When asked about their relationship, he responded, “He’s just my teammate. I have respect for him. I hope he has respect for me. That’s it.”
And quite the profile in courage by management:
Forst said Melvin will dictate playing time for Butler and Valencia moving forward. Valencia was not in the lineup for Monday’s opener with the Indians but was expected to play Tuesday.
“I just didn’t feel like today would be the right day,” Melvin said. “He had to listen to a conversation today about some discipline.”
While I was traveling this week I read Krakauer’s Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town which obviously addresses this issue. It’s definitely not one of his best as I felt he approached the subject with a specific agenda, which led me to believe I wasn’t getting a balanced view of the topic. Ed definitely would not care for some of his characterizations of defense attorneys. I liked Under the Banner of Heaven when I read that some years ago but in light of this I’m considering re-reading that one to see if I find the same sort of agenda.
Into the Wild and Into Thin Air are a couple of my favorites. The Pat Tillman book, I thought he didn’t have enough substance to work with. In Missoula I found some of his passages cringeworthily snotty.
I thought that was not really settled – there were some rebuttals and counter-rebuttals published. Same is true of his other books too, especially Under the Banner of Heaven. On balance, I have found him to be more convincing than his critics.
Not to mention the dubious nature of “private Trump organization research” and the racist assumption “black people admire ostentatiously tacky rich people” underlying the whole thing.
I can’t get over the ridiculous interior decorating of his homes. It almost seems like what a set designer would create to spoof a rich person’s house.
they have the juno awards which is a really big deal in a way it would not be in here. good stuff too, even one (at least) of my friends have been nominated.
Almost no canadian bands can get anywhere in the states.
Plenty of recent indie sensations here out of Canada. Arcade Fire, The New Pornographers, the Japandroids. Classic Rock-wise you’ve got the Guess Who, Rush and the Band. Neil Young had to move I guess.
I think the problem may be that the Hip aren’t very good. Although that song “Courage” always makes me feel feelings because of “The Sweet Hereafter.”
I can handle a little bit of Barenaked Ladies. But, when I had an off-day between Milwaukee and Cincinnati and the Ladies’ show in Chicago was the most interesting thing musically (a lot of the bands I might have been interested in were at Bonnaroo that weekend), I detoured to Davenport, IA to watch the Beloit Snappers in action.
Saw part of the BNLs show here at the beginning of the month. My friends and I were just dumbfounded trying to understand 1) how they were headlining a tour and 2) why people were so excited. We ended up staying because there was a Howard Jones sort of encore during their set and left once that was done.
The A’s need to go 15-22 to finish at my prediction of 68-94, same as last year. I looked back to the night when Reddick got hurt, which I think is when they fell into the swirling vortex (granted Gray had some crappy starts before then; Hill still had two more starts before heading to the DL). They are 34-50 starting on the night of Reddick’s injury which is a .4048 pace. 15-22 would be a .4054 pace the rest of the way. If you’re looking for consistency, Vince, that would be it. I guess if anything, given where the starting pitching is now I might bump it up to about 96 losses. I don’t think they can get to 100 losses (9-28).
Checking the details of Coco’s vesting option I found that:
i) he’s not the first MLB player called Coco.
ii) Sabathia’s $25M option vests if he does not end season on DL with shoulder injury or miss 45+ games due to shoulder injury, so the Yankees are most likely screwed – huzzah!
I noticed a Cleveland OF last night had really high stirrups going on, like in Little League when we’d cut the stirrup bottom and stitch on elastic to get even higher.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Since they seem to be using “Join the Party” as an advertising tagline for 2017 season tickets, I hope they get the rights to use a few bars of “The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion” in the commercials.
Join the Party lends itself to some awesome sign possibilities.
Render in green not red, swap the hammer and sickle with the A’s logo. Doolittle as Castro, Sonny as Lenin, Dull as Marx, and, I dunno, Eric Sogard as Mao. Stalin would be Lew Wolff, of course.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
For starters, Howard Terminal is a mile from the closest BART station, at 12th Street and Broadway downtown. That’s actually less than the distance from BART’s Embarcadero Station to AT&T Park, but the trek through Oakland’s warehouse district is a lot less attractive — and less safe — than a stroll along San Francisco’s postcard-perfect waterfront.
