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The post with a bunch of photos in it (non-baseball) 10

My camera, or more specifically my camera lens, was mostly on the disabled list for a while because I had to send the lens in for a repair job stemming from something going wrong with it while I was on that ARI/COL trip last season. With it returned and in good working order, I’ve started ...

R.I.P. Dave Henderson 14

He’s important enough to get a post of his own here, I say. This was reported within the past hour by Bob Nightengale on Twitter: Dave Henderson, the gregarious man known as Hendu, died Sunday, one month after getting a kidney transplant. He will be tremendously missed. Dave Henderson, who had a kidney disease and ...

The Arizona/Colorado Trip (photo-heavy) 11

Before I get into this, I’ll give you a direct link to the MLB games I’ve attended this season, found here. There are nine of them, and that’s where it will probably stay as I don’t have any plans at this point to go back up to Seattle for the final series of the season. ...

A review of half the ballparks in MLB 47

I’d be a little surprised if anyone here has never looked at a ranking of all the ballparks in the league. Comparing them is kind of the thing to do when it comes to the different opinions people have over what they think makes one place better than another. That’s no different for me. Since ...

Games 117-120: for the birds (still) 133

A’s and Orioles, at Camden Yards. It’s the rare four-game series that ends on a Monday, and the finale is a night game with travel cross-country to follow with a home game the next night on top of that. If the A’s were actually in the playoff hunt, that might be worth being annoyed with.

Game 108: I’ve got a good feeling about this one 24

Calling a shutout.

Dam It All: The Return (lots of photos, plus videos) 10

While the rest of you were probably trying to ignore the World Series as best as you could, I spent a few days on vacation in Austin, Texas before returning and taking a couple more days to revisit Shasta and Oroville. As some of you know, I’ve kind of been keeping very close tabs on ...

A Case of the Runs (and grill) 324

We know August was bad. When the A’s have their first losing month in about two and a half seasons, that says a lot. Of course, it has the circumstance of coinciding with the Cespedes/Lester/Gomes trade. We’ve gone into many things that probably combine to account for what’s been going on, but I’m just presenting ...

The “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” Grill 401

But I slept right through it here in Elk Grove. Woke up early for unrelated reasons and it took social media to alert me to it. American Canyon quake How many of you felt it? Largest in the region since 1989.

La Grillencia 240

Nice words from Cespedes. Hopefully the A’s can give him his wish, at least as far as this postseason goes. No way of knowing if there was ever a realistic possibility of keeping him long-term, but his sentiment is still nice and he had nothing but good things to say about being here. That’s business, ...