Back in the Pacific Daylight Time zone. Will try to get a tailgate planning post up later today, amid unpacking, laundry, and catching up on Game of Thrones. But clear your Saturday schedules, my FKing amigos.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
This could be Bob Melvin’s 1000th career win. I think we forgot to honor his 1000th career loss. It was the night Mike Foltynewicz took a no-hitter into the 9th inning.
This road trip was the other one that showed up on the radar over the winter, especially after Phish announced the MSG shows. When I got out the calculator and saw how much New York-Toronto-New York (return for Phish) was going to cost, I went for Florida. This and the Florida road trip have been about the same from the baseball point of view. At least I didn’t end up sitting in the Skydome mad at myself for going there instead of MSG.
I had to look up “Shake Your Coconuts” by Junior Senior and “White Winter Hymnal” by Fleet Foxes. I’m recording all that for beach listening in Hawaii in February.
How Priebus learned he'd been fired: “Priebus, Miller and Scavino loaded into one Suburban. Moments later, Miller and Scavino got out.” pic.twitter.com/nSzGkyiy8s
Mr. Scaramucci this week gave a profanity-laced interview to the New Yorker magazine in which he disparaged Mr. Priebus and other top staffers. One adviser who has spoken with the president said Mr. Trump was dismissive of Mr. Priebus for not returning fire.
I pay good money to see our brave men in blue enforce the rules. If you don’t want to be ejected, don’t disobey an order. Plus I’m pretty sure he was reaching in his waistband.
I was thinking the same. I’m always anti-tanking, I just enjoy a winning day much more than I value the marginal draft gain. But letting the kids pitch and hit 6-8 innings of winning baseball before the pen gags it up is not such a bad outcome.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
There is not a single republican senator on the floor advocating for this flaming pile of a bill they made public an hour ago. Instead, Sen. Enzi of Wyoming is up there filibustering away the Republicans’ hour of debate and condescendingly refusing to yield to questions, while talking about how bad single payor would be. I feel like punching something.
Well they are clear to vote on this thing now, having had the debate and rejected the motion to recommit. But they are not voting. Seems the votes are not in the bag yet.
Word from Congressional reporters is that McCain is getting lobbied by Pence on the floor. Drama.
Yeah, but they never would have taken the vote in the first place then. They wouldn’t have even taken the vote on the motion to proceed. They would have just “delayed” the vote until McCain was well enough to return once it became clear Murkowski was gone.
By coming back, McCain maximized the embarrassment to McConnell.
The thing that blows my mind is that Heller still voted yes. He has agency, and he played himself, but it’s still remarkable that McConnell asked him to take that vote even knowing that McCain was planning to sink the thing. The only explanation I can come up with is that McConnell thinks Heller is a goner either way and so just doesn’t care.
Jacky Rosen seems to have emerged as Team Blue’s challenger to Heller. As far as a challenge from the right in the GOP primary (which Heller’s vote was intended to stave off), Adam Laxalt seems intent on running for governor, and the only other name I’ve seen floated is perennial loser Danny Tarkanian, who has never had much going for him other than Dad’s name in Las Vegas.
Another one that has gone to six different IPAs. KISS and don’t make me try to figure out the difference between “Best Coast IPA” and “Foraging Raccoon IPA” (tastes like a garbage can?). Stone and Coronado are a couple other breweries who are guilty of this.
In beer nerdiness, I spent 40 minutes today lined up outside Tree House Brewing to buy the max allotment of 14 cans. Their new brewery is about five minutes away from where my in-laws live. I just cracked open a Doppelganger and I think it’s going to FK me up.
Going to the scheduling rules, this is the part that eliminates the night game on the East Coast followed by a game in Oakland the next night:
For the 2018 championship season, the latest possible start time for getaway games on days when the visiting Club travels to a home off-day or either Club travels to another game the following day shall be determined by taking the portion of the in-flight time that exceeds 2-1/2 hours, and subtracting that amount of time from 7 P.M. However, the foregoing sentence shall not apply to getaway games that are broadcast on ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball”; getaway games played in Arlington, Texas after June 1 (unless the Texas Rangers move to a climate-controlled home ballpark), or rescheduled games.
