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28 Apr 2009  |  mikeA  |The Grill

But not at fun graphs/graphics, or links, or interesting prose, or damnit I don’t have anything to post. I blame the swine flu. Ok, I just looked around for a little longer. There are no links. None. If you go to **, you might notice that our secret is out… also, fk is criticized for too much spice. Here is a picture of favorite spice:

Bonus picture: Chris Jakubauskas’s gameday photo:

note to soaker: we actually tried to invite you (and WC for that matter) but were unable to find you email address, so instead the “trail of breadcrumbs” plan was adopted.

162 thoughts on “DLD: I’m Good at Titles”

  1. monkeyball Apr 28,2009 10:45 am

    Oh, fuck no.

  2. soaker Apr 28,2009 10:47 am

    I don’t know why you would have invited me; I don’t post that much and when I do I’m boring as hell. Unless my BAC is above .12 or so…man, there are a few old comments I wish I could delete.

    I was curious about the departure (or reduced posting) of several prominent posters and was looking at their SBN profiles. It was the link on Jennifer’s blog that led me over here.

    • Poppy Apr 28,2009 1:57 pm || Up

      We’ll have monkeyball organize an event for you to commit to…

  3. monkeyball Apr 28,2009 10:55 am

    The A’s third baseman and second baseman discover a mysterious space blob:

    Ouchi and Ellis

    • monkeyball Apr 28,2009 2:12 pm || Up

      I have read the infamous memo, although not recently

      (andeux eviscerates that claim nicely in the thread)

  4. 74mk Apr 28,2009 11:00 am

    We’ve also got volume, interface, groupthink, and clown pornography problems. I hadn’t realized it was so bad (that’s where the groupthink comes in, duh).

    Obviously now we have to have a big FK thread where everyone carries on about why Poppy was banned and how the site wouldn’t have gone in the toilet if monkeyball hadn’t signed that deal with Frank’s Quality Kraut, after which I’ll have to go through the trouble of starting a new site, with an even kludgier interface, for a select subset of Krauthors who are sick and tired of all the arguing and just want to be left alone to talk about monkeys and robots and tRA.

    Or not. Links:

    1. This is why I restrict my Internet surfing to double top secret websites like Free Kraut:

    The unnamed woman said she had to be away from her monitor lying in the dark, but was then seen to be active on Facebook. Insurance company Nationale Suisse said in a statement that behavior had destroyed its trust in the employee.

    “This abuse of trust, rather than the activity on Facebook, led to the ending of the work contract,” a spokesman for the firm said.

    2. Banner Island Ballpark on 8/15, for those of you who live in the area.

    3. It would not be shocking if Andruw Jones had a good season. He’s only 32 after all, and it seems entirely within the realm of possiblity that his recent decline was more attributable to disinterest and donuts than skill erosion. I wouldn’t want to sign him to his next contract, but I might like to have him this year.

    4. I’ll re-link this from the last thread. This part was news to me:

    Despite hitting well for the Orioles in ’03, he ended up repeating Triple-A in ’04, hitting just .235/.358/.433. Cust attributed his poor performance to a philosophical disagreement with Orioles coaches, saying that the Orioles ordered him to be more aggressive and that he wasn’t comfortable with this mandated approach.

  5. nevermoor Apr 28,2009 11:02 am

    Speaking of the ** mention. I’ve lost patience with our potential webhost and plan to just use a crappy free one (for now). What that means is that by the end of this weekend (at the latest) FK will have a new sandbox complete with customizability.

    That said, if anyone has free web hosting experiences to share (that support php and mysql) please do. If anyone wants to get a jump on customization wishlists, start looking at wordpress plugins.

  6. monkeyball Apr 28,2009 11:35 am

    The trifecta:
    1. Gwen Knapp
    2. Barry Zito
    3. Twitter

  7. salb918 Apr 28,2009 11:40 am

    FK could use a good meta-discussion, or better, a meta-meta-discussion.

    Post off-day fluff piece! He even put in a paragraph just for 74mk:

    Perhaps it’s all summed up in the plight of Matt Holliday, homerless and barely resembling someone who could go deep. That will change (ask the Colorado Rockies, who still speak of Holliday in reverential terms), but in a way, Holliday is a living, breathing symbol of the Coliseum: sturdy and accomplished, yet somehow doomed. It’s difficult to put any emotional stake in a player who either will be traded in July or will be cast onto the free-agent market in autumn.

    We are so boned.

