If you are like me and didn’t even know what position Hairston plays or what team he is on, here are some links: Fangraphs Baseball-Reference Under club control for the next two years. Perhaps the beginning of a 3 team deal where Hairston will leave again. If not: Hairston seems to be a pretty good ...

Behold! The birth of a mad scientist.  I eventually convinced him to turn that one into ethanol. Also, since it is Science Thursday, I might as well have a picture of a bird. Also, not science-related:

I decided to list the A’s young players and prospects in order of age. If I know you, and I think I do, I know that you can’t get enough lists. First, an introductory bonus list of tastiest greens: 1. beet greens 2. kale Now then: Kilby: 2/83 Marshall: 2/83 Patterson: 4/83 Everidge: 4/83 Braden: ...

That is where Devine went….

would you PH Nomar for Barton against a RHP with Hannahan on deck? And then have Crosby followed by Hannahan in the 9th… What the fuck… dude. Why is Buck in AAA? what is going on. I don’t care that much if they win at this point, but come on… Street hasn’t thrown that hard ...

Too Much Crosby at First Base Makes mikeA something something go crazy swing his bat at open locker doors hike the Appalachian Trail.

For a few innings tonight, Orlando Cabrera had reached the .600 OPS plateau. He’s back.

Did you see that last pitch to Hudson? Damn. TV sound isn’t working, radio is too staticy, not a clown in sight…

People like me are supposed to listen to NPR.  Everybody around me does, and I exist in an intellectually and politically homogeneous sector of society, so it seems natural that NPR ought to be on every preset of my Prius’s radio or downloaded onto my iPhone everyday.  I have neither a Prius nor an iPhone.  ...

I blog on Free Kraut for the same reason an aging rock star gets the band together for a reunion tour.  I got 12 mortgages, 4 ex-wives, dozens of children (somewhere) and a pending liver transplant.  I’m only in it for the money, and the bitches. I wasn’t able to participate in yesterday’s Arthur Ganson ...