1. Jose Fernandez headed for the DL. Elbow strain. Pitchers, they are fragile.
2. If this story is even remotely true, Mitch Williams should be headed for the unemployment line. Not that any of it really comes as a big surprise. The 1993 Phillies sure knew how to pick ’em.
3. If only we had known Treasury was being run by Vince Cotroneo:
The word "confidence" appears 150 times in Tim Geithner's book, plus another 5 times in the index
— Felix Salmon (@felixsalmon) May 12, 2014
If only Geithner had proven capable of delivering a shutdown
inningfiscal quarter.I thought the whole problem was that he delivered too many of them.
Mitch Williams claims it was the ump who provoked the situation. But holy cats, man, it’s a youth baseball game! Also, apparently this is at least the second time Williams has been ejected from a youth sports game.
Mitch williams excuse does not absolve him from blame at a 10 year olds baseball game.
When I took my dogs to the park on Saturday we spent a few minutes watching what looked like an 8 year old girls tee ball game. Totally cute and utter chaos around the infield. As I was relaxing on the grass near the exit after the game, a girl walked by with her mom. The mom was sternly saying “It didn’t look like you were really trying out there. You’re letting the team down, you’re letting yourself down, you’re letting the game down.”
Jeez.
Did you tell the mom “And you’re letting your daughter down spouting all that nonsense?”
Relevant.
It’s been very challenging being a first time little league dad, both hearing how hard some parents are on their kids and being patient on the days when Spawn1 clearly has no desire to be there. Also how some of the teammates that are a bit more competitive/older/understand the rules are on those that aren’t/don’t (my son is in this category), probably due to their parents being hard on them. I try to make sure to only give a compliment on the way home and leave the rest alone. As it is, he already is 100x better now than four weeks ago.
Also, amusing is that every kid on the team, with the exception of the one girl, appear to be on the ADHD spectrum if you just watched them during a weekday evening game.
My first thinks he is much better than he is. and the second, well I am the coach for his team and I am thankful that he wants to play centerfield every inning. Makes juggling everyones desire to play first or pitcher’s guard easier.
But the 2nd graders are getting into it competitively, and I don’t think its solely the parents driving that train.
Hmmm…that sounds pretty similar. Thinking about it, there’s only a couple of kids who seem to complain when the teammates do something wrong and I think they are both 2nd graders. One of them is also diagnosed on the high-functioning autism spectrum, so I always figured that was the issue. The other is just way more into it than the other kids.
Of all the crap that seems to go along with parenting, I think the thing that makes me most want to not have kids is the nightmare that they might not enjoy playing baseball and refuse to get good at it.
I definitely don’t have this problem. My son would play catch or hit balls for 16 hours a day if my arm and schedule allowed it.
June 27h for the marlins. so if its not worst case scenario we still may see him
…and confirmed. That’s a shame.
Damnit. I know everyone is getting TJS these days so it’s probably just what’s jumping out to me right now, but it seems like every time there’s a young hotshot pitcher that starts taking the league by storm recently, they go down with TJS (Strasburg, Harvey, Fernandez…). Makes me scared for Sonny, even if he’s not quite at that level
TJS is the new black plague.
Hmmm…
Barton?
That’d be a nice look for our righty side of the first base platoon. How’s his D?
No idea. Huge guy, primarily an OF. Looked good in the minors until injuries (TJS, no joke). Lots of power.
Had a .800+ OPS last season against lefties, so I wouldn’t mind that.
UZR says he has been good there, but in very limited time.
Same age, same (meh) hitting projection as Freiman, but with more major league experience, better defense (plus ability to play OF as well), and less extreme splits.
Nice numbers in AAA this year.
Also he is not Barton.
Definitely not exciting, but might be enough of an improvement to be worth doing. (Goebbert also has decent numbers in AAA, but no one seems to think he’s a prospect.) Seems like it would still be a spot we would be looking to upgrade.
Seems like it’s worth the risk then.
If that’s our righty side of the platoon, then we don’t really need to do the platoon. Just have Moss be the platoon.
That fixes the rotation!
Thanks, and go As.
heh
Call up Humber.
we are three weeks from kendrys morales being available.
