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Games 58 & 59: A’s take on Milwaukee’s Beast 118

Jun

7

2016

Beer is good, and stuff.

FNF 8.55: Morabito Mystery Tour 135

Jun

3

2016

Tonight the Aâ€™s begin their traditional annual road swing through Houston, Milwaukee, and Cincinnati. I like to believe that Mickey Morabito, in addition to booking air travel and hotels, is responsible for team junkets on the days off. The waterpark for sure. And a trip to the American Sign Museum followed by Cincinnati-style chili on ...

Summer Soccer Spectacular 424

Jun

3

2016

Seems appropriate to have a dedicated soccer thread for Soaker to ignore, what what with the Copa America starting tonight and the Euro Championships next week. The Copa America, for the uninitiated, is a quadrennial tournament to decide the champion of South America. This year they are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the tourney by ...

The 2016 Budget and Funding the Draft 15

Jun

1

2016

This summer presents Oakland with the opportunity to make the single, largest financial investment towards amateur talent in franchise history. Finishing the 2015 season with the worst record in the American League â€œearnedâ€ the Athletics a Draft bonus pool of $9,883,500 for this June, with an additional $3,818,700 being allowed for International spending during the ...

Game 52 Pick-up 170

May

30

2016

The A’s and Kendall Graveman take on the Twins and Ervin Santana. In 186 innings over 29 career games (27 starts) against the A’s, Santana has a 2.03 ERA. Compare with his 4.16 ERA overall, or Felix Hernandez’ career 2.67 ERA against Oakland. Billy Butler gets a rare start against a RHP, with Billy Burns ...

Game 50. Here kitties. 60

May

28

2016

Jesse Hahn takes on clean-shaven stubbly lefty. Crisp, Burns, Lowrie, Valencia, Davis, Butler, Phegley, Semien, Smolinski. With Reddick out, our offense is significantly better against LHP than RHP. At least that’s what I’m telling myself.

FNF 7.49: Green and Golden Pick-6 40

May

27

2016

I know you mostly donâ€™t care. But the $0.20 Golden Pick-6 carryover pool will exceed $1 million tomorrow, unless someone won it today (full disclosure: I did not). For a 20-cent bet you pick the winners of the last six races on the card at Golden Gate Fields. Even a favorite-heavy slate usually pays $50 ...

Game 48 Mariners the neal era 50

May

25

2016

in progress burns just tripled, but didn’t slide and might be called out I have $5. No I don\'t.

Game 47, get pumped 42

May

24

2016

this season turns around today.

Game 46 ff. – Mariners 56

May

23

2016

The A’s get a series against the Mariners without having to face Felix Hernandez. Also no Ketel Marte, who killed us defensively last time around. Of course the A’s are missing some players of their own as well. We start the series off with Taijuan Walker vs. Rich Hill and Crisp, Burns, Vogt, Valencia, Davis, ...