    Also:

    Then there’s Seattle, where the A’s will get their first regular-season look (this weekend) at another old friend, Don Wakamatsu, who earned a promotion from Bob Geren’s bench coach to the Mariners’ manager. It’s funny how a few new faces can change the landscape. With Wakamatsu running the team and Ken Griffey Jr., Russell Branyan and Mike Sweeney reviving a once-putrid clubhouse, the M’s seem to think they’re onto something.

    Wait, so we weren’t swept by the M’s earlier this season? That was all a nightmare? Thank goodness!

    Hey, speaking of meta.

    Brian Wilson appeared to have been running a little gag on tweet:

    As a follower of Wilson, I have seen it first-hand, and for people to actually take every one of his tweets serious is one uneducated move, even for the most accomplished journalists.

    I mean, just how many people go from talking about driving city buses to mentioning a desire to take on ninjas in the octagon at an MMA event?

    Wilson may be able to chuck a baseball, but he’d be wise to hang out at FK if he hopes to master the art of internet snark.

  8. salb918 Apr 28,2009 11:41 am

    Matt Vasgersian, on the other hand, seems to have mastered snarkiness and brought it live to America’s living room.

  9. monkeyball Apr 28,2009 11:44 am

    Wait. Is the NYT saying what I think they’re saying?

    Two-way traffic is not unheard of in other mammals

  10. the dogfather Apr 28,2009 11:44 am

    What’s with the pile of clown hair in the intro?

    • doctorK Apr 28,2009 3:54 pm || Up

      … must answer me these questions three … ere the blog membership you see.

  11. xbhaskarx Apr 28,2009 12:03 pm

    Quality television “Big Rig Police Chase” on CNN right now. The driver is hanging on to the back, with his shirt over his head, and the left tire is gone.
    There should be a channel devoted to police chases (and a honey-covered Ashton Kutcher being hunted down by warthogs).

  12. Poppy Apr 28,2009 12:44 pm

    I have nothing to say to you people because there are only, like, ten of you and you bore me now, or you’ll bore me later so I’m just mentioning it now because I’ll be too busy later to realize how bored I’ve become.

    But

    STOCKTON PORTS ON SATURDAY JULY 11 AT 7:05?

    And then again in San Jose vs. the SJ Giants on Saturday July 25 for oblique’s fundraiser?

    I want to do both. Maybe it’ll help me not be so bored this summer.

    • monkeyball Apr 28,2009 4:01 pm || Up

      … and Chavvy and the A’s keep coming up with baroque variants on “day-to-day.”

    • 74mk Apr 28,2009 4:30 pm || Up

      1. Inman, Outman

      2. Mortal lock: During Saturday’s game, Fosse will sagely observe that sinkerball pitchers are usually better on less rest.

      I’ve always thought that cliche was one of those things that sounds reasonable on first blush, but is actually stupid. Now that I think about it, though, I realize I actually have no idea whether or not it’s true.

  13. whiteshoes40 Apr 28,2009 1:26 pm

    Oooo, FK vs. ** steel cage match. [grabs popcorn]

    • nevermoor Apr 28,2009 4:15 pm || Up

      It’s the primary motivator for the hosting switch (which, I’ll admit, has taken too long).

  14. mikeA Apr 28,2009 1:53 pm

    Maybe if enough suspense builds up about the secret blog, we can charge people $10 each for the url.

  15. Poppy Apr 28,2009 2:10 pm

    I need to take pictures of an animal doing something interesting (not just a household pet being cute). Anybody have a frisbee dog or a rabid badger or something they can lend me?

  16. mjdittmer Apr 28,2009 3:31 pm

    JoePo takes Pedro’s side in the Pedro vs. Maddux debate.

    The Sharks bow out with a whimper, and the Chronicle didn’t even send Ratto. He did weigh in via blog last night.

    He also suggests that the NBA playoffs are boring, a hypothesis that’s so universally agreed-upon, it’s probably as boring as the actual playoffs themselves. The New Orleans Hornets were, after all, bored enough to roll over and lose by 58. However, even Ratto would probably grant Bill Simmons that the Celtics-Bulls series has been pretty good.

    I also like Ratto’s idea that NFL draftees ought to be able to take a mulligan.

    Do people feel less inclined here to join a thread once it’s 126 comments old? Or is it just me?

  17. mikeA Apr 28,2009 3:52 pm
  18. mikeA Apr 28,2009 4:04 pm

    Sweeney Cf
    Cabrera SS
    Giambi 1b
    Holliday Lf
    Cust DH
    Garciaparra 3b
    Suzuki C
    Buck Rf
    Ellis 2b

    No horrible surprises today.

  19. xbhaskarx Apr 28,2009 5:49 pm

    Well, this game sucks so far.

  20. monkeyball Apr 28,2009 5:51 pm

    game thread

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