season is over, Yay for Josh. Fuck you tyler and Luke. But josh, just…no.
Can’t take photos in the clubhouse but rest assured Reddick has the Stars and Stripes Speedo on again and it’s still a little disturbing.
— Alyson Footer (@alysonfooter) November 2, 2017
First order of business, Justin upton signs extension with the California Angels.
5 years. Keeps trout in center for 18, 19, and 20 so that is a piece of good news.
Lowrie and Kotsay are back! A’s exercise Jed Lowrie’s contract option for 2018 and name Mark Kotsay major league quality control coach. pic.twitter.com/4dSF6FZh6t
— Oakland A’s ?????????? (@Athletics) November 2, 2017
I wanted to put more stiff in but am tired
I would like to hear more about what a quality control coach does.
inspects garments.
I would like to hear more about Ed’s plan to put more stiff in.
that was the most ED sentence i’ve read all week.
Maybe this is part of it?
that does not look stable
You should see it in the summer.
That’s not snow.
Great story about the importance of baseball in molding the nation of Palau.
deadspin.com/greetings-from-palau-the-micronesian-archipelago-that-1819864501
Also cool: the name of their Congress translates to House of Whispers
Shhh
Anibal Godoy re-signed, which is huge. He’s the rock in the defensive midfield, I’m actually looking forward to seeing him play with Panama in the WC.
Andres Imperiale is close to being re-signed, which is pretty good because he provides depth at CB, though he’s probably not starting caliber.
Cordell Cato is apparently gone, which is no real loss. He basically deserted the team and the T&T National Team and didn’t really even play at all the 2nd half of the season. More importantly, for me, is to get rid of Simon Dawkins, who also disappeared but took up a DP slot. The rumor is he’s still got a year left on his contract, but they need to agree on a mutual termination. The guy didn’t even make the gameday 18.
My other wish is that they let Darwin Ceren go. IMO, Florian Jungwirth is a better option at CDM anyway, which is his preferred spot, and Harold Cummings being healthy will give us the big CB in the middle to let Flo move up to mid. Along with that, I think Fatai Alashe needs to be permanently converted to CB as well. Leitch seems to prefer 3 at the back, whether 3-5-2 or 3-4-3, so essentially we’re gonna need 3 CBs.
Lima being healthy takes care of the RWB spot, but LWB is going to be the key aquisition this offseason. Shea Salinas is a decent MLS player, but we just have to do better than that.
Fixing the defense has to be the priority. There’s enough attacking firepower in Wondo, Vako, Hoesen, Urena, and Hyka, along with Tommy and Yueill as midfield creators. The back line was just awful and leaked goals like crazy, which should be Fioranelli’s focus.
Oh… you guys meant BASEBALL postseason?
Thanks, and go As.
offseason?
boca has 21 points over the first 7 games of the season and the superclásico is this sunday.
MLS schedule is dumb.
Thanks, and go As.
24 over 8? boca may never lose (nor tie) again.
Patrice Evra just got sent off before Marseille’s Europa League game even started for a Cantona-kick at one of his own team’s fans.
Cantona scoffs at going in with only one foot.
“The haymakers didn’t start raining down until the security staff ushered the pretty boys out of the venue and onto Church St.”
…but why male models?
Thanks, and go As.
Someone’s blue steel face got dissed, I’m guessing.
This guy is truly special. He spent the entire day testifying without a lawyer, and yet did this!
Looking to put an addition on the Bill King Deck, Soaker?
You could probably pull about 3 or 4 seats worth of those splinters out of my butt cheeks.
It’s November, so it’s time to start crushing the raised hopes of Buffalo Bills fans.
Sounds about right.
What a shitshow:
– League-leading +14 in turnovers on the year before last night. -3 last night (all fumbles trying to get extra yardage at the end of plays). That’s usually enough to lose to anyone right there.
– 11 penalties for 99 yards, including 4 personal fouls.