I’ll give them less attractive, but is that area particularly dangerous?
Also, the direct route to Warrantless Wiretap Park, along 2nd Street, is still not particularly attractive, and was probably even less so pre-WWP being constructed there.
With ferry and bus service also limited, many fans would drive.
That could very easily be changed. There’s a ferry terminal right there, and a fleet of shuttle buses at West Oakland Bart would have people at the park in five minutes.
The story is really aggravating. Saying “Howard Terminal is a mile from the closest BART station, at 12th Street and Broadway downtown” as if that’s a bad thing while leaving out that there are actually *two* BART stations within a mile and cropping the map exactly at the point that leaves West Oakland out…it’s just not an honest presentation.
Matier and Ross have a severe SF-slant. It’s too much to expect them to do actual hard work (you know, like looking at a map) on a story about Oakland.
but it’s all slanted. “warehouse district.” i guess you can say that about SoHo too technically… but not really a lot of warehousing going on in JLS anymore. (the produce distributors are still there, but it’s so fucking quaint it might as well be an after-the-game attraction.) and lots of new fancy residence buildings now and arriving.
i mean, directions to howard could sound something like this: go down broadway, turn left at steph curry’s old apartment, if you have time but don’t want to see if there’s a sale at bed bath and beyotch, maybe catch the early set at yoshi’s…
the one landmark that’s iffy is OPD right in the middle of that walk. but they’re never there. prolly at some underage sex-worker’s place…
also, if you hover on howard terminal in google maps, PREDICTIVE PHOTO??
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
yeah, WO is the closest (distances to the three stations are 1.0, 1.1, and 1.4 miles), but not every A’s fan lives in SF…
my lake merritt thought was actually about your shuttle idea. that it’d be less disruptive to have the route go to that plaza by the college, than try and go up broadway to 12th.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
I recall the area on that side of the Skyway being a bleak no-man’s land 20 years ago, and even when the park first opened 21st Amendment was one of the few signs of life down there. It changed very quickly.
Regardless of the current safety of it, that’s a pretty minor thing in the greater scheme of things. An unsafe mile can be made safe. The real issues are the site itself and the vehicular entry/exit. I can easily see cars piling into the maze.
I still want the Coli to be renamed the American Standard Stadium. With Mount Davis and the bowl shape, it already looks like a toilet, so let’s fucking OWN that shit.
I was very disappointed to find out that Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati is not a brag — it’s naming rights for Great American Insurance Company.
A hidden pole behind the rightfield wall, in front of the steps. It bounced directly off the top of this pole and back into play, making it look until replay like it had come off the top of the fence and stayed in the yard.
Thinking about putting together the next contender in Oakland with emphasis on the younger players who might contribute, with a month to go I guess we would have to say Graveman has been the most positive story of the season. Some of us were maybe considering giving up on him three months ago, but he looks like he can fit into the middle of a contending rotation. Manaea has also shown well in spite of being rushed, and in the bullpen Dull has slipped some in the second half but has been a pretty big plus overall this year.
On the position player side it’s harder to find anything positive. Semien has established himself as a major league player though I still tend toward Robin Younting him into the outfield at the first opportunity. Healy shows some promise with the SSS caveat. What else is there? A bunch of journeymen. Khris Davis is Cust without the OBP; he provides some exciting moments for a crappy team but I don’t see him contributing on a contender.
I have yet to see a good explanation for Gray’s implosion, and Hahn’s disappearance might be the biggest disappointment of all relative to expectations.
Rich Hill turned out to be a solid investment, and we had to endure zero plate appearances from Fuld and Sogard (though Burns did a nice job of upholding that tradition).
Not very inspiring in the highs minors either. Matt Chapman’s a little interesting, Barreto should be OK, and Bruce Maxwell could be something, but the rest of the position players have been god awful. I sure hope some of the pitchers pan out or else this franchise is deeply screwed for a good while.
yes it was a guy from boston doing it. and although he’s pointing it at the camera, you gotta suspect he meant it for his rivals that day. if for nothing else than, because fuck the giants.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
When you go to the 2016 A’s B-R page and see the photos of the top 12 by WAR, Rzep’s smiling mug is on there. A few who aren’t: Coco ($11M), Butler ($10M), Lowrie ($7.5M) and Axford ($4.5M).