There’s a chart on the final page that lists the travel time for every city combination, and several from the East Coast to Oakland exceed 5 hours, so that basically means the game on the East Coast must start no later than 4 p.m/4:10/whatever Eastern time.
Opening Day: 2018 and 2020 in Asia (apparently ex-Japan), 2019 in Japan
Mexico: 6 series, one in each April from 2018-2021, plus one in May in 2019 and 2021
Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic: in May 2018 and May 2020 (May 2018 has already been announced, Indians-Twins in Puerto Rico)
United Kingdom: June 2019 and June 2020
The 2017 World Baseball Classic is listed, but there’s a conspicuous blank space where you’d expect to see it in 2021. I hadn’t heard that it had been abolished, so maybe its renewal is open to discussion. I hope it’s gone.
Well that’s just a great throw and tag. Damn it.
Crazy turf bounce gets us a run.
Hopefully in the next couple years they’ll get grass in there.
Well that was a lovely play.
This is looking like a multi-Smith game.
Glen thinks so too, since he just called our left fielder that.
it is!
Chapman. Yay.
Chapman .214/.273/.529, 109 wRC+
Pinder .234/.289/.490, 106
Healy .264/.298/.483, 108
Olson .196/.317/.451, 109
The A’s really are trying to build an offense around solo dingers.
214/273/529 109 and my heart
I love this email I got from Downtown Subaru of Oakland today.
I’m going to guess they’re not really A’s fans.
I drove all the way there expecting to meet Hugh Laurie.
why would brett lawrie be in oakland?
Turns out I was 53 years too late to meet Peter Lorre.
I didn’t know subaru sold lorries
red subaru yellow subaru.
I’d like to reiterate that I’m sick to death of Axford and would love to see him get DFA’d.
speaking of canada, ed bait.
she doesn’t think she is a star
finally got to this episode. jesus, he’s a bad interviewer. constantly stepping on her answers 3 words in with chris farley enthusiasm.
i hopped in the car today and i heard janet reno denying having colluded with russia
then rodney dangerfield one-linered some boy scouts to a frenzy.
Back in the Pacific Daylight Time zone. Will try to get a tailgate planning post up later today, amid unpacking, laundry, and catching up on Game of Thrones. But clear your Saturday schedules, my FKing amigos.
Welcome back!
the names have all changed
Up your nose with a rubber hose, Ed.
The A’s just tweeted the lineup for tonight, and then retracted it.
Trade announcement coming?
Sonny the scheduled starter…
Nope. Rajai in, Brugman out (sore neck).
Sonny, Yonder, and Jed all still in.
accordingg to buck martinez, one of the scouts s steve balboni, representing the giants. I assume, that’s just an advance scout
accordingg to buck martinez, one of the scouts s steve balboni, representing the giants. I assume, that’s just an advance scout
probably a twins advance scout as well
If the trade market is like a beauty contest, that inning Sonny wanted no part of Miss Congeniality.
Aced the talent competition, then blew the interview.
Should have traded him after the first inning.
I voted against the motion to proceed to the second inning.
Send Melvin to get him from the mound in a reverse-Canseco.
6 innings, 9 Ks 2 BBs, 5 hits, 103 pitches. Someone will trade their kids for that.
no problem liam. every reliever faces 5 batters and throws 39 pitches
I kinda know this guy and he is nice, I would have enjoyed this anyway
This could be Bob Melvin’s 1000th career win. I think we forgot to honor his 1000th career loss. It was the night Mike Foltynewicz took a no-hitter into the 9th inning.
I’ve seen Rosales in the dugout several times tonight. In July he has played in 4 games with 15 PA. That is the perfect rate of usage for him.
Slusser
Oh please oh please oh please
Pinder making another start for Nashville tonight, while Rosales starts for Oakland.
That seems subobtimal.
One last home start for Rosales. Bob’s got a sentimental streak.
