Finally.
Best shape of his life?
Anderson’s kept off the weight he lost during rehab with help from mom: “She’s not a very good cook so it helps because I don’t eat so much”
@JaneMLB
Jane Lee
A few position players already here too early this AM, including Rosales, Choice, Taylor.
@JaneMLB
Jane Lee
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Barton trying to re-learn catching in a desperate attempt to be the 25th guy on the roster?
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I’m going to root for him big time if he is.
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Wow, lol!
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I’m pulling for Barton this year, though I would also be totally fine if he gets dfa’d and then Moss hits like 40 HR.
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Just watch out for those bleachers, Staplehaed!
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Perhaps he will find great beard power and do good things this year
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Bear(d) Power!
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this.
its a strong beard too.
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Agreed. And as long as he keeps it I’m willing to root for Barton again. He’s much more likable as a scrappy underdog from Appalachia.
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Please. The moment he has an 0fer, he’ll shave it off.
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He could pluck one hair for every 0-fer. How’s that?
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We’re not talking about he should do, but what he will do.
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I still think shaving was the biggest mistake Norris ever made in his whole life.
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Me too.
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Agreed. Changing his walkup music from Bieber is a close second, though.
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No, every time Bieber plays, the Earth considers committing suicide.
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yup
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Surprisingly strong beard.
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It’s official. The only way Paquette retains my favorite-non-good A status is if Barton becomes good again. Sorry Craig!
Be nice to your mom, Brett.
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I’m more concerned that he’s a young millionaire who lives with his mother. That must be some basement, Jennifer.
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Living with your mom as a young millionaire has got to be one of the safest ways to stay a millionaire.
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I loved that story about Anderson and Cahill trying to find a house to rent in the east bay and no one would rent to them because they were two 21 year old guys.
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not that there is anything wrong with that.
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“We’re going to need to see your last two pay stubs”
Um, we haven’t been paid since October.
:(
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LOL
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Trufax.
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Also, he spent more than half the year away while working for a team that could trade him at a moments notice so it’s not like he has a reason to settle down into his own house right now.
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Hmmm. I seem to have struck a nerve. I just know that option never occurred to me to be a good idea when I was young and solvent.
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I rather liked it when both of my parents were on other continents.
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I rather liked it when both of my parents were continent.
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No FKing kidding.
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Lol!
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I doubt a nerve was struck. Mostly a differing of cultural/sociological(?) perspectives. I know plenty of people who’d agree with you and it certainly could be a bad thing as well as a good thing.
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Oh we all know how well me living with my folks went. It was an unmitigated disaster. I wouldn’t want to live at home
That being said If I was only doing it for Oct-Jan it would have been less bad and it is a good way to stay out of trouble.
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And if you have enough money that, whenever they are bugging you, you can just go on a trip for a week or two.
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That’s a lot of guys. This is one of the upsides of rooting for a team full of young unheralded guys.
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Four of those guys are guaranteed jobs. The rest are all battling. They’d be behind the eight ball not to show up. Good on Coco, Young, Moss, and Naka to show up though.
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This is totally correct, but it also reminds me that I always chuckle when this tagline pops up:
The A’s may have lost that first series to the Mariners, but came out much better for the season!
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I’d guess getting so close last year is driving them to work even harder this year. Maybe it also reminded them of how much they love the game, and why.
Popes and Cardinals, [altar]Boys.
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I thought the B was for Birthdays.
Officially entering my 5th decade later today.
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…continuing my seventh, tomorrow.
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Congrats!
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Knowing Mike, it can only be Boobs
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I’m scared to ask what the P and C stand for, then.
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Congratulations. I assumed it was Bitches.
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Pickles and catsup!
This is the most excited I’ve ever been for the start of an Oakland A’s season. And I’m usually pretty excited about that.
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I think this is the least February excitement I’ve experienced since 1998, but I’d still rate my excitement level as “Moderately Enthusiastic”
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I’m enthusiastic, but February 11 is a little ridiculous. The last 10 days of spring training are going to have even more of a “Get the FKing thing started already!” feeling than usual.