– Offensive line got whipped. 63 rushing yards (more than half by the QB) and 7 sacks. After 166 rushing yards, 0 sacks against Oakland on Sunday.
– Defensive line got whipped. 194 rushing yards allowed. Only allowed 54 against Oakland on Sunday.
On to the bargaining stage:
5-3 now, 4 games left against good teams (NO, KC, NE x2) and 4 against bad teams (Indy, LAC, Miami x2). 9-7 could make the playoffs in the AFC, but they can’t afford another performance like that in one of the winnable games. Might well be too much to ask.
Good to see that things are getting back to normal
Great headline. (And author’s name)
(Semi-NSFW: picture of streaker from behind)
Nathan Peterman to the rescue! So much for the Tyrod Taylor Era.
All our problems are solved!
That worked out GREAT.
Peterman’s QB Rating
To Bills: 6/14 for 66 yards 0 TD 5 INT is a rating of 17.86
To Chargers: 5/14 for 84 yards 1 TD 6 INT is a rating of 41.0
Thanks, and go As.
So the guy actually only had three incomplete passes whole night, give him a break
Good-night, sweet prince
WtF is that site?
buy sam fuld’s favorite gaming console! and water bottle! and those tiny socks!
This is one weird David Brooks column.
lol
Left handed pen option?
Thanks, and go As.
it won’t stop bugging me that i can’t tell if the polybius conspiracy podcast has an asshole for a main character and/or is a work of undisclosed fiction.
the butterfly effect’s 1st episode is all sorts of promising though. how some dude turned the youtube of illegal porn uploads into the monolithic pornpire we live with today. salient point for the day: a female porn star can’t open a bank account because, you know, ill repute, but this guy gets teens of millions of bucks from an investor to buy out the porn competition he undermined.
guys we fucked is ending?? i think that’s what they’re saying? i feel like it’s been a long time since that cry we all had over getting dumped at a fucking panera, and they’ve sure come a long way. i’ll just fave the (not unrelated to ¶ above) stoya epp and check in whenever i need to. and maybe in time i’ll hear which is who? (i mixed up the hostesses’ voices early on and never did straighten it out.)
the guys of 80s all over are fair in general, but they sure are lenient with crappy horror/fantasy movies and don’t extend the same courtesy to dialog-driven stuff that’s not weighty. (i’m saying they all laughed > dragonslayer, all day every day… but i’m not signing up on twitter just to tell them that.) still, nice to relive a chronological catalog of releases over the decade.
crooked media has a new title. though lovett and cox won’t be replaced as gold and silver medalists on the podium of my heart.
accused has a new season that i’ve been saving for a nice gray saturday (like tomorrow).
jim clemente still gets mad on anything he’s on.
brian mcmullen reading his full list of not-yet-dot-coms on the organist is still a more entertaining way to go to sleep than tracks to relax with that smug-sounding hypnotist.
and that’s your podcast catchup for the month.
Three new Crooked Bro podcasts launched today. I don’t know how you are going to keep on top of this.
3? i’m only seeing 1 new, majority54. crooked conversations came out last week. what am i missing?
the way i’m keeping up is by being quick to dump stuff off my list. the 45th didn’t survive last week. too much conjecture.
but yeah, i’m fighting a daily losing battle to get my unlistened epps down below 70.
Looks like the other two haven’t dropped just yet.
awesome.
forgot to mention preet’s podcast. it’s pretty good. loved the getting fired story he lays out on the first epp.
Preet’s episode with the PSA dudes is good.
yeah, i started yesterday. meant to finish today. gotta take care of a couple emergency flynncasts tho.
btw, the polybius conspiracy one was indeed undisclosed fiction. not cool, radiotopia. not cool.
