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A chicken shack on duck run 130

23 Jun 2010  |  monkeyball  |The Grill
  1. Well, they were getting hammered
  2. Approaching meteor/puny forearms
  3. Let me get this straight, Ray: you’re going to criticize Braden for his torturous metaphors? Also: “well-eyed grounders”?
  4. Rangers bankruptcy not quite so bad, but they still prolly can’t afford Oswalt (not that it matters any more anyway)
  5. they melt into something creamy and delicious that you can spread on slices of bread
  6. So why don’t monkeys and apes masturbate even nearly as much as humans?
  7. Speaking of which, euphemism watch:

    battle the legal department at the New York Times for that perfunctory breakfast shot

  8. Bob Geren said it’s a coincidence that Jack Cust has had two days off in a row
  9. Those are … DUCK RUNS!!!

130 thoughts on “A chicken shack on duck run”

  1. monkeyball Jun 23,2010 5:37 pm

    Beane: full of 6 different kinds of shit

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    • grover Jun 23,2010 5:51 pm || Up

      However did you determine the number of flavors?

      Anywho, the A’s signed 7th round pick Jordan Tripp to a $125K signing bonus. Slot in the 7th round is kinda fluid, but it’s on par with what teams spent at that spot last year.

  2. andeux Jun 23,2010 6:00 pm

    So us cityfolk are now real Americans? This stuff is confusing.

    TINSTAAFK
    • nevermoor Jun 26,2010 9:30 am || Up

      Who agrees with Sarah Palin now?

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  3. TJ Jun 23,2010 10:12 pm

    Billy Beane: the only thing that outstrips the depths of his ego is the breadth of his excuses. It’s tiring.

    Here’s the thing- you can’t cry “injury foul” when your off-season acquisitions include Duke, Sheets, and Crisp. And they broke… big fucking surprise.

    The only objective way to judge a manager is to take a look at the preseason projections and see how they managed the team against those projections. And Bobo Geren has shit the bed for four years running. If the only story is “he’s had shitty teams” then the person who gave him said teams needs to be held accountable… I don’t know, I’m probably not thinking about this rationally right now. As we all know, the poor little A’s obviously need shit tons of public money and billionaire welfare for a stadium in order to be competitive and that is the narrative and yadda, yadda, yadda.

    If the honest truth is that the only thing that solves the riddle is more and more cash from Athletics consumers then maybe it’s time to rethink this whole operation. Maybe it’s time to stop caring so much about a soulless For Profit game that could give two shits about anyone who ever cared about it’s legacy.

    In summary: Nationalize Baseball.

    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jun 24,2010 12:56 pm || Up

      It’s going to be mighty hard for anyone to top that for June’s Awesome Rant of the Month award.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  4. monkeyball Jun 23,2010 11:08 pm
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    • andeux Jun 24,2010 9:48 am || Up

      This one’s easy to settle: only imbeciles and vegans use margarine.

      TINSTAAFK
      • nevermoor Jun 26,2010 9:32 am || Up

        Butter is among the healthier fats (but no canola oil). Margarine is among the worst (non-industrial-production section)

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  5. Poppy Jun 24,2010 12:39 am

    Nurse presumed to be in famous V-J Day smooch photo passes away at age 91. NY Daily News uses non-Eisenstaedt photo alongside write-up that refers to Eisenstaedt and LIFE; does not mention photo repro’s non-Eisenstaedtiness; relies on people like me who give a shit to go “Hey, that’s not…” and squint at the generally ignored photo credit. Booooo.

    There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
    • nevermoor Jun 26,2010 9:33 am || Up

      Very strange

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  6. danny Jun 24,2010 7:30 am

    MikeA–You were right. My bad.

  7. salb918 Jun 24,2010 7:47 am

    Eveland DFA again, this time from Pirates.

