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Awesomeness 3

Rain! 25

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Wherein Monkeyball Omits the title 3

I disagree.

A’s vs Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus vs Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 21

Welcome to FK 2.0. Some of the old content was lost in translation, and only some usernames made it over. It appears that if you posted an actual post, your name has been preserved. If you are one of those people, you should be able to log in either with your old password or by ...

DLD 051209: The Great Empathizer 41

I’m not sure, but I think this is arguing for robot umpires: [He] now proposes to appoint a Great Empathizer who will call balls and strikes with a strike zone that depends on the sex, race, and social and economic background of the players. Nothing could be more damaging to the fairness of the game[.] ...

The “Watch out! Don’t accidentally write anything interesting!” Lame Duck Open Thread 31

Lest your genius be lost in the translation to Free Kraut 2.0. I’m not gonna fall into that trap, lemme tell ya. I’m considering the baseball geek cross-Bay double header on Wednesday. Followed by live coverage of the Planck launch at 6am Thursday green star oaktime.

Dividing Things Into Categories 47

The 2008 A’s had a .686 team OPS, which was the worst team mark in the AL since the 2003 Detroit Tigers, who went 49-113. 2009 carry-overs from the that team are hitting at a remarkably similar clip. In other words, not even their MOTHERS! could pretend that they had even a shred of offensive ...

Bob Melvin Fired, replaced with Daily Link Dump 116

Effective immediately. Wait a second.  A.J. Hinch?  Late ’90s catcher-of-the-future A.J. Hinch?  The guy who put up a 328/420/568 minor league line in 1997 and was at one point a top-50 prospect? Hinch, you will recall, arrived in Oakland in 1998 in the same position-player bumper crop that yielded Eric Chavez, Miguel Tejada, Ben Grieve, ...

Dear Babs … 20

Boy, I dunno — Rich Guy’s private letter to Babs “Big” Boxer (originally provided without a clear trail of provenance by Zennie Abraham) sure strikes me as Bybee/Yoo-ish. Suresure, each individual fact vets out — but the way he concatenates them, collapses timeframes, and raises outmoded issues (unpredictable walkup crowds? I thought the A’s had ...

There’s a game 58

Cahill pitching, Sweeney moved down in the order. Cabrera Suzuki Giambi 1B Holliday Cust DH Sweeney CF Crosby 2B Buck RF Hannahan 3B