Slate just started a podcast about what it was like to live through Watergate called “Slow Burn.” It has potential.
really like how slow burn weaves in narrative, interview and primary source audio.
also love the movie filk at the beginning of every intercepted. had to look up today’s because i’ve never seen the room. i guess the burn is on sarah’s hair style? scahill… gad he’s odd. pre-teen temperament with peak journalist chops. or something.
the new 30 for 30 is about madden the game, but has some nice uncredited bill king audio at the beginning. didn’t finish the epp though, what with its going on and on and on about football and video games.
i’m really missing embedded and not sure why it’s lagging with new installments. the one on trump soho is worth a listen.
my new adds are:
family ghosts — tracking down the odd myth told down, or hushed, through generations.
heavywheight — tracking down a crossroads moment in the past of someone’s life.
what really happened — with the two above, kind of a trilogy of past-moments retroxploration. this one about events we all lived through via media, especially if conspiracy theories sprouted out of them.
heaven’s gate (or did i already mention heaven’s gate?) — the guy from snap judgment goes deep into the cult, as a former (different) cult member himself.
intelligence matters — kinda like pod save the world but with michael morell of the CIA interviewing other intelligence peeps.
was this always weird? — looking at movies from pre-2000 through the eyes of 4 semi-woke millennial dudes who aren’t super sharp on history. like, they like rock n roll highschool, even if all the songs sound the same, are down with riff rydell for being so cool, but would probably date kate who’s so fine even with the big glasses on, and don’t get how eating goldfish is funny, till one of them says i think it was a fad? like in the 70s? (full disclosure, i’ve eaten a goldfish myself, but not during the 1939 gulping fad.)
majority 54 is going ok. waiting for a breakout epp.
the host of the upcoming girls just wanna have pod is really funny and sharp in the pod save live shows, so i can’t wait for that. (hate it that i missed the oakland show. waited too long and the only available tickets were just a little too much.)
movie crush — one guy from stuff you should know talking to semi-celebs about their favorite movie. iono. hit or miss.
politico’s off message — more politico.
accused 2nd season — can’t keep the details of the crime in my head all the time, but the one guy is like listening to omar from the wire, if omar was straight and pimp-curious.
amy on the canon dropped my name! or initials, as the case may be. she was riffing on how calling people chicken (back to the future) is an odd big deal, and mentioned going to a boca game at la bonbonera and how she was warned that it could be fatal to call someone a chicken there. she got the reason a little off. it’s ok, because i went on their forum and straightened it out. so she thanked me. now i’m pod famous.
I think it’s time for an AV podcast….about podcasts.
well, it’s the only thing i do have some genuine knowledge of at the moment.
however, as they say, podcasts are like opinions, everybody etc etc…
Slow Burn is finished. Highly recommended.
agreed.
and then move on to atlanta monster.
The follow up to the “Butterfly Effect” called “The Last Days of August” is pretty interesting, mostly to listen to Ronson going through his process dealing with a bunch of shady porn characters.
further listening, jon ronson interview on holly randall podcast.
ballad of billy balls, anyone?
absolutely no news from Jane Lee.
journalism!
Thanks, and go As.
“There is no shortage of options in the rotation…” Yes, there’s mediocrity, injury, unready, AAAA, and just plain suck, the A’s are proud to offer them all.
The U.S. president said he could not understand why a country of samurai warriors did not shoot down the missiles, the sources said.
The FKing Giants go NNOB in the fall league. Assholes.
Wait, what?
(Congrats to Korach)
did I miss the information as to why in that article?
THE FKING FOOTBALL. CATCH IT.
They didn’t hear you.
At least Cooper didn’t drop that onside kick.
Almost the whole damn league is mediocre, so who knows, maybe the Raiders make a run, but eking out a win over a crappy Dolphin team ain’t filling me with confidence.
80s shoulder pads are back
]
WC uniforms reveal day is no time for this site to go down.
Yes sergeant
I didn’t see a USA one?
That’s funny cause they actually did leak uniforms.
Thanks, and go As.
USA didn’t get the memo.
we’re doing 80’s shoulders. not 90’s clown.
Ugh. Glad we didn’t qualify.
I’m confused, there is not one outfitter?
the rest of the world believes in free competition rather than a gov’t sanctioned monopoly.
Thanks, and go As.