74% for me. I was being overly cautious about false positives (still got 3% though). If I knew how the scoring worked, I would have been more aggressive on some of those.
Group A: Paris Saint-Germain, Arsenal, Basel, Ludogorets
Group B: Benfica, Napoli, Dynamo Kyiv, Besiktas
Group C: Barcelona, Manchester City, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Celtic
Group D: Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid, PSV Eindhoven, FC Rostov
Group E: CSKA Moscow, Bayer Leverkusen, Tottenham Hotspur, Monaco
Group F: Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Sporting Lisbon, Legia Warsaw
Group G: Leicester, Porto, Club Brugge, FC Copenhagen
Group H: Juventus, Sevilla, Lyon, Dinamo Zagreb
We have! She just turned 13, so she’s an old gal. I’m trying to look at it that we gave her back to Canine Companions when she was 18 months old, and then when she was released from their service dog program 7 months later, we got a gift of 11 more years with her that we didn’t think we’d have.
This weekend I’ll love her like crazy, spoil her like crazy, and load her up on all the pain meds we’ve got in the house.
Weird play in Mets-Cardinals. Yoenis was clearly tagged out on the foot going first to third, but Wainright’s glove got caught between Yo’s spikes and the bag, and it came off when he pulled his hand away after the tag. Called safe on the field, confirmed on replay.
Nurse Upgrade and I are having our annual end-of-the-summer picnic party at Tilden Park on Sunday, from 11 am to 4 pm. Grilling hot dogs and eating cupcakes and playing games and such. Friends and family most welcome. It’s at Tilden’s Fern picnic site, not too far from the merry-go-round:
Bornstein’s credentials have been called into question, after CNN’s Sanjay Gupta pointed out that the professional gastroenterological association mentioned in the letter has not counted Bornstein as a member for decades. Additionally, Bornstein’s website redirects to something called Annoying Teddy, a teddy bear that sings for three hours at a time.
JOBU!
The offense misses Butler.
the young man from the inferior school is doing ok
coco, that was exciting, thank you for that
Safe
Why bother with replay if they can’t get an easy one like that right?
just watched the replay on at bat. the Cleveland guys were shocked.
and I cannot imagine what why the call was upheld. Maybe they though the glove got the elbow?
radio crew was convinced
that was an ok call vince
stupid dodgers
Can’t stop the season, why let it stop you.
And Valencia gets punched out by Miller.
We wuz robbed.
Valencia doesn’t sound like he wants to be buddies with Butler:
And quite the profile in courage by management:
did fosse say anything about clubhouse fights last night?
If he did, I missed it. But I have developed a pretty good internal filter for tuning him out.
Papa tried a couple times to get Ray to rehash some Swinging A’s brawls, but Ray didn’t want to do anything now than to speak in generalities.
“and then we won the world series”
Great moments in phrasing.
Cmon people. Fire some legit questions at my man.
@GM: you might even say that those voters are in their sights!
You might even say we just ate Uter, and he’s in our stomachs right now!
Nah, I’m good, thanks.
Do better, Stanford.
While I was traveling this week I read Krakauer’s Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town which obviously addresses this issue. It’s definitely not one of his best as I felt he approached the subject with a specific agenda, which led me to believe I wasn’t getting a balanced view of the topic. Ed definitely would not care for some of his characterizations of defense attorneys. I liked Under the Banner of Heaven when I read that some years ago but in light of this I’m considering re-reading that one to see if I find the same sort of agenda.
He’s a fantastic writer. But I never picked up Under the Banner myself because I thought it might be too much of a polemic.
Into the Wild and Into Thin Air are a couple of my favorites. The Pat Tillman book, I thought he didn’t have enough substance to work with. In Missoula I found some of his passages cringeworthily snotty.
Into Thin Air has some major factual errors that lay a lot of blame at the wrong door.
I thought that was not really settled – there were some rebuttals and counter-rebuttals published. Same is true of his other books too, especially Under the Banner of Heaven. On balance, I have found him to be more convincing than his critics.
My impression was that the weight of evidence and opinion was behind Boukreev.
I have lots of problems rape and its relashipnship to the criminal justice system.
rape is bad. Rape laws are bad and add to the under reporting. Same with DV and DV laws
Interesting discussion of historical polling variability and the “electoral strike zone” here from Sam Wang.
so focused on senate/house
At this rate he may even pitch in a game for whatever team signs him in 2018.
its like getting an ace for the mid term primaries!
lmao good luck buddy
Before his birther crusade, he was a non-political figure. “Won’t be easy…” is a pretty big understatement.
