Believe it or not, the A’s begin Cactus League play this evening, unless it rains, which it might.
The roster kind of is what it is at this point: good. Much as I will try to get invested in Barreto vs. Mateo, Vimael Machin, and who is the eighth reliever, I’m mostly just rooting against injuries.
In other news, it turns out that going into business with someone with highly questionable ethics out of foolish expediency resulted in him running an unethical organization under your nose.
“cool”
The more I think about it, the more annoying it is that the owners decided to let this guy in the club because he was willing to solve their short term problem of needing a team in the American League. Just expand, assholes.
And the only reason they needed a team in the AL is because the asshat who owned a team before he became commissioner wanted his AL club in the NL.
These are the guys who gladly allowed Jeffrey Loria to be a co-conspirator in the murder of the Expos
Just fired up A’s Cast on Tune In and got a preroll ad for Bernie from California Nurses PAC or something like that. Wouldn’t have heard that on KTRB.
If there’s a certain ad that we never hear during games again, this whole thing might be worth it.
KEN KORACH IS TALKING ABOUT A’S BASEBALL ON THE
RADIOINTERWEBS…YAY!!!Guys, guys!!
There is A’s baseball like product on my TV!!!
SB&HBoR made it to the warning track
Don’t get too excited Don’t get too excited Don’t get too excited Don’t get too excited
Cotton still using A’s glove
Cubs broadcast put up trivino’s numbers indicating they were in the minors. now they just corrected
Lou picking up where he left off.
Time to hit the showers, Lou. Try to stay upright in there.
Lou already working on things.
Charter gives me an IP address that traces to South Lake Tahoe, CA in El Dorado County CA, although I’m geographically a couple miles over into Nevada.
Checking it out on “A’s Cast”:
Not using any VPN: Receives broadcast.
Switches VPN to “Silicon Valley”: Receives broadcast
Switches VPN to “Seattle”: AN ERROR HAS OCCURRED. Does not receive broadcast.
Sometime when a game is on I’ll have to drive over into CA to pick up the broadcast, then drive home across the state line and see at what point I get kicked off.
I see “Location Services” notifications on the phone at times, had never really thought about how it works. Is that determined by GPS, which would override any IP address as determined by whatever cell phone tower you’re connected to, or even if you’re using a VPN? That would explain my preliminary results. I did not use a VPN at all today.
I started up the TuneIn app over by the Y in SLT, about 5 miles into CA. No problem receiving the game on A’s Cast. Drove over as far as our library, about 4 miles into NV, getting the game all the way.
Came back to the Safeway near my house, 2 miles into NV. Closed out TuneIn and shut down phone. Reopened TuneIn but upon trying to start A’s Cast got “Stream Connection Error Has Occurred”.
I wonder if the TuneIn app periodically rechecks location, or if that’s set upon starting up the app and as long as I were to start it in CA, kept the phone on and had the app open, could drive as far east as I wanted without getting kicked off?
I doubt I’m going to discontinue my SiriusXM subscription which includes both satellite and streaming any time soon so the stuff with TuneIn is just academic (would also apply to an MLB.com subscription), but it’s one of those things that’s fun to play around with a little bit.
Geolocation is based on some combination of GPS (most accurate), maps of nearby wifi networks, and cell towers (least accurate) depending on what is available.
It sounds like you would have to do more experimenting to see how often TuneIn re-checks. It probably does when you start the stream that has restrictions, so just keeping the phone on and app open wouldn’t be enough.
Does Sour Lou have options left? How bad does his spring have to be to not head all the way north to Oakland? (Yes Im overreacting..its the 1st game!)
He does. He’d probably have to be pretty bad, given the lack of real bullpen depth, but I wouldn’t be shocked to see it.
That is a strategy, when you think aobut it
new favorite pitcher
I want to believe this is true
I am about to see Sting perform again. Last time was opening four the Dead in 1993. Tonight he’s starring in a play he wrote. I’ll report back
I’m always on board for a musical with an industrial union theme. Sting was probably the weakest cast member. SB’s here could have used a more seasoned co- writer.
The review in the Chronicle was just awful.
Interesting but flawed, I saw it similar to how sfist did.
https://sfist.com/2020/02/26/stings-the-last-ship-is-a-glorious-depiction-of-bleakness-and-desolation/
A lot of things being worked on tonight.
