Some of you FKers are there right now. Kay likely has Bob Melvin and the blog crowd in stitches, or perhaps safety pins and ballgags. Others like me are planning to meet up a little later to buy tickets without online screw job fees, and to drink beers without Aramarkups. Some early returns:
Coco Crisp says the team needs to find new chemistry with loss of Pennington and Gomes. He says maybe a new dance. Suggests Pee-Wee Herman.
@susanslusser
Susan Slusser
“CSN – Hiro Nakajima says he’s excited to be part of the #Athletics & contribute this year & you can expect jokes.”
See you all soon, in some way or another.
I assume they’re charging for parking?
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No, it’s free!
Lines are long…what else is new? JLaff and I bought batting practice jerseys at the memorabilia sale; they’re $30, the regular jerseys are $100…except Melvin, McCarthy, Suzuki, and Gomes….they’re $200. Phew!
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Oh I don’t wanna go in, I just want to go hang out in the parking lot.
Let me just say this: I am really looking forward to reading Kay’s report later.
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Ditto.
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Ditto ditto!
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Ditto? DITTO? You provincial putz!
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I’m looking forward to writing it later.
My notes are in pretty decent shape, so I plan on waking up tomorrow morning, sucking back a pot of coffee and knocking the piece out.
Melvin just said Kottaras was a “nice little player”. Nasty!
We just forced Chris Young to Bernie.
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pics?
I’ve been watching it online.
Meanwhile I spent the day with Goya, Velazquez and Picasso, but most of all in The Garden of Earthy Delights.
Hieronymus was one weird FKer.
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Were you at the Prado?
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The Prado and the Reina Sofia.
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Lucky man, I only had just under an hour at the Prado, my travel companion got food poisoning from a street cafe, ugh.
The El Greco’s are much more stunning in person than in reproductions.
Huge fan of Goya, they had a good chunk of the Disasters of War etching out, amazing work.
Sadly didn’t get to see the Bosch.
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etchings*
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Yeah – 5 hours at the Prado, 3 at the Reina Sofia, and I’d only scratched the surface. So many things that were incomparably better than any reproduction I’ve seen.
Interesting to see them back-to-back too. There was a Ponce De Leon self-portrait in which he has just crashed his car, is bleeding from the head and clutching some thorny vegetation
and the resonances (and dissonances) with the classical crucifixion/crown of thorns imagery – like this stunning Velazquez -
were that much sharper for having come from the Prado.
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No Prado got traded to Arizona
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In the US, the Toyota Prado is actually the Lexus GX 470.
Update – K’s wife here, K is having phone issues & if you happen to see my darling red-head somewhere around the ticket kiosk out side gate D, please be a dear and help out :)
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Lost in the FanFestamahubbub: Hi, Mrs. Kay! Please visit us more often!
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THIS!!!! love you, lady!
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If you see Kay?
Townsend says he’s going to have a lot more time to hang out with people in the parking lot.
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He was looking at us….I told Lynn we’re going to need more booze.
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Hi.
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what about me? :P
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You’re a living breathing interdimensional hub.
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I love you but I gotta bring something better than Heineken ♥
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this.
And im her designated this beer is slightly warm drink it for me DFA
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well, if you brought your own beer…
i wasn’t catering to anyone but myself. :P
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I brought my own beer but I drinked it all :(
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you did not plan ahead!!! (still love you.)
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nah I only bought one pint. I didn’t plan on having a bunch to drink.
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I didn’t drink today!
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(still love you, too.)
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I had 3 virgin rum & Cokes today.
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Whoa, slow down there, Ozz.
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I can quit any time I want.
what time are poeple lotting it up
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I’m gonna hit the box office first, then be lotting it up by 2:30 or so, barring extra-slow ticket lines.
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k
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Here now.
EN asked a good, serious question of the young pitchers….right after the woman who wanted to touch A. J.’s hair. AND HE LET HER.
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Yeah, hate that shit.
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I still say he’s on his way to film something for Tarantino later.
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So wait, does the CoFro speak now? Why’s he holding the mic up to it?
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It should speak! Cruising Twitter earlier I saw that Josh Reddick’s Mouthpiece had a Twitter account.
Laughing at Sal Bando’s meat market story.
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I give..what is Sal Bando’s meat market story?