Not to mention the dubious nature of “private Trump organization research” and the racist assumption “black people admire ostentatiously tacky rich people” underlying the whole thing.
I can’t get over the ridiculous interior decorating of his homes. It almost seems like what a set designer would create to spoof a rich person’s house.
it’s downright cartoonish.
Down to the serial trophy wives.
His whole life seems to be a caricature.
Where is the petite lap giraffe?
Thanks, and go As.
Standing next to him.
Eric momentarily thought he was in the veldt and shot it.
The toy limos…
Seriously, how the fuck can you be a kid in his home? It’s so trashy opulent. The very definition of ostentatious.
You just lie back and stare at the ceiling frescoes until you are old enough to dip into your trust fund.
Valencia is back in the lineup tonight. Sorry Arismendy.
I for one had heard of The Tragically Hip, but I had no goddamn idea they were such a big deal in Canada. It’s almost like a different country.
they have the juno awards which is a really big deal in a way it would not be in here. good stuff too, even one (at least) of my friends have been nominated.
Almost no canadian bands can get anywhere in the states.
Plenty of recent indie sensations here out of Canada. Arcade Fire, The New Pornographers, the Japandroids. Classic Rock-wise you’ve got the Guess Who, Rush and the Band. Neil Young had to move I guess.
I think the problem may be that the Hip aren’t very good. Although that song “Courage” always makes me feel feelings because of “The Sweet Hereafter.”
dude, bryan adams!
Yes he is very Canadian.
um… BTO? canada’s answer to ELP? their big hit was TCB?
nickelback!!
Loverboy!!!
Triumph!
Platinum Blonde!
Anvil!
Wow, I know some shitty Canadian bands.
I can handle a little bit of Barenaked Ladies. But, when I had an off-day between Milwaukee and Cincinnati and the Ladies’ show in Chicago was the most interesting thing musically (a lot of the bands I might have been interested in were at Bonnaroo that weekend), I detoured to Davenport, IA to watch the Beloit Snappers in action.
Saw part of the BNLs show here at the beginning of the month. My friends and I were just dumbfounded trying to understand 1) how they were headlining a tour and 2) why people were so excited. We ended up staying because there was a Howard Jones sort of encore during their set and left once that was done.
Snow!
He knows nothing.
You know say Daddy Snow me, I’m gonna blame.
I guess I mean bands that are realitively big in canada, like Pup
You made “Pup” up. That’s not a real band.
not for the feint of heart
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I love me some Fucked Up. They even played my old radio station!
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isn’t it ironic?
that is not irony….oh.
Speaking of creeping Canadian culture…how long before Oakland gets one of these places?
oh… canada.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/parents-outraged-after-puppets-sing-prison-bitch-to-children-at-montreal-festival
http://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/toronto-fc-apologise-after-banner-depicting-sex-act-is-waved-in-crowd/93330
The A’s need to go 15-22 to finish at my prediction of 68-94, same as last year. I looked back to the night when Reddick got hurt, which I think is when they fell into the swirling vortex (granted Gray had some crappy starts before then; Hill still had two more starts before heading to the DL). They are 34-50 starting on the night of Reddick’s injury which is a .4048 pace. 15-22 would be a .4054 pace the rest of the way. If you’re looking for consistency, Vince, that would be it. I guess if anything, given where the starting pitching is now I might bump it up to about 96 losses. I don’t think they can get to 100 losses (9-28).
Checking the details of Coco’s vesting option I found that:
i) he’s not the first MLB player called Coco.
ii) Sabathia’s $25M option vests if he does not end season on DL with shoulder injury or miss 45+ games due to shoulder injury, so the Yankees are most likely screwed – huzzah!
Silly power
Salazar is showing a lot of sanitary under those stirrups.
I’m for it
I noticed a Cleveland OF last night had really high stirrups going on, like in Little League when we’d cut the stirrup bottom and stitch on elastic to get even higher.
FK YEAH! WALK!
can anyone get a visual on valencia’s shoes?
Looked Nikeish to me.
