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28 Aug 2009  |  andeux  |Game Thread · The Grill

1. Not-Corey -> Oakland, Buddha Stick -> Sacto. Having another player who can play in the field (multiple positions no less) makes sense, though it goes without saying that I would just as soon have seen Nomar released to make room.

2. Cahill’s pretty good when he throws strikes and keeps the ball down (though I guess you could say that about a lot of pitchers). I’m starting to feel pretty good about an Anderson/Braden/Cahill/Gio/whoever (Mazzaro, I guess) rotation next year.

3. That’s the best offense in baseball? Really?! We’ll see how they do against Bombko tonight.

4. That play by Izturis and Aybar really was kind of awesome. There, I said it.

14 thoughts on “Weekend catchall thread”

  1. Poppy Aug 28,2009 6:25 pm

    1. Thank dog, I’ve been wondering who the hell y’all were referring to as “Buddha Stick.” And agree about Nomar.

    4. I’ve got your back. That play was awesome.

    There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  2. Poppy Aug 28,2009 6:36 pm
    There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  3. monkeyball Aug 28,2009 11:09 pm

    Boy did *that* suck

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Aug 29,2009 8:34 am || Up
      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • Poppy Aug 29,2009 1:49 pm || Up

        Ugh.

        There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
      • mikeA Aug 29,2009 2:04 pm || Up

        Every Neyer post I read pisses me off….

        Trading Kazmir doesn’t mean they’re giving up on that possibility; it just means their chances of reaching the playoffs moves from around 10 percent with Kazmir in the rotation to perhaps eight percent with Wade Davis replacing him.
        Giving up two percent in exchange for three talented young players … well, on paper that’s a move you’d be thrilled to make, every day of the week.
        The Rays don’t play their games on paper, though, and I’m surprised they would make this deal. upset fans, etc etc

        1. It’s probably less than 2%. In fact, 2% strikes me as preposterously high.
        2. 2% is kind of a lot as these things go… and they’re giving him up for the next two years… No contending team ever trades an actual 2% for the type of “three talented young players” they got…
        3. I don’t need Neyer to tell me that Rays fans such as they are will be upset about trading Kazmir…

        • Leopold Bloom Aug 29,2009 2:40 pm || Up

          The local perception (which I’ve annexed as my own) is that Kazmir is a lot like ours was of Barry Zito circa 2006. He’s got some pretty pitches, but he’s lost a couple three ticks off his fastball and the rest of his pitching has suffered because of this. Someone pointed out to me yesterday that Kazmir’s significantly younger than Barry was, but I think the comparison is pretty fucking accurate.

  5. mjdittmer Aug 29,2009 12:21 am

    If Kendry Morales and Howie Kendrick walked into my house right now, I wouldn’t know who was who.

    Hell, Jack Cust could join them and I probably wouldn’t recognize him either.

    A’s I would recognize: Duke (if he still ocunts), Chavy (if he still counts), Ellis, Suzuki … umm, maybe Barton … Buck I guess … I’m drawing a blank right now on what Crosby looks like, but I think I’d know him if I saw him. Nomar I know.

  6. mjdittmer Aug 29,2009 12:26 am

    Last thing (and the whole reason I logged on and started commenting) … here is a 17-year-old feature on Quentin Tarantino, a few pages into which he professes his admiration for DePalma (another person whom I might not be able to tell apart from Howie Kendrick).

    The feature was re-released because film critic and writer met again for last week’s LA Weekly cover story, and their reunion also led to this list of Tarantino’s top 20 movies since 1992.

  7. nevermoor Aug 30,2009 8:36 am
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • andeux Aug 30,2009 10:46 am || Up
      TINSTAAFK
      • mk Aug 30,2009 11:25 am || Up

        It would be nice if he expanded on this:

        It seems to affect pretty much everything, even how you pitch to opponents, as detailed in Matt McCarthy’s minor-league memoir.

        I don’t really know what that means.

        Also, after making the point that the rift/disconnect/whatever between Anglo and Latin players probably colors a lot of this, he proceeds in the same insinuating fashion he appeared to be cautioning against – “it’s another cloud … It’s getting obvious why Billy Beane didn’t try to re-sign him.”

        Paraphrasing what the players quoted in the article had to say:

        Hudson: “No way he did it.”
        Damon: “It was inadvertent.”
        Guthrie: “Can’t prove something like that. Pointless to talk about it.”
        Tatis: “I’ve never seen it happen. I’ve never heard of it happening. But it happens.”
        L Hernandez: “If it did happen, I’d kick the shit out of whoever did it.”
        Menechino: “People say it happens. It’s impossible to know. But we definitely had a meeting, and players were pissed off. But I’m not saying it happened. Or didn’t happen.”

        So the A’s had a meeting eight years ago where a bunch of players (who are notoriously level-headed and free from bias, and would never allow emotion to cloud their judgement) accused Tejada of giving a base hit to Batista. Additionally, many people in the game say this sort of thing probably happens, even though none of them have ever witnessed it or even heard of a specific instance. Plus, Selena Roberts said A-Rod did it.

        Slam dunk! Black cloud! Cancer! Down with Tejada!

        • monkeyball Aug 30,2009 2:19 pm || Up

          I’m waiting to be convinced by Powell’s slides.

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come

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