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If I remember it right there was a late-game situation where they got a runner on and Bando thought they should have bunted him into scoring position, but they didn’t and the team ended up losing with him making the final out. I believe he went into the locker room and told Alvin Dark he couldn’t even manage a meat market.
The media was there, picked it up and ran it in the paper and Charlie Finley basically said, “Well, running a meat market can be tough.” Bando also heard from some owners of meat markets who sent in letters saying it’s not as easy as he thinks, etc.
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Alvin Dark was a bad man. And not in the good John Lee Hooker way.
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He made some dumb comments, but I think being able to pencil Willie Mays and Willie McCovey, and later Reggie Jackson, into his lineup eventually changed his attitude.
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Maybe. Always hard to judge people for the way they do or do not adjust their own beliefs as the world changes more quickly around them.
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i usually make a lot of dumb comments!
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But anyone who sees or hears you for eight seconds gets that you’re a good person.
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it’s true. i am a good person. <3 thank you for acknowledging that.
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Humanity is stubbornness.
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I know little about him. Why was he bad.
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Based on what the people there said during the Q&A, the dynasty of the 70s was built more through things with Dick Williams and Alvin Dark was sort of supposed to just maintain it. Might be a Bob Geren equivalent.
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Geren wishes he inherited even a quarter of the talent Alvin Dark did.
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He was a late-to-reform racist and a pious religious fool.
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I’m okay with being religious, of course, but being a pious fool is a faux pas.
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You were there and I missed you? FK
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No, I was watching things online. The A’s had the Q&As streaming.
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oh… cool
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Had to work, as usual.
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I was wondering how your tweets were so darned relevant!
They were showing them up on a screen during the Q&A sessions
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Heh, funny.
The only time I saw them show anything on the screen was Doolittle’s tweet about not having a mic.
That was fun!
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love you guys and ladies. that was A-mAZing. i can’t wait to see you all again more often. i’m still tearing up thinking about looking out at our sweet little ‘gate and seeing all the smiling faces. <3 <3 <3
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That was splendid. So good to see everyone!
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I just got home 45 minutes ago.
Have they let Kay out of jail yet?
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Kay is a Goddess of the Greatest Magnitude! <3
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I’m waiting for the news that Jarrod Parker blew out his ACL while pulling Kay off of N*** and will miss most or all of the season.
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Not to spoil anything, but by Kay’s account she steeled herself and was duly decorous and not visibly hostile to **** as they crossed paths.
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she was amazing. i am so proud.
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Damn. Now I’m disappointed.
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Me too.
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Me too a little.
However, I can count all the transgendered sportswriters I’ve ever heard of with one hand and have enough fingers left over to pick both nostrils. I didn’t want to waste the opportunity pursuing a grudge which I no longer feel particularly bitter about.
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I 100% agree with this. Let the rest of us kneecap him.
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Well shit. If you want it put it like that, sure. So I guess what DFA said.
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Actually, there was one other, for a daily paper in a fairly major market… but… yeah, that story doesn’t end so well :-(. I can’t remember the name (or really anything else right now).
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Christine Daniels, LA Times.
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Also Christina Kahrl of BPro
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Oh wow, did not know that.
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really? hun interesting
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Thanks… now I remember: http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-oldmike26apr26,1,7621870,full.story
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Christine Daniels was a victim of internalizing the gender binary. If she had found a position in between in which to be confident and okay with herself, she would have ended up a lot better off. Then again, she had little to no support from family, and pretty much got divorced and disowned.
I think my life’s work now is to get queers and heterosexuals to accept the spectrum approach to sexuality, as opposed to the binary approach, or 3-prong approach (gay bi straight) (male trans female).
Do you think straight people can handle subclassifications of their heterosexuality? Everybody’s attracted to different types. Why not subclassify?
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As long as it is neither discrete (as subclassification suggests) nor one-dimensional (as a spectrum suggests), but rather a multi-dimensional continuum it’s fine by me.
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I may be saying this wrong, but I’m envisioning a non-discrete approach.
Imagine a same-sex attraction to opposite-sex attraction spectrum, divided into 100 points. Some people may have a very narrow attraction range that takes up 2-3 points. My attraction range would span 80-90 points.
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The data generated from 3 or more of these questions could be graphed in an infographic form (for human eyes).