Looking forward to another year of this:
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In his pregame chat with Korach yesterday, Melvin said they are taking it easier than usual on pushing guys this spring, in order to emphasize getting through spring healthy with a set roster. I hope that it all this is.
Piscotty, on the other hand, is probably well and truly crocked.
KD got a single, went first to third on an error, got removed for a pinch runner.
A’s Cast is terrible right now – I’m using the web app and it keeps rewinding and playing back every 5 seconds or so.
I never understood A’s cast, I just use the MLB app
The Sirius app has a slegnA logo on the page for our broadcast.
The thing about the SiriusXM streaming is that there’s an enormous delay compared to real time. I don’t know how close A’s Cast is to real time, but checking just now, SiriusXM streaming is 2 minutes, 48 seconds behind A’s Cast. It has always been that way. Makes it impossible to participate in a game thread.
SiriusXM satellite has a delay, but nothing like that. That’s more like 15 seconds vs. real time. They don’t usually put any of the spring training broadcasts on satellite.
Slusser said today that A’s Cast was in sync with Giants (real) radio.
Yesterday when I checked it was 2-3 pitches ahead of the Cubs TV broadcast on the web.
So many delays…Youtube TV is about 60 seconds behind real time and that’s why my game thread participation dropped precipitously last year. I would only come over to the computer between innings, and once or twice I found about a first pitch home run in the next inning well before I saw it.
Even regular cable TV can be a couple of pitches behind Gameday these days.
With our level of gamethread posting I find timeliness much less important anyway, most of dialogue is after the fact. The high leverage controversies and wtf moments are fairly rare exceptions.
About 10 seconds ahead of the CSN-CA telecast today.
And as noted the SiriusXM streaming is just about exactly 2 minutes behind Youtube TV. It took a minute to remember all the buttons to push to get the syncing right.
OTOH, I just tried to turn the stream back on my computer and got someone talking about the Indiana Pacers. They better get this shit figured out.
Ah, I thought that was a SiriusXM screw up, but actually I guess it was TuneIn.
Well Diekman’s first pitch this year wasn’t the expected 3 feet out of the strike zone…
4 pitch walk to the next guy.
mid season form, and the defense too
I was briefly very confused by Deichmann being pronounced just like Diekman. I was half listening and thought they were letting the latter get an AB.
that is when I assumed i was getting bauned
Baarnes and Slusser both pronounce Deichmann as “DIKEman,” which makes a lot more sense. Also, he just homered.
The spring training roster on the media site has a number of “official” pronunciations, including for example “SIH-mee-en” and “Wah-keem SORE-ee-uh”, but oddly neither Deichmann nor Diekman is on there.
I think the woman in that commercial says “You don’t have to understand any of the craft that went into the Lexus ES.” It sounds an awful like “You don’t have to understand any of the crap…” though.
There’s also a commercial for “Kentucky Fried Chicken and Donuts”. If you’re listening to A’s baseball when your tummy isn’t feeling so good, might want to have a plastic wastebasket or something handy.
“for a limited time, they’re available in a chicken-and-donut sandwich”
In a not-sad and possibly related development, our South Lake Tahoe KFC suddenly closed just this week. I know that place (in a strip mall) was there when I was a weekend warrior from Oakland in the 90s, and there’s an original 60s KFC building with the cupola a couple miles away that’s now a burrito place. So it’s probably the first time in half a century that the Colonel’s secret blend of herbs and spices can’t be found at the lake.
There’s a former KFC on Geary where they left the giant bucket-on-pole sign up in front of the new business, but just painted it a solid, matte black. Very eerie effect.
Just seeing those ads cause my blood sugar to spike.
Kemp staking claim to 2B.
keep on slugging, kid
As expected, impossible to get A’s cast reception at Stinson Beach (and yes, last year’s station came in fine here).
Once I re-entered coverage area the stream on the drive home was fine. It did force me to turn on power saving and eat a lot of battery. Got to hear Ray tell Ken that as with players, we’ ll have to tear the uniforms off the broadcasters to make them retire too, which was not the image I was expecting on Feb 23.
-16 run differential is already 10 runs worse than #29 Pittsburgh.