I don’t know how to react to this. Its sad, for sure. I don’t know why we are surprised by things like this.
Apparently it was his personal plane? IDK.
Thanks, and go As.
http://6abc.com/what-roy-halladay-was-flying/2614449/
Republicans are getting their asses kicked hard tonight.
How hard? Next Virginia state legislature will include a transgender woman and a socialist.
And the trans woman replaces the self-appointed “chief homophobe”
Yeah this is a wave.
I miss the days when you didn’t make your explorer look like a hockey mask
look, i feel like a dick because it’s like the only thing i do here is slightly correct what you say. but this is all sorts of wrong.
an explorer has the flat bottom. this is clearly a dean. and nobody misses the days before eddie van halen.
OTOH, i do appreciate the irony that these kinds of guitars are usually stand-ins for the penis the guitarist wants to advertise he has.
no you are correct.
Does that one have a name?
also, i saw on not gawker a video. she was singing, not playing anything.
poor person’s LJG
that series is called ML i think.
Gives me hope for 2018 and 2020.
But also makes me that much more pissed off about 2016.
16 was like 00 in the sense that the non dem made no fucking sense and the dem was imperfec. things were actually pretty ok so may as well toss the fuckers out!
and both times within 8 months things went to shit. Hopefully we can avoid a 9/11 that will make people circle the wagons for trump.
These people get me.
I am stealing the coffe on the seat idea
First mattresses, now beer
FK ABI.
BeerAdvocate is better than RateBeer anyway.
I’m intrigued by this guy.
Looks like we’ll have an opening at catcher.
that dude is pretty quick on the draw too though
Hey-O!
Slusser with some breaking hot stove scoopage
Sounds like Beane may already be looking to cash in his prospects to contend.
(They also had a conversation with Ichiro’s agent.)
FUCKING SPELLED STANTON WRONG
Thanks, and go As.
Amen.
What do we think it would take to get Yelich? His contract is very nice and he’s only 25.
Barreto + Luzardo + Neuse + Healy? Have to include Puk or Kaprelian?
Yes please
Interesting
in the fire zone? here is a ticket
Holy fuck. Roy Moore is even worse than we knew.
Welp, you are fucked, Republicans.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see a quickie lawsuit over this by the Alabama GOP.
which leaves the republicans candidate-less because of 76-day rule? and what’s the (first) “if” in that tweet? who’s deliberating on whether to withdraw nomination or not?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/09/the-gops-roy-moore-and-steve-bannon-nightmare-just-came-true/?utm_term=.4eac86e9bed4
They didn’t care for Trump, they’re unlikely to care for him. I see them letting it ride and seeing him elected still.
Cynical me agrees.
But…14 year olds, and he was already a huge embarrassment before this, and the state Republican party is already scandal-ridden.
Maybe the play is to tell Republicans to hold their noses and vote for him and have McConnell and co. promise to expel him and do this all over again next year.
And admit they made a mistake? No, they’ll hold their nose and continue to hold their nose. Maybe when he’s re-upped they’ll run a heavy primary against him and/or quietly hope he dies/doesn’t re-run, but they have no qualms about checking that R box and nor do their followers. Any other move risks giving up their seat and making their agenda that much more difficult to accomplish. As of now they’re all qualifying “if he did it, he should” bullshit. As if he’s going to go “Oh yeah, totally did it.”
Even if he did it….
yeahbut… THERE WAS NO SEX!
The Immaculate Rationalization
Yeah, but God was even older.
Oh, Jim. Was Joseph married to Mary? Did Mary consent?
There shouldn’t even be a Wow there. It, literally, shouldn’t surprise anyone that this is what they’d do. Circle the wagons around him. “Nothing to see here. Vote Roy!”
if he gets elected, will he be senator judge roy moore?
Called it.
yup. McConnel and his ilk have a free pass.
They would need Democratic votes to expel him, but not like Schumer is going to let his caucus vote against kicking out the child molester.