MLB looking at the plate rule but this is total crap:
Tell that to the second baseman who has his back to the runner, a runner who is usually OUT by the time he slide way away from the bag to make contact. The infielder/catcher should have the right to one side of the base/path, the runner the other side. At second, the first base side of the bag should belong to the runner, the third base/left field side to the fielder. At the plate, the fair side/inside of the path/plate should belong to the fielder, the foul side/outside to the runner. And if the throw crosses to the wrong side and you have to cross the path with your leg/foot, too bad, make your catch to keep other runners from moving up, but the runner will be safe.
1: TJS likely for Fernandez now. internet is blowing up.
Thanks, and go As.
Did Chris OLeary call it? He mentions Fernandez in his essay.
Thanks, and go As.
Gosh Jose Fernandez is trending harder than “Aliens Land On White House Lawn” right now. I wonder if they took a ligament from his dick, if they’d call it Tommy John Holmes surgery.
It would never work. If he rubs his elbow, it’d stiffen up.
Judging by his twitter, Jeremy Barfield is at the game tonight as a fan.
I had the best patient today. Ever. Best patient ever. Made my day.
i’ve come to find out i can be a pretty good patient myself. (just give me the meds and i’ll let you do whatever you want.)
I tend to hate people doing stuff for me or giving me stuff. Clean up? Sure, go right ahead. But aside from that, whatever, I’ll just lay here in peace.
This guy had a great sense of humor about the situation. Didn’t complain about any pain (extensive injuries), said please, thank you, and called us all ma’am. Hot as hell, too. Made my day.
Paraphrased from him: “Will I lose my arm? That’s my good hand, I can’t write with my other one. I don’t have to worry about abusing myself, I haven’t had a lady friend in a while so I’ve gotten good at using either hand for that.”
i may not be as funny or candid (unless asked directly), but i do overcompensate for the guilt of putting the nurses/doctors in a position that they have to do gross things for me.
Honestly, we don’t mind at all.
I think the problems start when it’s the patients who don’t mind.
Exactly.
I probably helped him too much. He got confused when I cradled him against my bosom as he got a shot.
now that’s funny.
Damn, Donald Sterling, not exactly going the contrition route.
When you’re old, white, and rich, you gotta dig in.
“he had those AIDS.”
I don’t see what the big deal is. Magic Johnson has many aides.
I know, that was the best part.
Another case of someone who has more money than common sense – he is surely wealthy enough to afford to hire a person to handle this stuff for him.
Record producer deity Creed Taylor — the CT in CTI — turns 85 today, and I can see that the temperature at my desk here is celebrating that fact. Come along to the blog and cool off to the crisp sounds of The CTI All Stars, visiting Munich with a superstar-studded show just ahead of the ill-fated 1972 Olympic Games. Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, Joe Farrell, Grover Washington Jr. and about a hundred million other heavyweights — all on the same stage at once! — await you :D
And then there’s this. Fascinating discussions about both the science and its publicity at the Planck meeting here in Trieste this week.
Another article says:
Is that accurate?
No – and Clem will take a lot of flak for that.
Planck hasn’t published its polarization data yet because it’s not ready; we’re working on it but it’s really tough. We will publish this year though, and my understanding (which Colin can correct) is that BICEP rushed to print for fear that Planck would scoop them.
The plot in question was a VERY preliminary map shown in a powerpoint presentation a year or so ago. In my opinion (and many other in the Planck collaboration) it should never have been shown. However even when it was it had all kinds of caveats explicitly attached – essentially “buyer beware” – including that it was *not* purely a dust map. BICEP downloaded the pdf file of the talk, digitized the map-image, and took that as Planck data – frankly an extraordinary thing to base a Nobel-worthy claim on.
OK thanks.
This:
seems unfortunate, but par for the course and inevitable whenever things like grants and careers are at stake.
The last bit sounds … yeah, extraordinary is a good word.
To be fair, it was only one of 6 foreground models BICEP used, including a couple of different simulated skies from Planck, and they were all broadly consistent. Of course consistent doesn’t necessarily mean right.
OK – now it’s getting really FKing bizarre.
In a seminar in Princeton yesterday the speaker (a member of neither BICEP nor Planck) presented detailed analysis of this PDF file, including his Monte Carlo simulations of the digitization process – he made a set of science-quality maps, put each of them into powerpoint, converted to pdf, digitized, and compared the analysis of the resulting maps to the originals!
LOL
There has to be a point in that process when you step back and wonder “when did I stop doing science?”
We really set ourselves up for all of this.
It’s Planck’s fault for leaking premature data.
Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic here, but we really do regret including DDM2. It would have basically been the same paper without it, but now this whole thing is a huge distraction.
