Since nobody else wants to do it, I will. I'm too lazy to go back farther than a month. Besides, it's not Quote of the Last 2 or 3 months. Let me know if I missed anything.

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So, it's 3 in the afternoon on a Friday in California and AN's already dead for the weekend. Why create a new DLD? Good question. I'll tell you when I find out.

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So, as we all know, Saturday was AN Day V: Tailgate Edition. Having lived in Utah the last five years, school and work dominated my life, and I was only able to visit California during the holidays--when baseball had gone into hibernation. It's not often that I get to go to games; the last one I attended was the fireworks game five years earlier. I had never been able to attend AN Day in the past, so it was very special to get to go this year. I'll write more about AN Day in a bit.

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A man dressed up as Darth Vader assaulted a church of Jedis  with a metal crutch in Wales.

Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi church founder Barney Jones — aka Master Jonba Hehol — with a metal crutch, hitting him on the head, prosecutors told Holyhead Magistrates' Court.

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I need se ven ty five words to be a ble to post a D L D. I found out that you can do one sy lla ble at a time and it counts as a se pa rate word.

I hope you do not have an A M D pro ce ssor and win dows X P S P 3 .

B A R T goes cra zy.

A N Day is co ming.

Dump.

I want to preface this by saying that I am not a statistician. This could all be hogwash, so bear with me.

Last year, Joe Blanton reach career bests in a few categories, including strikeouts (140) and K/9 (5.48). While Blanton is pitching deep into games this year (sample size warning), he is not striking out many batters. Blanton's 3.56 K/9 is by far the lowest of any of the A's starters, and good for 45th out of the 48 pitchers who have amassed at least 40 innings this year.

In addition to his low strikeout totals, Blanton is giving up 10.5 H/9, as opposed to last year's rate of 9.39. While his BB/9 is as solid as it’s ever been, his WHIP has jumped to 1.347 (last year: 1.217). His ERA+ is 99, even though he’s seemingly having a good season. It’s not a huge sample, but on average, Joe’s struggles typically seem to escalate after the fifth inning.  

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It's that time of year again. The smell of fresh-cut grass, garlic fries and trough urinals is almost upon us. Yes, the A's already opened the season in Japan with a split against the Bostonian juggernaut.

Yes, they will keep this winning streak until at least Tuesday, April 1, when they take on the Red Sox again.
 

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In case you haven't heard, Nick Swisher was traded to the White Sox for three minor leaguers, two of which seem to have quite a bit of potential.

Some are happy.

Poppy, not so much.

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Every time I go to check the score of the game at the Kings' official website, I get lost. How could such a high profile company such as a professional basketball team have such a busy, unintuitive website?

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Barry Lamar Bonds
Stay the hell away from us
What else needs be said?

Rumors from Slusser
My inner peace is disturbed
Get thee hence, Satan

Broken down legend
Colossal waste of money
No bay for splash hits

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