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14 Apr 2009  |  the llama  |The Grill

Jason Varitek must have forgotten who was chugging toward the plate. I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen
such as a half-assed attempt at block and tag at home plate. How long before the Red Sox front office starts a
whisper campaign against Captain Cambridge?

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  • Giambi…if you didn’t get on base so damned much (.452 OBP), you wouldn’t have to run the bases. Your
    choice.
  • On the other hand, maybe Ryan Sweeney and Orlando Cabrera should just forget about getting on base at
    all.
  • Speaking of Giambi, great job going the other way twice last night. Bay was definitely caught off-
    guard, and while he’s not a douchebag of the highest Red Sockian order, the faceplant was a nice touch for A’s
    partisans everywhere.

    • canadian-fail

  • At least the other Red Sox corner outfielder can catch the ball. Oh, wait.

    • boras_fail

    • Rajai Davis and Jack Cust have a few things in common: can’t bunt, can’t play defense, can’t run the
      bases intelligently, will often strike out looking, can’t beat out double play grounders. But Jack Cust is huge
      and hits home runs and gets on base 55% of the time, and Rajai Davis is fast and…is fast.

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    139 thoughts on “DLD 04/14/2009”

    1. xbhaskarx Apr 14,2009 8:16 am

      ToneMatrix.

      New A’s theme song:
      98304,114688,126976,97792,16338,4086,3198,3100,3192,4080,16328,65080,126976,114872,98472,33000

      (right click to copy and paste)

      • mikeA Apr 14,2009 4:44 pm || Up

        Well, that’s what you think, but such is the beauty of
        ambiguity. In any case I expect a spike in traffic to FK from revisonist
        scholars

      • mjdittmer Apr 14,2009 4:46 pm || Up

        this while you were, I think, referring to this. I liked Ulysses, and I found this book hugely helpful in dealing with the “incoherence” of which you speak.]] >

      • 74mk Apr 14,2009 4:46 pm || Up

        It’s not incoherent.

    2. xbhaskarx Apr 14,2009 8:18 am

      Jason Bay is not a
      douchebag.

      YET.

    3. xbhaskarx Apr 14,2009 8:23 am
      • nevermoor Apr 14,2009 4:53 pm || Up

        If true, it is only because the author failed in his
        goal of making it so.

        I spent two months in college on the book. It isn’t that I don’t get it, it’s that if I were grading a paper
        written that way I’d give it an F.

    4. xbhaskarx Apr 14,2009 8:34 am

      Is anyone else annoyed
      that Yankees fans discovered Nick Swisher has a personality yesterday?

    5. monkeyball Apr 14,2009 8:42 am
    6. salb918 Apr 14,2009 9:19 am

      I just watched the replay of Braden striking out
      Youkilis. Awesome pitch, and his subsequent Mark Fidrych impression was icing on the cake.

    7. Apr 14,2009 10:03 am

      Incidentally isn’t the DLD concept your intellectual
      property Sal? I hope you’re getting residuals.

      • nevermoor Apr 14,2009 5:40 pm || Up

        concur.

        And not going, but watching on TV.

    8. mikeA Apr 14,2009 10:28 am

      • monkeyball Apr 14,2009 5:59 pm || Up

        I am infamous for my KRAUTlandish conspiracy
        theories.

      • sslinger Apr 14,2009 8:52 pm || Up

        I like FKranting, as a concept.

    9. green star oakland Apr 14,2009 10:46 am

      Did anyone ask Geren about Sweeney and Cabrera’s back-
      to-back failed steal attempts ? Do they have the green light, or was this his call ?

    10. monkeyball Apr 14,2009 11:42 am

      Uh-oh. Who on ** should we have invited?

      I hate
      you people for leaving me out of so many fun things

    11. monkeyball Apr 14,2009 11:58 am

      {snerk}

      I think she had at least one great performance in her

      (Of course, I agree with Drew about Rabid.)

