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We feel that we’re next 54

25 Oct 2010  |  monkeyball  |The Grill

Off-day. Feh.

  1. TWMYS
  2. This would be awesome:
  3. Scratch AZ off Curt Young’s interview list? (Nagy was one of my favorite Jacobs Field-era Indians.)
  4. In college, I was lead axeman for the Hollywood Star Whackers

54 thoughts on “We feel that we’re next”

  1. ptbnl Oct 25,2010 2:59 pm

    2. Presumably that’s as player-manager.

    If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
  2. andeux Oct 25,2010 3:58 pm

    So on the plus side, if I still had a job I wouldn’t be drinking a beer right now.

    TINSTAAFK
    • nanotrebuchet Oct 25,2010 3:59 pm || Up

      ugh. sorry to hear that.

      • andeux Oct 25,2010 4:10 pm || Up

        Thanks. The writing was on the wall three weeks ago. My boss made a last ditch ever to keep us going, but it was not to be.

        TINSTAAFK
        • Leopold Bloom Oct 26,2010 10:02 am || Up

          I’m sorry, dude. That sucks. You can come live in the garage with me.

    • monkeyball Oct 25,2010 4:00 pm || Up

      Aw, man.

      I wish I was drinking a beer right now.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • andeux Oct 25,2010 4:11 pm || Up

        The beer drinking can either precede or follow the job loss.

        TINSTAAFK
    • batgirl Oct 25,2010 4:09 pm || Up

      Aw crap–I’m so sorry!

    • ptbnl Oct 25,2010 4:10 pm || Up

      Damn. I hope it’s good beer.

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • andeux Oct 25,2010 4:16 pm || Up

        Black butte porter

        TINSTAAFK
        • Leopold Bloom Oct 26,2010 10:03 am || Up

          Better start drinking Natty Light, brah: you’re unemployed.

    • nevermoor Oct 25,2010 4:20 pm || Up

      Sucks, sorry dude.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • Soaker Oct 25,2010 4:34 pm || Up

      I’m sorry to hear that. I’ve drunk all the Dogfish Heads I picked up from that Reno Homebrewing place you suggested, but since you’re drinking a Black Butte Porter, I think I’ll grab one of those Obsidian Stouts I have downstairs.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • mk Oct 25,2010 5:04 pm || Up

      Fuck. Well, now’s your chance to write the Great American Novel. And/or those substantive posts nevermoor’s pining for. Or I guess you could just stick with the beer drinking. Maybe cultivate some movie star stubble and spend the days smoking contemplatively on the front porch.

      • monkeyball Oct 25,2010 5:18 pm || Up

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • sslinger Oct 25,2010 5:42 pm || Up

      That is a bummer – sorry to hear it. If you want to meet up for a few innings of the WS at Triple Rock I’ll buy.

      • andeux Oct 26,2010 10:39 am || Up

        My aversion to crowds (and especially crowds of giants fans) will probably keep me out of bars during the series. But if you guys are still meeting to play bridge and need a fourth some time, let me know.

        TINSTAAFK
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Oct 25,2010 6:17 pm || Up

      I still have a job. I’m now home and on my second double scotch in an effort to recover from it.

      Sorry to hear your news. May your unemployment last no longer than you want it to, but may you also enjoy it while it lasts. I’ve had some of the best times of my life whilst between jobs.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • ptbnl Oct 25,2010 6:31 pm || Up

        Damn. I hope it’s good scotch.

        If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
        • FreeSeatUpgrade Oct 25,2010 7:27 pm || Up

          The Macallan Fine Oak, 10 years. Good, not exquisite.

          "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
          • monkeyball Oct 26,2010 6:02 am || Up

            That’s nice stuff. The 18-year sherry is superb.

            For every day, I like the Laphroaig 10 (older than that, you start to lose the peatiness).

            you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
            • Leopold Bloom Oct 26,2010 10:04 am || Up

              …and you’re gonna want that peatiness.

    • JediLeroy Oct 25,2010 8:14 pm || Up

      Dang. My sister just found out her company’s folding, too. Good luck with your job hunt.

      az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
    • Poppy Oct 27,2010 9:41 pm || Up

      I’m late, but boooooooooooooooooooo :(

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
    • oblique Nov 1,2010 1:47 pm || Up

      I’m even later, but sorry to hear it. Great call on the Black Butte Porter.

  3. monkeyball Oct 25,2010 4:25 pm

    Well, this is odd

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nanotrebuchet Oct 25,2010 4:45 pm || Up

      it’s a five-month contract with a team option for the rest of the season, plus 2012-2014, that vests if the blue jays have a better record than the yankees and red sox.

      • monkeyball Oct 25,2010 5:20 pm || Up

        It’s the first true sabermetric contract: a series of continually self-adjusting micro-options to renew based on recursive game-moment-to-game-moment analysis of WPA.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  4. monkeyball Oct 25,2010 4:28 pm

    Hunh. I better re-plan my zipcar route from work to pick up JP from daycare …

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  5. monkeyball Oct 25,2010 5:22 pm

    4. Oh, suuuuuuuuuuuuure, buddy. Just tell that to Randy Quaid. (Via Wolcott, who is a genius at blogpost titles.)

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • Leopold Bloom Oct 26,2010 10:12 am || Up

      Fuck that guy. Easton Ellis can write. Critics are only good at one thing: blowjobs. Cup the balls, IOZ. Cup the balls.

