DLD 9.1.10 - Vote King
by YonYonson on Sep 1, 2010 10:48 AM PDT
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PrintA couple days old, but Joe Posnanski has a fun look at how managers fared as MLB players... some highlights:
13. Ron Washington, Texas Rangers
He was one of the players to come out of Kansas City’s innovative Baseball Academy — it’s probably no coincidence that he played every position in the big leagues except right field and catcher.The thing about Ron Washington I didn’t know was that he didn’t steal many bases in the big leagues. I guess I assumed he did from his little cameo in Moneyball when he told Michael Lewis "You know what a base stealer is? … A base stealer is a guy who when everyone in the goddam yard know he gonna get the bag, he gets the bag." Washington then says he stole 57 bases one year — Baseball Cube shows him stealing 51 bases in 1974 in Class A, so it’s probably that year.
But in the big leagues, he stole 28 bases in 564 big league games.
16. Bob Geren, Oakland Athletics
A lifelong backup catcher — a good resume builder if you want to be a big league manager. He actually was quite good in that role in 1989 — hitting .288 with some power in 225 plate appearances. Got decent playing time the next three years because of that, but never came close to repeating the offensive production. He did get to play for three of the worst Yankees teams ever, so he’s got that.
21. Ken Macha, Milwaukee Brewers
Hit his one career homer and the last of his three career triples in the same game, the second game of a doubleheader against the Giants. What’s interesting, at least to me, is that Johnnie LeMaster — who bless his soul is one of the worst hitters in baseball history to get 3,500 plate appearances (lifetime 60 OPS+) — ALSO hit a triple and homer in that game.If all that happened in Stratomatic, and Macha and LeMaster both homered and tripled in the same game, you would throw away the game and scream that it wasn’t realistic.
Oh, vote for Bill King for the Ford C. Frick award, which opened today.
You can vote on Facebook.
Some good Bill King links:
King is the soul of affability away from the microphone, but Warrior road trips have become almost void of stimulating conversation for him. When Tom Meschery, who shared King's interests in poetry and Russian literature, played for the team some years ago, seminars into the early morning were the rule. Now King finds that he loses his audience when the talk turns away from such subjects as Rick Barry's floor play or the rebounding of Clifford Ray. A recent disquisition by King in a Los Angeles coffee shop on Pasternak's reliance on coincidence in his oeuvre did not set other tongues wagging. King merely shrugs his shoulders on these lamentable occasions and presses on to something of broader interest, like the literary integrity of Solzhenitsyn.
It is understandable, then, that King abruptly departs the sports world as soon as the basketball season ends and sets sail aboard his 44-foot ketch Varuna for ports far removed from cries of "DEE-fense." He is not seen again until football begins.
His was the authoritative voice of the Warriors, Raiders and A's, going back 43 years, and the only reason he did not become nationally known and admired was that he wouldn't shave his beard to appease television producers. He didn't want to, and he didn't have to. He was the best source on '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s sports in the Bay Area, as well as opera, Russian history, and the kind of diet that often charged the air with a faint sulfurous haze. It became a hilarious staple of his broadcasts with a series of partners, all of whom say freely and that they never had a better boothmate.
Marin Independent Journal, 2010
"I always like to imagine an individual listener, sitting at home or perhaps in a car somewhere. When I'm calling a game, I try with each passing moment to perhaps tie that person's stomach a little tighter into a knot. If at the end of the day I accomplish that goal, then I have a day's satisfaction."
Ross Wolf and Justin James were called up to the big club today and Tommy Everidge is back (well, back in Sacramento).
Who is Justin James?
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September is my favorite month.
We have the NFL, college football and baseball going on all at once.
"You're all like big fat failure turtles." - Edge
by Rated-R Superstar on Sep 1, 2010 10:51 AM PDT reply actions
Listen to the Stockton Ports game today.
stocktonports
Ports radio broadcast will be internet only (live, free stream) today on stocktonports.com! Game’s at 3:30!
1 minute ago via Facebook
"You're all like big fat failure turtles." - Edge
by Rated-R Superstar on Sep 1, 2010 10:58 AM PDT reply actions
You can also listen to the Rivercats RIGHT NOW
using this link.
by LoneStranger on Sep 1, 2010 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Seems to be a raw, commercial-less link.
I can hear the announcers talking to their producer.
