For today’s game (March 3)against the dodgers of Los Angeles. the home team features:
Burns CF, punto 2b, lowrie ss, Donaldson DH, Reddick RF, Callaspo 3b, Barton 1b, Norris C, Fuld Lf, Griffin P.
1) Stupid NBA:
The NBA Spanish jerseys are infuriating. LOS BULLS should be LOS TOROS, EL HEAT should be EL CALOR, & LOS LAKERS should be LA GENTE DEL LAGO
— Joe Mande (@JoeMande) March 3, 2014
2)Toonces writing the scouting report
Impressions through first weekend..Burns …Doolittle's slider …lots of pitching depth and great energy on the field
— Vince Cotroneo (@vincebaseball) March 3, 2014
3) Ready to spend some money?
A's Talent Show rules, as written by Jim Johnson pic.twitter.com/624zEby0qD
— Jane Lee (@JaneMLB) March 3, 2014
4) No explaination neede
My baby boy… What a smile! pic.twitter.com/emeU7lerZp
— Covelli Crisp (@Coco_Crisp) March 3, 2014
6) Cook. not overly concerned, but huh? what is up with this?
Melvin said "it's going to be close as far as opening day" with Cook, who will throw bullpen Thursday, #Athletics
— John Shea (@JohnSheaHey) March 3, 2014
8) Melvin Rosterbaiting.
Will A's carry a second lefty in bullpen? Melvin says it's "not a for-sure. We’re going to take the best arms is what we’re going to do."
— Jane Lee (@JaneMLB) March 3, 2014
9) Fun read about where baseball players come from, and race etc.
That’s it for now.
I have $5. No I don\'t.
Warning, autoplay. But right on corporate overlords. you made me laugh.
Hee!
OK–any of y’all purchased a sofabed lately? Any I should look at…avoid…?
I have an Ikea EKtop (I think) that i have had for…14 years(oh my). the couch itself is comfortable, and all the cushion covers come off which is nice for those of us with 4 legged friends. Its pretty light, so easy to move.
Biggest downside is the “bed” park is borderline unsleepable. really soft mattress. I don’t know if there is an upgrade mattress. All my guests use an air areobed.
Great info! I was just thinking of hitting ikea. This is a little used guest room, but to be honest, as far as humans go, the bed will probably get more use than the couch part. The couch will get more use from my dog, who considers the guest room “her room” so it’s nice to know the cushions can be cleaned! I will check on an improved mattress! Thanks :)
We looked at the CB2 Flex (?), was pretty comfy and felt sturdy, and I’ve seen them on SFCL for way cheaper than in the store btw.
Good idea–I’ll check CL!
I have Garfield on TV and the Minnesota game on work computer and I am reading using my home computer. (One of the kids is home sick and its my turn).
Suzuki is up. When he is not on my team, I really like the guy.
Garfield the Bill Murray movie? Or the freaky Halloween special?
Saturday morning cartoon show?
its on netflix. It seems to be a TV show of a recent vintage.
So, after catching vomit in my hands in teh waiting room I was told “strep.”
worth it?
Lundberg, who lives in a decommissioned Icelandic car ferry docked at Pier 54 in San Francisco’s Mission Bay…
like google said to yahoo, “a log cabin? that’s cute.”
The only thing that will protect us from the revolution is our google shields.
Yeah, that’ll be great. Did you get the memo about the TPS reports?
fixed
Radnich? Krukow? Lurie?
What a jerk.
old computrer. Townsend.
Can’t rule out Taylor then.
The Razor
Tagline?
I think Future Ed will have dibs.
got dibs for the first time last season.
They were OK.
something something if you can’t beat them…
look out Adam.
This is getting creepy.
sign francouer
I would love to see Frenchy in Sacramento for the summer.
This is getting obscene… WTF Tex’.
He knows our playbook!!!1
I think Ian Kinsler would be willing to share theirs’ with us.
mlb.com still has a link to kgmz, so its steiner and lyons on the dodgers broadcast
Griffin with a good cb to K ramirez
is that orel hershiser?
Not really fair to send billy burns up against Kershaw
Kershaw’s a big boy. He can handle it.
acknowledged.
Thanks, and go As.
AJ Griffin, he would be great if he never hung a curveball, or threw a fastball
Dee Gordon laces a tiple almost to the right field wall (pull side).\
Arthur Joseph.
Doolittle with a pretty good inning. COuldn’t tell how many sliders and changes he threw. 1-2-3 Ks of Eithier and Gonzales, Hanly grounded out.
Were those real 1-2-3 Ks, or the spring training gameday kind?
don’t recall. there was nothing remarkable about them. Hanley had a 3-2 ground out.
I do think there were some balls. maybe 1 or 2
Wow, I never realized that Norris was that fast
Barton with a great AB v Kershaw. Walks
I take it back. He went on to walk norris, Hit for left handed light hitting Fuld and then walk Burns. 2-0 to Punto as I write this
Grant on the shiny new defensive toy
Nice
Reddick with an oppo Sac fly phoenix Muni’ed into a ground rule double.
5-2 A’s FWIW
Enjoying the Edcast.
you want me to live blog the garfield cartoons theo is watching?
Only the parts about lasagne or if Nermal shows up.
no nermal. Jon Sent garfield to a weight loss camp.
That is totally rude. He’s not fat, he’s big boned!
Jon just wanted some alone time with the sexy vet Liz. And Odie I guess.