-27 late in the fourth game. Will have to comb the Cactus League Record Book to find out anything more spectacular than that.
KLaw’s top 100 prospects is up at The Athletic.
Puk at 21, Luzardo at 26 (higher ceiling than Puk, but concerns about durability), Murphy at 36 (“could be a star if he could just stay healthy”). I would think that all three of these guys make the opening day 25-man roster. Should we be worried that there aren’t impact prospects in the low minors?
I am a little worried about it. There is very little to show from the draft since the 2016 class (Puk, Murphy, Jefferies) that is graduating now. Nick Allen is the only player from the last three drafts that even seems all that interesting at the moment, and his size limits his ceiling. Meanwhile, with the current roster the picks we won’t be picking high for a while (I hope).
It would sure help if Robert Puason is as good as advertised.
His Top 20 for the A’s is up now. The system is “still thin,” but “incredibly well stocked with players who will help the major-league club this year.”
4. Nick Allen (“I think he’s a regular at short because of his defense and the potential for high OBPs.”)
5. Daulton Jefferies (“fourth starter if he can stay healthy”)
6. Logan Davidson (likes his defensive potential at short, hitting seems broken)
7. Jorge Mateo (“still star upside” but thinks his hitting more homers last year is a bad sign for his approach)
8. James Kaprielian (who knows)
9. Robert Puason (plus runner, great arm, pretty swing, free swinger, 17)
10. Sheldon Neuse (“solid utility infielder,” doubles power)
His #13, Marcus Smith, sounds like a young guy to watch.
MLB.com Top 30
Lower on Jefferies and Kap than others and Murphy is ranked ahead of Puk.
ugh I HATE when guys hit more homers
Thanks, and go As.
Rally-killers.
Kiley McDaniel (now at ESPN):
4. Luzardo (top pitcher)
20. Puk
61. Murphy
ZiPS projected standings give a 19.4% chance to win the division
Seattle is projected for 100 losses, so I guess they haven’t bottomed out quite yet.
If any of you A’s Access members haven’t gotten your mlb.tv subscription link yet, check your spam folders or whatever. Gmail filed mine some place I could only find by searching for “mlb”.
Manaea, things, working
Getting Yandy Diaz flashbacks here
Daulton Jefferies leaves the mound with the trainer.
What a butt-ugly first 48 hours.
By the way the Bill King Deck is wonderful today at 51 degrees. Need to maintain the Maui tan during this stretch before the trip to Arizona late next week.
Unlike Ray, they never had to tear the uniform off Bill.
The unit next door is for sale and unoccupied. I got myself all set up, listened to Townsend’s pregame show…then right at noon an agent and prospective buyers show up. There was some quick scrambling.
New Sluss bag. Nothing shocking, she thinks either Mateo or Barreto gets jettisoned by final roster cut, Jonah pronounces his name Hy-Am, and TJ McFarland is funny.
I look forward to her reporting on her upcoming experience as an ice hockey player, as related on today’s Donnycast. Sounds like she laid the wood on some girls as a lacrosse player at Furd.
Whoops. (in response to “How did you break your ankle?”)
First time seeing Jonah Heim. He’s tall. Pretty sweet looking swing from the left side.
Speaking of catchers with a sweet swing from the left side, Austin Allen just crushed one.
I watched some of his at bats from last year when he debuted. He’s got crazy loft to his swing. Probably a ridiculous comp but it reminds me of Joey Gallo.
It’s hard to reconcile his minor league numbers with San Diego’s decision to trade him for one year of Jurickson Profar. They must think he’s a terrible defensive catcher, because if he’s even passable back there he could have a Mike Napoli kind of career for a while.
It’s ok, watching Phegley catch has prepared us for whatever may come.
The Nike logo on the jerseys looks terrible.
Better Call Saul!
Looking at who got the ABs and innings pitched today, it was a pretty Schlitty lineup even by February 25 standards.
It doesn’t make a bit of difference but the other team isn’t trying to win either, and it would feel a little better to stumble into at least one win out of five.
The A’s rarely televise back to the Bay Area from Arizona, but Glen and Ray are doing games both Saturday (from Las Vegas) and Monday. Those are 3-hour infomercials to try to sell some tickets, and I’m sure Melvin has been asked to align the schedules to have more of Chapman, Semien, Olson and the big league bullpen and let #93 who pitched at Beloit, Stockton and a couple innings at Midland last year work the following day.