Please rise and remove your hats.
by LoneStranger on Sep 1, 2010 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
That Javascript link isn't letting me open it, for some reason
But you can go through rivercats.com to listen. I guess for the day games during the week they don’t do a full production live because I believe it’s tape-delayed, but it’s kind of nice hearing the background sounds.
Last of the Ninth - Photography
It took mine a couple minutes to fully load.
You are correct, there are two links. The first one is for most games and it appears to be through the radio station. The second link is for games that the radio station probably doesn’t broadcast, and it’s a simple stream. I don’t think this one is tape delayed. The GameDay stuff is matched up pretty well.
Nice hearing background sounds, except when the producer redlines. CLEAR! CLEAR! {cough}
by LoneStranger on Sep 1, 2010 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Somewhat related
Home games for Tacoma Rainiers could head to Safeco Field
Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/08/25/1314038/home-games-for-tacoma-rainiers.html#ixzz0yJ3FLaqM
Last of the Ninth - Photography
Wow.
CSNAuthentic
BREAKING NEWS: Sharks president Greg Jamison stepping down. http://tinyurl.com/2b6ssnk #sjsharks #nhl
2 minutes ago via web
"You're all like big fat failure turtles." - Edge
by Rated-R Superstar on Sep 1, 2010 11:12 AM PDT reply actions
Yea. wow.
Wonder if he just wants to free up time for other things, of if he was nudged out of day-to-day operations.
by LoneStranger on Sep 1, 2010 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, he was President and CEO,
and he handled the day-to-day business aspects of the team. I would guess that it’s all the non-player related stuff.
Here’s his profile.
I guess BYU knew what it was doing when it went independent in football.
schadjoe
BYU announces an 8-year contract with ESPN to broadcast BYU football games
2 minutes ago via web
"You're all like big fat failure turtles." - Edge
by Rated-R Superstar on Sep 1, 2010 11:12 AM PDT reply actions
Huh? When did the Mormons buy Disney/ESPN?
"I'm a Golden Gopher, this means I'm a golden soldier/The competition is dirt, and I'm a bulldozer." -St. Paul Slim
"I'm not going to lie. I try to hit home runs and that's it." -Matt Stairs
by Where's My Burrito? on Sep 1, 2010 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions
BYU also has agreed with Notre Dame to a six-year deal in terms of playing against each other.
Notre Dame has a BCS guarantee, but BYU doesn’t.
"You're all like big fat failure turtles." - Edge
by Rated-R Superstar on Sep 1, 2010 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Those will be riveting games...
Though I guess the Catholics and the Protestants have a pretty old rivalry.
"I'm a Golden Gopher, this means I'm a golden soldier/The competition is dirt, and I'm a bulldozer." -St. Paul Slim
"I'm not going to lie. I try to hit home runs and that's it." -Matt Stairs
by Where's My Burrito? on Sep 1, 2010 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Wait until you see the Muslim halftime show.
by LoneStranger on Sep 1, 2010 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm more excited about the Jewish pre-game report
"I'm a Golden Gopher, this means I'm a golden soldier/The competition is dirt, and I'm a bulldozer." -St. Paul Slim
"I'm not going to lie. I try to hit home runs and that's it." -Matt Stairs
by Where's My Burrito? on Sep 1, 2010 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
So, as I understand it
The MWC will soon be:
SDSU
UNLV
Wyoming
TCU
Fresno St.
Boise St.
Air Force
Colorado St.
"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." - Satchel Paige
I will be at the game
Not sure where I’m sitting yet.
by Billy Frijoles on Sep 1, 2010 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I haven't actually watched fireworks from the field in a while...probably AN day last year.
It might be fun to try to meet up, though I have no idea if my group will want to do that…
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Pssh. I'm sure I want to see YOU.
Me + fireworks = ears in pain anyway, though it would be much better from the field than from where we were standing in the lot last time. Ow.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
It was killing her.
I watched.
Choosy Feebas choose Leopold Bloom nipples
Daring. Sensual. Invigorating. Squirrel.
BLOOM. For men.
If the eggs actually hatch I made more than a mistake, I made some scientifically impossible crime.
Earplugs.
They are great. I bought some for the sprint car races in Watsonville over the weekend. I only put the left one in, which helped block the noise when they put their foot on the gas out of turn four.
You should get some and then it wouldn’t matter where you watched the fireworks.
