Freeing FREE KRAUT

First, let me say I’m loving the flexibility here (and am seriously tempted to post this as someone else’s user name).  That said, I discovered that there are plugins developed for WordPress.  Here are some I think we should use:

1. SHOW UNREAD COMMENTS (allcaps = install it or I’ll flag all your comments)
2. Apparently allows images in comments, but I think it might be uploading them and therefore untenable.
3. A tool that would allow me to just read 74mk’s comments
4. Comment preview, but appears to require something called jQuery.

Personally, I think #1 is a must have (assuming it actually works), the rest would be nice, and there are almost certainly other plugins we should set up.

DLD 3/31/09

Stuff to read through while you delay writing your dissertation…

Tigers release Gary Sheffield.

When Sheffield arrived at the Tigers’ clubhouse Tuesday, he knew something was up.

“People were looking at me funny,” he said.

Teammates or staff?

“Staff,” he said.

That’s because teammates didn’t know yet that Sheffield was about to be released.

When asked if he was stunned after it happened, Sheffield said, “I’m not stunned. But you don’t really know what to feel or what to call it.”

The Tigers will eat a delicious $14 MM.

Make sure you are well protected from the Conficker worm.

Security researchers are racing to head off an Internet worm that is scheduled to phone home for instructions Wednesday, possibly to cause widespread damage.

Researchers who have studied Conficker call it one of the most complex pieces of malicious code they’ve seen.
Known as Conficker or Downadup, the worm has been sitting dormant inside the 10 million to 12 million Windows PCs it has managed to infect all over the world since it emerged in November.

Obviously never spent time with the inner-workings of PECOTA.
World Series hero Cole Hamels will be out to start the season:

Hamels threw 65 pitches in a minor league spring training game Monday and allowed 10 hits and three runs in four innings. He walked one and struck out five.

“He was fine,” Dubee said. “I’m not looking at [how many] base hits he gave up or anything. His command is not there. That’s for sure.”

Dubee said he asked Hamels to throw more fastballs than he normally would and reported that his fastball was clocked at 85-88 miles per hour. In previous starts this spring, Hamels had raised concerns by topping out in the lower 80s.

So that’s Hamels, Lackey, Duchscherer…and, yet, my understanding is that Rich Harden is ready to go.  Speaking of pitchers, THT looks at Nick Adenhart of the dreaded Slegna:

• No swinging third strikes
• Fell behind often—1.6:1 ratio of 1-0 to 0-1 counts
• Barely ventured over the inside half against left-handed hitters
• Batters swung at only 35 percent of his curveballs when they were in the strike zone
• Other than that, he fooled no one—the swing rate on his pitches out of the zone (15 percent) was half the league average
• Even Adenhart’s change-up is below average in terms of missing bats (20 percent whiff rate, which is a good 10 points lower than league average for change-ups)

I wanna be…YOUR LINK DUMPER!  Why don’t you call my screen name?

Selugworth starts the logrolling for San Jose

Slusser breaks news
The press release
Marine Layer weighs in (and I endorse this sentiment):

this is actually an official “let’s delineate all the ways Oakland no longer works” committee

DLD 3/30/09 Comments Hopefully in Correct Order Edition

Looks like the A’s won the big trade, with Holliday and others knocking Greg Smith around. I like Greg, but it seems like he could be in for some trouble in Colorado…
From Slusser:

Travis Buck made a trip to the emergency room Sunday morning because his left ear was plugged, and after a case of vertigo last year, he was worried about a recurrence. The ear was flushed out, Buck’s equilibrium is fine, and he won’t miss any time.

Perhaps pressure from high altitudes got to him after trying out this new business:

Our pilot is VERY discreet and all flights are handled with the UTMOST confidentiality. West Georgia Regional is a relatively “quiet” airport with little traffic, so getting in and out very discreetly is no problem at all.

Apparently, links are red with the current format. boo.

RATTO WATCH

Um … why does this make me feel uncomfortable?

He comes off almost as a dilettante who wants to move out of his old neighborhood but wants the new neighborhood to come to him.

Open features request thread/technical support bleg

What are the problems? What’s not working? What could be improved?

And … who here can do anything about it? Remember, we’re all admins (though it seems as though wp’s “must be logged in to comment” applies to wp users, not registered KRAUThors), so … if there’s something you can fix/improve — go for it.

The Larry Davis line

So what’s the over/under for combined number of games played (for the A’s) in ’09 by Chavez, Ellis, Duke, Devine, Buck, and Holliday? I’m laying down a  typically pessimistic marker at … 250.

DLD 03/28/09: Is this thing on?

Post author: salb918

As long as we’ve got a new blog, we might as well get the action started. Vince Shlomi, of ShamWOW! fame, has been arrested on charges of felony aggravated battery:

According to Shlomi, 44, on Feb. 7 he met a prostitute named Sasha Harris at a nightclub and pre-paid her $1,000 for “straight sex.” When they returned to his $750-a-night hotel room (those infomercials really pay well), the couple began kissing when Harris suddenly bit Shlomi’s tongue and “would not let go.”

OK, let’s get this thing going! I imagine it will take a while for us to find our rhythm, but we’re all friends here and it’s my sincere hope that any disagreement you might have with me will not worsen my incipient cannibalism.

Welcome, A’s fans!

This is FREE KRAUT! Let the commenting begin.