Condiment Bar – 15 April 2009 ← FREE KRAUT!

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15 Apr 2009  |  andeux  |The Grill

This is a picture of great social and political import.

I will have more to say later.

In the meantime, dump away.

EDIT:

OK, I am assuming that the complete lack of comments about this photograph indicates an intense curiosity. This is
an actual photo of the condiment bar to the left of the Saag’s stand last night. It’s a little blurry – OK, a lot
blurry; you try snapping a picture of a condiment bar in a poorly lit tunnel using a cell phone camera while other
patrons attempt to make use of the condiments thereon – so I’ll describe what it shows:

Large pump containers of ketchup and mustard bookend the scene. In between, there is a bin containing relish to the
left, a bin containing chopped onions in the middle, and then, on the right, an empty space where the bin that
contained (I believe) FREE KRAUT! had previously been. Yes, just as I arrived, I saw a concessions worker clean the
last dregs out of that bin, and then remove it without providing a replacement. So the good news is that patrons
are partaking of the FREE KRAUT! But the bad news is that supplies appear to be inadequate.

82 thoughts on “Condiment Bar – 15 April 2009”

  1. monkeyball Apr 15,2009 9:33 am

    Breakfast roll call: I’m having whole oat groats with
    yogurt and 2oz of this poured over
    it.

    Apparently (according to a couple cookbooks I have) steelcut oats with stout is a “traditional” Irish breakfast.
    Whether the story is Blarney or not, it’s really, really, REALLY good.

  2. salb918 Apr 15,2009 9:44 am

    An interesting
    post on HH     (not penned by the Rev), on the rules regarding team’s struck by a catastrophe that disables or
    kills a large number of players:

    1. Mourning Period. During this mourning period, a team’s games are either postponed or cancelled.

    2. Continuation of Disabled Club’s Season. MLB determines whether a Disabled Club is able to continue the
    regular season and post-season after taking into account the date of the occurrence, the standing of the Disabled
    Club at the time of the occurrence, the Disabled Club’s wishes and the integrity of the game of baseball. The
    Commissioner and MLBPA jointly resolve all scheduling issues that may arise from prolonged interruptions or
    cancellations of the Disabled Club’s season.

    3. Restocking Draft (also known as a “Rule 29” draft). If the Commissioner decides to hold a Restocking Draft,
    each Major League Club will submit a list of 5 players who are made available for selection by the Disabled Club.
    If the Restocking Draft is held in response to an in-season occurrence the five players will be available from
    other teams’ Active List. If the occurrence happens during the off-season, the available players come from the
    other teams’ Reserve List. The positions of the five available players will include one pitcher, one catcher, one
    outfielder, one infielder and a fifth player from any position. The position requirement can be revised based on
    the playing positions of the players lost by the Disabled Club. The players provided will have no less than 60
    days Major League service time (as of August 31st of the season preceding the Restocking Draft). Players with No-
    Trade rights, either contractually or because of service time, can not be made available unless the player waives
    his No-Trade rights. Additionally, each club must warrant that each player made availalbe is physically fit, not
    on a Suspended, Restricted, Disqualified, or Ineligible List and is capable of playing immediately upon selection
    by the Disabled Club.

    4. Other Relief. The Commissioner and MLBPA may agree to provide additional relief to the Disabled Club such as
    additional selections in the Rule 4 or Rule 5 drafts, priority waiver claims, or modification of post-season roster
    deadlines.

  3. doctorK Apr 15,2009 9:46 am

    I got a nice present from the
    wind last night. Guess I won’t have to decide what to do with that tree now.

  4. salb918 Apr 15,2009 9:46 am

    And of course
    the good Rev once again f—s up moral high ground    :

    Can another explanation besides “Country” Joe West’s lusting for a Son of the South be taken seriously
    now that Major League Baseball has handed down a harsh suspension and fine against Beckett, stepfathered on Sunday
    by a Scioscia-baiting, blind-to-Boston Joe West? Because if Joe West is not a Tim Donaghy bought and paid for by a
    bookie somewhere, another insidious addiction may be lurking at the heart of this controversey.

    Wait, what?

  5. monkeyball Apr 15,2009 10:23 am

    What th- … ? Can anyone explain any of the
    decisions or opinions in this?

  6. monkeyball Apr 15,2009 10:31 am

    Tim Goodman on BB 2:6

    No one’s mentioned the weird interaction with the principal …

  7. nevermoor Apr 15,2009 11:08 am

    This may be the greatest thing I’ve read in a
    long time.

    Also, the original post is interesting (and I’m in EV’s camp. I only found the post because I was surprised the
    word was red-underlined in Word).

    • nevermoor Apr 15,2009 6:44 pm || Up

      What’s really annoying about that first part is that
      none of those lefties is Zito.

      • monkeyball Apr 16,2009 2:01 pm || Up

        I hadn’t been aware of that backstory, as well as the
        “they exploit women with their ads!!11!!” objections. I wonder how much those elements played into their recent
        rejection by the enlightened Stalinist despots in the Mission.

    • 74mk Apr 15,2009 8:00 pm || Up

      isn’t serious, this is as good a time as any for Chavez to rest his ouchies, since it plugs a dead spot in the lineup and basically forces Geren to play Buck in RF. Well, probably. If he opts for a Crosby 3B/Nomar 1B/Davis CF/Sweeney RF alignment at any point in the series I will seriously consider giving up on baseball altogether in order to dedicate the rest of my life to wrestling with dogs and smelling flowers and making love and, you know, actively doing instead of passively watching like hogs in slop or Bosnian Serbs or whatever the analogy was. We The A’s WE are going to get killed in New York, though.]] >

  8. mikeA Apr 15,2009 11:44 am
  9. mikeA Apr 15,2009 11:48 am

    powell in at 1B today]] >

  10. whiteshoes40 Apr 15,2009 12:01 pm

    I keep forgetting that it’s a day game today. Woo, now I
    have an excuse not to work this afternoon!

  11. salb918 Apr 15,2009 12:41 pm

    Game thread posted

    • nevermoor Apr 16,2009 10:05 am || Up

      So I only become evil when the A’s are at home? Works
      for me.

      Also, flashfire?

  12. andeux Apr 15,2009 12:53 pm

    Post updated

    • monkeyball Apr 16,2009 10:43 am || Up

      67MARQUEZ = Bilbo?

      I would go with Elrond because of the limitless memory -Nm

  13. xbhaskarx Apr 15,2009 6:30 pm

    Free Kraut is like
    Bigfoot, the photos are so blurry one wonders if it even exists.

  14. mikeA Apr 15,2009 6:41 pm

    2 things that annoy me:
    Next five and next 6/7 games are against lefty starters.
    I looked at the schedule, and the AL team they play the least (6 games) is the Orioles, who they also were only
    scheduled against 6 times last year.

  15. nevermoor Apr 15,2009 7:24 pm

  16. salb918 Apr 15,2009 9:38 pm

    Is anybody watching the Angels-Ms tilt? This is really
    exciting, and the Ms announcers are really into it.

  17. the dogfather Apr 16,2009 11:07 am

    FYI — beware food you didn’t bring to the tailgate
    party. Turns out I ingested something called “space cake” at the ** affair, which, being as I hadn’t indulged in
    these chemicals for many years, kinda freaked my poor old self-out. In my diminished state of mind, I almost
    convinced myself I’d had a stroke.

    When you reach the age where the misfortunes of friends convince you of your own mortality, risks in these kinds of
    incidents are much clearer than any rewards they bring. And I found out that a baseball game becomes very hard to
    follow.

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