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Grill: Mulder retires 51

Mark Mulder retires: Mark Mulder is still throwing. Every once in a while, after a double-bogey, he’ll chuck his golf ball into the water. One of baseball’s best pitchers for the first half of the past decade and a puzzling rehab story in the second half, Mulder has finally given up on baseball. “I guess ...

Needed: Starting Pitching 51

I admit it. I find it exceptionally easy to suggest that other people should spend their money on things that I want. I don’t think that makes me a bad person… just practical. And maybe a bit of a mooch… with a touch of whore mixed in for character development.

Is it hot stove season already? 68

First off, here’s what Sickels thinks about our draft: Very heavy offense, with an obvious focus on power and strike zone judgment. I like the way they mixed high school and college hitters. The pitching picks are unimpressive on first blush, and I wonder if they could have done better with that, though teen round ...

BB s3e12: I like BB and I can not lie 41

Wow. Just, wow. No Spoiled Bastard yet. Spoiled Bastard. A little light on detail and analysis. Here’s the HitFix guy’s reactions. I totally agree with this: I still maintain that the foundation the show built to send Jesse on his mission of revenge is weak, but I think everywhere they’ve gone from that place has ...

Draft Prep 73

Let’s get the obvious out of the way: I’ve got no idea what’s going to happen in tomorrow’s MLB draft. All I hope to accomplish here is to divine who might be in play when the A’s come up at #10. I’ve studied 3 different Top Amateur lists and read 7 different mock drafts, not ...

Ballpark village no longer a possibility *anywhere* — did the A’s dodge a bullet? 26

From Matt Artz in the CoCoTi: new Tesla-Toyota NUMMI deal doesn’t change anything, Fremont not happening: Wolff told me today that Fremont isn’t an option for the A’s, because the team can’t finance a Fremont ballpark without the ability to sell entitlements to build the 3,150 housing units that were part of the original ballpark ...

FK Tech Talk 81

All, First, I’m about to embark on an upgrade to the most recent version. In tests on SandFK, it solved the new post issue, so we’ll see. Once that’s done, the only thing I’ve heard about is AJAXing new comments (so there’s no need to refresh). I’m sure there’s more, so havatcha!

Target of our Dreams 19

Target of our Dreams
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.  Sure, most of us probably remember when the Big Phone opened, but back then the A’s were good and there wasn’t ...

Breaking Bad s3e8 “I See You” Open Thread 77

Some miscellaneous stats, one month in 54

1. Some former A’s hitters a) the good?!: Scott Hairston .250/.348/.500 Bobby Crosby .289/.400/.421 Carlos Gonzalez .317/.340/.475 Marco Scutaro .288/.368/.396 Jason Kendall .292/.370/.354 Dan Johnson (AAA) .307/.424/.556 b) the bad: Milton Bradley .214/.313/.371 Orlando Cabrera .257/.292/.376 Aaron Cunningham (AAA) .242/.289/.385 c) the ugly: Jason Giambi .095/.375/.143 Mark Kotsay .146/.226/.271 Mike Sweeney .172/.273/.172 Eric Byrnes .094/.237/.156 ...