I’m wondering whether he would be able to get an injunction blocking this for a while at least, because there are legitimate constitutional issues there. Maybe if he can draw the White House lawyer’s husband…
And of course
the judiciary committee would be…awkward.
The unfortunate illegality of him being appointed back to his old seat without an election notwithstanding. They’d also have to figure out how to confirm a new AG.
The new play…
…sounds blatantly unconstitutional.
The seventeenth amendment says you have to hold special elections to fill senate seats when a vacancy occurs, and then it says the governor can appoint someone to serve temporarily to hold the seat pending the special election. In other words, the vacancy that triggered the special election was Sessions resigning. Strange doesn’t have anything to do with that election, and his resignation can’t affect it.
Even on the surface that sounds utterly idiotic. That’s like floating the idea of trickle down economics.
It would have to be the state Republican party organization, I assume. But who knows what the mechanism for that would be. I’m not sure there is a case of a party replacing a nominee against his will after he won the primary.
If he refuses to drop out (and this is Roy Moore, of course he will refuse), their only choice is to run a write-in campaign with…..someone who would probably finish third behind Jones and Moore.
Well I’m convinced.
He signed his 15-year-old sexual assault victim’s yearbook as the DA!
This guy is a monster.
I don’t even know if it will make a difference, but I really want to see an ad campaign against him that just goes nuclear. Pedophile. Child Molester. No euphemisms.
McConnell realized this morning that those ads are going to be run not just against Moore, but against every Republican who doesn’t quickly denounce him.
thing is, an ad like that, it might not go against him, now that we’re post access hollywood.
see bannon’s take on access hollywood day in this weekend’s the new washington. both the media conspiracy and the we’re-beyond-morality angles.
OMFG
I had already figured out they are the same age
Kayla Moore?
Thorough demolition of the idea that Roy Moore’s accusers are conspiring to set him up.
“presuppositionalism” is a useful term that seems to explain a lot.
FKing hell
But he has been to other countries!
” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen>
The East Bay Express is going all-in to oppose the Laney ballpark site, with no less than three separate articles this week. Meanwhile the SF Chron cites a Chamber of Commerce backed poll saying Oakland residents support the plan 62-31%.
http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Downtown-Oakland-ballpark-plan-is-a-hit-with-12339376.php?t=aa73f1359d
louis?? oh man, i like louis.
That one had been rumored for a looooooooong time.
But yeah, it sucks.
Yeah, old news (and also referenced much more recently in a couple articles about his new movie), and in the current context it was only a matter of time before it got some more prominence. And maybe some actual consequences.
hahaha
Nice
This is pretty crazy.
That’s some mighty precocious sociopathy right there, keep an eye on that kid, she’s going places.
Meanwhile, also in Alabama…
The Republican party simply cannot be trusted to govern responsibly right now in any area.
Oh man, this guy is married to the chief of staff of the White House Counsel, and somehow neglected to disclose that to the senate.
Luckily he has only passed the judiciary committee, not the full senate (yet).
The sheer amount of nepotism in this administration retains the capacity to amaze.
Don’t worry. The Republicans in the full Senate will still pass him.
Roll Tide
Crap, what if they drudge up my support of starting Daric Barton n Game one of the 2013 ALDS n my confirmation hearing?
You’re joining the Catholics now?
Don’t be seduced by His Grooviness.
No Argentinian snake oil salesman can seduce me.
#NotAllArgentinianSnakeOilSalesmen
huh? should i look inside that link or something?
do you sell snake oil?
depends. do you want to buy some?
happy birthday batgirl
Aww thanks! I just got back from feeding the cows at Little Farm, so it’s been pretty great!
I’m settling in now to see whether football keeps it “pretty great” or changes it to something else. I have no particular rooting interest tonight but am interested to see if Costello improves from last week.
Also, how odd that there’s a pretty FKing big game in the middle of November in Ames, IA.
Hmmm. It looks to me like our slim hope is that we’re right in the middle of this Washington-Cal-Notre Dame run for Furd, and maybe the Big Game is a little less Big to Furd than it is to the Bears.
worked out for her
Want
if you can only afford 1/27 of that…
I will sell you a tin can for half that. I’ll even wash my soup out of it.