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT CASILLA WHY CAN’T YOU BE THE ONE WITH VISA PROBLEMS GETTING INTO CANADA
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
So FKing predictable.
unsurprising casilla inning is unsurprising.
morales’ teeammates should be more careful with him at home plate
i am totally at peace with this. Everytime actually, when Jario is called in
It’s already a loss in my mind as soon as he gets up to throw. The rest is a formality.
I would be at peace with it if they hadn’t given him a two-year deal.
This road trip was the other one that showed up on the radar over the winter, especially after Phish announced the MSG shows. When I got out the calculator and saw how much New York-Toronto-New York (return for Phish) was going to cost, I went for Florida. This and the Florida road trip have been about the same from the baseball point of view. At least I didn’t end up sitting in the Skydome mad at myself for going there instead of MSG.
I had to look up “Shake Your Coconuts” by Junior Senior and “White Winter Hymnal” by Fleet Foxes. I’m recording all that for beach listening in Hawaii in February.
I think this is the “communications director” publicly trying to get the “chief of staff” arrested?
Hilarious
“I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock.”
It’s like the country is being run by a bunch of guys on week-long coke binges.
Will he do the fandango?
I can’t stop asking myself this.
Well, his ass just got fired. Maybe he’ll get a change on Dancing With The Stars.
yeahno.
scaramucci is milo in drag.
So close
speaking of cameos…
The very best people.
dudes, clear mah twitter, at least for the hour
Makes you long for the days of good old drunks in charge.
“paranoiac.”
that’s like, man, one-upping on sabbath.
I think we can now declare the winner and the loser in that one.
mafia style
This rings true.
USA!
i take this to mean it’s time to light ganja.
what the? you can’t kick out a national treasure. actually do pay just to see him play
I pay good money to see our brave men in blue enforce the rules. If you don’t want to be ejected, don’t disobey an order. Plus I’m pretty sure he was reaching in his waistband.
Honestly, this only burnishes his legacy.
Yup.
Axford DFA is the other thing.
crap this should have had axfords dfa too
The Jays starting battery just got tossed for arguing balls and strikes.
@GM: Setting the stage for moar Smith!
Casilla has screwed the bullpen up so badly that now no one can close.
what’s in a name?
I saw the final score, and there’s only one possible game-ending play to create that. I was really hoping it was Casilla again.
Sagh.
This bullpen is a very good undercover tanking mechanism.
I was thinking the same. I’m always anti-tanking, I just enjoy a winning day much more than I value the marginal draft gain. But letting the kids pitch and hit 6-8 innings of winning baseball before the pen gags it up is not such a bad outcome.
Totally unrelated to anything: is there any sort of global MLB spray chart anywhere? 2 co workers are arguing over if more hits are to LF or RF.
disregard-found it
What’s the answer??
The answer is yes, there is a global MLB spray chart.
Thanks, and go As.
answer is at least here.
I just…what are we doing here, people?
Well if the Hill says so then it *must* be true.
Lefties have hit .306/.386/.453 against Treinen for his career.
ROOGYs are the new market inefficiency.
There is not a single republican senator on the floor advocating for this flaming pile of a bill they made public an hour ago. Instead, Sen. Enzi of Wyoming is up there filibustering away the Republicans’ hour of debate and condescendingly refusing to yield to questions, while talking about how bad single payor would be. I feel like punching something.
He’s gone full Abe Simpson now, going off on random tangents about medical inventions. This is ridiculous.
Well they are clear to vote on this thing now, having had the debate and rejected the motion to recommit. But they are not voting. Seems the votes are not in the bag yet.
Word from Congressional reporters is that McCain is getting lobbied by Pence on the floor. Drama.
“McConnell and Co. might have counted their chickens before they hatched.” —nate
hope that quote is still valid in the morning. ‘night.
“who’s playing 17-dimensional chess *now,* motherfuckers??!!” —mccain
Of course, to preserve cred he had to agree to vote for it first.
my guess is he went there thinkng they would amend the bill to be something he could live with. I don’t think he thought much about the sknny bill.
then when the members wanted a guarantees that the skinny bill would not get out of conference, he and other republicans decided he would vote no.
him being a diva decided to do it dramatically
And now we’re voting.
i don’t like
Murkowski voted no.
