Comments for FREE KRAUT! https://freekraut.net We supply the kraut, you supply the links. A blog for fans of the Oakland Athletics, Adam West, unicorns, fermented cabbage, otter pops, and trough urinals. Not necessarily in that order. Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:02:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.9 Comment on Spring training 2024, wherein Fisher and Kaval sit on a cactus by FreeSeatUpgrade https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570408 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:02:49 +0000 https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570408

Bleak men’s bracket for the FK schools this year. No Eds, Soakers, batgirls, andeux’, or colins. The nevermoors are in, and the doctorKs, and of course the FSUs. Could be FKless by the Sweet 16, really.

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Comment on 2024: Once more unto the breach, dear friends by ptbnl https://freekraut.net/?p=20001#comment-570407 Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:15:53 +0000 https://freekraut.net/?p=20001#comment-570407

In reply to Soaker.

Verizon just bumped their unlimited per-line charge again (now almost $70) so I’m in the market.

Any recommendations for a three-line account, where one line needs unlimited data and another needs to be able to add international roaming text and data?

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Comment on Spring training 2024, wherein Fisher and Kaval sit on a cactus by andeux https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570406 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 21:57:03 +0000 https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570406

In reply to FreeSeatUpgrade.

Oh, and I see Trevor Gott had a classic Trevor Gott outing.

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Comment on Spring training 2024, wherein Fisher and Kaval sit on a cactus by andeux https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570405 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 21:53:45 +0000 https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570405

In reply to FreeSeatUpgrade.

Big hard thrower with crazy high strikeout rate, but a high walk rate to match it. Certainly a change from the middling soft-tossers who always seem to make up our rotation recently, and it’s easy to get excited about his upside if he can improve his control a little bit. I was excited about Fujinami at this time last year for the same reason…
This spring he struck out 5 and walked 0 in his first two outings, and has struck out 10 and walked 12 in his subsequent three outings (while still avoiding too much damage by limiting hits), so it looks like the control could still use some improving.

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Comment on Spring training 2024, wherein Fisher and Kaval sit on a cactus by FreeSeatUpgrade https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570404 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 21:25:41 +0000 https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570404

Joe Boyle’s career #s say he was a middling/good starter in 27 AA games and an All-Star in six at AAA/MLB. I’m sure that trend will only improve.

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Comment on Spring training 2024, wherein Fisher and Kaval sit on a cactus by andeux https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570403 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 19:11:04 +0000 https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570403

J.D. Davis seems like the kind of barely cromulent player you sign when you’re just trying not to be the worst team in baseball. I’m surprised the A’s did that.

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Comment on Spring training 2024, wherein Fisher and Kaval sit on a cactus by Future Ed https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570402 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 17:23:57 +0000 https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570402

In reply to FreeSeatUpgrade.

Yes, and the call?

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Comment on Spring training 2024, wherein Fisher and Kaval sit on a cactus by Glorious Mundy https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570401 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:55:02 +0000 https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570401

In reply to FreeSeatUpgrade.

I’m still not convinced that “Reince Priebus” was a real person.

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Comment on Spring training 2024, wherein Fisher and Kaval sit on a cactus by FreeSeatUpgrade https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570400 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:31:34 +0000 https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570400

In reply to Glorious Mundy.

Sure, and that’s the answer to your original point. Folks like Pence, Mathis, Kelly, Bolton, Barr, those are all people who had some backbone to begin with, notwithstanding odious views (Barr, Bolton). Also, most of the repentant ex-Trumpers no longer have anything to lose, not running for office, not wanting or needing new cabinet jobs. In 2016 Trump still had to appease the mainstream GOP with his choices (Reince Priebus anyone?); now, like the most efficient mob bosses and drug lords, Trump would pick people who are ambitious and craven, so they must retain the boss’s favor at all cost.

Also, for the umpteenth time fuck Mitch McConnell with a rusty fork, he does not need to retain favor yet still endorsed.

No way Tuberville is a VP pick, he fits the loyal and stupid profile, but doesn’t bring in any votes Trump doesn’t get already. It’ll be someone like Tim Scott or Elise Stefanik, aimed to peel off Biden votes from specific constituencies.

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Comment on Spring training 2024, wherein Fisher and Kaval sit on a cactus by FreeSeatUpgrade https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570399 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:17:27 +0000 https://freekraut.net/?p=20014#comment-570399

In reply to Future Ed.

Blackburn used the whole field to retire that guy.

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