No sarcasm intended – I was annoyed and frustrated when it happened, and argued that it shouldn’t be included in the online presentations. Subsequent events have only proven me right.
I like where their heads are at with this unless it means using him for too few batters.
Spotify just served me up an “Oh Oh Oh O’Reilly!” ad, and I got very confused for a moment about whether I was listening to a baseball game or a late 80’s/early 90’s Manchester playlist.
I thought you were listening to someone have sex with someone named Riley.
anyone think of this when you see the name of this grill.
another plane, another train
another bottle in the brain. another girl, another fight, another drive all night
honest. that’s what i got since the first time.
Another season, another reason
For makin’ Whoopee
and that takes me to the uncomfortable “you better keep her. I think it’s cheaper.”
Yes! Love that song, always peps me up.
No but I do adore that song.
see, here’s the question. there are teams out there who, if you gave them tevez, they’d freaking cry with gratitude like it was xmas in june. WHAT did he FK’ing do to get left out of the 30-man roster (though that only made it official, he’s been out all along) and replaced with (my hometown-mate) franco di santo — a right-footed left-side forward. not that di franco is guaranteed to make the 23-man…
the news stories talk about internal unity over individual talent (WTF, all the forwards are individual talents — is there friction between carlitos and ____ ?). even grondona, who reportedly asked sabella for tevez, now comes out saying it’s a question of the group but diluted it by saying that you never know who will actually play (so it’s better to bring in someone lesser so it’s easier to cut him??). yeah, there’s gotta be something under the surface and i don’t get it.
further overabundance of talent. thank you lord for making alina moine argentine and interested in sports journalism. (i’ll let you do the image googling.)
man, I”m just happy that Eddie FKing Johnson was left off the US Squad.
Thanks, and go As.
What a wasted talent that guy is. He has speed, strength, and a decent modicum of skill, but such a headcase.
Yeah but Wondo got called to the 30 man, so I’m good.
I’m not sure how he gets left off the 23. He’s the best poacher the US has and would be a perfect 65-70th minute sub if we are down one or level and need a win.
and friggin Demarcus Beasley made it. Isn’t he like 100 years old?
Thanks, and go As.
I’m going to be really sad if Wondo doesn’t make it. I’m not even a Quakes fan, really, but he just seems like such an awesome guy and he puts the FKing ball in the net whenever it’s loose in the box, which is something we will need at some point. I like Terrence Boyd a lot too, who’s probably his main competition, but he’s young enough to go to two more Cups after this one.
Love Beasley too. Very cool how he bounced back from injury to make a serious second career in Mexico.
I met Wondo once. Super nice dude and really humble because he had such a late career surge. His wife is hella nice too, she came into my GF’s store shopping a few months ago and they ended up BSing about soccer cause she had a jersey on.
I agree on Boyd v Wondo. I’m a little worried that Jurgen has Landycakes listed as a forward, cause really all 6 guys listed deserve a shot. Donovan/Dempsey/Altidore are locks, and so is Johansson IMO. I really don’t see Jurgen bringing 5 forwards on the 23 man, so I’m kinda worried that Boyd and Wondo will be the ones left out.
Thanks, and go As.
I don’t know how much to read into that.
I also think that Klinsi really wants to bring Wondo, both because of his game and because of his positive locker room presence. He seems like the kind of guy who would inspire everyone to work harder in practice, and Klinsi is all about good vibes.
True. I think that’s why EJ was left off, even though he said it wasn’t.
Thanks, and go As.
I wouldn’t worry too much about meeting that particular circumstance.
#letthesmacktalkbegin
Yanks win, 2-2.
Thanks, and go As.
i’m reading this as the US will never be behind…
I’m reading it as England will never be within a goal late.
It’s a toss-up … a young and exciting squad and a dull conservative manager.
Willful misreading … I thought better of you.
oh no. that’s me all over. shit, i might wanna talk to this william guy and have the word changed to AVful.
I think Alejandro Bedoya might be my new favorite USMNT player.
Sugh a easy, stupid chant and he gets the ENTIRE FUCKING SECTION to go nuts.
Thanks, and go As.
I don’t get to many A’s games any more so when I went to last week’s doubleheader I tried to treat it like it was my first time. There will come a day when the Oakland Coliseum is gone, so if nothing else this will help me preserve some of my memories of it.
Link to photos
Love the “Matsuiland” sticker.