So if I’m understanding this right, they hauled McCain across the country to Do The Bernie, and it backfired on them.
Wouldn’t it have failed 49-50 without him anyway?
Yeah, but they never would have taken the vote in the first place then. They wouldn’t have even taken the vote on the motion to proceed. They would have just “delayed” the vote until McCain was well enough to return once it became clear Murkowski was gone.
By coming back, McCain maximized the embarrassment to McConnell.
Yes, taking the vote and getting 51 noes rather than 50 is calamity.
The thing that blows my mind is that Heller still voted yes. He has agency, and he played himself, but it’s still remarkable that McConnell asked him to take that vote even knowing that McCain was planning to sink the thing. The only explanation I can come up with is that McConnell thinks Heller is a goner either way and so just doesn’t care.
Jacky Rosen seems to have emerged as Team Blue’s challenger to Heller. As far as a challenge from the right in the GOP primary (which Heller’s vote was intended to stave off), Adam Laxalt seems intent on running for governor, and the only other name I’ve seen floated is perennial loser Danny Tarkanian, who has never had much going for him other than Dad’s name in Las Vegas.
Here we go. Heller has his reward for his doomed vote.
(starts chewing on towel) (link to Adelson News)
bonkers
TRY AGAIN, MITCH
Schumer cutting off the celebrating
wow. maybe he isnt stupd
Man, he’s up there whining about the Democrats now. Pathetic.
lets see if they have any ideas
Craft malt liquor?
Another one that has gone to six different IPAs. KISS and don’t make me try to figure out the difference between “Best Coast IPA” and “Foraging Raccoon IPA” (tastes like a garbage can?). Stone and Coronado are a couple other breweries who are guilty of this.
The racoon is the only predator of the sculpin, so when Ballast Point sold out Foraging Racoon was Drake’s response.
But yes, that is 2 west coast IPAs, 2 double IPAs, 2 session IPAs, and 1 specialty IPA.
Of course the BJCP guidelines do now recognize 8 different subdivisions of American IPA.
In beer nerdiness, I spent 40 minutes today lined up outside Tree House Brewing to buy the max allotment of 14 cans. Their new brewery is about five minutes away from where my in-laws live. I just cracked open a Doppelganger and I think it’s going to FK me up.
Now I have beer envy … I’d love to get my hands on some Tree House.
When you boil it down, this is pretty much the core of Trumpism.
on the other hand…
HE LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE LEO.
What??? No.
This.
ok, a little less hair, grimace left instead of right, but…
For your PDF reference shelf, and some enjoyable summer beach reading, the 2017-2021 CBA has now been made available.
Going to the scheduling rules, this is the part that eliminates the night game on the East Coast followed by a game in Oakland the next night:
There’s a chart on the final page that lists the travel time for every city combination, and several from the East Coast to Oakland exceed 5 hours, so that basically means the game on the East Coast must start no later than 4 p.m/4:10/whatever Eastern time.
And all you Bay Area residents will be delighted to know that per that chart the official travel time from Oakland to San Francisco is one minute.
Took me an hour and a half to go the 14 miles from SF (the tendernob) home to Berkeley, starting at 2 PM the other day.
I used to be one never to bemoan traffic, but it has gotten FKing ridiculous.
Wait until the A’s try to build a new stadium next to the Maze. That’ll be “fun”
Hyperloop
It took Scotty almost that long to warm up the Transporter.
43 years ago I took a flight from SFO to Oakland. They never bothered to put the wheels up.
The international series are:
Opening Day: 2018 and 2020 in Asia (apparently ex-Japan), 2019 in Japan
Mexico: 6 series, one in each April from 2018-2021, plus one in May in 2019 and 2021
Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic: in May 2018 and May 2020 (May 2018 has already been announced, Indians-Twins in Puerto Rico)
United Kingdom: June 2019 and June 2020
The 2017 World Baseball Classic is listed, but there’s a conspicuous blank space where you’d expect to see it in 2021. I hadn’t heard that it had been abolished, so maybe its renewal is open to discussion. I hope it’s gone.
great week to be joe