OOhhh Garfield After Dark.
Meow-chicka-wow.
“undertall.”
heh–that was the other one!
Nermal just showed up and was totes fooled by garfield and ode in drag.
Those scamps!
Unbeknownst to us, Jemile weeks was traded for Goose Gossage. Or so it appears from the face.
two pop ups and a strike out against a guy named Buss. he started the game. I assume its not Dr. Jerry
burns’ steal was so fast, it overheated my flash player.
that’s what shebot said.
I haven’t even seen this guy with my own eyes yet, and I’m already fantasizing about him causing havoc for us on the basepaths during the pennant race.
I think that is possible
Not a chance in hell. You’ll never see him with your eyes unless he’s standing still. And even then there’s no guarantee.
Old dude in my section at Phoenix Muni yelled “He’s a RUNNAH and a GUNNAH!” after he threw someone out.
Lindblom in the game.
with work computer frozen. I am force watch on my phone, of all the indignities.
wearing #25. Weird seeing that pitch
two scouts were behing home plate for lindbloom. didn;t see them earlier. no one must be interested in brandon league and clayton kershaw
Barton continues to get on base in ways that will piss Cotroneo off. HBP
Adrian Gonzales lined a single to right of Linbloom. Michael taylor had thoughts of throwing him out at first.
We need to build a Bakers Bowl right field wall. 290 down the line, 300 right-center and a 60 ft wall. Reddick would have a field day throwing runners out at first.
Butera throws out Elmore
Russell beats Butera
It doesn’t need to be this hard mlb.
Ugh. I hate this already.
It’s not that bad. They’ll get faster as they do it more often and according to MLB they’re only predicting 1 review every 6 or 7 games. Given that we’ve had a number of games already and this is the first time it’s come up, that’s not necessarily out of line with that.
It is not the buses or the stupid technology that really bugs me. its the fucking teenagerness. I want to have jobs for adults.
Get off my lawn.
lol google
Ya but the dogs tho.
Damn straight.
ec bait
wrote a long linky reply last night and then the computer crashed. bummer.
quick linkless recap: that center square on croatia is awkward. too low. and maybe unnecessary if they’d matched the number color to the sock color.
the US all whites are nice. the logo is so 90s though that they oughta send it back to pasadena; why didn’t they keep the centennial logo or build on it?? do wonder what the 2nd/3rd kits look like. also, baby horse, just because it’s fun to say.
hope brazil gets to use its 3rd kit at noon some sunny day.
overall, i like most of the nikes better than most of the adidases. adidas is going with stripey themes that just look overworked whereas nike is doing plain fields of color. see spain. nike’s one overindulgence seems to be the oversized ralph lauren style logos. see holland. (and take portugal’s 1st as the exception to prove the rule? i like their green kit though.)
the adidas stripes work particularly bad on colombia. they blew it there like falcao’s knee. not all polls have closed, but it might be the worst of the bunch.
on germany, they forgot the yellow (and you know who else spoke german and focused on red, black, and white as a national symbol…?)
japan is terrible. is than an asterisk behind the logo? and that brushstroke across the back goes exactly nowhere.
russia is all kinds of wrong. two tone shoulder/body with inner stripes and… tie-die?
mexico’s powerful double-lightning is completely blech, but i understand wishful thinking.
neck style seems to be not brand-specific, so we get to see a lot of variation there, and i’m sticking to my guns that v-neck < crew neck < polo collar. another knock on adidas is that they seem to have ironed on logos, rather than embroidered. no me gusta. and imagine my surprise when i walked into big 5 late january and they had already called the final. me gusta. in fact, me gusta mucho.
Excellent run down, thanks, I look forward to seeing these uniforms in action. Agree that over-large logos look bad, like a crest on a jacket.
maybe i meant crest instead of logo. the national federation symbol… it looks so big on the nikes. (as well as the brand logos themselves.)
and i found a single source for all kits, but you have to click through for pics.
colombia is saved. cameroon 1st, so ugly!
germany’s second is pretty… pretty KF’n fascist!
i like holland’s 2nd in blue. much better than the black with orange trim from last WC. this time spain feel for the black faux pas.
greece and australia are looking plain but nice.
costa rica is showing you its left boob.
argentina’s 2nd is undesirable, but we’ve had worse. it should be plain navy blue. as soon as they mix anything else in, it just looks like it’s trying too hard.
oh also, i think many of these will be in action tomorrow because… INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLIES! ’tis the season of meaningless (please don’t hurt yourselves) games after all.
Like Greece’s minimalism, Cote D’Ivoire’s logo is cool, but the jersey is funky looking.
What was Belgium thinking, Russia too for that matter?
As for Germany, like the A’s it’s gold, not yellow, there is the slightest little touch here and there but yeah, I hear ya.
France is kinda interesting, like the rooster, but all those stripes will wash out from 20 ft away.
ach. gold, nicht gelb? ich weiss dass nicht!
I like Uruguay’s a lot, but I’m a sucker for Carolina blue.
i like those too.
it’s weird english doesn’t have a word for celeste. seems as essential as the word pink.
Mexico and Portugal are hideous. Both Netherlands’ sets are are beautiful. Germany is obviously hoping the Brazilian fans will confuse them with Flamengo.
I kind of love Ghana too.
Listen buddy, let’s put an end of that kind of seditious thought crime right now.