    • nevermoor Jun 26,2010 9:33 am || Up

      insert “we could use a guy like that” argument here.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  8. batgirl Jun 24,2010 10:08 am

    I don’t want to spoiler alert, so do we need a side TC thread?

    • sslinger Jun 24,2010 10:26 am || Up

      I’m going to watch tonight, but as long as it’s identified in here I can avoid it. Thanks.

      • batgirl Jun 24,2010 1:19 pm || Up

        I’ll wait ’til more folks have had a chance to watch.

        • FreeSeatUpgrade Jun 24,2010 1:58 pm || Up

          I’ve seen it. If everything you make is grainy, it’s time to hit the road.

          "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
          • batgirl Jun 25,2010 11:32 am || Up

            Yeah, I would agree. The editing made it seem like Sherry Chicken was going to go down. Colicchio’s blog said the pudding was completely inedible. I liked this challenge–it’s nice to see them work on a restrictive budget as well as noting the shameful mess that is school lunches.

            Also from Tom’s blog, the judges are on to Angelo…

            One last note: It almost appeared as though Angelo really played the rest of his team, trying to lose so that Kenny would be sent home. I don’t know if it’s true, but it certainly seemed that way…

            • sslinger Jun 25,2010 12:07 pm || Up

              All good points, but her team should never have let sherry girl have her way and buy that sherry at what cost, leaving nothing for dessert girl to work with. I expect sherry girl will be among the next to go anyway. Angelo has proven to be not just a douche but petty as well, and I hope it comes back to bite him. The cattiness at the judges table between the two losing teams was pitiful – they all seem kind of whiny. I almost wish we could skip ahead to when the half-dozen or so good ones are left.

              • FreeSeatUpgrade Jun 25,2010 12:26 pm || Up

                As train wreck entertainment, the two teams attacking each other was fun to watch. But I imagine I’d grow weary of it pretty quickly if it were a regular event.

                "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
                • sslinger Jun 25,2010 1:50 pm || Up

                  Yeah, that’s what I meant. It seems that a number of the contestants have taken to “playing the game of TC” more than taking their cooking seriously.

                • andeux Jun 25,2010 2:04 pm || Up

                  But I don’t think that kind of overt back-biting helps them very much. The judges seemed a bit disgusted by it. This group needs to learn the subtle art of throwing others under the bus (except for Angelo who I’m sure is already an expert).

                  TINSTAAFK
              • batgirl Jun 25,2010 12:34 pm || Up

                I hate listening to them argue. I actually really liked it at the end of last season where the 4 chefs standing seemed to respect each other so you didn’t have that petty bickering. It gets so tired.

                So, have either of you watched that “Work of Art” show? I’ve been watching because it’s summer and there’s not much on, but am still a bit skeptical. Art is so subjective and the judges really seem to be talking out of their asses. I also hate how they call the judging segment “the crit.”

                • sslinger Jun 25,2010 1:48 pm || Up

                  Haven’t watched yet but plan to catch up on demand, right after I catch up on the last few episodes of Treme. I’m definitely skeptical but hope that there might be some interesting nuggets in there.

                • andeux Jun 25,2010 2:07 pm || Up

                  I’ve gotten sucked in. Yeah it’s highly subjective – in the week before this one, half of the ones that they had on top I would have put on the bottom, and vice-versa. This week, it was pretty obvious who was going to lose about 10 minutes into the challenge.

                  TINSTAAFK
  9. monkeyball Jun 24,2010 10:25 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  10. monkeyball Jun 24,2010 10:47 am
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  11. monkeyball Jun 24,2010 11:20 am
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    • sslinger Jun 24,2010 11:44 am || Up

      Brilliant, but clearly he should have realized that it was not zombies that took over but blancmanges.

      • monkeyball Jun 24,2010 11:55 am || Up

        Or Scotsmen.

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  12. monkeyball Jun 24,2010 12:17 pm

    Parental bleg: How assiduous are the airlines about demanding proof of age for kids <2yo?