You and your entourage.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
OaklandSi mentioned she got her post-season ticket order form.
MarineLayer/vertig0 got his too and posted a little bit about the prices: http://newballpark.org/2010/09/01/postseason-ticket-prices/
It's funny how Arneson is so outraged
If it was 9/15 and the A’s were only 5 out, people would be complaining the other way, too: that the team is trying to project optimism and they are bent on losing.
!#%&$#@&%&% antioxidants! - pam
by cuppingmaster on Sep 1, 2010 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
You all laugh now
but don’t come crawling to me for my spare ticket when the A’s clinch the division on the final day of the season!
It's the fans that make the game fun. -- Rickey Henderson, July 26, 2009.
Ended up getting a burrito at Zorro's and walked to Washington Park.
Actually saw girls in bikinis sunning themselves in San Francisco.
I love the weather in October....not as muggy
and you have playoff baseball and the NFL going at full steam.
I hope Bill makes it into the Hall but why in the world do they have the vote on Facebook? I’d love to vote for him but I have no desire to join Facebook.
But seriously,folks....
Did you stay home today?
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Does Bed Bath and Beyond have tupperware?
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
I was there yesterday
And I saw some container-y stuff
!#%&$#@&%&% antioxidants! - pam
by cuppingmaster on Sep 1, 2010 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions
yes
What we’re asking is for people to stop pretending that ipse dixit counts as a "source." When you make a claim about baseball, you should be willing to put some reasonable amount of effort into explaining why it’s correct if someone asks you to. That’s basic respect for the other poster. - PT
by designatedforassignment on Sep 1, 2010 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Beeeeeyoooooond!
Choosy Feebas choose Leopold Bloom nipples
Daring. Sensual. Invigorating. Squirrel.
BLOOM. For men.
If the eggs actually hatch I made more than a mistake, I made some scientifically impossible crime.
If you can bear the stench of potpourri
It's the fans that make the game fun. -- Rickey Henderson, July 26, 2009.
The one by me just smells like cleaning products.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Please, please, please, let me get what I want: at least one victory against the Yankees
The Blasters — Please, Please, Please
There is an evening coming in/Across the fields, one never seen before,/That lights no lamps. -- Philip Larkin, from "Going"
did The Blasters cover The Smiths?
Peter Gammons ran over his puppy. But that wasn’t the worst part. He then proceeded to back over it too. Then rolled forward again (#3), rolled down the window and said, "What are you going to do about it, kid? I’m Peter F**king Gammons, b**ch." Then drove away. -d to the moas
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 1, 2010 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Close! James Brown
There is an evening coming in/Across the fields, one never seen before,/That lights no lamps. -- Philip Larkin, from "Going"
But speaking of The Smiths, listen to that beautiful phase-shift in the Blasters song
Kind of brings to my mind “How Soon is Now?”
There is an evening coming in/Across the fields, one never seen before,/That lights no lamps. -- Philip Larkin, from "Going"
I'm shocked how quiet it is in here.
I’m already home since class was let out about 20 minutes early, but I’m going to Raley’s to do homework soon.
"You're all like big fat failure turtles." - Edge
by Rated-R Superstar on Sep 1, 2010 2:19 PM PDT reply actions
You do your homework at a supermarket?
Was the library booked?
"I'm a Golden Gopher, this means I'm a golden soldier/The competition is dirt, and I'm a bulldozer." -St. Paul Slim
"I'm not going to lie. I try to hit home runs and that's it." -Matt Stairs
by Where's My Burrito? on Sep 1, 2010 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
The supermarket is better and the library is too far.
"You're all like big fat failure turtles." - Edge
by Rated-R Superstar on Sep 1, 2010 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
The supermarket has pizza and Dr. Pepper
And you can actually eat & drink it there.
Choosy Feebas choose Leopold Bloom nipples
Daring. Sensual. Invigorating. Squirrel.
BLOOM. For men.
If the eggs actually hatch I made more than a mistake, I made some scientifically impossible crime.
Yes!
"You're all like big fat failure turtles." - Edge
by Rated-R Superstar on Sep 1, 2010 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
The LA Times talks about ESPN's local efforts
such as sites in LA and Dallas, and mentions SBNation.
Love the lede, by the way:
Joe Davidson has been slinging copy for the Sacramento Bee for more than 20 years and, though he loves pro and college games, the sportswriter’s real passion is high school sports.