Lily’s homelessness fundraiser art show is now up at the Berkeley Lanesplitter
Holy cow.
Go have a drink or ten, doctorK. What a heartbreak. :-(
One of my softball buddies is an Iowa State alum, he predicted a devastating loss which I proceeded to watch him endure.
TIL Iowa State last won a conference title in 1912.
It wasn’t surprising.
Also, I wanted to throttle the moron announcers who were saying the ISU giving up a quick TD was “the best thing that could’ve happened to them”. No, the best thing would’ve been a defensive stop, or forcing a turnover.
that is a vigorous handshake mark
huh. sweden over italy?
GM, thoughts… feelings?
i am almost understanding the leagues, now have to thnk about countries too?
We’ll see, but Italy just doesn’t look very good.
12 minutes in they look very not good.
31 minutes in and they are still alive only because the ref has missed two blatant handballs in the box.
is there a web radio service carrying this? i can’t watch right now.
Sweden was horrible
I’m holding out hope for a Zlatan return.
Che cazzo
/60-year streak.
Damn.
Italy, Netherlands, Wales, Chile, Paraguay, Ghana, Ivory Coast, USA
World Cup NIT. Let’s do this.
SVP was advocating for this last night. Depending on where held (what time zone) could get better ratings than WC.
Quietly confident, EC?
Pretty much. This Greek team is pretty bad
Croatia scored more goals than other 11 play-off teams combined
Also, two goals scored outside of Greece-Croatia match-up were on a deflection and from a non-existing penalty.
Next time, just flip a coin (which, incidentally, is exactly how my hometown team won the UEFA Cup)
I am happy for my Niner fan friends. That doesn’t happen often.
I really, really hope Giants fans get their hopes for Giancarlo Stanton because it is so not going to happen. They have a bloated payroll and a terrible farm system. This isn’t difficult.
I do not get why the giants are thought of as contenders. they wold need to pay the salary AND provide at least palatable prospects, which I don’t think they have.
Maybe next year
Are we underestimating how poorly the Marlins will be run?
Yeah, jeets
As much as we may laugh about how bad their prospects are and their financial situation is, I really wouldn’t put it past either team to surprise us with that trade.
I AM IMMORTALIZED IN THE CANON!
or anyway, amy mentioned my initials and said thanks. my only podcast mention ever. i will frame it next to that one letters to the editor page of maximum rocknroll where someone cut/pasted something i had written on facebook.
is this about scientology? can’t tell anymore.
The ad where the man and woman stuck in traffic shout-sing “Sweet Caroline” together through the open windows of their Hyundais is a damn war crime.
“Stupid Watergate” is becoming a better and better name for this.
Thanks, and go As.
The kid is racking up policy wins though.
that feels like a bridge too far for MI and WI
These fucking assholes.
uhh
where are the adults?
Busy locating the moral courage to bar a child molester entry to the US Senate.
I really want someone to explain to me the significance of a yellow diamond vs gray oval. James Comey shows up in both forms, so you know he’s up to no good!
Avisail Garcia?
Pluses: had a good year with the bat, still youngish
Minuses: Mediocre defender, doesn’t walk, not much power for a big guy, good stats were mostly based on high BABIP
Seems like a Do Not Want to me.
FFS just take on Stanton’s contract.
Thanks, and go As.
Yeah I wouldn’t love this. We need on-base guys and good defenders.
AND STANTON.
Thanks, and go As.
It’s gonna be horrible if the SFGs get him. At least with Bonds he was such a dick it was easy to hate root against him.
no mention of A’s, hooray!
I’ll defer to you legal FKers on this, but it seems to me that the judge absolutely destroyed the wife’s attorney in this divorce case.
That was painful. Bad lawyers like this really piss me off.
clips won’t play for me, but you gotta wonder where the money is coming from
Today is my 25th anniversary!