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    • green star oakland Jun 24,2010 12:20 pm || Up

      You’re looking to sit JP on a lap for a domestic flight, presumably.

      Shouldn’t be a problem since no ID is required, but which airline is it?

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • monkeyball Jun 24,2010 12:46 pm || Up

        Domestic, yes. Not booked yet, not even definitely flying anywhere yet. Thinking about possibly SW.

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        • green star oakland Jun 24,2010 2:04 pm || Up

          We had no problem with Lily on United or SW. No-one ever asked for any ID or proof of age.

          Both have stopped pre-boarding families though – not a problem with assigned seats unless overhead space is tight, but on SW it can be a hassle (you do get to board after group A).

          If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
          • green star oakland Jun 24,2010 2:05 pm || Up

            PS. If you end up on United, I have domestic upgrade certificates up the wazoo – let me know.

            If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
            • JediLeroy Jun 28,2010 11:23 pm || Up

              I have domestic upgrade certificates up the wazoo – let me know.

              Aww, dang. Didn’t see that “domestic” at first.

              I’m flying United next week from Kansai to SFO.

              az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
              • green star oakland Jun 28,2010 11:31 pm || Up

                Sorry I can’t help – international is a whole other ball of wax.

                If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • salb918 Jun 24,2010 12:35 pm || Up

      We were never asked on United and Alaska, but he was well under two. We flew when he was ~22 months and Northwest/KLM also didn’t ask, although on the international leg of the journey we obviously had to show our passport.

  13. salb918 Jun 24,2010 12:36 pm

    But you all know back when we were kids — and I’m talking to the grown folks here — being healthy wasn’t that hard. It just wasn’t that hard. Parents, particularly in the summer, could just open up their back door, send the kids out, give them a little breakfast and tell them, go away and don’t come back until we’re ready to see you again. (Laughter.) And you might run in for a second if you were a kid and grab a little lunch, right? But you weren’t watching the TV. You had to get up and get back out.

    And you usually wouldn’t even come home until dinner, and you wouldn’t even want to come home for dinner, because you were having so much fun running around. You had to be forced to sit down and eat a meal. And the meals that we got were generally pretty healthy, because they were usually cooked at home with a whole lot of loving care and fresh products and produce.

    And get off my lawn!

    • monkeyball Jun 24,2010 12:47 pm || Up

      I’m going to try guessing before even mousing over. Let’s see — probably too forwardly retrograde to be that annoying parenting-consultant or whatever she calls herself to whom you’ve linked a couple times.

      Hartlaub?

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      • salb918 Jun 24,2010 12:58 pm || Up

        AUDIENCE MEMBER: And fried chicken.

        Oh man, imagine if a Republican tried saying that.

    • monkeyball Jun 24,2010 12:48 pm || Up

      Ha! Boy did I miss. Nice one.

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      • salb918 Jun 24,2010 12:51 pm || Up

        Thanks, I figured it would throw some of you guys.

    • andeux Jun 24,2010 12:54 pm || Up

      Shouldn’t that be “Get off my local seasonal organic lawn!”?

      TINSTAAFK
      • monkeyball Jun 24,2010 12:57 pm || Up

        Shouldn’t that be “Get off your lawn!”?

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  14. salb918 Jun 24,2010 12:44 pm
  15. salb918 Jun 24,2010 12:56 pm

    5 MB

    If you consider Moore’s Law (transistor density doubles every 24 months) and apply it roughly to hard disk storage, then today that behemoth would hold (5e6)*2^[(2010-1956)/2] = 0.67 petabytes (or 670 terabytes).

    You can buy a terabyte hard drive for home use today for, what, a hundred bucks?

    • monkeyball Jun 24,2010 1:00 pm || Up

      … and that’s how we have enough computing capacity to keep kids from playing outdoors!