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Might be better to have two separate (independent) classifications. 1) Attracted to males 2) Attracted to females. Each with their own “100 point” scale. Those over 50% on both are bi. Those over 50% on their own gender but not on the other are gay. Those over the 50% on only the opposite are hetero and those less than 50% on both are asexual. Since it’s on a range, even if you fall into “hetero” that doesn’t mean there might not be an attraction/potential attraction to the same sex. Nor does it mean that you can’t even flirt with the idea, you’re just moreso/more often so attracted to the opposite sex. Or vice versa if you fall more heavily on the same sex scale.
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Parker wasn’t there, so that’s not a problem.
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Appointment with Dr. Andrews?
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Like the A’s could afford him.
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Depends. Witch Dr. Andrews?
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Witch what?
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Huh? Wasn’t me.
i wish we were all still together right now.
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We are. Here.
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well, i guess that will have to do. for now.
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Some of us are hiding in the bushes outside your house.
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i looked, and you are not there.
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Maybe I have the wrong house.
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i’ll go look in the neighbors’ bushes. that sounds weird…maybe i won’t.
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Whoever it i, their wi-fi is fast.
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You’re welcome.
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Dude, my porn has never loaded so fast.
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ik,r? It’s crazy fast here, init? There’s moisturizer next to the kitchen sink if you need some.
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Best. Host. Ever.
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For a second there, I thought you were going to say Marshall.
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We are. Not. Marshall.
Sorry I missed all you guys, I got there at 8:15 and froze my arse off for 2 1/2 in the shade waiting for tickets, never really thawed out and the endlessly bottlenecking crowds pretty much took the rest out of me.
Really liked the energy from C Young, loved hearing Sal talk, and our bullpen looks like a really fun place to hang out.
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wth, brian. i am sad i didn’t get to see you today. FROWNING FACE. :(
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Missed you too, I didn’t think it was going to be 36° in the shade, also, getting over being sick-ish so didn’t want to push it.
Totally crashed out for an hour when i got home. :(
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you take care of you, and i hope to get together with you soon. sooner rather than later.
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You left without seeing me? Dick.
Sorry I missed it. I thought I couldn’t make it, then I could, then I didn’t/
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i kept looking for you…
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I missed you giuys
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i kept thinking i saw you but when i turned around it totally was not you, or anyone who looked remotely like you
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as of 9 PM last night I was going. I got up late and did some other family thing today. Boys had fun. are super excited for the season.
They don’t understand what happened to MCCarthy
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i don’t, either. still sad about that.
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You didn’t even come to see me? Dick.
Thank god RBF day is a day game this year
Great to see all of you today… I hope this season will continue the trend of blowing our minds clear out of our heads that was begun in 2012.
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i’m ready! :D great to see you!
Man, I looked everywhere for you guys, but I couldn’t find a-one of you.
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:(
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It’s only a few more months.
How’s Benito feeling?
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he is doing great! now the worry is that the antibiotics have worn off, but if he is doing as great as he is now in 5 days, we should be out of the woods.
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Yay! Has he forgiven you for giving him medicine?
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Phew.
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Yeah, same here. I think they were hiding from us.
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Bastards.
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Oh, right, like you weren’t leading them.
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I was sitting around waiting for everyone to show up.
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If I had a nickel for every time people ditched me…
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Fk you. I already told you I ain’t paying you every time I do that.
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I WANT MONEY.
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THAT’S WHAT I WANT.
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GIVE IT TO ME NOW
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WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
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A reprieve from your hand?
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YOUR LOVIN’ DON’T PAY MY BILLS.
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LIAR
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It does, however, give me such a thrill.
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I would, but what would Gus think?
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let’s ask him right now.
So I hear Addison Russell will be invited to ST? Mark my words, he’ll make the Opening Day roster and will be a 68 WAR player as a rookie. PL78 told me so.
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Kay said that Melvin said Grant Green would get some spring training ABs also. So I’m penciling Green in for 47 WAR at least.
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FYI High draft picks are pretty much always invited.
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Yeah, but he’s still just 19 and I got the sense they wouldn’t have invited him this year if he didn’t tear it up in his first time playing pro ball.
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Age generally doesn’t matter much. Stassi was the same only less good.
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This quickly, though? And when they’re HS players?
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It’s not like they’ll be looking at him to make the team. It’s mostly just to show him what he’s working towards. He’ll be one of the first guys moved out when they do their cuts.
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Oh, I know. But it seems like at least with the A’s, even high draft picks don’t get invited this early on. Might just be my perception, though.
