January ← 2011 ← FREE KRAUT!

Can Monday mean a revival for the Grill? 105

The Figginses, he hates us No Spanish-language radio for the A’s in 2011 (inspiring an acknowledged rare moment of comity between ML/v0 and BBiO). Here’s what I don’t understand: why bother pursuing an outlet for giveaway/loss-leader promotional content when (a) you’ve proved incompetent at marketing before, (b) radio ain’t the wave of future — pay-access ...

Thank [Diety] We’ve Grilled All Our Prospects 42

If we had any, they’d be stuck in the minors. Other news broken by Slusser’s piece: Carter, the A’s top power-hitting prospect, doesn’t appear as if he can buy a roster spot. A’S EXPLOITING NEW MARKET INEFFICIENCY: SALE OF ROSTER SPOTS Michael Taylor, texted him to say, “What are we going to do now?” OBAMA ...

Ducatfest 2011 77

I was going to call it the Ticketgate, but decades of lazy headline writers have ruined the –gate appellation for the rest of us. Now Ticketgate sounds like something involving the boot on Jean Quan’s car. So Ducatfest it is. This Saturday, Jan. 29, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, or until we get thrown ...

Rule of Law 72

Trout Farm Law intelligence Law and tooth

Did Walter Haas want the SF market? 1

Neil DeMause (proprietor of Field of Schemes) returns to BPro with an item on the A’s/San Jose/stadium situation. There’s nothing new to us in it, but it does seem to be much more accurate than any of the other national/internet wrapups we’ve seen of late. The one detail that did strike me as original was ...

You’re an idiot, I’m better than you 89

Ron Gardenhire’s Five Stages of Losing Nick Punto A’s to move to “true” dynamic pricing this year (at least for the big AoE games) (via ML/v0) Chip Johnson (one of the Chron’s true stars) on Jerry’s scorched-earth anti-redev policy’s potential impact on Oakland/East Bay (also via ML/v0) I am Voros McCracken — and so is ...

Grilled Otter Pops 84

In a day with no A’s news, I needed to delve deeper into the tagline. We can all relax, Otter Pops production elves hand wash. Automatically. Other links: DFWAS YOTD, new information division We were always at war with Eastasia poor people. Linked for two awesome comments. Do you prefer Wellington or Sam Johnson? As ...

So I Grilled him. 113

Yglesias vs the Dental Cartel, Round XXVII Man, Christian Bale has really aged (actually, it’d be interesting to see Bale play Young Reagan) Theocentric libertarian platform? Theocentric libertarian platform. Newly discovered Hammett short story to be published. Monkeyball World HQ is just two blocks up from Dahsiell Hammett alley — which itself is just across ...

My personal analytical nadir 78

Sacha Baron Cohen’s genius is unending I am Richard Kelly He can have $1M French cave paintings. Of mythical beasts and geographically implausible animals. 1300 feet underground. In hallucinatory concentrations of CO2 and radon. In 3D. With Werner Herzog. Jesus. This is my stimulus plan to rebuild America’s infrastructure. In college, I played trashophone for ...

Boras fires the first shot (via Robothal) in the battle over contraction 24

Robothal jumps on board the San Jose bandwagon, armed with Scott Boras quotes, active ignorance of Victory Court, and passive ignorance of the realities of stadium development in SJ and Oakland (especially given Jerry’s doubling down on his anti-redev plan). The whole piece requires a thorough fisking (that’s what we have FSU for), but for ...