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ANtics - Episode XI: Season In Review

The ANtics is brought to you early to give Blez the opportunity to wrap the season Sunday. Blez - thanks for the chance to help us enjoy the A's all year long. Go AN and Go A's!

162 games. It's a long season, and to summarize it in a single ANtics all by myself was too much work, so I asked Adam Melhuse and Joe Blanton to help out, as they did last month in A's Week at the Movies.

The pair, two of the most loved on AN, give their quick take on the team's hitting, pitching and coaching in this week's ANtics!

What of the ANtics in the off season? Up to you! Vote in the poll!


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Poll
Should the ANtics be featured this off season?
Yes - I can't get enough of the ANtics!
34 votes
Yes - But not as frequently. Maybe every month
23 votes
No - It should be a regular season feature
1 votes
No - It stopped being funny after the first couple
2 votes
No - I never read them anyway
1 votes

61 votes | Poll has closed

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Great, As Always!
I love Melhuse! Thanks for using my pics again!

Only problem - I now have a bad image of Joe punishing Swish! ;)

My Vote is to keep it up in the off season! I love them, one of the great treasures of AN, thanks for all your hard work!

"We play our best ball when we're goofing around and having a good time" ~Bobby Crosby

by BobbyCrosbysGirl on Oct 1, 2005 11:54 PM PDT reply actions  

I agree with Joe
Swish needs to stay grounded...Maybe he can visit SCANDIA during the off season and take some swings in the batting cages.... just bring your own bat because the metal ones they have suck!
Bring Back The Bash! Bring Back The Stash! Bring back Ricky one more time!!! Go A'S!!!!

by Shippee33 on Oct 2, 2005 12:10 AM PDT reply actions  

Great entertainment!
Letting your energy, time, resources, and muses inspire the frequency might be best.

I don't see a chronological law that applies but drafts, trades, fanfest, IE events may rule.

Just an idea;
...How does a "How I spent my winter" real or fantasy accounting of players, coaches, GM.s, Wolff's & Fischers during the off season?

Cameos of coliseum staff, vendors, Roy Steele, groundskeepers,

If you get a chance to get over there it is amazing to see the conversion of the playing field from baseball to football and back. It is all done manually with gigantic Fork lifts and cranes moving an entire seating section at a time...

I didn't mean to go off but maybe the way to go during the off-season is more "Your A's", "Your coliseum", "Your ___?", ...insightful photo-journals with light-heartedness & humor mixed in. If there was a goal here it is making people feel comfortable and at home with these things previously only imagined.

Also;
"A Day without the A's at the empty coliseum"
"A day with Maya"
"A day with; Blez, Nico, and "recognizable" ANers including yourself.
"A day with BB"
"A day with BB's staff"
"A's locker room"
"A's doctors"
"A's Training & work-outs"
"A day with the RiverCats"
"A day with Midland, Kane County, Vancover, Stockton, etc."
"Cameos of prominent minor leaguers likely to join the A's/MLB"
"A day with Washington"
"Taking BART to the A's"
"A's Families"
"How to leave a sellout game"
"A day in the bleachers"

"Spring Training with the A's"
The AZ atmosphere is great for photo ops and casualness from players and coaches" ..try to go and load up photos and notes on all players, coaches, facilities, nite life, and ex-A's like Byrnes, etc. etc. etc. A's/Blez should be willing to assist you on these. If you can't be there maybe a collaborator(s) can?

"What if Barry Bonds was on the A's"
"What if BB ran the Yankees?"
"What if SacRCats were the A's for a game?"

Wow!
I guess we should clone you since it doesn't look like you're going to have a life! You might enlist  assistance from others -
GNGGirl "A's report" target here is towards girl chats on AN - Maybe it is simply a "header" that tops a "hotness" open thread twice a week?

...somebody stop me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh hell, why stop now?
...Hey Blez!
Maybe once a week you can get different Players/coaches running around loose with a camera and posting the results?
...may require editing!
...please include the minor league teams.

OK! I'm stopping.

"...It might have been a great year with a real DH."

by A s Eh on Oct 2, 2005 10:37 AM PDT reply actions  

Another Enjoyable One,
louismg.  Thanks for all these through the season.

Keep 'em going.  There's enough As news out there in the offseason.  The offseason might give you some inspiration in other As related areas -- as noted by A s Eh.  

I guess one thing you want to do is stay in the writing groove.  Wouldn't let that talent rust in the off-season!

by Dan_Honolulu on Oct 2, 2005 11:09 AM PDT reply actions  

Grounded is grounded!
LOL :)
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King

by batgirl on Oct 3, 2005 4:01 PM PDT reply actions  

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