Since they seem to be using “Join the Party” as an advertising tagline for 2017 season tickets, I hope they get the rights to use a few bars of “The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion” in the commercials.
Join the Party lends itself to some awesome sign possibilities.
Render in green not red, swap the hammer and sickle with the A’s logo. Doolittle as Castro, Sonny as Lenin, Dull as Marx, and, I dunno, Eric Sogard as Mao. Stalin would be Lew Wolff, of course.
Angry Danny is playing his best ball of the season.
danny’s got a gun
this gives me the sads.
As an ex-longhair myself I approve.
serious question? Are the Clevelands any good?
They just lost to the A’s 9-1 so probably not
Thanks, and go As.
Evidence is mounting that they are bad.
Obligatory:
whats thematta with maddy?
can’t his a 5 run home run Rajai
Apparently we have a pitcher named Chris Smith.
who?
The Oakland Athletics. They are a baseball team.
They have uniforms and everything!
We had a Chad Smith. Is the store brand version of that?
Enjoy your weekly serving of Victory Cabbage!
So far I’m still staving off the scurvy.
Double portion. I’m stuffed.
Fisher sighting!
He’s too shy shy, “hush-hush” eye to eye
My first thought after seeing this comment was “wait, were Kajagoogoo from Canada?”
About this…
I’ll give them less attractive, but is that area particularly dangerous?
Also, the direct route to Warrantless Wiretap Park, along 2nd Street, is still not particularly attractive, and was probably even less so pre-WWP being constructed there.
Also
That could very easily be changed. There’s a ferry terminal right there, and a fleet of shuttle buses at West Oakland Bart would have people at the park in five minutes.
sure. if you’re coming from SF that could work.
but if you’re coming from the north bay, a fleet of shuttle buses at 12th street bart would have people at the park in five minutes.
otoh if you’re coming from the south, a fleet of shuttle buses at lake merritt bart would have people at the park in five minutes.
but if you’re parked in the uptown area, yeah, you’d definitely be locked into the free shuttle in that scenario.
i mean, if you’re not taking amtrak itself.
the options are limited people!
The story is really aggravating. Saying “Howard Terminal is a mile from the closest BART station, at 12th Street and Broadway downtown” as if that’s a bad thing while leaving out that there are actually *two* BART stations within a mile and cropping the map exactly at the point that leaves West Oakland out…it’s just not an honest presentation.
Matier and Ross have a severe SF-slant. It’s too much to expect them to do actual hard work (you know, like looking at a map) on a story about Oakland.
Please, the story is about the Giants. Not the A’s or Oakland. Why would they need to know anything about that other place beyond their pretty city.
*three* though.
but it’s all slanted. “warehouse district.” i guess you can say that about SoHo too technically… but not really a lot of warehousing going on in JLS anymore. (the produce distributors are still there, but it’s so fucking quaint it might as well be an after-the-game attraction.) and lots of new fancy residence buildings now and arriving.
i mean, directions to howard could sound something like this: go down broadway, turn left at steph curry’s old apartment, if you have time but don’t want to see if there’s a sale at bed bath and beyotch, maybe catch the early set at yoshi’s…
the one landmark that’s iffy is OPD right in the middle of that walk. but they’re never there. prolly at some underage sex-worker’s place…
also, if you hover on howard terminal in google maps, PREDICTIVE PHOTO??
!!!
Lake Merritt’s more like a mile and a half walk according to google. But I think West Oakland is actually closer than 12th Street.
yeah, WO is the closest (distances to the three stations are 1.0, 1.1, and 1.4 miles), but not every A’s fan lives in SF…
my lake merritt thought was actually about your shuttle idea. that it’d be less disruptive to have the route go to that plaza by the college, than try and go up broadway to 12th.
Not every A’s fan lives in SF. Just the coolest ones.
I originally thought of WO both because of proximity and because it would be a much easier shuttle spot than 12th. But yeah, Lake Merritt also.
right?
it’s probably the fog.
related.
lake merrit is not really far off either
But, but, Oakland has a bunch of “them” over there.
right, they aren’t in SF anymore
I recall the area on that side of the Skyway being a bleak no-man’s land 20 years ago, and even when the park first opened 21st Amendment was one of the few signs of life down there. It changed very quickly.
