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9 Apr 2009  |  monkeyball  |The Grill
  1. This guy should try offering meat
  2. Uh, speaking of an absent-minded professor: “I suspect it’s a joke about numbers”
  3. The more I read about the subject of this interview, the more I’m convinced that I would have loathed him personally
  4. Leopold Bloom/67MARQUEZ bait: strobe lights and girls in hotpants (“good morning”? Really?)
  5. Words fail me:

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69 thoughts on “040909 DLD: My one-eyed male canary is lonely”

  1. andeux Apr 9,2009 6:16 pm

    Some more non-tragic links:

    6. For those interested in our minor leaguers, I’ve updated my A’s system depth chart based on opening night rosters.

    7. Last night, the Giants walked Jason Kendall to get to the pitcher, who responded with a HR off Randy Johnson. Funny on so many levels.

    8. Today, Swisher was 3-5 with a HR and 5 RBI in his first start for the Yankees.

    9. A pretty bad article about the A’s new young pitching. (I’m not really optimistic about Duchscherer contributing much this year, but the author seems to be unaware that he even exists).

    10. I’ve never heard of Todd Snider before, but he sounds cool (though apparently he’s not the first one to pay musical tribute to Dock Ellis’ tremendous accomplishment).

    11. And a non-baseball link that nevertheless reminds me of some of the baseball discussions/arguments I’ve had over the years:

    The talking point on one side is just complex enough that it’s both intelligible—even somewhat intuitive—to the layman and sounds as though it might qualify as some kind of insight. … The rebuttal, by contrast, may require explaining a whole series of preliminary concepts before it’s really possible to explain why the talking point is wrong. So the setup is “snappy, intuitively appealing argument without obvious problems” vs. “rebuttal I probably don’t have time to read, let alone analyze closely.”

  2. monkeyball Apr 9,2009 6:31 pm
  3. Danny Apr 9,2009 6:38 pm

    I’ve never heard of Sanchez, but that was a good read.

    I thought the A’s were going to send one of the Coleman/Christian combo to Stockton and the other to KC so they could both play SS everyday. Guess not.

  4. Danny Apr 9,2009 6:39 pm

    Oh jeez. Giants pitcher Joe Martinez just got hit in the head with a line drive comebacker and is bleeding. Terrible sound, too.

  5. green star oakland Apr 9,2009 6:42 pm

    Has the title of this DLD been added to the euphemism collection?

    5. Oh Robbie …

  6. Danny Apr 9,2009 7:03 pm

    Opening day lineups…

    Sacramento

    1) Patterson, DH
    2) Denorfia, CF
    3) Barton, 1B
    4) Cunningham, LF
    5) Hannahan, 3B
    6) Doolittle, RF
    7) Recker, C
    8) Petit, SS
    9) Pennington, 2B

    SP: Mazzaro

    Kane County:

    1) Thomas, CF
    2) Coleman, SS
    3) Christian, 3B
    4) Kleen, 1B
    5) Hernandez, LF
    6) LeVier, RF
    7) Desme, DH
    8) Nunez, C
    9) Ray, 2B

    SP: Fitts

    Midland

    1) Wimberly, 3B
    2) Cardenas, 2B
    3) Carter, 1B
    4) Everidge, DH
    5) Putnam, LF
    6) Herrera, RF
    7) Donaldson, C
    8) Brown, CF
    9) Horton, SS

    SP: Godfrey

    Some observations:

    –They moved Cardenas back to 2B.

    –I’m surprised Donaldson and Brown are so low in the order.

    –Doolittle in the OF, Patterson at DH? If the A’s definitely see Doolittle as a 1B, shouldn’t they be getting Patterson some work on his shoddy fielding?

    • monkeyball Apr 11,2009 10:03 am || Up

      In former Soviet Union, dead memes make a list of *you*

  7. Poppy Apr 9,2009 9:19 pm

    Please… pleasepleasepleaseplease tell me that movie trailer is a joke. Please.

  8. xbhaskarx Apr 9,2009 10:45 pm
  9. xbhaskarx Apr 9,2009 11:09 pm
  10. Leopold Bloom Apr 9,2009 11:44 pm

    I still get MyBART emails.

    There’s something seriously wrong with me.

  11. FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 10,2009 8:49 am

    Kansas City Royals–alone in first place!

  12. FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 10,2009 11:11 am
  13. monkeyball Apr 10,2009 11:16 am

    Dixie Narco would be an awesome band name. (And/or Pynchon character.)

  14. green star oakland Apr 10,2009 11:23 am

    Swedish authorities want to tax online strippers, but tracking them has proved to be tricky:

    Web search tools like spiders had failed to detect the Swedish strippers.

    “When we investigated the sites manually it worked better,” he added.

    I’ll bet it did.

  15. mikeA Apr 10,2009 12:12 pm
  16. whiteshoes40 Apr 10,2009 12:21 pm

    Home opener! Baseball! A’s! Brett Anderson! Eeeee!

  17. andeux Apr 10,2009 12:42 pm

    SuSlu has rotation news:
    Anderson, (na na na na na na na na) Outman, and Cahill against the Mariners, Braden, Eveland and Anderson against the Red Sox.

  18. green star oakland Apr 10,2009 1:53 pm

    Rich Harden pitching for the Cubs today – 4 K’s through 2 (including the side* in the 2nd).

    *Full disclosure: this did include Kendall.

    Final line: 6IP, 3H, 2R, 1ER, 2BB, 10K, 1HR – 96 pitches/63 strikes

  19. xbhaskarx Apr 10,2009 6:02 pm

    LL: Dead Memes, 2009

    That’s what she said

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