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Lew’s fixer-upper: Phoenix Muni 9

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We know Lew wants some improvements to the A’s spring training facilities. The A’s are hopeful that Phoenix provides some renovations for the team’s spring training homes, Phoenix Municipal Stadium and Papago Park, which both need upgrades. Wolff has suggested about $30 million of work, which he called “minimal.” “We want to stay here,” he ...

What the FK 46

Mar

11

2011

nm is one step closer to voting for Palin LaRouche Nader Medea Benjamin Matt Gonzales Kodos I had imagined graduate school as a shining city on a hill, but it turned out to be more like an extended visit with a bear in a cave. Um … why is this not getting ANY play? (I ...

Friday FKwiz 38

Mar

10

2011

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All green things must die 81

Mar

10

2011

Royals want a catcher, dangling Gordon A’s were only team to make Matsui an actual offer; further evidence we overpaid and bought too early (nice photo of Rickey and Gojira in there) Joe Barton keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means: so long as you believe that ...

Photo day: A’s vs. Rangers at Surprise, 3.9.11 50

Mar

9

2011

With Tucson out of the picture Surprise, at the western fringe of the Phoenix sprawl, is the longest road trip in the Cactus League for the east side teams. It’s about 40 miles from my Scottsdale headquarters, the last eight or so being on city streets past an endless string of Walmarts, TGI Friday’s and ...

FREE KRÃ–MGRAM! 111

Mar

9

2011

Glibrarians are glib Correlation-ain’t-causation map of the day: being poor keeps you from reading BoingBoing Krugman: not reading FK yet Again with the Coen-Bros-rewriting-Bret-Easton-Ellis thing: “I think this guy’s legit. His card is embossed.” Whoa: previously undiscovered color photos of post-Quake SF by Frederick Ives

All Ãœberlinians are the same 148

Mar

8

2011

OK, fine. Fuentes is a Bradenian prince of a man. And he acknowledges how awful his motion looks. I still can’t abide it. In college, I played slippery slope for The Originalist Crickets. This seems like a good idea, though it doesn’t look like it gives quite enough coverage. In college, I played jammed calf ...

He is just a fictional monkey. 89

Mar

7

2011

Shut up, Jerry. Shut up, Joe. Long gone are the days of Poison. Shut up, Ross. Last week to see the Curious George exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in SF

Salmagundi 59

Mar

4

2011

1. Salmagundi 2. Salmagundi 3. Salmagundi 4. Salmagundi 5.

Le week-end 30

Mar

4

2011

Napoleon: the George Steinbrenner of ** Uh … this poses more questions than answers OK, whatever, Matt. I’m with ED: nobody knows how to teach better than a teacher does (And there’s FK’s first Napoleon bait.)