Our celebration so far has included a metal show Sunday night at the X Bar in Cupertino. This was VelociTurkeySaurus Rex Tour, headlined by Psychostick. Despite being only a mile and a half from my house, I had no idea what the X Bar was, until a quick check revealed that it’s the bar at a bowling alley where I used be a league bowler. The real stunner was that she actually wanted to go with me (normally, a ‘stick show is a stag event for me). Psychostick was, of course, awesome. Josh, the guitarist, spent a fair amount of time talking to us. Of the bands on the undercard, the one I’d really like to see again was Raven Black – here’s a sample.
” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen>
Also, I shot some video of the ‘stick. It’s kind of hard to see the band because the stage was not lit up all that well, but the sound quality is pretty good.
” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen>
yay! Congrats Dr. K
Congrats!
How come the A’s are the only team to publish their Cactus League schedule and offer sale of the tickets?
It’s the one league they have some chance of winning.
We neglected to celebrate national pickle day yesterday. WTFK?
I’d rather ride on my motorsickle.
(Changes blog name to group W)
Posting this underwhelming list of 10 potential A’s free agent targets mostly for the beer belly photo of Lance Lynn.
” frameborder=”0″ gesture=”media” allowfullscreen>
I’m stealing this for facebook.
It makes me sad, not just that Cal has been getting its ass kicked every year recently, but that weird shit like that can’t happen because the games haven’t been close. In 15-year increments:
2002-2016: 4 of the 15 games have been decided by <10 points. Cal won 7 of the first 8, during the good part of the Tedford era, but Stanford has won the last 7, by an average margin of 22 points, including the 63-13 abomination in Sonny Dykes' first year.
1987-2001: 9 of the 15 decided by <10 points, including 1 tie and 1 OT game.
1972-1986: 10 of the 15 decided by <10 points. This includes the time when I was a student and neither team was ever much good except, briefly, Joe Roth/Chuck Muncie in the 70s, and it seemed like the underdog won almost every year.
That’s some solid police work.
Healy -> Mariners
Thanks, and go As.
A cheap/promising MLB reliever and a 17-year-old shortstop in the Dominican league.
The return feels rather underwhelming. A statement that could be said about most every Beane/Forst trade over the last 3 years.
Without knowing jackshit about the 17 year old prospect — why on Earth do you make this deal now?
My guess is that Healy didn’t have much value and they wanted to take the deal before Seattle found another first baseman.
Pagan may be useful. A 7 to 1 K/BB in his first year in the bigs is not bad.
healy has no place on the roster. i don’t know what the opportunty cost is, but it ticks boxes, relief help, eases log jam at DH/1b/LF
And adds nothing to the payroll.
xwOBA??? I give up.
I think it’s just xFIP on a different scale
Browsing FK while on a telecon? I’m shocked!
Has anyone proposed keystroke farming to help fund early operations of S4?
They have now!
Did you see Jim Simons $8B offshore fund in the Paradise Papers? SO is going back to ask for more funding!
I had not heard about him being part of the Paradise Papers leak. Also, just discovered that he is the Simons of Chern-Simons theory?
Alexander Campos was mlb.com’s #15 Seattle prospect:
jemile weeks
This kid is 4 years younger than Weeks was when we drafted him.
Baseball America:
i am happy for my team, sad for the hugs
I forgot about the hugs. Now I’m sad.
1. Healy will be worth ~ 1.5 WAR/year.
2. Healy will hit ~ 6 HR/year against the A’s.
BP wins the headline award for this transaction: “Mariners Attempt Pagan Healy-ing Ritual”
So, the A’s trade the one guy whose name I remember for two guys whose names I’ll never remember. It must be time for Billy Beane’s hot stove league. Oh well at least I have KU football…we whooped Southeast Missouri State’s ass this season!
