD's
than I have on the Raiders site.
I don’t want to make it seem like there aren’t some good people over there because there are but I don’t know maybe I’m the jerk (shocking I know!) as I just see football in a much different way.
I don’t belive there is a conspiracy involving the NFL,ESPN and sock puppets to keep the Raiders down and while I don’t want Al Davis to die (like many on the site) I also don’t think he’s the “Dear Leader” who can do no wrong.
One thing is for sure despite the fact that the NFL is the most popular sport there are many more voices on AN as sometimes I think SB Pride is me and about 6 other guys yelling at each other.
I think he's somewhere in between there.
A lot of people owe Al Davis a lot, including the players and all the owners.
But the game has passed him by and he’s too stubborn or whatever to acknowledge it. That said, he did hire Gruden, he hired rat boy from Denver, he was the first owner to hire a black coach, long before the Rooney Rule, and he seems to have always treated his players with respect. So…i dunno. Mixed bag.
… and therein lies the tension between discouraging free rodent upgrades and relying on random walkup business. LB, you should tarp your kitchen. And move to San Jose. -mb
by Leopold Bloom on Feb 22, 2010 11:09 PM PST up reply actions
I love 50 year old Al Davis
but 80 year old Al not so much.
He’s in the Hall of Fame and he should be not only for the things you said (I’d add first Latino Head Coach and first female team president to the list oh and 3 Super Bowl titles) but he needs help.
I think in many ways the Raiders are like a drug addiction for me. I know they aren’t good for me but I love them and that will never change.
My feelings on football (which I love dearly)...
… can be summed up best by Lisa Simpson:
Lisa: Well, I like the 49ers because they’re pure of heart, Seattle because they’ve got something to prove, and the Raiders because they always cheat.
[Later]
Announcer: And on an extreeeeeemely suspicious play, the Raiders win!
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
Shopping notes from all over
Fans of the Norwegian Curling Team’s Pants should know they’re also available in green and gold…although at $90 plus shipping it’s an expensive way to provide a cheap laugh.
For the budget shopper, I noticed a pretty good selection of A’s gear at the Target at Serramonte, even though Daly City is not in Oakland territory no matter how you slice it. A lot of Jack Cust infant and toddler shirts, for some reason.
It's the fans that make the game fun. -- Rickey Henderson, July 26, 2009.
Are those in fact Charley Finley's pants?
… and therein lies the tension between discouraging free rodent upgrades and relying on random walkup business. LB, you should tarp your kitchen. And move to San Jose. -mb
by Leopold Bloom on Feb 22, 2010 10:36 PM PST up reply actions
Those are AWE. SOME.
Pair those with the green and gold stripey socks from the throwback unis. Fantastic.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
+ A flag sash--
ready for an opening night tailgate!
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Me too ;)
I can’t wait.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
I know a guy with a bbq.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
Okay... he can come
But only if he brings a big ass grill.
Leopold Bloom on why he loves Mr. Peter Gammons, his best buddy:
"Peter Gammons systematically ignored and/or ran down the A’s in the pages of Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News for a good ten year stretch in the late seventies and early to mid-eighties. Trust me, the c**ksucker hates our team."
To call the BAG a bbq is completely underselling it.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Jane lee sighting
on one of Michael Urban’s spring training home movies. It’s the 3rd on the list right now, filmed 2.22. I’m really enjoying these little videos, I just wish there was a way to link a specific vid instead of the entire video page.
“fly on the wall, fly on the wall, fly on the wall”
There is also a Billy Beane interview on there as well.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
An article on Chavvy's new-found versatility
It’s not really much more than fluff, but it does have this gem at the end:
Said Ellis: "That’s Chavey; he’s a good athlete. He can play anywhere … except second base. He’s not that good."
"Loyal? I'm the most loyal player money can buy." - Don Sutton
The Unicorn has spoken.
Leopold Bloom on why he loves Mr. Peter Gammons, his best buddy:
"Peter Gammons systematically ignored and/or ran down the A’s in the pages of Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News for a good ten year stretch in the late seventies and early to mid-eighties. Trust me, the c**ksucker hates our team."
I read that earlier and after the bit about Ellis being teased for being the oldest player on the team
I thought to myself ‘darn, I’d be the second oldest on the A’s’.
And then ‘Still time!’
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
The ninth fastest thirty year old in San Francisco
I'd be the second oldest player ...
in Major League Baseball.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Links, people!
I’m starting to feel like a broken record. That’s from the Drumbeat blog on the Gate yesterday, in case anyone actually wanted to see it.
Can I ask you a question about your recent column?
I don’t understand how Jake Fox is out of options.
It looks like he was on optional assignment for fewer than 20 days in 2007 (July 27-August 14th), which would mean it doesn’t count as an option year. The CBA says:
If a Player is optionally assigned for a total of less than 20 days in one championship season, such optional assignment(s) shall not count as an optional assignment in connection with the limitation upon optional assignments provided for in Major League Rule 11©.
Did Fox spend more 20 or more days on optional assignment in 2007, or can one use an option year despite spending fewer than 20 days on optional assignment?
Thanks.
Can Chavez be sent to AAA?
I imagine he would have to accept the assignment at the very least but would he have to clear waivers?
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
He doesn't really have to do anything.
Anyone with 10+ years of service time (the last five coming with his current team) can refuse a trade or assignment. Chavvy has 11.
Taken down with hearts alive, our hearts alive.
I think my interpretation of 'service' might differ from the CBA's interpretation.
by LoneStranger on Feb 24, 2010 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
but if he was fine with going to AAA to get some work in after missing so much time
could the A’s do so without fear of losing him?
If he had to clear waivers I don’t think any team would want to take on his contract or health issues but I’m just wondering. Maybe he would be OK with it since he feels bad about not being able to play but still getting paid so much?
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
I think that if you have vet status (6+ years)
and the player accepts the assignment he can go without clearing waivers. But even if he had to go through waivers, seriously, who in their right mind would pick him up?
Leopold Bloom on why he loves Mr. Peter Gammons, his best buddy:
"Peter Gammons systematically ignored and/or ran down the A’s in the pages of Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News for a good ten year stretch in the late seventies and early to mid-eighties. Trust me, the c**ksucker hates our team."
You did scoop Yahoo on the quote above
The Yahoo article also read a ton like a CSN California article. I almost always try to make a conscious effort to link to the original article, I just saw the Yahoo one first. I do frequent the Drumbeat, so I’m sorry I missed it.
"Loyal? I'm the most loyal player money can buy." - Don Sutton
Stupid scammers!
I found a small charge on my credit card statement from a website I have never heard of before. I looked it up online and found a ton of complaints from others who have been charged. How do they do that? I reported the issue to the BBB and ic3 and my credit card company but it is a pain in the butt to deal with. I can’t imagine dealing with large multiple charges from Identity thefts.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Same thing happened to me.
I’m not 100% sure but I think it happened when I bought gas at the pump using my credit card and when the pump didn’t produce a receipt I went in to ask the mini-mart clerk for a receipt. He said he needed to swipe my credit card to give me a receipt so I let him do it. Shortly afterward we got the small charge on our bill just like you. As a result, we cancelled our cards (like you say, a big pain) and got new ones and I never let a gas station clerk swipe my card. Who knows what skimmers are out there.
Chocolate Cherry
Trainer is killed by a whale at SeaWorld
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
More on the story of the guy who was found dead with the same whale from this new story
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Any Metriod Fans out there
I imagine most people won’t see this but . . .
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Where is the Olympics thread tonight? Hmm? Lynnz, Berry Jo?
I got home a few minutes ago expecting lively discussion. Where are y’all?
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
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