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Your perception isn’t correct.
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Always a possibility.
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Probably the
moisturizersunscreen in your eyes.up
I dan johnson’ed that for you
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You missed the conversation where Oz was outside in my bushes.
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Was? Past tense?
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The conversation was, yes.
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Ah. Ok.
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There’s gatorade in the fridge if you need a pick me up.
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When it comes to masturbation, you’re like a Boy Scout.
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There’s no poison oak or anything out there, so you can use the leaves our there if you need to, you know, wipe things down. If that doesn’t work, there’s a bath room and TP downstairs.
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You’re so thoughtful.
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gross. what color?
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yes.
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I want Dan Johnson in a RiverCats uniform by August 31st, and in an A’s uniform the next day.
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But he only needs to have actual at-bats on September 29. Game 162 specialist!
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Agreed.
I just wanna make sure he gets the whole month’s prorated salary, so his family can have a nice offseason.
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One of the memorable moments from the young pitchers’ panel came at the end, in response to a question about what they were looking forward to this season. Both Straily and Griffin said they were looking forward to going to major league spring training.
Does anyone actually watch the Pro Bowl?
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When I lived in Hawaii the teams practiced on my high school’s field, which is about a half mile from Aloha Stadium. It was pretty cool to see those guys up close.
Not that they “practiced” very strenuously. Of all the stupid All-Star spectacles the NFL’s Pro Bowl is the stupidest.
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The Pro Bowl is more-watched than the MLB All-Star Game. It’s proof that people will buy anything that has the red, white and blue NFL shield attached to it.
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Huh.
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Amazing. And it’s less hyped, too.
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Wow, that’s astounding to me. At least with MLB and the NBA the idea of superstars facing each other one-on-one bears some resemblance to the regular sports they actually play. The NFL Pro Bowl is nothing like the real pro game. Same with hockey. Take of the hitting and effort and it’s not the same sport.
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Weird. I’m a die-hard football fan. I’d be shocked if, collectively in my 26 years of life, I’ve seen more than 30 minutes of the Pro Bowl.
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And now with bonus STUPID TIMING! Guaranteed to ensure that some of the best players will not be able to show up, as in not permitted to show up, as opposed to simply choosing to blow it off like some of them used to.
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Seems like the whole purpose is really just to give those guys a free trip to Hawaii.
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True story: One year my family was at Waimea Bay on the day before the Pro Bowl, and one of my younger brothers, maybe 10 y.o., spots Hollywood Henderson on the beach. He approached and asked for an autograph, to which Henderson answered “Shit no, I’m on vacation baby!”
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Jack ass.
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In retrospect that story is better than an autograph though.
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Totally.
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Now, if your brother had offered him coke for his autograph…
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They should just make it a flag football game
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Agreed. Padless too.
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I read that as “Paddles too”
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I’m down. Those boys’ve got big enough butts.
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I can just imagine them running plays and defenders smacking the receivers in the ass with paddles as they run and the receivers giggling like school girls every time their ass gets slapped.
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can i play???
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No. You’d still tackle Gronk.
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i think i may have decided that he is too fragile. i will stick with my boy wilfork. i can’t hurt him.
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Maybe not physically. Maybe. But I’m sure you could break his little heart.
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i doubt he has one. besides, he is gross. i don’t know why i love him so much. it makes me feel dirty.
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So, you like it dirty…
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i don’t know what to say here…
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I have that effect on people.
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hmmm….
when are we making the strawberry margaritas again, anyway?
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June?
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i will write this in my book.
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In pen!
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damn.
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No, that’s good. Then it’s locked in.
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There was a New England running back whose name escapes me at the moment who basically ended his career because he tore up his knee playing flag football during Pro Bowl week, I swear.
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omg. who was it. find out now.
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Robert Edwards. It was a flag football exhibition on the beach, or something like that.
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wow, i had no idea. and i don’t know who that is, so now i’m feeling doubly bad. (hey! missed you today!)
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Robert Edwards. Patriots’ first-round pick in 1998. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/06/sports/plus-nfl-pro-bowl-edwards-is-hurt-in-game-on-beach.html
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stupid beach games.
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playing on a beech is a bad idea
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I once broke a toe playing beach ultimate frisbee.
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I remember watching it it was an ugly injury
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I just watched a shitty version of it on youtube. You can see the knee bending to the left in a way a knee should never, ever bend. I won’t post the video, it’s… unpleasant just for that.