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I doubt start caring one lickidy until the first game of the season. I find ST mostly boring.
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I enjoy the ST radio broadcasts. Conversly, I hate watching ST games on TV because the uniforms are so hideous.
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Me too.
I need to get the MLB radio app for my phone before the games start.
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It’s great to hear Ken again after 4-5 months away, and even Vince and Ray sound good in ST because the job is to chat about baseball for 3 hours, not really to describe what’s happening on the field.
I do enjoy sitting in the sun, drinking beer and watching A’s major and minor leaguers without caring about the W/L result. But once I’ve returned home from Arizona I lose interest until the start of the season, because you can’t care about those games as athletic competition from afar.
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They’re great background chatter for doing chores and puttering around the house. I miss the Buancasts for that particular reason. His background chatter was weird and jumpy, which suits my weird and jumpy brain rhythms.
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Last year’s ST broadcasts gave us Korach and Fosse reminiscing about Bill King sunbathing in the nude on top of the broadcasting booth, so I try not to miss them.
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As much fun as last season was, I’m not getting my hopes up about this one. I’m still super excited for the return of baseball.
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I think it’s either going to be an over .500 but non-playoff season, or they’re going to win the whole FKing thing.
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A minor league deal mkes me feel much better.
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Yeah, this way it’s just additional depth, which is always good.
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Of course the negative voice in my head just realized there will be some clause that we release him if he isnt called up by some data and it will create a huge issue at some point. Hope not but I feel like there are some of those every year.
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There may also be some benefit to having a Japanese veteran around in spring training to help Nakajima adjust.
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Back when the Red Sox signed Okajima, it was widely speculated that his main purpose was to help Daisuke adjust. But then Okajima had 2-3 quality years in the bullpen while Daisuke was mostly a disaster.
Although my BS sensors are tingling, this qualifies as Nightmare Fuel either way.
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Just looking at the picture, I call BS.
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The video suggests otherwise to me.
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Because videos can’t be faked?
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That eagle that stole that kid was TOTALLY REAL
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Well, I also read the explanation of what can happen with the spiders. I don’t know why it’d be so far-fetched.
E/C!
Sigh. They really traded Carter and Peacock for a utility guy.
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I wonder what the language is in which both Nakajima and Melvin can utter “utility” and “ultimate”.
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Baseball?
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Not just any utility guy, but The Ultimate.
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So he has a nickname already, not unlike “The Verge” for Frank Thomas.
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Perhaps by using Lowrie in a utility fashion, the A’s think they can keep him healthier than he has been the past several seasons. Or maybe the envision him taking on a Zobrist-like role.
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The nerd in me thinks they believe his real split is the last year’s one. In that case he is by far most valuable in a utility role
Guns don’t shoot people, Red Sox first round draft choices shoot people
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“Merely a flesh wound…”
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‘Tis but a scratch.
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I love the use of the passive voice here:
“Everything is fine, but I was cleaning my gun and it accidentally discharged on me and I sustained an injury.”
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Mistakes were made.
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Looking at it again, it isn’t passive voice. He’s just straight up giving the agency to the gun.
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Pfft. Like it’s HIS responsibility?
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“It didn’t mean to shoot me. It’s just been under a lot of pressure lately. It feels terrible and already apologized. Everything’s fine.”
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It takes real skillz to clean a gun with a round in the chamber.
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I liked the next phrase: “Nothing serious.”
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Im fine confiscating their
gunsprospects.This is weird and I don’t like it:
http://www.mercurynews.com/warriors/ci_22565236/warriors-unveil-jersey-sleeves
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are they running track?
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Team handball.
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So you like sweaty hairy man pits?
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Was I unclear on that? Yes.
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Okay then. Carry on.
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Hi.
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Can the return of the short-shorts be far behind?
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Who wears short shorts?
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She does.
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The only thing that’s good is the reworked logo. The rest is fugly as all hell. Yeah, maybe they’ll be comfortable and it’ll be the next big thing, but what’s the point of having a sleeve?