So far so good today with a plausible lineup.
6-0 in the first. Heim and Allen doing damage again.
Olson double, Canha double, Brown triple and it’s 8-0. I think they woke up today wanting a win for Soaker.
What’s the spring training equivalent of a Pythagorean record, a Euclidean one?
15-2, and the D-Backs are starting to put in pitchers with obviously fake names like “Cole Stapler.”
Followed up by “Damien Magnifico.”
Safe to say that the A team is on its way to Vegas, looking at today’s lineup in Goodyear, AZ: Fowler, Kemp, Barreto, Neuse, Heim, Cambpell, Bolt, Goins, Perez.
10-0 Reds after a three-run inside the parker off of Kaprielian. On the plus side, Kaprielian is throwing baseballs.
This debate is insane.
Warren crapped on Bloomberg again, everyone was yelling at the same time about Bernie, and then out of nowhere Biden just leveled Steyer.
Save us, California.
Yeah, we definitely won’t save anything. I’m pretty annoyed that our primary is this early, actually. We should come after Super Tuesday, when the field has been narrowed and the remaining candidates have the resources to really work here.
Anyway, I’ve decided to just vote for Warren because I want her to be president, tactical considerations be damned.
That’s always my approach to primaries, might as well express a preference for the candidate I actually want to win.
If I’m understanding correctly, voting Warren (in California) is tactically justified if one also wants to block Bernie. Apparently her getting over 15% along with Biden would take a much bigger chunk out of Bernie’s delegate reward than Biden finishing a closer second would. What a silly, silly system we have.
I wonder if there will be any big California endorsements tomorrow.
Biden has DiFi and Garcetti. Bloomberg has his mayors. Bernie has…Ro Khanna.
Will Kamala endorse? Gavin had endorsed her; I assume he now stays out but his wife went for Warren yesterday. Barbara Lee and Libby were both for Kamala…now? Nancy probably stays mum. Maybe Schiff could move the needle a bit. And then there’s Jerry…
i can’t see any of the big names endorcing.
Biden has been pretty gross about suggesting VP candidates as if they are endorsements,I assume harris says yes to VP slot when it is offered. that’s ok, I suppose.
Biden and Bernie both have unusually valuable VP slots to offer
I just saw that Biden is now the youngest male in the race.
pete? I have been offline all weekend, did pete drop out?
[tuns on twitter]
oh, that is an odd play
Ran out of money and decided to make some important friends.
does indiana have senators? congress members?
I can’t believe I’m typing this but I’m actually considering voting for Biden as a last chance to keep Bernie from getting the nom.
Presumably that’s exactly what to DNC establishment hoped for when they learned on Peteand Amy to drop out now.
I’m still voting for Liz.
I ended up doing that too – just couldn’t let myself vote for Biden.
I am voting Biden…
VP choice will be unusually important barring Warren miracle comeback.
yes, and I hope they consider who ha a ground game. Getting out the vote in november is the only thing that will beat trump.
Biden reminds me too much of Walter Mondale, or Bob Dole on the GOP side. The party elder statesman running because it’s his turn and not because he has any compelling argument to be President, other than “I’m not Donald Trump” this time around which isn’t going to be compelling enough to win.
Agreed, but I find I am a beggar not a chooser. That said, I think “I’m not Donald Trump” is reasonably compelling…
Ohio doesn’t vote for another two weeks and I plan to vote for Warren if she is still in at that point. But my worries run the opposite direction, i.e. considering voting for Bernie to keep Biden from getting the nom. Honestly scared about Biden’s electability.
I agree with this, the conventional wisdom that Bernie would be the hardest Dem to elect seems based on instinct. In this post-2016 landscape the calculus that one must speak to moderates is a lot less convincing than it was before.
someone somewhere podded in my ear this point, a democrat needs florida to win the election. meanwhile, sanders won’t back offa being into castro.
I don’t think either Bernie or Biden (or Warren, tbf) has an airtight electability argument. But I think on balance, Biden’s is stronger. A Biden-Trump race is a referendum on Trump. A Sanders-Trump race is a lot more complicated than that, and I don’t want complication — it creates more paths to victory for Trump.