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    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jun 24,2010 2:00 pm || Up

      I got a 1.5 TB hard drive in February for $140, I think. And just a few days ago, after repeated angry phone calls and emails, I got my $20 rebate check. Those rebate processors are a total scam, and you’ve got to stay on top of them every step of the way, since they reap profit from losing paperwork and denying claims.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • green star oakland Jun 24,2010 2:06 pm || Up

      Most of the cost when you get up to scale is the switches rather than the disks themselves.

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • salb918 Jun 24,2010 2:10 pm || Up

        Right, so the disk itself must be less expensive. What’s the marginal cost of an TB in a hundred TB array?

        • green star oakland Jun 24,2010 4:08 pm || Up

          Purchasing at that level is beyond me, but I can ask around.

          If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
  16. monkeyball Jun 24,2010 2:14 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Jun 26,2010 9:46 am || Up

      The internet is for porn.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  17. monkeyball Jun 24,2010 3:33 pm

    Neyer piles on

    And then has a minor stupid:

    Of course, neither had we any idea that … Rich Harden would last only five innings per start

    Uh, really?

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    • grover Jun 24,2010 6:19 pm || Up

      God dammit.

      Now I’m going to have to do 3 minutes of research and call out Neyer on his fucking stupidity. I have to do the research because for the life of me I can’t remember how many teams Carlos Pena played for after he was traded by the A’s and before he actually produced in the Show. Nor can I remember how many years Cruz lingered in the minors after the Ginter trade before he started hitting.

      Nevermind. Fucking ESPN membership requirements.

      • green star oakland Jun 24,2010 7:47 pm || Up

        Yeah, Pena’s a terrible example (as Neyer must know). And at least Beane traded him – the Tigers, Yankees and Red Sox just released him before he joined the Rays as a free agent and started to hit.

        If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
        • monkeyball Jun 25,2010 5:21 am || Up

          To be quite honest, I’m really curious what Neyer spends his day doing — because he’s sure as heck not been reading much about baseball lately.

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      • monkeyball Jun 25,2010 5:22 am || Up

        Good points all around.

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  18. monkeyball Jun 24,2010 3:39 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Jun 26,2010 9:49 am || Up

      You didn’t go with “I have had a male parrot masturbate to ejaculation on my shoulder”?

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  19. whiteshoes40 Jun 24,2010 8:09 pm

    3. I don’t know why I continue to let Ratto piss me off. Ugh. Really, Ray, it’s not that complicated. Would you rather Dallas just spewed out the typical ballplayer nonsense? At least he’s interesting.

    • monkeyball Jun 24,2010 9:30 pm || Up

      Would you rather Ratto just spewed out the typical columnist nonsense? At least he’s interesting.

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  20. monkeyball Jun 24,2010 9:30 pm
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    • salb918 Jun 25,2010 5:04 am || Up

      $250? Wow, I *really* have no idea how much illicit goods cost. I would have guessed high five figures, minimum.

      • monkeyball Jun 25,2010 5:16 am || Up

        Save money. Live better. That’s $25, Sal. Rollbacks every day!

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      • andeux Jun 25,2010 9:47 am || Up

        That’s a big blow to your net worth.

        TINSTAAFK
        • salb918 Jun 25,2010 9:57 am || Up

          I’d make a joke, but even joking about such matters will get you a visit from Child Protective Services. We just had some friends go through an amazingly surreal ordeal with CPS. Yes, spend months investigating the ultra-vanilla, church-going, super-friendly family down the block because a five year old managed to unlatch a gate and wander a few yards from the playground.

          • monkeyball Jun 25,2010 10:28 am || Up

            a five year old managed to unlatch a gate … leading into a nuclear submarine base!

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          • green star oakland Jun 25,2010 11:20 am || Up

            For a while this was Lily’s favorite game, which led to her greeting me on my return from work each day by running to the door shouting “Daddy, Daddy – pot-head, pot-head” … we always expected a visit from CPS.