    12. mikeA Apr 14,2009 12:03 pm

      Beckett suspended six games.

      7. ?Donde esta Dagoberto Campaneris? Posted: April 14, 2009 at 02:56 PM (#3137824)
      I think MLB missed a clear opportunity for an epic California Penal League joke, but other than that, this seems
      pretty reasonable.

      I would have suggested having Beckett wear a huge “D” indicating ######### on his uniform for the remainder of the
      season. However, increasingly, the Red Sox uniform itself is clear enough.

    13. whiteshoes40 Apr 14,2009 12:07 pm

    14. xbhaskarx Apr 14,2009 12:51 pm

      First Post! (NSFW –salb918)]] >

    15. Apr 14,2009 2:28 pm

      for old times’ sake.]] >

    16. MikeTheV Apr 14,2009 2:30 pm

      Delwyn Young was DFA’d by the Dodgers. He’s like Rajai
      Davis, but not so terrible. Flyer on him?

    17. 74mk Apr 14,2009 2:57 pm

      1. “Go have some fun and please respect other people’s privacy.”

      2. An assault on fan loyalty, employing the Ship of Theseus paradox:

      So essentially, to say you are a “real” sports fan – the kind of red-blooded American who lives and
      dies for your team – is to admit that you throw your heart and soul behind a constantly shifting amorphous blob
      that has no persistent identity. And those fair-weather fans you look down on? They’re the rational
      ones.

      3. Essay and photo
      gallery       from TNR, dating back many decades.

      From 1983:

      Former Senator Eugene McCarthy argues that baseball is becoming too sensitive and polite, as evidenced
      by several incidents in the early ’80s (including one with George Brett and a pine tar bat, pictured left):

      “Talk is dangerous in baseball, and it always has been. Today, however, mere gestures can get players, managers,
      umpires, and others on the baseball field into trouble. This was not always so. The sensitivity level of baseball
      personnel seems to have reached a new high. Feelings, it seems, are easily hurt. Psychological damage
      threatens.”

    18. 74mk Apr 14,2009 3:23 pm

      Sports fandom is approximately two steps removed from
      genocide. No, seriously:

      Not that I would try to stop anyone from root, root, rooting to his or her heart’s content. It’s just
      that such things are normally done by pigs, in the mud, or by seedlings, lacking a firm grip on reality — fine for
      them, but I am not at all sure this is something that human beings should do.

      […]

      Is life so pale, dull, and unsatisfying that it must be experienced vicariously in order to be savored? You might
      try reading a book, talking with your family, going for a walk, wrestling with the dog, listening to some music,
      smelling a flower, making love.

      Huh. I wouldn’t have thought someone who spent so much time cavorting with puppies and smelling flowers could be
      such an insufferable prick.

      As Koestler emphasized, the acts of greatest human violence and destructiveness have arisen not from
      personal aggressiveness or nastiness, but from self-transcendence in the form of seductive, mindless identification
      with a group. Think of Rwanda’s Hutus and Tutsis, Bosnian Serbs and Muslims, Nazis and Jews, Irish Catholics and
      Protestants, Armenians and Azerbaijanis, Israelis and Palestinians.

      I wonder what Koestler had to say about oblivious, melodramatic psychology professors.

    19. 74mk Apr 14,2009 3:59 pm

      People are not nearly this nice to me when I wander
      around Pioneer Square with a “help me” sign taped to my chest.

    20. monkeyball Apr 14,2009 5:09 pm

      EUPHEMISM ALERT: grass track on the
      T-Willie

    21. sslinger Apr 14,2009 5:15 pm

      Too bad Wakefield isn’t pitching tonight – it would be
      fun to see how his knuckler would do out there. For those NRFKers, it’s hella windy here.

    22. andeux Apr 14,2009 5:27 pm

    23. green star oakland Apr 14,2009 5:27 pm

      Pavano up – Wang’s only serious competition for pitcher
      of the month – and he’s already halved thirded his ERA.

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