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8 May 2009  |  the llama  |FK-All

Effective immediately.

Wait a second.  A.J. Hinch?  Late ’90s catcher-of-the-future A.J. Hinch?  The guy who put up a 328/420/568 minor league line in 1997 and was at one point a top-50 prospect?

via Flickr, without permission

Hey, is that Corey Koskie? (September 13, 2000 - Dave Ross/Oakland Tribune, via Flickr, without permission)

Hinch, you will recall, arrived in Oakland in 1998 in the same position-player bumper crop that yielded Eric Chavez, Miguel Tejada, Ben Grieve, Scott Spiezio, and Adam Piatt.  He’s best remembered for being packaged with Grieve and Angel Berroa for Cory Lidle, Johnny Damon, and Mark Ellis.

The incoming and outgoing talent in that trade looks a little silly eight years down the line, huh?

Hinch and Eric Byrnes were teammates on the 2000 squad.  While it’s not that strange to have a manager manage a former teammate – Joe Girardi is doing it in New York and Ozzie Guillen did it in Chicago – what is strange is that Hinch is only two years older than Byrnes.

{edited to remove universal strikethrough pervading the rest of Free Kraut, fsu}

116 thoughts on “Bob Melvin Fired, replaced with Daily Link Dump”

  1. doctorK May 8,2009 8:41 am

    Now, if another manager named Bob can just bite the dust …

  2. bbenny May 8,2009 9:09 am

    I heard Byrnes on KNBR the other day. God he annoys the shit out of me. Usually he has this like arrogant demeanor, but this time he was like -feel sorry for me, I can’t get any playing time-.

    I see that Justin Upton has commenced to rake, so not looking so good for Byrnesy.

  3. mjdittmer May 8,2009 10:27 am

    Where are they now stories that need doing:

    Mickey Tettleton
    Mike Heath
    A.J. Hinch

  4. mjdittmer May 8,2009 10:28 am

    One of the best PED columns I’ve read

    “You have to understand,” I say. “EVERYONE cheated back then. You know how I drive 80 on the highway even though all the signs say to go 55? That’s how everyone thought back then — the signs said one thing, but everyone did the other. There were so many people cheating that, competitively, you almost had to cheat to keep up with everyone else.”

    “So why didn’t the people in charge get everyone to stop cheating?” my son asks.

    “I wish I knew. The players’ union didn’t care, the commissioner’s office didn’t care, nobody cared. Until it was too late.”

    “So you won the World Series twice because of Manny and Papi,” my son says, “but they might have been cheating the whole time, and so were some of their teammates? Dad, your whole book was about how you could die in peace because they won in 2004. If they cheated to win, does that make what happened OK?”

  5. batgirl May 8,2009 10:46 am

    AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!1!11! Can someone please tell the Valley Yellow Pages to stop blanketing the airwaves with this damn “We make the phones ring” commercial!?! It’s making my ears bleed.

  6. monkeyball May 8,2009 11:16 am

    Hunh. This is interesting. I’d agree with this response, though.

    And, of course, this is probably the ultimate shark-jump.

  7. 74mk May 8,2009 11:52 am

    1. After Holliday goes 4-4 with 2 homers and a double tonight, his OPS will be .807.

    2. Due to ironing-related frustrations, I have decided to switch from pleated to flat-front khakis.

    3. Suddenly you feel that your pants have steel inside them.

  8. monkeyball May 8,2009 11:57 am

    From this past offseason’s acquisitions (and lack thereof for certain positions), I think it’s clear that Billy Beane intends to build a bridge over the valley of death.

  9. nevermoor May 8,2009 1:37 pm

    Why am I the one posting this here? I should have learned about it here.

  10. asfaninla May 8,2009 2:06 pm

    Looks like Ryan Freel was traded to the Cubs for Joey Gathright, and the Cubs didn’t even have to take on his full salary. If that was all it took to get Freel, I would have liked to see the A’s take a shot at getting him. He could take the roster spot of Petit or Hannahan now, and Rajai when (if) everyone got healthy. He can do most of the things Davis is on the roster for now, pinch run and play late inning defense in CF but he can also back up 2B and 3B. Not to mention he is injury prone, so would fit right in with the rest of the roster.

  11. mikeA May 8,2009 2:35 pm

    A’s acquire Adam Kennedy

    He is easily the best option for 2B while Ellis is out. Good move.

  12. 67marquez May 8,2009 2:38 pm

    This is weird. Not saying I don’t like it. Just saying it’s weird.

    It’s like seeing a ghost, but there’s a lot of them.

    I mean…is this Heaven?

  13. xbhaskarx May 8,2009 3:27 pm

    Queen’s racehorse fails doping test

    One of Queen Elizabeth II’s racehorses has failed a doping test.
    Six-year-old Moonlit Path tested positive for a banned substance that prevents hemorrhaging after a sixth-place finish in her debut February at Huntingdon.
    Trainer Nicky Henderson has been charged with breaching two rules by the British Horseracing Authority.
    The queen’s racing manager, Michael Oswald, described it as “very disappointing news” and told British media that the monarch had been informed.

    Her image will be removed from all British currency until the suspension has been served.

  14. andeux May 8,2009 5:26 pm

    I think I’ll call it candygram stadium.

  15. monkeyball May 8,2009 5:28 pm
  16. araksot May 8,2009 7:11 pm

    Marco, we’re sorry. it wasn’t our decision. please stop punishing us.

  17. salb918 May 8,2009 7:20 pm

    Seriously? Is this the same Scoot?

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