WE’LL HAVE NONE OF THAT.
Thanks, and go As.
nice call on flamengo.
and i hope you only mean the white ones for ghana. i didn’t notice the neck band at first, but i would agree that sometimes a tidy novelty is welcome. the matching shorts/shirt pattern of the red one makes me think if they wanted to wear pajamas that badly, they should have gotten the ones with sushi.
For instance:
is there any other kind??
Hell no!
White ones are excellent
The US kits look like FKing polo shirts.
Awful.
Thanks, and go As.
yes, but i like it.
i wrote in the version that crashed that while france and the US have essentially the same cut, in context, the US looks great because it tones down that tendency toward overbearing stars and stripes motifs that the world expects from it, but france just looks like oh such precious preppy bastards who can only play in the most perfect of meteorological circumstances and temperamental alignment, always. greece’s cut is similar too and is right in there with the US. actually, greece might be my favorite look this year.
France’s second is basically Scotland.
Greece is really nice.
yeah, looking at old france and scotland, their blues seem to be on a collision course.
just finished the ukraine game. the kits are the least of your worries.
and ian darke has got to go away.
and speaking of making ESPN 100% better, they should stop spoiling concurrent games during PxP.
I’m pretty sure zero of the 4 defenders from today will be in Brazil. Sometimes you need matches like this to cement facts such as John Anthony Brooks not being ready yet and Oguchi Onyewu being terrible and unworthy of a USMNT spot.
Thanks, and go As.
also playing (poorly) at Sunderland is totally screwing Altidore leading up to the WC. I wouldn’t be surprised one bit if he lost his spot to Johnasson.
Thanks, and go As.
yeah, i like johansson.
Totally agreed on the centennial crest. That thing was great. This crest is slightly different than the old one by the way. The blue is lighter.
I like the versions where the squares are less prominent better
i don’t get this. (apart from the overall irony of HDTV supposedly being about seeing variation better.)
http://www.sportsgrid.com/soccer/if-you-notice-a-lot-of-monochromatic-uniforms-at-this-years-world-cup-its-because-fifa-made-them-do-it/#16
say a pixel somewhere on a player’s chest has R=xxx G=xxx B=xxx info, how does that affect the amount of info for a pixel somewhere on the shorts or legs of that player? each pixel needs 3 pieces of information, no matter what the other pix have, right? or does the info come out relative, as: px#1 = such and such, and then px#2=px#1 px#3=px#1, etc? (you do see compression in low res video kind of averaging out a color, but… that’s low res!)
and it’s not like all the pix on the jersey are going to have the same exact value anyway; some will shine and some will shade.
AND… what if the player happens to move and forces that pixel he formerly occupied to carry the grass information or the stands or something… STAY STILL PLAYERS!! act like you’re waiting for a daguerrotype to expose… HD technology demands it!
NERD!
At last a reasonable explanation for the low scoring games.
It’s about compression for transmission, not recovery at the other end.
It’s a bit funny that the article framed it as being for HD. I guess the issue is that streaming so much HD video is straining the network, but crappy low-res video could be streamed with minimal compression?
I understood it to be saying that if you want to be able to recover full HD at the end of the pipe the signal had better be sufficiently compressible to push over the bandwidth-limited network, and reducing the local color contrasts allows greater compression.
i want to understand this better. how does compression work that still allows full HD recovery? it seems if you average out an area of pixels so you don’t have to describe each one, then by interpolating the individual px info at the other end you’re distorting the image with made up info, rather than showing its original definition.
You don’t average. You still send all the pixels, but instead of, for example, sending 55 values individually, you can send something like 55xR17G122B87 if there are 55 pixels that have the same value. Even if they are not identical, but rather similar, you can be smart about it and send some sort of delta to the previous pixel, saving bits along the way.
makes more sense. but FK fifa anyway.
If you have data that is repetitive, then you can compress it down a lot without any loss. Instead of saying “pixel 1 is white, pixel 2 is white, pixel 3 is white…”, you just say “these pixels here are all white”.
Yeah, but my algorithm is much better, because yours can only handle three pixels and mine breezes through 55 with ease
my original thought was that if they take the entire uniform and describe as “orange” it wouldn’t account for shade, wrinkles, highlights, etc. now i get it that they can slice that uni into, say, 10–20 not-necessarily contiguous but still discreet color areas and still save a lot of info.
With the exception of close up shots of the players, I don’t see it making much of difference.
i’m bad at math…
for Y number of pixels covering uniforms (closeup or not), and for 8-bit color (i’m assuming):
coloring each pixel individually: (R + G + B) x Y
coloring by (my invented) 15-colorzone compression a 3-color uni: ((R + G + B) x Y/15) 3
coloring by MI15C compression a 1-color uni: (R + G + B) x Y/15
if the area Y covers 1000 px, the full color description is 24000 bits, with compression on 3 colors it’s 48000 bits, and with compression on 1 color it’s 1600 bits. would that be multiplied by 24fps? and multiplied by number of cameras (including your closeup ones) if the outgoing feed is not mixed?
just exploring this. so not only should you doubt that because i bad at math… i am also assuming that 8-bit color means each of the RGB channels is composed of 8 bits of info.
(it’s still no FK excuse. if analog TV allowed england to wear blue shorts, then clearly, analog > HD.)