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To prevent such events in the future, they should all fly to Hawaii and then just play Madden. It would be about as exciting for home viewers anyway.
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Nah, Madden’s in pretty bad shape, I’d be afraid to watch.
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Hehe, I’m sure he could take a couple of hits.
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My mother watched today’s. I don’t know why.
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i watched it once. then i cried. i never watched it again.
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I think as a kid, I watched it. And got bored.
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The what now?
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Never mind. Go back to your porn.
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Like I ever stopped?
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I FUCKING MISS YOU MATTY. WTH.
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:(
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please come to a game this year that i am at. seriously. it’s been a million years since i have seen you in person.
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At least you’ve seen him. From direct personal knowledge as far as I know dmoas is an ingenious spambot.
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he is sweet and snugly. this i swear.
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I heard he smells like sardines, though.
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he does not!
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Rabbit turds?
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NO. he smells like stars and shiny sparkly things.
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Solar wind?
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He broke solar wind.
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THIS is SOOO true.
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now i’m singing about the summer wind and wishing it were warm out.
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Summer breeze makes me feel fine.
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Woohoo!! I’m ingenious!!
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<3!
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If Stephen Hawking ate me, I’d be in genius.
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heh.
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I’ve sat next to him at lunch, and you want no part of that.
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If my flesh can nourish a great mind like that, I guess it’d be ok.
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‘cuz it’s hard for him to eat, or ‘cuz the dinner conversation was condescending and/or less than sparkling?
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The former was what I was thinking of – lots of mush and drool.
There is essentially no conversation since it takes many minutes to get from thought to speech even when that’s all he’s concentrating on.
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Ouch. I did not know that. Poor guy.
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If Stephen Hawking ate me, he’d have horrible, horrible gas.
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NO! STARS AND SPARKLING THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Only if you light a match…
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don’t fuck with my fantasy, matty.
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Wait. So you want me to put my pants back on???!!
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sigh. maybe.
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Hmph. Okay. But I’m going commando with my junk hanging out the fly if I have to put them back on.
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i will get over it. i like the stars and sparkling things better.
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Well shit, witchy, those things follow you around everywhere you go.
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truth. but i like more.
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100,000,000,000 stars in each of 100,000,000,000 galaxies in the visible Universe and you want more?
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always.
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OK – if we give you 10,000,000 times as many, so you have a hella stars, would that be enough?
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no!
so something happened and i mis-Z-ed and missed the last 30 comments. if something required my attention, please let me know.
I’m about 60% done with my writeup of yesterday. It’ll be up before noon.
Stray FanFest thoughts:
1. Reddick’s beard is gross.
2. Griffin’s hair is not much better.
3. The ovations for Reddick, Coco and Cespedes gave me chills. I felt sorry for Michael Taylor, who got the post-Reddick, polite golf clap response.
4. Weeks and Sizemore were not there, but Grant Green was. Clearly, he’s being groomed as the starter at second base.
5. Counterpoint to number 4: Michael Taylor was also there.
6. Every locker in the clubhouse was empty except for Brett Anderson’s, who had an entire array of uniforms and related accessories hanging there. I would post a picture of his jockstrap, if I knew how to post photos from my phone.
7. Brandon McCarthy’s nameplate is still on his locker. Sniff.
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Re 2nd base: Kelly Johnson might’ve been an interesting option there but he just signed with the Rays.
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I just re-read this as “Brandon McCarthy’s jockstrap is still in his locker. Sniff.”
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I’m sure it’s quite sniff-worthy.
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Re: 5. Doesn’t that pretty much sum up his career?
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Re-Fixed this for you/you:
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I just about died laughing, where mere seconds before I had been crying (over something else unrelated). Thank you!
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One of those TV ads from my youth that’s deeply burrowed into my brain — although I don’t remember what hair product it was for, and I don’t believe I ever bought said product, whether on the basis of their ads or not. Does that mean it was an unsuccessful ad?
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Prell Shampoo, methinks (without looking it up).
While Kay’s working on stuff, here are a few tidbits from Jason Wojciechowski:
http://beaneball.org/1491.html
Note the mention of Barton and his situation, some of Forst’s stuff, and more.
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Good stuff there.
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The Gallego and Forst tidbits were definitely interesting. I’ll go ahead and predict that Cespedes makes his first appearance at short by June.