            If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
            • monkeyball Jun 25,2010 11:40 am || Up

              I’m having fun trying to imagine how that originated.

              JP’s favorite game right now is “BOING!!!” which consists of me picking him up from behind under the shoulders, and hoisting him on Neil Armstrong-meets-Mummenschanz style lunar “leaps” about 8-10 feet long and 5 feet high. If you could CGI me out of the picture, it would look very alarming.

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            • monkeyball Jun 25,2010 11:41 am || Up

              CAPTION CONTEST

              “Billy Beane and Bob Geren look for marginal utility in the 40-man roster.”

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              • nevermoor Jun 26,2010 9:51 am || Up

                “I think under difficult circumstances he’s done a good job,” Beane told FanHouse. “Having the youngest team with the lowest payroll in the league is a difficult challenge for any manager, and given the amount of injuries that makes it that much more difficult. I think you have to be realistic with what you are given to start and ultimately what you have to work with, and quite frankly, he hasn’t had a whole lot to work with.”

                "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Jun 25,2010 5:19 am || Up

      Now, see, what they could have done legally was to take out a short-term loan from the Walmart bank to buy meth — then, when they defaulted, Walmart could have just taken the baby as collateral.

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    • monkeyball Jun 25,2010 4:55 pm || Up
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  21. salb918 Jun 25,2010 9:45 am

    That was fun.

    I just watched the Portugal-Brazil match in the common room in our building. My Portuguese neighbors invited over all their friends to watch. And the building maintenance crew is a group of three Brazilians. So on the one side there were Portuguese students, mostly from well-to-do families, and on the other side there were Brazilian immigrants working low-skill/low-pay jobs. And both very, very passionate for what was essentially a seeding match.

    • green star oakland Jun 25,2010 11:33 am || Up

      Now that they’ve synchronized the last games in the groups (to avoid a repeat of the shameful 1982 Germany-Austria fix), perhaps they should do the same with the groups that are paired up for the next rounds, since at the moment the group playing second has the advantage of knowing who they will face depending on their results.

      Had Spain/Chile played first, then Portugal and Brazil would have known where to finish to avoid Spain … you could imagine Spain finishing second in their group and Brazil then intentionally scoring a 90th minute own goal to avoid them.

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
  22. salb918 Jun 25,2010 10:19 am
    • nevermoor Jun 26,2010 9:53 am || Up

      That’s some hard-hitting news.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  23. green star oakland Jun 25,2010 11:54 am

    That is ridiculous! The keeper has to put that out of play, but the finish was fantastic.

    If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • green star oakland Jun 25,2010 12:09 pm || Up

      Again, horrible defending but beautiful execution.

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • green star oakland Jun 25,2010 12:25 pm || Up

        Shocking refereeing from the evangelical priest known to the Mexican press as Dracula.

        First 3 early yellows for nothing fouls forced him not to card one of the booked players for a subsequent serious foul. Then the same player accidentally clipped the heels of a striker off the ball but through on goal and finally gets sent off. And now when the ankle-breakers are being committed he can’t send a 2nd player off without destroying the game.

        If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
        • green star oakland Jun 25,2010 12:36 pm || Up

          And that’s an absurd goal to start the 2nd half.

          If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • monkeyball Jun 25,2010 12:31 pm || Up

        aka Texas Justice!

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    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jun 25,2010 3:23 pm || Up

      I ended up correctly picking 12 of the 16 teams who advanced, 7 in the exact correct group finishing spot. I have no idea if that’s a good, poor, or mediocre performance.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • green star oakland Jun 25,2010 4:27 pm || Up

        What would you have made betting your line?

        If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
  24. monkeyball Jun 25,2010 1:58 pm

    Conspiracy theory time: I’m sure many of you have been reading about Dave Weigel’s ouster from the WaPo.

    as Alyssa Rosenberg points out, whatever treacherous bottom-feeder decided to leak Dave’s e-mails was either on or had access to the liberal JournoList, which raises a question of motive. In the socially stunted high-school environment of DC, simple professional jealousy can’t be ruled out.