Bernie’s case is that he’ll bring out a lot of young voters who stayed home in 2016. Maybe, but maybe those voters (who are by definition unlikely voters) would be offset by moderates who stay home or vote for Trump or a libertarian or whatever.
Biden, for all of his faults, has a case for being able to reassemble the Obama coalition and getting some of the people who voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 and a democrat for the house in 2018. Bernie’s path just isn’t as clear to me, and I worry a lot that the general public will turn on him once he’s a Democratic nominee and not just the kooky old guy who was against Hillary.
My concern with Biden-Trump is the false equivalence that will be created between Trump’s sexual assaults and rampant corruption and Biden’s factual handsiness and fictional Ukraine dealings.
I tend to agree with GM on this.
They both seem like weak candidates who would probably lose to a normal Republican (when such a person existed). They both seem to think (wrongly) that the key to reviving the Democrats is appealing more to white guys, and both think (for opposite reasons) that they are the one that can do that. Bernie may have the bigger upside – lots of people really love him – but that comes with a much, much bigger downside. And for all the whining about conspiracies against him, the fact is he’s never faced the kind of attacks he’s going to see from Republicans. Just wait until people are barraged with ads about his praise for Castro. Florida is hopeless, and I worry that it would be enough to beat him even in states like PA/OH/MI/WI.
I agree with this completely.
oh. this.
This piece on Bernie’s turnout kinda affirms what GM is saying.
I think they both have problems, but different ones.
Biden has less enthusim than HR Clintonwhich scares me. The GOTV is the biggest factor. Sanders has the apparatus, but is vunerable to a significant ceiling.
(I voted for Weld.)
My my! Hey hey!
not an eagles fan?
Our primary in NY isn’t until the end of April, so if it even matters at that point, I fully expect to vote for Biden over Bernie.
Sounds like Joe flew into the Town this morning to pick up the Kamala endorsement.
Incidentally, for the first time ever I’m going to register as a Republican for our primary election (June). There are no state office races nor a U.S. Senate race this year so there isn’t much of anything for Democrats to vote on. The issue for me is that with the sizable GOP majority in this county our County Commissioner election is decided in the Republican primary; they got one of the wingnuts elected in 2018 and two of his buddies are running this year which, if those two won, would give that cabal a majority of the Commission. So I’m going to lend my support to the Republican moderates.
my boss, who used our office as a phonebank site for obama in 08, has been a registered republican since he crossed over to vote for anderson. I am confident he didn’t vote for any republican since.
John Anderson? That was 40 years ago.
yup
Wait, you guys have caucuses and primaries, and you get to vote in both (with different party registration)? That’s weird. Mostly caucuses-are-stupid weird, but still.
Caucuses are only about the presidency, and are run by the political parties. (If they choose to hold one; the GOP didn’t hold caucuses this year; they had a party meeting down in right-wing stronghold Pahrump and announced their support for Trump by acclamation.). State government has nothing to do with the caucuses. Primaries decide everything else, including U.S. Senate in relevant years, Congressman and all partisan local offices.
There’s yet another drive to bag the caucuses in 2024. I don’t think we want to pay for two separate primaries, but we like being “First in the West” in presidential selection, so we’ll see how that shakes out.
Iowa also has a primary later in the spring for the non-presidential offices.
Maybe let fans tear them down after the game that night.
Minor point, but “not our choice” is less than accurate. Those signs were part of a full package of accommodations negotiated when Raiders returned, to which the A’s agreed and for which they were compensated.
Incidentally, wasn’t the draft of the HT EIR supposed to have been released last week?
It was originally supposed to be released on Valentine’s Day, and then it was last week, and now…..
April 1st.
As they say in Brazil, dia de São Nunca, a tarde. (Saint Never’s Day, in the afternoon).
I have literally never seen a draft or final EIR issued on its projected date. Not once, out of hundreds I’ve followed.
Kaval just tweeted “Hopefully we will know an exact date [when the draft will be released] tomorrow.”
I’ll bet the A’s will be immune to this rash.
Neither cyclical fashion nor rational aesthetics seem able to end the hideous hipster beard trend, maybe the coronavirus finally will.
https://www.cnet.com/news/cdc-chart-breaks-down-what-staches-do-and-dont-work-with-respirator-masks/
I notice Coronavirus has gotten Trump’s attention and the stock market is saying why.
