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28 Dec 2011  |  monkeyball  |The Grill
  1. Slusser and Magowan tap on the brakes going south on 880
  2. Slusserer: A’s in on Soler?
  3. DFA bait:

  5. Arby’s hits? Nacho runs?

  6. “I was actually kind of serious”

41 thoughts on “A nervous chuckle and a quick getaway”

  1. DFA Dec 28,2011 9:18 am

    1 I have been quite surprised how little traction the Nightengale report got. Usually with something like that there is a lot more confirmation by sources from other reporters after… not so much here.

    2. Thank god. But this is still concerning:

    In addition, Cespedes is believed to want a four-year deal, too short for the A’s purposes when the team hopes to move into a new stadium in three years, or a 10-year deal, which is too lengthy.

    Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/27/SP451MGHGT.DTL#ixzz1hqm9VGAD

    Basically, this is wrong. Unless he is requiring a no arbitration after 4 years clause in his contract, which no one has reported, you get him for 6 years of control.

    In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
    • dmoas Dec 28,2011 9:29 am || Up

      Either Selig has tightened down on all parties with an iron grip or more likely it’s just hot air and the A’s end of season campaign to try to draw national interest in their situation is “working.”

      • FreeSeatUpgrade Dec 28,2011 9:57 am || Up

        The feeling in the Giants’ camp is that the A’s think if they just keep saying they’re optimistic about a new stadium, it will happen.

        I do think the A’s launched a PR strategy in September along these lines, like a market tout talking up a a stock he’s already invested in to up it’s value. But I don’t think it was just based on wishful thinking, but rather a tacit or possibly explicit set of new expectations Wolff got from Selig (like taking land control issues out of the scope of the redevelopment lawsuit, which they’ve done). I’m still expecting MLB to let the A’s go south (ahem) sometime this winter.

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
        • dmoas Dec 28,2011 10:04 am || Up

          I’m not 100% sold on the tacit/explicit approval just yet. I think it’s a product of their PR campaign where the more it gets thrown around, the more people think it’s true, the more convoluted and full of mines MLB will have to walk through if they turn them down. I’m expecting the decision this winter as well, but I also won’t be the least bit surprised if come opening day we’ve heard nada from Selig.

          • jeepers Dec 28,2011 12:31 pm || Up

            Selig desperately wants the decision to be made for him, somehow. I’m guessing he’s hoping for one of two things:

            1) The A’s twist in the wind for long enough – and collecting enough revenue sharing checks – that all the other owners (except the Giants) get motivated to do something about it.

            2) Wolff gives up and a magical fairy builds in Oakland.

            I don’t think Selig himself is pro- or anti-San Jose. He’s pro-path of least resistance.

            • dmoas Dec 28,2011 12:35 pm || Up

              I’d agree with that. Hell, it wouldn’t be surprising to me if he passed the mess off to the next guy since he’s supposedly retiring at the end of the year.

              • YonYonson Dec 28,2011 12:57 pm || Up

                Yup. I see that happening. It’s more of a game of chicken, with both sides seeing who takes the risk. No current parties probably will.

                "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." — Satchel Paige
                • Future Ed Dec 28,2011 1:01 pm || Up

                  It is a very slow game of chicken

                  I have $5. No I don\'t.
                • dmoas Dec 28,2011 1:25 pm || Up

                  Hence the reason why it’s seeing unsourced “leaks” and immediate retractions. The more MLB is asked about it, the more people catch on to something funky going on. It won’t, in itself, force a move of any sort, but it will shine an ugly light on MLB that they’d prefer not to be there. What the situation really needs is an “FU berating Geren” like move.

    • grover Dec 28,2011 10:41 am || Up

      I think international players can get a clause written into their contract earning them FA rights in less than 4 years. IIRC Matsui had something like that in his first contract with the Yankees.

      Cots.

      Hideki Matsui dh-of
      1 year/$4.25M (2011)
      1 year/$4.25M (2011)
      signed by Oakland as a free agent 12/14/10
      performance bonuses
      1 year/$6M (2010)
      signed by LA Angels as a free agent 12/16/09

      4 years/$52M (2006-09)
      signed extension with NY Yankees as a free agent 11/05
      06-09:$13M annually
      3 years/$21M (2003-05)
      signed by NY Yankees as a free agent 12/02
      03:$6M, 04:$7M, 05:$8M
      $1.5M in performance bonuses
      deal requires Yankees to sign Matsui to extension by Nov. 11, 2005, or release him

      1 year/$4.7M (2002)
      signed by Yomiuri of Japan’s Central League 12/01
      agent: Arn Tellem
      ML service: 9.000

      • DFA Dec 28,2011 11:42 am || Up

        Right… Its been done with Japanese players but not with Cubans IIRC. Akinori Iwamura had that kinda clause.

