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Happy 2019 FKers! 236

Jan

1

2019

Happy New Year from the South Pole! The Antarctic ice sheet moves 10-meters per year, so there is an annual ceremony to move the Geographic South Pole marker. The winter machinist makes a new marker each year, which is first revealed at the ceremony #newyears #southpole pic.twitter.com/MNkkjQcIO9 — South Pole Telescope (@SPTelescope) January 1, 2019 ...

Real baseball! 93

Apr

3

2016

Nice to wake up on Opening Day to blowing snow. What the hell, April?! A photo posted by Colin Bischoff (@colinflipper) on Apr 3, 2016 at 5:55am PDT Now: Cardinals at Pirates Then: Blue Jays at Rays Finally: Mets at Royals

Game M83. Dead Lawrie, Green Phegley & Lost Vogt 48

Jul

3

2015

Jesse worked out of a 1st and 3rd, one out jam in the top of the first. Now the A’s are getting something going themselves in the second half of that frame (update: rally killed by a Butler DP, of course). Lineup = Burns (CF), Vogt (1B), Zobrist (2B), Butler (DH), Phegley (C), Lawrie (3B), ...

Got scraped across my grill 385

Mar

20

2015

Five of the last six posts are tv show recaps, so I figured it was time to add a new thread for spring training, march madness, etc. Fangraphs has an optimistic take on Billy Butler here. I’m still bracing myself for an infuriating number of double play balls though. Comment thread fights about whether Fangraphs ...

Unghost-townification grill-lounge 211

Oct

7

2014

Because we were making Jennifer sad… Here is a cover tune that got me playing all my Neil Young records last weekend. But this version has unbeatable crowd reactions. I escaped from the requirement to go to the South Pole (a.k.a. ice prison) this year. But the downside is that I won’t be stopping through ...

Game 12: Where’s your game thread, dude? 109

Apr

13

2014

Just back from the grocery store and no game thread. I blame everyone but myself. Crisp (CF), Jaso (C), Donaldson (DH), Moss (1B), Cespedes (LF), Callaspo (3B), Reddick (RF), Punto (SS), Sogard (2B), Kazmir (P) Weird looking lineup for a getaway day game, but I like the pitching matchup. A’s got two hits off Chris ...

Some lounges are bigger than others 2,076

Aug

21

2013

I’m having a very Morrissey evening — listening to the Smiths, eating vegan (warm barley salad with spinach and brussels sprouts), and my wife is out of town, so I’m definitely not going to get laid. Doesn’t seem like Bed’s around, so we’ll just have to get by as best we can.

The can we talk about baseball now? grill 207

Feb

14

2013

Grant is dumb and will probably lose all his money (SBN warning), but I’m happy that he would take the over on the A’s. Mike already posted this in the lounge, but Balfour tore his meniscus (link by SuSlu) while throwing yesterday and will be out until roughly the start of the season. I’m not ...

Southernmost A’s fan 39

Nov

24

2012

That’s the ceremonial South Pole, which is a couple hundred feet away from the actual South Pole. The actual South Pole has to be moved periodically to account for the glacial flow of the ice. Current weather is -25°F with 18 knot wind (-56°F with wind chill).

FAIL #00: A Whole Season Worth Of Fail 108

Mar

27

2012

Ok, by now you have probably seen FAIL #01 and possibly even submitted an entry. This post (slightly out of order) is the one where we make predictions for the whole season. Then in October, when the A’s are steamrolling through the playoffs, we come back and say “Whoa, I predicted them to go 2-160.” ...