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Fate, Chaos, Winona Ryder 85

With baseball on hiatus last night, I was left to sift through my Netflix Instant Queue for giggles and disillusionment. Ultimately I opted to exercise a bit of personal freedom and forgo the disillusionment aspect (knowing I would return to that promptly at 7:10 this evening), and settled on The Ten, a harmless-seeming comedy with ...

Leon Panetta says I’m almost wishing for the A’s to lose: DLD 061509 35

Slusser dog-paddles the Chavez back-surgery story (and from that same article: apparently, the deal Geren worked out with Cabrera is that in exchange for getting dropped from the leadoff spot, he doesn’t ever have to take a pitch again) Brian Bruney is my favorite Yankee So now the Angels, after letting Brandon Wood languish in ...

DLD 6.12.09 A’s rule, Giants drool 40

Huh.  I would have pegged Jenkins as a strategy and switches anti-DHer.  Turns out he just wants to see pitchers make fools of themselves in the batters box. Add ’em if you got ’em.

DLD 6/9/09: Inspiration Information 94

SCENE Sickly dim light bleeds through drawn blinds to (barely) illuminate a one room, tan-walled apartment. A ceiling fan bleats a hiccupped whir. There is a bed, a nightstand, a cassette deck, and a mirror on the wall. The bed is unmade, the cassette deck blares Nights in White Satin, and on the nightstand is ...

DLD 6/8/09: A Post With Some Links and a Musing or Two 68

Swedish Pirate Party wins seats in European Parliament. Perhaps swede lent his support in hopes of achieving spelling reform. India clones second buffalo: The ‘hand-guided cloning technique’, perfected by the NDRI scientists, would allow production of calves of a desired sex. Oh, well then who hasn’t cloned a buffalo? A’s notes: Jemile Weeks is off ...

DLD and Game Thread 6.7.09 27

Happy Sunday.  Let’s make it six today. “You cannot be serious!” “Rubber ducky you’re the one, you make bathtime lots of fun a less life-threatening experience” “I love the Indian casino. They have such wonderful buffets,” Madsen said. “Can you feel it baby?  Yeah, I do too!” Game time 1:05 PM Lineups: Baltimora: Jimmy McNulty ...

Honeyed granDLDoquence 57

Jesus, you people* are lazy. *Not applicable to mikeA. Glavine? Tejada? Patrol Craft up Holliday–>Cards? Who? you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come

It is time for us to act on what everyone knows to be true: DLD + game thread 060409 167

Damn straight: Chavvy, it’s time to hang up the spikes Best use of the word “vestigial” ever in a movie Whoa. I’m guessing … Michael Hutchence Disease. Dept. of Radosh Media Betes Noires: Or an e-mail joke circulating among Iranians: “The Election Commission has announced in its last statement regarding the election that writing names ...

We do not even appreciate how widespread our opponents are and how many resources they have: DLD 060309 56

Byg Twyt’s spidey-sense is all a-tingle: Now I’m predicting a housecleaning of sorts on the horizon. Remember that May Massacre everal years back, then GM Billy Beane got rid of a bunch of players while the team was on the verge of irrelevancy? That’s what I’m thinking now. Who might be on the chopping block? ...

I prefer my wings really hot, and a little crispy: DLD 060209 59

Dept. of Not Getting It #1 Dept. of Not Getting It #2 Clown burgers! Dept. of Unintended Symbolism John Shea refuses to answer my question Robothal: Beane should fold, walk away from the table This is awesome — Crywolffisher should horn in on the action and offer to dispose of the leftover grapes at the ...