DLD 051209: The Great Empathizer

1. 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[.]

2. Let me get this straight: Ostler is calling someone else a “twit”?
3. Slusser brings the reportage for her take on the Moneyball-movie article
4. mikeA should change his name to mikeT:

as a child, one night I peeked out from my bed covers and I saw a court jester wearing curly-toed shoes and a spiked hat with bells on sharp points

5. And speaking of dreams:

The night before last I dreamt that I was a basketball, and everything I experienced was through the up and down motion of being dribbled.

Inspired by item 4:

Dear Babs …

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 spent the last 5 or so years addressing that … so that they’re predictably tiny) makes his entire framing pretty specious.

Now, I myself don’t hold a brief for Oakland or Alameda County — personally I’d prefer that the A’s new stadium be sited somewhere within easy walking distance of a BART station within 30-40 minutes of downtown SF, but Crywolffisher has every right to move wherever the heck they want to. And there are obvious economic/regulatory/infrastructure advantages to SJ.

But this Dear Babs letter is a supremely dishonest piece of work.

Battle of the shitty lineups

Suzuki C
Cabrera SS
Giambi 1B
Terrence Long LF
Cust-o-Fab DH
Crosby 3B
Henry Hill RF
Petit 2B
DFAvis CF

I am utterly confused: game thread 050309

Sweeney
Cabrera
Giambi
Holliday
Cust RF
Suzuki DH
Crosby 3B
Petit 2B
Powell C

PoppyEdit:

A little bit gamey, a little bit thready

Not-Julia
Not-Miguel
Not- … uh … Not-This?
Not-Billie
Not-Mexican-or-Healthy-Enough
Not-Ichiro
Not-Peter
Not-Bing
Not-Corey

Sweeney robs Kinsler (video)

(-Danny)

2009 FilKRAUT #1: Bat-Boppin’ Skills

Bat-Boppin’ Skills

[Original lyrics here.]

Ooooh, you gonna drive me home tonight?

Oooh, down 6-5 in bottom-9;

Are you gonna swing and not strike out?

Bat-boppin’ skills,

You make the baserunners go ’round.

[Continued after the jump.]

It’s Patterson + Cameron

It’s Patterson + Cameron

1. Never question TDF when he’s been reading the spoor trail
2. Who gets dropped from the 40-man? Herrera? Gray? I guess Crosby or Chavez would be too much to hope for?

Slusser sez that the extra spot on the 40-man will come from Duke going from the 15-day DL to the 60-day DL. — salb918

Game postponed, Zodiac killer (maybe) revealed. Obviously not a coincidence. – 74mk

This Dailiment Condilink Brump … didn’t suck until all these new people showed up

Yeah, that’s right, I’m leading off with not one, but two Barry Bonds links! Fuck you all! Schulman plays clueless, Baggarly comes closer; but I think the reason Bonds refuses to retire is that he’s got a shrewd PR rep, and they’re pushing his HoF eligibility out beyond the realm of fresh ‘roid ire.

See, I told you this Dailiment Condilink Brump already sucks.

Ellis and Nomar already off the active roster; no one replaced them yet.

XbX edit
New people: email Sal [you can email me, mikeA, instead (no link, go to my profile yourselves lazy asses)], get access, start commenting, show off your amazing vocabulary, ask to be added to the Krauthor list, post a bunch of self congratulatory gibberish, tell ** we’re elitist pricks.
Lather, rinse, repeat. Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. Users caught handling salmon in suspicious circumstances will be prosecuted to the full extent of law, unless you have written guidance from OLC delineating the manner in which your suspicious salmon-handling did not violate domestic statutes and international treaties to which FK is a signatory. Also, politics. [actually, politics are kind of ok (or at least ok-er than on **) as long as you aren’t an engorged clown phallus about it. -Nm] [Actually, Nm, there ARE NO RULES. And way to miss my Sarah Palin reference. Also. @(‘.’)@] [FK: the 90’s UFC of A’s blogs]

Okay, maybe not all of that was XbX’s edit.

Aw HELLZ no.  Why do people have to email me? — salb918

You drew are the short straw -xbx

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Why is there a “d” at the bottom now?

This postgame already sucks

Slusser sez: Nomar + Ellis both to DL, an infielder (Patterson?) + a reliever likely up.

She makes no mention of Chavvy, but I figger he’s not long for the active list, either.

And who knows how well or quickly Casilla and Anderson will recover.

Continue to color me unimpressed with Holliday.

PoppyEdit:  If anybody has any trouble posting comments, please email salb918.

This game already sucks

Apparently Nomar is hurt again? And/or something about Ellis?