Charlie Steener hasn;t gotten the memo on Nate Freeman
A’s WIN! A’s WIN!
well, they took advantage of a really bad inning by Kersaw and league, but they only gave up stupid runs to a dee gordon triple. so there is that
$20.80 plus fees gets you a shirt that would be cooler without the
hashtagpound signthe cool part about it is how (presumably) they’re figuring out the quantity to make before the date of game so nobody is left out. by the same
tokentechnology, they could figure out how to bridge the gap and have more sizes than just M or XL.inklings of the future of giveaway/promotional ticketing? i hope so. there should be no FK’n reason to wait 2 hours in line and miss a saturday/sunday tailgate (and still maybe not get a bobblehead) if you paid for a ticket in advance.
also, this is a pound sign: ₤
this # is tic-tac-toe.
Circle gets the square!
I’ll take Paul Lynde to block.
I’ll take Paul Lynde in the bushes.
(crosses off another name from Time Machine-enabled Gay 70’s Bucket Fuck List)
I already got my tix–I need an A’s complement to my Stanford NerdNation tee.
I guess Sogard made the team then.
Need
More on the fielding thing. this time from b pro
staiily makes it through 2, loads the bases (walk single single) and leaves behind 2-0. No home runs. PROGRESS!
OK, but what is Garfield up to?
just got home. Garfield is so March 3. today is word world (the younger one stayed home too)
A smart Furdie like Michael Taylor should be at the point where he quits screwing around with baseball and gets on with a successful career in whatever his chosen field would be. In contrast to somebody like Daric Barton, who probably doesn’t have many other good options and has to keep hoping that he’s a “late bloomer”. I’d like to see Barton succeed, it just seems like he deserves an opportunity somewhere other than Oakland (or Sacramento).
Six years of pro baseball so far, that’s a pretty long time to stay at it without establishing yourself, if you’re hoping to make baseball your lifelong career. OTOH, it may be that what Taylor considers as his likely next steps (presumably broadcasting or coaching) are better served with an improved pro baseball pedigree.
If Oakland doesn’t value Barton’s skills enough to give him another shot I’m not sure what organization would.
Dan Johnson is sticking around. (I know, different skill, but not as good and older)
Jane lee is killing it with the stories
here
I know there’s no chance of him making the roster, but I am digging Billy Burns. 7 SBs already!
Stranger things have happened, I’d love for the boys to be healthy all year, but that rarely happens.
He’s getting a lot of playing time fwiw.
He’d probably be a better use of a roster spot than Freiman was (though I understand the value of keeping him through Rule 5).
any time you get the chance to pick up a replacement level 1B and all you have to do is burn a 25 man roster spot all season on a playoff team, you really have to pull the trigger.
Thanks, and go As.
I hope he socked away some of that $450,000
His wife quit the LPGA tour, or at least is on an indefinite sabbatical, so that she wouldn’t be traveling on a totally different schedule from him all year. Not sure that was the greatest idea.
unless he really doesn’t understand the business of baseball, I wonder what all went into that decision. (sets up FSU for the Duke jokes)
I can’t imagine there is a lot of money to be made on the LPGA tour.
If Wikipedia is right, her tour earnings last year were $49K
Thanks, and go As.
Then he likely makes more as a 40 man roster holder even in the minors, no?
But about $450K total in the three years before that (when she was single/engaged). Not anywhere close to MLB minimum but not bad for somebody who’s 27 y.o. now.
Not bad, but perhaps she realized she wasn’t cutting it and got out while there was still time.
Isn’t that what you said Taylor should do, except he hasn’t made 450K yet?
Thanks, and go As.
Your point that the LPGA tour isn’t all that remunerative is more valid than saying she “wasn’t cutting it”.
Here are her winnings from 2010-2012 compared to those of the players in the comparable position on the PGA money list each year. All three of the PGA guys are respectable names:
2010 (51st place): $178,181.
Robert Garrigus: $1,583,275.
2011 (54th place): $164,930.
Sergio Garcia: $1,524,091.
2012 (76th place): $105,668.
Aaron Baddeley: $1,215,753.
So she got worse every year, had the worst season of her career in 2013, made crap money, so she gave it up with 500K in the bank.
What’s the issue?
Also, she literally wasn’t cutting it. She missed the cut in 6 of the 8 majors in 12 and 13, and DNP the other two.
Thanks, and go As.
Yes, although the overhead costs of being a touring pro are really high. Mitigated somewhat (or maybe more than just somewhat) by equipment and apparel sponsorships.
He could still turn into a non-replacement level 1B at some point, though I’m not as excited about him as I was a year ago, when all we knew about him is that he was huge.
I guess so, but I don’t see anything that would make me keep him.
Thanks, and go As.
I want to believe he’s more Brett Gardner than Joey Gathright, but I don’t know if that’s the case.
Wasn’t he only in A ball last year and old for it?
Mostly A
Didn’t do too bad in his AA stint either.
He goes to sacto?
I’d think he starts in Midland with a hopeful Sac promotion mid-season.
burns sogard barton jaso taylor vogt russell peterson elmore on the road v Brewers (again)
on mlb.tv (the internet)
(parker v Gallardo)
Parker walks scooter ginnet.
I don’t like brewer games because the talk about weeks at second.
Ugh Parker…
low attendance day for this game and the mets game I was watching earlier. Even with Jose fernandez going for the marlins
I’m watching a bit of this game…Parker does not look good.
nope
3-1 swing and a miss. runner going. vogt throws to second, ginnet breaks for plate, sogard threw to vogt. out.
