A lot of the discussion of getting a new ballpark is in the abstract, as the timing is always a long way off and the roundabout discussions of where it will be seem endless. Â Sure, most of us probably remember when the Big Phone opened, but back then the A’s were good and there wasn’t ...
Selig: oddly chickenshit Selig: oddly obstreperous Selig: oddly lionized What would my walkup music be? Either the end-credits theme from Buckaroo Banzai, or Herrmann’s “The Murder” from Psycho Don’t blame me, I voted for porn BP CEO: His Rug Is Relatively “Tiny” Compared To “Very Big Chrome Cranium” puny forearms/approaching meteor Uh … Phillip Seymour ...
Dave Cameron has entered the Puyallup River Valley of Despair — already? On the other hand, he has a pretty sweet new gig lined up. Congrats, Dave! (And you thought Fangraphs was the limit of his ambition.) The Mariners’ new DH My theory on the Griffey Slumbergate story: I’m guessing that, after striking out in ...
A’s go with a 3-catcher lineup. Hopefully Gio will keep pitching well and not allow any balls to LF. Weaver fell prey to the stupid argument jinx in the first today. Go A’s.
1. I don’t know if this kind of site interests you, but it interests me. No clown porn, promise. 2. It reminds me of something I ran across while rabbit holing the other day, namely this: Danzig hopes to record a dark blues album involving Jerry Cantrell and Hank III. Now upon reflection, it probably ...
QOTG from Barton, on Powell’s swipe of 2B: “I thought I was dreaming, really.” Also via Jane Lee, she has the full Braden Letterman Top 10. Her blog is actually pretty good. [Technical note: nm, seems to me the unfinished-script hangup/bug when attempting a new post is getting worse.]
Yikes, but this is effective: But when you’re as all-around strong weak as the Red Sox Athletics, you can shouldn’t find room on your roster for one guy who doesn’t do anything except hit right-handed pitchers. There’s the rub: sooner rather than later, it may be impossible for the Red Sox A’s to keep carrying ...