The S&P 500 with dividends reinvested was up 68.7% since Election Day 2016 as of just a week ago. That’s dang good. As of today that has already dropped to 55.3%.
The stock market =/= the economy but there’s a correlation, and putting aside all the left-wing/right-wing stuff, “it’s the economy, stupid” is one of main things independents are going to look at.
He’s apparently upset at the CDC for being honest about the risk and thus “spooking the markets,” but he should probably be grateful, since most indications were that a market correction was coming soon anyway. Being able to blame it on a virus lets him absolve himself of blame.
He seemed to try to blame the selloff on last night’s Democratic debate, which, in addition to the temporal issues, sort of admits that Wall Street expects him to lose?
If his press conference was intended to calm the markets….time for plan b.
I said plan b, not plan a again…
Roll On You Bears
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8042627/Nicolas-Cage-spotted-visiting-pyramid-shaped-tomb-mystery-woman.html
The Mail and The Sun are verboten.
nothing is forbidden in that outfit!
All in a futile quest to once again reach the sartorial splendor of the snakeskin jacket from Wild at Heart.
sadly, he outgrew anaconda…
Conversely his anaconda also dont want none.
Interesting theme in today’s NYTimes crossword (I’m a nerd)
Complete with a cool effect when you finish it on the app.
Very cool theme but I only understood half of it (noticed one of the options in each place) until the illustration at the end.
Same here
Oh, wow and I also missed the aspect noted in the first comment here
holy shit
That’s awesome
Nice scam on Nevada taxpayers here by the Raiders
Mark Davis, three dimensional chess master.
Donnie bares with a nice shout out to twitter guy doing court ordered community service and listening to the game
Followed by a guy who bragged about being a boss whose employees don’t know he’s listening to the game, and that his favorite ballpark food is the Diamond Level lobster rolls. Baarnescasts kind of rule.
even if he didn’t ask Alex coffey, civil war major, to talk about abner doublday like I asked
Per today’s Slusser article Pinder now actually owns a catcher’s mitt and will start working bullpen sessions. Watch out, Campy, Chad’s coming for your record.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/athletics/article/A-s-Chad-Pinder-finds-rhythm-at-the-plate-with-15087363.php
Just four weeks until opening day! I’m thinking french toast kabobs.
We are so there!
Fiers goes over 2, but lots of hard hit balls
Working on things
Piscotty set back. not the biggest news or problem. Thinks its a minor setback
I am not sure its a big deal. Puts the mateo/baretto/manchin/kemp back a little
Donnie Baarnes’ description of the Reds’ facility in Goodyear: “Like if you took a Chipotle and expanded it into a ballpark.”
Donny sounds like he would be pretty good if he got a chance to do regular season games. Five spring training games a week, mostly worked entirely solo, is a brutal task. He sometimes gets bogged down in the listener engagement via Twitter, but how else is he supposed to fill the time? Ken doesn’t seem like somebody who’s going to work forever and he’s maybe 64 now, and when Ken has a series off Vince just doesn’t work as a lead announcer.
he is pretty clear, has done homework. would imagine being able to focus on one team, he would do well
He clears the Roxy Bernstein bar for sure.
There was an amusing moment yesterday where Baarnes called Vince “Ray” and Vince got mock offended.
Joe Biden was never even one of my top 10 choices, but I’m intrigued by this Robinette dude, sounds like a real OG.
joe has been name checking black women too much. its so gross
OK, but…
I’ve been browsing up on the national pandemic strategy as we enter “acceleration”
This is the best recent and detailed US strategy plan I could find.. At the stage we’re just starting it calls for “consideration of immediate initiation of appropriate community mitigation measures such as school and child-care facility closures and social distancing…(i)Isolation and treatment of ill persons and voluntary quarantine of contacts continue as key mitigation measures.” For the most part, ending those measures isn’t called for until the end of deceleration. The duration will be determined using the Pandemic Severity Assessment Framework, a CDC metric created after the 2009 H1N1. It indexes severity and transmissability as data comes in (really that paper is fascinating).