KU, sticking with the process apparently, is bringing back its coach for a fourth season. He is 3-33 overall, 1-26 in conference (ha ha Texas), and of his 0-9 conference record this season 5 of the losses were by 38 points or more. No up-and-coming young coach would want that dead-end job, so they are stuck with either some journeyman assistant type, which is what they have, or else a burnt out retread like Charlie Weis.
I found this lovely nugget summing up their 2017 season:
Given that just about everybody except Cal goes to a bowl game nowadays, I would enjoy watching KU play the Oregon State Beavers, also 0-9 in conference, in the ChevronTexaco Prudhoe Bay Bowl.
KU, Cal, UNC and Harvard can be in the FK Suck Bowl playoffs. Though the Crimson at 5-5 are probably too good to qualify.
If Cal is in the Final Four of FK Suck, UCLA has to be there too. The Bruins went 6-0 at home and 0-6 on the road and beat Cal in Pasadena by only 3 points. They gave up the most yards per game of any Power 5 team (more than KU!) and the fourth most points per game in the Power 5 (KU, Oregon State, Maryland). This is why California has a new highest-paid public employee.
On the other end of it, Iowa State enjoyed its unthinkable #1 spot on the FK Power Index for a while, but stumbled in November while Furd and Fresno State finished strong to push the Cyclones into third place. But, an Iowa State-Fresno State game would be better than most of the bowl games that will actually be played.
FK American Throwball.
I find it funny that my kids never say “football” they always say “american football”
That’s Un-Amurican
(collapses to ground, screaming and writhing in excruciating fake pain)
(suffers massive brain trauma)
This is shocking and disgusting. These lawyers should be disbarred for participating in this kind of city-sanctioned scam.
In practice “aggressive code enforcement” is often a sanctioned civic shakedown racket, rife with corruption.
so fucked up
Now that the A’s have added Emilio Pagan to the…I don’t know…outfield? infield? catcher? can they borrow those return to greatness signs the Raiders used for next season? It should work as well for the A’s as it has for the Raiders.
Three things you didn’t know about Southeast Missouri State football.
1. The team plays all it’s home games in Northwest Florida.
2. The team has been coached by Red Grange since 1834.
3. Southeast Missouri State doesn’t actually exist…or does it? Do you know without googling it?
It does exist, and it is in…..Cape Girardeau? I know they were in the NCAA tournament a few times.
All I know is they’re allergic to Jayhawk!..and that this is an allergy no other team in the nation has.
It might be Southwest Missouri State that was good at basketball. Steve Alford coached there.
I was going to say “Rod Smith!!” but that’s Missouri Southern State.
Well, I hope everyone is doing well and I just want to wish everyone a Happy 4th of July for next week!
Hi Bed
Howdy. So, we’re going to ban golf…well, why not? I wanted to start playing a sport more physical and working class so I’ve moved on to Cribbage.
29-point joke
Plus one for his knob.
I’ll assume all the posts I missed were about three things I don’t care to think about…Donald Trump, baseball, and the poetry of Jimmy Stewart.
I’ve decided the only two names that would surprise me to hear are sexual predators in Hollywood are Tom Hanks and Angela Lansbury.
But she’s a MURDERER!
She was scary as hell in The Manchurian Candidate.
So, you’re probably asking yourself what does Bed do now that he no longer watches the NFL? The answer, unsurprisingly, is I now dedicate all my free time to LARPING. I usually role play as a sexy vampire dwarf named Roofus.
Is that like VORPing?
Alright everybody…keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars…oh, and let’s impeach and remove our fucking President as soon as possible. Go A’s!
DMOAS!
This has to be some kind of money laundering scheme
Although, from a pure logical point of view, it doesn’t make less sense than any other religion out there
I’m pretty sure that I posted about this before, but he was in my high school class (Tam High 98). Pretty weird and unscrupulous back then too.
TFW the person leading the telecon has a marching band rehearsing outside their office window.
“The band is on the gravitational field!”
ASVD
Which telecon was that? We missed you on data management working group — and only had Nathan’s crying baby as background noise.
US LiteBIRD.
I had a one-off clash with the CMBS4DMTDWG.