Regardless of the current safety of it, that’s a pretty minor thing in the greater scheme of things. An unsafe mile can be made safe. The real issues are the site itself and the vehicular entry/exit. I can easily see cars piling into the maze.
no.
and anybody who thinks it is, hasn’t been there in at least 3 years.
yeah, fuck those guys. I just walked it, its no different from 3rd or 4th. and much shorter.
and no more dangerous than 3rd and branan
Cleveland announcer currently talking about this.
is the warrior thing a done deal? I though we could still kill it
All you gotta do to get it is be a lesbian and want to be a farmer and they’ll set you up
Factcheck: True
Uh, how do you share full blame?
Thanks, and go As.
100-100
Thanks, and go As.
Oh cool.
We have a new leader in the Worst Ballpark Name standings.
I still want the Coli to be renamed the American Standard Stadium. With Mount Davis and the bowl shape, it already looks like a toilet, so let’s fucking OWN that shit.
Not one of those fancy Japanese talking toilets either. A good old american shitter.
So no fireworks to simulate a bidet when the A’s hit a home run?
When a big shit gets launched out of the ASS, you damn well better believe there would be fireworks!
a giant lighter rises over mount davis and shoots a massive flame
isn’t that a budwiser or miller campaign?
“we don’t worry about “taste” or ‘quality” we brew beer”
I mean, quicken loan center? eesh
Yeah that’s pretty bad.
University of Phoenix Stadium annoys me too.
For some years the NHL’s Florida Panthers played in the National Car Rental Center.
A minor league hockey team, the Missouri Mavericks, calls Silverstein Eye Centers Arena its home.
I was very disappointed to find out that Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati is not a brag — it’s naming rights for Great American Insurance Company.
Can’t forget Smoothie King Arena either.
let us not forget enron and pro player
I wont lie, I liked the name Pacific Bell park. Though I thought they should have a bell somewhere.
Well that’s a first. Never seen a ball hit that thing.
what it hit?
A hidden pole behind the rightfield wall, in front of the steps. It bounced directly off the top of this pole and back into play, making it look until replay like it had come off the top of the fence and stayed in the yard.
Coco with the DNP today, reducing his Magic Number to 5 DNPs with 35 games remaining.
here is where I am calling bullshit.
anyone else and he is a defensive replacement.
Day game after night game, 5-1 win, and he’s not very good on defense. Why would they put him in?
Thanks, and go As.
Thinking about putting together the next contender in Oakland with emphasis on the younger players who might contribute, with a month to go I guess we would have to say Graveman has been the most positive story of the season. Some of us were maybe considering giving up on him three months ago, but he looks like he can fit into the middle of a contending rotation. Manaea has also shown well in spite of being rushed, and in the bullpen Dull has slipped some in the second half but has been a pretty big plus overall this year.
On the position player side it’s harder to find anything positive. Semien has established himself as a major league player though I still tend toward Robin Younting him into the outfield at the first opportunity. Healy shows some promise with the SSS caveat. What else is there? A bunch of journeymen. Khris Davis is Cust without the OBP; he provides some exciting moments for a crappy team but I don’t see him contributing on a contender.
I have yet to see a good explanation for Gray’s implosion, and Hahn’s disappearance might be the biggest disappointment of all relative to expectations.
Rich Hill turned out to be a solid investment, and we had to endure zero plate appearances from Fuld and Sogard (though Burns did a nice job of upholding that tradition).
Not very inspiring in the highs minors either. Matt Chapman’s a little interesting, Barreto should be OK, and Bruce Maxwell could be something, but the rest of the position players have been god awful. I sure hope some of the pitchers pan out or else this franchise is deeply screwed for a good while.
I have an irrational like for Maxwell’s catching. I don’t know if its well founded.
a real positive for me is detaching from irrational attachment to sonny gray.
a good to great firt half from him and we return the favor on the cubs
apparently, the first known photo of someone giving the finger was a pre-game portrait of the boston beaneaters and the new york giants.
yes it was a guy from boston doing it. and although he’s pointing it at the camera, you gotta suspect he meant it for his rivals that day. if for nothing else than, because fuck the giants.
Pretty sure that I’ve heard that it is Old Hoss himself.
:)
asvd
she writes up a nice grill about once a week and sends it in an email to subscribers.
http://tinyletter.com/cdewey
Shiiittt…I read the first paragraph at least.