      I do appreciate his choice in canines, however.

  6. grover Oct 25,2010 10:33 pm

    Need some help in writing an FK piece.

    Who would you want playing 1B for the A’s in 2011 if it couldn’t be Daric Barton?

    Some reading material to explain why I asked the question. Participate in the poll if you like but I’d consider it a kindness if you could wait to hand me my head on a platter until after I post on Thursday.

    • nevermoor Oct 26,2010 9:30 am || Up

      In the free agent pool I’d be interested in Dunn or Konerko, depending on price, but not really anyone else. Berkman is too old, Johnson is too injured, Lee is too old, Pena and Giambi are been there done that.

      Internally there isn’t really anyone.

      In dream trades I’m thinking Kila Ka’aihue.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Oct 26,2010 9:50 am || Up

        Dan. Johnson.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • nevermoor Oct 26,2010 9:53 am || Up

          I’m ghostriding my office chair in protest of this comment.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • monkeyball Oct 26,2010 9:55 am || Up

            We should trade for DJ … and then play him at third!

            you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
          • ptbnl Oct 26,2010 10:02 am || Up

            Office? It’s a typing pool with a mayor.

            If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
            • nevermoor Oct 26,2010 10:15 am || Up

              I’m thinking I’m missing something.

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
              • ptbnl Oct 26,2010 10:46 am || Up

                It was a very weak riff on Fremont being a parking lot with a mayor … hey, I’m busy here.

                If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • grover Oct 26,2010 4:34 pm || Up

        Here’s what I’m trying to pull off…

        Upton in CF, Kemp in RF and I’ll slot one of Konerko/Dunn at 1B. Not sure about LF yet but ideally it would be Crisp with Carter waiting in Sac for the inevitable injury.

        If I can figure out a way to realistically present a plan to accomplish all that and I don’t have to give up one of Cahill/Braden/Anderson/Gio in the process… I’ll expect some serious tummy rubs.

        • nevermoor Oct 26,2010 4:35 pm || Up

          That would be pretty cool.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • monkeyball Oct 26,2010 4:38 pm || Up

          Why not trade Gio? Swap him in for Barton in trade scenarios, and use the money saved on the 1B replacement to go after … Cliff Lee.

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
          • monkeyball Oct 26,2010 4:40 pm || Up

            Give him a short but insanely lucrative (possibly front-loaded … 30/25/20?) contract, tell him his numbers from 3 years in the Mausoleum will make him look even better.

            you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
            • nevermoor Oct 26,2010 4:50 pm || Up

              I think Gio is going to be a fantastic pitcher though. My first thought is that I’d rather have him / Konerko than Barton / Lee

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
              • monkeyball Oct 26,2010 5:06 pm || Up

                The kid is clearly due for a decline

                (I don’t pretend to know enough to assess the validity of that argument.)

                you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • grover Oct 26,2010 5:16 pm || Up

                  That’s possible. But Gio has a certain value and it would be a waste of a trade asset to use him to acquire either Kemp or Upton. And with a day and a half to write, I can’t pull together a 3-team deal that makes any kind of sense.

                • monkeyball Oct 26,2010 5:26 pm || Up

                  Well now hold on a sec — is it that he won’t land Upton, or that he’d be a waste (which I read as: overpay)?

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • grover Oct 26,2010 9:24 pm || Up

                  Tampa’s loaded with starting pitching, they don’t have a need for Gio. They’d essentially have to flip him for whatever they actually needed. They’re slashing payroll to $50 million next year… they need cheap talent.

                  So yes, Gio is more than enough to land Upton (i.e. and overpay) but Tampa has no need for his services.

                • monkeyball Oct 27,2010 6:01 am || Up

                  Ah, got it.

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • nevermoor Oct 26,2010 5:18 pm || Up

                  Well, I don’t care about fantasy BB. So there’s that.

                  The only question to me is whether the improved control is real. The improved ability to not Gio-meltdown seems real, and his 2009 BABIP looks a lot more like an outlier than his 2010 BABIP.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • monkeyball Oct 26,2010 5:27 pm || Up

                  I don’t care about fantasy bb either — but the argument (and again I’m an idiot when it boils down to these advanced metrics) seems valid as it’s based on actual performance metrics.

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
          • grover Oct 26,2010 4:55 pm || Up

            I’d trade anybody if I thought it would help improve the team. But Gio won’t land you Upton and I think he’d be an overpay for Kemp.

  7. andeux Oct 26,2010 9:03 am
    TINSTAAFK
    • Leopold Bloom Oct 26,2010 10:17 am || Up

      Ye canna change the laws of physics!

      (so this is what you’re doing with your off-time? Come on….don’t be LB…oh, and yer linkylink’s playing dead…)

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