        In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
  2. MikeV Dec 28,2011 9:26 am
    And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

    Thanks, and go As.

    • nevermoor Dec 28,2011 10:47 am || Up
      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • the llama Dec 28,2011 1:22 pm || Up

        Available up to 5XL

        • nevermoor Dec 28,2011 1:26 pm || Up

          Fat people can make fun of midgets too. See.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  3. andeux Dec 28,2011 9:32 am
    TINSTAAFK
  4. FreeSeatUpgrade Dec 28,2011 10:22 am

    Some girls want to buy superheroes!

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  5. FreeSeatUpgrade Dec 28,2011 11:57 am

    One of these sects of priest needs to acquire Grant Desme to help with their next broomstick swinging brawl at the Church of the Nativity.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  6. nevermoor Dec 28,2011 12:22 pm

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  7. nevermoor Dec 28,2011 12:23 pm

    High comedy, conservates-are-full-of-shit edition.

    As near as I can see, Rick Perry has on the stump promised to try to impeach–or perhaps lynch–any appellate judge or Supreme Court justice who grants the relief that Perry now prays for…

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  8. nevermoor Dec 28,2011 12:33 pm

    Highest and best use of Stark. Though the A’s only get this:

    Incredibly, the two starters in June 28’s White Sox-Rockies game — Gavin Floyd and Jason Hammel — had exactly the same pitching line (7-6-2-2-2-0). That’s a feat so rare, it had happened only once in the previous 30 years. So, naturally, it took only nine weeks until it happened again — with Ubaldo Jimenez and Rich Harden spinning off dueling 6-6-3-3-2-6 lines in an Indians-A’s game.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  9. the llama Dec 28,2011 5:48 pm

    Passing Safeco field

    • grover Dec 28,2011 6:21 pm || Up

      I never realized how close Safeco was to the waterfront until I drove by while visiting my parents in Washington.

      • DFA Dec 28,2011 7:45 pm || Up

        but its in a strange part of town

        In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
        • Future Ed Dec 28,2011 7:58 pm || Up

          Its 2 blocks from P square. and 1 block from Ebbets Field flannels

          I have $5. No I don\'t.
          • DFA Dec 28,2011 8:09 pm || Up

            ionno i just remember walking out there and being like oh wow… now there is nothing out here except these two giant stadiums

            In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
            • Future Ed Dec 28,2011 8:16 pm || Up

              when the kingdome was there it was a smoother transition i think

              I have $5. No I don\'t.
            • dmoas Dec 28,2011 10:27 pm || Up

              Even weirder is that they have a Krispy Kreme about 2 or 3 blocks away FURTHER into the industrial area where there’s nothing out there. But you’re right, it’s in a sort of weird place. It’s just on the edge over where the city stops and the industry starts.

              • Future Ed Dec 28,2011 10:30 pm || Up

                industry put up a shit fit when safeco was ramrodded into that revenue producing area.

                SLF’s band used to practice down there. they had to move

                I have $5. No I don\'t.
            • futwork Dec 29,2011 11:24 pm || Up

              /hegenberger

              • Future Ed Dec 29,2011 11:28 pm || Up

                I’ll meet you at the Pardee Zhone

                I have $5. No I don\'t.
              • andeux Dec 29,2011 11:31 pm || Up

                I wouldn’t call the Edgewater West nothing.

                TINSTAAFK
                • ptbnl Dec 29,2011 11:33 pm || Up

                  Say it soft and it’s almost like praying.

                  If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
          • Leopold Bloom Dec 29,2011 1:05 am || Up

            this reminds me. DON, WHERE THE FUCK IS MY OAKS FLANNEL THAT MB MADE ME BUY?!!

        • grover Dec 28,2011 8:38 pm || Up

          If you say so. I was too busy watching my kid enjoy his first limo ride from the ferry to the airport to notice much beyond the giant sports stadium.

          • DFA Dec 28,2011 8:46 pm || Up

            You didn’t get to go to a game there? Thats a bummer, its a nice stadium… they serve fish chowder there… which I think is kinda strange tho.

            In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
            • grover Dec 28,2011 8:55 pm || Up

              Went north for Thanksgiving. Not even MLB is pushing the schedule that late in the year!

              • DFA Dec 28,2011 9:24 pm || Up

                well that makes sense

                In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor

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