Not sure if anyone else is following the creepy DAC thing… Thanks Jean…
I have some mixed feelings. I don’t like the DAC and wish Oakland had just turned down the fed $ and killed the whole thing. However, there is some truth to the supporters’ case that integrating certain existing communication and info sources could be incredibly important in a natural disaster. Oakland’s tech infrastructure is a hodge podge of (mostly old) systems which simply do not intercommunicate. It is very, very easy to picture how a response to a major quake could be brutally handicapped by scattered fire/rescue assets being unable to find out exactly where to go first.
The best solution would be a planned City communications integration upgrade, but that’s not what the fed money would do, so ultimately I throw in with the civil libertarians who rightly worry that the DAC concept would inevitably lead to info and data being centralized for ugly purposes (because really that is what happens roughly 100% of the time). But in a major disaster we will be horribly fucked, and it’s very hard to turn down the chance to help mitigate that reality somewhat.
Oh hi Michael.
Michael taylor with a really long HR
sigh…you would think he’d be able to do that a lot more often.
ryan sweeney and nate frieman say what?
That was a rocket. Off Gallardo, too.
Thanks, and go As.
it was. maybe it didn’t travel as far as I thought at first, but it was hit really really hard
I have this nagging feeling that he will go Brandon Moss with some other team.
the A’s triceps guards seem to be yellow and gold camo
yellow and green or green and gold. eesh.
Totally forgot about Shane…
his no underhirt look is weird. in him ML debut I had the ptbnl seats and he looked really weird.
Russell ropes one to left for an out. Really well hit ball
and for batgirl, today is pokemon fan videos
:/ I don’t know anything about pokemon. Can you get them started on Facts of Life so we can really conversate?
I know very little. And I am exposed to is constantly. Kinda like strep.
Pikachu, I choose you!
That’s it, I’ve started my own episode in the background while doing some mundane accounting. Blair of all people has started a Save the Seals campaign. Tootie stapled the picketing posters upside down.
We are in tro-ble
“pocket.” “monster.”
any questions?
is this a replay game?
sogard called out on a fastball on the outside
cornerbattersboxHah, I have a feeling Umps don’t appreciate our patient ways.
Oppo!
that was a good AB. like his first one. I think he is the last roster spot
russell took a little too much time. looked like he gvae 100% to the throw and barely got the runner bianci (short stop so I am guessing fast)
parker actually remember to cover first on a groundball just wide of barton that sogard fielded
Director of the Brewers broadcast is a perv.
I got the tv. Xbox is a few seconds behind the computer web cast
Taylor a few feet from an oppo HR
parker HR to braun.
No real shame. pretty good change up
Pomerance in
pomeranz or however you spell it
Otero in. its 3-1 brewers. Pomeranz was kinda meh.
I am still excited about him for some reason
Single, BB, HBP, 2B.
Good work Dan
Rangers sign Joe sanders, hopefully they use him
Do you mean Joe Saunders? That guy always seems to pitch well against the A’s, at least in my memory.
that is my memory too, but B-R says 88 tOPS+ of 88 FWIW.
Doesn’t that mean that he *does* pitch well against the A’s? Like 12% better than overall?
I don’t know. I was hoping for something I understood like ERA+.
I clicked on the catagory and I thought it was like era+
I can’t figure it out
From mousing over the tOPS+ column, it says that a low value (<100) for a pitcher means that they did better for that split than overall. So I think that it does in fact mean that Saunders has been death against the A's. He also has more starts against Oakland than against any other team, by far.
Yeah, he’s an A’s killer…
Jennifer’s nightmare
but a silver lining, although phrased in an unfortunate way
Crosby bobblehead. Or Giambi from the 2nd go around.
No, the reporter has it all wrong, the errant trash removal service left the A’s bobblehead behind because no one could possibly think it was trash.
taylor with a long double to dead center
they just showed jeff Cirillo sitting in the stands with a hideous red polo shirt (apparantly he is a scout for the angels). as the camera was on him and the announcers said nice things, Cirillo spit on the ground in the stands. Gross. I really hate that about baseball
Yeah, it’s the worst, spit in a cup durnit…
Being completely serious, the acceptance of spitting where and whenever I want is one of the best things about baseball for me. Same with adjusting my junk.
Well, at least it’s pretty much our AAA lineup playing today, and Vogt looked ok, Taylor is once again looking great when it doesn’t count.
Even AV won’t be able to root against Brazil after seeing this.
http://www.clarin.com/deportes/Messi-primeros-minutos-amistoso-Rumania_3_1096120383.html
TIL: Mike Krukow’s son is a dancer in the Smuin Ballet, favorite cultural charity of the late great Bill King. Also, for charity events Tony LaRussa wears all three of his World Series rings, which just seems terribly gauche.
? he only has one
I don’t know how many sons Mike Krukow has.
La Russa and Rings. He only has one
I can understand how you’d block out the other two, what with red being so horribly garish compared to green.
Beer as a sports drink, coming your way! Thank you, Canadian scientists!
Sadly “with only 77 calories and 0.5 percent alcohol by volume” and with added salts … at what point does it stop being beer?
Oh, sure, take all the fun out of it.
Fortunately the Saturday softball crew is committed to the performance enhancement value of beer.
One of these weekends when I’m actually at home and not jet-lagged into incoherence I’ll come join the fun.