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I wouldn’t mind seeing him get some reps in spring training. See how he feels/handles it. The added depth there would be nice at the very least.
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I am just grinning ear to ear that someone in the A’s organization considers this an actual possibility.
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If he gets 15 starts there… holy shit!
[mumble mumble FANTASY DOMINANCE mumble mumble]
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I tried to get Yoenis all offseason with no luck…
Did manage Stanton though!
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I’m a proud owner of both in a deep long-term keeper. I’m actually somewhat nervous he’ll fall off a bit or hurt himself, but we’ll see.
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If you are going to spend your entire FAAB on one play, you could have done worse.
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Yeah. I feel pretty good about that call. This year I doubt I’ll make the same choice, but it was just too much value given how deep the draft went.
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We felt similarly, but we weren’t willing to go all in on on Cespedes under the circumstances. We did spend all $40 off-season FAAB on Ryu. Hey, since nobody cares about or fantasy teams anyway, do you have a third baseman you can part with?
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I saw that you guys won him, and someone else did the same with our favorite SS. I couldn’t decide how best to do it, but ultimately decided I had so much dreck, and there were so many B/B- prospects people missed, that turning over a number of players made more sense.
I just traded for Chisenhall, and I have two other young non-studs in Morel and Francisco that I was planning to pray for before I was able to swing Lonnie. Either of them would be pretty inexpensive, and both have upside. They could also underperform your current guy.
I don’t really have a ton of depth right now, though to the extent I do it is in the OF.
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I can never find it when I need it :(
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You’re just jealous you aren’t in our league.
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twss
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there are a lot of leagues I’m not in.
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Sure, but including this one. [Burned]
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Be my guest.
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Yeah, I left the Cespedes thing as a bit of a surprise. Also glad Gallego isn’t blowing smoke over what he thinks of Nakajima’s D.
Good free article on BPro debunking the Verducci effect. I hope they are right, since both Parker and Straily made it on Verducci’s list this year.
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I’d like to see a pitch count version of the same analysis to see if there’s a line in there where you might see an effect. I think innings pitched is a horrible number to look at when two pitchers could throw the same number of innings but have significantly wider variance in number of pitches thrown. To lump them into the same category of injury risk would be kind of stupid if one threw well over a 1000 more pitches than the other.
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I’m sure that there is some effect — it makes too much sense — but I think the point of the BPro article is that it’s dumb for Verducci to be making specific predictions using a criteria that he pulled out of his ass.
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Are they still pushing pitcher abuse points?
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I’d think Verducci’s failing is two-fold. 1) 30 innings is arbitrary and unscientific (which was proven in the article as false). 2) The focus is on the wrong thing. Pitches thrown (including warms up, including side sessions, including pre-game work, and possibly including breaking pitches v. fast balls as well as hard thrown v. soft thrown) should all be included in the focus if we’re to get a true measure from year-to-year where the impact is. Based on the numbers we record, as much sense that increased workload will have an impact, we’re just not collecting the necessary information to determine where that threshold would be. So any attempt by Verducci (or anyone else) right now to try to classify anyone as more at risk and someone else (aside from previous injury history) is folly and being pulled out of their ass. It was a good read to explain just how wrong he is.
“Oh, you can pick whatever style of bridesmaid dress you want… except that one. Or that one. Here, we’ll get this one for you. Oh, and we know you only work one day a week, but we went ahead and scheduled an appointment for a fitting on that ONE day.”
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“It’s a summer wedding, but you’re wearing
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If it’s really shit brown, can you repurpose it into scrubs after the wedding?
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You make it sound bad, but I bet the gals in Bridesmaids wish they’d have been thusly attired on their fitting day.
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I am going to look like John Goodman wearing a burlap bag.
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I should wear a headband.
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And right before your brother says “I do,” shout “Shut the fuck up, Donnie!”
Whoa!
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Ack, just seeing Ann Coulter raises my blood pressure, ugh!
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Just seeing Bruce McCullough makes my blood pressure something something
It was really great to see everyone and hang out in our “Spot” again, I cant wait for baseball to start so we can hang out more often and actually have games. 2013 is a new season, 2012 will never be replicated, but lets just keep doing what we do and keep the atmosphere that we have built going forever and ever!
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Oh yeah!
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It sure brought back a lot of great memories. Can’t wait to make more of them!
(BTW, check your email)
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and call him
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maybe