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  1. 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.
  2. Chad Gaudin is still talented. Well, yeah, but … (avoids reconsidering Harden trade yet again)
  3. 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

  4. I tell you, that steroid list’s a phony
  5. As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly
  6. 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
  7. I bet you didn’t realize the small but crucial role FK played in instigating the financial crisis

50 thoughts on “Squarely on the backs of libertines: DLD 063009

  1. nevermoor Jun 30,2009 10:38 am
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • Leopold Bloom Jun 30,2009 3:26 pm || Up

      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…

      • monkeyball Jun 30,2009 3:34 pm || Up

        I never noticed SIGN SHOP OWNER on the Nidus job board.

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  2. batgirl Jun 30,2009 11:11 am

    5. Please, Catie, tell me your reply was “Wash your own damn underwear.”

    • monkeyball Jun 30,2009 11:27 am || Up

      Catie bar the spoor!

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  3. monkeyball Jun 30,2009 11:33 am

    Honestly, now, how can you not love Tim Lincecum?

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  4. monkeyball Jun 30,2009 11:42 am

    Oh my. I ran across this quote very obliquely cited somewhere, and I thought there’s no way it can be legit:

    Ours is a society where things are like instant, so therefore, history almost is like so far back it doesn’t count.

    Lo and fucking behold.

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    • Poppy Jun 30,2009 12:51 pm || Up

      Wait, what?

      But it counts when you really think about life lost on the continent of Africa and wonder why they’re no war today. And there’s a reason why there’s no war today.

      There’s no war in Africa today? What the hell?

      Over the past several months, I’ve forgotten how to translate gobbledygook into English.

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
      • monkeyball Jun 30,2009 12:54 pm || Up

        Not been hanging out with enough (allegedly dry) drunks, I guess.

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        • Leopold Bloom Jun 30,2009 3:27 pm || Up

          It’s tough being a dry drunk. I’m living proof.

          • dmoas Jun 30,2009 11:52 pm || Up

            Try being a sober drunk. That hurts like hell. Don’t even get me started on the hangovers.

  5. monkeyball Jun 30,2009 12:24 pm

    Why am I afraid that Beane may think he can fix the A’s roster with that proposed Holliday-to-the-Cardinals deal?

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  6. nevermoor Jun 30,2009 12:31 pm
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  7. batgirl Jun 30,2009 12:54 pm

    Is there seriously a fake lei on the Kurt Suzuki promo t-shirt?

    ruined T'shirt

    • Poppy Jun 30,2009 12:56 pm || Up

      Noooooo! It should come with puka shells!

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
      • batgirl Jun 30,2009 12:59 pm || Up

        Maybe they are puka shells and the scale is really out of whack!

    • monkeyball Jun 30,2009 1:36 pm || Up

      I was hoping for a Kurt Suzuki promo grass skirt.

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    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jun 30,2009 1:43 pm || Up

      Handing out real lays would have run afoul of the guy who sues over gender-based promotions.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • monkeyball Jun 30,2009 1:45 pm || Up

        As well as the guy who owns the local Herr’s distributorship.

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  8. monkeyball Jun 30,2009 1:46 pm

    Great post, even greater excerpt, and most awesome parenthetic (emphasis added):

    But the thing about operating in a highly competitive marketplace is that it’s impossible to make tons of money by doing this. That fact tends to get obscured in popular discussion of business in the United States, because we (or, perhaps I should say, because journalists who want to make money getting corporate speaking gigs) are very invested in a heroic model of capitalism in which wealthy entrepreneurs get rich through their competitive awesomeness. In reality, the reason that competition is good for customers is that it destroys profits. The way you make real money is by getting into situations where you’re insulated from competition.

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    • monkeyball Jun 30,2009 1:47 pm || Up

      And, of course, that post in its entirety perfectly explains the behavior decried in the immediately previous post.

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  9. monkeyball Jun 30,2009 2:35 pm

    Ugh. Yet another douchebag I went to college with. And, yes, his nickname as an undergrad was “Witless.”

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  10. monkeyball Jun 30,2009 3:40 pm

    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.

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    • nevermoor Jun 30,2009 3:50 pm || Up

      As soon as Eveland remembers pitching, that looks like a good deal.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • mikeA Jun 30,2009 4:04 pm || Up

      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.

  11. monkeyball Jun 30,2009 5:18 pm

    I. Don’t. Under. Stand.

    The lineup: Kennedy 3B, Cabrera SS, Holliday LF, Giambi 1B, Suzuki C, Sweeney CF, Garciaparra DH, Cust RF, Ellis 2B

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    • the dogfather Jun 30,2009 5:25 pm || Up

      No-spoor comment: could a trade be in the works? What other conceivable reason could account for not playing Buck?

      The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
      • monkeyball Jun 30,2009 6:24 pm || Up

        Cot’s:

        Nomar Garciaparra inf
        1 year/$1M (2009)

        Travis Buck of
        1 year/$0.41M (2009)

        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?

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        • nevermoor Jun 30,2009 6:28 pm || Up

          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.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • monkeyball Jun 30,2009 6:35 pm || Up

            By that logic, maybe they’re hoping Buck gets pissed off enough to just retire.

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            • dmoas Jun 30,2009 11:59 pm || Up

              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.

              • nevermoor Jul 1,2009 9:04 am || Up

                You, sir, are a genius.

                "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • the dogfather Jul 1,2009 9:08 am || Up

                  Well, we do visit Fenway shortly, maybe he can go out with an ovation there?

                  The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
        • the dogfather Jul 1,2009 9:58 am || Up
          I.don’t.know.

          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.

          The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
          • monkeyball Jul 1,2009 10:10 am || Up

            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.

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    • whiteshoes40 Jun 30,2009 5:34 pm || Up

      Travis Buck was rushed up yesterday (or not, depending on how you look at it, considering how late in the day the move came) but he’s not in there tonight. Tomorrow, manager Bob Geren said. Geren said Buck would have been in except Nomar Garciaparra was available to Dh tonight. That means Jack Cust is back in right. Debate amongst yourselves. It’s a little hard to figure from here. Hot bat brought up to….sit. Well, Buck is getting used to erratic playing time.

      …Thanks, Nomar.

      • nevermoor Jun 30,2009 5:37 pm || Up

        Crazy.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • monkeyball Jun 30,2009 6:29 pm || Up

          That’s the word I was looking for.

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    • nevermoor Jun 30,2009 5:38 pm || Up

      Somebody’s either wrong, or an idiot:

      long toss at a distance of 50 feet

      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.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Jun 30,2009 6:25 pm || Up

        Unless the longest toss Duke was previously capable of making was, like, 2′.

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        • nevermoor Jun 30,2009 6:29 pm || Up

          Fine, but it’s still “catch” and not “long toss”

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jun 30,2009 6:02 pm || Up

      Gallaraga is a righty who Nomar has never faced. Makes perfect sense.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • Soaker Jun 30,2009 6:24 pm || Up

      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.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • monkeyball Jun 30,2009 6:27 pm || Up

      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.

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      • nevermoor Jun 30,2009 6:29 pm || Up

        Well… new swing-at-everything Cust kind of sucks. I’m just saying…

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • monkeyball Jun 30,2009 6:36 pm || Up

          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.

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          • mk Jul 1,2009 4:24 am || Up

            +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.

            • nevermoor Jul 1,2009 9:06 am || Up

              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.

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"

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