BPI- Beers Per Inning, I’m a solid .500 player most days.
I’m playing softball for the first time this year, now that the wiffleball league is dead.
My team’s called the Rainbow Ballers, and I have the feeling we may be the Houston Astros of our division.
On the bright side, our Brett Wallace has a handlebar mustache, so we have that going for us.
With a name like the Rainbow Ballers you at least qualify to wear the classic 70’s uniforms of the Houston Astros.
That would be super sweet!
I would be so down for rainbow sunrise jerseys that say “Ballers” on the front in that funky 70’s font.
Those were my LL Jerseys! Man, I’d kill to have my old one, #9.
The more I think of it, the more I realize we might have a chance, seeing as how nearly half the team is on testosterone shots!
I sure hope some of those dudes played high school or college softball before they transitioned.
It’s stops being beer after the last time it comes out of your body as urine.
near beer is <.5% ABV.
I rest my case.
you just brought one? it might take two cases to get a decent buzz going…
So I saw this on Twitter and couldn’t help but going to look.
It became exactly the shitshow I expected to see. (OC Link!)
Thanks, and go As.
Hee hee. Complete with a silent banning, followed by discussion of banning.
and:
gold
Thanks, and go As.
What jackass threw that bullshit against the wall? Tounces?
ALL THOSE MORANS WERE TOTALLY WRONG ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED!! NOTHING HAS CHANGED AND EVERYONE IS EQUAL IN THE UTOPIA. PRAISE BLEZ ONE AND ALL!!!
At least if you people were going to get on my ass about removing content, you’d use the proper gender pronouns!
and replied
I LOL’d at #3.
rec’d
Strongly tempted to se if I remember my password to go turn that thing green.
But if I do I will also reply to it that you need to email me for more details.
i put my email back in my profile. hoping people contact me.
Toonces commented subsequent to me, so I know he read it.
I seem to remember that almost immediately before the second departure, the rec system was changed to require 5, not 3 because 3 was really easy to get at that time.
It may or may not have changed.
I just added the third rec for the comment. It’s not green yet, so the threshold is probably five.
Pffft, like there are 5 people here that aren’t banned
I’m not banned (as far as I know). Don’t have any desire to stir shit up over there though. Or log on.
I don’t mind. But then again, people thought I was mean.
So the magic # is 6 I think. Because you are now at 5 and still not green, but others at 6 are.
In related news, I feel like a bit of a troll. But if any conversation deserved it it was that whole thing.
hey, we stayed out of it until they mentioned us.
Nice touch BTW.
A part of me wants to see what too far is.
Feeling guilty you couldn’t get banned during the exodus I see…
is it a private part? ’cause that’s how you turn a nice touch into a bad touch.
Needs moar
Friends, read every entry kindly, read and understand thoughtfully.
well done
Can someone untwist my panties?
I’m sure Virginia will give you a hand if you ask nicely.
They couldn’t even get their idioms right…knickers may be in a twist, panties should be in a bind.
Nothing has changed, nor will it ever.
You know what the sad part is? Not that Napo is doing his shit banning people or that few known logic giants think they are winning the argument they don’t even understand. It’s the fact that there are not even five (six?) people left there with the combination of brains, ethics and balls to turn any of that banned fellow’s commentaries green…
Or as a reader there put it in more upbeat fashion:
while the Sam guy did seem overly combative and clingy to the slave thing, he wasn’t wrong.
No, he wasn’t. And he explicitly said that he is not equating writing for SBN without compensation with slavery, which of course only resulted in a unison outcry of ZOMG HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT THIS IS SAME AS SLAVERY?!
Bringing up slavery was a misstep. Like bringing up Hitler, you just can’t have a reasonable conversation if that’s the analogy you’re using.
I don’t know. I think Hitler wasn’t such a bad guy. After all, he did kill Hitler
except someone profiting off of your work without compensation is basically that. (minus some small amount of free will)
i agree, but i don’t think the argument is that persuasive or accurate (that free will part) when cast that way. and maybe it was posing it as the extreme of slavery that brought out the reactive casting of the complaint as instantly marxist.
i think the arguments against spec work are closer and would be more likely to draw an audience to sympathize. these arguments, apart from individuals not being compensated, are about lowering quality of work and devaluing the work itself so people who get paid for it have to take a cut to compete with a free workforce.
http://www.nospec.com/faq
Oh its a poor rhetorical argument for sure.
A better argument would be calling Sweatshop Blog Nation.
or what AV said.
The point is that using slavery as analogy is extremely ineffective if you want to have any kind of persuasive or reasonable argument. It’s read as automatic flaming, regardless of the actual higher level appropriateness of the analogy
They quietly got rid of the guy who dared to question The System, and now everything is happy happy okay again!
And no one has ever left because of the The System or it’s “Leadership,” they ONLY leave because of life stuff.
And because they don’t understand what really happens
or twisted underthings
Mainly because we don’t wear underthings.
I read that as underlings and it was just as apposite.
I enjoyed the argument about whether it is Marxist to believe that people should be paid for their work.
there are many many levels of stupid in that thread
It’s stupids all the way down.
Nothing Is Changing, Okay?
The Red Cross doesn’t pay its volunteers…clearly that’s the same as SBN not paying its writers!
Oh man… Please tell me that this is the summary: “You don’t believe people should be exploited?! What are you, a communist??”
I wasn’t paraphrasing much.
