- If the A’s were playing better, I could see Beane targeting this guy. Heck, even as-is, he’d be a good buy-low/sell-high-next-year acq.
- Chad Gaudin is still talented. Well, yeah, but … (avoids reconsidering Harden trade yet again)
- This is exactly what I want to see Beane/Forst saying to other teams/the media right now:
The Cardinals indeed inquired about A’s left fielder Matt Holliday, only to hear what the A’s have been saying for several weeks — they are not looking to trade Holliday and would need a strong offer to move him
- I tell you, that steroid list’s a phony
- As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly
- Come on — anyone who’s ever had an unrequested law-enforcement home visit in a conservative locale knows this is not a truly bizarre story
- I bet you didn’t realize the small but crucial role FK played in instigating the financial crisis
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Re: 4
Told you so.
Yes, but would MB stake his Pulitzer on it?
You all do know that I went to what was essentially the Muncie School of Business, right? Also known as Ball State…
I never noticed SIGN SHOP OWNER on the Nidus job board.
5. Please, Catie, tell me your reply was “Wash your own damn underwear.”
Catie bar the spoor!
Honestly, now, how can you not love Tim Lincecum?
It’s pretty easy.
he kinda creeps me out. In that Buffalo Bill kinda way.
Oh my. I ran across this quote very obliquely cited somewhere, and I thought there’s no way it can be legit:
Lo and fucking behold.
Wait, what?
There’s no war in Africa today? What the hell?
Over the past several months, I’ve forgotten how to translate gobbledygook into English.
Not been hanging out with enough (allegedly dry) drunks, I guess.
It’s tough being a dry drunk. I’m living proof.
Try being a sober drunk. That hurts like hell. Don’t even get me started on the hangovers.
Why am I afraid that Beane may think he can fix the A’s roster with that proposed Holliday-to-the-Cardinals deal?
!!!
Is there seriously a fake lei on the Kurt Suzuki promo t-shirt?
Noooooo! It should come with puka shells!
Maybe they are puka shells and the scale is really out of whack!
I was hoping for a Kurt Suzuki promo grass skirt.
Handing out real lays would have run afoul of the guy who sues over gender-based promotions.
As well as the guy who owns the local Herr’s distributorship.
Great post, even greater excerpt, and most awesome parenthetic (emphasis added):
And, of course, that post in its entirety perfectly explains the behavior decried in the immediately previous post.
Ugh. Yet another douchebag I went to college with. And, yes, his nickname as an undergrad was “Witless.”
Ugh.
But … wow: we basically (stretching a bit, but not much) traded Haren for Anderson, 3 months of Holliday, TBD draft picks/trade from Holliday, Carter, Cunningham, and Eveland.
As soon as Eveland remembers pitching, that looks like a good deal.
If Holliday isn’t traded, then Holliday for Street is probably a wash, so it would be Haren for Anderson, Carter, Cunningham and Eveland, which is still a good deal.
I. Don’t. Under. Stand.
No-spoor comment: could a trade be in the works? What other conceivable reason could account for not playing Buck?
Cot’s:
I hate to accuse Beane/Forst of being that abjectly stupid, but that sure as shit makes more sense than the “baseball case” for playing Nomore over Zipless Buck. And why would Beane trade Buck right now? He looks like (a) damaged goods and (b) a player Beane has given up on and is pushing out the door.
The rushing up, though … wtf?
Maybe they aren’t as smart as we thought they were.
Maybe (my secret conspiracy theory) they’re hoping Nomar gets hurt enough to just retire.
By that logic, maybe they’re hoping Buck gets pissed off enough to just retire.
No. Here’s what happened. Nevermoor is right, they want Nomar to retire. They asked Hanahann to pull a Nancy Kerrigan on his ass. He refused. They called Buck up, asked if he’d be willing to do it. Buck said, sure, I’m hitting the shit out of everything else, why not Nomar? Now he’s just biding his time, waiting for just the right opportunity. Just wait, SuSlu will post a blog entry about Buck accidentally losing his bat in batting practice.
You, sir, are a genius.
Well, we do visit Fenway shortly, maybe he can go out with an ovation there?
But in keeping with your choice (b), maybe somebody thinks — as one-or-two-of-us around here do — that Buck is undervalued in the A’s organization, and could be gotten for cheap.
Oh, I don’t disagree with that at all — but that undervaluing is precisely why I don’t think Beane would/should trade him right now. Unless Beane thinks Buck has descended to Mini-G level (in both performance capability and off-field whateverness), and just wants to wash his hands of him for no appreciable return. ‘Cause right now, all he’d get would be pennies on the Buck.
…Thanks, Nomar.
Crazy.
That’s the word I was looking for.
Somebody’s either wrong, or an idiot:
50 feet is roughly HALFWAY between two bases. Long toss involves tossing a baseball a long distance. Throwing a baseball less far than it travels on every pitch is not a long distance.
Unless the longest toss Duke was previously capable of making was, like, 2′.
Fine, but it’s still “catch” and not “long toss”
Gallaraga is a righty who Nomar has never faced. Makes perfect sense.
Part of me thinks that Nomar would like to do what John Kruk did: “Mr. Manager, I’ve decided to retire, but I want to get one final base hit. When I get it, I’ll ask for time, I’ll walk off the field, you pinch-run for me and that will be the end.”
Although if something like that is up, the logical time for it to happen would be when the A’s go to Boston next week. But Garciaparra would have to still be physically able to play then, and that seems dubious.
And then there’s the Cust-batting-eighth — small potatoes in comparison to the other issues (including playing Cust in RF), but … wtf? As FSU sez, against a righty whom Nomore has never faced.
Someone needs to be fired — I honestly don’t know whether it’s Beane, Forst, Geren, or all three. This is just … Trainman could make out a better lineup.
Well… new swing-at-everything Cust kind of sucks. I’m just saying…
True, dat — but that’s on the FO’s head as well.
I’m less disappointed in the on-field performance than in the bizarre/stupid FO/managerial decisions.
+1 (do we do that here?)
I am decidedly not one of the listlessness-kvetchers, but the bizarro world roster and lineup machinations drive me nuts.
We need to have a post wherein all the weird/inexplicable decisions Geren, et al have made this year are comprehensively detailed, and we, a community on a quest, attempt to crack the code(s). It would be cathartic.
We do whatever we want here. I can’t even get the “No being an engorged clown phallus” standard adopted.
I think that’s a great idea, and would happy to remove my tinfoil hat long enough to provide a sample of Geren’s thought waves.