    Hmmm … three prominent online lefties (I know, everyone’s protesting that rubric for Weigel, but c’mon) hired by the WaPo over the last several years, Weigel and Froomkin shitcanned, only one remains — who happens to be the proprietor of the list from whence Weigel’s intemperate comment were linked? HmmmMMMMMmmmMMMMmmm …

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    • nevermoor Jun 26,2010 9:54 am || Up

      Anyone who thinks listservs are secret in that environment deserves what they get.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  25. monkeyball Jun 25,2010 2:03 pm

    Byg Twyt actually makes a couple interesting points here, especially:

    Remember when the A’s absolutely LOVED Eric Patterson? Kinda high on Jake Fox at one point, too, if memory serves. Maybe this is an overreaction, but perhaps some sort of moratorium on trades with the Cubs is in order for Oakland.

    Or perhaps a reassessment of whomever the A’s have scouting the upper midwest …

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    • salb918 Jun 25,2010 2:08 pm || Up

      Remember the days when we would trade Miguel Cairo to the Cubs for Eric Hinske?

      • salb918 Jun 25,2010 2:09 pm || Up

        Actually, that was a weird trade. We signed Miguel Cairo in January and traded him at the end of Spring Training.

        • salb918 Jun 25,2010 2:14 pm || Up

          Oh man, this brings me back.

          The A’s also will attempt to work the 2000 Pacific Coast League MVP, second baseman Jose Ortiz, into the mix. A virtual Jose Vidro-clone with more speed, Ortiz may bat behind Damon in the two-hole.

          • monkeyball Jun 25,2010 2:26 pm || Up

            Jesus. What a trip.

            Super-sub Frank Menechino is looming, but watch out for infielder Mark Bellhorn, who provided some pop for Sacramento (.266, 24 HR, 73 RBI, 20 SB). Bellhorn has previous major league experience with Oakland, and if Ortiz falters, look for his name to be penciled into the lineup

            Cairo? Dave Eiland? Eric Ireland? (Clearly, Beane goes through phases where he acquires multiple players with similar lexical constructions.)

            And the Worst-Case Scenario is pretty funny.

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            • salb918 Jun 25,2010 2:29 pm || Up

              Yeah, it’s like 2007-2010.

            • monkeyball Jun 25,2010 2:31 pm || Up

              2002:

              Terrence Long is a brutal centerfielder. He has a tough time judging balls in front of him, and he doesn’t go back and forth well.

              Also, this detail is … interesting:

              [Carlos] Peña, who had a solid .361 OBP in a 22-game trial with Texas last year while living and learning under the roof of Alex Rodriguez, who took him in as a boarder.

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              • green star oakland Jun 25,2010 2:35 pm || Up

                And

                Billy Koch … just throws hard and straight, and if you can hit a good fastball, you’ll get him.

                Shudder.

                If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
              • salb918 Jun 25,2010 2:45 pm || Up

                who drove in 59 runs in 61 games

                I heard this stat so often that it’s burned into my head.

              • monkeyball Jun 25,2010 2:50 pm || Up

                After thinking some more about that Pena anecdote, I think I can fit that in nicely with my pet theory that Beane decided ca 2001 that he was going to rid his clubhouse of ‘roiders (hence, letting Big G go, getting rid of Velarde, the Chavvy-Tejada choice [and Chavvy’s subsequent/consequent breakdown]). So, say (for the sake of conspiracizing) Pena got at least a hint about juicing while living in Casa A-Rod; he comes to the A’s, gets the not-quite-official message to knock it off — and then either his power disappears because he does or he refuses (perhaps after initially agreeing and then going back), gets found out, and gets shipped out.

