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Cinematic Interlude: There Will Be Trades
Wolffisher Inducements, Diversions, Games, Entertainments & Trickeries, Inc., in association with MONKEYMAX Pictures, presents ... There Will Be Trades Written for the Screen and Directed by Bill Lamar Beanerson Adapted from the novel BALL! by Sinclair Lewis Starring William...
SWISHER TRADED
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The house cleaning continues with Billy Beane trading one his supposed "favorites". This does make sense in the fact that Swisher is 27 years old and Beane is apparently instituting a rule that no one over 24 can play for the team this year. - Blez] Swisher to the Chicago White...
A Bird in the Hannahan
is worth three in the north. Yes, folks, Jack Hannahan came through early and often tonight with a double and a three-run home run. Congratulations to the young Hannahan. The thing is, it's almost always a pickup like this that seems to work out for the best for Billy Beane. I'm not sure why...
A Swisher Sighting
Hey AN, Nick Swisher is, in fact, alive. And the sighting was great and grand this evening. Swisher belted two home runs, the second putting an exclamation point on Danny Haren's 12th win. The thing about this game is that the A's probably should've put this game out of reach a lot earlier as...
Changing Approach
So I'm not usually one to give another team credit for an A's victory, but I think tonight it was clear that the Mariners didn't make the necessary adjustments to win this game. By that I mean, the umpire had a horrifically puny strike zone. Gaudin looked like he was going to be walking Mariners...
White Sox 8 - Nick Swisher 5
Can you remember the last time the A's had a bad start from a starter (I know there has been, I just can't remember it off the top of my head which is amazing)? And even then, Blanton didn't really start giving it up until the sixth. The A's offense scored five runs thanks to Nick Swisher, which...
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