Can’t. Stop. Laughing.
He’s lucky he’s weak. If he were stronger he’d have knocked himself out.
holy hell thats the perfect gif… good work
It seems to get funnier every time I watch it.
ive seen it before but employing it for such a juvenile act was excellent execution by EC.
Thanks
Someone (not it) should be inviting the non idiots over to the dark side where they won’t have to deal with that idiocy.
But we still deal with you, so it’s not perfect.
Well, I never said was perfect. I just said they won’t have to deal with that idiocy. WE have our OWN idiocy.
;-)
Long live the never-changing idiocracy!
Comedy gold!
What did I just read?
BTW, that guy responded to me saying that I was wrong about him being wrong and that the panties person had admitted as such on that other site.
I did. But not here. On that other site.
freekraut.com?
Also, I love that that’s the thread that finally gets ** a respectable comment count.
No, mainperpetratorconfessespantytwist.com
True
I like that it is a completely civil discussion and the ** guy feels they should stop for fear of being bAnNeD for Meta discussions in a post entirely about the site itself.
Jeebus, that comment has 15 recs! Fess up: how many of you people rec’d it ironically?
How do you see the number of recs? I only see it green or not. Or does one have to be logged in?
Yeah, it only shows up once you log in.
I always love reminders about why I’m glad I don’t go there anymore.
Exactly. That made my head hurt.
I’m kind of sad they whitewashed the comment thread where Halofan held court. That thing was a masterpiece of shitheadery.
Kind of looks like they’re vanishing the Commissar in this new thread now too.
Don’t turn around.
Falco died for your sins.
I am not sure if this is a tagline, but it is words to live by
Does this pattern look familiar at all?
DaRubiesSLOKingsA’s
Forgot the trolls name, but he want’s to try out!
That was the dude that was around here that got drunk and screamed at me at FK day and then fell down the bleachers.
oh shit i remember that guy
Thanks, and go As.
RubesAndBabes?
I think it is. I think he was rubes and babes here and that there
lawyery people… Unjust enrichment? Intern suits?
I am not a labor lawyer. it seems fishy. I hate unpaid intern programs in a for profit company. I think it should be illegal.
I think the contract poses a problem, but what do I know.
My understanding is that if they’re actually doing critical work for the company instead of being given a learning experience, they’re supposed to be paid. Though most do, but don’t.
I am not a labor lawyer, but the new intern rules basically say that if you produce any meaningful work product you have to be paid, unless it you are only able to do it at a snails pace that would cause you to fire a real employee.
The latest Toonces post…wow, not a shred of self-awareness.
Yeah wow, really want to log in, but I’m not a troll…
Zing! “FK – we have OC’s cojones”
I find it very interesting how everybody screams that MiLB players getting little money while the owners and senior staff makes lots is totally unfair, about a day after all those voices banned a guy for offering same thought about sport blogging…
This is the same guy that threw that Marxism gem above…
ANd this is Toonces:
Well, you *could* go through his arguments in both threads and simply link to his conflicting “opinions” without commentary.
What was that one about?
I think he’s talking about the MiLB salary lawsuit post.
Whoa, the USA soccer men are going to play a game at the Stick before heading to Brazil. I guess I am going to make one last trip to that dump after all. Tailgate, anyone?
hmm… pending ticket pricing, yes.
that’s a tuesday, btw.
Yeah, that’s a bummer. I probably won’t be able to bring the fam on a school night.
My older is playing in a tournament in Medford the 24-26. It’s a holiday weekend I believe.
May just have to take that extra day off…
Thanks, and go As.
Holy shit.
Yes!!!
Thanks, and go As.
For the Azerbaijanis, definitely!
gesundheit.
Jane lee recap of today’s proceedings.
Cliffs notes: Gray didn’t do so well
Not mentioned there: Russell went 2-2 with a double and a triple.
take away, this call may have been wrong, but Sciocia has dumb glasses and seemingly continud to argue
So we’re going to get replay delays now to assess whether the catcher was illegally blocking the plate? Yay.
yeah, but how often does a high-leverage situation like that that happen? i mean, outside of the second at bat of a spring training game involving scioscia. what a tedious, tedious man.
and are those black brims on their caps? i love how hideous they look.
Sparky Anderson: Hall of Fame manager
ARE YOU A MAN, BOY????????
They pulled his fucking tooth out for an arm injury? That is some monstrous ignorant shit right there. In my lifetime.
Always something to love about Joe Maddon
That’s funny. I’ll bet anything he leads the league in challenges, too…OK, second behind Scioscia.
Kazmir and Chavez great, Callaspo passable at first, A.J. Griffin vs. Brett Anderson on the morrow
Here’s the latest sign that Lew is trying to rebuild ties with Oakland. I kind of want one.
that is some fin FSU bait.
But jeebus $64 for a hoodie? Fuck that
There’s a t-shirt too.
just came to post that.
If I accidentally forget my jacket on a cold night, I might have to get a hoodie.
Id rather spend 60 bucks on a sweatshirt than 30 on a t
Yes sirree, I need me one of them, stat.
Is the background supposed to be the Oakland skyline? If they were going for retro and yet recognizable even when distressed it should have been the old Bay Bridge.
Yeah, it reads as Anytown USA.
The A’s are definitely selling Oakland more in the last few years. It’s like they woke up to the idiocy of petulance as a marketing strategy. Says more about logic of money-making than commitment to Oakland, though.