France and Italy have cancelled soccer and other large public gatherings. I can’t imagine our interval is far behind theirs as community transmission takes hold.
Meant to add: the hopeful scenario is that we’ll find severity is sharply less than in Wuhan, that seems to be what happened with H1N1 as they realized in retrospect that many more people were infected but suffered no symptoms, and mortality rate was actually much lower than thought at the time.
Time for that unbeaten Arsenal team to pop some champagne, Miami Dolphins style.
Was Fowler actually good before he got hurt? I get that he may never be as fast but he just doesnt seem to do anything better than so-so.
He wasn’t bad but he was vastly overhyped as Yankees prospects tend to be.
He was a late-round pick who didn’t do much at any level until having a really good half-season at AAA at age 22. Not really surprising that he has reverted to being a marginal major-leaguer.
There must be some match out there where a crappy team that has no hope this year would take Fowler and probably two of three of Barreto, Mateo and Machin, give those guys chances like the Orioles did with Richie Martin last year, and give the A’s back somebody who would be useful in Oakland this season.
Sonny Gray?
Cincinnati fails the “crappy team” test.
Breaking news from the split squad game: Tanner Anderson is still bad.
Wendelken working on things.
“Welcome to the Machine” for Vimael Machin. Nice.
Ken just explained it to Vince.
Vince saw Harry Connick Jr. last night. Means I lost my bet, which was on Donny and Marie.
Tony Kemp may not be any good, but at least he has better AB’s than Profar did.
I miss the pitchers running in the outfield after they are removed from the game (and occasionally dodging a ball hit up a gap). Not sure exactly when that stopped; maybe more than 10 years ago but fewer than 20?
First Saturday softball with A’s cast instead of transistor radio reveals significant disadvantage of losing signal from phone-in-pocket to speaker-in-dugout. Not a crisis, but a new annoyance.
Victory cabbage, always delicious.
Tomorrow’s starting lineup is whoever can scrape themself off the clubhouse floor after a Saturday night in Vegas.
Based solely on my gut instinct/preconceptions it looks like they left a lot of the troublemakers back in Mesa (Canha, Grossman, Neuse) and brought a square group to Vegas (Chapman, Semien, Laureano).
I bet Manaea can party Vegas style. And he doesn’t have to do a damn thing tomorrow.
Ken may have to work solo with Vince and Ray “not feeling well and back at the hotel”.
Ray was there on television yesterday, and usually on weekends in spring he’s in a three-man radio booth. I’m noticing it’s just Ken and Vince today though.
This is a pretty good Biden speech.
Heard while watching Carolina beat Syracuse that after this week they are shutting down the Carrier Dome and replacing the roof. It’s the end of the line for the last air-supported dome roof still in use in the US, outlasting the Metrodome and Silverdome, among other notable predecessors.
The Bay Area had Toso Pavilion at Santa Clara University. I thought that was a very strange architectural choice.
A wind-aided three run first from the varsity lineup.
Every time I hear the name of our new 2B contender I think about this hilarious story.Since he’s a rule 5 must-keep I’ll probably have this routine memorized by July.
Luzardo got outs on two hard-hit balls in teh first but gave up a hit on a feeble dribbler.
I’m afraid Tony Kemp’s Cactus League WAR is going to far exceed his regular season WAR.
I guess it was the Cleveland hitters who especially enjoyed the Strip last night.
The “three club wind” is wreaking havoc with their outfielders, while ours make every play
Man, a weekend with baseball on the radio* was just the thing to cure the winter blues.
How can Bernie unite Democrats when he is tearing Public Enemy apart?
Pretty savage burn by Chuck: “Flavor chooses to dance for his money and not do benevolent work like this. He has a year to get his act together and get himself straight or he’s out.”
A year turns into a day, with a burn coda: “It’s not about Bernie with Flav … he don’t know the difference between Barry Sanders or Bernie Sanders.”
No word yet about Bernie’s fingerprints on this attempted coup within Journey.
I’m sure it’s tearing them apart.
They’ve stopped believin’
A’s on TV tonight, 6pm vs Cubs on NBCSCA. Good one for prospect mavens, as after two days of split squad games Melvin says many regulars will have the day off.
Sounds like Korach is getting the day off too. It’s Vince and Dom Cotroneo on the
radiostreaming call.