Davidson has become enough of a fixture that coaches and fans in Folsom must have been surprised Friday when a television producer shouted at the veteran writer that he didn’t belong in the press box for the big Grant-Folsom high school football game.
When Davidson insisted that he indeed did have a seat reserved in the press box, the TV woman snapped: “I’m ESPN!”
Perhaps ESPN will one day dominate metro and community sports news the way it does the national sports universe. But it won’t get there simply by showing up and announcing its arrival.
(snip)
The Washington-based network of 270 team-centric and sport-specific and geographically focused websites (each operating under its own Web address) pays part-timers to produce most of its content. Many of the writers are lawyers, looking for an outlet for their writing and argumentative skills, said SBNation chief executive Jim Bankoff.
A competitor from another website admired the way SBNation’s (the name is derived from its earlier title, Sports Blog Nation) technical platform makes it easy to create and post new content. He also suggested that quality varies markedly from one SBNation site to the next.
The series of websites, inspired originally by an Oakland A’s fan/blogger who was disappointed in mainstream media coverage of his team, now has more than 1.3 million unique visitors a month, according to comScore.
"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." - Satchel Paige
Aw hell. Not sure how that went wrong. Everything from "Joe Davidson" to "... announcing its arrival."
should be in blockquotes
"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." - Satchel Paige
Blockquotes have been a technological bugbear of SBN since... well, forever, really.
"We don't want our people to be preoccupied with seminude, crazy men jumping up and down who are chasing an inflated object," said Sheik Mohamed Osman Arus, head of operations for the Hizbul Islam insurgent group.
Can you explain?
I’ve never had any trouble with them. Anything between the tags ends up blockquoted, right?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
often times it arbitrarily stops the block quote at a paragraph rather than the end of the tag.
What we’re asking is for people to stop pretending that ipse dixit counts as a "source." When you make a claim about baseball, you should be willing to put some reasonable amount of effort into explaining why it’s correct if someone asks you to. That’s basic respect for the other poster. - PT
by designatedforassignment on Sep 1, 2010 6:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Hmm. I wonder why I haven't seen that.
Maybe something to do with extra spaces or return characters? Have you ever had this happen when typing in the box directly, or only when cutting and pasting? Could be related to the cut and paste.
Does it show correctly on preview, or is the preview wrong as well? If the latter, then when you see the problem, paste the text into another editor and try to figure out what’s unusual about it.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I think it's a cut & paste deal.
I’ve run into it before, but I usually preview and go back to recreate the line breaks if it looks jacked.
Following the link to the story above,
I see that the original has a blurb stuck in the middle of the text right where the blockquote went wrong, so I’d guess that in this case it had to do with accidentally munging the blockquote code when removing that extra text.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I just bought a can of black truffle oil...I need some recipes...go
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Thanks....hoping for some personal recipes :)
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Oil made from truffles.
Choosy Feebas choose Leopold Bloom nipples
Daring. Sensual. Invigorating. Squirrel.
BLOOM. For men.
If the eggs actually hatch I made more than a mistake, I made some scientifically impossible crime.
You = brains
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
I really like it though I think it can be overdone/too trendy
I’m guessing by DMOAS’ track record that he does not like truffle oil.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Haven't tried it.
Don’t know what it would be used with. Given it’s a liquid form of mushroom(?), I’m guessing it could be added into stuff that I’d eat and might actually like.
Choosy Feebas choose Leopold Bloom nipples
Daring. Sensual. Invigorating. Squirrel.
BLOOM. For men.
If the eggs actually hatch I made more than a mistake, I made some scientifically impossible crime.
Almost none of the truffle oil in the US has actual truffle in it...
It’s olive oil with some synthetic flavor. True story.
Most commercial truffle oils are concocted by mixing olive oil with one or more compounds like 2,4-dithiapentane (the most prominent of the hundreds of aromatic molecules that make the flavor of white truffles so exciting) that have been created in a laboratory; their one-dimensional flavor is also changing common understanding of how a truffle should taste.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/dining/16truf.html?_r=1)
Take your silver mod tubescreamer, your dr. z, your nocaster, put them in a pile and burn them. if god gave you a thousand years, you still couldn't touch this. you can't f***ing keep time to this.
I like to do simple risottos with truffle oil so you can really taste the flavor.