Is it really idiocy if it was intentional? I’m not saying it is, but it stands to reason to change things up and create some level of scarcity. Stop selling Oakland stuff, people keeps searching for it. Suddenly it pops up again and boom, people just all over it.
I read it as not so much that Lew is trying to sell Oakland as it is people in the marketing department have decided they won’t get fired for mentioning it.
I really do think ownership has finally admitted (to themselves, only) that the active alienation strategy was a failure. They start from a baseline of annual profitability at basically any ticket sales rate, and…surprise…it turned out it was more profitable to sell more tickets and stuff! The obvious bean counter logic won out over the the thought that the needed to have low attendance to make their stadium case. Every agrees they need a new park; at this point I do believe they’ll be open to whichever city can make a deal pencil out.
Wasn’t the Oakland just dropped from the website URL?
athletics.com redirects to oakland.athletics.mlb.com. I don’t think there is any conspiracy, just an effort to make the url shorter/easier. They do the same thing with redsox.com, yankees.com, etc.
oaklandathletics.com will take you to the same place too.
pretty sure this all comes from mlb’s unified front, not the teams.
Meanwhile, what do you all make of the temporary stadium stuff? It seems like a stretch to me…the only advantage I’ve heard about a temporary rather than permanent site is that it might be able to bypass some of the EIR. But surely neither MLB nor the players’ union is going to put up with anything less than optimal playing conditions for a season or two, not when the excellent (from their perspective) alternative of AT&T is available.
Last place I’d want to see the A’s play… I don’t like AT&T, seats are weirdly positioned, hate the nosebleed angles, not being able to get up during an inning- yet everyone standing up for no reason… Granted I love the view, but it kinda sucks for actual ‘baseball’, muuuuuuch prefer the Coliseum viewing layout.
I totally agree. But teams and players would probably like it better than some janky temporary place that’s an unknown quantity.
I’m assuming it would be an inflatable stadium, bouncy castle style.
Yup. I’d rather go to Sac than ATandT.
Yeah, I agree, that idea seems really unlikely. Hard to take it as more than a negotiations jab at the JPA.
Hmm, it occurs to me that this idea really only makes sense after a new stadium deal is made. No way on earth MLB or players allow a temporary place unless the next stop is already set in stone. Which would only happen if the old place were unavailable. Like, demolished to make way for said new stadium. Hmmm…
I agree. The one situation where you would need a two-year temporary spot is if they tear down the coliseum to put up a new stadium in the same footprint.
Or if Oakland goes all in with the Raiders and gives them the Coli spot to tear down leaving the A’s homeless. Personally, I see them in the Coli through 2020 though with no new stadium until at least 2025.
But in that scenario, absent a done deal for San Jose, the A’s would be moving to a temporary place without an immediate exit strategy. There is no fucking way MLB or the union lets that happen.
This risk of being a team without a home has really gotten MLB pissed off at the A’s. We’re seeing this manifested in Lew’s recent approaches to the JPA, for a 10 year extension, and maybe even for something more permanent. I’m pretty sure the league has told Lew to stop fucking around with this risk of statelessness. (This also fits with my belief that MLB thinks the land and financing in a San Jose deal is shaky, T-rights aside).
I think you’re reading way too much into a few things. Yes in that scenario they’d have no permanent home. But guess what, that’s possible. If the JPA goes all in with the Raiders (which I think they should) that leaves the A’s with no home. That’s a very real scenario (although I don’t see it happening). Just because MLB, the A’s, and the union don’t like that possibility, it’s a very real one. And I don’t see what they could do to avoid it if the JPA plays hard ball or walks away. And let’s be honest, this is a situation all in MLB’s (not the A’s) creation. They could have stepped up over 5+ years ago and acted. They didn’t. (And by act, I don’t mean just sign off on SJ, but had been decisive. I.E. “Make a deal with Oakland or else” was just as much an option at the time). I don’t see anything suggesting MLB is pissed off with the A’s. I don’t see any reason to think MLB gives a shit about the A’s. Personally, I think it’s less likely that MLB thinks the SJ deal is shaky so much as they don’t want ANY team to pay for their own stadium privately. They don’t want the A’s following the Giants’ formula. They want SJ to pony up. If SJ offered $100+ million as a “token” this would be over.
In what world is going all in on football stadiums a good idea. Can you point to one that has ever been a good idea?
Baseball actually has benefits to the area that football doesn’t. Which is the stupidest part about oakland bending over backwards for the raiders to the detriment of the A’s
I don’t believe football is a good idea. I believe working with the only team that’s shown a willingness to work with you to be a good idea. IF you assume you should try to keep at least one sports team in town, that would be the one to focus on. Not because it makes economic sense (it doesn’t), but because it’s simply the only one willing to partner with you.
Wow, all I can say is that you most definitely do not read the evidence the same way I do. Which is the nicest possible way I can say that you’re wrong and I’m right.
Don’t worry. It’s okay for you to be wrong every now and then, even if you do think you’re right. Your bias is getting in the way and driving you down paths that don’t exist. And let’s face it, you have a very significant bias in all this.
Quick batgirl, go patronize The Republic of V before their location and business model doom them.
It’s already on my weekend to do list! I’m going to shop the heck out of that place.
michael urban has an all baseball show on now. FWIW
Need more y’s.
thought about it. Don’t know where they go
everywhere?
burns
Slusser