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What’s the point of wearing clothes in general?
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What’s the point of NOT having a sleeve if the players practice in sleeved compression shirts anyway?
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OK, so the sleeves are officially the least offensive part of these uniforms. The whole ensemble is horrifying:
http://www.sfgate.com/warriors/slideshow/Golden-State-Warriors-new-uniforms-with-sleeves-56647.php
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Oh holy hell those are hideous!
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Yeah, that’s right out of Little League. Instead of “Warriors” it should say “Bill’s Muffler and Transmission”.
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I mean, they couldn’t have made the shorts the same shade of yellow as the shirts?
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Yeah, the top OR the bottom look okay. Together, barf.
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I was thinking more like “Hey, look at me! I’ playing basketball in my pajamas.”
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That would be an improvement.
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what is up with those shorts
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The shorts are terrible, but I actually love the tops. I’m not a huge fan of tank tops.
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stop making sense
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That was pretty damn funny.
I’m that guy who’s about to go see Top Gun in IMAX 3D for the hell of it.
schadenfreude (Dave Cameron’s list of the 10 worst moves of the offseason). lolRoyals at 10, 8, and 2.
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I liked that we were on the opposite (ish) side of two of ‘em
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yeah, but we didn’t make his 10 best list
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We’re middle of the pack!!!
Your daily reminder of Rickey’s awesomeness.
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you beat me! I guess I’m not as fast as Rickey :(
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Just when I think it is not possible to love that man any more than I already do…
Rickey
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I say we give you a full share of the credit for this link.
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If you split that linkpost in half it would be two hall-of-fame linkposts.
The mating process is the opposite of risque. This is no “50 Shades of Brown.”
I do love me some UC Botanical Garden.
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She turned him into a newt!
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apparently he got better
I love my life. It’s so FKing awesome… I want to gush about it in detail, but too many names would have to be changed to protect the innocent, and too few statutes of limitations have run out…
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nicknames. essential to a good story.
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Off the top of my head, I’d say you’re looking at a Bowski, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros and a Leon Spinks, not to mention the biggest Ella Fitzgerald ever.
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lol
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Is that from one of the Ocean’s movies?
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11
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I knew it was one of them. Yay me!
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Ten outta do it, dont you think? You think we need 11? You think we need 11. All right, we’ll get 11.
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If it doesn’t do it, we’re in Barney.
Looking at that SI swimsuit cover, the real reason for colin’s visit to Antarctica is, uh, revealed. “Kate Upton, Polar Bare”. LOL.
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It was just me and a whole bunch of bikini models down there.
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Why’d you come back?
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SHRINKAGE
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Like frightened turtle!
I’m trying to combine the principles of un-kneaded, moist dough stored in the fridge a la “Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day” with a sourdough starter and no added yeast.
First attempt isn’t rising too well.
Not surprising, but still potentially bad.
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And this coming as China is growing increasingly annoyed at them.
Well, Jane, it just goes to show you. It’s always something. If it’s not one thing, it’s another.
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Just what we need-one more guy out with kid dieases. Next he will go on the 15 day with a loose tooth.
Worth remembering on the day Ted Nugent attends Obama’s State of the Union speech as a guest of some idiot Republican: The Motor City Madman deliberately shit himself to avoid getting drafted.
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I try not to wish bad things on people, but if Kirk Gibson and Ted Nugent someday both happened to be hunting in the same woods at the same time and both mistook each other for 30-point bucks, the news wouldn’t disappoint me.
The Daily SlussBag from Papago: A’s officially add their second ‘kajima. Curt Young likes Hideki, “he knows how to get guys out.”
Also: “Neshek said that every day is tough, and he’s not sure if it will ever get better.” :(
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Yeah… I’m thinking SlussBag may not be the best name…
Sounds like an SLA-type shootout with the cop killer down at Big Bear. But no I am not turning on CNN or Fox News; it’s not a spectator sport.