Had to snap that.
love how the outfield keeps coming at you in: View from the Plaza Reserved Level high above the outfield.
I sat up there for a night game one time and it’s an interesting view you don’t really get anywhere else these days.
I also went up there during batting practice one year at a game against the Tigers and got one of their players to throw a ball straight up. The first time came about a foot short of me (no way am I leaning out over that), but the second one was perfectly placed into my glove. Probably a different and kind of fun throw for one of them to make from down there.
you were right next to us for cespedes’ hr
How close is “right next to?” I parked myself a row or two from the front railing in that spot for a few of those pics.
across the aisle toward home plate, back over your right shoulder
5 sections over, two sections up, one stadium over.
did you see a guy in a road A’s hat next to a handsome man in a straw hat trying to convince two small children of someone else not to vote for daric barton like their father told them?
that was Andeux, FSU and my kids
Probably, haha.
He would probably remember a guy in a road A’s hat.
I’m the kinda guy, I see someone warping a child for life, I step in and do something.
ladies love cool FSU.
LOL-I so read FSU’s comment in my LL head voice.
Very nice James. Sorry I missed meeting you.
It’s all right. I made the decision to go pretty last-minute (the night before) and when I’m at a game I don’t often check much on the phone.
Thanks.
The Second District Court of Appeal, angling for an FK tagline:
That’s pretty awesome. I’ll raise you this.
huh, that is the proper word for commentoor?
Commentariat? Commenterati?
awesome punchline.
Someone is wrong on the internet
Am I the only one who did not know that Casey Kasem was the voice of Shaggy in the cartoon Scooby Doo? Mind blown.
I have known. But yes, when I first heard I had that same experience.
I said the exact same thing.
i said jinkies.
Zoinks! where have you guys been?
Rut Roh!
Yep, you’re the only one. Granted, I only knew because he was also the voice of Robin on Super Friends, and I’m a big nerd.
California Chrome an overwhelming favorite in the morning line odds for Saturday’s Preakness.
I hope he wins and sets up a shot at the Triple Crown in the Belmont Stakes on June 7, where the field may be tougher than this Preakness lot, which frankly looks rather motley. Still, California Chrome feels to me like the most legit real Triple Crown contender we’ve seen in quite awhile.
3-5 odds is of course miserable, and they could be even shorter by race time Saturday. Have to find value in the exotics. Ring Weekend strikes me as a possibility. To be continued.
I am concerned, because I feel really good about my handle on this race. So most likely I’ll be wrong, lose it all, and be selling plasma by Monday morning.
California Chrome (3) is going to win this race. Best horse in Kentucky, best horse here, likely to get a great pace scenario and the ride he wants. The Preakness is a chalky race, historically. Barring bad craziness before post time 100% of my bets will have California Chrome on top.
After that there’s only three other horses I like to run second: Ride On Curlin (10) or Social Inclusion (8), or just maybe Kid Cruz (7). And most likely one of them runs third too. I just see a significant gap between the races I expect from those horses and the rest of the field.
* $10 Exactas on 3/7,8,10 ($30)
* $5 Trifectas 3/7,8,10/7,8,10 ($30)
* $2 Trifectas with a few others on the bottom–3/7,8,10/1,2,4,5 ($24).
* $0.50 Superfectas 3/7,8,10/7,8,10/ALL ($21), to cap it off with a big score.
I’m tellin you, this feels right. And the kids college fund was just sitting there.
Holy shit.
3/10/8/2
Wow, should be a nice payout!
$368?
I’d think the Upgrades should get a night or two at the Four Seasons Jackson Hole out of this.
They’ll settle for the Pocatello Dennys and like it.
Was Andy right about that? (and, since I have no idea how this stuff works, is that net or gross?)
Yes, you can trust andeux’s math. Those were the total payouts of the three winning bets, so net was $263.
Can I have $5?
can I have $258?
It’s not Welker money, but not too shabby!
Indeed, congrats.
wesssssss-leeeeeey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You and I need to go follow him around so he can give us money for no reason.
yes we do! :D
All right, this is a good one so pay attention cuz it’s not sold in stores, friends. 66 years ago the primary sonic architect of yours and my lifetimes was born, and the world would never hear sound the same way again. Funk on over to the blog for a recreation of the infamous “The Funky Eno” DJ Food mix from 2010, expanded by me to include a whole slew of tracks to blow your mind and move your ass.