We did not win enough for the Rzepper.
Schrocking.
Eyechart didn’t even distinguish himself enough to get me to learn to spell his name.
When you go to the 2016 A’s B-R page and see the photos of the top 12 by WAR, Rzep’s smiling mug is on there. A few who aren’t: Coco ($11M), Butler ($10M), Lowrie ($7.5M) and Axford ($4.5M).
yay?
It was the Max we could hope for.
The artist’s renderings here are hilarious. Especially the 60 foot Al Davis memorial inferno.
87%. A perfectly cromulent score if I do say so myself.
http://vocabulary.ugent.be/
90%, and no false positives!
74% for me. I was being overly cautious about false positives (still got 3% though). If I knew how the scoring worked, I would have been more aggressive on some of those.
I also got an 87, helped along by one of the words I got being “boob”.
LOL Man City
Group A: Paris Saint-Germain, Arsenal, Basel, Ludogorets
Group B: Benfica, Napoli, Dynamo Kyiv, Besiktas
Group C: Barcelona, Manchester City, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Celtic
Group D: Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid, PSV Eindhoven, FC Rostov
Group E: CSKA Moscow, Bayer Leverkusen, Tottenham Hotspur, Monaco
Group F: Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Sporting Lisbon, Legia Warsaw
Group G: Leicester, Porto, Club Brugge, FC Copenhagen
Group H: Juventus, Sevilla, Lyon, Dinamo Zagreb
LOL Brendan Rodgers.
Damn. Leicester actually has a pretty good draw and chance to get out of the group stage. Love it.
I hope M’Gladbach gets out over City.
Spurs got a pretty good draw too.
Thanks, and go As.
Well Fuck. I think it’s time to say goodbye to my Bronte. Why the hell can’t they live as long as parrots?
Boo! Sorry to hear that.
Damn … really sorry.
Oh sweetie. Very sorry. You’ve had a lot of great time together.
We have! She just turned 13, so she’s an old gal. I’m trying to look at it that we gave her back to Canine Companions when she was 18 months old, and then when she was released from their service dog program 7 months later, we got a gift of 11 more years with her that we didn’t think we’d have.
This weekend I’ll love her like crazy, spoil her like crazy, and load her up on all the pain meds we’ve got in the house.
Cancer can go jump in a lake.
:(
I’m crying now.
Thanks, and go As.
so sorry.
I’m so sorry. Not a good weekend assignment at all.
Weird play in Mets-Cardinals. Yoenis was clearly tagged out on the foot going first to third, but Wainright’s glove got caught between Yo’s spikes and the bag, and it came off when he pulled his hand away after the tag. Called safe on the field, confirmed on replay.
just confirmed my third trial of the month. starting monday.
my head hurts
man at some point they’ll just say you’re innocent, right?
Thanks, and go As.
Not if he hangs the jury…
Your clients aren’t in the mood for plea deals?
nope. and I am not in the mood to roll them
Hey Fkers,
Nurse Upgrade and I are having our annual end-of-the-summer picnic party at Tilden Park on Sunday, from 11 am to 4 pm. Grilling hot dogs and eating cupcakes and playing games and such. Friends and family most welcome. It’s at Tilden’s Fern picnic site, not too far from the merry-go-round:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fern+Picnic+Area/@37.9027773,-122.2604156,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80857bfbde2111ef:0xb56d02623c16f342!8m2!3d37.9027773!4d-122.2582216
It’s no tailgate party, sure. But at least you won’t be forced to watch the A’s. Hope to see some of you there.
I’m bringing a keg!
Whoo hoo!
that sounds delightful, but I am doing other “end of the summer” activities with east bayers (Malcom X elementary represent)
We’re in. We’ll bring a side plus stuff for grillage.
Yay!
“His health is excellent, especially his mental health”
SEEMS LEGIT
Dude
I bet Donald likes him because he gives out wollipops.
but this is like a week old. i feel like you’re not keeping up with the podcasts.
What a quack.
Cross between Dr. Nick Riviera and the Big Lebowski.
Well if it isn’t my old friend Mr. McGreg, with a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg!
…and the wristwatch’s connected to my bev’rage.
uh oh.
Surely this person committed some kind of criminal act here.
Performance “artist” – that’s a crime right there.
its called bowling