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  26. salb918 Jun 25,2010 2:49 pm

    Jamey Carroll: .293/.395/.325

    Weren’t the A’s thinking about signing this guy?

    • monkeyball Jun 25,2010 2:52 pm || Up

      What a … Bartonesque Custian line.

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  27. monkeyball Jun 25,2010 4:51 pm
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    • green star oakland Jun 25,2010 4:54 pm || Up

      I’m guessing those two groups have a pretty small overlap.

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • monkeyball Jun 25,2010 4:57 pm || Up

        I dunno. Hatred of the French is a pretty big circle.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • sslinger Jun 25,2010 5:01 pm || Up

        Need Moar Venn Diagrams!

      • nevermoor Jun 26,2010 10:16 am || Up

        Wasn’t there a conserva-spat about that with Beck doing the “libruls are shoving soccer down our throats” act while others pushed back?

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  28. monkeyball Jun 25,2010 4:57 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  29. green star oakland Jun 25,2010 5:36 pm

    Meanwhile, in the front row at the Glastonbury Festival …

    If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • batgirl Jun 25,2010 6:27 pm || Up

      Nice. Put that hat on the gorilla and we’ll really have something!

  30. andeux Jun 26,2010 3:58 pm

    Here’s a political party FK could get behind:

    With his party having won 6 of the City Council’s 15 seats, Mr. Gnarr needed a coalition partner, but ruled out any party whose members had not seen all five seasons of “The Wire.”

    The campaign released a popular video set to Tina Turner’s “The Best,” in which Mr. Gnarr posed with a stuffed polar bear and petted a rock, while joining his supporters in singing about the Best Party.

    “A lot of us are singers,” said Ottarr Proppe, the third-ranking member of the Best Party, who was with the cult rock band HAM and the punk band Rass. Mr. Proppe now sits on the city’s executive board, where he will be deciding matters like how much money to allocate for roads. “Making a video was very easy,” he said.

    TINSTAAFK
    • sslinger Jun 26,2010 7:08 pm || Up

      Not sure this part of his platform passes the FK test:

      A “drug-free Parliament by 2020.”

  31. nevermoor Jun 27,2010 4:33 pm

    Good thing this guy is gone (although he did have it coming).

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  32. salb918 Jun 28,2010 7:36 am

    Dan Johnson is hitting .302/.394/.587 at AAA Durham.

    • nevermoor Jun 28,2010 9:38 am || Up

      Dan. Johnson.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  33. nevermoor Jun 28,2010 10:03 am
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  34. salb918 Jun 28,2010 1:58 pm

    Sometimes one must reuse old ideas.

    • nevermoor Jun 28,2010 4:11 pm || Up

      I’d be interested in that. Won’t happen though.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Jun 28,2010 5:13 pm || Up

        Interested in what? A George Will subroutine-bot that churns out the same column every 4 years like clockwork?

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • nevermoor Jun 28,2010 10:16 pm || Up

          An environment where those questions (and their liberal alternatives) are asked and answered

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  35. salb918 Jun 28,2010 6:19 pm
    • monkeyball Jun 28,2010 11:55 pm || Up

      “What’s left? What takes over?” he asks. “The area of the brain that drives your id-type behaviors, which is rage, violence, eating, sex, drinking.”

      I guess that either proves or disproves the theory of sublimation.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  36. monkeyball Jun 29,2010 12:25 am

    Sol is a nasty, punishing bastard of a sky-god, but he certainly does his part in making tasty olallieberries, cherries, and peaches. Mmm, stone fruit in season …

    Also: spent yesterday here, enjoying a picnic courtesy of Liz and Dan, who invited all their CSA customers up for a farm visit/tour/meet-and-greet. Fun and interesting, but hot as all git out. JP and I donned our anti-Sol clown outfits (big floppy hats from here, ZO sunblock/facepaint), so we were well protected. Meesus Moonkeyball, not so much unfortunately …

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come

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