What we’re asking is for people to stop pretending that ipse dixit counts as a "source." When you make a claim about baseball, you should be willing to put some reasonable amount of effort into explaining why it’s correct if someone asks you to. That’s basic respect for the other poster. - PT
by designatedforassignment on Sep 1, 2010 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions
WHOOO! COLLEGE FOOTBALL!
Can’t wait for OSU-TCU on Saturday!!!
AN: Where you will be an A's fan or Dallas Braden will show you the repercussions of your actions.
I know!
I don’t like how it’s scheduled, though. There are two games that feature a pair of ranked teams each and the start times are 15 minutes apart.
"You're all like big fat failure turtles." - Edge
by Rated-R Superstar on Sep 1, 2010 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, it sucks
But that is why I will be going to a bar, restaurant or some other establishment with multiple TV screens.
Then I will scream at the waiters/waitresses/bartenders/bellhops/whoever until they put my games on!
haha
AN: Where you will be an A's fan or Dallas Braden will show you the repercussions of your actions.
by stranahanahan on Sep 1, 2010 7:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Wooohooo!
Oh wait, I can’t watch any cause I’m abroad. Easily the worst part of leaving America is the lack of sports. Er sports that I care about.
A's Fan in Sweden
"Sosa had me caught up in the magic, and I feel like an idiot. I don’t say that often, but I feel like an idiot because of Sammy Sosa." -Jay Mariotti
I voted December
Not because of Christmas though, or any other gift-giving holiday. I’m a cold weather person and you know it’s going to be cold every day in December. Plus New Years is always a blast, even though the real fun begins in January I guess.
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
March without a doubt.
Only because of March Madness, which logically now goes into April….
A's Fan in Sweden
"Sosa had me caught up in the magic, and I feel like an idiot. I don’t say that often, but I feel like an idiot because of Sammy Sosa." -Jay Mariotti
A few links of possible interest as you face the emptiness of a night after a day game
Driver in Adenhart case made last-minute plea for change of venue. He thinks he might be able to get a more sympathetic jury outside of Orange County….I doubt it would make much of a difference.
Oakland City Councilman Ignacio de la Fuente’s house was broken into for the second time this year. We already knew Ignacio was not an A’s fan…but if he ever even tuned in a broadcast he might have heard of Bay Alarm.
The newscasters at my station gave thanks today that they did not work in central Pennsylvania so they did not have to keep a straight face while reading Butts Arrested in Boob Murder Case,
And Boston authorities are trying to keep the thousands of students moving into their new apartments this week from engaging in the practice common to all college towns of scavenging furniture off the street or from previous tenants. Why? Bedbugs, of course. But you can only take hygiene so far:
Clay Adaurczyk, 23, let his roommate claim an end table, a chord organ and a bong, but he said he drew the line at a used pillow.
It's the fans that make the game fun. -- Rickey Henderson, July 26, 2009.
oh man this has to be fake....
The guy is named Kermit Butts….
Though I don’t think I’d mind going to the “Boob Home”
"I wanted to see how much my computer programming skills had improved since the last time I was arrested." - octopus virus
Now this is what I call good in-depth research
From SI:
A Louisville Slugger researcher pointed out on Wednesday that it takes little more than a third of a second for a ball to travel the approximately 55 feet to the plate once it leaves Chapman’s hand at more than 100 miles per hour.
Is Louisville Slugger hiring?
"Good thing you can't hit, otherwise everybody would hate you"
– H.J.S., my ex coach (while drunkenly talking to me during a team visit to a strip joint)
His release point COULD be 5 feet in front of the pitching rubber.
Probably not quite that far though.
"I'm a Golden Gopher, this means I'm a golden soldier/The competition is dirt, and I'm a bulldozer." -St. Paul Slim
"I'm not going to lie. I try to hit home runs and that's it." -Matt Stairs
by Where's My Burrito? on Sep 3, 2010 8:34 AM PDT up reply actions
english units FTL
!#%&$#@&%&% antioxidants! - pam
by cuppingmaster on Sep 3, 2010 9:02 AM PDT up reply actions
you're the DLD girl
!#%&$#@&%&% antioxidants! - pam
by cuppingmaster on Sep 3, 2010 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions
see below
!#%&$#@&%&% antioxidants! - pam
by cuppingmaster on Sep 3, 2010 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
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