THAT IS AWESOME
Carlos Gomez is sort of the new Manny Ramirez in a way.
We all know he didn’t Google rich-people conversations. He Googled white-people conversations. Because that’s the whitest fucking thing to talk about in the history of white people talking about stuff.
datum, really.
Unless it really was the set of measurements of potassium levels in samples of kiwi fruit and bananas, in which case it would be those data.
No shit, Sherlock.
International sports organization is so irredeemably FKing corrupt.
Facepalm
facefoot?
IOW: “We always knew it was a shitty decision, even before we made it. Admitting as much publicly is old news.”
followed by: “Have you seen my new boat? How about my new $1 million car?”
Or, I was against this all along but that corrupt disphit Platini who wants my job pushed it through over my objection.
This just gets
better and betterworse and worse:The second installment of Taurean Prog Week hits the blog with an innovative force in modern music, and the leader/curator/quality control engineer of merely the most influential group in history after The Beatles, at least on other musicians and players. You can’t achieve the aim without suffering, and you won’t be able to get your ears around the insane metastasized miasma I have created from the raw materials supplied by this week’s birthday lads, unless you click the link and take the drink… for today is a day when we Fripp the script.
Wow, seriously FK Deschamps and FK French speech laws.
This seems like a lot of trouble to go to to get Barton out of Sacramento.
River Cats might bail on A’s, seek affiliation with Giants.
that’s really lame
Minor league affiliation agreements don’t last forever. Among the AL West teams A’s-Sacramento is the second oldest (goes back to pre-Raley Field when they were in Vancouver in 1999; Mariners-Tacoma goes back to 1995) and you can still make a phone call to Fresno at 7 a.m. and have the player in Oakland for a day game. Even if the A’s were to go into Las Vegas in the affiliation carousel for next year that wouldn’t be bad and the players might like that better than Fresno (though Aces wouldn’t).
I suoppose you are right. I just have a reaction to “the giants are more popular.” And I am not a giants hater.
They are. It’s stupid but it doesnt mean it isnt true.
But if the RC’s owner thinks that is going to result in some huge attendance boost allow me to be a little skeptical. If you look at replies SuSlu has already had to explain that players wouldnt stay with their AAA teams, they are actually property of the major league club. The casual fan just doesn’t understand tons about the player development system.
But you know what they do understand? Wins. The Grizzlies put on very good promotions and play in a nice ballpark (albeit in a preceived bad part of town). But many years over the past decade they have had a team that can’t even see the hump, let alone get over it.
I could go on and on-heck maybe I should make a post, but I think Sacto would be making a mistake. (and to Soaker’s point about I sure hope they do because I will be buying a season ticket plan for the A’s affiliat that day if it happens).
you should do a post
Yes. He should. But not about this. He should do it about baseball playing squirrels.
The River Cats have been one of the top two teams for attendance in the Pacific Coast League every year for the last 10 (and I think going all the way back to the opening of Raley Field). The trend has been down, but they’re still well above the average for AAA teams which is in the vicinity of 6K/game. Ms. Savage is probably correct that bringing the Giants in would appeal to some new customers, but that’s probably a short-term bump; after all she’s still selling AAA baseball. This sounds like somebody munching on the same old green grass and thinking there’s some even greener grass on the other side of the fence.
River Cats average attendance since 2005:
2005: 10,497
2006: 10,257
2007: 10,003
2008: 9725
2009: 9126
2010: 9138
2011: 8455
2012: 8140
2013: 8435
2014: 7987 (April/May number not comparable)
That’s a pretty alarming downward trend. Just overall economic conditions, or what?
They’ve #1 or #2 on that list each year. And Memphis had a much more significant drop off.
I’m sure the ’08 and ’09 was economic. When you look at the numbers what sticks out is the they were head and shoulders above everyone else. With all the drops they have had, as Soaker points out they still have been #1 or 2 every year.
They must be one of the biggest AAA markets though.
It’s the novelty factor wearing off. Raley Field was a sweet new ballpark. So was Jacobs Field in Cleveland. Remember all the consecutive sellouts when the Manny Ramirez/Jim Thome teams were playing there in the 90s, compare that to the vacant seats we saw this weekend.
All those moments will be lost in time. Like the Pontiac Silverdome in the rain.
It says something about flint, I think
Shouldnt Lew have someone there scavenging for replacement parts?
oh my god oh my god oh my god
https://vine.co/v/MHmz9iE5DZZ